What guitar tuning is this in? I really, really love this song. Chinese Football played here last week in the Philippines and I'm still not over how great it was.
What an incredible documentary... I only discovered Slint recently, when Steve Albini passed and I've been watching and listening to everything and anything about him (RIP to the legend). But Wow - how did I not know about Slint before??!! I gotta say - Britt is a fucking creative force. What a genius. Honestly, the whole band was clearly something really special.
R.I.P. Steve. 61 may have been far too young but one has to take into consideration he lived three lifetimes, one as the founder of three influential post-hardcore bands, another as an extremely talented and innovative audio engineer with a couple of thousand albums to his name, and one as an all around great guy with an infectious sense if humor.
33:05 that’s Goshen Lane, at the end of Rose Island it goes up this massive hill that turns into Goshen Lane. It’s on the right side of my old neighborhood where I grew up. I couldn’t say how many times my friends and I went up and down those roads. No kidding though, those fucking roads are windy as fuck (beautiful) but super scary going fast. It’s almost like an unspoken rite of passage around there or something lol. My friends and I got up to 100 on that fucking road and I nearly shit my pants. It’s lined with trees everywhere and it’s hilly with lots of curves so you can’t see what’s coming. A small animal jumps out, or you barely fuckup you’re heading straight into a fucking tree. Lol good times though. Awesome to know they stomped around my old grounds.
As talented and original Slint was, I honestly can’t imagine them topping this album, even if they’d stayed together. It sounds like lightning in a bottle, so singular, continuing to go in that direction could have been repetitive, even devolving into self-parody. Don’t know if that’s a Hot Take, but that’s my two cents.
This feels so sad. You can tell every member appreciate and miss those wild teenage years goofing around and just being together. Britt sighing at the end of the film tells lots of things.
Wow, what a lovely, loving, funny, well made documentary about one of my all time favourite bands! I remember the moment someone told me to check out Slint, at a MrBungle concert; I expected something in that vein, but was blown away with the total 'otherness' of their records. I spend an afternoon in the recordshop, headphones transporting me inside this beautiful Slint universe. I bought both Tweez and Spiderland, and to this day still play them. Thank you!
