Parquet Courts - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

Agree. Wish I had of been there.

This video lives rent free in my head

Me too.

Rob Crossland Yeah, Bob. Don't forget to crank Sleaford Mods!

Here in South Wales at 17 rocking along to these bangers myself too!!

Here in Cardiff doing the same!

... AND here at a motorcycle repair shop in Los Angeles and same, cheers!

where in north wales? its usually a musical wasteland!!!

exactly! also the one at 9:08

Thanks my man 🙏

Absolutely amazing isn't it, every time I listen to the transition between master of my craft to borrowed time it always blows my mind. Absolutely iconic.

This has so much essence of what rock and roll is right, like I just wanna blast this so loud

@@hippiecheezburger5457 I do.....

how was the show

same

Me too

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he is on a separate plane than the other three guys.

I don't even really know what that means, but yeah, i totally agree.

It amazing that he can fit his kit in it.

He makes it all work. Without him, they would just be clever.

His tone is just fantastic too

They’re like the strokes somewhat like a real simplistic garage rock sound butttt with smart lyrics and viewpoints

@@hippiecheezburger5457 Lol, I guess they are a bit like Strokes but I dunno what you drank before writing the rest of that...

@@hippiecheezburger5457 They're a lot smarter than the Strokes, the only thing they have in common is garage-rock and even then they still sound different

Velvet underground, Can, Faust, Television, Pavement, Modern Lovers

Sand In My Joints by Wire is pretty much Parquet Courts decades before they came onto the scene, there's definitely bits in that song that sound similar to what they can come up with - that being said though I love PC so that's not a bad thing :)

yeah it’s a total myth that expensive equipment is needed to make good music, squiers are legit

@@slayerattack3751 for sure. I have a tele squire and I used to have a Stratocaster before I sold it at a low point in life:( Sure you can tell the difference when playing each one but you can make the same great music with either, as proved by parquet courts here.

Whatever it takes

do you know the model of either of their's

@@lukastaylor9544 Affinty Tele for A., Squier Bullet from the 1980s for Austin (which have gone up in price, probably bc of this video)

BillyPilgrim lol trust me my bands just finished going round the uk while but still worrying that I’m not gonna make my shift at wlrn

yeah, In fact, he distributed drugs in a bicycle

Clickbeetle Fucking truth right here

I love these guys and also Protomartyr

It is good that you know who Eddy Current is. One of the greatest bands ever to come out of Australia.

very punny of you

I was thinking the same thing!

i hate you

I heard the same thing lol

damn it, now I can't not hear that

Truman Lee me either, i find it pretty annoying

after all these years i still come back to this video, sometimes just to laugh at them clapping in between pauses

@@derpizzaman1050 fuckin goofs

+Johnny Deutschemark KEXP enginieers never got the love they deserve.

there isn't anything more annoying than that, I say put it at the end of the song and make us watch the ad, I would sooner put up with that.

There's not a song on Light Up Gold that doesn't hit you in the face with meaning, provided you can wrap your head around the way the songwriting interlaces the lyrics with the music. They draw so many Pavement comparisons because of that (and lazy fucking music journalists), but musically they're a much tighter, punchier group. All these people throwing out "non-sensical" as a descriptor for these guys, it's just lazy listening. That, and the band is frankly too smart for the average crowd these days. People don't even have the attention span to listen to a two and a half minute song. How many texts do you think were sent in this half-hour by that crowd alone? How many utterly worthless videos were people recording on their phone, never mind that no one will ever watch it, not even themselves? The SXSW crowd is perfectly emblematic of that. They can't even intuit the false-stops on Borrowed Time. Now look up the lyrics to N Dakota, for instance, and tell me that's not a great song for the mood of these times, especially for the younger folks who are going to have clean up this mess or get swallowed by it. "Train death paintings / anti-meth murals / color the ghettos / of N Dakota." This song is a lament for what once was, and the playful cynic's way of processing what actually is, and somewhere in there is the acknowledgement that none of it was ever any good at all anyways. "Cigarette ad / vertisement country / wild and perfect / but lacking something." That's a subtle jab at the way our culture totally manipulates how we see the most basic and essential of things, nature. The whole song's just about how dirty and shameful and egregiously shitty everything has become, and how we're just fine with it. "Serf population too high to tally" is about our sad reality; haves and have-nots. If you're in debt, or if you're working some shit job you can't care less about just to have a place to sleep, guess what, you're just a modern day serf. I don't know, really. But I think the notion that these guys are just mad-libbing this shit is kind of ridiculous. Borrowed Time is about waking up from whatever daze you're in - drugs, booze, love, laziness, whatever - and realizing you need to do something. But you still haven't done it. I could go on but I've already made enough of a fool of myself already. It's silly to me that people are halfway dismissing these guys with labels like "slacker" or "non-sensical" - who the fuck are these people? Whoever manages to put together the heaping pile of shit that is a music journalist's portfolio. At this point it's a blog and some record reviews in your college newspaper. Parquet Courts are too smart for their audience so the audience associates its own laziness with the band. Hopefully they keep on chooglin', because the music is good enough to stand on its own, and the writing, well, the writing's important.

Robert Wolfe I completely agree with you and everything you wrote. The Pavement comparisons make no sense whatsoever. Pavement relied alternate tunings, sarcasm, sloppiness, irony, non-sequitors, and healthy appreciation of The Fall to make their music; on the other hand, Parquet Courts use minimal and standard instrumentation, thoughtful and frustrated lyrics, repetition, and sincerity to make theirs. If anything, they seem more akin to Tyvek and older bands like The Feelies, Urinals/100 Flowers, Modern Lovers, The Velvet Underground, etc. Yes, there's may be an appreciation of The Fall in the music and vocals, but the lyrics/vocals are also Minutemen-like in a workingman's art kind of way. I know most music nerds can play spot the band influence and it is lazy music criticism. Ultimately, Parquet Courts have a pretty unique and straightforward brew that is far from being lazy.

Benjamin White Holy shit! The Feelies... Yeah, they're definitely keeping to a certain NY tradition. Which is refreshing in a way, there's been so much genrefication in the Brooklyn scene (is every band's songs written by Beach Fossils?), it's nice to see some real back-to-basics if the basics are executed well and originally. I think the backlash to these guys is only coming now that they are kind of being hyped by the machine (I heard about them from Pitchfork to be honest, but where else was I going to hear about 'em? I live in the southwest...). Fair enough, but at least give them a listen. I think it was a newer track that they reviewed. Usually I just check for stuff I know, but something in me clicked that link to Instant Disassembly and I realized this was something genuine. I think they're a real punk band in a time where a real punk band gets called "hipster" or "marketed garbage." And these are people who jam out to shit like Mumford and Sons nine out of ten times. The times we live in...

+Robert Wolfe You should type in all those meaning on Genius (a lyrics website where you can click on lyrics to see meanings/interpretations of lyrics). The Parquet Courts lyrics are severely lacking in meaning because they aren't popular :-(

Tom Fox good artists borrow, great artists steal.

i'm a master of my craft