WORST TO BEST: Phil Elverum (Microphones/Mount Eerie) 

Definitely start with the glow pt 2

get on that shit my guy

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Big chungus isn’t funny

@@huntersmith7442 and also it has nothing to do with the conversation

Hi, I noticed some errors in the video. I can see you have a genuine interest, you bought the records from the artist, and you are promoting the work. There's also a few pieces of information you got wrong. First of all, The Microphones was never a band, it was always a solo project, mostly just with certain guest vocalists and other occasional contributions on some tracks. It's a pretty big misconception based on the name and the sound. It sounds like a band, but it's mostly just one person multi-tracking. The Microphones and Mount Eerie are the same project, and it's a solo project. Also, you say Dawn was recorded in a cabin in Norway. Apparently, much of it was written in a cabin in Norway, but it was recorded around 5 years later. From what I read, he didn't even have electricity in the cabin. From what I understand, he toured the songs around, and they ended up in different versions on different releases (Live in Japan, 7 New Songs, 11 Old Songs, later Lost Wisdom), but by the time he had a new set-up to record more seriously, the "No Flashlight" songs were more current and relevant to him, so he moved on. That's why it took 5 years, and finally a decision to just put them down simply and relatively quickly, how they were written with voice and guitar, rather than something more produced and multi-tracked. You also said It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water was the first record recorded in a "studio" by "professionals." Don't Wake Me Up was, at least in part, recorded at the same studio as the later Microphones releases (Water, Glow, Eerie): Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington. Also, the only professional that recorded any of those records at Dub Narcotic was the artist himself, who had been given the key to the studio by the owner, K Records founder Calvin Johnson, and had time in there himself to use the mics and tape machines and all the analog equipment. Apparently it wasn't much of a professional studio at all, but one big room with a bunch of used, half-broken analog recording equipment. Also, you said that the Beach Boys reference on Florida Beach was the only use of someone else's lyrics, but then later you note how he quotes Bjork on Voice in Headphones. There are a lot of references to other people's songs on other records, just to point to a few others: he references a Neil Young song on Live in Japan, he sings an Eric's Trip song called Sand on It Was Hot, Solar System on Mount Eerie is based on a Little Wings song, and Little Wings and others also sang and wrote parts on that same record, and there are other Little Wings crossovers, also even as recently as Lost Wisdom 2, in the song Enduring the Waves, he references Adrian Orange. There are a lot more that it would take a long time to name. I am not even the most knowledgeable person about this, but this is an artist who has been putting out music for over 20 years and has been pretty generous in giving interviews and discussing their work with the hope that people understand it, so I have picked up pieces of the story, and had plenty of years to listen to these records or not listen to these records. If you are this interested, I recommend you find some more interviews, articles, transcripts and audio, that are on the internet.

@@openclassroom1649 Appreciate you bringing the knowledge and not being a dick about it. I was irked by a few of the same statements and was glad to see this comment. Phil's biography/mythology is dense so it makes sense for the reviewer to miss a few things, but I hope these missteps are a bit of a warning to him against leaning heavily on hyperbole and overgeneralizations in reviewing. Especially reviewing music he clearly loves. Everyone wants to sound like an authoritative source, but putting on that persona can end up biting you in the ass if you haven't done enough research.

Respect to you for acknowledging your fuck ups and appreciating the person who called you out for correcting you. Most people would just ignore that comment.

also on the glow pt. 2, it's not keyboard drones but an organ.

I would've included "beautiful face" and "Microphones", although they are just demo tapes in a way. Those are my favourite releases by Phil Elverum

Disclaimer: I love Sun Kil Moon, so maybe this makes sense.

I’ve thought about doing both of those! Now I want to even more!

Samurai sword is more of a noise rock track than a black metal track imo

yeah, huge mischaracterization by looking at it as a "grief" album rather than a "growth" album. i feel it needs to be seen as a sequel to lost wisdom. also idk why but the NPR tiny desk concert makes the album so much more satisfying to subsequently listen to. julie doiron singing the first line of Love Without Possession is unmatched.

where is damon ????

Oh my God task like amongus 😂😂😂😂

@@declanwarner4835 *thom yorke singing fortnite parody of american boy*

@@thomward6890 I wish I never made that

Yeah and Singers is such a beautiful album and probably Phil's most underrated release.

like Love Without Possession, Belief, Belief pt 2, are so good

To Phil the glow just means life

no it really isnt, the glow is like love and life, the shine is like a completely different thing

@@freindmaker4473 how about the gleam?

I appreciate it, but remember I’ll always put the records in the description!

The last one is Mount Eerie's "skull" cover! The best cover.

@@patricktervo2013 Oh shit, I Didn't see that...cool, cool

Isn't mount eerie in the top right?

That’s a compilation

same lol

i don't give a folk ;)

Ok good shit homie your getting a new sub

The placement of Wind's Poem disturbs me

what the actual fuck

Why? You have to compare when reviewing media

@@stormmarc5706 no you don't