dreamt Mark appeared at my house - we chatted a bit, he played Fragile and then he left DOPEST. DREAM.
Ghosts of the Great Highway is my favorite album ever. April took me some time to get into, but it's also very beautiful and I listen to it before bed often. Old Ramon is my favorite Red House Painters album. It and Songs For a Blue Guitar are the closest to early Sun Kil Moon material.
^there you go I would only suggest to do RHP in chronological order - Down Colorful Hill is one of my all time favorite albums
his record with jesu is up there with the best and the last SKM solo was amazing too I realize it's not for everyone, but the ultra confessional approach makes me feel a certain way - not something easy to pull off
Stream the new Sun Kil Moon album Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood and read Conor Oberst's interview with Mark Kozelek on February 15th here at sunkilmoon.com
If you notice @Horrorca he bumped both his double LP release date and the Jesu/SKM new LP up. Both were slated to be in March, now this one is February and the J/SKM is May 5th :D
the closest he got to approaching the self-titled rollercoaster red house painters record was sun kil moon's ghosts of the great highway. imo those are his absolute pinnacles. prob in a minority here in that i pretty much universally loathe his recent total brain dump records (perils from the sea is good, benji has a few good songs, almost everything else is nonsense)
1. He's Bad 2. Trying to Buy a Quart of Haagen-Dazs at 3 AM 3. The Lamb 4. Valleys of Blood 5. Mountain of Skeletons 6. Last Night I Dreamt That I Had Father John Misty's Soft Neck in My Angry Hands sorry i ran out of fake sun kil moon title steam
Track Listing: DISC 1 God Bless Ohio Chili Lemon Peanuts Philadelphia Cop The Highway Song Lone Star Window Sash Weights Sarah Lawrence College Song Butch Lullaby DISC 2 Stranger Than Paradise Early June Blues Bergen To Trondheim I Love Portugal Bastille Day Vague Rock Song Seventies TV Show Theme Song I Love You Forever And Beyond Eternity
I want to listen to Chili Lemon Peanuts so bad thanks for that, @0rb - Mark's one of my favorite artists ever missing his show last year because of work broke my heart - I've never seen him live
I was mostly kidding because some of those looked fake but thank you, I had checked their site a couple weeks ago and it wasn't listed
I don't really care for most of this guy's catalogue, or his general grump-middle-aged-guy-who-doesn't-give-a-shit schtick. Love 'Benji' and that record with Jesu from last year, though.