Devendra Banhart
 

i'm sure most of you hate him, but i stumbled upon one of his cds that i picked up back in 06
never got into it so i thought i'd give it another chance

kinda liked it...
a lot.

Some of his stuff is alright. I could never fully appreciate him because I always feel the need to put on one of my Tyrannosaurus Rex albums instead when I listen to him.

Arsewitted hippy tosh. For a decent (doomy?) take on modern folk, check out Alexander Tucker - he much more like it.

He has a couple of good songs and the rest I can't bear. This kooky persona that he created for himself strikes me as a pose.

Michael Gira should have bludgeoned the cnut to death with his own guitar instead of giving him a record contract.

I like his work up until his last album which is sub-par.

he is one of my look a likes

he's ok, i'm not that bothered one way or another, music can certainly be a lot worse than his though.

never heard it. the wrong people kept telling me it was good.

he is the most annoying person i have even seen take a stage, and his lyrics are the stupidest things ever.

his vocals remind me of an exaggerated David Cross singing

rejoicing in the hands and niño rojo are good, cripple crow is boring, pretentious and too fucking long. smokey fruit rolls or whatever it was called was good considering gael garcia bernal sings on it, making it an ok to bad album.

i give him credit for getting me into folk, after so much stuff i had heard and just couldn't get into.

not too bothered about him, never seen him live and probably seen like two pics of him in my life.

i saw him live when my ex girlfriend dragged me to go see him, shes obsessed with him and was acting like a 12 year old at a justin timberlake concert, "oh devandra i love you, youre beutiful, blah blah", needless to say, the relationship didnt last too long thereafter.

he lives in Topanga Canyon, lucky bastard.

whenever I see him I just think he needs to take a bath. If his name had been John Brown no one would have given a fuck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devendra_Banhart

he's a lot younger than i thought he was.

he usually looks really dirty and i can't stop looking at his strange tattoo's.

But this photo is TOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!! :)

fuck the "folk" shit-eaters

yeah he was only like 19 or 20 or somethin in that range when gira spotted him. im really surprised that gira endorses all these lame "freak folk" acts like akron family (who arent completley awful, but by no means great or even that good) and devandra.

regardless of the fact that i do like some folk i don't really understand why anyone would want to play it

for the chicks?

the chicks? ha ha ha! folkies get chicks?

i know people who woodshed on their acoustic guitars for hours and they sound pretty great and all but can't help but find them souless and generic. when i pick an acoustic is to write a song or mess around with it.

i do admire people like jack rose and john fahey, though.

Hree is the only acoustic shit I wanna listen to
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SKaLqATmm3g

I adore Devendra, couldnt get into him for a while but the most recent two are stunning

"Smokey.." is the best album I've heard in a long time

What's with all the folk music hate on this board, not everything has to be LOUD

it's music to euthanise yourself to

it is nap time at the old folks home

it is vacuous homilies to nature and stupid fucking generic feelings

it is tepid bullshit masquerading as insightful lyricism

it is best played by people who will never ever ever get a record contract


true folk music is music of the people, of locals, or farmers and ranchers and working men and women. it is music of regional interest with history behind it.

devandra bearfuck is just some stupid emo-looking cocksmear playing acoustic music for the "ladies"

His band are awesome too, listen to this groove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVT5H...eature=related

all I see is a bunch of allman brother rejects.
I am gonna go puke now.

But sometimes, you listen to Sonic Youth all day long and your ears start to hurt and you need to listen to Nick Drake or Bert Jansch or something, its all good

And lets not forget how much SY owe to Joni and David Crosby

I've never heard Devendra Banhart.

Is it anything like Aerial Pink, cuz that shit's AWFUL...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sFMIYz0TZ-U

i really dig the way this tune transforms

how much does sonic youth owe to david crosby and joni mitchell?

and how severely does that pale in comparison to what sonic youth owe to the velvets, john cage, chatha, branca, etc.?


I find that old tired "sonic youth loves joni mitchell" bulshit wrongheaded.
so lee sang a song with her name in it? so what?

sonic youth is as far from folk music as Bach is.

that isn't a groove!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI

haha, Thats a great clip TB. The version of that Devendra tune on the record is really kicking though

There is an interview somewhere where Thurston talks about how many tunings/chord shapes and song structures he stole from Joni without people noticing

As for Crosby, they named a song after him, and O'Rourke talks about how much he loves Crosby in the Wilco book

again, naming songs after people does not mean or in any way imply that musically they are some sort of influence.

Maybe not but borrowing tunings and chord shapes definately is
It doesnt really matter if Sonic Youth like Joni/Crosby or not though, I do and so do lots of other people, there not rubbish just cos you don't like them

I like Devendra alright, or did before the last record.
Ariel Pink's got some jams and a lot of crap.
John Maus (a member of Ariel Pink's band) though, is the shit.

Its funny people don't like the new Devendra, its what got me into him
I'm really glad he stopped with the vibrato. his voice is so much nicer without it and he can really croon on some of the new record. apparently they used Frank Sinatras actual spring reverb for it

i just dont understand why anyone would still be making folk music, all the shit today just sounds like a nick drake but purposefully trying to be "weird" and therefore sounding incredibly stupid.

for the record, i love nick drake, and that is not a dig at him by any means.

Because as much as I love Sonic Youth and Naked City or Boredoms I still need music I can listen to with a raging hang-over.