Ripped Heart is without question my favorite Extra Life album. There are not a lot of songs that give me chills but Ripped Heart & Strong Brother/Weak Brother both do that.
this actually brought me to tears man. This was what I grew up on, watching Todd P show videos and ultimately moving to the city and going out to these warehouses and seeing at that point not DPs and extralife but whoever was still around, Little Women, the baltimore guys when they came through, just a random assortment of what was left. Anyways I just never heard it really documented before even though to me this has always been "the music" secular works, dave's old records, this was the stuff for me. A step darker in your case, and more kind of sinewy in Dave's than the y'know Bjork/radiohead mainstream equivalent. I just never heard stuff so compositionally focused aside from yeah idk the bad plus maybe, and idk Sunn had their stuff together. But in terms of the esoteric arrangements that exact time just nailed it. And all my friends now just listen to Zach Phillips and like it doesnt touch me since my first favorite band was slipknot, I need you know Story. Like idk if u know the album under thunder and flourescent lights, like this cohesive vibe but with a matched fleshed outness. I think those drums were improvised, but your work i think of as like auteur theory music, but without it feeling completely like a movie, it lets you in. I have such a deep connection with it and those spaces. Other rare moments were like seeing adrian orange at shea stadium just get up and say he just got released from the mental hospital and that I think was his whole set. Or when ander wk did a DJ set but it was just him hanging out by the mixing board playing some medium volume rock music over the house speakers while bands like $keleton$ were setting up their gear. i think i saw u once playing keyboards for sam mickins. Man what a time, the tinnitus was worth it.
Extra Life was such a formative band in my own growth as a musician. I don't think Made Flesh left the CD player in my car for over a year. It changed the way I think about music, and Nick's drums really changed my thoughts about the kit. Grateful for the times I got to play with y'all.
Thanks for making this video for people like me who were outside of the scene and only got small glimpses at it. I don't feel any need to call the new album better than the old work, but The Play of Tooth and Claw is one of my favorite songs by anyone ever, and the whole album is superb.
I have a lyric which is a very direct reference to Ripped Heart: "torn up, thrown back together thinner each time, til skinned" Love that record and love Extra Life. Thank you for putting this together. I'm excited to check out other bands mentioned!
This is great! The whole band story, the line-up details, all those venues and the Brooklyn scene, the bands you played with... Totally loved!! ! I've had to rewind a couple of times to be sure you said "touring Europe" (28:48). haha Would be great!!! The new album is fantastic, Charlie. I think Extra Life fans will find exactly what they were waiting for. I'm listening to it the last 2 weeks and I'm totally enjoying it! Hope to see you live! Greetings from Barcelona!
Really valuable video for the ones like me, who weren't there when all of this happened, because even much of the internet that documented your first run is pretty much gone now. I found out about you via Jute Gyte, because he's one of my all-time favorite artists, and I had stumbled upon the interview you did with him, then stuck around. That one, the Fire-Toolz interview, as well as the Mick Barr and Anthony Braxton guides are all so good, I've watched them multiple times. It actually took a while until I started listening to your music. I still haven't soaked most of it up as much as Secular Works. That album is really dope. Kinda surprised that you say that I Don't See It That Way was "the hit" off of that one, because that's definitely my least favorite track (I don't dislike it, but to me it pales in comparison to the others). Blackmail Blues, I'll Burn, The Refrain, and This Time are all tied for favorite though.
Loved watching this. Did two shows for Extra Life in Copenhagen. Both good, but first one was absolutely magic. Such a unique band with a completely unique sound. + Charlie is one of the nicest dudes ever.
I’m personally a huge fan of Made Flesh and the unapologetic, purposeful “cringe” of it all, the total disregard for “classiness”, although my favourite is probably the most normal song of them, Black Hoodie. I only discovered Extra Life recently, but it’s definitely allowed me to fuck around with “bad” lyrics and strange structures/melodies in some of the new stuff I’m working on, so great to hear such an honest and in-depth take on the project from the mastermind behind it!
Man Ripped Heart EP was my jam for the longest time. I need to click that link and finally buy the new album. Yay for having money now. Really cool history. Reminded me of a lot of bands I might have forgotten about otherwise but used to love.
Anyway you can make a Spotify playlist of any of these bands, actually I wasn't able to find hardly any of them on Spotify. where's the best place to find some of these artists you mentioned, like Vaz? Love your stuff always, I am a band called braillecloud and we played with you guys when you came to Jacksonville around the start of the pandemic, so happy extra life is back and putting out music again. Cheers man!
What's the name of the Vaz song you used as the sound clip for their mention? That sounds fucking amazing, and even though I'm deep-diving their records I'd be stoked to know the name of that one. Crushing as all fuck.
I remember an unreleased Harry P@ssy album was floating around on the internet then. It may have been Tom Smith from tlasila who posted it or maybe i found it on soulseek. But it was the first time i heard a solo Bill Orcutt piece. Were you listening to any of his stuff back then?
Bands mentioned ======= Sightings Parts & Labor Vaz Little Women USAisaMONSTER White Suns Aa (aka big a little a) Skeletons (highly recommended) Zs (charlie's old band) Talibam! (charlie hates them) Larkin Grimm (did a split w/ extra life)
My favorite song has always been Elegy as well. Sam Mickens cover is fun too, but yeah amazing song. Glad you are releasing more music. And for Nick Podgurski fans, make sure you check out the albums Temperance and Practicing Loss by his band Feast of the Epiphany. Exceptional albums those two.
Since the new album I re-listened to a lot and yeah man, that one 'grown ups don't know anything' pedo song is so gross - the cringe factor would be hard to maintain long-term as you mature as a person.
But then I guess your flirtation with fascist mysticism and stuff is also a type of cringe, although I know you were/are just exploring ideas which is different than being overly cringe/edgelord.
Actually none of that stuff is pedo, even ironically or shock value wise! But many think it is, and I take full responsibility for the misunderstanding
But that song in particular's cringe element is blatantly that it's coming from the perspective of a pedophile in love with some 12 year old (or whatever the age). Even if it's "actually" about something else, that's what 99% of listeners hear. I'm not saying it being a pedo song is bad, the cringe element is lyrically expected in earlier extra life work like you explained. That one in particular though, I was just like, man I must have limits in how much dissonance I can take when the aesthetics are beautiful and the lyrical content is disgusting.
@@anotherslice2269 If the song you're mentioning is First Song, I took that song as a statement of post-adolescent guilt [vices // addiction, becoming jaded, taking on positions of influence when you can barely take care of yourself, etc] rather than any sort of pedophilia torch song, and I'm surprised that you aren't the only one to interpret it that way. TO BE FAIR: Little One struck me in a similar way that First Song struck you: nauseating, but not damning.
@@alexangell6428 Do we have the lyrics anywhere? Can't find from google. Just seems really obviously going for pedo cringe vibes, while being "actually" about something else. Not dissimilar to fascist frog is "actually" is a frog kinda thing.
Ripped Heart is without question my favorite Extra Life album. There are not a lot of songs that give me chills but Ripped Heart & Strong Brother/Weak Brother both do that.
SAME
Rules are rules: if you release an album that ends with a track called Ten Year Teardrop you have to wait ten years to follow it up
this actually brought me to tears man. This was what I grew up on, watching Todd P show videos and ultimately moving to the city and going out to these warehouses and seeing at that point not DPs and extralife but whoever was still around, Little Women, the baltimore guys when they came through, just a random assortment of what was left. Anyways I just never heard it really documented before even though to me this has always been "the music" secular works, dave's old records, this was the stuff for me. A step darker in your case, and more kind of sinewy in Dave's than the y'know Bjork/radiohead mainstream equivalent. I just never heard stuff so compositionally focused aside from yeah idk the bad plus maybe, and idk Sunn had their stuff together. But in terms of the esoteric arrangements that exact time just nailed it. And all my friends now just listen to Zach Phillips and like it doesnt touch me since my first favorite band was slipknot, I need you know Story. Like idk if u know the album under thunder and flourescent lights, like this cohesive vibe but with a matched fleshed outness. I think those drums were improvised, but your work i think of as like auteur theory music, but without it feeling completely like a movie, it lets you in. I have such a deep connection with it and those spaces.
Other rare moments were like seeing adrian orange at shea stadium just get up and say he just got released from the mental hospital and that I think was his whole set.
Or when ander wk did a DJ set but it was just him hanging out by the mixing board playing some medium volume rock music over the house speakers while bands like $keleton$ were setting up their gear.
i think i saw u once playing keyboards for sam mickins. Man what a time, the tinnitus was worth it.
I am very pleased to hear that! Beautiful
Extra Life was such a formative band in my own growth as a musician. I don't think Made Flesh left the CD player in my car for over a year. It changed the way I think about music, and Nick's drums really changed my thoughts about the kit. Grateful for the times I got to play with y'all.
"the LAST THING you want to do is THE FIRST THING you want to do!" love this history, keep it up
That single phrase seems to exemplify the ambivalence that is so often apparent in his attitude lol. love it.
Thanks for making this video for people like me who were outside of the scene and only got small glimpses at it. I don't feel any need to call the new album better than the old work, but The Play of Tooth and Claw is one of my favorite songs by anyone ever, and the whole album is superb.
Thank you sir 🙏
Elegy is beauty! Love singing the last line!
V grateful for that myspace review and the wild journey its brought me on!
I have a lyric which is a very direct reference to Ripped Heart:
"torn up, thrown back together
thinner each time, til skinned"
Love that record and love Extra Life. Thank you for putting this together. I'm excited to check out other bands mentioned!
choirs spotted :)
This is great! The whole band story, the line-up details, all those venues and the Brooklyn scene, the bands you played with... Totally loved!! !
I've had to rewind a couple of times to be sure you said "touring Europe" (28:48). haha Would be great!!!
The new album is fantastic, Charlie. I think Extra Life fans will find exactly what they were waiting for. I'm listening to it the last 2 weeks and I'm totally enjoying it! Hope to see you live! Greetings from Barcelona!
So gooooood!!!!
Amazing insights! The new record is incredible, powerful stuff!
Really valuable video for the ones like me, who weren't there when all of this happened, because even much of the internet that documented your first run is pretty much gone now.
I found out about you via Jute Gyte, because he's one of my all-time favorite artists, and I had stumbled upon the interview you did with him, then stuck around. That one, the Fire-Toolz interview, as well as the Mick Barr and Anthony Braxton guides are all so good, I've watched them multiple times. It actually took a while until I started listening to your music. I still haven't soaked most of it up as much as Secular Works. That album is really dope. Kinda surprised that you say that I Don't See It That Way was "the hit" off of that one, because that's definitely my least favorite track (I don't dislike it, but to me it pales in comparison to the others). Blackmail Blues, I'll Burn, The Refrain, and This Time are all tied for favorite though.
Loved watching this. Did two shows for Extra Life in Copenhagen. Both good, but first one was absolutely magic. Such a unique band with a completely unique sound. + Charlie is one of the nicest dudes ever.
I appreciate the gigs and the good words. I was an asshole to a lot of people on that tour, so I'm glad you caught my good side!
@@charlielookerNYC Hahaha :)
@@tudse2000 Where in Copenhagen did they play? :O
I’m personally a huge fan of Made Flesh and the unapologetic, purposeful “cringe” of it all, the total disregard for “classiness”, although my favourite is probably the most normal song of them, Black Hoodie. I only discovered Extra Life recently, but it’s definitely allowed me to fuck around with “bad” lyrics and strange structures/melodies in some of the new stuff I’m working on, so great to hear such an honest and in-depth take on the project from the mastermind behind it!
LOL Talibam! I saw them and most of these bands when I was living in Ravens Den/Silent Barn
A real trip down memory lane
Man Ripped Heart EP was my jam for the longest time. I need to click that link and finally buy the new album. Yay for having money now. Really cool history. Reminded me of a lot of bands I might have forgotten about otherwise but used to love.
hey Davida! Haven't heard from you in forever. Hope you're doing great :)
I really appreciate the effort you’ve made to couch extra life within a time and space as well as relative to other artists in that sphere. Be well!
Anyway you can make a Spotify playlist of any of these bands, actually I wasn't able to find hardly any of them on Spotify. where's the best place to find some of these artists you mentioned, like Vaz? Love your stuff always, I am a band called braillecloud and we played with you guys when you came to Jacksonville around the start of the pandemic, so happy extra life is back and putting out music again. Cheers man!
bandcamp
Danny!!
2009 is back. i saw Animal Collective live this spring and now I gotta go catch Extra Life. The new record fucking rips!
what is the song at 8:40?
Love this!! No mention of Seductive Sprigs?
I COMPLETELY forgot! Thanks for the reminder damn..
Love Zs. Checking into Extra Life !!! thanks
Amazing new record, one of the year’s finest. From where can we buy it?
but what did you do in *that* bathroom? 🤔
it's drugs, verdad?
@@picollodiaries EXACTLY.
I’m such a square it took me years to figure that out.
What's the name of the Vaz song you used as the sound clip for their mention? That sounds fucking amazing, and even though I'm deep-diving their records I'd be stoked to know the name of that one. Crushing as all fuck.
It's called Elastik-C, from the record Dying to Meet You. I think it's their best record, although I haven't sat extensively with every one
I remember an unreleased Harry P@ssy album was floating around on the internet then. It may have been Tom Smith from tlasila who posted it or maybe i found it on soulseek. But it was the first time i heard a solo Bill Orcutt piece. Were you listening to any of his stuff back then?
Sending you a heart shaped rice krispie treat for this mini doc
They were roommates?
"It's almost like proto-privilege-checking, but in a bad-vibe way"
That is such a 2020's sentence, jeez.
When has privilege checking been a good vibe tbh
Come to Seattle!!!
Come to Seattle!!!
Come to Seattle!!!
Bands mentioned
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Sightings
Parts & Labor
Vaz
Little Women
USAisaMONSTER
White Suns
Aa (aka big a little a)
Skeletons (highly recommended)
Zs (charlie's old band)
Talibam! (charlie hates them)
Larkin Grimm (did a split w/ extra life)
Also Dirty Projectors and Xiu Xiu (and Nat Baldwin solo).
Yes Charlie: The French love this stuff!!
My favorite song has always been Elegy as well. Sam Mickens cover is fun too, but yeah amazing song. Glad you are releasing more music.
And for Nick Podgurski fans, make sure you check out the albums Temperance and Practicing Loss by his band Feast of the Epiphany. Exceptional albums those two.
MOTH
Yes! Loved it!
Hope you'll consider coming to Israel :D
I'd love to play Israel, if there were a good gig. I bet it will happen some time
PROTOCRINGE
Since the new album I re-listened to a lot and yeah man, that one 'grown ups don't know anything' pedo song is so gross - the cringe factor would be hard to maintain long-term as you mature as a person.
But then I guess your flirtation with fascist mysticism and stuff is also a type of cringe, although I know you were/are just exploring ideas which is different than being overly cringe/edgelord.
Actually none of that stuff is pedo, even ironically or shock value wise! But many think it is, and I take full responsibility for the misunderstanding
But that song in particular's cringe element is blatantly that it's coming from the perspective of a pedophile in love with some 12 year old (or whatever the age). Even if it's "actually" about something else, that's what 99% of listeners hear. I'm not saying it being a pedo song is bad, the cringe element is lyrically expected in earlier extra life work like you explained. That one in particular though, I was just like, man I must have limits in how much dissonance I can take when the aesthetics are beautiful and the lyrical content is disgusting.
@@anotherslice2269 If the song you're mentioning is First Song, I took that song as a statement of post-adolescent guilt [vices // addiction, becoming jaded, taking on positions of influence when you can barely take care of yourself, etc] rather than any sort of pedophilia torch song, and I'm surprised that you aren't the only one to interpret it that way. TO BE FAIR: Little One struck me in a similar way that First Song struck you: nauseating, but not damning.
@@alexangell6428 Do we have the lyrics anywhere? Can't find from google. Just seems really obviously going for pedo cringe vibes, while being "actually" about something else. Not dissimilar to fascist frog is "actually" is a frog kinda thing.
TALIBAM WEREN'T BAD
oof
@@charlielookerNYC what's the beef? they were ffun..... maybe it was an oversaturation ting
Kevin Shea is a hell of a drummer. He was also in Storm & Stress, PEOPLE (with Mary Halverson), and the infamous Sexy Thoughts.
@@KhyronLabel love storms and stress! Gonna have to check these out
Love talibam, love extra life, why can’t we all just get along :(