Customer Reviews

Wild Love

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I was sitting in a small bar, in Kitchener, Ontario Canada one night, when all of a sudden...in rolls SMOG! They had been on a tour and were just heading back to the U.S.A The bar owner didn't really know who they were, but he let them set up their instruments...and they played...and played...and PLAYED, all night long, while I sipped beer, sitting only a few feet away from the lead singer.

The band was currently promoting thier new "Knock,Knock" album but also sang most of WILD LOVE. I liked their sound so much, I bought this album in the bar, and got Bill to sign it!

SMOG is like a strange hint of Pink Floyd...and a familiar touch of Beck. A very similar flow and writing style....BUT still a very unique band. "Bathysphere" is just great!... like a hypnotic breeze, blowing ever so softly. I can listen to it over and over again. The lead singer is a very laid back guy, and I think the music reflects just how laid back he is.

I spoke to him for a few minutes while they were packing their instruments up. He seemed pretty mellow! I'll never forget that night and I'll always dig thier songs. check out Wild Love, for some very good and mellow music!

This album is very beautiful and very depressing. It will take you a while to appreciate this album, but once you get what Bill is trying to say on this album you will be blown away. The album is full of synth and string lines with hauntingly dead pan lyrics. I read a Jim O'Rourke interview once where he said that his favorite thing about Bill is his ability to say something deep that he is feeling in the simplest language. I agree.

If someone asked me what i thought smog was about i'd play them this record. This is the kind of record you listen to while sitting in your cold apartment in winter...while staring out your window onto a bleak skyline

I don't know what the official reviewer was thinking (or actually listening to).. but this is no boy in the basement with a 4 track. It's much more lush and clear. My housemate and I like to have 'Bathysphere' dance parties.

The music of Smog does not gray or grow stale with time. This is one of my favorite Smog CDs.

Mister Callahan is a strange kind of fellow, if you ask me, but when he makes albums like Wild love, you almost feel the urge to encourage him in his strangeness. Wow, what a masterpiece! It's a mix of all kinds of music and the lyrics don't make any sense at all at first notice. But after a while you think you understand it. You THINK! Then you give up trying and just go with the flow of the songs. Terrific!

While I dug Smog's album from a few years back "Supper," I didn't find much appealing about this one.

Sometimes Smog uses the hemlock-----and sometimes the anti-venom------these songs of abandon------and impossibility-- of any but emphemeral satisfaction--unless you can supply some artifice, ------smell good enough to resign yourself to not bothering yourself much with the fruit falling on your head----and jumping with worms --the stains in your denim tuxedo compliment your dates inability to speak the language of small space, and restless devotion----even beaten up wood in the rain smells good--- Pa---Ma------and where is our sister Smog? In Wild Love-------we find the shutter rising and falling at a speed that invites open hearted understanding of something dressed up with pain--with too many places to go----if your sleepy---have gills---or can't swim until you turn 70-----the albums a super plus.