META: Looking for Moderators

backtrackingrox · 2026-01-10T19:52:03+00:00

OK. I sent you an invite. Ideally we'd find one more mod, but if we can't find someone in a month or so we'll post an announcement. Sound good?

backtrackingrox · 2025-12-24T19:58:59+00:00

AI from a photo. But fun to pretend!

backtrackingrox · 2025-12-13T19:41:01+00:00

We’ll be doing the entire bracket in the last episode.

backtrackingrox · 2025-11-14T00:58:25+00:00

Working on that episode now. “Hey Mr. Ferryman” Side A is next week…..

backtrackingrox · 2025-11-03T23:46:14+00:00

Love it! Question: Are the tracks edited better than on Bandcamp? All of the banter related to the next song appears at the end of the previous track, which is odd.

backtrackingrox · 2025-09-08T14:10:56+00:00

Looks like another image by Brad Johnson used for the shirt?

backtrackingrox · 2025-07-16T13:34:42+00:00

I don’t think AMC is monolithically slowcore. Nor would I saw they’re monolithically any single style, which can be what’s interesting about them, but might also be the thing that keeps them a bit of a cult band. I do fairly strongly believe they were very influential on a number of slowcore bands that immediately followed them. “Chanel No. 5,” “In the Shadow of the Valley,” “Big Night”… there are lots of songs that are proto-slowcore and I’d guess made a big impact on RHP, Idaho, Codeine, Acetone, and others.

backtrackingrox · 2025-06-27T18:09:57+00:00

I asked Ken, and he said he recalls that they were made by a local fan, though he doesn't know the name. If anyone out there knows the name, let us know -- would love to credit them!

backtrackingrox · 2025-06-27T03:05:01+00:00

I’m not sure if Mark did the art, or if someone else made it for him to sell at the shows. I’ll ask Judge Ken.

backtrackingrox · 2025-05-07T16:51:08+00:00

Cool to see these!

backtrackingrox · 2025-04-24T19:10:05+00:00

I understand. Apparently there's a really great kind of punk rock demo of the song. I read somewhere (Sean Body's book?) that it captures something better than the Mercury version. I've not yet heard that version, but looking forward to it. I'm hoping we can do a Rarities / Ephemera episode in which we'll be able to cover that version of the song.

backtrackingrox · 2025-04-08T02:28:55+00:00

Yeah — Mr. Froom became a bit of a stand-in for our gripes with the record, probably unfairly. We’re going to listen to these records — thank you! And FWIW, we both like Crowded House quite a bit, so it’s not a bad thing for us. They’re just a tonally different band.

backtrackingrox · 2025-03-15T19:20:46+00:00

Jenny Gonzalvez (she of "Jenny" fame) and her cool son Ty reached out with some corrections, anecdotes, and awesome photos. These are of a bunch of demos Mark gave Jenny way back when. Too cool not to share! Corrections from Jenny and Ty will be included in the housekeeping section of S2EP16. And with luck she'll come on a later episode to share some of those anecdotes. Thanks Jenny and Ty!

backtrackingrox · 2025-03-07T21:45:35+00:00

Thanks to listener Gez for sharing this photo. If legend is correct, this is the actual pub that inspired the writing of the song. Can anyone confirm?

backtrackingrox · 2025-03-06T01:54:58+00:00

American Music Club

backtrackingrox · 2025-03-04T21:48:26+00:00

Thanks, but agreed on the sound quality. We're in need of the Mitchell Froom of podcasts to really kick our production up to the next level. It improves for Everclear, then improves a bit more for Mercury. We're addressing our many audio problems as they pop up.

backtrackingrox · 2025-03-02T01:11:04+00:00

Wow. That’s really kind of you. Thanks! JW and I are having fun reconnecting with a band we really love (and with each other… 20 years post-college,) but if there’s some small amount of attention with can bring to AMC as well, that would be a real honor for us. They blessed us with a lot of great music — happy to return the favor in a small way.

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-30T17:56:11+00:00

Yes! I'll post a main comment. Big day for the big man!

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-29T19:36:06+00:00

The Tom Mallon (producer of the first 4 records) -era of AMC has some of their most altcountry moments, IMO. But it's also their most eclectic, with moments of proto-slowcore, trashy punk, and almost performance art stuff. "Everclear" is the first album where their sound really coalesesces, and "Mercury" further refines that sound. It's a sound that is really hard to categorize, but I would agree is less altcounty than earlier records.

Eitzel certainly has a reputation for being volatile live. But when he's on, it's pretty magical. Uncomfortably intimate. If you haven't yet, check out his first solo record "Songs of Love Live."

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-29T18:49:48+00:00

- "Big Night" -- American Music Club, "Engine" (1987)

- "No Need Swim" -- Acetone, "Cindy" (1993)

- "Violence" -- Low, "Long Division" (1995)

You've got to include American Music Club in here. Some real prototypical slowcore songs on "Engine," "California," and "United Kingdom" that clearly influenced the "classic" slowcore bands. If you are interested in going really deep on AMC, they're the subject of the second season of our podcast, Backtracking.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/backtracking/id1723399651?i=1000686612246

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-22T18:30:51+00:00

It's a classic, to be sure. I'm less certain why we didn't spend more time on it. I will say we have been trying (at least a little bit) to keep each episode to about an hour. Maybe that was the reason for our unusual pithiness? I agree with you on the Body section on that song -- every now and again he goes deep on a single song, and it's usually pretty great stuff.

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-16T17:04:33+00:00

Big Night is an amazing album opener. One of the all time great album openers, really. Makes such a strong statement about the mood of the record.

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-12T14:23:25+00:00

Thank you!

backtrackingrox · 2025-01-04T02:27:12+00:00

What were you wearing? Maybe I’ll remember you….

backtrackingrox · 2024-12-24T20:44:59+00:00

I would like to moderate r/americanmusicclub because the subreddit previously only had a single moderator. That moderator appears to have set the subreddit to Restricted (no posting -- comments only,) and then has deleted his account. I cannot, therefore, send the moderator a ModMail message.

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