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04-21-2009, 10:52 PM | #1 | ||
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Dan Mangan
Okay, so i thought i made a post about this a long time ago but i guess it was just in a monthly "what are you listening to" thread that i first mentioned him here.... So here's a little thread dedicated to Dan Mangan.
http://www.danmanganmusic.com/ And yes, he is on Twitter now too! lol. http://twitter.com/danmanganmusic Dan Mangan is a local guy for me from my home town Vancouver, BC, Canada!!! He plays a lot of shows here right now but i'm still waiting to see my first one because every show he's had doesn't work out with my schedule! I haven't checked in with him for a while and I haven't looked at his site recently but so much has changed and there's so much new stuff from him! Including a new EP!!! You can listen to a lot of his music including a couple new ones!!! http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Dan-Mangan/ Quote:
Source: http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2009/04/N...ns-Are-Waiting I just ordered his new EP! And apparently you can request it signed!!!! I did and we'll see if it comes signed or not! Also, he does it all himself apparently... He's got a one man buisness going according to his automatic e-mail i got from him after ordering it online... "I'm a one-man team in terms of the store. I'm currently in the midst of travels and therefor am a little slowed down on the sending. Thanks for your patience - everything will be sent out as soon as possible!" Anyways, here's the track listing for the new EP! Roboteering EP (2009) 1. Robots 2. The Indie Queens Are Waiting 3. Sold 4. Till I Fall 5. Tragic Turn Of Events / Move Pen Move (with Shane Koyczan) Quote:
Now here's a few youtube video's/songs from Dan Mangan... The two songs that started it all here... Basket (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77tzkmQ-Mc Journal Of A Narcoleptic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCLndsse9g Robots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obBjLIR_Aug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STELTZaRmuE So Much For Everyone (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhAFROz5np4 Okay this was a lot more then i ever intended to put in the post but I totally love this guy... He's one of my true local heros Cheers
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04-21-2009, 11:34 PM | #2 |
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wow.. I loved him!! <3 thanks for sharing!!
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05-07-2009, 01:02 AM | #3 |
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I just got the new EP in the mail today!!! And he actually signed it!! haha I love Dan Mangan even more now!! And the 3 other songs i haven't heard are awesome!! I can't wait for Nice, Nice, Very Nice to come out!
Here's some pics of the EP he mailed me... it's all his writing, the packaging even was hand written address and stuff.. Dan does it all himself, he mailes it, signs it if u request... I love him.. haha <3
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05-07-2009, 02:56 AM | #4 |
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Move Pen Move....
Okay you have to read this.. It's one of the most amazing poems and Dan Mangan incorporates it into one of his songs on his new EP "Tragic Turn Of Evens / Move Pen Move". I never knew of this amazing poem until now but it's blown me away and the song on the EP just blows me away... It's just Brilliant... It really leaves me speechless...
Here's the Youtube video of it and the words are bellow... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPbVM8kgR4 Move Pen Move By Shane Koyczan Stay That’s what mothers say when their sons and daughters go away They say stay My mother said go So I wasn’t there the night she fell out of her wheel chair So frustrated that she amputated her legs rather tried to with a steak knife Her life lay on the white floor like Roses in the snow Our relationship was an anthem composed of words like “gotta go” So we went And sent our regards on post cards from the places we’ve been Stories about all the things we’ve seen That’s how it was with you and I Why say good bye when we could still write And then I took your hands We should have practiced our good-byes Because then I took your eyes And I was somewhere in the middle of nowhere Watching the sun rise Over a stop sign placed down the center line of a high way full of sudden turns for the worse Running back home cause I gotta play nurse Gotta figure out which pill alleviates which pain Which part of your brain is being used for a boxing bag As your body became a never ending game of freeze tag Taking place in an empty playground That was left looking for your limbs in the post and found and I couldn’t set you free So we just sat there Our heads bent towards each other like flowers in the small hours of the morning While light wondering in like a warning that Time is passing And you right along with it Bit by bit everyday And all I can say is if I could I would write you some way out of this But my gift is useless And you said no Write me a poem to make me happy So I wrote move pen move Write me a bedroom where curse make love to our cancers But my mother just motions to a bottle full of answers and says Help me go And I know something of how pianos feel when it looks at the fireplace to see sheet music Being used for kindling Smoke signaling the end of some song that it thought would take to long to learn Now I just sit here and watch you burn away All those notes never had a chance to play to hear the music of what you had to say But I count out the pills just to see if I can do it I can’t even get half way through it before I turn back into your son and say Stay I could hook up my heart to your ears and let my tears be your morphine drip Because maybe it’s easier to let you slip away than it is to say goodbye So I hold my breath Because in the count down to death the question of why melts into when How much time do we have left Because if I knew what I know now then I would say move pen move Write me a mountain Because head stones are not big enough And my mother says Stop it Write me a poem to make me happy So I write this Stay She smiles and says Gotta go I know Goo-bye… Unfortunetly I can't find the song online anywhere for u to listen to or the Lyrics that go with the poem.. It's just fabulous... Get the EP... It's amazing... now it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UmkpAia6Q
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"Cause I'm always hanging on, And I'm always closing doors. And I'm always saying no, No, when I really really want it all" - Bottom Shelf "When there's nothing to give Well how can we ask for more" - Delicate Last edited by dboyd; 05-12-2009 at 09:13 AM. |
05-07-2009, 03:06 AM | #5 |
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Learned of him from YCD. Pretty talented guy.
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06-22-2009, 06:23 AM | #6 |
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I saw him again on Friday night for NXNE and thought I'd resurrect this thread
His set was UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. I took three friends with me and they're all official converts now. There's something at once heartbreaking and hopeful about his voice. It's rough but tender, and passionate but tempered. And I know that description doesn't make too much sense but it's the only way I can think to describe how layered it is. He's got a gritty voice, but his lyrics are poetic and delicate and laced with more experience and wisdom than you'd expect from a twenty-something. And he does the same thing Damien does where his voice crescendos until it just sort of... breaks (think: the end of Cheers Darlin, or Prague). He ended the set with one of the best set-enders I've seen. Him and his band came right into the audience. His trumpeter moved behind our table. And then he got onto an empty chair RIGHT in front of our table. He gave us an extended rendition of Robots, with the audience providing background (and sometimes lead) vocals and being his rhythm section with hands, feet, tables, glasses, whatever you could tap out a beat with. It ended as this great sing a long. And he was shocked mostly everyone knew the words to this song that hasn't even been released on an album yet (it was on an EP earlier this year though). Anyways, I grabbed some videos for some friends who couldn't make it and I thought I'd share The Indie Queens Are Waiting (new song) So Much For Everyone He's got a new album coming out August 11 (I think? somewhere around there). |
06-24-2009, 06:54 AM | #7 |
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^ yeah he does! His new album will be called Nice, Nice, Very Nice
And thanks for the vids!! <3 Robots is one of my favorite songs from him just because it's so fun to sing along too haha... I can't wait to see what the future has in store for him...
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"Cause I'm always hanging on, And I'm always closing doors. And I'm always saying no, No, when I really really want it all" - Bottom Shelf "When there's nothing to give Well how can we ask for more" - Delicate Last edited by dboyd; 06-24-2009 at 06:57 AM. |
08-20-2009, 07:34 AM | #8 |
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Listening to his album streaming here: http://www.danmanganmusic.com/site/c...er_pop_up.html
Good stuff!
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10-04-2009, 05:04 AM | #9 |
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wooooot! I tried to see him at a small venue at the Cultch here in Vancouver, we were second in line waiting for tickets but we didn't get any!
So i have him on sms updates via twitter and he said he was doing a free show at the Mall downtown at the bay! So I told my friend and we went to go see him and god was it awesome! Free show!!! He played for about an hour and he said he had a cold but it's hardly noticeable... I don't notice it... lol He was playing as part of an all day event for the Grand opening of the Olympic Super Store. First to play was the Cowboy Junkies which we missed, then Dan Mangan and then Sam Roberts!! It was awesome seeing them both and Sam Roberts was also awesome. Anyways, he played for about an hour or so and was awesome... We were like 4th row in a crowd that formed for the free show. everyone infront of me was sitting down so it was like front row for me haha. It was awesome awesome awesome! When he played Robots he came into the audiance with his guitar over his head and belted out the lyrics and encouraging the crowd to sing a long and boy did it work. Everyone started singing so loud and it was great! (god i suck at telling stories)... here's a few pics... I'm in one with him! Yay! I don't usually do these kind of things but i decided I'd make an acception and go talk to him for a bit . Really nice guy http://img199.imageshack.us/gal.php?...4276508894.jpg <---album And the hat was a funny one lol. He said "I wish they'd give me a free hat!" Or something like that and a lady up front offered to buy him one and then someone threw one on stage and he got a free hat! haha. it was great. (I got more pics on my phone i'm gonna try and upload off of later.) Here's a couple videos someone put up of it on youtube! good sound too! Road Regrets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE4Z0-Twuc Sold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLXYG2mhVvo lolll the clapping was horrible. It was a new band that Dan assembled and it was their first live show after a few rehersals and I don't think they got the clapping down... The clap was way off and the auidiance didn't even come close to getting it haha... I can't do it so I was no better but it was just a random mash of claps. lol. that's all i could find for videos it was awesomeee thoooo
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"Cause I'm always hanging on, And I'm always closing doors. And I'm always saying no, No, when I really really want it all" - Bottom Shelf "When there's nothing to give Well how can we ask for more" - Delicate Last edited by dboyd; 10-04-2009 at 05:08 AM. |
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