"‘Last American Hero’ was actually recorded in the same period as ‘Citrac’. It was after a trip to Europe, when I went back to Florida and lived with my grandparents. They live in this kind of insane gated community for senior citizens. Stuff like large flat-screen TVs, and insane Ikea couches that you can’t even sit on because they’re too big. And PT Cruisers and stuff like that. And this infrastructure of gated communities and Wal-Marts and Targets, and these complexes of shopping - that was their entire world. So when I was there, I felt like I was in this dome - this weird science experiment of consumerism. So I made that album as a collection of experiences from that environment. Todd from Olde English Spelling Bee [releasing label] decided to bring that one to light and put it on his label. I would tell Todd what my favorite releases were that I was working on, and he would just listen to me and put them out. He really pushed for ‘Last American Hero’ even though I didn’t think it should be released, really. But people seemed to like it."
This album is like being alone at a Day's Inn somewhere in Wyoming or Texas after pulling in late at night, and the only two things surrounding the dirt parking lot of the hotel is a Home Depot and a Walmart . Poorly made, regurgitated commercials for local businesses are playing over the small flat screen TV in your hotel room. You hear the hotel staff cleaning out the vacant rooms nearby in the night, the ice machine whirring and rumbling, the sounds of worn-down truck tires hitting the dirt in the parking lot.
1:41 The way it intentionally builds up for almost 2 minutes just to suddenly cut to the next part out of nowhere, and immediatelly after 5 seconds cut to the next part, that's beautiful
this is like standing in a worn-down gas station in an unincorporated community at night in the mid 2000's that may or may not be in the middle of the desert while mythbusters is playing on the CRT tv seated right beside the cash register at low-volume and the employee is smoking a cigarette: the album
certain records - this one included - encapsulate esoteric feelings and ideas which reside deep down inside the furthest crevices of my being. these works induce a blissful, otherworldly catharsis in which bits and pieces of my existential fabric are projected onto my eyes. godspeed
I was just in Ashland, Ohio. This album was rushing through my bones and palpably into my mind. Felt like I was fucking dreaming. Ohio suburbs look like most other suburbs. Gotta get way out into the brush to really feel this one 100%.
as someone who has lived in ohio for 20+ years and has seen about every mile, this album reminds me more of the dry single house towns between cities in new mexico or texas
When I first saw this album cover I wondered what kind of music could possibly fit with it. This is practically that image converted into an audio file.
it sounds quite a bit like Walker Texas Ranger to me... it really could be anywhere that burly men are sizing each other up, and it's a hot lonely day out there.
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The moving guys get lost on their way to your new furniture-less house so you have to meet then between the Wendys and ACE Hardware Store in order to direct them to your street in the peak of the summer in suburban Avondale, Arizona... As your phone is dying, unfortunately so is your battery, so you hop a ride in their truck showing them the way home. Not much room in the middle section, you're sitting on a burning hot metal box in fact and the truck is bumping hard over poorly paved road, so you need to hang on tight while your crotch is being pummeled. Meanwhile the driver is CHUGGING a Mountain Dew Code Red 2 Liter like there's no tomorrow. His moving partner on his 3rd Red Line can. This is the music that is faintly and mysteriously playing on their beat up stereo. All you want to do is get home, move the damn furniture in and remove your sweat soaked jeans and relax, but In this critical moment, you completely forget the address of your new home or how to get back. it looks like you're in for the long haul, my friend! (Just wrote this review on the Discogs entry and felt compelled to wax poetic here as well. :)
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Very Arizona-y. I lived there my whole life and this is what it's like when you're driving in Phoenix and the landscape would just change from bustling city to complete desert within a few feet of driving.
an elderly woman in her American flag shirt scours the Walmart Superstore for gift cards to pay off a debt. her husband back home stares in a daze at the wall-sized 60fps TV with the ESPN logo and ticker burnt into the bottom of the screen. next door, an unemployed young man prods his tools around inside the hood of his dad's Corvette, a cigarette dangling from his crusty lips with the ash begging to be knocked off. the father is out back toying with a snub-nosed SA-35 that he will never fire. his hypnotized gaze at the weapon keeps him from noticing he's picking up the tin of Mobil1 instead of his can of Monster Ultra. a child looks out of his bedroom window at the infinite expanse of one-floor houses and synthetic grass, dwarfed by the looming city on the horizon. his parents always talk about it like a warzone, but he can't help but wonder if they at least have sidewalks.
@@Ӝ̵̨̄-к6ж”I am free, yet I must hang onto every pebble and porch railing to stop the wind from pulling me into insanity. My purpose lays in the greener grass and I must be free in the mud.” -me, right now
Whole thing screams Everytown USA on a gloomy day, where you leave your office park job to go to walmart and pick up a six pack, stopping at panda express to get some dinner, and then driving down the stroad while you wonder how people live in other lands
@@comesect Hark--I'm of The Colony, 1984-2010. When we first got cars, Frisco was just a bunch of fields where you could go spin out and burn things. I said my comment because the cover gave me a flashback of the Best Buy/Half Price Books megaparking lot on Preston Rd. Christ, I've been all over and I have NEVER seen megaparking like I was raised with... we used to shop at one place, then get back in the car and move to another part of the parking lot to shop somewhere else...
@@ceef8688 jesus lord this comment section is getting too real for me. never thought i'd see a conversation about my old town on a james ferraro album. anyways this album has that north texas "watch the natural world of your entire county get murdered in cold blood by swarms of blue and red box stores" feeling which sucks. i just recently got out of there to go experience something other than that plasticine hellhole again but this was a big shock back to reality, so thanks?
@@clydecash2212 this album really reminds me of Walker Texas Ranger, too. Ha, yeah, calling Frisco your "old town" is ironic, since it embodied everything new, flashy, everything everyone wanted from the time I was 10. Congrats on seeing more of the world. I do miss the Frisco Half Price Books, where you could get Tangerine Dream LPs for $4.98 because nobody wanted them. And the Frisco public library with its brand new apartment neighborhood was a true vision for north Texas, showing people you can have really classy, grand buildings and nice parks if people will just live and shop in more concentrated spaces. Doubt it ever took off there.
I had to move back in with my parents because of health problems and the resultant economic issues. They still live in the house I grew up in, a ranch in an inner-ring suburb in the Midwest. I almost can't listen to this album. Also if you aren't the right age to remember getting a cassette tape in your Happy Meal, you really missed out.
The whole synthesised country thing Ferraro has going on here (which I think is so cool, by the way) is really reminiscent of Gil Trythall’s ‘Country Moog - Switched On Nashville’ album - well worth checking out if you enjoy this particular sound
It’s kind of beating a dead horse but this album sounds like if your 12 year old pick up truck broke down in the middle of southern Ohio on a very hot dry July afternoon
It’s like drinking a flat Sierra Mist in the back seat of a 2005 Subaru Baja while your mom is getting back to school supplies for your older brother in the dollar general on the edge of Sacramento, California.
man you know the effect that this record and just some of ferraro's stuff in general is beginning to diminish. like, especially after vaporwave's come and gone, the sort of dreamlike nostalgia and aesthetic associated emotions that i'd often be intoxicated with is something i'm growing out of. what's next? do we keep following this formula for future generations?
+Kriskazam i think the aesthetics are only a small part of it. They help to set the tone obvs but reading his interviews and stuff theres usually a lot more going on behind his works than nostalgia and aesthetics. Its an on going journey and I guess you make mistakes or get lost along the way. no formula. just keep creating bro. hope u have a good day 2day
think u might be missin the point, dreamy and nostalgic music has been around for ages and will continue to exist whether or not vaporwave continues to be relevant. you might be over dreamlike nostalgia, but that doesn't mean all of this music just because meaningless or trite, it just means you're growing out it and you've gotta go find something else to listen to lol. if you really want something different, go make it yourself.
Derek Janni I'm aware of all of that, and I'm aware that I'm just growing out of it, but vaporwave exhibits particular times, places, and feelings, etc, and the mood towards those particular things are dying down (or dead since I made that comment), doesn't mean it's meaningless or trite, in the future I can remember and observe how I felt during the time of enjoying these records, and I did for a long time I'd put em on, but now I don't immediately feel intoxicated by these feelings anymore. Not sure what point I'm missing since what you're saying is what I already wrote for the most part.
If he didn’t use America in the name none of you would be commenting about how it reminds you of America. Just sounds like a lofi tape from James Ferraro.
Y’all ever seen bottle rocket by Wes Anderson? This is that. The library robbery. The motel pool. The failed factory robbery. All of it. This is just like that. Texas.
"THE ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR WISHES TO MERGE AS ONE WITH HIS GIRL. HIS TONGUE RING GLOWS UNDERNEATH THE RENO MOON. HER SILVER SILENCE BEGS FOR HIS PLEASURE. HE CAN HEAR HER CALL DEEP WITHIN HIS BEING, AS THE DESERT CLOUDS ROLL ON OVER HIS METAL SLAVE. SHE SUBMITS TO BE PARKED AND THE SHADOW OF LOVE IS AMOUNG THEM. A BLACKTOP TUMBLE WEED ROLLS AROUND THE DRIED TAR ONLY A DREAM OF IT’S MASTER BLOWING IN THE WIND. FROM THE HAND OF THE GLADIATOR WHO NOW HUNTS FOR A DREAM, A FLAT SCREEN DREAM. A GROUP OF HUMANS PRESUMED LOST FOR THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF WERE FOUND ALIVE CAMPING OUT IN THE BACK RECESSES OF A COSTCO SUPER MARKET. AFTER BEING LOST DEEP INSIDE OF THE COSTCO BUILDING FOR WEEKS WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE CONTACT, THEY FINALLY STARTED THE SETTLEMENT OF "NO FEAR". The front cover (JUDGE JUDYITE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH) represents the programmed citizen and the process of it’s logical sequence as visible from the working creative inner ego of the program (the living human host’s perspective) in a snapshot form in the empty world created by the MODERN Gomorrah temple BEST BUY™ plaza center. The back cover represents the same idea but this one exhibits the inner head perspective of the "LIQUID ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR IN THE DIGITAL COLOSSEUM A.G.* *After Google " - JAMES FERRARO
This sounds like... This sounds like... This sounds like... A very dissolving one, if we can even be honest about the drastic paint of wilted commercialism it uses here. It's compartmentalizing imperialism, the very repetition of distance smells and memories and scenarios of familiarity. Finding value in the commoditized ordinary for it speaks only of the road that the worker crosses, Pringles cans, the tinfoil, the rear view, some twangy hunger that lives in aisles. The one we're bound to follow, the flickery bulb, or the cigarette butt running in the dirty stream. The air that burns through the sacred land. The one we're bound to follow.
i got it from the Discogs page! www.discogs.com/James-Ferraro-Last-American-Hero/release/2167599 couldn't tell you exactly how it was incorporated into the packaging, though ...
Just discovered this guy and I'm so worried because all of the other niche artists and cliques I've discovered often get overrun with normie posers as soon as I talk about them with anyone else. But then again Ferraro has already been the forerunner of a few genres so I suppose it'll be fine
@@plasticsstrings No I'm extremely paranoid because this has happened with maybe 3 or 4 other groups that I joined and I fear that I'm a personal harbinger of hipsters
@@krilinc2668 he's more of a cult artist than popular but yeah who cares about this kinda stuff, Ferraro isn't really top 40 radio lol, he's one of those artists that if you find out someone's into you know they are a real big fan
I'd say yes I can hear similar "sounds" but they are put together in a completely different way. boc to me, sounds like childhood, and mostly sweet memories. James Ferraro sounds like my bad dreams at age 15.
this is what its sounds like living in a small town in the midwest where one part is kind of nice and the rest is abandoned with only one gas station with the cashier smoking a cigarette with multiple alcoholic drinks behind the desk while living with your dad near a lake
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I've only been to America once. We stayed in a motel by the highway in Kentucky, this album reminds me of the smell in the reception building.
I like to shoplift from Michaels while listening to this album
Then you just might be a fan of The Coup.
@@keisi1574yea lets not
This comment is art in itself
You prolly get a lot jail time
@@kelechi_77I would download a car
"‘Last American Hero’ was actually recorded in the same period as ‘Citrac’. It was after a trip to Europe, when I went back to Florida and lived with my grandparents. They live in this kind of insane gated community for senior citizens. Stuff like large flat-screen TVs, and insane Ikea couches that you can’t even sit on because they’re too big. And PT Cruisers and stuff like that. And this infrastructure of gated communities and Wal-Marts and Targets, and these complexes of shopping - that was their entire world. So when I was there, I felt like I was in this dome - this weird science experiment of consumerism. So I made that album as a collection of experiences from that environment. Todd from Olde English Spelling Bee [releasing label] decided to bring that one to light and put it on his label. I would tell Todd what my favorite releases were that I was working on, and he would just listen to me and put them out. He really pushed for ‘Last American Hero’ even though I didn’t think it should be released, really. But people seemed to like it."
- the king
As person who isn`t living in America, can I ask ya how PT Cruiser related to to consumerism? I always thought it`s just goofy-looking car
one time, someone in my class opened a monster energy can, and the scent went right to my nose. it smelled like this album.
Reversed Reference Floral Shoppe smells like pepsi cola.
oooooh, nice one
damn I felt
this still sounds great in 1998
What about in 2045?
this is still great in 988
@@PaulPabloPaulo greatest tatest of All time
@@PaulPabloPauloцерковные песнопения в честь крещения Руси
This album is like being alone at a Day's Inn somewhere in Wyoming or Texas after pulling in late at night, and the only two things surrounding the dirt parking lot of the hotel is a Home Depot and a Walmart . Poorly made, regurgitated commercials for local businesses are playing over the small flat screen TV in your hotel room. You hear the hotel staff cleaning out the vacant rooms nearby in the night, the ice machine whirring and rumbling, the sounds of worn-down truck tires hitting the dirt in the parking lot.
1:41 The way it intentionally builds up for almost 2 minutes just to suddenly cut to the next part out of nowhere, and immediatelly after 5 seconds cut to the next part, that's beautiful
It’s genius
while listening for the first time, got to that part just as i read this. love it when that happens.
this is like standing in a worn-down gas station in an unincorporated community at night in the mid 2000's that may or may not be in the middle of the desert while mythbusters is playing on the CRT tv seated right beside the cash register at low-volume and the employee is smoking a cigarette: the album
How did you describe this vibe so accurately tho
certain records - this one included - encapsulate esoteric feelings and ideas which reside deep down inside the furthest crevices of my being. these works induce a blissful, otherworldly catharsis in which bits and pieces of my existential fabric are projected onto my eyes. godspeed
This starts playing if you stand still outdoors for too long in an Ohio suburb
I was just in Ashland, Ohio. This album was rushing through my bones and palpably into my mind. Felt like I was fucking dreaming.
Ohio suburbs look like most other suburbs. Gotta get way out into the brush to really feel this one 100%.
as someone who has lived in ohio for 20+ years and has seen about every mile, this album reminds me more of the dry single house towns between cities in new mexico or texas
Lmfaoooooo ☠️
try the eastside of metro Detroit. deee crep itttt
Also if you're interested, I think Eccojams is on a loop in "MetroWest" Boston.
They tried to build that world in the UK too, and succeeded in a lot of places - I have memories of my own, unlocked by this album
When I first saw this album cover I wondered what kind of music could possibly fit with it. This is practically that image converted into an audio file.
one of the things I love about ferraro's art the most is that this is true for like everything he made
@@wasteman6928this is his most tragic album and the art reflects best imo
this is still some of the best music
Of course you listen to James ferraro
Are you talking to me Dr. Mantis?
Of course I do
pairs well with lsd
ya got me
Did my laundry to this and blissed out...
i live in alabama and this is an accurate musical representation of what its like here
i'm reading Jean Baudrillard's America right now and his take on LA and the American southwest is basically this, that's so sick
terrifyingly accurate representation of the real america, the midwest
more like an empty south western highway on stormy night
@@downwiththemaster why not both? this is america after all ._.
it sounds quite a bit like Walker Texas Ranger to me... it really could be anywhere that burly men are sizing each other up, and it's a hot lonely day out there.
Best Buy
Thank you
FOX Sports
shell station in rural oklahoma, the floor is covered in dead beetles, offering ripoff ecstasy and testosterone pills
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The moving guys get lost on their way to your new furniture-less house so you have to meet then between the Wendys and ACE Hardware Store in order to direct them to your street in the peak of the summer in suburban Avondale, Arizona...
As your phone is dying, unfortunately so is your battery, so you hop a ride in their truck showing them the way home. Not much room in the middle section, you're sitting on a burning hot metal box in fact and the truck is bumping hard over poorly paved road, so you need to hang on tight while your crotch is being pummeled. Meanwhile the driver is CHUGGING a Mountain Dew Code Red 2 Liter like there's no tomorrow. His moving partner on his 3rd Red Line can.
This is the music that is faintly and mysteriously playing on their beat up stereo.
All you want to do is get home, move the damn furniture in and remove your sweat soaked jeans and relax, but In this critical moment, you completely forget the address of your new home or how to get back.
it looks like you're in for the long haul, my friend!
(Just wrote this review on the Discogs entry and felt compelled to wax poetic here as well. :)
this is beautiful
@@floristheavens haha ty my friend!
a rattle snake is looking straight into my eyes
hello Mr. AAAAAAAAAA42, I just wanted to tell you that your yt channel really helped me expand my musical taste and without you I think I wouldn't be the same as I am now
Thank you very much
PD: I thought you were dead or something but I saw you replied to a message two months ago hehe
wtf he aint dead
@@swah-hg3fq I thought he was dead for like 5 years
I always imagine I’m driving a old beat up pickup truck alone at night in the middle of the desert somewhere around Nevada-Arizona.
Very Arizona-y. I lived there my whole life and this is what it's like when you're driving in Phoenix and the landscape would just change from bustling city to complete desert within a few feet of driving.
This sounds like how driving down a suburban highway feels
amazing atmosphere
currently mid-september, arizona. did two hikes today, smoking weed by myself to add to the vitamin D high
blacktop tumbleweed gets 200x better when you realize it's about a monster can rolling in the wind down a highway
Is this hillbilly burial
banger comment
honestly his best album
I honestly dig Far Side Virtual more
Will Nation Normie
@@newagetapes wow. he likes the wrong album. he can't like that one. unsubscribed.
hacker track
Night Dolls With Hairspay I guess.
walking through ardougne on an empty runescape server with this playing is surreal
i think harmony korine and james ferraro were onto almost similar things.
+Kriskazam i wonder what ferraro thinks of harmony korine
will PWR fuck man
I think about this all the time
@@scran thanks, you too
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT!!
Based harmony korine enjoyer
born haunted into time without lyric, the cement structures that look like plastic and have no shadow
hell yes. felt that one go up my spine.
this sounds like history channel, monster energy drink, and a gas station in the middle of a desert.
My first great was wizard free but because of you
an elderly woman in her American flag shirt scours the Walmart Superstore for gift cards to pay off a debt.
her husband back home stares in a daze at the wall-sized 60fps TV with the ESPN logo and ticker burnt into the bottom of the screen.
next door, an unemployed young man prods his tools around inside the hood of his dad's Corvette, a cigarette dangling from his crusty lips with the ash begging to be knocked off.
the father is out back toying with a snub-nosed SA-35 that he will never fire. his hypnotized gaze at the weapon keeps him from noticing he's picking up the tin of Mobil1 instead of his can of Monster Ultra.
a child looks out of his bedroom window at the infinite expanse of one-floor houses and synthetic grass, dwarfed by the looming city on the horizon. his parents always talk about it like a warzone, but he can't help but wonder if they at least have sidewalks.
People who think America is New York City cost to coast really need to be soaked head deep into these exact scenarios
That last line is fucking scripture, God damn.
Beautiful
died and went to heaven
Yo I’ve been wanting to listen to this. Whole time I thought it was gonna be songs. Nope, canned nostalgia fir crummy america
for a moment... I am free...
headHunter241 "I am free and that is why I am lost." - Franz Kafka
@@Ӝ̵̨̄-к6ж”I am free, yet I must hang onto every pebble and porch railing to stop the wind from pulling me into insanity. My purpose lays in the greener grass and I must be free in the mud.” -me, right now
This album sounds good not only in USA, but also in Italy
Whole thing screams Everytown USA on a gloomy day, where you leave your office park job to go to walmart and pick up a six pack, stopping at panda express to get some dinner, and then driving down the stroad while you wonder how people live in other lands
reminds me of The Stand
top 10 days of the week.exe
This sounds like soundtrack for QWOP.
Frisco Texas security guard music
that's where I live ahahha
@@comesect Hark--I'm of The Colony, 1984-2010. When we first got cars, Frisco was just a bunch of fields where you could go spin out and burn things.
I said my comment because the cover gave me a flashback of the Best Buy/Half Price Books megaparking lot on Preston Rd. Christ, I've been all over and I have NEVER seen megaparking like I was raised with... we used to shop at one place, then get back in the car and move to another part of the parking lot to shop somewhere else...
This is the realest comment I've ever seen here
@@ceef8688 jesus lord this comment section is getting too real for me. never thought i'd see a conversation about my old town on a james ferraro album. anyways this album has that north texas "watch the natural world of your entire county get murdered in cold blood by swarms of blue and red box stores" feeling which sucks. i just recently got out of there to go experience something other than that plasticine hellhole again but this was a big shock back to reality, so thanks?
@@clydecash2212 this album really reminds me of Walker Texas Ranger, too. Ha, yeah, calling Frisco your "old town" is ironic, since it embodied everything new, flashy, everything everyone wanted from the time I was 10. Congrats on seeing more of the world. I do miss the Frisco Half Price Books, where you could get Tangerine Dream LPs for $4.98 because nobody wanted them. And the Frisco public library with its brand new apartment neighborhood was a true vision for north Texas, showing people you can have really classy, grand buildings and nice parks if people will just live and shop in more concentrated spaces. Doubt it ever took off there.
Dried out advertisement with peeled off paper
I used this in one of my film projects for school once
I had to move back in with my parents because of health problems and the resultant economic issues. They still live in the house I grew up in, a ranch in an inner-ring suburb in the Midwest. I almost can't listen to this album.
Also if you aren't the right age to remember getting a cassette tape in your Happy Meal, you really missed out.
this album sounds like mcmansions getting foreclosed on during the reccessio
2008 release baby
The whole synthesised country thing Ferraro has going on here (which I think is so cool, by the way) is really reminiscent of Gil Trythall’s ‘Country Moog - Switched On Nashville’ album - well worth checking out if you enjoy this particular sound
peanuts in cola
its me. im the last american hero.
“Maybe the Last American Hero was the friends we made along the way” -Jimmy Ferrari
It’s kind of beating a dead horse but this album sounds like if your 12 year old pick up truck broke down in the middle of southern Ohio on a very hot dry July afternoon
You're hot but not wrong
It’s like drinking a flat Sierra Mist in the back seat of a 2005 Subaru Baja while your mom is getting back to school supplies for your older brother in the dollar general on the edge of Sacramento, California.
man you know the effect that this record and just some of ferraro's stuff in general is beginning to diminish. like, especially after vaporwave's come and gone, the sort of dreamlike nostalgia and aesthetic associated emotions that i'd often be intoxicated with is something i'm growing out of. what's next? do we keep following this formula for future generations?
+Kriskazam it's like, okay, i get what you're trying to do James (and others), and you guys got me good with it. What's next?
+Kriskazam i think the aesthetics are only a small part of it. They help to set the tone obvs but reading his interviews and stuff theres usually a lot more going on behind his works than nostalgia and aesthetics. Its an on going journey and I guess you make mistakes or get lost along the way. no formula. just keep creating bro. hope u have a good day 2day
+Kriskazam i mean the liner notes for this album are amazing haha
think u might be missin the point, dreamy and nostalgic music has been around for ages and will continue to exist whether or not vaporwave continues to be relevant. you might be over dreamlike nostalgia, but that doesn't mean all of this music just because meaningless or trite, it just means you're growing out it and you've gotta go find something else to listen to lol. if you really want something different, go make it yourself.
Derek Janni I'm aware of all of that, and I'm aware that I'm just growing out of it, but vaporwave exhibits particular times, places, and feelings, etc, and the mood towards those particular things are dying down (or dead since I made that comment), doesn't mean it's meaningless or trite, in the future I can remember and observe how I felt during the time of enjoying these records, and I did for a long time I'd put em on, but now I don't immediately feel intoxicated by these feelings anymore. Not sure what point I'm missing since what you're saying is what I already wrote for the most part.
the guitar solo around the nine minute mark reminds me of the guitar solo from one of the episodes of garth marenghis darkplace
Sort of like Neil Breen's Double Down
if you put that on mute and played this instead of the original audio itd actually be really fucking good
I didn't know you liked James Ferraro, Mr. Omnipresent Guy.
lmao stanley kubrick who?
mr breast give me money
the desert of the real
If he didn’t use America in the name none of you would be commenting about how it reminds you of America. Just sounds like a lofi tape from James Ferraro.
That’s cool! He did put America in the title btw
9/11/01
God Forgive Us
wild west cowboy badass
Y’all ever seen bottle rocket by Wes Anderson? This is that. The library robbery. The motel pool. The failed factory robbery. All of it. This is just like that. Texas.
Yes exactly!
Yes exactly!
this feels like exactly 7:46 pm on a summer day in mid july
Incredible.
Dusty Dunes Desert
chips ahoy
i like it
addictive
this sounds great fr6 my flip phone
"THE ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR WISHES TO MERGE AS ONE WITH HIS GIRL. HIS TONGUE RING GLOWS UNDERNEATH THE RENO MOON. HER SILVER SILENCE BEGS FOR HIS PLEASURE. HE CAN HEAR HER CALL DEEP WITHIN HIS BEING, AS THE DESERT CLOUDS ROLL ON OVER HIS METAL SLAVE. SHE SUBMITS TO BE PARKED AND THE SHADOW OF LOVE IS AMOUNG THEM. A BLACKTOP TUMBLE WEED ROLLS AROUND THE DRIED TAR ONLY A DREAM OF IT’S MASTER BLOWING IN THE WIND. FROM THE HAND OF THE GLADIATOR WHO NOW HUNTS FOR A DREAM, A FLAT SCREEN DREAM. A GROUP OF HUMANS PRESUMED LOST FOR THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF WERE FOUND ALIVE CAMPING OUT IN THE BACK RECESSES OF A COSTCO SUPER MARKET. AFTER BEING LOST DEEP INSIDE OF THE COSTCO BUILDING FOR WEEKS WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE CONTACT, THEY FINALLY STARTED THE SETTLEMENT OF "NO FEAR". The front cover (JUDGE JUDYITE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH) represents the programmed citizen and the process of it’s logical sequence as visible from the working creative inner ego of the program (the living human host’s perspective) in a snapshot form in the empty world created by the MODERN Gomorrah temple BEST BUY™ plaza center. The back cover represents the same idea but this one exhibits the inner head perspective of the "LIQUID ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR IN THE DIGITAL COLOSSEUM A.G.* *After Google " - JAMES FERRARO
This sounds like... This sounds like... This sounds like... A very dissolving one, if we can even be honest about the drastic paint of wilted commercialism it uses here. It's compartmentalizing imperialism, the very repetition of distance smells and memories and scenarios of familiarity. Finding value in the commoditized ordinary for it speaks only of the road that the worker crosses, Pringles cans, the tinfoil, the rear view, some twangy hunger that lives in aisles. The one we're bound to follow, the flickery bulb, or the cigarette butt running in the dirty stream. The air that burns through the sacred land. The one we're bound to follow.
as a tennessean this album sounds like a small gas station on the road
This is what the blue lights those places put in their bathrooms so people can't shoot dope feel like. I love it.
Having a crystal Pepsi to this one
Roaming the route 66 strip on Mars. Fuel is 10 zillion quantums, the adopted currency in the year 2204
is that a transformer on blacktop tumble weed lol
It’s the Sunday night football robot, Cleatus
The Last Picture Show presented in music form
brilliant
Reminds me of Sun Araw, especially songs like All Night Long
Synthetic Country.
Interesting…
is there a download link anywhere?
sam patt buss primm pags mega.co.nz/#F!C8ITkbyT!Oncn1AFkDWXbyn67idYIbQ
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holy shit i never thought id see you here i have you on snap chat
me too!
I can't find the pic at 9:25 anywhere. Is it even part of the actual release?
i got it from the Discogs page! www.discogs.com/James-Ferraro-Last-American-Hero/release/2167599 couldn't tell you exactly how it was incorporated into the packaging, though ...
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where are the other images from?
inserts of the vinyl
this is a reimagining of his 2009 album genie head?
fyi yall should watch the movie entertainment from 2015 if you want a movie that has the feeling of this album
Wichita Kansas
Need someone to hold to this
We had go purchse a wizartfree steak out~
the second song destroyed me
This music sounds dry
Just discovered this guy and I'm so worried because all of the other niche artists and cliques I've discovered often get overrun with normie posers as soon as I talk about them with anyone else. But then again Ferraro has already been the forerunner of a few genres so I suppose it'll be fine
Is this a bit?
@@plasticsstrings No I'm extremely paranoid because this has happened with maybe 3 or 4 other groups that I joined and I fear that I'm a personal harbinger of hipsters
ferraro has been popular since like 2011 who cares man
@@krilinc2668 he's more of a cult artist than popular but yeah who cares about this kinda stuff, Ferraro isn't really top 40 radio lol, he's one of those artists that if you find out someone's into you know they are a real big fan
mojave desert
poop desert
very boc
Derek Janni not at all, fuck off
lol
blue oyster cult
I'd say yes I can hear similar "sounds" but they are put together in a completely different way.
boc to me, sounds like childhood, and mostly sweet memories. James Ferraro sounds like my bad dreams at age 15.
whats boc
this record is shiteBut i like the cover
this is what its sounds like living in a small town in the midwest where one part is kind of nice and the rest is abandoned with only one gas station with the cashier smoking a cigarette with multiple alcoholic drinks behind the desk while living with your dad near a lake
6:46 DAAAAAMN