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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Topic started by: denkinger on September 21, 2006, 12:34:35 PM
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http://static-party.blogspot.com/
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finally!!! sheesh....
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Okay, so Finally we got to that one...should we just stop now?
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I'm still waiting for your write-up of Rain Like The Sound Of Trains.
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That's #74 on our countdown of All The REAL Bands That Mattered in the 90s, right after:
Euphone
Gluecifer
Emily's Sassy Lime
Left Insane
Lunachicks
Hypnolovewheel
Clowns For Progress
McCrackins
Hot Damn!
Bomb Bassets
St. Johnny
Haggis
We'll get to it, there's just alot of quality in the way...
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This one is on my wantlist. Anyone with copies hit me up, I have Anus the Menace and Clowns for Progress 7"es for trade bait. Serious offers only.
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McCrackins
I'm waiting for a post of the complete McCrackins discography. Don't make me wait forever!!!!!
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Oh, and before you get to the 8 Bark post, let me just say that this Arch Villains stuff is totally aces.
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Wait til you hear the Hell on Heels 7"s.
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I saw Emily's Sassy Lime at Gilman St. once. The teenage me wanted to bang the drummer real bad. Didn't happen, of course.
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If I remember the Bomb Bassets correctly -- and I probably don't -- I thought they were alright. Either way, I'll never listen to anything on any of these blogs because I can't stand downloading music anymore. It's mostly laziness.
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I haven't listened to the Bomb Bassets in forever, but I remember thinking they were good. Not near as great as Sweet Baby (who destroys any other Lookout band ever), but they still had a good LP. The single I remember not liking so much though.
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Yes, I saw the 'Lime play at Epicenter Zone, all very adorable Asian girls who unfortunately were all concept and no rock. Also, all rich kid nerdos who ended up going to Stanford or Cal Tech to study particle physics or the like. Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the utterly trend-victimized, patronizing scene spotting!
We'll get to them, and the Bomb Bassets too, okay, but we still have too get through:
Blanks 77
Hemi
Sluts For Hire
Knapsack
Cadillac Tramps
Fork
Bench
Tussle
Crunt
Chubbies
Wise Young Truck
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not to mention
hutch
sock eye
white caps
boba fett youth
element 79
coffin break
bumpin uglies
counter clock
boycott
platypus scourge
sharon tate
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For some reason, the Cadillac Tramps used to tour quite often in the middle of nowhere, Canada, when I was younger. Sadly, reading their name also reminded me of Lucy's Fur Coat, another awful band.
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Sockeye rules.
But how bout
Picasso Trigger
Zuzu's Petals
Schlong
(one of the 6 thousand bands called ) Chump
Gas Huffer
Kerosene 454
shit, don't make me pull out an old issue of 'Your Flesh'
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Uncle Joe's Big Ol Driver
Big Ass Truck
The Fux
Our Band Sucks
Creamers
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I picked up the Arch Villians 7 incher for a dollar when Al from The Voz Zippers was unloading all his "shitty" 90's singles(for dirt cheap) at a record fair in town a few years back. I was burnt out on this stuff at the time...but who could pass up 20 7"'s like this for $20? I saw one floating around at a local store a few months back for $4...if anyone wants it, I can check to see if they still ahve it.
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If I remember the Bomb Bassets correctly -- and I probably don't -- I thought they were alright.
I love/loved the Bomb Bassets. Their record was great...except that one song that had a wah pedal. The Bram Tchaikovsky cover was a great pick.
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Emily's Sassy Lime was AWESOME!!!! They were like 14 yr old asian-american girl punx, they had a drummer that stood up while she played, and they put out some really great records that i thought were wonderfully sloppy and cool. They played w/ Bikini Kill in Southern California in like '96 or something...totally memorable band. I'm a huge fan. I Also loved Skinned Teen.
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Some more bands YOU'D BETTER GET TO QUICK:
Shelter
Pist
Piss Drunks
Couch of Eureka
Das Klown
Manic Hispanic
Fitz of Depression
Sicko
Plaid Retina
Reclusives
Pat Dull & the Media Whores
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If Pat Dull & His Media Whores repackaged themselves under a new name/identity, Steve would like them on principle.
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Holy shit, people knew about them outside of Columbus? Weird.
Fitz of Depression have some cool shit, and some boner shit. And Skinned Teen was cool. I think. WHat happened to my Slampt comp?
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If Pat Dull & His Media Whores repackaged themselves under a new name/identity, Steve would like them on principle.
Actually, no, but nice try. I bought their first single with no preconcieved notions and HATED that shit.
Oh and I almost forgot:
Tards
SWAT
Spitboy
John Couger Concentration Camp
Nothing Cool
Candy Snatchers
Smegma
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Plad Retina had some really good stuff out early on, and they started out in the mid-80's, so I don't get what you're trying to say.
...and Smegma, they've been around since the 70's or something, haven't they?
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Why, yes. Smegma is from the seventies through today. Steve!!! What the fuck?
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Plad Retina had some really good stuff out early on, and they started out in the mid-80's, so I don't get what you're trying to say.
...and Smegma, they've been around since the 70's or something, haven't they?
these are all just shitty bands I remember hearing/seeing the names of back in the 90's. i'm not doing a wikipedia search on each band.
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Steve, don't hate on the Candy Snatchers.
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Oh, jesus. Here it comes...
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i've never heard of smegma's long history/whatnot, but i remember seeing a single (?) by them in a catalog once and thinking, "man they must be a terrible grunge band." a few years before that my nephew had a band called smegma when he was in middle school, so the name has always stuck with me.
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Oh, jesus. Here it comes...
Am I going to have to delete my account again?
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Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.
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Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.
"Free-jazz/noise band?" Okay, I stand by making fun of them then.
KIDDING. Sorta...
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Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.
I could be completely wrong on this, but I think Poison Idea's first show was opening for them. Pig's wearing a Smegma shirt on one of the '80's records.
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Oh, jesus. Here it comes...
Am I going to have to delete my account again?
I'm just saying, there's a lot of things wrong with the Candy Snatchers, and they put out waaay too many records, and have like one good one. But they do not belong lumped in with this "Most Reprehensible Band Names from the Nineties I Can Think Of" list this thread has become. I mean, they're no Sandy Duncan's Eye. That's all I'm saying. I can think of a million worse bands from the Nineties.
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what about 440 Sixpack?
smegma makes me cringe purely on the name alone.. based on what smegma actually is. fucking gross...
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Smegma are maybe the #1 band I would never expect to see Steve namedrop.
I saw them when they headlined at No Fun Fest this past spring. Everyone I went with loved them but I thought it was horrible. It was like a community theatre reenactment of a noise show. They are old as hell. ESP-disk alumnus Perry Robinson sat in on clarinet, which was kind of cool, but he certainly didn't help them not look mad old. And yeah I think the Poison Idea connection is true, someone told me that Jerry A. played bass for them sometimes. Richard Metzler was in them on vox for the last few years until recently.
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I don't care what anyone says, the Candy Snatchers records may have been OK at best, and often they were shitfaced and put on horrible shows, but I also saw them throw down some incredible & incredibly intense punk rock shows that were among the best I saw during the 90s. I'm thinking of both some of the "crazy" shows with blood & gore & fights & piss & puke & fire and all that, as well as the best I ever saw them - sober, early afternoon show on the floor of the all ages club because they were only booked for a bar show that time through. Nice gesture for the local kids, and they were incendiary. I know a lot of people never got to see that side, but it was there under the veil of drugs & debauchery, and when focused the Candy Snatchers were a blazing rock 'n roll band.
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Oh, jesus. Here it comes...
Am I going to have to delete my account again?
I'm just saying, there's a lot of things wrong with the Candy Snatchers, and they put out waaay too many records, and have like one good one. But they do not belong lumped in with this "Most Reprehensible Band Names from the Nineties I Can Think Of" list this thread has become. I mean, they're no Sandy Duncan's Eye. That's all I'm saying. I can think of a million worse bands from the Nineties.
I thought Steve would have a funny Candy Snatchers ugh! response but I was wrong. Oh, well. I played him the Live In Blood Red lp a few months ago and he lost all respect for me as a human being. That even with all the 400 Bar and Minneapolis put downs between songs...which is funny, dammit. I can say that I never missed a Candy Snatchers show for mainly the same reasons as Todd just posted. Maybe they were shitty record makers but their shows were a blast every time. Even when it was the middle of winter in Minneapolis, Larry May was sad on smack, and five people bothered to show up at the end there. The "Burn It To The Ground" late nineties Satyricon shows in Portland were a laugh riot. And just plain dumb fun. But I can see where you kinda had to be there and done that to, uh, grasp the Snatch. Rootie-toot-toot!!!
Meltzer + Smegma would be a sight to see.
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I think Todd M's special way of letting guests know that it's time to get a move on is when he starts pulling out the bad, abrasive records. I still remember that time at 5 in the morning when he pulled out Feedtime and said, "you're gonna hate this." He was right!
As for ripping on the Candy Snatchers, next thing you know you guys are gonna say I can't make fun of the Bollweevils or something.
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Yeah, feedtime and the Bollweevils are definitely equivalent in terms of artistic merit.
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I miss those days!
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Well, I mean, feedtime is fucking genius. If it's 5:00 AM and feedtime is on the turntable? Everyone should be drunk and on their knees looking for the ping pong ball, burping the Australian national anthem Urinals style, and cracking the lid on another Sparks. Am I right, Josh? I mean, that's when a party is going to start to party.
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Hey, HEY! You think I didn't put some serious THOUGHT into those lists I dropped? I typed then erased a lots of bands thinking "Nah, you can't slag a band that spawned a dozen imitators, they have to be bands whose records seemingly played to an audience of six yet still seemed to be everywhere...or who only toured Germany as a result." Exactly how DID the Chubbies get seventy-three records out, know what I mean?
The 90s bands I actually find most boring or irritating are ones that were usually really popular, you know, the Unwounds and Jawbreakers and Hellacopters and Jimmy Eat Worlds of the indieverse. I pick on Emily's Sassy Lime because they were eye-rollingly teenage wannabe-elitists, their records aren't actually totally terrible, just merely average or b-team. To get back to the feel of the list may I propose:
Eggs
Short Fuses
Everready
Feds
Mealticket
Candypants
Smoothies
Gauge
any hc 7" from about 98-01 with a picture of demons/devil on the sleeve
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anybody ever come close to feedtime's sound? That shit is still aggressively its own
"shovel" is an original monster
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What's funny is that I haven't heard (though I've heard of) 90% of the bands listed here. I'm just cool that way, I guess.
feedtime were gods to me at one point, and I still think that the records (beyond the comeback "Billy" album, which was OK) stand up well....though not as all-consuming as I once thought.
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"Shovel" is still my favorite, but I'm not sure if that's because it's the first one I bought. You can't accurately describe their sound in "sound bite" form, though I still say they were perhaps the heaviest non-metal band of the era....though that only explains a (very) small bit of their appeal.
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They were big X (Aus., of course) fans, and I know that was an influence...that's the closest I know of.
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It's either behind the mini-fridge or maybe behind the cat porter. But goddamn, that portable heater ain't shit. More pills next time!
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Scrod, you are turning into Johan Kugelberg, the guy who opines that the Stooges are not so great after all...its just too many spins. I haven't sat down and listened to a Stooges record all the way through in years, but in all honesty they still have to be one of my favorite bands ever.
Right now I am wearing out a Mary Hopkin record that is only two Welsh hairs removed from fucking Joan Baez, but since I didn't OD on her via 70s am radio I'm immune.
feedtime's bass-heavy attack is simply not suited for every mood. That is why Allah created (insert obscurely self-promotional Taiwanese 70s psych band here) for us to listen to.
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I guess you could make a case for Venom P. Stinger being feedtime-esque, but that's atleast half geography. feedtime were the Australian Killdozer basically.
Jawbreaker are overrated, but I will always love Unwound (cept for that last record).
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Scrod, you are turning into Johan Kugelberg, the guy who opines that the Stooges are not so great after all...its just too many spins.
No way! "Funhouse" has been my favorite record for decades. I still think feedtime were great (and I'm still hoping for that unreleased stuff Rich Dropkick was supposed to be waiting on), but I'd place some other shit ahead of them now.
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I'd put Feedtime as my 4th fave Aussie band after
The Saints
Birthday Party
X
Jawbreaker & Unwound are crap of which nothing good ever came from.
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1. Go-Betweens - Lee Remick b/w Karen 7" (Able Label 001)
2. Razar - Task Force b/w Stamp Out Disco (Able Label 002)
3. Numbers - 77 Sunset Strip b/w Magic Castle /Rules Of Love (Able Label 003)
4. feedtime
...or something like that. Actually, of course, there are just too many great Australian bands in particular to choose from. I'd just say that the Able Label mix is really nutty when you look at the strengths and differences of each of the releases above. It's kinda hard to make the comparision and connect the dots between hearing "Lee Remick" back to back with "Stamp Out Disco"...but it's there...and there is an interesting story behind it. Wish somebody would tell it with an Able Label compilation.
I think feedtime had something going on there that was having to do with operating in a place and time that just didn't click with where they were at and what was going on around them. They sound like a band that played for a small audience of close friends in a town that was as far off the map as Minneapolis, MN. The choice of their covers, the structure of their songs, the fact that the guitarist and bassist had never been in a band before makes me appreciate them so much. I mean, if you don't like their sound, you should still be able to hear X, Beach Boys, Ramones, The Stones, The Stooges, The Animals, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, The Easybeats, and Slade somewhere in there.
I like the idea of a band doing covers for an entire album and spitting it out in an honest way, trying to do the right thing to these songs while still making them sound like the way they hear them themselves, while playing them the only way they can, want to, or want them to be heard, and that that comes through with everything they did. That if you just sit down and listen you might just start hearing that what's underlining an immediate sound is really people playing something deeply uncomplicated and actually familiar. That if all you hear is this gruff voice or heavy bass, you should also listen closer because what's underneath all that is really the common stuff that makes up rock 'n' roll. And, really, feedtime come closer to it, in their weird and well intentioned way, then most. I mean, that's what I hear when I put that shit on. And it's just fucking fun, fun, fun.
Just like all those Dave Edmunds records. Or what all those Able Label bands had in common even if the fans of one couldn't stand the sound of the other. Hey, they all appeal to me. If I'm throwing a party they're getting an invite. And it's comforting to know that feedtime is gonna crash it every time.
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Well said. When I go on Scientists/Birthday Party/X/Feedtime jags, the girlfriend harrumphs and passes off comments about "music with repetitive basslines and songs about hating people." But, duh, that's just the surface. If you only hear gruff vocals and throbbing basslines in something like Feedtime, that, in my book, is tantamount to dismissing a punk band as "a buncha assholes who can't play their instruments." Or a rap group as "some black guys talking over pre-recorded music." Same shit. What makes a band like Flipper great to me is that 1) there's no one like them at all (including bands trying to sound like them today), 2) they were accidentally a good band, 3) their take on music is so nonsensical and unique that it's somehow endearing, 4) their songs wobble outside of almost every trapping of the textbook pop song formula, yet they are still, somehow, very catchy (non-hook becomes a hook). I love when bands are able to do this. Aside from a few glaring exceptions, it irritates me when newer bands try to rip off shit like the Electric Eels or Flipper or Fang or etc. because these bands were magical glaring exceptions to begin with and you couldn't recreate their kind of ridiculous lunacy no matter how hard you tried. In fact, trying automatically makes you look like a jackass. The point is that there was no point to begin with. Sounding like the Electric Eels in '75 is far different from the same thing in '06. Just like the Heartbreakers in '77 is different from etc. Obvious, I know, but a lot of people seem to miss the point.