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Music Shit / Re: What releases have you enjoyed from the first half of 2014?

« on: November 26, 2014, 08:37:09 AM »

Quote from: nick_ on November 26, 2014, 06:54:34 AM

The JUANITA Y LOS FEOS lp from this year is #1 for me right now. Brilliant record

http://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/track/nunca-volvera-n

I've got that spinning now. Great album.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: best real names

« on: October 09, 2014, 11:14:08 AM »

A kid from first school's older brother was rumoured to be called Russell, the surname was Sprout. Russell Sprout. Never did find out if it was true.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Twin Peaks 2016

« on: October 07, 2014, 03:24:19 PM »

They'll fuck it up. The movie was terrible, the second half of the second season is patchy.

I bet Audrey, Donna and Shelly are all still smoking hot though.

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Music Shit / Re: Esoteric band knowledge you've recently gleaned

« on: October 06, 2014, 04:55:42 AM »

Leatherface once appeared in the English soap Emmerdale but with an actor masquerading as their singer. They played a band called Shrine who were mistakenly booked to play the town hall. "We're a gospel band, ain't we, lads?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1UfJaGFAw

I still wouldn't spill Frankie's pint.

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Cities / Re: Seattle Record Shops

« on: October 02, 2014, 04:26:57 AM »

Jive Time is great. It's a few doors from Ophelia's Books which was a cool bookshop with a cool bookshop cat. Fremont in general seems a sound place.

I found Singles Going Steady too expensive - that did include doing the mental maths going from pound to dollar. Records are typically cheaper in the States but I would have paid through the snouts in there for anything I wanted.

There's another shop that I can't remember the name or location of, nor is google helping me find it. Not very useful to you, I know.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: September 28, 2014, 12:31:49 PM »

I saw a tattoo on Instagram of a heart with a scroll across it that said 'BRUNCH'. That's pretty brunch.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Comix / Graphic Novels / Etc.

« on: September 28, 2014, 12:30:21 PM »

Massive, massive fan of Seth's work. He's pretentious as hell (he is aware of how absurd he is, whoever) but I love the rhythm of his stories and the draughtsmanship of his work cannot be denied. Such beautiful, sad line work and his colours are always perfect. Wimbledon Green and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists are a light-hearted and playful counterpoint to It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Clyde Fans and George Sprott.

Chester Brown's stuff is great - reread Paying For It recently, his take on paying for sex. His biography of Louis Riel is sitting in my to-read pile.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Adam Curtis documentaries

« on: September 28, 2014, 12:17:30 PM »

I've only seen And It Felt Like a Kiss and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and loved them both.

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Music Shit / Re: Music You Maybe Liked Until You Were Overexposed To It or Met Its Awful Fans

« on: September 26, 2014, 02:11:13 PM »

Quote from: erickelric on September 26, 2014, 12:02:50 PM

"Firing Squad" by CAN Subhumans is a great fucking song.

I want my funeral bookended with Firing Squad and Moon Over Marin. The two fit together in my mind.

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Music Shit / Re: Break-Up Tunes

« on: September 24, 2014, 03:18:11 PM »

Lyres, The Wipers and Descendents.

My last break-up was in Hawaii, though. So I just listened to the most ugly bands I could to drown out the sunny, surfbro beauty of the place. The Wankys got some play.

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Music Shit / Re: Better than the released version

« on: September 22, 2014, 06:50:28 AM »

I always liked this version of Shake Some Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7aoWX8ENT0

It sounds like Psychedelic Furs covering Flamin' Groovies. Which is fine by me.

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Music Shit / Re: Worst song ever

« on: September 20, 2014, 11:17:45 AM »

Coconut by Harry Nilsson makes me want to break things.

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Music Shit / Re: Worst Reformed Punk band

« on: September 18, 2014, 05:41:47 AM »

I saw UK Subs earlier this year. Charlie Harper is in his 70s and still has a lot of charisma. He looks like a punk Mo Mowlem (deceased British politician) and everyone loves Warhead. Penetration and Buzzcocks played the same bill and they were both great.

Also got tickets for Agnostic Front recently and was expecting them to be terrible. They were a little cheesy but their energy couldn't be denied and I love the songs. It was a smaller venue than I expected and the crowd went mental for them. I always assumed they'd be massive brutes, Vinnie Stigma is tiny!

Er, don't have any bad stories. The Exploited were shit and a bunch of arseholes. That's all I've got.

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Music Shit / Re: Fave bands of Scotland?

« on: September 18, 2014, 05:35:37 AM »

Always think of miserable indie when I think of Scotland. And it's only thirty minutes from here. I work/visit up there pretty regularly and YOU BASTARDS BETTER NOT LEAVE US.

Song, by Toad is one of my favourite labels but I can't see it appealing to TermBo much. Meursault are one of my favourite live bands, the singer has such an intensity to him.

Political Asylum
Shop Assistants
Fire Engines
Oi Polloi had their moments.

And someone is sure to bring up:

THE EXPLOITED

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