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Music Shit / Re: ERRRRRGS!!!!!!!

« on: June 12, 2007, 11:52:39 PM »

the best band on Cruz Records in 1990

I guess I'm not the musical slut I thought I was...wait, I think I have a Big Drill Car album somewhere...

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Music Shit / Re: ERRRRRGS!!!!!!!

« on: June 12, 2007, 09:14:14 PM »

I don't really hear anything special in the few tunes I sampled on their myspace- certainly nothing to weed them out of the massive pack of pop-punkers. And I've heard a lot of the recent bands. I need a kind of speedy-punky-fix like anyone else, especially right after lunch but I much rather listen to the Jellys, Fastbacks, Psychotic Youth, Sator...It's not about being a music nerd/nazi who hates fun, I'm a musical slut actually, I just look for something that sticks in my head when it comes this type of sound...

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Music Shit / Re: Firestarter

« on: June 11, 2007, 03:33:35 PM »

I can't really add much more but it really does come down to a split between Japanese character on the one hand and personal, uh, desires, on the other. Take Guitar Wolf- they toured Japan extensively since they started and built up a following all over Japan thereby getting the interest of a major label (Sony, the major label) and can now tour in somewhat comfort. Seiji's personality also has a lot to do with it. Teengenerate, who came from the same scene, never really toured Japan outside of Tokyo and the Kansai area and so really never had much of a following outside of the big cities. And very few Japanese releases. In fact, I bet that more Japanese underground rock fans know the Jet Boys than Teengenerate. As western as Japanese may seem there are still tons, even younger people, who can only have a meal if there's some nice white Japanese rice and pickled vegetables involved. Add to that a lack of really good English and some Japanese can start to feel fairly bummed about touring...
Another example is the Havenots. They just did a mini-tour of Australia- I'm pretty sure they only played shows the Southeast and never made it to Sydney? Why? Well, Mach Pelican (nice guys but fairly so-so Queers type popunk) booked the tour for them and took them around. They played like 4-5 nights in Melbourne in different pubs, not really headlining but because there is a decent enough scene they could play to decent sized crowds, sell some schwag, etc. Although I'm really not sure they keep going as band since the only thing they have put out in the last five years has been a split e.p.. I mean, I guess they keep going because it's a hobby, no?
Anyhow, about Firestarter- aren't they doing all new songs now and nothing off the first two records?? Is the Young Ones bass player still in the Raydios??

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Music Shit / Re: Strangest thing

« on: June 07, 2007, 01:52:19 PM »

Sounds kind of tame now maybe but I saw an infamous Feederz show at Gilman st. (maybe '86-87) where Frank D. came out with bugs glued to his bald pate, a dead cat hanging around his neck and dragging a dead dog. At one point he threw the dog into the audience and there was eventually an on-stage showdown with the PC police (no fig newtons please, they have lard). Of course, someone wanted to report him to the police, etc. I actually ran across a vid of the show on Soulseek.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: wasabi peas...

« on: June 06, 2007, 04:08:38 PM »

its a drug, really. just like many spicy items

Actually, peppers are a precursor to many phenethylamines (amphetamines, mescaline, adernaline, the active ingredients in chocolate and ecstacy are all from this family of chemicals).

I used to really want to get a tattoo of a benzene ring attached to a carbon chain, but, it'd just look like a crude drawing of sperm to anyone but the DEA anyway.

It's actually pretty interesting how closely linked things like aromatics, peppers and psychedelics really are. Very, very, very interesting if you really think about it.

Never knew there was a chemical connection but I start to salivate when I think about eating some good spicy food. Peppers are good for blood circulation/immune system and I think my daily intake of jalapeno peppers was the only way that I survived five years of Mexico City smog.
Wasabi seems a bit diiferent than peppers though. I've never had a day after effect like you can have with chiles and there seems to be an upper limit to wasabi - you can't slowly work up a resistance and up your intake.
I like making a fried shrimp, etc. dipping sauce with ketchup, soy sauce and wasabi...

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Music Shit / Re: Best version of a cover,

« on: June 06, 2007, 03:50:08 PM »

I'll second the Melvin's Lexicon Devil and Husker Du "Eight Miles High"
and add
The Fluid "Our Love Will Still Be There"
Pagans "Little Black Egg"
Boys from Nowhere "Rocket to Nowhere"
Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter"

Other categories

Best Ramones deconstruction:
Blast "Sniff Some Glue"

Best full album covers:
Clawhammer "Are we not men"
Pussy Galore "Exile on Main Street"
Can't say they surpass the originals but they are solid.

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Music Shit / Re: What's your deal with live shit?

« on: June 06, 2007, 05:16:11 AM »

You can't recapture a live show, no matter how many mics or mixers or cameras or etc.

Um yeah well it's just about capturing the band's sound live really...I don't like too many live recordings either and have never heard a bootleg that was worth really repeated plays except for that Sonic Youth one from around '89 called "the Walls Have Ears" I think.

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Music Shit / Re: Music to fall asleep to...

« on: June 06, 2007, 05:13:16 AM »

Yeah I used to be like that too but as you get older... but still only fairly mellow stuff.
 I remember having to crash in a girlfriend's brother room once and he gets in right as I'm drifting off, throws in a Rolling Stones cassette, and is snoring one song later - I had to wait out the whole side.

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Music Shit / Re: What's your deal with live shit?

« on: June 06, 2007, 04:30:22 AM »

That was something I first heard Steve Albini say- that even in the studio, a great band should just be recorded as much like they sound live as possible...I'd say there are very few live records, even making considerations for crappy live recording setups, that are really "great".
Off the top of my head:
Jesus Lizard - Show
Motorhead - No SLeep til Hammersmith
Ramones - It's Alive is great but there's a live show from '77 at the Roxy in L.A. that came out with some reissues that is awesome also.

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Music Shit / Re: Music to fall asleep to...

« on: June 06, 2007, 04:24:16 AM »

Mellow VU stuff, Cocteau Twins, heavy dub, United States of America...

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody listening to? Part II

« on: June 06, 2007, 04:21:58 AM »

Lover! album is a knockout! One of the best pure pop albums of the year so far.

I didn't even know about this until I saw it at the store last weekend. Rich Crook rooLz! Party!

Liquid Screen "Lament for the City Creatures" - Ex-First Alert and Radio Shanghai and, er, sounds like a mix of those two bands. Didn't blow me away on first listen but kind of energetic, nearly post-punk, flangy guitar

The Cokes - recent Jap band poppy punk/power pop but nothing that really grabbed me...

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Music Shit / Re: new TB?

« on: June 05, 2007, 03:19:17 PM »

Tricknee- Is that the CB's posthumous full-length??

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Music Shit / Re: What the shit are the newer babds ya'll are into these days?

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:26:08 PM »

Yeah I can dig it- I misinterpreted young Steve - my bad....where's the beating a dead horse icon but....
What will people be listening to and raving about in ten years from this time period? who knows, who cares, why bother...

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Music Shit / Re: What the shit are the newer babds ya'll are into these days?

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:01:15 PM »

Whatevah...Devil Dogs were an integral part of the whole Crypt "scene" that infused some much needed energy into the late '80s and their influence on what came out in the '90s, for better or worse, can't be underestimated. I really don't know of 1,000's of imitators although I'm sure some of the Gearhead rawk bands that are so hated around here would cite them as an influence. As would a ton of '90s Jap. garagey bands...But 1,000s of imitators?  For each DD wannabe I'd wager you can find 1,000 crappy "skacore" bands...

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Music Shit / Re: 1st base

« on: June 03, 2007, 11:25:49 PM »

I seem to remember having some classical music for kids record that came with a baton when I was 5 or 6. I would do hyperactive symphony conductor imitations to stuff like Peter Wolf, Beethoven's fifth, the crescendo parts...after that I think I bought a "YMCA" single at some point although I also distinctly remember hearing the debut of "Rappes Deligh" and thinking, wow, that's something different.