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Music Shit / SXSW must-sees ...

« on: March 11, 2008, 11:30:03 AM »

Anyone going to SXSW and have a list of bands that they absolutely MUST catch?  Or not going but still making fantasy lists in your head?  I'm heading down there tomorrow via bus and although I've already made up a little schedule for myself I'm still worried I'm going to miss something phenomenal ... who would you recommend I absolutely don't miss??  I'm arriving Thursday morning and staying till Sunday.

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

« on: March 11, 2008, 11:09:40 AM »

I actually have that one already and I paid a dollar for it too (at Reckless in Chicago), but I haven't listened to it in about eight years or something; when it comes to Wire, like a lot of other people, I prefer the first three albums and Behind the Curtain (although the last is pretty rare/ expensive; I paid $82.97 for mine from somebody on Amazon)- and I HATE whichever one has "Eardrum Buzz" on it (that was the first Wire song I ever heard and I fucking hated it)

Oh, man....That "Eardrum Buzz" song drove me crazy, too. When I was 17-18 and working at this pizza delivery place, the dayshift manager on weekends was this coked out crazy dude that seemed nice-spirited enough until one little thing would just set him off. Not a lotta calls would come in during the day, but he'd swear that the phones were ringing all the time. Once he felt comfortable enough around me to talk about his drug use, he told me about coke making his ears buzz.

"Yeah, you know that song 'Eardrum Buzz' by Wire?" he asked. "That's what it's about man!"

Then he took his shoe off as he sang it and during the part that goes "Buzz-Buzz-Buzz," the dude smacked his skull really hard with his shoe to the rhythm of the chorus.

This guy was mid-30s and married to a girl that was under 18. Whenever she'd come in, he'd show her off, and then afterward, he'd ask if any of us wanted to hit it. "I'll let you!" he swore. Finally, one of our friends took him up on it and he got the clap.

that's a good Wire story.  I love Send, i've been preaching the virtues of that album for years but it's fallen on deaf ears.  I even love the semi-industrial production.  OK, I'm going to check out The First Letter, even though I've studiously avoided it for years ... is A Bell is a Cup the real shitty album you guys are thinking of?

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Music Shit / Re: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

« on: March 09, 2008, 04:24:12 PM »

I hear Ron House liked to grope females.

I always heard that, too, but he never, ever groped me, not once.  That makes me sad.

I think someone else somewhere on here put in a plug for his solo "Obsessed" album, and having just listened to it for the 1st time in a while today I'd have to recommend it.  Very sad and very, very funny.

Everyone please feel free to come to Columbus and party ... anytime!

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Music Shit / Re: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

« on: March 07, 2008, 02:24:53 PM »

I want to take that class, DJ Rick!  It sounds amazing.  Thanks for helping to mold the next generation of record nerds.

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

« on: March 07, 2008, 02:14:02 PM »

-CD-R of new unreleased stuff by Cheveu they gave us when they stayed at our place last night (they blew my mind live, I'd never seen 'em before).  Just as adventurous, if not more, as all their previous releases.  Awesome.
-that first Crack und Eczema CD on Tes Fesses, also a gift from Cheveu
-new Night of Pleasure CD-R ... sounding badass with their new bass player.  And more noisy/weird ... guess I was the only thing standing between them and total art-faggery.

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Music Shit / Re: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

« on: March 07, 2008, 02:05:21 PM »

Wow ... I had no idea that anyone, aside from me and the handful of Columbus-music obsessives that I hang out with, liked TJSA and all things Ron House as much as I do!  This is awesome to me.
I actually didn't realize until very recently that this label/website exists, I think Paul Nini, who was in Great Plains and other Cbus bands, runs it:

http://www.old3c.com/home.html

They have "You Lookin' for Treble?" that CD collection of early TJSA stuff I mentioned on the Motards thread, the 2 CD Great Plains set called "The Length of Growth--'81-'89" and lots of other Ron House-related releases.

TJSA are namedropped in that douchbag bible "A Heartbreaking Work ..."  Are you serious?  Ewwww.  I haven't read that thing, but I know I hate it already.

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Music Shit / Re: The Motards

« on: March 07, 2008, 10:57:57 AM »

I love pretty much all the TJSA albums, but my favorite might actually be that collection of early 7"s and other releases "You Lookin' For Treble?" which has "Bottle Island," "Can't Kill Stupid," "Please Hear My Plea" and lots of other classics.
Wait, are we still talking about the Motards?

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Music Shit / Re: The best records of 85-90

« on: March 06, 2008, 02:05:12 PM »

Which means I'm also lying about the fact that I still have a soft spot for Fables of the Reconstruction and Lifes Rich Pageant.

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Music Shit / Re: The best records of 85-90

« on: March 06, 2008, 02:04:03 PM »

I am lying about my crush on Michael Stipe as hopelessly dorky junior high student in 1989.

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Music Shit / Re: The Motards

« on: March 06, 2008, 01:38:23 PM »

I just find it hard to believe that someone couldn't be excited by new stuff ... I mean, I stopped looking for 100% originality years ago.  All that matters to me is that you're A) bringing something new to the table or B) doing something totally cliched really, really well.  There have been more prolific times and less, but there's always something quality being made out there ... sometimes it's in hip hop or in rock and sometimes it's out on the fringes a little more.  I don't know, I just like sounds a lot.
I don't know why people try to label things "punk" and "not punk" these days, either, I don't think the word or that distinction have much meaning any more.  Music-wise. 

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Music Shit / Re: The best records of 85-90

« on: March 06, 2008, 01:15:18 PM »

I can't help it, I know the production was bad and sometimes the songs ... but any Husker Du album from that era I like, even "Warehouse," which is awful when it's bad but there are some awesome songs on there, like "Could You Be the One" and "Back From Somewhere."
Naked Raygun--Jettison
Fugazi--Repeater
Pussy Galore--Dial 'M' ...
Minutemen--Double Nickels
I used to like Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast but I haven't heard it in years and I don't know if I'd still be into it.
and definitely any and all Big Black

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

« on: March 06, 2008, 12:49:14 PM »

Where is Shitstock 08 going to be held Kevin?  Were you thinking Nationwide Arena?
listening to ...
Crass--Feeding of the 5,000 (how did I not remember how amazing this album is?)
Pagans--Shit Street CD
that Slicing Grandpa covers thing is awesome and hilarious!

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Music Shit / Re: The Motards

« on: March 05, 2008, 11:24:53 AM »

Donovan on Shrooms.............INCR EDIBLE

I had a religious experience once listening to Steve Reich and watching Stan Brakhage films on acid.  Mr. Leitch on shrooms sounds awesome.  Gonna try it.

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Music Shit / Re: The Motards

« on: March 05, 2008, 11:21:31 AM »

That 16-18 theory sounds about right to me.  That was definitely the most exciting time for me, music-wise.  Wish I could go back & be a teenager again.  I'm old & jaded now.  Time to kill myself pretty soon.

I said I was gonna do it at 30, but here I am a month out from the big 3-0 and I still haven't done it.  Suicide party, anyone??  Listen to some records, do some heroin, blow our brains out?

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Music Shit / Re: The Motards

« on: March 05, 2008, 11:19:34 AM »

"This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession"


And about the stratification of the 90s, one of the weird things is that you didn't even need to be part of a physical "scene" to feel the pressure (for lack of a better word) to confine yourself to the genre ghetto.  I guess that could be contributed to the limited influences that a lot of those bands were drawing from.

Im'a look up that title while I'm here at the lieberry ... and don't forget, you, me, and most other people we knew/know now were a lot younger and probably less open-minded in the 90's ... I would have definitely laughed at my 30-yr-old self for liking Donovan (actually, I'm laughing at myself right now).  In some ways I'm jaded, but in other ways I think I just have less time for shitty music ... I just want to listen to something interesting be it Donovan or Slicing Grandpa, you know?