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Music Shit / Re: 90s Girl Punk

« on: August 19, 2009, 02:00:57 PM »

kind of a dorky thread but fuck...
not sure what the criteria here is if the peechees are getting mentioned (one female member, not the singer doesnt really seem like 'girl punk')
Is it just me or has no one mentioned bikini kill? If you can get past some of the rhetoric, some of that stuff actually still holds up.
off the top of my head...
sunshine superscum (fucked up japanese noise punk)
autoclave (pre-slant six, really great)
deep lust (post-bratmobile, really irritating but kinda good)
vyvyan (teenage UK punk girls)
voodoo queens
tourettes (post-raoouul, and uh...pre-first lineup brilliant colors)
some of the henry's dress/aislers set material might fit the bill
tiger trap 10" rules
excuse 17 (pre-sleat) - first single & split singles were good
emily's sassy lime (never that great though)
i never liked team dresch, though I tried. man did I have to listen to it through girlfriends at the time...
chubbies were the worst
tip top planets vinyl japan ep is fantastic
automatics also on vinyl japan, mighta been tip top planets related
i casn't believe tilt got mentioned. I take it back about the Chubbies. Tilt was  THE WORST. Maybe just for someone adding them to the list we should make a goddamn 'worst vibrato in vocals' thread.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: crazy shit you hear on the street

« on: August 17, 2009, 01:05:17 PM »

I wish this thread never ended - I love it so much!
That maxi pad story is pretty disturbing - then again, Ike Turner mentioned in a pretty late interview that his secret to dealing with his diet-pill-induced anal leakage was to use Tampax. INSANE!
Anyway, here's a few things I was reminded of, not on the street, but still good.

My brother was in a packed movie theater, and this baby was crying like crazy. Someone yelled, "Shut up that damn kid" or something and a woman yelled back super loud "You was a baby too once!!!"

A dude I know works at a piercing place and these two large black women came in recently so one of them could get her nipple pierced. Theyre both in there and the woman pulls her shirt up, revealing what he described the hairiest stomach he had ever seen, and her friend yells, "Girl, you should shave that shit!"
A few minutes later, the hairy stomach woman is getting pierced, screaming at the top of her lungs, and when it was all done, she looked in the mirror and said "Damn, that hella hurted! It's hella cute though."

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Non-Music Shit / Re: crazy shit you hear on the street

« on: August 17, 2009, 10:03:57 AM »

Very happy to have discovered this thread. Though this one was a while ago, it was pretty amazing & worthy of adding to the pile:

I was walking downtown SF at night, around Christmas time, so the streets were super packed with Old Navy-toting folks and stuff. l was just kinda wandering around, and two clearly blind people (sunglasses, canes, etc) walking arm-in-arm, went passed me and I heard one of them say to the other, "Where the fuck are we?!"

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Non-Music Shit / Re: but i can't wait until midnight.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MITCH CARDWELL

« on: August 12, 2009, 11:07:48 AM »

Feels like that slow Green Day 'Time of Your Life' song should be playing as I slowly scroll through these photos.

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Pop Punk / Re: Delivering on the threat of 'Funhouse'...

« on: August 10, 2009, 02:43:27 PM »

D-.

nice emoticon: the relaxed cyclops whistlin'

Oh, I thought that emoticon was 'penis tip passing stone'.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: August 03, 2009, 04:25:46 PM »

Ok, well, fuck, if my new Nickelback is going to be deleted within five minutes, I'll just throw it on here since I HAVE been listening to it a lot...  Nickelback's 'Something in Your Mouth' is still blowing my mind.

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Pop Punk / Nickelback's 'Something in Your Mouth'

« on: August 03, 2009, 04:06:12 PM »

This song goes beyond bad, funny-bad, past bad-funny-bad, but it still astounds. Any thoughts?

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Music Shit / Re: Doc Corbin Dart

« on: August 03, 2009, 09:40:23 AM »

Yeah! Doc Dart is a genius - the Crucifucks are the only band I've ever made a homemade shirt for (I know I've got that screen somewhere...).
I haven't listened to Messiah that much but also note that if you're looking for it, he goes by 26 now so it might not be easy to find under his real name.
I loved reading that VICE thing. He's one of the few people I'd care to actually read a 'where are they now' piece about and it I thought McPheeters' did a good job too, though I still don't really think they get their due for being such a weird band in scene generally dominated by soundalike hardcore bands.
I can't wait to check out that zine whoever on here is doing that. You'd probably get some good stories out of Biafra (probably a lot more than you bargained for) if you got in contact with him. Also odd that I have rarely ever heard Steve Shelley say much about being in the band before joining Sonic Youth....

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Music Shit / Re: best music documentary with Byron and Thurston talking heads

« on: July 29, 2009, 01:22:29 PM »

Apropos of this dead thread, I just got the best early birthday gift ever!
My work cohort just handed me a copy of the first Half Japanese 7" from '77 which I've been lookin for fer years. Calling All Girls!!

"Calling Patti Smith/P.S. I love you/I got stung by the Luv Bee/He stuck his thing in me."!!!!

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Music Shit / Re: best music documentary with Byron and Thurston talking heads

« on: July 24, 2009, 02:14:04 PM »

Now that we're on the topic, I must also add that before I saw this documentary (at the UC Theater in Berkely, mid-late 90s?), I hadnt seen what Jad Fair looked like. I was on my way down to the movie and there was a dude next to me at the stop light that looked AMAZING - absurdly large circular glasses and sickly posture and poofy hair and a really fearful look on his face. He looked way too unhappy and not young enough to be a hipster, so I thought he was just some really cool-looking Berkeley street crazy. But he looked soooo rad that I remember having one of those, 'what the fuck is that guy's story?!' moments. Of course I learned about nine minutes later that it was Jad Fair and also got to hear his whole story almost immediately after wondering what his story was. It was quite satisfying.
Also after the movie Jad played a bunch of songs with some local garage band (god, who the fuck was it?) after the movie, first and definitely the best time I've ever seen him play. Took about three songs before I saw his guitar wasnt plugged in.

I love the whole 'how to play guitar thing' that david far wrote. this last part is the best..

"A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I've never tried one. I guess they sound alright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you'd feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn't to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world."

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Music Shit / Re: best music documentary with Byron and Thurston talking heads

« on: July 24, 2009, 12:50:05 PM »

good movie. coley is wearing a borbetomagus shirt in it.

is that the shirt thats the cover of their zurich record? tom carter has that shirt and was wearing it at a show in davis once..it was all i could do not to take it off him

the whole shirtless-tom-carter thing wouldnt be an issue for you?

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Music Shit / Re: best music documentary with Byron and Thurston talking heads

« on: July 23, 2009, 05:10:36 PM »

"Band That Would Be King" is an endless string of hyperbole. Everyone is in on the joke.

It is, but I thought it came across pretty awkward.  I don't think anyone told Mo Tucker or the Fairs' parents that it was a joke -- at all, and I don't think that was the filmmaker's intent either.  Seems kinda snarky or evasive, not sure which.  The movie seems to say, in earnest, that people with heart and inititiative can make great music, but the participants -- Jad included -- also seem to treat their ineptitude as a kind of joke.  It all seems a little bit like they put on a goofy freakshow for audiences who've never heard the band and who will probably never seek out their music.

1) I think that DAVID is pretty aware of the humorous/semi-ironic element, doesnt seem to take the whole thing that seriously (which may be while the actual David/Jad stuff has always been the best)
2) Really not sure about Jad. He seems to take himself pretty seriously in general, either that or he's one of those guys that takes his character/persona TO THE GRAVE.
3) I'm not sure how much I was/is in on the joke. I had heard a little of the early stuff when I saw the movie on its' brief opening run and left feeling prettty fucking stoked - on the band and in general. And in earnest!

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Music Shit / Re: best music documentary with Byron and Thurston talking heads

« on: July 23, 2009, 04:35:42 PM »

Coulda used about 200% less new live footage.  Mo Tucker is so steamed about major labels in this movie, it's almost funny.  Also: Phil Milstein.  Damn.

Jandek on Corwood gets a bad rap but it's a much better movie.  Milstein has even less to say in that one but he sports a very dashing beard.  Also, Richie Unterberger looks quite a bit like Jabba the Hutt.

Kinda more Jar Jar, no?

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Music Shit / Re: Nocturnal Projections / Peter Jefferies

« on: July 23, 2009, 09:23:18 AM »

There's a CD comp of all the Noct Proj stuff, and the 'Nerve Ends' 7" has been reish'd at least once - I've definitely seen it around over the years.

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Music Shit / Re: FANG.

« on: July 08, 2009, 01:09:33 PM »

Hey
Yeah, Revolver has the almighty Fang 'Landshark'/'Wild Things' CD. Bad vibe staple.
We had some straggling copies of the 'A Mi' LP but I think those are gone as far as I know. You see that LP used pretty often though.
Any decent record store in the U.S. should either have it already or they deal with us regularly and can get it within a week.  Or if you just wanna mailorder it, do it through the midheaven site or email dave@midheaven.com...
Matt