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Music Shit / Re: THE REBEL "prawns"

« on: April 13, 2008, 11:28:51 AM »

Noted SSR's response; agreed; noted. 

In re. Kevin's self-help advice, I think I'll live if I never feel Michael Gira's pain.  Hell, I'll live even if I do.

Even the late-period Swans lyrics are pretty over-the-top, humorless, and trite -- check out the drivel Gira intones White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, for instance.  Gira's a joke. 

There are scores of artists in the world who are more interesting, more complex, more wounding, even, than Swans, and who don't demand that you get on board with some ludicrous persona or even that you "take them at their word."  That, to me, is childish, narcisistic bullshit.

In re. the "honesty" of Christian Death, Swans, et al. ... Who cares?  Who was it that once said, "All bad art is sincere?"

Most black metal is nothing if not "honest" and "sincere," and its practitioners are, for the most part, serious about what they're doing. (Insert exceptions here, e.g. Lugubrum, Striborg, _____).  And most of it is also completely trite, ridiculous, inarticulate.  AND some of it is really great, nonetheless.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANTED: Eat Skull Skulltones 7"

« on: April 13, 2008, 06:23:46 AM »

I got my copy from Armaggedon just a few days ago.  Worth a shot.

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Music Shit / Re: THE REBEL "prawns"

« on: April 13, 2008, 06:12:09 AM »

Never said I wanted to hear the Brainbombs with other lyrics, I meant that I get tired of the hard-ass/hard-life attitude. Its old. It stinks of the late 80s. Time for a new spin. I got/get tired of the Swans and Whitehouse's misanthropy, too. Call it negativity fatigue. The lyrics and the stance are about as meaningful to me as the Busy Signals ideas about girls.

Agreed.  That kind of posturing (and that's all it is) smacks of teenage male narcissism. 

Michael Gira: his whole shtick in Swans was pretty moronic.  "Public Castration Is a Good Idea."  (Sigh).  What else is new?
 
Whitehouse are basically ironist-pranksters, but yeah, I can see their whole trip becoming tiresome too.  Still, their fan base includes a lot of idiots who take them literally, who get into all the fist-pumping and respond to the audience baiting just like pro wrestling fans respond to wrestlers' taunts.

Seriously, though, you guys pay attention to lyrics?  Brainbombs lyrics?  I like the band's music, but I always assumed they had nothing to say, and after reading the article about them in Z-Gun I can't say I'm convinced otherwise. 

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Music Shit / Re: Carsick Cars (chinese punk)

« on: April 13, 2008, 05:52:49 AM »

Li Jianhong is an incredible guitar player based in Hangzhou.  Great noise artist, solo and with his band, D!O!D!O!D!.  6th dimension rock & roll.

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Music Shit / Absolute Body Control [Re]Wind

« on: April 12, 2008, 07:43:57 AM »

Has anyone heard this?  It's re-recordings of stuff from the tapes on the VoD box.  Sounds suspicious, no?  They were really great last Friday so I'm considering it, but it's a little pricey -- $30 or so, import. 

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Music Shit / Re: THE REBEL "prawns"

« on: April 11, 2008, 12:01:13 PM »

I'm not offended, indignant, or surprised that the Rebel gets no press, I just find it odd and I don't know what accounts for it. 

It's true, they don't draw a crowd when they play -- the crowd had thinned out quite a bit by the time they played at Market Hotel a couple of months ago.

I'm sure they couldn't care less.

The Frogs, anyone? 

The underground is lousy with tiresome cliches.

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Music Shit / Re: THE REBEL "prawns"

« on: April 11, 2008, 08:32:58 AM »

I dunno about that, The Rebel played on WFMU a few weeks ago which is pretty good "press". Amazing session too, with a full band backing him up...as good or better than, or different anyway, from the Rebel records I've heard.

(=Sigh=).  Yes, I know, and I play The Rebel on my show too, and so do a couple other DJs. 
I'm saying, The Rebel has been around for, like, ten years now, and they don't get much notice.  Does YOUR local record store stock their releases? 
The Snackrifice is as good as most any "CLOWNING ON BITCHES" record that came out in the last year, but you don't see John Norris crawling up Wallers's ass, do you?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: new HOSPITALS "Hairdryer Peace" LP - PRE-ORDER

« on: April 11, 2008, 06:36:30 AM »

It's fookin' excellent.  I don't even really care about this band -- the Load record did nothing for me, and I thought they sucked live when I saw them a couple of years back.  But Hairdryer Peace is amazing -- totally out-of-nowhere brilliant. Gividdame!

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Music Shit / Re: THE REBEL "prawns"

« on: April 11, 2008, 06:32:50 AM »

I bet a lot of those Rebel records are still sitting around untouched in boxes somewhere in Britain.  For some reason Rebel never gets any press, the releases are barely distributed, and no one ever talks about 'em, except maybe here or on the Goner board.  Even the Snackrifice EP was nowhere to be found in NYC, and that shit's on Emperor Jones.  So my guess is that most of those recs aren't so much "out of print" as they are forgotten.

I got a new copy of the "Bums on the Rock" EP pretty recently, and lucked into a copy of what I'm assuming is the first 7", a thingy called Rebel vs. Country Teasers (I think). 

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

« on: April 11, 2008, 06:29:14 AM »

alasehir - philosophy of living fire; stone sentinels
bullets for pussy - penetration boulevard ep
birchville cat motel - gunpowder temple of heaven
peter wright - pretty mushroom clouds
up-tight - early years

Knob, I dug the Peter Wright 7" you put out a couple months back.

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

« on: April 10, 2008, 06:36:00 PM »

New Hospitals is exactly 12.5x better than anything they'd done before.  Tits!

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

« on: April 10, 2008, 01:20:07 PM »

I dig that Box Elders 7. 

New Prurient on No Fun is brilliant, completely insane, full of creepy / ridiculous synths. 

Keiji Haino & tatsuya Yoshida: Hauenfiomiune.

Bauhaus: Swing the Heartache.

Sprung aus den Wolken.

Bullshit, crap, ballzzz.

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Music Shit / Re: Best Live Albums

« on: April 10, 2008, 01:11:43 PM »

Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum actually sit in on 'Magic Carpet Ride', so it's not that surprising.

C'mon, that is pretty surprising.  I gotta hear this for myself.  Next on my "to buy" list!

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Music Shit / Re: richard twice

« on: April 10, 2008, 09:24:00 AM »

As far as quality comps go, I think the first three Fading Yellow's are as solid as they come.  ...that is consistent - nothing brickwall and in-your-face about that jelly-cellophane sound.  Shame that most other comps in this style just bore me and/or piss me off.  'Soft Sounds For Gentle People' especially.  Making MOR collectible.  Maybe someday I can charge big bucks for the Avant Garde's 'Naturally Stoned' 45 - featuring the OUTRE sounds of Chuck Woolery!!!

Fading Yellow's much better, but there's a few psychedelic gems on each of the Soft Sounds comps. 

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Music Shit / Re: Best Live Albums

« on: April 09, 2008, 07:23:11 PM »

shit! all these years i thought it was the pirate.

Ha!  No, Sterling does the arpeggios and strummity-strums.  All rhythm.  Who knew, right?  Lou totally kicks ass on lead.

Steppenwolf - Early Steppenwolf Live (Side A is a twenty minute version of the Pusher. 'nuff said.)

This record rules, the A side sounds like Musica Elettronica Viva.

Wow, that sounds completely ridiculous, but I want it to be true.