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Music Shit / Re: COACHWHIPS

« on: March 27, 2014, 08:27:26 AM »

No idea what this band sounds like

Real Losers meets Devo?

Funny that we talk about the Coachwhips now. I bought their records 10 years ago and no one cared about that band back then and i never thought that they would become hip - certainly not 10 years after the fact.

I feel like they played NYC constantly in the early 2000s and were definitely a "hip" band then, as far as drawing crowds to a little neighborhood on the come-up called Williamsburg. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: summarize your day in ten words or less

« on: March 26, 2014, 09:08:31 AM »

There are too many unnecessary books.

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Music Shit / Re: COACHWHIPS

« on: March 21, 2014, 10:59:30 AM »

My dad gave me a Sailor Jerry t-shirt the last time I saw him. He got it at the bar he hangs out in. It's called Monte Cello's, classy stuff. So as dialed in as Sailor Jerry is to the Brunch Rock/Free-coke Punk community (because it is, after all a community, right?), they're also savvy enough to know not to turn their backs on sports bars connected to Italian restaurants in suburban Pittsburgh.

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Music Shit / Re: COACHWHIPS

« on: March 21, 2014, 10:52:43 AM »

Never completely dug the Coachwhips or Pink & Brown. And  I think Thee Oh Sees have one really solid songs and they've spread it our over 1500 releases.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Flamin Groovies documentary

« on: March 19, 2014, 08:58:07 AM »

Two things I took from this trailer:

1. Cyril Jordan says the word fuck a lot.
2. Lee Marvin is even cooler than I thought.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 18, 2014, 12:26:36 PM »

Muddy Waters - Electric Mud LP
Like The Promise Ring backing up Jimmy Pursey or something equally "awesome".  Thumbs fuckin' down.

The problem I've always had with this record (and I own it and plan on keeping it) is it's pretty clear that Muddy and the band just aren't playing together. I don't know if he actually overdubbed his vocals or not, but he just doesn't get with the band and the band doesn't get with him. I appreciate it as a period relic and I actually like quite a bit of it in a corny way, like the Chubby Checker psych album.

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Music Shit / Re: CLEARANCE - NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO CLOSE TO PAVEMENT!

« on: March 18, 2014, 10:33:05 AM »

It's like the indie rock equivalent of bands like Head ripping off the Ramones.

Good call with Head. But there's just something about those guys. Like if you called out these Pavement dudes they'd try to talk their way out of it and say they'd never heard Pavement and were really more into Television. But if you called out Head they'd completely agree, ask so what,  and drink another beer.

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Music Shit / Re: Swans

« on: March 18, 2014, 09:14:10 AM »

Their earliest stuff is really brutal, crushing industrial/no-wave sludge. It's all good, but, I dunno, at this point in my life I don't have a lot of urge to listen to that stuff often. It's punishing. The album Children of God is kind of the culmination of all of that, but it's more epic than anything they did before. It's a great album. Definitely one of their best. There is a live album from around that time that has some of the earlier stuff and Children of God stuff done in a more brutal, primitive style like their earlier stuff called Real Love that's worth checking out. After that they started experimenting more with acoustic instrumentation. It gets spotty for a while there, though some people like all of that stuff. Eventually they did their last album Soundtracks For The Blind which like Children of God kind of took the stuff they'd been doing before and kinda perfected it. That album is excellent and one of their best. I like some of the Angels of Light stuff but I've never bothered listening to the new Swans. Definitely one of the more inspiring bands in my life, but not something I dig out often anymore though some songs/albums are still undeniable and I am glad any time I hear 'em.

Thanks K.

The early, brutal stuff is what I've had the most exposure to. It's was impressive, but I never fully absorbed it. The more recent stuff I've heard seems to take the intensity of the period but tones down the sheer brutality in favor of an apocalyptic backwoods preacher vibe.

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Music Shit / Swans

« on: March 18, 2014, 08:38:14 AM »

Someone school me on Swans. I've heard them, I know them a bit, and I'm relatively familiar with the different phases of the band and its sound. But I've also found the discography daunting as far as trying to buy individual recordings and put together a decent, representative chunk of their stuff.  I think I'm ready now.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 18, 2014, 08:29:43 AM »

Nick Nicely comp on Captured Tracks. I'd never heard of this guy until this comp came out. I like it. If Syd Barrett made records with an '80s acid house producer, maybe?

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Music Shit / Re: CLEARANCE - NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO CLOSE TO PAVEMENT!

« on: March 13, 2014, 08:53:53 AM »

This is actually kind of weird. It even looks like a Pavement record. But it also looks like the Pavement records they're specifically aping here. Slanted and Enchanted /Crooked Rain era.

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Music Shit / Re: Worst Reformed Punk band

« on: March 13, 2014, 05:42:05 AM »

Roy Loney legit destroyed when I saw him last fall, but I know he isn't involved with the current incarnation of the Flamin' Groovies.

I saw the Groovies last year. I enjoyed it. The suggestion to adjust your expectations is a good one, though. Those guys are up there in age.

I've said this many times (maybe here too), when I saw Roy Loney live he absolutely destroyed. He looked like a college poetry professor who drinks too much beer, but just absolutely wailed.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 10, 2014, 06:49:19 AM »

Oh yeah, it would be a good heavy rock record, but the insane-o over the top production makes it pretty special. haha

So right. It's crazy how layers upon layers of antiseptic, self-aware studio work add up to something so vital and spine-tingling. Uncanny, actually. Kinda like looking into RoboCop's face and seeing Peter Weller's eyes.

Mutt Lange at your service.

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Cities / Re: Double Decker Records in Allentown, PA

« on: March 07, 2014, 10:04:32 AM »

I've been trying to find time to drive down to this store for a while. Now that I have an automobile this is absolutely going to happen.

Please take me with you...

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Music Shit / Re: Super Duper Alice Cooper

« on: March 07, 2014, 10:00:21 AM »

I know people involved with/behind this (although not as well as Matt does) and can say with confidence the story they're interested in is the same one people here would want to hear. High hopes!

What kind of Flush the Fashion content are we looking at here? I'm serious...