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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: November 03, 2013, 05:29:29 PM »

I don't think I've listened to Shai Hulud since 2003 and the album they released around then suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.  Completely lost my interest in metalcore as a result of that and the shitter of an album another group released that year.

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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: November 03, 2013, 01:29:06 PM »

Um, no. King of Jeans was a great LP, but they blew their whole load on that. Honeys is their worst album to date. Iceage record had some good songs but it was too long, with too much filler. I like their 7''.

i'm actually not arguing against that.  it should be fairly obvious to everyone here that i'm not on the same level as most of you when it comes to punk (and noise rock), especially garage and hardcore punk.  my elitism is mostly limited to metal, old-school industrial/experimental noise, and grindcore/powerviolence.  the main reason i post here is because i'm looking for intelligent discussion on garage rock and hardcore punk.  you guys know what you're talking about more than the posters on most message boards who discuss that.  anyhow, thanks for the tip on the iceage 7" - i'll hafta check that out.

off topic:

i make stuff that's influenced by Einsturzende Neubauten, Test Dept, GX Jupitter-Larsen and the Haters, Crank Sturgeon, scrap metal abuse, prepared guitar, the better releases that came out on Cold Meat Industry, and "harsh noise wall" like The Rita and The Cherry Point.  most of the stuff i've done that i actually like is more along the lines of performance art.  someone's currently working on turning a live set of mine into a stop-motion video.

Melt Banana

damn, how did i miss that?!??

additions:

Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance

not their best album by any means (A Blaze in the... and TH are two of my all-time favorite albums), but definitely the most fun.  which is something sorely lacking in metal, especially today.  and they did a far better job at aping Mercyful Fate than Gimmick B.C., who i just can't stand.  it's also a refreshing change in direction from the "blackened crust" bullshit they were doing, which i found horribly boring and insanely overrated.

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mindcontrol

i really shouldn't have to comment on this, but i don't know how you guys feel about this sort shit.  some of, if not THE best Sabbath-influenced metal that i've heard in awhile.  it's so good that it's transcended genre boundaries, appealing to everyone from indie rockers to punks and fans of "extreme metal."  really good shit.  i highly recommend it.

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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: November 03, 2013, 10:29:21 AM »

Iceage and Pissed Jeans are seriously overhyped.

True, but I think a lot of that has to do with people being excited that there was a not-terribly-hard-to-find album that they really enjoyed.

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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: November 03, 2013, 10:16:17 AM »

these were the releases i heard this year that i liked the most:

iceage - you're nothing
pissed jeans - honeys
hoax - s/t lp
obnox - corrupt free enterprise
the nervous ticks - appalachian hunger
army of infants/the black shades - split tape
narcoleptics - 2013 demo
wartorn - iconic nightmare
merkstave - s/t lp
rifle diet -  "abuse begets abuse" b/w "the affected" 7"
men as witches - drone and domination 7"
raspberry bulbs - deformed worship
vacation - candy waves lp
sick/tired - lowlife tape
the socials - the beast bites 7"
mardou - the cardigan ep
the subsets - ape facin' 7"
tweens - demo
funerary box - defiling sacred ground 7"
erecticle dementia - 25 more songs! tape
electric citizen - s/t 2x7" ep

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: November 03, 2013, 10:05:48 AM »

 

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Music Shit / Re: Autumn albums

« on: November 01, 2013, 05:46:09 PM »

Nirvana In Utero
anything by the Wipers
anything by Dead Moon

Also the Rudi Peni mentioned and:

Roadside Monument - Beside This Brief Hexagonal
Velour 100 - Fall Sounds
Velour 100 - Songs From the Rainwater

And during October, anything spooky.

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Pop Punk / Re: DO WE NEED A CD REVIVAL?

« on: November 01, 2013, 05:40:33 PM »

No

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: November 01, 2013, 05:38:09 PM »

NARCOLEPTICS demo is tied w Mercenary for best tape of 13 so far.... So fuckin mean

link?

http://narcoleptics.bandcamp.com/

not even a full song in and this is already better than almost any american hardcore punk i've heard in years...

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: October 30, 2013, 03:20:47 PM »

My point was that Boston has a lot of great punk/hc bands right now of all stripes that aren't on B9

Apologies for my rude response  -  I didn't know that's what you meant.  Or what's been going on up there, apparently...

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: October 29, 2013, 12:13:37 PM »

It's still better than most hardcore coming outta Boston these days.  Sometimes I wonder if Bridge 9 was created for the sole purpose of clogging record store bins with mediocre straightedge hardcore.

Good analogy. B9 hardly puts records out these days, and when they do, none of the bands are from Boston.

I guess I should pay more attention to shitty labels.  Sorry about that...

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Music Shit / Re: what record ACTUALLY DID YOUR LIFE ANY GOOD in the long run?

« on: October 28, 2013, 08:32:03 AM »

If something betters your life in a significant way psychologically, isn't that improving it in the long run?

Some albums that helped me maintain my sanity, connect and make friends with people I otherwise wouldn't have, opened doors for me,
Earth Crisis - Firestorm 7" (i'm straightedge at age 33 and glad for it.  please don't fight me...  )

If that puritan metal jock horseshit is what made you "straight edge", your idea of straight edge is as weak as your taste in music.

Somebody's mad...

Anyhow, it's not.  Music didn't make me straightedge, but Minor Threat is where my idea of it comes from.

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Music Shit / Re: what record ACTUALLY DID YOUR LIFE ANY GOOD in the long run?

« on: October 27, 2013, 12:55:21 AM »

If something betters your life in a significant way psychologically, isn't that improving it in the long run?

Some albums that helped me maintain my sanity, connect and make friends with people I otherwise wouldn't have, opened doors for me, etc:

Starflyer 59 - Gold (got me into better music)
The Prayer Chain - Mercury (same)
Roadside Monument - 8 Hours Away From Being a Man (same)
Black Flag - Damaged (got me through last year)
Earth Crisis - Firestorm 7" (i'm straightedge at age 33 and glad for it.  please don't fight me...  )
Coalesce - everything from Give Them Rope through 0:12 - A Revolution... (helped keep me from losing my mind in college)
Argyle Park - Misguided (got me through late adolescence)
Klank - Still Suffering (same)
Circle of Dust - all of their albums (same)
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (helped calm me down when I started dealing with seizures)
Black Sabbath - s/t (do i really need to explain this?  it's fuckin' SABBATH, c'mon!!!)
Nirvana - Nevermind (got me into music)
Nasum - Human 2.0
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions...
Napalm Death - Scum (and Harmony Corruption and FETO)
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Mental Destruction - Straw
Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture I (these last two got me doing what I am now, musically, which has been a huge outlet and made me a lot happier)

And probably a dozen punk albums I'm forgetting, but there's no need to list them.

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: October 27, 2013, 12:28:15 AM »

what I wasted  my money on this month...

mutilation rites - empyrean tape (sick black metal from some Brooklyn guys with roots in punk and aren't hipsters)
hellnation - thrash wave (CD, duh)
erectile dementia - 25 more songs! tape (noisecore from three Vietnamese women in Kentucky and a guy from brody's militia+formerly hellnation)
prosthetic youth - 2012 demo tape (retard punk)
various - wheel in the sky: a tribute to metallica CD (holy crap is this ridiculous...)
baptizer - dark age 3" CDr (power electronics)
stabbed to death - 2012 demo (ex-hellnation dudes making hellnation-meets-ramones punk)
funerary box - befouling sacred ground 7" (brody's militia, ex-hellnation dude and someone else making old school death and black metal)
brody's militia - cycle of hate 7" (some of their best material to date.  check out "hell is for christians" on bandcamp...)
mardou - "rimbaud" b/w "bounty hunter" 7" lathe (really good post-punk from some young guys in my city)
team stray - popular mechanics CD (was given this for free - it's local pop punk)

shirts (scored these for free, which is why i'm listing them...)

nine shocks terror
voetsek 2008 tour long sleeve

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: October 27, 2013, 12:10:59 AM »

It's still better than most hardcore coming outta Boston these days.  Sometimes I wonder if Bridge 9 was created for the sole purpose of clogging record store bins with mediocre straightedge hardcore.

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Music Shit / Where can I find Belching Penguins lyrics?

« on: October 27, 2013, 12:04:57 AM »

Besides their albums, that is.  Google and Bing were of no help.

It's frustrating sometimes how hard it is to find lyrics of hardcore punk bands sometimes.  Unless I run across something at a record store and it's not sealed, I'm not gonna find them out.  Sucks, because there's a lot of bands that I'd get into more if I only knew the lyrics.  Concrete Sox are one example - I was extremely fortunate to find their split with Heresy (no, I'm not trading or selling it) and really dug what I read of their lyrics.  Especially "Speak Siberian or Die", which was a dig at S.O.D.  CS's material o there isn't the greatest, but I'll listen to them just to shout along.  And yes, I realize that CS's lyrics are probably googleable.  That wasn't the point, though.