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Non-Music Shit / Re: Band/Music T's

« on: April 11, 2009, 08:57:15 AM »

I have two entire dressers, eight drawers full of nothing but band shirts, most of which even fit!  I also have a giant duffle bag full of a bunch of old smaller shirts that I just can't get rid of in case I somehow lose 25 pounds suddenly.  I've still got a couple shirts I've had for 20 years now since high school that somehow fit even though I weigh 50 pounds more than I did then--shirt sizing has definitely changed over the years.  This week I wore Orange Goblin, Naked Raygun, Cryptopsy, Killing Joke and New Model Army shirts.

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: bad words...???

« on: April 11, 2009, 08:44:24 AM »

I don't understand this ATG diss--screamo with long hair??  If anything they were TOO one-dimensional once they found their sound on Slaughter Of The Soul and although that album is basically one song repeated 12 times it was a godsend reprieve from the horrible death metal invasion of the early 90's which basically scared me off metal for that entire decade until I heard In Flames, The Haunted and Witchery around '99 and started sniffing around again.  I agree that 'Altars Of Madness' still stands up but my favorite Morbid Angel is actually 'Domination' once they got over the blastbeat addiction and weren't afraid to write some crushing powergroove riffs and mix it up, killer production and guitar sound, too--great album.

Anybody heard Entombed covers album 'Sons of Satan Praise The Lord'?  I just listened to that again yesterday and there are really only like two duds on the whole thing--I think they're like Melvins in that they have a very distinctive sound that translates very well into whatever song they care to cover, plus, like Melvins, they have impeccable musical taste.  Put that up against the Napalm Death covers lp from about 5 years ago and you see the difference, it's night and day.

-Ryan

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Non-Music Shit / Re: crust pants

« on: April 09, 2009, 01:47:01 AM »

the Euros and Americans haven't quite gotten the hang of what to do with a shower fixture.

I got heckled by a German for taking a shower at Alamo House in Mpls last fall.  Heckled while IN the shower, even! 

-Ryan

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies you could watch once a week for the rest of your life?

« on: April 08, 2009, 02:59:49 PM »

Full Metal Jacket, at least until I have the entire thing memorized.  I don't bother watching movies when I can remember too much of what goes on so I watch my faves maybe once a decade so I can at least be semi-surprised by the damn thing again.  Seriously though, watching the same movie every week would be like fuckin prison--I need fresh entertainment!

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: bad words...???

« on: April 07, 2009, 03:21:28 PM »

He mentions Assuck in a song. Aren't they a grind band? I've heard some good songs from him. I know he's covered bands like Fugazi, Geto Boys, and the Misfits. Throws in like a polka breakdown in a cover of "Where Eagles Dare".

Tijuana 1994, in the pit at the Epitaph Tour (Pennywise, Offspring, Rancid, RKL) I see a guy with an ASSUCK shirt so between songs I ask him where he got it, he replies:
"I'm their bass player."  Totally awesome.

Atom also covered 'My Mind's Playin Tricks On Me' by Geto Boys which is really pretty much sacrilege to my favorite rap song ever.

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: Oz Punk Comp?/Young Identities

« on: April 07, 2009, 03:13:36 PM »

The early Toe To Toe 7"s in the 90's were really good rippers but they (d)evolved into total major label SOIA-type glossy NYHC by the end, not really metal or terrible but didn't sound like the same band at all.  I stand by the early stuff though--on Kangaroo I think?

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: Artcore (i.e. arty hardcore)

« on: April 06, 2009, 01:30:48 PM »

RUIN from Philly--I see their He Ho ('84)and Fiat Lux ('86) albums in the bins all the time over the years cuz nobody knows who the fuck they were--total art school weirdos who got into hc (as opposed to hc kids who got all arty as they got older) wore all white onstage and covered Leonard Cohen on BOTH their albums.  Great band.

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: Oz Punk Comp?/Young Identities

« on: April 06, 2009, 01:23:01 PM »

Lethal Weapons: http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/1301167

-Ryan

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Non-Music Shit / Re: ouch

« on: April 06, 2009, 11:59:40 AM »

Aha, so the ECW is where all those backyard wrestlers got their ideas from, I always wondered how a bunch of teenage dipshits could've spontaneously decided that tables and ladders were obvious wrestling props.  Pretty amazing shit, though.

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: bad words...???

« on: April 06, 2009, 11:45:21 AM »

I'm actually not into CU but I've got multiple Tank and Holocaust lps sitting next to me right now.  Can't fuck with it.

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: nick's self-indulgent HARDCORE post

« on: April 05, 2009, 11:05:19 PM »

Raw, wild, primitive garage rock (for real):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnJCna8MjQ

I bought a Wavves record yesterday and listened to about 30 seconds of it.  I will now smash it and watch that video 12 times instead.  I'm then going to assassinate Nobunny and his band of shirtless, hairless, ballsless prancing minions when they come to town this week.  Thanks for the reminder.

-Ryan

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

« on: April 05, 2009, 10:56:20 PM »

SLANT 6--Inzombia
SLEATER KINNEY--Dig Me Out
RIKK AGNEW--All By Myself
CHANNEL THREE--The Last Time I Drank
THE SNAKES--I Won't Love You Til You're More Like Me
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY--7"s
TENEMENT--demo
SCREAM--Still Screaming/This Side Up
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT--Scream Dracula Scream
AMERICAN STEEL--Rogue's March
State Of The Union--comp lp
UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS--Financially Dissatisfied   Ah, apparently the Hellacopters were just a UCP tribute band ten years later.  This stuff is more varied and interesting by a long shot though.

-Ryan

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

« on: April 05, 2009, 08:32:20 AM »

This week at Cheapo Records in St. Paul, MN, guy who's a dead ringer for Harry Dean Stanton in 'Repo Man' walks to the used cassette section talking to himself: 'Let's see here, what do I need...Oh yeah!  Dan Fogelberg, Dan Fogelberg...F, F, F...okay...Jesus CHRIST.  What the SHIT.  No fucking WAY.  This is BULLSHIT.  Of all the goddamn shit...(walks up to front counter) HEY!  What happened to those Dan Fogelberg tapes you had here last week??!!  I DROVE ALL THE WAY FROM MINNEAPOLIS TO BUY EM AND HERE YOU WENT AND SOLD EM ALREADY!!!'

After my friend got cornered at Half Price Books by a non-stop talking nut yesterday we've decided to refer to all such future incidents as getting 'Fogelberged'. 

-Ryan

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

« on: April 01, 2009, 02:04:32 PM »

MEANIES--10% Weird lp
SLOPPY SECONDS--Endless Bummer lp
THE BRIEFS--Hit After Hit lp
MORAL CRUX--Moral Crux lp
SNFU--If You Swear You'll Catch No Fish lp
VANDALS--Peace Thru Vandalism/When In Rome...
D.I.--Team Goon/Ancient Artifacts
RATS OF UNUSUAL SIZE--Ratzilla lp & Can't Call You 7"  Holy crap, wish I'd owned this shit for the last 20 years instead of the last two months--'Jesus Was A Jew' and '8 Million Dicks' are already burned onto my brain.  Capt 9's aficionados take note. 

-Ryan

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Music Shit / Re: Best Lyrics in Hardcore

« on: March 31, 2009, 04:02:24 PM »

I had to explore everything, all the drugs and drink
Cut my dick off with butterknife in sink
Lived in jail for a thousand or more years
Got lost for fifteen million more at Sears
Never know what I might do next
Destroy myself, discover death

Basically I still think DRI's 'Dealing With It' is probably still the punk lp with my favorite overall lyrics--great mix of the funny, serious, real and surreal.  Also the opening line from 'To Open Closed Doors':
Swimming through black vaseline, is this my existence or just a dream?  

SWIMMING THROUGH BLACK VASELINE!!!!  Heavy, heavy shit.

-Ryan