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Music Shit / Re: Nirvana-nevermind

« on: February 26, 2010, 11:44:19 AM »

One of my cherished memories from scamming BMG's "12 CDs for a penny!" deals was calling up customer service and asking the operator what Ministry records they had. She just about died of disguest when she had to announce "The Land of Rape and Honey".

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Music Shit / Re: Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River

« on: February 26, 2010, 11:40:47 AM »

I think Okkervil are good at what they do, it's just that I don't want to listen to it. Overwrought coffeeshop caterwauling singer does not help. Every song sounds like he's wringing his panties in anguish.

I guess there's the obvious Austin connection, but otherwise I have no idea why these guys should be working with Roky. I mean, shit, the "Roky's Greatest Hits Band" format might be stale, but could this possibly yield anything better?

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Music Shit / Re: Replacements- LOVE OR HATE?

« on: February 25, 2010, 03:51:14 PM »

Generally speaking however, I think most music from Minneapolis is complete dogshit. The best band that has ever come from that city is Misery.

No way, bro! Dillinger Four!

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Music Shit / Re: Replacements- LOVE OR HATE?

« on: February 25, 2010, 01:38:39 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shit_Hits_the_Fans

Yeah, lotta covers on there. Great recording.

I started with Sorry, Ma back in high school, but it really didn't click with me 'til Let It Be. It was one of those records that touched on several styles at once...probably gave me more faith in writing a "poppy" song more than a lot of other records I was listening to.

Whoever dissed "We're Coming Out" is full of shit-- the fall-down / piano buildup / scream-out is just fucking genius in my book.

"Heyday" has always been my favorite off Hootenanny, but it took me a while to get over the drum machines  / 80s production on much of the rest of it. How anyone manages not to crack up while listening to the title track, though, is beyond me.

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Music Shit / Re: yo, anybody here listen to REALICIDE?

« on: February 22, 2010, 06:56:22 PM »

I'm more into FINAL PLACEMENT these days

http://vimeo.com/9625670

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Music Shit / Re: We Are the World 25

« on: February 15, 2010, 12:10:43 AM »

fuck that shit. Swedish Metal Aid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8lLDG1nyE

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Music Shit / Re: Google Shuts Down MP3 Blogs

« on: February 11, 2010, 10:27:10 PM »

Plus there's the whole red tape aspect: artist's dead, album's out of print, label went bankrupt 25+ years ago. Yeah, that (mostly) applies to plenty of popular records that are sold on iTunes and such-- still making a buck for someone. But there's so much stuff that will never see proper re-release unless some music nerds dork out about it and generate interest in the people who have money to do it. It's in the label's interest for people to hear stuff that's otherwise unavailable.

The audience is small, yeah, and some won't buy the rerelease if they already have a high bitrate vinyl rip. But shit, some will, and that's more money than the $0 it was making for the label a few months ago. Case in point: that Lou Bond LP on the Stax subsidiary.

Fuck the blogs that just post new / leaked pitchfork shit, though. They have no right to bitch.

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Music Shit / Re: who loves the minutemen?

« on: February 04, 2010, 12:58:37 PM »

Who loves fIREHOSE?

NO

I liked them when they sounded like the Minutemen. Really did not like the folksy straightforward stuff from Ed. Or his voice.

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Music Shit / Re: who loves the minutemen?

« on: February 03, 2010, 12:58:20 PM »

when I was a snot-nosed teen with a Minutemen shirt, a bouncer at an all-ages show once said "hey kid-- you know that van accident story is a bunch of shit. D Boon OD'd on heroin!"

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Music Shit / Re: Law & Order dormroom posters

« on: February 01, 2010, 07:15:12 PM »

Ziggy. He might've put those up himself. We played with his band last year. The French Letter. It was OK. Terrible voice, good guitarist.

Yeah, Ziggy...he lived in the basement, right?

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Music Shit / Re: Law & Order dormroom posters

« on: February 01, 2010, 04:52:12 PM »

One of the dockworker guys in season 2 of The Wire (Frank Sobotka's son Nick) had some odd posters on his wall...like Guided by Voices or Pavement or something. Not what I'd believe dockworkers listened to, even relatively young ones.

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Music Shit / Re: RON HOUSE

« on: December 08, 2009, 02:41:30 PM »

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments-- I have a few of their records somewhere. I liked their last one No Lo Fi Old Guy Cry (2002 or whatever) quite a bit when it came out. Gonna have to find it and see how well it holds up.

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Music Shit / Re: Hey Bass Players!

« on: December 07, 2009, 11:03:43 PM »

I've heard those newer Fender bass combos tend to rattle apart-- they just aren't soldering shit to circuitboards like they used to.

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Music Shit / Re: The MINUTEMEN

« on: July 27, 2009, 11:19:16 PM »

I was 14 in '95 when Watt was on the cover of Bass Player magazine. I had $5 left on a gift certificate for the music store, and that's what I bought...first time I read the "spiel", which they pretty much just let Mike write instead of you know, like asking Victor Wooten what kind of $1000 tweeters he's endorsing this week.

anyway, Bass Player magazine. hilarious. but I got the Watt solo record that was out at the time and that had loads of who's-who indie / punk people on it (rollins, frank black, mascis, sonic youth people), plus a couple of retreads from the minutemen era....er, maybe just one-- One Reporter's Opinion. it's all over the map and didn't sound much like "punk" to my ears and I couldn't stand it for a long time. but I came around. every once in a while I'll dig it out.

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Music Shit / Re: What's the song with the most chords in it?

« on: July 10, 2009, 04:10:35 PM »

Trick question.

There are only three chords.