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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: June 03, 2014, 10:06:12 AM »

Have these been on here before? Great reading:

http://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-month-0414/

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Music Shit / Re: NoMeansNo

« on: May 29, 2014, 08:38:30 AM »

http://www.markprindle.com/wright-i.htm


"We just make good music, and who we are is really nobody's business but our own, so that's how we do it. There's so much B.S. about that in the promotion of bands, so much personality and stuff that has nothing to do with the quality of the music. And it's usually there just to override the fact that the music has no quality! (laughs)"

"You know, we sort of always tried to do just what came up, and when you experiment or you just throw out everything that comes to you without doing a lot of censorship, you get some original songs but you're also going to get some clunkers. I mean, you're going to fail. Things are not going to go well on certain songs. I think all of our albums, as well as having good songs, have bad songs. But if they didn't, everything would be more generic, I think. If you start just going with a formula you know is going to work, as in aims to please, that ends up being pretty dreary. But if you're going to do it the other way, you're going to have to put up with a few real stinkers."

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Music Shit / Re: NoMeansNo

« on: May 27, 2014, 05:14:51 AM »

I'm sure Nomeanso looks silly to many people, but then think about all the people who take Youth Attack Records seriously. or d-beat bands.

Bam! Exactly.

I've always liked reading interviews with the brothers, they come across as thoughtful, funny and unperturbed about making grand statements.

I also love all that dicking around with credits on records, lying about who played what, the whole jokey false bio thing, that they created their own little ecosystem and treated the promo as a big joke. It was confusing to begin with, given how far away I was from anywhere they'd play, but I just love that the records were angry and difficult and songs (often) so complex, but the whole image was often goofy. The weight is in the music, where it matters.

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Music Shit / Re: NoMeansNo

« on: May 26, 2014, 05:16:34 AM »

While the great albums of the turn of the 90s are very much great, I feel a lot of later stuff is unfairly overlooked. "Dance of the headless bourgeoisie" and " graveyard shift" are up there with their best ever songs. I find their somewhat cheesy sense of humour as reflected in the occasional joke number really endearing, but assume it's one of the reasons they turn some people off.

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Music Shit / Re: NoMeansNo

« on: May 25, 2014, 03:09:47 AM »

This is a band I obsessed over in my mid teens. Now in my mid thirties, I don't listen to them nearly as often, but I would still class them as my favourite band. Amusingly, a friend once inisinuated that NoMeansNo are the type of band that is inexplicably popular in Eastern Europe. I think the subtext was that there was something slightly cheesy or unpunk about them, not sure. I mean, I've never seen a scenemaker or recently pitchork approved "punk" band member wearing an NMN t shirt. A passing observation, and I'm sure the Weight brothers could give a fuck, why would you care when your product is so fucking good.

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

« on: May 05, 2014, 07:54:03 AM »

Death Trip - "Pain is Pain", very satisfying listen, ex-Terveet Kadet guys playing repetitive sludge with excellent unhinged vocals. Very reminiscent of late period SEXA, and probably a thousand other knuckle draggers around at the time.

Cheveu - "BUM".  In my humble opinion, their best. The high art, the low art, not sitting around.

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

« on: April 28, 2014, 06:33:18 AM »

Generic punk didnt exist by the time they recorded the first one. I think of it as some kinda updated version of 1973 Roxy.

I also hear a tougher Roxy vibe. I feel like that 1st record can't quite make its mind up and doesn't make a completely cohesive whole, even though individual tracks are excellent.

n/p Killing Joke s/t. It's a simple pleasure, but I love the tom hits on the 2nd beat in the intro to "requiem", followed by the slo-mo drum roll.

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

« on: April 09, 2014, 03:13:02 AM »

Calvert's Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters LP.  Fucking awesome.

oh my goodness - this record is brilliant and one i've listened to a *lot* over the past few weeks. also one of those great "connect the dots" records, with very strong lemmy performance, arthur brown and eno playing a bit of synth, who then of course produced the next one (not as good in my humble opinion).

the best record hawkwind never made etc.

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Music Shit / Re: Your Top 5 American Bands

« on: January 20, 2014, 02:08:27 AM »

DOA
The Diodes
NoMeansNo
Neil Young
Celine Dion

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Music Shit / Re: WEEN

« on: June 19, 2013, 01:07:59 PM »

uh oh, ween...not supposed to like that.

http://youtu.be/EpGrI34a_fM

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: COCKNEY REJECTS - Flares 'n Slippers EP, THE BUSINESS - Harry May 45 on Ugly Pop

« on: June 12, 2013, 01:19:57 PM »

good on ya, top shelf material here.

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Music Shit / Re: Incidental spoken word on records

« on: June 06, 2013, 12:05:03 PM »

"what do you do when motherfuckers underestimate your size man?"
"let's play it again i don't trust this tape"

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Music Shit / Re: WIRE live 79 on Rockpalast

« on: November 03, 2012, 01:17:33 AM »

bruce gilbert and robert gotobed are such cool customers.

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Music Shit / Re: What song was stuck in your head when you woke up this morning?

« on: October 29, 2012, 12:02:10 AM »

"a woman's voice reminds me, to serve and not to speak"

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Music Shit / Re: bands leaving major label contracts to go on their own

« on: October 24, 2012, 02:35:36 AM »

i dont think any of them were great.  aerosmith were good for some time, and 3 of the other 4 at least had some good songs, but i havent heard anything "great" from any of them, though i would be more willing to believe they could be great for a song or two than for a period, (unless that period was a short number of seconds)

Aerosmith "Rocks" and Def Leppard  "On through the night", both great albums to my ears.