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Music Shit / Re: They Shoulda Just Changed Their Name!

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:28:11 PM »

Or...

If "Psychopathia Sexualis" had come out under the name Mike & the Moneymakers, would it have been more tolerable to fans of the early stuff?

What other bands could've saved their reputations and legacies?

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Music Shit / Re: They Shoulda Just Changed Their Name!

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:25:42 PM »

There's many examples of bands who were once good or even great but went on to suck horribly. The Dwarves are an excellent example. Metallica may be the best example.

So, I guess, what I really mean to instigate is a discussion of which bands might have started out one way, then perhaps changed somehow. And particularly bands that relate to the TB reading audience.

Like, say...The Piranhas.

Do you suppose that if all the people who talked shit on "Erotic Grit Movies" had heard that record under the guise that it was a totally different--or at least somewhat different band--would they hate it as much? If the Piranhas changed their name, and you heard the record under a different name (even if it was the same personnel), would you hate it as much? Or even like it kinda???

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Music Shit / They Shoulda Just Changed Their Name!

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:06:46 PM »

This thread is inspired by the Scientists versus Scientists thread.

What bands shoulda just "broken up" and "re-formed" under another name, so as to give fans fair warning that "things have changed"?

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Music Shit / Re: Argument: The Scientists vs. The Scientists

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:03:46 PM »

how bout makers vs makers?

Ah jeez...that oughta be unanimous.

I'd just as soon think of the two eras of Scientists as different as Joy Division and late-80's New Order. They shoulda just changed their name to make debates such as this completely moot. Unless you wanna pull shit like Minor Threat versus Pailhead versus "Superbike"-era Meatmen versus Soulside.

I enjoy most Scientists stuff, and I generally think of them in three career segments, and I suppose I revisit the "Human Jukebox" era most, earlier pop/punk second, and the later stuff hardly ever. But occasionally, I get a craving to listen to "Intense" by Kim Salmon & the Surrealists off of the split 2x7" with Chrome Cranks. That sounds incredible when you blast it.

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Music Shit / Re: hello, I run a record label and distro

« on: October 10, 2006, 03:49:41 PM »

Scott, if you like Side A of Family Underground's Qbico LP, you should enjoy both sides of the split 7". Quintana Roo and Family Underground are both rather similar. Quintana Roo includes a dude from Robedoor, which I'd recommend even more highly if you are a fan of that kinda stuff. Personally, I rate Robedoor in the 98th or 99th percentile of modern-day moan-wave, and some of the best stuff since Current 93 and Nurse With Wound were working in the same idiom some 20 years ago.

But if you routinely skip Side A for Side B of the Qbico LP, you may be disappointed. Just how much texture do you require to stay interested.

Me myself, I like Side B, and I can't make it through Side A on the Qbico record.

This is as close a thread as it gets to a "DJ Rick, What's Your Take On..." thread.

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Music Shit / Re: Art for Spastics

« on: October 10, 2006, 03:44:06 PM »

Really? Thanks, 'cos I was a little concerned that my TB-downloaders would get upset over the low rock content and the fact that I buried most of it in the middle of a buncha noise. Usually, I save the more overtly weird stuff for the second half.

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Music Shit / Re: hello, I run a record label and distro

« on: October 10, 2006, 12:40:42 PM »

Hmmm...tough crowd.

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Music Shit / Re: Art for Spastics

« on: October 10, 2006, 11:54:51 AM »

That Lake of Dracula thing is 17 tracks. The first 15 are from their performance live on KFJC. Two of those songs were released on the Kill Rock Stars singles club 7", but the whole performance was re-mastered to stunning effect, and now those songs sound approximately 200% more powerful than the original Lake of Dracula album. I mean, seriously...I was listening to this in the car the other day, and I turned the volume down when I went through a toll booth, and it still sounded loud and fierce. The drums, guitar, everything sounds better! It might be one of the best sounding live radio performances I've heard next to the thing we did with Pumice a couple months back in the hallway outside of KDVS.

Tracks 16-17 are from compilations that went outta print many years ago.

Yeah, that Self Destruct Button album sounds pretty tremendous. Quite a variety of paces, some noise, some pop melody...I need to listen to it again, but it's probably gonna be in my top picks of 2006.

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Music Shit / Re: hello, I run a record label and distro

« on: October 10, 2006, 11:48:46 AM »

There's a really split verdict on the live performance of KK Rampage, and it seems to be mostly split along the lines of whether you saw them in early to mid-2005 or since this year. See, I have a hunch that all or at least some of those guys just recently found their way into the portal to awesome DIY music, and perhaps right before that, they might've been into shameful, puerile crap music.

I think they may have been completely antics-based at first. The earliest demo seems way too scattery and searchy, but it's still meritorious based entirely on the amount of enthusiasm and the courage to sound excessively fuckophonic. It was something like 20 "songs," and only four of them seemed to hit any kinda groove. Sorta like a scattershot collision of influences of Arab on Radar's situationist perversity and the raggedy spazziness of Harry Pussy.

I'd hear about them doing insane shit at shows like ripping open giant bags of flour on-stage and pelting each other with them, and then running around naked caked in flour. A few people would write on other message boards that these guys were the greatest performers EVER, and it came off like street-teamer slimeballs to several readers, and there was a backlash against KK Rampage from the giddy-up. But I just chalked this up to youth, and HEY!...at least these people were going for it.

Over time, I continued to pay attention to their barrage of CDR releases, and I've noticed marked development over the course of the last year. About five months ago, they released a CDR-EP that was especially good..."Lies, Deception, & Tall-Tales." That should come out on vinyl. It is deserving. It really shows that KK Rampage has progressed beyond being a totally antics-based band to one that can make a really good song. Hell, it even sorta reminded me of some early A Frames stuff, or the Vulvettes.

I hear that they're still crazy live, but I've never seen 'em.

So if you wrote the band off in 2005, maybe you should give them another try now.

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Music Shit / Re: Art for Spastics

« on: October 10, 2006, 03:00:52 AM »

Download AFS v. 105

...or stream it

SELF DESTRUCT BUTTON // Comparing Cancers // Natural Selection of Accidents // Tower Control *new
SELF DESTRUCT BUTTON // Best in Show
BLACK PUS // Earth Ain´t Enuff // Black Pus 3: Metamorpus // DiareahRama *new
DAVE PUBLIC // Chicken Pox Pie // v/a: Sarcophagus 1-4 // Radius Waste *new
DAVE PUBLIC // 11 Months Pregnant
GOILS GOILS AND FRIPPED // title unknown // self-titled CDR // Being Weird Isn't Enough *new
BULBS // Beloved Sun // v/a: The Fruit Will Rot vol 2 9X3" CDRs // Deathbomb Arc 2006

GATOR SURPRISE // A Species // Camping Trip 3" // Jugular Forest *new
DEEP JEW // Searchlight // Harem c10 // Callow God *new
CIRCUIT WOUND // The Smog Monster // v/a: L.A. Noisescape // Bastardised *new
PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT // Intrigued by Her Stare // v/a: L.A. Noisescape
DJ DOGDICK // Nuthin´ Be Makin´ Any Sense // v/a: Less Self Is More Self 2xCD - A Benefit For Tarantula Hill // Ecstatic Peace *new
LEE RANALDO // Spkr Test 3 // v/a: Less Self Is More Self
VAMPIRE CAN'T // Wax Lips // Key Cutter // Load *new
SEXUAL TOURIST // Teenage Fantasy // Womb Broom 7" // Black Lakes *new *request
THE HOSPITALS // Missing My Hands // self-titled // In The Red 2003 *request
THE HOSPITALS // Airplanes There // I've Visited the Island of Jocks and Jazz // Load 2005 *request
NO FEELING // Don´t Tell Me What to Do // split 7" w/ Ladies Night // Seeing Eye *new

THE MAGNETIX // Horror Chalet // Horror Chalet 7" // Yakisakana *new
SAPAT // Mystikal Stupors // Tongue-Tied & Staid 7" // Black Velvet Fuckere *new
STEVE MACKAY & THE RADON ENSEMBLE // Voyage to Arcturus // Tunnel Diner // Qbico *new
THTX // Nightfall // The Lost City // Cosmo-Revolution Technologies *new
THEE SCARCITY OF TANKS // titles unknown (2-3) // NZ Metals CDR // Slow Toe *new

CHANGELING // Astral Arch // Astral Arch 7" // Not Not Fun *new
BRUCE GILBERT // Work for >Do You Me? I Did< (3) // This Way // Mute 1984
TAMPAX // UFO Dictator // v/a: Killed by Death #7 // Redrum 1979
SLIVERS // Questions // Restraint for Style 7" // New Alliance 1981
LAKE OF DRACULA // Coconut Wine // Skeletal Remains // Savage Land *new
NECROPOLIS // The Governor´s Wife // The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane // Columbus Discount *new
100 FLOWERS // Contributions // Drawing Fire 12" EP // Happy Squid 1984

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Music Shit / Re: What is the rarest release you actually possess?

« on: October 05, 2006, 03:27:43 PM »

I got copy # 1 of the one and only CDR of an outtake of the new Inca Ore & Lemon Bear's Orchestra album that just came out last month, and I like it better than anything on that LP.

Not that anyone here should care about "moanwave's answer to vocal free jazz."

But in twenty years when everyone gets nostalgic for hippie-noise-jams from the mid '00's with beardos and wicca-ladies singing into delay pedals, you'll be jealous!!!

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Music Shit / Re: Argument: X vs. X

« on: October 05, 2006, 03:22:03 PM »

I like the Burbank airport better. Not as hectic.

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Non-Music Shit / Hot Tub Party!

« on: October 03, 2006, 01:39:48 PM »

This is a funny idea for a blog...

http://hottubpartyblog.blogspot.com/

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Music Shit / Re: Feel Real Good...

« on: October 03, 2006, 01:33:41 PM »

And I thought the Evolutions made the song a hit!

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Music Shit / Re: Bloodstains Across Myspace

« on: October 03, 2006, 01:32:35 PM »

That's wouldn't work...I was working on the concept of trying to make a "Bloodstains" or "KBD"-level comp of only bands whose primary web presence is MySpace. I've hunted enough through all the crappy screamo and metalcore to find enough nuggets.