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Music Shit / Re: Music Documentaries

« on: January 27, 2018, 11:27:38 AM »

I assume everyone already has seen them all, but if you haven't you can watch most of the BBC Four music documentaries on youtube.    There are a couple different playlists that archive them all on youtube and when one goes down, they tend to find another version:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOvXkB5eFXm7lfggMnEO1TWzENy-0YhVP

The Fall, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, "King of Glam", "Anarchy on the BBC", etc.

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Music Shit / Re: Hardcore 2016

« on: October 28, 2016, 03:08:03 PM »

Sick Head's tape is one of the only NY things I've heard recently that's really stuck. I feel like I've bought everything that's come out of this city for the last decade and no more than a handful of things have actually stayed with me.   This tape is great and definitely a return to form from "I guess we might as well start a band" bands that I've seen a lot recently.  Also it's a three-piece, which is exactly how many people should be in bands.  Also who puts out a 7-song tape that's all good?  Like, this should have FOR SURE been a record.  Even the always annoying vocal delay isn't annoying on this tape.  I dunno what it is about this tape that I actually really like, but it's great.   

Daniel Sorry State agrees:
Another day, another new punk band from NYC for me to listen to. This band was recommended to me by Rob from Shoxx and Worse, and it makes sense that he would be super into them as Sick Head have a similar way of straddling noise rock and straightforward hardcore that many of Rob's bands have had. If you can imagine Boner Records-era Melvins as a modern New York City punk band (i.e. aware of and probably, to some extent at least, influenced by Toxic State-type bands), you'll be a good way toward imagining what Sick Head sound like. The vocals definitely sound like a less goofy version of Buzz's, and while the music has the density and the intricacy of the very best AmRep stuff, it also has all of the explosive energy of punk and hardcore. The recording here is also pretty much perfect, dense and heavy without sounding too modern. If you like that whole AmRep-meets-hardcore sound--i.e. bands like Pollution, Shoxx, Double Negative (particularly their later stuff), maybe even Pissed Jeans or Drunkdriver--this is a total no-brainer...

https://sickhead.bandcamp.com/album/music-time-2

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Music Shit / Re: Punk/Hardcore bands that use trumpet or sax?

« on: August 25, 2016, 02:48:52 PM »

"Get it Away" honestly sounds like there are horns on half the record.  Once you hear it you can't unhear it.

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Music Shit / Re: All of GG's Backing Bands

« on: August 09, 2016, 12:38:58 PM »

carolina shitkickers and antiseen are the same but I think a bass player switch?   It's def joe young and the clayton brothers, but can't remember who played bass

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Music Shit / Re: Best version of a cover,

« on: June 08, 2016, 05:41:12 PM »

The Beatle-Ettes - "Only 17" (Beatles medley)

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Expedit Question - Shit on top

« on: December 19, 2015, 08:03:06 PM »

5x5 expedit with a 1x5 stacked on top and a full row of 7"s boxes on top of that for years. 

floor-to-ceiling accident-waiting-to-happen

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Music Shit / Re: Clueless eBay Sellers

« on: December 02, 2015, 07:21:46 PM »

you still going to the line at the post office that's on you.  Get a $5 scale and a printer (or go to kinkos) and you can use paypal shipping or actively save money by using endicia or a similar service.

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Music Shit / Re: What music do you listen to when you get jaded with punk?

« on: November 23, 2015, 01:41:14 PM »

As for topic. I never get jaded with punk because only the most boring, broken and dead-inside people get jaded with something as interesting and fun as music. There's also this thing when people suddenly can't keep up with stuff and they just decide it's a problem with the world but not themselves. That just means you're getting old. Good stuff is still getting released, you're just missing most of it.

this puts in to word what I've felt about most people that complain about no good new releases.  Even me, when I'm like "man, nothing good has come out recently" I just realize it's because the group of people I'm clicking in with aren't doing cool stuff and I need to find the good shit.

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Music Shit / Re: What music do you listen to when you get jaded with punk?

« on: November 22, 2015, 11:35:34 AM »

might be true, but hard to argue that the california stuff + bad brains were anything other than excellent guitar players and musicians.

I get what you're saying, but for me when I heard bad brains etc. (especially things like DRI and Poison Idea) it was more like "I can't believe there are people playing music this complicated, this fast.".  I remember being so bummed when I finally heard what "metal" sounded like (I bought load the year it came out and it was my first "metal" cd) because it was so slow and boring.  Then I heard bad brains/DK/Black Flag and it was like "ohhhh.... these are those amazing guitar players I kept hearing about.  but they're playing punk?"  As an aside, I hated Black Sabbath when I first heard it because it was so slow and boring and I had no context for it.  They just didn't seem that interesting to me when I was immersing myself in FAST punk and hardcore.  Of course, in hindsight I'm glad I got past that because by the time I was 16, Sabbath was the only "metal" band I liked.

I absolutely adore a lot of bad-musicians that just were able to write fabulous punk songs, but I also really appreciate the guitar-lords that played punk instead of playing more "complicated" music that they clearly were able to play. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Punk Books

« on: November 22, 2015, 10:51:15 AM »

was just going through books to sell and realized my copy of "please kill me" is one of the first books I read that I chose to read.  It still has the receipt from 1999 (I was 13) and pages folded over.  I remember exactly where I was when I bought it, along with my first copy of punk planet (about the warped tour).  I love reading punk books and will read just about anything that comes out about the topic.  I feel like the advent of wikipedia and discogs has really changed the way I consume information ("I wonder who produced this record?  What else did they produce?") and I really miss the oral history aspect of most punk books.  Even the often maligned "American Hardcore" is a great read.  Mistakes, bad attitude, etc. but still a fun (and very fast) read.

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Music Shit / Re: What music do you listen to when you get jaded with punk?

« on: November 22, 2015, 10:02:13 AM »

Punk is not a music genre as in it's true form it is played by people who can't play, The Slits being the perfect example. For me '81 was a transitional time hearing In A Car, Jellybeans, Complete Disorder and The 1st Peni ep. I have been playing music for 33 years and still have no idea how to play a scale or what key I'm playing in.

I'm not doubting your statement and actually agree with a big portion of it, but can you explain why you chose some of THE most proficient musicians in punk as your follow up to saying you like music played by people that can't play?  Or were you saying those are examples of punks that can play?  Peni ep is incredibly well played, Disorder guitar player could clearly play guitar, Meat Puppets might have been amateurs but they were writing some complicated stuff, and 1/2 of the  jellybeans comp is like, some of the best musicians in punk (bad brains, black flag, DK, etc). 

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Music Shit / Re: GISM is playing Roadburn Festival 2016

« on: November 22, 2015, 09:54:44 AM »

lol at GISM being "anything from japan".  If anything they're the only japanese punk band a lot of people listen to (plus maybe gauze and bastard).  Proof this isn't true:  lackluster response for all japanese bands at NYA

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Music Shit / Re: GISM is playing Roadburn Festival 2016

« on: November 21, 2015, 07:18:39 AM »

Also this board, on the front page, has threads filled with people excited about seeing PiL and Flipper.  You can't convince me that seeing either of those bands in 2015 is anywhere near as exciting as seeing GISM

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Music Shit / Re: GISM is playing Roadburn Festival 2016

« on: November 21, 2015, 05:58:16 AM »

GISM are "racist" now? Oh lorrrrrd. I guess it was "cool" when SKV was beating the shit out of people and trying to light them on fire but now that he put "Jew" on the cover of a record he's no longer cool. Puhleeze. Also they were still playing shows in 2002 (post Uchida), it's not like they disappeared into obscurity in the 80s and are now coming out of hiding to play this festival.

This.  The last GISM release doesn't have him on it and it's still sick.  They were playing shows relatively recently (along with Framtid and Death Side who people are also freaking out about playing non-japanese shows) but people are excited that some of the BEST music ever made will be played live again.  Bands known for their live shows playing live shows is exciting. 

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Pop Punk / Re: Records that lost their luster

« on: November 08, 2015, 07:27:56 AM »

probably dating myself pretty badly, but I remember hearing "punk of shape to come" and being PSYCHED.  Loved that record for a couple years, forgot about it, and tried relistening recently.  WOOF.  Seriously, record is so full of itself, the sound is awful, the songs are just incredibly lame, and there are some pretty nu-metal parts.