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Music Shit / Re: New Test Patterns songs and stuff

« on: May 13, 2007, 04:00:57 PM »

i was in a band called test patterns when i was 14.  that's me on the right.  sorry about the baggy pants; it was the early 90s.  i'm sure you guys have regular pants.

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Music Shit / Re: Tape Traders Unite!

« on: May 12, 2007, 03:37:32 PM »

i'm down, especially since i don't have money to buy records and won't in the foreseeable future.  you'd get some seriously great tapes off this board.

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Music Shit / Re: Your 100 Favorite Albums (Is This Easier to Do?)

« on: May 11, 2007, 12:23:34 PM »

glad to see he "narrowed it down" to only 600 records!

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Music Shit / Re: Your 100 Favorite Albums (Is This Easier to Do?)

« on: May 11, 2007, 11:53:30 AM »

afro algonquin, huh?  i've always wanted to check that out.

that last exit record is indeed awesome -- really the only one of theirs i like.

who is bernard bonnier?

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Music Shit / Re: Bubblegum University

« on: May 05, 2007, 08:21:17 PM »

yes, i have that.  it is really good. 

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Music Shit / Re: Suttree "Dark Hollow" 7"

« on: May 04, 2007, 10:42:31 PM »

if it's anything like the book, probably a little of each

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Music Shit / Re: Band name help

« on: May 01, 2007, 10:24:38 PM »

Twin Towers.

Choose this and make a record cover...photoshop exploding plane impacts into Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson.  Or, do you prefer David Robinson and Tim Duncan?

The Cock Emotions/Cocky Motions split 7-inch needs to happen!

some band had a great one of dale earnhardt driving through the exploding twin towers

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Music Shit / Re: Static Party: Stitches/Le Shock

« on: April 30, 2007, 05:58:21 PM »

I saw Le Shok circa 2000 or 2001 and they were without question the poorest functioning band I've ever seen, and I really enjoy the crappiest, most amateurish of music followed on here. It was like they expected to just get on stage, look cool, and everyone would go nuts. No once cared and they left after 15 minutes.

le shok was also extremely lame when i saw them.  since they sucked and all, and this was before they were known, nobody really cared.  the guy sort of threw a hissy fit, packed up their merch and stormed off.  maybe that was part of the "act."  he also said a bunch of racist shit in a very desperate/transparent attempt to be edgy -- still, nobody cared.  sorry dude.

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Music Shit / Re: France 2000-today: What's Been in the Water Over There???

« on: April 08, 2007, 04:42:01 PM »

I really don't think France has a higher hit-to-miss ratio for underground bands than we do.  The majority of bands I saw in France sucked (and such would be the case anywhere, I suppose); what you're getting here are mostly the "gems" that have already been OK'd by three or four very knowledgeable folks.

There is no shortage of shitty bands in France.  And I agree that mainstream French music is arguably worse than its American counterpart.

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Music Shit / Re: lego mark e. smith

« on: April 02, 2007, 11:47:52 PM »

i like it at least as much as the last one--it took a few listens.  heads roll was dangerously predictable for a fall record; this one has some truly wtf moments, even if he is just phoning it in.  i'm more curious to hear the von sudenfed record. 

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Music Shit / Re: CRUD: Charles Lloyd

« on: April 01, 2007, 11:38:58 AM »

i have that record.  "rusty toy" rules.

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Music Shit / lego mark e. smith

« on: March 31, 2007, 10:12:22 PM »

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Music Shit / Re: Worst PUNK labels ever?

« on: March 31, 2007, 04:59:46 PM »

GSL is wretched.  What's the other one.. 31g.  I always get them confused.  Anyway, crap.

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody listening to? Part II

« on: March 29, 2007, 11:19:22 PM »

Antennas Erupt - Magical Noise lp: Must have been wild seeing these guys live.

AE were beyond wild. They were the kind of band that could have not moved an inch and you were transfixed. The first time I saw them there were ehhhh. But the second time was completely mind blowing. Every record geek freak in Sacto happened to be there that night and all of us were speachless. And then when we did start to gab it was all we could talk about. They played once or twice after that (I saw one of two) and broke up only to get back together 6 months later because people were begging them to. I had to talk them into recording because they 1) didnt think they were worth recording and 2) didnt always get along. Woodhouse liked them so much he did the recording for free. The couple times I saw them after that they were also great. The drummer, Kevin, is a great drummer. He wont play rock & roll because he likes to spread out and thinks that it would sound too busy for a rock band. The kid is smart.

Funny, the drumming on that LP always irked me; I thought he was way too stiff (and "rock") for the record to be completely successful.  My favorite parts are ones where he isn't playing.  The less rollicking and more abstract stuff on side two (and the 7") work better, and were the key for me to finally start digging the record after owning it for several years.  I still think a more creative drummer would've really put it over the edge.  Granted, I never saw them.

The closest thing I've heard to Antennas Erupt is this record called Free Punk Jazz by Creative Music Ensemble Hamburg, from 1982.  It really sounds like Antennas Erupt--a mixture of carnivalesque free jazz and rock rhythms out of Beefheart--but delivers the goods in a way that one doesn't.

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Music Shit / Re: Social End Product

« on: March 26, 2007, 10:12:12 PM »

i heard that in a record store when i was like 15.  i thought it was great (and a makers song), so i bought a couple makers records--boy, was i wrong.  yes, it is a lame cover, but having never heard the original it still knocked me on my ass