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Cities / Oslo

« on: May 28, 2017, 04:45:56 PM »

I have a really long (8 am - 8 pm) layover in Oslo. How do you kill an afternoon there?

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Worse than Pop Punk / Re: Best Exploited albums

« on: May 27, 2017, 04:53:23 PM »

Pretty pumped that "Best Exploited Albums" is going to have more posts than "Hardcore 17".

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Worse than Pop Punk / Re: Best Exploited albums

« on: May 26, 2017, 05:08:33 PM »

Do you guys ever think "Man, this Wattie guy is a real jerk to his bandmates" when watching UK/DK?

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Worse than Pop Punk / Re: Best Exploited albums

« on: May 25, 2017, 05:53:41 AM »

Troops Of Tomorrow is a fabulous album.  They had great singles too.

"Alternative" is THE shit.

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Cities / Re: Denver Record Shops

« on: May 12, 2017, 06:16:54 AM »

Bout to PM you.

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Music Shit / Re: CASSETTE CULTURE

« on: May 04, 2017, 04:42:03 AM »

Thanks! It's a total beast (probably between 30-40 lbs), and got me back into making mix tapes, taping records for the car, etc. I believe it was $2 and just took a quick q-tip swab to get it up to speed!

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Music Shit / Re: CASSETTE CULTURE

« on: May 04, 2017, 04:25:31 AM »

What are peoples' favoured cassette decks? I got a Technics RS AZ7, bought in an auction when the BBC  were selling off all their studio gear from one whole building (there were 4 machines in the lot, sold the other 3 now). This was one of the last cassette decks technics made, and at the top of their range. Honestly I reckon people who say tapes sound shit should hear this playing; with cassettes (unlike CDs) the quality of the playback machine makes a massive difference.

The quality of the recording machine also makes a massive difference too, unfortunately... some bands home-dub their cassettes on shit machines and that means it is never gonna sound good! But pro dubbed, or home dubbed on a machine like the AZ7, can sound excellent.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?media/technics-630t.3052/

I hadn't had one for years, using a walkman plugged into a aux input on my stereo for the longest time. This is much classier. The light, the sliding door... all pretty sweet.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: The "Christian punk" thing.

« on: May 02, 2017, 06:25:29 AM »

Thankfully, I don't know any people like that. 

But I'm chiming in anyway because I recently scored a copy of this Altar Boys LP at the Salvation Army, and I'll be GODDAMNED if it ain't half bad.  It's very 80s SoCal punk/powerpop, because that's when/where it originated - I can hear Paul Collins Beat, Descendents, Adolescents, even a little Angry Samoans in it.  There's even one song that has a Real Kids vibe to it.  If you can get past the lyrics (which really aren't that obtrusive, and don't bother me too much because I'm a shaolin master of tuning lyrics out), I recommend picking it up if you see it.  Undervalued IMHO.

SIDE NOTE: this makes me doubt my own memory, but I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I was watching TV circa 1994 and there was a Jesus-loving punk rock band on Geraldo or Sally or Springer that fucking RIPPED and sounded a lot like New Bomb Turks.

https://www.discogs.com/Altar-Boys-Altar-Boys/release/3903958

Dude, this sounds like it could have been on Posh Boy; or at least that "I'm Into God" song that is linked on the discogs page sounds like it could have been on Posh Boy.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Neil Young's Pono reaches kickstarter goal in 1 day

« on: April 27, 2017, 04:41:41 PM »

Even 'Everyone Says...'

I never listen to that shit.

We can tell. Thanks for the laugh during a long ass day at work.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Neil Young's Pono reaches kickstarter goal in 1 day

« on: April 26, 2017, 02:25:52 PM »

God doesn't walk around thinking he's Bono!!!

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Cities / Finland, whatcha got??? (July 3rd - July 13.)

« on: April 10, 2017, 03:37:46 PM »

My only plans so far are going to the festival in Oulu and hopefully the Dropdead gig in Tampere. What else is going on?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: KUOLEMAN TAPPANEET: Punk rockia pienkustanteilta 1977-1983 (Finnish KBD comp LP)

« on: April 10, 2017, 03:17:01 PM »

Got it today. Very, very, very, cool. Will probably make a shirt of the of the Tipi and Ministerit art. If anyone is interested, PM me.

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Music Shit / Re: Chuck Berry....

« on: March 19, 2017, 09:13:22 AM »

Has anyone checked in on Marvin?

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Pop Punk / Re: Murder, Drug Addiction, Government Paranoia, and Escaping the Inner City

« on: March 19, 2017, 08:16:12 AM »

Really bummed there's no video on the link that says "video".

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Music Shit / Re: Insuring Record Collections

« on: March 08, 2017, 04:21:18 PM »

I need to get plain ass renter's insurance for a new place I'm moving to. Anyone got any experience with this?