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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: February 15, 2011, 07:47:24 AM »

Good analysis on the TVP's. I always thought it was funny too how some guy that later spent time on a prison ship could write something as childish as 'Jackanory Stories,' but then again a lot of TVP songs have a kind of hopeless, pathetically sentimental undercurrent to them. i love 'em, even if so many of the bands they influened suck dick.

been listening too:
Hawkwind S/T. Good one. Always thought it was somewhat unessential til recently, and thus haven't spend that much time with it, but i was obviously wrong.
Group 1850 Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth. Goddamn i need a vinyl copy of this. Has it ever been reissued? imagine it must have been at some point but can't find anything and original copies go for quite a bit it seems. i'd gladly drop $30 for a real high quality faithful reissue that came with the 3-D glasses and all that shit.
Newest UV Race single. The stupidest record yet by possibly the stupidest band on the planet at the moment.
I'll echo the praise for the Panic album a couple pages back too. It's getting plenty of spins, but I'm getting the feeling my turntable's on the way out too...

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: February 10, 2011, 05:43:56 PM »

Hawkwind In Search of Space and Hall of the Mountain Grill. Two of 'winds best.
The Normal T.V.O.D. b/w Warm Leatherette. Will never be able to fathom how many copies this record sold when it was released. Still sounds devastatingly fucked and detached today.
Death Spiritual. Mental. Physical. Pretty good, couple great songs, some obvious filler. Not nearly on par with For the Whole World to See but I don't think anybody would expect it to be. Good to have none the less.
Death Scream Bloody Gore. The archival detroit death record coupled with the mention of this a few posts above prompted me to listen. Great shit.
Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A.D. I never gave a shit about metal but I've been listening to a lot lately. This really hits the spot.
Organisation Tone Float. Come back to this one a lot. Great.
Still listening to Haus Arafna a lot too.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: February 08, 2011, 03:10:08 PM »

Guess i'll use the new thread as an opportunity to start posting more...

Earlier at work:
Danny & the Dressmakers 49 Golden Grates. pointless. fantastic.
Haus Arafna You. One of the most 'German' sounding 'bands' ever. Good mix of their harsher early material and their work as November Novelet.
Phil Cohran & Legacy African Skies
Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness. Guess I felt like listening to spiritual jazz shit for a minute.
Ornette Coleman Change of the Century. Yep this is good.
Since getting home from work:
Pretty Things Get the Picture. Third or fourth best Pretty Things record.
Agnostic Front Victim in Pain and Warzone "Lower Eastside Crew." Obviously both these records are sick.
Gonna throw on Warrior on the Edge of Time next. Think I can feel the semi-annual week where I exclusively listen to Hawkwind coming on.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: December 12, 2010, 03:06:34 PM »

Funnily enough, RE: the irrelevant cheveu argument, i've been listening to more electronic-based music than anything as of late, and a good deal of house/dance music too. sorry i didn't check my wyld-n-karazy rawk n' roll handbook beforehand to see this wasn't allowed. in addition to all that it's been:

throbbing gristle-2nd annual report and d.o.a. been on a huge tg and related kick since sleazy's death.
sun city girls-funeral mariachi. hasn't really left the turntable since picking it up.
tyvek-nothing fits. this one still hasn't fully sunken in yet, but i can tell it will after a couple more listens. kind of hate the back up vocals on the first song though-makes it sound kinda pop punk, but otherwise a really good album from what i previously pegged as a much stronger singles band.
both bob trimble albums. somehow i was really caught off guard when i first heard these, like it wasn't at all what i was expecting, but i've grown to like them a lot. harvest of dreams is way better than the first one.
atari teenage riot-future of war.
beat of the earth. pretty good for what it is.
caberet voltaire-mix up. good for walking home from the record store in the rain. on said walk i noticed a sign for a corner barbershop called "cutmasters" that at first glance i thought said "cumtasters."

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Put the Music in its Coffin: Issue 1(D@24, Watery Love, Melted Sunglasses, etc.)

« on: November 15, 2010, 02:23:37 PM »

Thanks for the kind words, bull. That album title's just begging to be appropriated for some purpose. Oh and anyone who ordered before 4 this afternoon, your copy has been sent.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Put the Music in its Coffin: Issue 1(D@24, Watery Love, Melted Sunglasses, etc.)

« on: November 14, 2010, 06:35:45 PM »

New print zine available now (well its actually been out for a couple of weeks):

The first issue of Put the Music in its Coffin (Put the Margins in their Coffin actually seems more fitting) is out now, featuring interviews with 90's Pittsburgh band Dead at 24, Philadelphia local staples Watery Love and Miami's Melted Sunglasses, as well as a critical analysis of the last 45 years of rock music.

More info. here: http://www.ptmiic.blogspot.com/

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Music Shit / Re: Another "Desert Island Disks" Thread

« on: October 25, 2010, 08:24:13 PM »

Also, tommm, it's nice to see Sun Ship emerging as Coltrane's hottest, most r'n'r disc.  For a while that LP and Torch of the Mystics were my go-to records whenever my third eye needed a good polishing.  Nice list.

yeah, i mean it's pretty hard to pick a favorite coltrane record but i certainly think that sunship is as good a canidate as any. it's probably my most listened to coltrane record atleast, and that's saying something. i could easily throw torch of mystics on my list as well, probably left it off due to not owning a proper copy. that record defintely dominated a good portion of my listening time for quite a while. also i realized just after posting that i left off some 'obvious' but crucial choices with no Stones or Kinks records or Funhouse. After seeing yr inclusion of Hangman's Beautiful Daughter i'm thinking that really belongs on there too. Fuck this is difficult...

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Music Shit / Re: Another "Desert Island Disks" Thread

« on: October 25, 2010, 04:30:01 PM »

These lists are pretty fun to but together, even if they tend to be redundant. unfortunately if i'm gonna be honest as to my favorite records than a good portion of that is cannonized/obvious shit. sometimes things get cannonized for a reason. 30 instead of 15 makes it slightly more interesting. also no comps or repeat artists. maybe something like:

1.VU & Nico (or WL/WH or S/T)
2.Black Flag-Damaged
3.Big Star-Radio City
4.The Fall-Hex Enduction Hour
5.13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere
6.The Ramones-Leave Home
7.Faith/Void split
8.Eno-Another Green World
9.Neil Young-Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
10.Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn
11.The Saints-Eternally Yours
12.Flesheaters-Minute to Pray...
13.Generic Flipper
14.Troggs-Wild Thing
15.Coltrane-Sun Ship
16.Modern Lovers-S/T
17.Love-Forever Changes
18.Silver Apples-Contact
19.Poison Idea-Feel the Darkness
20.The Quick-Mondo Deco
21.Kool Keith-Sex Style
22.Faust Tapes
23.John Fahey-America
24.Chrome-Half Machine Lip Moves
25.Cecil Taylor-Unit Structures
26.United States of America
27.Slugfuckers-Transformational Salt
28.Cromags-Age of Quarrel
29.Scott Walker-Scott 4
30.Young Marbel Giants-Collossal Youth

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Philadelphia: Feb 12th Drunkdriver, Twin Stumps, Folded Shirt, Leather@AVA house

« on: February 13, 2010, 12:04:59 PM »

fuck man had no idea about nujon! what a bummer. fun night besides that for sure though.

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Music Shit / Re: Bands you wish you'd seen at their peak

« on: February 09, 2010, 12:31:29 PM »

like most people have already mentioned VU w/ cale is a big one. plus suicide, elevators, hawkwind, early cramps etc. i mean too many too name really.

don't think anyone has mentioned black randy yet, that probably would've been pretty cool. teenage queers for the stage banter if nothing else.  VOID. fuck.

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Music Shit / Re: Can we talk about Cale for a minute?

« on: November 04, 2009, 08:56:43 AM »

i have a real soft spot for solo cale. like his shit way more than other dudes from famous band's who went solo around the same time like reed or ayers (although i love a lot of their shit too). i actually just got in a drunken yelling match with one of my friends recently about the quality of his records outside of the obvious solid ones. we both agreed that fear and paris 1919 were great the whole way through but he threw helen of troy on the turntable and tried telling me how shitty it was, and though with a sober mind i gotta say it's pretty spotty, i still like it. i also think sabatoge is a pretty great, intense live album, probably the closest he ever got to "punk." haven't listened to it in awhile though. i like "heartbreak hotel" and pretty much all of slow dazzle as well.

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Music Shit / Re: 5am Records

« on: September 21, 2009, 03:05:50 PM »

I listened to side 2 of Big Star's 3rd for literally 6 hours. Kept my turntable on repeat (nice feature) while i was the most wasted i've been in quite some time and crying on the phone. not a pretty scene.

big star is defintley the most fitting soundtrack for emotional breakdown in my opinion. the end of radio city hits me especially hard when feeling down. also can't believe there's only been one mention of suicide so far in this thread! the whole first record sounds like it was made specifically for listening to while depressed in the early morning.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Fresh Meat/Middle America May/June Midwest Tour

« on: May 21, 2009, 10:01:12 AM »

Fresh Meat/Middle America "GG Rides Again" or "Cult Grunge" Midwest Tour


 


May 28- Chicago, IL
May 29- Minneapolis, MN @ the Alamo w/ Digital Leather, Shanks, the Sleaze
May 30- Fargo, ND @ VFW Hall w/ Born Bad, Gumbi
May 31- Winnipeg, MB @ War on Music w/ Born Bad, Modern Problems
June 1- Minneapolis, MN @ Memory Lanes w/ Condominium
June 2- Milwaukee, WI @ Ground Zero w/ Holy Shit, Bored Straight
June 3- Cleveland, OH @ Now Thats Class w/ Passout Knives
June 4- Pittsburgh, PA
June 5- Philadlelphia, PA @ Model Home w/ Leather

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Music Shit / Re: MIND ERASER

« on: January 21, 2009, 03:56:18 PM »

Pretty much the hardcore version of Weird Punk, I guess. MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS and MYSTICISM (not Hare Krishna) AND RUNES and lyrics that read like a philosophical semi-goths poetry. Sex Vid does it well and Fucked Up used to, and at least they're not singing about "scene unity" in 2009 but stylisticaly a lot of this stuff just ends up being sort of dumb. The way I figure it, is that most people that I've met who play hardcore aren't WEIRD or MYSTERIOUS-all this stuff is is a gimmick. That said, there's worse offenders than Mind Eraser, but that short story or whatever it was pushed them into pretty lame territory.

i actually agree with this point. really lame current trend  of bands with the same vauge, mysterious artwork and strange/ambiguous lyrics, trying way too hard to appear as "weirdos" which is about the least weird thing you can do. musically a lot of these bands are at least descent though, a hell of a lot better than any early 80's rehash or anything no way records has ever put out. i would consider mind eraser to be one of the few good current hardcore bands going, although i haven't read the article you're talking about, but overall this style is pretty stale.

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Music Shit / Re: Best Live Albums

« on: September 24, 2008, 05:50:51 PM »

i don't find myself listening to live albums much either but one that comes to mind due to decent sound quality and between song banter is fugs-golden filth. also john cale-sabatoge.