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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: February 04, 2009, 08:56:55 PM »

GRAVEST FUCKING HITS.
Come on everybody, if there ever was a time for anti-sentimental sentimental jamming, this is it. I want to lean out my window and hear Lonesome Town playing, completely out of sync, on stereos all over town.

Music Shit / Re: Lux Interior dead???

« on: February 04, 2009, 04:41:28 PM »

Haven't there been quite a few Lux death hoaxes over the years? "RIP Lux" was spraypainted on a wall at my college c 1989. And I even recall him addressing it in an interview once, or actually it may have been a press release, because I remember it being in response to an OD rumor, I distinctly remember the line "while members of the Cramps may have misused chemicals in their youth, they have been clean and sober for many years now...." or words to that effect.
Aw fuck but it looks like this is the real thing.
But going back to my avove memory, his survival of many death rumors made him seem basically immortal, or at least a guy that would live to be OLD old.
God dammit.

Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: January 28, 2009, 09:48:50 PM »

EGO SUMMIT (just hearing this for the the first time. Wow.)
V-3
Sandy Bull
Blues Control "Snow" single

Music Shit / Re: Cheater Slicks

« on: January 28, 2009, 09:45:49 PM »

From their myspace:

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Bats In The Dead Trees
Current mood: adventurous

Out in early 2009...This LP features four instrumental improvisations done live with no overdubs. Ltd pressing of 300 LPs on the label Lost Treasures of the Underworld. The cover will be handscreened and 100 LPs will be on green vinyl.

For lovers of over-the-top psychotic trance induced/inducing feedback mayhem with a beat...stay tuned for the exact release date.

Anyone heard this, or know anything about the release date?

Music Shit / Re: Band Names With Missing Letters

« on: January 22, 2009, 09:40:53 AM »

Oblivians?

Music Shit / Re: Band Names With Missing Letters

« on: January 22, 2009, 09:14:01 AM »

Quote from: DJ Rick on January 21, 2009, 04:12:01 PM

bsds th ppl wh r tryng 2 b trndy by drppng vwls....

Has there been another band to drop letters from ordinary words?

I can only think of one....a band called "Truk"...70's rock from Oklahoma.

WTF man, you remember "Truk" but not...

"TRUX" !?

Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: January 21, 2009, 06:49:14 PM »

Quote from: DJ Rick on January 21, 2009, 05:08:45 PM

There was no poster in the 1st press.

That's the only difference right? My second pressing is heavier than
a ton of coal

Music Shit / Re: Country Teasers vs. Cheater Slicks

« on: January 20, 2009, 01:54:50 PM »

Quote from: bazooka joe on January 20, 2009, 07:09:17 AM

Quote from: Scrod Prickknee on January 20, 2009, 03:35:57 AM
Country Teasers wear the concept on their sleeve - any dummy can figure out where they're coming from. Like EricO says, the Slicks are unknowable, or at least what they're doing is unclear. You can read them like a novel and get closer & closer, but they're so dense and multi-layered it's hard to put a finger on 'em. I still say they're far more challenging and contain way more depth than the Teasers (who, again, I like a lot!).

i like this.

Yes agreed. The people who are saying "Cheater Slicks are "more avant garde" are totally missing the point here. Cheater Slicks are authentically fucked up, their just doing what comes naturally (I'm guessing) therefore NOT avant garde. Country Teasers seem extremely self conscious. Again, this is a music board, so it goes without saying we're rating these groups for their BAND-ness or rock and roll qualities. Cheater Slicks win this hands down. Country Teasers might be more interesting to talk or write an article about, but Cheater Slicks...is a band you can FEEL.

Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: January 20, 2009, 01:48:38 PM »

Up on the Sun is vg+ but I'm listening to Meat Puppets II today.
Also Group Bombino and Fear The Record. I LOVE LIVIN IN THE CITY!

Music Shit / Re: Cheater Slicks

« on: January 18, 2009, 07:42:44 PM »

Quote from: bazooka joe on January 18, 2009, 05:53:56 PM

i first got into them in about '95 or 96 (whenever "don't like you" came out) when i realized i need to hear sonic music that wasn't "punk"/ hardcore and garage music that wasn't the hentchmen. i was also finally getting heavily into weed and whiskey at this time. to this day i still love the much maligned jon spencer production. the first time i heard that crazy noise on the opening of "destroy you" i knew i had found my band. i was stunned cuz the guitars seemed to be way too low in the mix, and by the songs end it's noisier than i had ever dreamed, but it still hadn't gotten any louder. i'm still mystified at how they achieved that. other fave slicks moments would have to be when i heard the original version of "should i"on the shutdown '66 comp and thinking, "those crazy fuckers!" i know people have already said here, and in other threads on other forums, and every conversation people have about them , that they make their covers their own. it's not just that, but they seem to be able to find songs to cover that already have some kind of similar theoretic aesthetic. is it a key? is it a style of chord progression? i don't know, but it's there. the only song they've ever covered that i think they blew it on was "i can go on" from "forgive thee" and now i'm not so sure they actually blew it, i think it might have just been an ackward choice, because it sounds like a cover. nobody's perfect i guess. anyway, back to "don't like you." it's the best cheater slicks album there is. period.

i first heard "thinking some more" when i was cruising the strip with some friends. when i relaized what was going on with that song i stopped my portion of whatever stoned & drunken conversation we were having and just fucking zoned on it. "whiskey" is my all time #1 favorite favorite cheater slicks album.

anyway, i first saw them at the vegas crap-out, a three day event that a friend of mine put on. oblivians played, as did the lord high fixers, drags... tons of bands. anyway, slicks ended the weekender. i was trashed and barely familiar with them at this point. i was one of very few people left to watch them. i knew i liked it, but my ears were still pretty immature. repeated listenings of "don't like you" were really warping my mind, then larry hardy sent me an advance of "forgive thee" for my radio show. i drank some whiskey and put it on. it was exactly what i had been waiting for. it was so different from "destroy you." i really understood then that the slicks were so much about melody and beauty, and the noise was just a disguise, or at least a way to combine the beauty that most people hear with the beauty that only an esoteric group of freaks likes. i also realized with that album's first song "friends" that they were capable of smiling. i can't help but sing along to that song with a huge grin. it might be my favorite thing they've done, but there really are so many. i consider "forgive thee" to be their most perfect, and best album. somebody put this fucker out on wax. i hate the fact i actually have a cd that i have to play.

i only recently got "destination lonely" when tom shannon sent me a cd of it. cool album, but i only listened to it once on a train. i never get around to listening to cd's at home. i truly hate them. fortunatelya friend found a spare lp in his collection and it's on the way to my place right now. might actually be here tomorrow. i hope so, cuz i really need this lp as it's by far their greatest album.

i never got into "refried dreams." i bought it the day it arrived at the local punk store. it wasn't as fierce as their other albums. i was in a shitty relationship and life kinda sucked and i was craving excitement, not depression. i got rid of it on one of my regular "so broke i better go sell some records" trips. i'm ready to have it back. i have a feeling i'm missing out on what is probably their greatest moment.

i also sold my copy of "on your knees" when i was broke. fucking bullshit. best record.

when "yer last record" came out i couldn't have been less excited, especially after the dissapointment of "refried dreams." my roommate played it for me and neither of us cared. then it started growing on me a bit. the night i met my wife we wer ein her room and the cheater slicks "yer last record" randomly came on her 5 disc cd changer. i said in utter disbelief "is this the cheater slicks???" this is one of a million reasons why i knew i had to marry her. anyway, an ex-cowrker of hers did the vinyl release of "yer last record." she knew i was as much a 'slicks junkie as she was so she gave me a copy. i listened to it pretty frequently cuz i had it on wax. i eventually came to realize that it is indeed a great record.

got "walk into the sea" from the band when i brought them to nyc to play with haunted george. this, my friends, is a return to the original cheater slicks sound... rock'n'fuckingroll! i had been waiting to hear them go berserk again after so many dark, morose releases. is that a synthesizer on the first track? did you ever really look at that cover? very complicated. dave shannon is fucking intense with a pen. would love to see more of his art. but hey, the best album ever recorded deserves a cover that good, right?

also, i have a bunch of their singles. "rum drunk" b/w "this life of mine" is my favorite along with that one (golddigger?) where they cover "my little red book" and the "chaos" single.

i've seen 'em a bunch of times and usually stick my head in the moniter so i can hear better. one time in memphis i saw dana hatch levitate and hover over his drum kit. i always think that tom shannon is gonna take his guitar and smash me over the head with it when he's getting into his strum. dudes loolks seriously annoyed. maybe i shouldn't always stand so close.

i wonder if they still drink as much as they did way back when. it used to be rumored that they drank whiskey for breakfast. i've often wondered if their lives looked like the cover of "whiskey." that black and white picture of them in the living room with the cool artifacts and coctails in their hands always struck me as particularly bitchin'.

^ ^ ^ Liner notes ready no editing needed boys. Print it!

Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: January 18, 2009, 01:38:31 PM »

Hairdryer Peace is THE BOMB.

Just picked up AFCGT ten inch, it is THE SHIT. Awesome.
Also Group Bombino, Reatard singles lp, and Ohsees Masters Bedroom. Rulin!

Music Shit / Re: Country Teasers vs. Cheater Slicks

« on: January 18, 2009, 01:36:14 PM »

Quote from: bazooka joe on January 18, 2009, 10:47:17 AM

cheater slicks aren't art fags, so that gives them an advantage.

This is key. You know how annoying it is when people refer to their band as a "project" -- well the Country Teasers are the ultimate music "project". Cheater Slicks are a BAND. Country Teasers, I love em immensely, but they are held back in the rock and roll category by ultimately being a conceptual piece by a bunch of art world insiders. Google "Alastair Mackinven" and "Simon Stephens" to see who the Country Teasers are. Now google "Dana Hatch" or "Dave Shannon"... Cheater Slicks are a rock and roll band, and rock and roll should attack the body from the feet upward, not from the head down. Case closed!