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Music Shit / Re: new(er) bands with intelligent lyrics

« on: July 24, 2014, 10:10:30 PM »

Um...Hank Wood people!!!

You might joke, but the moments of lyrical genius (or clever wordplay) in hammerheads songs are pretty frequent even if it's just a nice flow to a line like "I don't play/Burn your house down/ and run away". Not to mention I Don't See Nothin coming outta left field and being a total downer at the end of Go Home.

Anyway, all I got off the top of my head is Brendan of Eddy Current and another show of support for Matt Korvette. I don't listen to much new music outside of punk and hardcore which while at a high point musically and aesthetically right now is a total wasteland as far as them words go in my opinion. Once this whole spanish-speaking thing takes off I won't be able to understand enough of it be the judge anyway so there's always that.

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2014

« on: July 24, 2014, 09:58:11 PM »

Very cool that they went with such a similar look for the jacket.

Goddamn I can't wait.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: scariest movie ever made?

« on: July 23, 2014, 09:31:55 PM »

Ya see, I don't think Snowtown should qualify for this thread. Yeah it's bleak and hard to watch but nothing really scary about it, you know full well it's a true crime film the second you pull it up on netflix or look at the case.

Watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hills Have Eyes when I was younger really did it for me as far as scares go. Haven't been scared scared by a movie in a long time that I can think of although I'm personally much more of a sucker for paranormal stuff than serial killer and slasher horror so seeing stuff like that always gives me a little chill.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: July 23, 2014, 08:55:57 PM »

Been watching a TON of movies lately for some reason so here's a bunch of quick thoughts...



Tired of the Mad Max comparisons people were tossing at this flick. Cool near western styled film with some very well done tension as well as some of the most brutal gore I've seen in a long time. Maybe I'm outta shape with that sorta thing but there was one shooting in particular that made my gut sink. Pattinson's character was also great. Also a beautiful looking film, shame it consistently moved just a little too slowly at points.



Love John Waters and love this movie. Seeing Divine schlubbed by none other than Divine herself is always great, as are most of the other gags.



Thoroughly confusing title and description given how little attention the girls themselves were given during the movie but whatever. Another poster mentioned that if I liked the music in Just For The Hell of It I'd love it in this one and they were correct. Not a masterpiece even by HGL standards but a decent way to spend an hour plus change on a Saturday afternoon and I'll likely watch it again at some point in my life. Oh and Colonel Sanders has a sweet cameo.


Translates to "The Dirty 15"

Again nothing spectacular but a very solid spaghetti western nonetheless with a stellar soundtrack by Francesco De Masi. Never sure what to say about genre movies so I'm just gonna stop here. Don't let that dissuade you from watching this if westerns are your thing though (I'm neither here nor there) because it certainly wasn't awful.



Loved this one. Great in that it is wacky enough (both intentionally and unintentionally) but never becomes schtick or gimmicky. The obvious thing would be to blow open the bizarre take this movie has on sexual identity but these are just brief bits. One thing I mentioned to my friend as we watched that is that the children don't have a single speaking part- likely because this is a movie about sexual expression and frustration, a language they aren't yet old enough to learn. Blows my mind that this was originally meant to be viewed in 3D and I would jump at the chance to watch it again in that format.

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2014

« on: July 14, 2014, 07:57:24 AM »

That's fucking great, cant wait for copies to be made available to Canadians via the web.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: July 13, 2014, 09:18:12 PM »

Treated myself to a double feature of Under The Skin and Tom At The Farm tonight.

Under the Skin was great in a low-dialogue visual trip sorta way (not that I could understand what little dialogue there was thanks to VERY thick Scottish accents). What a DARK movie though, not in subject matter necessarily but in appearance. Lotta moments when I couldn't figure out what I was looking at even though I felt like I should have been able to.

Tom At The Farm was one of the most suspenseful flicks I've seen in a long time. Absolutely sick and the character of Francis was thoroughly terrifying. Highlight line of dialogue: "I'm going to fuck the blood out of your tiny cunt". I'm gonna need to track this down for home viewing in the near future cause I already want to watch it again.

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2014

« on: July 13, 2014, 09:10:23 PM »

19th of July? 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: July 08, 2014, 12:02:32 PM »

Good juvenile flick with plenty of stupidity likely not far from what some board members (myself included) enjoye(d) taking part in. The toddler being set into the garbage can got me so good that I had to rewind a couple times. Also features a great lookin band in one of the first scenes and the best ending card I've ever seen.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 06, 2014, 09:30:13 PM »

Wilco- Misunderstood

Never really gave Wilco a fair chance since I'm just young enough to have missed their heyday. I like it pretty good but part of it just makes me want to listen to Reigning Sound instead.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Terminal Boredom's Sexuality

« on: July 05, 2014, 10:29:39 PM »

Missionary only lights off with a bag over my head

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: May 29, 2014, 08:27:42 PM »

Jerry's Kids- Is This My World

One of the few 80s HC LPs I can still put on and jam both sides happily.

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Music Shit / Re: Blues Thread?

« on: May 29, 2014, 08:11:20 PM »

He is much later, but Hound Dog Taylor is fantastic. I only have his first two LPs on Alligator with the Houserockers. But they get played a couple of times a year, especially Natural Boogie. In fact, that's probably one of the few records I listen to still from the age of 19. I think Hound Dog had elements similar to punk, despite the fact he died in '75.

One of the best of that era, no doubt. Let me see if I can find a wicked live video of him that blows my mind every time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdXdsyDJC5Y

There it is, totally crushing. Also as the story goes he got drunk one night and cut off his two extra fingers (one on each hand) with a straight razor.

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Music Shit / Re: Blues Thread?

« on: May 29, 2014, 12:16:58 PM »

I like all the Kimbrough stuff I've heard. That RL Burnside disc w/ the Blues Explosion as a backing band is pretty bad. I've tried to listen to it a number of times & always end up hitting the killswitch during the first of probably 200 of Spencer's "AWWWWWWWW, SHIT!" exclamations in the background.

Yeah, the best part of that record is the guitar tone but that doesn't redeem it. Credit to Burnside for putting up with that shit though, seemed like he was the sorta dude who'd get down with nearly anyone musically. Ever heard his later dub stuff? great IMO.

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Music Shit / Re: Blues Thread?

« on: May 29, 2014, 10:16:16 AM »

One of the required texts is "Blues People: Negro Music In White America" by LeRoi Jones. A friend who has taken the class in the past just gave me a copy of this book, which I have yet to start. However I have skimmed through it and it looks like it's going to be a great read. My friend seemed to enjoy the book quite a bit.

If you enjoy it enough, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones post-name change) also wrote a book on jazz titled "Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music". Even if you're not so into jazz (I wasn't when i picked it up, but read his social essays and loved them) it's so well written and provides such compelling criticism and praise that it'll make you a jazz fan.

Anyway, as far as blues goes I'm surprised this thread is so....bad. Strong start with Junior Wells and Magic Sam and then descended into the likes of ZZ Top and SRV. Personal faves of mine are Fred McDowell and other hill country guys that may or may not have learned from him- RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough etc. I remember just tearing through record stores/online trying to hunt down any blues record put out by Fat Possum or Mississippi for a good while, cause all that stuff is so damn good without sounding like a period piece or some washed out gimmick. I'd recommend that anyone trying to get deeper into the stuff take a similar route as well.

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Music Shit / Re: Dawn Of Humans Or Crazy Spirit?

« on: May 29, 2014, 10:06:43 AM »

With the Euro pressing Paco is doing, I'll be 5,000 copies

Damn, I bought a decently priced copy from the US today as I was tired of looking for it.

Man I figured that LP was probably around the 2k mark and even that was pretty good- but 5000 is nuts.