Why did Screeching Weasel have to start sucking. God dammit.

[jason]

talking of the Hanson brothers I remeber rewinding and pausing slapshots on vhs and jerkin' it to the bewbs scene.

 i remember my dad making watch that movie when i was 10

[roadkill33]

look what they did to the cover of 'my brain hurts' on its LP reissue...


sheesh!  oh, and yeah they should have quit post-lookout, or at least called it something else.  once the weasel logo went color (bark like a dog) it was all downhill from there. 

[roadkill33]

and the problem now (and why i was looking at this thread) is that i am thinking about going to see them in february.  i know it is a different band, but i saw a set list from the riot fest show i skipped out on and got a little nostalgic.  one of my best friends who was WAY more into them than i was when we were kids said it was pretty fufilling.  when i saw the set list filled with a bunch of my brain hurts songs i wished i hadn't decided to NOT go to that closing night of riot fest (i had the pass, mostly cuz i wanted to see butthole surfers, dead milkmen twice and the half hour supposed last stand of apocalypse hoboken) but i drunkenly fell down some stairs the night before, and also the alkaline trio crowd lining up at the congress at 10 am were part of the reason i gave up and decided NOT to go to that show.

so do i go see them? i don't know. like i said, i'm thinking about it. revisiting the lookout stuff i am realizing i seemed to like those albums more than i remembered!  never owned anything other than the first lp reissue on vml, kill the musicians and wiggle, but heard the others countless times and probably had cassete copies of them too. my brain hurts is really more solid than i ever thought i would consider it. and if the newly reformed weasel is playing mostly those kind of songs, i think maybe i would dig it.

[smallguy]

One of my buddies from my teen years had a Screeching Weasel tattoo on one arm and a Napalm Death one on the other.

[anal satan]

April 23rd or 24th in Philly.  My friend already bought me a ticket so I guess I'm going.   

...Eh, maybe it won't be that bad.  Who knows?

[jason]

a friend of mine saw them in edmonton a few weeks , he said they only played the old good shit

[FDH records]

April 23rd in Philly. Just got tickets (got extras if anyone needs). Im really excited for it. I mean Im sure it wont be like seeing them in the hayday but it will just be nice to hear some of my favorite songs from my youth played live.

[roadkill33]

well weasel pioneered the 'half hour set' even back when they were an 'active band' (early 90s).  they will play for about 30 minutes and a lot of it will be from my brain hurts. 
somewhere around 2000 they did a one off show at house of blues in chicago that was their first in a loooooooong time. it was advertised as 'a half hour of screeching weasel'.


still undecided on whether or not to go, maybe im too late.

[P-TNT]

listened to my brain hurts today twice. TWICE