Radio Birdman

[Johnno]

I have it on vinyl.  CD's are a drag, but in this case it doesn't really matter all that much.

[Mitch]

As is always the case, the two people you can turn to for THE TRUTH are the lord of fucking darkness and Mark Murrmann.  Two peas in a pod.  

[icki]

maybe the turnoff is they are "musicians" and its well recorded and whatnot; they definitely were more a rock band than a punk band.   you may also  think they are overrated or whatever, but to say RA is 'horrible' is just an obvious play for attention.  its not horrible.  if some of the shit we're drooling on these days holds up for 5 years, let alone 30, consider it an achievement.

What Mr. Anchovies said.

And I'd love to listen to Australian bar-rock from the '70s, especially if it comes in the form of Radio Birdman (or Lobby Lloyd).

As for this:

Just because you like something doesn't mean that it's good.

That is one of the dumbest things I've seen on the Internet all day.

[vint]

Hey man, I'm not gonna defend Brittney Spears music but I still like some of it. Brittney Spears' Toxic is far better than all of RB's material put togeather.

[icki]

Hey man, I'm not gonna defend Brittney Spears music but I still like some of it. Brittney Spears' Toxic is far better than all of RB's material put togeather.

Now you're just being reatarded. I'm outta here...

[goneoffdatlean]

I dunno, man...I'd put Touch of My Hand ahead of Toxic...

[daniel]

yeah that is stupid. I like some Britney Spears songs and I would call all the ones I like good or at least pretty good.  I like Radio Birdman too, they have more good songs.

[vint]

See, I see it as nothing more than ear candy. I once spent a week locked alone in my room putting an ounce of coke into my arms and it felt fuckin' awesome, I wouldn't call coke "good." So you guys can appreciate generic bar rock. Nothing to be embarrased about, but no reason to pretend it's anything other than what it is. That's such a hip attitude. Everything you like is beyond reproach.

[Maltodextrin]

This ice cream sucks because it doesn't taste like pizza and since they're both located in the frozen food aisle I feel compelled to make some sort of comparison.

Radios Appear is an All-Time Great Rock Album--probably in my personal top ten, even.  A unique sound, instantly memorable songs and enough variety to keep things interesting--"Man With Golden Helmet" is ESSENTIAL to the flow of that album and is a perfect halfway-point intermission piece.  I can and have listened to it repeatedly without getting sick of it and that's the true test of greatness--discovering new things with repeated plays.  Dunno what else to say--it's a classic.

-Ryan

I was about to post something to this effect, but now see that Ryan has said exactly what I would, albeit far more eloquently than I'd manage.  Anyways-- yes, yes and YES.

[turkeybuzzard]

i still like the radio's appear LP. i remember being really excited when i found a sire promo of it for 3 dollars. i listened to it quite a bit for awhile. natuarally, as these things work, i moved on (the turnover is quick for record geeks right?), but i don't dismiss it as crap now. there are things i am downright embarrassed to listen to that i once found good, but RA isn't one of 'em.

fun things are fucking GREAT, but aren't they one of the more birdman influenced bands of the one's you guys are yapping about? you can hardly talk about fun things without mentioning radio birdman in the same sentence. "when the birdmen fly" for christsakes...

whats the "new" fun things reissue SSR? different from the penniman one?

britney spears? coke? sheesh

[icki]

And in case you missed it Vint:

And I'd love to listen to Australian bar-rock from the '70s, especially if it comes in the form of Radio Birdman (or Lobby Lloyd).

And:

As for Radio Birdman, I think part of the problem is that they got/get lumped too often with "punk," when they never claimed to be a punk band, never associated a whole lot with that scene. They were as influenced by the Stooges as they were Blue Oyster Cult (which is a good thing, in my book).

Nobody's saying it's not bar rock or that it's not anything more (or less) than it is. No hip attitude here.

Maybe you should go back to the coke and Brittany, you're starting to see things.

[vint]

missed the first quote but not the second, which was part of the inspiration for my statement.

[SSR]

I'll just go back to what I said early on: Radio Birdman bores me. You can call them punk, rock and roll, bar band, disco, polka, or chocolate icecream, it sounds soulless. The comparisions to all the shitty bands we were throwing around has nothing to do with sound. The namedrops are because all those bands lack soul, not that I expect you to get that as only soulless, literalists would champion such a mediocre band like Radio Birdman. Radio Birdman is wallpaper, sure sometimes it looks nice but would you fuck to it?

[daniel]

I see where SSR is coming from.  Chuck Eddy has a great quote to this affect in the Stairway To Hell book, where he calls RB "a bland supper-club excercise in Stooge-worship".  I still agree with other people tho who say that had some killer songs. 

[SSR]

I will admit they have good songs. Burn My Eye is a good song but it is a boring song in Radio Birdman's hands and a great song in Monoshock's.  Lots of boring bands have good songs.