RECTAL DEPTH: Young Steve vs. Piranhas

[icki]

I'd like to interrupt this thread and encourage everyone to buy a copy of the Druid Perfume LP!



Okay, back to the messageboard intellectualizing.

[erickelric]

It was all a ruse! Sell them bitches, Icki!

This is my red book
This is my history book
Therefore: all history books are red

This is my cat
My cat is black
Therefore: all cats are black

[turn_coat]

I'd like to interrupt this thread and encourage everyone to buy a copy of the Druid Perfume LP!



Okay, back to the messageboard intellectualizing.

Does the band have any?  I've been waiting to pick one up from them on New Years Eve.





I wasted like an hour and half today trying to upload a Piranhas live set to just to post it in this thread, only to find out the file was too big for Mediafire.

[kevjones]

I'd like to interrupt this thread and encourage everyone to buy a copy of the Druid Perfume LP!



Okay, back to the messageboard intellectualizing.

Is that a huge, flacid penis at the top?

[icki]

Does the band have any?  I've been waiting to pick one up from them on New Years Eve.


I wasted like an hour and half today trying to upload a Piranhas live set to just to post it in this thread, only to find out the file was too big for Mediafire.

Yeah, the band has copies and will have them at the New Years show. They should also have copies of their new 7" on Italy.

[sarim]

erick hughes and his silly gism

shes a witch

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

Music and literature are not completely separate.  Rhythm. 

[turn_coat]

Video of Piranhas live in 2004 at the Lager House in Detroit.  A Frames also played that night.

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

Also, I still think that record sucks.  Think I finally solid it when I moved a few months ago.  Revisited it quite a few times and it just never clicked.  Ho hum.

I liked bits of Picis Clangor.  Haven't heard it in awhile, but I'd probably like it more now.  I remember "My Shoes" being a good bit o' glop-punk.

I dunno.  More and more what excites me about music is unpredictability -- in the music itself, sure, but also in taste.  Too many motherfuckers trying to present their record-buying tendencies as art these days.  "Here is my aesthetic.  I am a power-pop/'70s rock/soul/garage guy."  Boring.  Loathesome.  Way to take one of the only avenues of personal freedom and turn it into another dead-ender.  Blah-de-blah. 

[Tippet]

Hey, if any PIRANHA HATERS want to sell me their early non-ITR recs they should give me a PM.

Threads like these make me love them twice as much.

[DJ Rick]

Knowing about what life is like for people in Niger doesn't effect how I hear Group Inerane. They sound awesome just because they do.

Whoa, I just caught this finally. I know we've had the whole band geography debate so many times, but...

"Because they sound awesome" is certainly a good enough reason to like Group Inerane. But, do you really know how much life SUCKS in Niger? Probably no one in North America does...not even the northernmost Inuits in Nunavut do. And when's the last time you heard a rad band from even mainland Nunavut? I heard some field recordings the other day from Darfur (somewhere we all know is sucky thanks to bumper stickers and t-shirts worn by celebrities) on some radio documentary, and although it sounded fairly "generic" as far as African folk traditions go, it was pretty magical to hear how the chants ended in laughter. When it comes to places as ravaged as most African nations--where the only scenes we ever see are ribcages, oozing sores, dozens of flies per pair of lips, etc.--it is truly a miracle of the human fucking spirit to wanna do anything besides sulk or curl up and die, let alone form a totally rad band that made an incredible album.

[Late Twenties Steve]

Knowing about what life is like for people in Niger doesn't effect how I hear Group Inerane. They sound awesome just because they do.

Whoa, I just caught this finally. I know we've had the whole band geography debate so many times, but...

"Because they sound awesome" is certainly a good enough reason to like Group Inerane. But, do you really know how much life SUCKS in Niger? Probably no one in North America does...not even the northernmost Inuits in Nunavut do. And when's the last time you heard a rad band from even mainland Nunavut? I heard some field recordings the other day from Darfur (somewhere we all know is sucky thanks to bumper stickers and t-shirts worn by celebrities) on some radio documentary, and although it sounded fairly "generic" as far as African folk traditions go, it was pretty magical to hear how the chants ended in laughter. When it comes to places as ravaged as most African nations--where the only scenes we ever see are ribcages, oozing sores, dozens of flies per pair of lips, etc.--it is truly a miracle of the human fucking spirit to wanna do anything besides sulk or curl up and die, let alone form a totally rad band that made an incredible album.

I don't disagree with anything you wrote, but I personally believe the experience of music is at its purest and best when you aren't thinking about those external concerns. Of course it's fine to take a band's background into account in a biographical sense, but I don't like thinking about a band's background when listening to their music. For me thinking about this kind of thing is no different than thinking about Keith Moon running over his driver in a drunken stupor whenever I hear his brilliant drumming. The genius of his drumming was linked to his reckless nature, but why ruin a great musical experience by dwelling on biography. I'd get sick listening to Gary Glitter if I thought about what kind of person he is (although I can't listen to White Boy since I heard about them in connection to Mr. Ott being a child molester). When you heard those Darfur recordings which you describe as run of the mill for African music it sounds like what was having an effect on you was thinking about the band's story, not the music itself. Of course it's uplifting to hear laughter amidst inconceivable suffering, but when you hear the music with its background in mind you're projecting your own feelings onto the song - ie what you imagine it would be like for people living in conditions more horrible than most of us can come close to approximating in our imaginations. There's nothing inherently wrong with this but it's not the music itself that evokes a reaction, rather it's what you're thinking about it.

[DJ Rick]

All listen and no wonder makes Steve Spock a joyless music consumer.

So many people born in the 80s and 90s who only have mp3s and hardly even buy any CDs. That sleeve art and liner info would only pollute these kids' minds, and we can't have that because they are certainly the shrewdest listeners on earth, as you can tell by their entire CD collection consisting of Now That's What I Call Music vols. 20-24.

You should raid Kool Herc's and Afrika Bambaataa's warehouses fulla records that they soaked the inner label off of in the 70s to keep their breaks secret from other DJs. Would those sorrowfully defaced records be worth as much to you?

[Richie]

NOW LOOK WHAT YOU GUYS DID!

STEVE, COME BACK!

DON'T LET THESE CHIN-STROKERS WIN!

[Jared]

Damn it!  Now who am I going to argue with?


Steeeeeve, come baaaaaack!!