What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

[Dutchman]

MEANIES--10% Weird lp
SLOPPY SECONDS--Endless Bummer lp
THE BRIEFS--Hit After Hit lp
MORAL CRUX--Moral Crux lp
SNFU--If You Swear You'll Catch No Fish lp
VANDALS--Peace Thru Vandalism/When In Rome...
D.I.--Team Goon/Ancient Artifacts
RATS OF UNUSUAL SIZE--Ratzilla lp & Can't Call You 7"  Holy crap, wish I'd owned this shit for the last 20 years instead of the last two months--'Jesus Was A Jew' and '8 Million Dicks' are already burned onto my brain.  Capt 9's aficionados take note. 

-Ryan

[Olde Ethnic 800]

Vee Dee - Public Mental Health System - maybe too long, but enough good stuff to make it worth my while. love the artwork.

King Tuff - Was Dead - just about perfect.

[DJ Rick]

MEANIES--10% Weird lp

I love the way the Meanies' shit is so compressed that it doesn't sound like drums, bass, guitars, and voices, but rather like one instrument....like a greeting card that you open up and plays Mannheim Steamroller.

Televolution is the most compressed.

I am not guilty about this pleasure one bit.

[hillside_wrangler]

Nice double whammy: Secret Syde LP and Rikk Agnew's All By Myself. Wasn't entirely sold on the Secret Syde and was thinking about getting rid of the LP, but today's listen changed my mind. Really digging the combo of Talk Talk Talk-era Psych Furs and Salvation Army-type psyched-out beachy punk . Throw a little Dukes of Stratosphear on that pile for sure. The Agnew solo record is pretty tight, sounds like both Social Distortion and Christian Death, if you can believe THAT. There's one cut that sounds weirdly like The Church. Dark psych overtones. "O.C. Life" gives "Bloodstains" a run for its money as a Cali anthem. Really really good.

[vint]

My friend's kid is already a total music snob. A couple of years ago we were hanging out, and the kid was maybe six years old then and he was talking about the Mutant Sounds blog (I'm 100% serious). He loves to color and his favorite subject to draw is the Residents, which kinda makes sense in a way. Apparently he caused a bit of a scene at school though fairly recently because he's always talking about Pink Reason which is one of his favorite bands and he was pissed because some of his classmates didn't believe that he knew a "rock star." The kid has better taste at eight years old than I did at sixteen. It is my intention to have him and my nephew back me up live in about twelve years. My nephew doesn't have great taste or anything, but he's obsessed with playing music and played drums for Pink Reason at a show in St. Louis when he was six years old.

My friend's kid Gabe though, he's actually already got a knack for songwriting. Went up to the UP for his parents wedding a couple of years ago and at one of the post-wedding parties he was going nuts singing a song he wrote about longing, I don't remember all of the words, but I remember him repeating over and over "You are the difference in my brain!" in as close to a Roky Erickson wail as you can get out of someone whose balls still haven't dropped.

It's kind of funny how well young children respond to Pink Reason. Another friend of mine's kids always used to sing "The Devil Always Wins" and "Down On Me" seems to be pretty universally appreciated by the kindergarten set.

[nick_]

I am listening to svart framtid's "1984" ep. I want to mosh and air guitar simultaneously.

[Douche Nine]

Joy Divison-Unknown Pleasures
Television- Adventure
Iggy Pop-Soldier
The Jam- Sound Affects

[teenagegurls]

OK.

Just cos I'm trading this to Justin for a uhhhhh, TOP 6T's PUNK WANT won't dissuade me from HYPIN' DIS' he'a LONG PLAYA JOINT as PERHACS PERHAPS thee most TERMBO LP of 1983.

np:  The Plague, Catch The Plague (private press, '83) (P H U U C K.  like Home Blitz meets Livefastdie! and jamming on jams about MTV, killing all JAP's, addiction, doin' the garbage and a nice UNCREDITED classical pee-anny interlude.  the best record ever to come outta Hartford and you can take that one to the bank.  I'm gonna do a TB article about this  - and other 'the' - records' unmeasurable radness and you can either stay tuned or STAY GAY - choice is yours.)

CHOOSE LIFE!>

[MTV 2]

vibes - you god it cs
nerve city - hell cs & catholic school cs
thee oh sees - help lp
church of misery - houses of the unholy lp
zola jesus - tsar bomba 12"
thin lizzy - jailbreak lp

[trey]

listening to the beets lp this morning.  i think i'm gonna end up liking this alot.  its definitely in the same vein as crystal stilts, vivian girls, etc. but faster (which isnt saying much), poppier and less arty.  recommended.

[Vince Clortho Keymaster of Gozac]

ike Home Blitz meets Livefastdie!

Home Blitz has actually met LFD. The two bands even share a member.

Current Listening:
Nodzzz LP
Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath

[Matt V.]

les rallizes denudes >>>>> le 12 mars 1977 a tachikawa

airway (live @ lace)

dylan & the band ::: basement tapes

serge gainsbourg === cannabis

oh sees 'help'

thomas nola et son orchestre ~~~~ 'the rose-tinted monocle'

current 93 ````` 'lashtal' 12"

der blutharsch ///// 'when all else fails!'

[teenagegurls]

ike Home Blitz meets Livefastdie!

Home Blitz has actually met LFD. The two bands even share a member.

Current Listening:
Nodzzz LP
Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath

GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!

[Whet Bull]

^^^^^^^^Funny, we were just listening to The Commercial Album last night.  Makes sense that kids would like the Residents -- so many of their songs feel like perverted nursery rhymes or children's songs. 

Pussy Galore, Historia de la Musica Rock: listened to this last night for the first time since the Tucson days.  In hindsight, Pussy Galore and its various offshoots were the single biggest influence on the music we and our friends were making back in the early- to mid- nineties.  They connected up so many strands: garage / BFTG, Exile-era Stones, Neubauten / early Industrial cacophony, NYC post-No Wave scumfuck noise, Gibson Bros.-style punk blues...
Historia's an interesting record 'cos you can already hear Jon Spencer drifting toward the kind of music he would play with the Gibsons on Memphis Sol and on the early Blues Explosion records.  Hagerty's songs are much noisier and he sounds like a mess, which is as it should be.

[Young Steve]

Woke up this morning and put on side 3 of the Byrds "Complete Columbia Singles" 2XLP. I had a hankering to listen to "Eight Miles High" after downloading a TVP greatest hits type deal to listen to at the gym and hearing a tune of theirs that "quoted" the solo from the Byrds' first foray into psychedelia. It's really an impeccably crafted tune. One of those things that I've heard my entire life on the radio but never really heard until I contextualized the Byrds with similar sounding things I like and realized they were a good band. However, "Everyone Gets Burned" - the last song on this side - is a morose bore of a tune. It sounds like a suicidal teenager shitting in a bag and huffing the fumes in hopes of asphyxiating himself.

Altho:

Head "Street Level Assault" LP - Killer. A real anomaly of a record because "The Monkeys" was a terrible album but they were pretty much doing the same thing as on this 12". I guess it just comes down to more inspired songwriting.

Supercharger "Icepick/I Want it Bad" - An immortal classic. Only makes me realize how disappointing most of the ensuing 17 years have been in comparison.  

Numbers "Sunset Strip" - Another monster single. All three tunes are so fantastic that even muddy mastering can't ruin 'em.