Static Party: Arch Villains

[steve]

Oh, jesus.  Here it comes...

Am I going to have to delete my account again?

[vint]

Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.

[steve]

Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.

"Free-jazz/noise band?" Okay, I stand by making fun of them then.

KIDDING. Sorta...

[Maltodextrin]

Smegma is like a free-jazz/noise band that's been playing since the 70's.

I could be completely wrong on this, but I think Poison Idea's first show was opening for them.  Pig's wearing a Smegma shirt on one of the '80's records.

[Richie]

Oh, jesus.  Here it comes...

Am I going to have to delete my account again?

I'm just saying, there's a lot of things wrong with the Candy Snatchers, and they put out waaay too many records, and have like one good one. But they do not belong lumped in with this "Most Reprehensible Band Names from the Nineties I Can Think Of" list this thread has become. I mean, they're no Sandy Duncan's Eye. That's all I'm saying. I can think of a million worse bands from the Nineties.

[mike]

what about 440 Sixpack?

smegma makes me cringe purely on the name alone.. based on what smegma actually is.  fucking gross...

[daniel]

Smegma are maybe the #1 band I would never expect to see Steve namedrop. 

I saw them when they headlined at No Fun Fest this past spring.  Everyone I went with loved them but I thought it was horrible.  It was like a community theatre reenactment of a noise show. They are old as hell. ESP-disk alumnus Perry Robinson sat in on clarinet, which was kind of cool, but he certainly didn't help them not look mad old. And yeah I think the Poison Idea connection is true, someone told me that Jerry A. played bass for them sometimes.  Richard Metzler was in them on vox for the last few years until recently. 

[Scrod Prickknee]

I don't care what anyone says, the Candy Snatchers records may have been OK at best, and often they were shitfaced and put on horrible shows, but I also saw them throw down some incredible & incredibly intense punk rock shows that were among the best I saw during the 90s. I'm thinking of both some of the "crazy" shows with blood & gore & fights & piss & puke & fire and all that, as well as the best I ever saw them - sober, early afternoon show on the floor of the all ages club because they were only booked for a bar show that time through. Nice gesture for the local kids, and they were incendiary. I know a lot of people never got to see that side, but it was there under the veil of drugs & debauchery, and when focused the Candy Snatchers were a blazing rock 'n roll band.

[mayberry]

Oh, jesus.  Here it comes...

Am I going to have to delete my account again?

I'm just saying, there's a lot of things wrong with the Candy Snatchers, and they put out waaay too many records, and have like one good one. But they do not belong lumped in with this "Most Reprehensible Band Names from the Nineties I Can Think Of" list this thread has become. I mean, they're no Sandy Duncan's Eye. That's all I'm saying. I can think of a million worse bands from the Nineties.

I thought Steve would have a funny Candy Snatchers ugh! response but I was wrong.  Oh, well.  I played him the Live In Blood Red lp a few months ago and he lost all respect for me as a human being.  That even with all the 400 Bar and Minneapolis put downs between songs...which is funny, dammit.  I can say that I never missed a Candy Snatchers show for mainly the same reasons as Todd just posted.  Maybe they were shitty record makers but their shows were a blast every time.  Even when it was the middle of winter in Minneapolis, Larry May was sad on smack, and five people bothered to show up at the end there.  The "Burn It To The Ground" late nineties Satyricon shows in Portland were a laugh riot.  And just plain dumb fun.  But I can see where you kinda had to be there and done that to, uh, grasp the Snatch.  Rootie-toot-toot!!!

Meltzer + Smegma would be a sight to see.

[steve]

I think Todd M's special way of letting guests know that it's time to get a move on is when he starts pulling out the bad, abrasive records. I still remember that time at 5 in the morning when he pulled out Feedtime and said, "you're gonna hate this." He was right!

As for ripping on the Candy Snatchers, next thing you know you guys are gonna say I can't make fun of the Bollweevils or something.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Yeah, feedtime and the Bollweevils are definitely equivalent in terms of artistic merit.

[peterson]

I miss those days!

[mayberry]

Well, I mean, feedtime is fucking genius.  If it's 5:00 AM and feedtime is on the turntable?  Everyone should be drunk and on their knees looking for the ping pong ball, burping the Australian national anthem Urinals style, and cracking the lid on another Sparks.  Am I right, Josh?   I mean, that's when a party is going to start to party.

[denkinger]

Hey, HEY! You think I didn't put some serious THOUGHT into those lists I dropped? I typed then erased a lots of bands thinking "Nah, you can't slag a band that spawned a dozen imitators, they have to be bands whose records seemingly played to an audience of six yet still seemed to be everywhere...or who only toured Germany as a result." Exactly how DID the Chubbies get seventy-three records out, know what I mean?

The 90s bands I actually find most boring or irritating are ones that were usually really popular, you know, the Unwounds and Jawbreakers and Hellacopters and Jimmy Eat Worlds of the indieverse. I pick on Emily's Sassy Lime because they were eye-rollingly teenage wannabe-elitists, their records aren't actually totally terrible, just merely average or b-team. To get back to the feel of the list may I propose:

Eggs
Short Fuses
Everready
Feds
Mealticket
Candypants
Smoothies
Gauge
any hc 7" from about 98-01 with a picture of demons/devil on the sleeve

[lunny]

anybody ever come close to feedtime's sound? That shit is still aggressively its own

"shovel" is an original monster