Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

[popcon]

 I always thought "Cheater's Heaven" off the LP (and promo 7") was a classic example of "lfw" pop.

[LauraB]

I want to take that class, DJ Rick!  It sounds amazing.  Thanks for helping to mold the next generation of record nerds.

[bruce]

thomas jefferson slwave apartments discography:

monster truck 5/TJSA split 7" (Datapanik)
free 12" (Datapanik) (awesome!!! stuff)
some compuilation tracks on Bumped by Karaoke (Datapanik)
siltbreeze 7"
"bait and switch" lp (onion/american)
promo 7" (onion/american)
split 7" w/ Fat Day (ratfish)
Bag of Hammers 7"
Siltbreeze 7"
Straight to Video CD (rockathon)

... i am sure i am missing some comp stuff.

They were always a great band, saw them at one of the Anyways fests.  Always funny seeing Ron House plowing down the street on his way to Used Kids with a cooler of beer and a black and white television.

essential great plains rekkid:
Naked at the Buy, Sell, and Trade LP (Homestead)

there's another datapanik 7" in there as well

[davehyde]

On topic, sort of: Ron House "Blind Boy in the Backseat" tp needs a proper vinyl reissue (a la Tommy Jay).  What a totally awesome release. 

[spitting contest]

I can play Negative Guest List 7" forever and not get bored. Baboon's Liver is one of the most exciting songs ever written. Something about it just thrills my senses.

played this on the radio last night

[DJ Rick]

thomas jefferson slwave apartments discography:

monster truck 5/TJSA split 7" (Datapanik)
free 12" (Datapanik) (awesome!!! stuff)
some compuilation tracks on Bumped by Karaoke (Datapanik)
siltbreeze 7"
"bait and switch" lp (onion/american)
promo 7" (onion/american)
split 7" w/ Fat Day (ratfish)
Bag of Hammers 7"
Siltbreeze 7"
Straight to Video CD (rockathon)

... i am sure i am missing some comp stuff.

They were always a great band, saw them at one of the Anyways fests.  Always funny seeing Ron House plowing down the street on his way to Used Kids with a cooler of beer and a black and white television.

essential great plains rekkid:
Naked at the Buy, Sell, and Trade LP (Homestead)

there's another datapanik 7" in there as well

That's the "Career Interruption Code" 7".

I'd totally buy that Ron House reissue if it came out.

I used to have a really good impression of him, or so said a fellow fan. That was back when I was the pizza man blasting that shit in my stereo, and I'd be adenoidal-ranting at top volume levels, causing people sometimes to call the pizza place I worked at to ask if the guy with the brown Volvo is crazy.

[chris o]

I always thought "Cheater's Heaven" off the LP (and promo 7") was a classic example of "lfw" pop.

that and Whip a Rose are my favorite tjsa songs. 

[grandmaster satch and the bi-curious five]

Shave the Baby comp staid in the car cd player for weeks. There's one song on that comp though that's really really bad, don't remember the bands name now and I'm too lazy to look it up.

greenhorn? 

[denkinger]

Pica Huss?

[Swampy]

I still think this band is underrated and I still think unseemly thoughts about your younger sister.  Coincidence?  NO.  I hear Ron House liked to grope females. It's all about tradition and nocturnal emissions.

Prolly one of the best bands of the 90's... I admit, I didn't really know it at the time... I was stupid.. But, you know, you can't kill stupid... Just bury it and let something better grow!!!

They were the first band I ever heard cover the Electric Eels and I was impressed by that fact.  It was the 90's.  On a major label subsiderary (sic). That was taking a chance.  I remember a band I was in for awhile (Sagger) trying to cover the same song and sounding like a pile of shit, so I could hardly hold a candle to what TJSA did with the same fucking song... Ohio will always beat Wisconsin, I guess...  It's something I have to get used to... I mean... Favorite bands from Wisconsin = 1 (Killdozer)  Favorite bands from Ohio = a whole bunch!!!  Oh, how I wish Wisconsin didn't have such performance anxiety and would relate to the land it came from and produce a similar spuzz...  Much time has been wasted by wastoid bands from Wisconsin trying to sound like California or Liverpool.... Let me snooze while you lose, assholes!!!

Now, everybody has a weird-proto-punk card in their wallet.  Fuck them.

[grandmaster satch and the bi-curious five]

Favorite bands from Wisconsin = 1 (Killdozer)

f/i
die kreuzen
mecht mensch
couch flambeau

[Swampy]

Official Wisconsin old school listing:

Killdozer
Oil Tasters
Hollywood Autopsy
F/i
The Haskels
Couch Flambeau
Boy Dirt Car
Die Kreuzen
Tar Babies
X-Posed Foreheads
etc.

[grandmaster satch and the bi-curious five]

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[Swampy]

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That too...

None of these bands are as good as Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, though, except Killdozer... who firmly embraced Wisconsin culture (even though none of em' were "natives").  Go figure.  Bands from Ohio seemed to like to be from Ohio and it paid off...  Too many Wisconsin bands wanna be from somewhere else, and this problem still continues to this day, outside of places like Algoma...

[grandmaster satch and the bi-curious five]

bradx's joyless knothead