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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 10:36:02 GMT -5
Dammit the green day album isn't a protest album!
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Post by Reservoir on Dec 15, 2004 10:45:13 GMT -5
i meant that they were so lauded for coming out and saying they hated bush...so? everyone hates bush! i dont understand what the big protest was. especially in britain...i can literally think of one pro-bush person. one. and he's a twat.
as for the album, the single was ace, but im afraid i just dont really see the point of the rest.
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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 10:53:33 GMT -5
They're being hailed for putting together a great album, not for hating Bush.
The single wasn't even that good. It was crap compared to the rest of the album. You listened to the whole album?
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Post by Reservoir on Dec 15, 2004 11:01:58 GMT -5
here they are being hailed quite a bit for hating bush, but everyone hates bush here.
yeah, i listened to the whole thing, and it just didnt click for me. i should give it another try, and i will at some stage. could be a grower i suppose.
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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 11:06:53 GMT -5
I liked it right away. Then it continued to grow on my everyday, until now it is actually part of me. I sat there with my eyes glued to the book, and listening to the all the changeups and breakdowns and different melodies and instruments being used and great lyrics, going "wow is this really green day?". I've always liked Green Day though, and I think that's a big part of it, because they've changed a bit, but you can still hear a lot of standard green day rockin' in there. Plus it reflects a lot of what I feel living in this crazy world, which isn't just about Bush and politics.
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Post by Reservoir on Dec 15, 2004 11:09:03 GMT -5
actually, i was thinking yesterday that you once recommended a band called the necromantix (or something) to me after hearing 80s matchbox. some things:
did you ever listen to any more of their stuff? i really think you'd like some of it, its weeiiirrrd
tell me more about this band.
do you like the cramps?
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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 11:20:39 GMT -5
I don't have any Cramps, but I like some stuff I heard from them. I think I would generally like a lot of bands that sound like that, I just don't hear or know about a lot of them. That whole rockabilly/50s/swing whatever kind of sound is really cool, especially when you're singing about werewolves and zombies. Plus I like the sound of someone slapping the balls off an upright bass.
I haven't really checked out too much 80s matchbox. I really wish I was online at home, then I'd download shit all the time, and crank it up to tell if I really like it. Then buy it. I heard they're cracking down harder on that though.
I never seen the Nekromantix play, but I really want to. They have a bunch of albums out. I have one called Dead Girls Don't Cry. My roomate has another one which is real good. I forget the name of it. One of my favorite songs is "Who Raped The Cheerleader?"
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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 11:27:05 GMT -5
Tiger Army's another good band too. I seen them open for Social Distortion, and they rocked the hizee.
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Post by Reservoir on Dec 15, 2004 11:35:17 GMT -5
im tempted to burn you some 80s matchbox, i reckon it would be right up your alley...quite cramps-y with iggy pop meets nick cave vocals, spot on heavy riffs, fucking mental basslines and a demented singer who yells and yelps about all sorts of dangerous nonsense. probably the best live band i saw this year as well.
remind me in the new year.
im searching for that album on soulseek now...
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Post by pissin2 on Dec 15, 2004 11:43:45 GMT -5
Return Of The Loving Dead - that's the name of the other Nekromantix at my house.
Yeah I'll remind you. We can get our swap on. I've been meaning to do that with thorn too. After the holidays maybe.
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Post by AIQ on Dec 15, 2004 12:30:03 GMT -5
My 2004 favorites (In no particular order)
Skalpel - Skalpel
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Brian Wilson - Smile
Air - Talkie Walkie
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
(The Real) Tuesday Weld - I, Lucifer
Interpol - Antics
Madvillain - Madvillainy
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 15, 2004 14:07:04 GMT -5
but what about the Cure as the biggest disappointment?..there are about 3 good songs and that's it....................
My fave thus far may be Pinback and/or Modest Mouse
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Post by Meursault on Dec 15, 2004 14:16:57 GMT -5
Well didn't Gene Simmons release a solo album in 04? Surely that has to be nothing but amazing....
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 15, 2004 14:53:36 GMT -5
I liked the new Cure album.
If you like the Necromantix, y'all oughta try this brand spankin new band straight from the psychobilly depths of hell, THE PAGAN DEAD.
Here's a review of their debut album:
Dead ’Billy
The Pagan Dead drag SLC psychobilly down to the gates of Hell.
by Randy Harward
Driving home one night, I put on the Pagan Dead’s debut CD, Mors Ianva Vitae Et Vita Ianva Mortis (PaganDead.com). You know, a little light listening. It was about 11 p.m. and I was mostly alone—the kids slept in the backseat and my wife followed us in her car. It was a short ride; we pulled in to our apartment complex during the first song. I switched off the headlights and sat there listening. The music was genuinely creepy—death metal-inspired psychobilly with horrific Cannibal Corpse-caliber lyrics. I was already tense and sleep-needy; the guttural vocals, snarling guitar, chugging double-bass and drums (and the darkness) worked on my frayed nerves. After a few minutes, I looked up and saw a zombie standing in front of the car, head cocked and eyeballing me.
I freaked.
It turned out to be my dimly lit, ratty-coated wife, wondering why I was just sitting there open-mouthed and staring. Just for a moment, though, it felt like that scene in Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead where the priest guy gives this chick the stink-eye and she barfs up her guts. It’s the only film that both scared me and made me want to puke (it rules). Later, I’d relate the story to Pagan Dead singer-bassist Patrick Muerto, who was pleased.
“It’s funny and quite a coincidence that you mention that scene from City of the Living Dead, since I wrote a verse about it in the song titled ‘Gates of Hell.’ It goes, ‘With his malevolent glance/ Blood starts to drain out of her eyes/ Puss and foam at the mouth/disgorging the offal into her lap.’
“Gates of Hell,” incidentally, is an alternate title for the film, and the first song on the album—the very song I was hearing. Weeee-ird!
Horror films are to psychobilly as Jesus is to gospel music. Psychobilly bands, from the Meteors to the Quakes to Nekromantix to Demented Are Go, typically work in B-movie imagery—campy ghouls and gargoyles and dead cheerleaders and pre-gore zombies. It’s all perfectly creepy, but pretty innocuous when held up to Fulci’s barf-fests, which are more the Pagan Dead’s speed. Therein lies what the key to what sets the Pagan Dead (Muerto, guitarist Casey the Six-String Strangler, drummer Jodi Hecate) apart from the pack: They like to go to extremes.
Mors Ianva Vitae Et Vita Ianva Mortis (Muerto translates: “Death is the gate of life and life is the gate of death”) takes psychobilly—a mélange of rockabilly, punk and metal—and spot-welds it to death metal. Casey’s guitars are less Carl Perkins than Morbid Angel. There’s no stereotypical strutting ’billy bass; Muerto’s thumping and Hecate’s bashing in tandem sound a lot like Slayer-esque double-bass drumming. It’s fast, it’s brutal, it’s grotesquely awesome and awesomely scary.
Their Sugar House home/practice pad is bedecked in flyers that borrow heavily from movie posters for The Gates of Hell and other horror films. They have a black dog, a black cat, black curtains. Muerto sports a black shirt with a pentagram and proudly displays a framed certificate from Ordo Templi Orientis (Latin for Order of the Eastern Temple, often associated with Aleister Crowley) on a wall next to some ostensibly treasured Misfits 7-inch singles. It effectively ordains him a practitioner of thelemic magic. And it’s no Church of the Subgenius, mail-order ordination shtick. When asked about it, Muerto simply says, “I practice.” If he wasn’t such a pleasant, mellow guy—when he’s not growling and plucking bass strings like entrails from a doomed cheerleader—you might get a little freaked out.
Which is actually pretty cool. Music is great when it evokes emotion—especially when it scares the pants off and/or fluids out of you. Muerto agrees, somewhat.
“I get a lot of emotions from music,” he says. “But I don’t scare too easy.”
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 15, 2004 14:57:27 GMT -5
Besides, I know all 3 of the members in Pagan Dead. Jodi is a sweetheart & she'll pound the skins to raise the dead; "Muerto" or "Pagan Pat" as we like to call him is one of the straight up nicest cats you're ever likely to meet in a psychobilly band. And "Casey the Six-String Strangler" is the most psycho out of the bunch, there was a riot once that broke out at Burt's Tiki Lounge between this one group of PUnks from an old has-been punkband from Salt Lake, and Us Black Metal Heads, the place was destroyed and Casey outran the cops who kept slippin & making pratfalls, they couldn't keep up with him, the whole scene was a surreal fiasco in riot control. Shit went nutty, beer bottles bustin over heads, blood all over the walls and floor, it was a rampage.
Fun times.
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