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dead kennedys - plastic surgery disasters/in god we trust inc
johnny cash and willie nelson - vh1 storytellers live
the fastbacks - and his orchestra
butthole surfers - hairway to steven
judas priest - sad wings of destiny
monster magnet - superjudge
oh shit, the contortions. youve got a tape player, right? youre going on some rides that ill be at this weekend, right? (not vcm) ill have a present for you.
oh fuck yes, i'll be on the angelopes, i anticipate
have you heard of blurt, its like this crazy ugly english guy with a saxophone that plays way out of tune and yells at you in cockney
oh man electric wizard,
that reminds me of this roomate I had who used to sit in the basement and listen to bongzilla all day long, he was really into crowbar also, oh and fu manchu
yeah thats basically exactly how i though about those three bands, he played some crowbar song all the time, i can't remember the name, but its in the top 10 heaviest riffs ive ever heard in my whole life
feel free to join in this music chat, guys.
fu manchu do a great cover of boc's godzilla. im a loser and dont own the 10" version, but i have the lp repress with the tracks from eatin dust included.
My awareness obscure and eclectic music hasn't yet extended past Laurie Anderson, The Fall, and Captain Beefheart. But my taste is boundless. Educate me O' Master!
-Since when was music with the likes of Digitalism, Justice, and whatnot, considered "hipster"?
I actually never heard any of these guys until I started driving 18 wheels.
I always took these for new-school, trucking anthems if you ask me.
But as for right now, I'll stick with the mash-ups, breakbeats, and the ol'skool RnB.
Did any of you catch Branca's Symphony for 100 Guitars at Disney during the Minimalism Festival? When I closed my eyes it sounded like 100 locomotives mowing down Los Angeles. My ex FUCKING HATED IT, which is a big reason why she's my ex, she just didn't understand a lot of things I liked.
Hooray for PC and his eclectic musical taste!
I want to meet you for a beer and talk about music, PC.
How much can you tell about a person by the music they enjoy?
Here are the CDs and albums I have listened to this week:
Rain Parade "Third Rail Power Trip"
Nick Drake "Bryter Layter"
Family "Anyway"
The Doors "Morrison Hotel-remastered and extended version"
Norma Tanega "Push"
Salvation Army's first album (before they had to change their name to The Three O'Clock)
Minute Men "Double Nickels on the Dime"
Bee Gees "Horizontal"
Miles Davis "Blue Note Vol. 2"
instrumental project founded in the mid-90s by Savage Republic's Bruce Licher. Spaghetti western instrumentation, rock bombast, lonely weird howls and big dirges. If you're ever in the desert and are looking for a soundtrack other than the desert itself (and you've somehow gotten burned out on megaphones...hey, it could happen), listen to this or to their first album "Incident at Cima."
Released in 1968 as the Beach Boys' popularity was undergoing a decade-long decline, "Friends" remains pretty underrated (at least, outside of the tiny but rabid BB/Brian Wilson cult). Brian was really beginning to lose his marbles at this point, and his songwriting contributions to this album teeter on one or the other side of the line between "total fucking genius" and "come again?" This was also the album where it was first revealed that drummer Dennis Wilson, previously best known for fighting and chasing women, was in fact a really talented and sensitive songwriter.
Naturally, there are gorgeous vocal harmonies, especially on the title track. And naturally, this being a post-"Pet Sounds" Beach Boys album, there is a song about an important social or spiritual issue of the day, rendered in a stunningly inappropriate musical style and prominently featuring Mike Love ("Transcendental Meditation").
If you're ever sitting in your apartment and you want to hear a soundtrack other than that of your computer's fan as you constantly hit "Refresh" on midnightridazz.com/forums, listen to this album and sing along to it with your megaphone. I'm doing that right now!*
"instrumental project founded in the mid-90s by Savage Republic's Bruce Licher."
I was a huge fan of SR back in the day but slowly lost interest because it seemed with each release they were less and less inspired. And, now, they're playing without a single original member and very little of the Tragic Figures era sound.
Speaking of desert and noise, did anyone here ever see Einsturzende Neubauten in the Mojave desert? I know some of you whipper snappers were barely born then, but if anyone ever saw this show, I would bow down to you and call you my personal god for a day.
In 1984 Einsturzende Neubauten began appearing at special-event "site-specific" performances. One of the more notorious of these took place in California's Mojave desert on March 4, 1984. Fans who attended the show were brought to the site on a chartered bus caravan. While refrigerators and other appliances loaded with explosives were detonated for their enjoyment, courtesy of Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories, Einsturzende Neubauten filled the desert air with their music in an unforgettable symphony of apocalyptic sights and sounds.
The band's indoor shows had also become quite notorious. Fire had become a regular part of their program. But at one Los Angeles performance, an onstage fire got out of control and completely burned the props for the second half of the show. The same night, vibrations from the power drill used onstage caused plaster to fall off the ceiling and onto some record company executives who were eating dinner a floor below.
No, but I have the tickets for that event. I was subscribed to all of IPR/IPP's stuff for awhile so received sample tix.
I also saw Einsturzende with the Specimen at Perkin's Palace. The two bands weren't getting along on their co-headlining tour, that night Einsturzende Neubauten went on before them and burnt down all of the Specimens gauzy Bat Cave set decorations. Good times, good times. I think we left after the Specimen's first song.
"The same night, vibrations from the power drill used onstage caused plaster to fall off the ceiling and onto some record company executives who were eating dinner a floor below."
Actually, I think that was the same night and the Specimen's dressing rooms were right beneath the stage. Good times, good times.
I really wished I'd made it to the minutement/Savage Republic show because it was out on Soggy Dry Lake, a place I'd been two every other weekend as a kid racing motos in the desert.
Did anybody check out the just closed exhibition of Bruce Licher's letterpress print work and photography in the Toy District? He does stunning stuff. And yes, his old band, Scenic, is well worth seeking out.
My gf is a bit of a snob so we never made it to his exhibit. No biggie because I have about 400 pieces of his stuff from stamps to tickets to postcards to 7" covers to album covers.
Me too. I wonder how many like us there are out there?
I have a suitcase full of Bruce's printed matter, starting with a Savage Republic 45 I bought in 1983.
He was nominated for an album cover design Grammy for Camper Van Beetoven's "Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart" in 1988.
That's cool, man. I wonder, too, how many people subscribed and otherwise bought his stamps and postcards and stuff back then. He's got an ebay store going selling off old stock.
Enjoying NIN's Ghosts I-IV and Murder By Death's Red of Tooth and Claw quite exclusively this past week.
Throwing in some Paint It Black and Bad Religion to prepare for their shows. Last night's setlist was ridiculous; about 1/3 of it was off How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Brand new record swap has its first installment on March 9th
12noon-6pm
at the Echoplex
$5 admission
Full bar
"The Los Angeles BEAT-SWAP-MEET is a Record swapmeet consisting of over 20 invited vendors & collectors from the LA and surrounding areas vending music genres of a wide array, but more-so focusing on Blues, Funk, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Punk, Reggae, Rock, Soul, and World 12" and 45 Records. An event considered to be the 1st of it's kind in the LA area, The Beat Swapmeet hopes to reunify LA in a way that is long overdue. Come through, listen to Beats, Swap records & Meet some new people. Casual drinking for the 21+. All ages are welcome. 12-6pm, on a Sunday afternoon - Season One coming March 2008. Echo Park, CA"
*Caroliner (formed in 1982, in San Francisco) is an Industrial Bluegrass/Experimental/Noise conceptual art Costume Rock band, dedicated to creating a fever dream of American psychedelia - utilizing bluegrass music instruments, weird effects, other-worldly pageantry, and day-glo character outfits similar to those of a "Disneyland ride with a Spike Jones and his City Slickers sense of individuality." For example, band member Puppy Whowoundup built an actual spinning heliotrope animatic cap that revolved on top of her head. Member The Brazen and Meticulous Pintle sports a spinning Brittleback wheel as a codpiece for her stringed instrument.
Sometimes I try to do things and they just don't turn out the way I want it to and I get real frustrated and it's like I take my time and I try real hard and no matter what I do and no matter what I try it never works out. It's like I concentrate on it real hard but it never works out. It's like I need some time to figure these things out, but there's always someone there going, hey Hartwick, you know we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately. You know, like, maybe you should talk about it and you'll feel a lot better and I go: No it's okay, I'm having some problems, I'll figure it out myself, just leave me alone, I'll figure it out and they go, why don't you talk about it, you'll feel a lot better and I go, no I don't want to, just leave me alone, I'll figure it out myself and they keep on bugging me and it builds up inside, builds up inside.
Re. "Electrify Me", I have TWO vinyl copies. I bought the second one because it had a different colored label. Still don't know if that makes one (silver) more valuable than the other (pink).
I may have to sell both if I don't find a job soon.
I'm still kicking myself for missing the Plugz reunion show a few months ago. I did see some of it on youtube, though.
i have no idea what that quote is from. however i think i saw her leaving a pinkberry last night. im not sure what city we were in, but theres video of us outside of it here.
RBI, she / you were in El Segundo. She said she saw some one of the Ridazz.
Are you saying, you've never seen Better off Dead? That was a John Cusack film from the 80s. Pretty funny. Classic lines. And one was the one i posted. Some Punk/ alternative song used it.
thats the one where he stands out in the rain or whatever with the boombox? yeah, never seen it. i was watching horror movies on usa up all night instead of that brat pack shit, or whatever.
heres the tracklist to a cd i gave to city hogboblin last night.
1. shiver - repent walpurgis
2. alice cooper - fields of regret
3. savage resurrection - thing in e
4. jungle - slave ship
5. hawkwind - brain box pollution
6. laughing sky - take it
7. five day rain - dont be misled
8. fraction - eye of the hurricane
9. aynsley dunbar retaliation - warning (sabbath covers this song on their first lp)
10. suck - ill be creeping
11. ufo - rock bottom
12. the obsessed - iron and stone
13. bedemon - time bomb
14. warpig - rock star
15. motorhead - iron horse/born to lose (version off on parole that sounds nothing like motorhead)
16. witchfinder general - witchfinder general
this is a tape i made for hartwick that he has yet to receive.
side a
flesheaters - divine horsemen (live)
chrome - zombie warfare
pere ubu - street waves
pop group - we are time
contortions - design to kill
sonic youth - inhuman
rhys chatham - guitar trio
glenn branca - structure
mars - e3
side b
mx80 sound - man on the move
massacre - lost causes
crime - hotwire my heart
television - friction
richard hell - liars beware
this heat - 24 track loop
mission of burma - active in
tuxedomoon - waterfront seat
doll by doll - palace of love
Yeah, so, I checked out music thread #2 and...I dunno, I wasn't really that into it. There's this older one, though, called music thread, that's not that popular and you probably haven't heard of but it's pretty cool.
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*Caroliner (formed in 1982, in San Francisco) is an Industrial Bluegrass/Experimental/Noise conceptual art Costume Rock band, dedicated to creating a fever dream of American psychedelia - utilizing bluegrass music instruments, weird effects, other-worldly pageantry, and day-glo character outfits similar to those of a "Disneyland ride with a Spike Jones and his City Slickers sense of individuality." For example, band member Puppy Whowoundup built an actual spinning heliotrope animatic cap that revolved on top of her head. Member The Brazen and Meticulous Pintle sports a spinning Brittleback wheel as a codpiece for her stringed instrument.
I'd kill for a copy of this.
I heard about this thread.. it's the one EVERYONE is in nowadays.