I just got into them. They're quite good; I'm surprised that NO ONE's heard of them. Nervous Gender, too.
― Stevie D, Sunday, 13 January 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
It's also California synthpunk, so I figured I'd throw it in this thread - does anyone know anything about "Units" / "The Units"? I have a couple of vinyl rips that I found on some blog ("High Pressure Days" and "Warm Moving Bodies") - both are awesome, and I was digging around for more - but they never seem to have put out anything on CD.
Wikipedia says something about a comp. that was supposed to come out on a Portland Oregon label called "Community Library," but I can't find any other info on that.
Anyone know more about these guys?
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a discography.
I believe I've got a CDR of the Digital Stimulation album and it's pretty good. I also own the vinyl of their last release "New Way To Move" but like so many other bands of the era, by '83 there was a significant drop in quality.
I can easily put the Digital Stimulation album up on my blog tonight if you like.
― Bimble, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Argh - that would be awesome!
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, Bimble do it!
― leavethecapital, Friday, 18 April 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Alright here it is, but really...I don't want to clog up a Screamers thread with too much Units! :) I'm thinking of just starting another thread for the Units. Eventually. But not right now.
― Bimble, Saturday, 19 April 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I have the LP bootleg on mp3 and managed to get the annoying tone out very easily with Cool Edit Pro. Dunno why someone didn't do that before they bootlegged the stuff in the first place, damn lazy bootleggers!
Colonel Poo, you don't happen to have a blog or something where this might show up someday, do you?
― Metro Video Centers, Monday, 29 June 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
^
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 5 December 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW that Units discography did finally come out on Community Library.
My old band was on the Screamers tribute album too.
Big fans should really check out the Phantom Limbs, a synth punk band from the bay area that is sadly defunct, but left behind a better recorded legacy than the Screamers managed (since they were all anti-album and all...)
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 5 December 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Eva Braun from demos 77-78 session
― ♖♘♗♔♕♗♘♖ (am0n), Thursday, 31 December 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to find old demos and stuff but everything on Synthsteria is like 22.5k and 56kbps :( Anyone got anything to share?
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Sunday, 3 January 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Try Xeroid Records from Seattle. That guy is an authority.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 3 January 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a newish bootleg 12" with I think six demo tracks kicking around, if that interests anyone
― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 3 January 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: article on The Units in the recent issue of The Sound Projector
― Soukesian, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
gimme a couple of hours (xpost)
I LOVE that Eva Braun version, am0n, never heard it before. yeah, it's 56k, but whatever.
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― sleeve, Monday, 4 January 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
man I really wish there was a better rip of that "Eva Braun" version
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
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― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone have a copy/rip of the "Trying To Be Like Jesus" CDR? I cannot find it *anywhere*
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
I've got the CDR; came across it on a Yahoo! Auction (IIRC) circa 1999, maybe. Had never heard of it before; have barely heard of it since.
― Dan Bailey, Monday, 9 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
please PM me if you can, thanks! would love a copy of that and have some cool stuff like a DVD of a bunch of video to trade.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
How does it sound?
― KMFAO (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 December 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Pretty decent, if memory serves. IIRC, the version of "Eva Braun" is pretty much definitive.
― Dan Bailey, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Hi Dan, thanks for the PM, I got it, can you send me another one with yer email address? I can't reply to your email by itself.
and THANK YOU, I will hook u up with that DVD
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
that DVD offer goes for u too Stevie, just PM me w/ yer email or address
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile, never knew this is what K K Barrett does these days...
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/below-the-line-designing-her/?partner=EXCITE&ei=5043
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Done, sleeve ... I think. Getting odd (or maybe I'm just not sufficiently awake to comprehend reality at the moment) non-results when I PM you.
― Dan Bailey, Friday, 20 December 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Oh, cool. Didn't realize it till now because I'm apparently even slower than I think I am, but when andrewm, who started this thread back at the dawn of time, refers in a subsequent post to a "friend (who) actually kept up a bit of correspondence with tomata in the year or so before his death ('99, '00?) and purchased a piece of art or two from him," he's referring to moi. We (andrewm & I, not Tomata) used to work together in Little Rock. The piece of art in question is a rendition of my all-time favorite author, Philip K. Dick.
― Dan Bailey, Friday, 20 December 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
stevie I got your webmail (I assume), but Dan i did not get yer 2nd one. just send an email to sleeve then the at sign then kittymail then dot com if you would, and thank you!
― sleeve, Monday, 23 December 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
O M G
I have never seen/heard "Nervous" before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQXsVXVRCI&list=PL62A1766D1743001F&index=26
just put on the CD, thanks Dan, apparently my copy of the DVD is degraded and doesn't play past the first hour... but it's all on Youtube, I am not sure if the vid above is on it or not :(
the whole thing is here
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62A1766D1743001F
Stevie I will send U a copy of this CDR
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_david_lee_roth_awesomely_botched
holy schnikeys
― andrew m., Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=541941&viewcomm=7006947#comm7006947was upped to Dime last week
― Stevolende, Thursday, 8 October 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
lol DLR
comments below flagged up Van Halen's synthpunk one-off - Screamers influence is *debatable* but feeling it either way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vOL8e8oeTQ
― these are my pincers and if you don't like them I have udders (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 8 October 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Some demos being given an official vinyl release.
https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/screamers
― peace, man, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
woowwww
never thought I'd see this
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
this bootleg that came out in 2014 but turned up again a couple of years ago (altho still managed to miss out on buying a copy) is really good btw:
https://www.discogs.com/Screamers-Strength-Through-Intimidation-The-1978-Geza-X-Demos/master/889466
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
oh FFS, missed that one
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
i missed that one too! added to the list.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
got mine pre-ordered
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
I've heard an advance and yep, great to hear these songs in that quality (which'll be even better on the real thing, I suspect).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
A friend of mine did an unofficial remix/remaster of those demo tracks, and I am fine with that version tbh ... maybe if this wasn't Superior Viaduct and wasn't vinyl only I would consider it, but I am not dissing y'all's excitement about this
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
I'm previously unfamiliar with the company. Are they shit?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
lol sarahell I was gonna PM you abt that, Bay Area politics partly and iirc some money complaints?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
some feud w/Stranded that I don't understand at all
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
lol petty scene politics otm -- fwiw, my grudge against scarfy steve is tapering off such that I don't feel compelled to talk shit and say "fuck that guy and his label" every time it comes up, but, his response to Flyergate was serious dickery. ... the money thing was ilxor akm's issue iirc
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
xp sleeve, the musician whose fb complaint about Stranded that kicked off Flyergate recently moved to Oregon ... probably somewhere near you i think?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
and to be super ilx-y here -- the friend who did the Screamers remaster (just a thing he shared w/friends) was the dude through whom I met ilxor Chaki at the Throbbing Gristle reunion show!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Cool
In the late '70s, Screamers were one of the leaders of the L.A. punk scene—but they never released any recorded music. So they became a myth. A new archival 12" changes all that. For the @nytimes, I wrote about the band stepping into the light: https://t.co/E75jYlMBlr— Nate Rogers (@Nate_Rgrs) April 14, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
Interesting article. 12 “ record out Friday April 16. Saw on twitter someone say they saw Screamers in NYC way back when. I had always thought they just did Cali gigs. I guess not
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 April 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
https://nodogsinspace.libsyn.com/the-screamers-pt-i
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 April 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
The latest episode of Pleasant Gehman's podcast "The Devil's Music" is an interview with Fayette Hauser, the "Cockette" with whom Tomata du Plenty moved to NYC and performed with there circa '72-'74. Some discussion of the Screamers in that.
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
There's a great interview with Paul Roessl on the Mojack pod.https://soundcloud.com/mojackpod/154-pat-ruthensmear-ruthensmear-w-paul-roesslerNote that on every episode of that show you need to skip ahead about twenty minutes to get to the interviews. Oh it's also all about the Pat Smear solo album, too, and there is not much mention of the Screamers.
I like No Dogs in Space, but I wonder why they insist that Suicide made just two albums?
― trip maker, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
holy shit, these are a revelation
WAY more Eno in this (new to me) take of "Punish Or Be Damned" than I ever noticed before
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
I ordered this thing, is it ever coming out?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
mine came today, I'm close to Oakland relatively. it does seem late.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
got it!this ruuuuuuuuuules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 May 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link