I notice none of the SST stuff, whose rights I guess will forever be in the hands of Mr. Ginn.
More titles will be added to the series as Bad Brains regains control of additional masters.
Perhaps they're in the process of wrangling those rights at the moment. I never really understand why it's such a struggle, certainly so much that the Huskers guys essentially gave up the fight - Meat Puppets and Dinosaur got their rights back, Sonic Youth reissued Sister via Geffen IIRC. I also don't understand why Ginn's reluctant to relinquish those tapes, since he appears to have no interest in exploiting them financially, or preserving SST's legacy.
I love these records, though Bad Brains' homophobia casts a long shadow over their music. When I interviewed Bob Mould over the summer and we discussed the early days of hardcore, he was quick to mention the "die faggots die" note they left after staying over at Grant's parents' house. He was still, justifiably, angry about it.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
I am confused about the rights, tho, because I'm pretty sure some I Against I stuff was on that compilation they put out 15 years or so ago.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
why it's such a struggle, certainly so much that the Huskers guys essentially gave up the fight - Meat Puppets and Dinosaur got their rights back, Sonic Youth reissued Sister via Geffen IIRC.
this isn't strictly true, i spoke with terry katzman before he died and they used the same lawyers, tried but there were specific things in the husker contracts that were worse than the meat puppets and dino contracts, didn't get into the specifics
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
also i think ginn knows mould is really well off and really wanted to shake him down
Sounds like exactly the kind of asshole Ginn would be. It makes me so mad that so much of the SST catalog is just sitting there, idle. Not that i want Ginn to profit off it while he continues to fuck over the artists, but that stuff should be getting lovingly reissued by someone.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
man I wish I Against I could get the full treatment, remixed and dried out...decades of really *wanting* to hear this record and just always finding it unlistenable
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
I Against I is literally one of my favorite albums ever.I cannot even fathom it being better.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
I don't know it has a really cool energy, good tunes, but I can't stomach that metal sheen it has, the drum sound, weird choices for this band. I usually end up listening to the Quickness instead.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
the weird sound is what I love
this is great news, obv
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
also, wtf were Ocasek and Jennifer thinking with that 1991 remix hack job?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
I thought that was RockFor Light. They did I Against I too?
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
sorry for confusion, RFL is the hack job, I Against I is the weirdo mix that I find endearing
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Black Dots and The Youth Are Getting Restless are my go-to’s
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
Black Dots is fuckin amazing
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
I love the ROIR one and RFL (original) as well, but wow they sure arrived fully formed
all the accusations of homophobia are 100% otm and don't detract one iota from the power of this stuff for me, YMMV
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Would love to hear not just remasters but remixes. Few great band have been shafted worse by unfortunate production choices.
― thewufs, Friday, 4 December 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
*great bands
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Oh, that makes a lot of sense, thanks UMS.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 4 December 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
got a discogs notice that the Rock for Light reissue is up for pre-order now. grabbed since my non-messed copy has gone missing.
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link