It's a hard one.
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
What is Royal Trux?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Song titles and a word or two on the tracks from the Howling Hex site:
"Now, We're Gonna Sing": Start out with a straightforward introduction to the people...
"Instilled With Mem'ry": Try to forget that name and date...
"Pair Back Up Mass With": Self delusion before action...
"Activity Risks": Committee in the brain disagree...
"To His Own Front Door": In and pulled out by the outside...
"What, Man? Who Are You?!": The final confrontation of mistaken identity...
"Cast Aside The False": Ghost of JonBenet Ramsey surveys the battlefield...
"Soft Enfolding Spreads": A final objection and farewell...
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
This is my most anticipated release of the year.
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
DC has it listed as LP/CD in there news section, so I guess we'll have to wait a few more weeks to find out. But most DC stuff comes out on vinyl, as you said, and it would just strike me as odd that someone would put out three vinyl only albums, then make the next proper record CD only. I mean, DC has concrete proof people will buy Howling Hex vinyl.
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm listening to Veterans of Disorder at this moment and I'm fucking sad that I only saw 'em live one time ('97, the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY).
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
(I heard that song used once over a sports highlight reel)
― Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
best rock band ever
― Aaron A., Monday, 4 April 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
On their sixth underproduced album and second major-label release (yet another indie band signed in Nirvana's wake), singer Jennifer Herrema works hard at sounding trashy, slurring lyrics in a raspy tone a la Nazareth. She hisses ultranasty lines like "Sweet 16 and never been clean" alongside guitarist and vocalist Neil Hagerty's own thin warble. Indulgent wah-wah guitar solos bump into disjointed drum beats.
Every song on Sweet Sixteen eventually lapses into a meandering mess, even on tunes where the Trux attempt to mimic Zeppelin's repetitive rhythms or the Allman Brothers' jams. Instead of respecting the music they bastardize, the Trux treat it as low art, approaching '70s rock like a cocky adult playing a kids' game. By mid-album, you begin to wish Lynyrd Skynyrd had crashed this recording session and kicked the Trux's pretentious asses into some sort of cohesive groove. (RS 757)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
And it's not like it got better after that either.
How in the world is that record better than Thank You or Cats and Dogs? The songs aren't as good and it's more of a fucking mess. I like messes, but they'd already made messes with GREAT records like Twin Infinitives. Their trajectory at the time was that they were getting tighter -- from the third album to Cats and Dogs to Thank You. Then, all of a sudden they stopped. Why? I really don't understand what the point of that album was (and the psuedo-cryptic stuff about "it's our seventies album in our sixties/seventies/eighties album trilogy" seemed like a bunch of gibberish).
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I spent a good three years under the heavy sway of the trux. Twin Infinitives, s/t, Cats and Dogs and Thank You pulled me out of the grunge tarpit and made me ditch most of my AmRep records. That bluesy, classik rok swagger, that mystical druggy miasma, those voices. So fucking cool. I interviewed Hagerty around the time Thank You came out. It was great. He talked about the house they just bought in Virginia. How he hung bells on all the bushes on the property.
I have to admit, my exposure to their later albums is minimal. I'm going to have to rectify that.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link