― dudley, Friday, 3 October 2003 12:37 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:28 (9 years ago) Permalink
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:31 (9 years ago) Permalink
does the corp. cover any songs? are you guys ever gonna make it to san francisco?
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:09 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:14 (9 years ago) Permalink
I think they should cover GHETTO MUSIC.
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:44 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 09:39 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:42 (6 years ago) Permalink
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:07 (6 years ago) Permalink
like this band
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Saturday, 21 October 2006 15:03 (6 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 October 2006 15:12 (6 years ago) Permalink
Anyone remember hose.got.cable.? They were like Jehu junior but I'm surprised they don't get more love...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 22:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
wow. hose.got.cable. man, that takes me back. this has made me remember all kinds of bands: Thumbnail, Sideshow, Kerosene 454, Bluetip, Giant's Chair. shit. hose.got.cable were great. good packaging, too.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
I only know two of those bands, and only from splits with bands I was more familiar with at the time - Kerosene 454 (split with Angel Hair) and Giant's Chair (split with Vitreous Humor or Boy's Life or Christie Front Drive or one of those Crank! bands...wonder how that stuff holds up?).
Oh yeah and I remember Bluetip - Dischord right?
Apparently there is a hose.got.cable discography CD. Were they from Virginia?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Huh, just bought this like four days ago: http://www.discogs.com/release/1090050
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Got the Night Marchers album in the post today as well but probably won't have a chance to listen to it for a day or two. Looking forward to tho
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Mencap, how much is that going for these days? That one and the Food Not Bombs benefit LP are screamo classics
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 29 May 2008 00:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
I bought it off someone for £5 - it'd have been nice if he mentioned how beat up it was but I'm not that fussed
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 29 May 2008 08:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ummmmmmmmm.......... Anyone hear Obits yet? The live songs on their Myspace sound an awful lot like Hot Snakes.
I wish those guys (singer in particular) never abandoned the tweaked, long-form, noodly nature of DLJ. I like the pre-Jehu stuff (Pitchfork) and the final Hot Snakes stuff (they improved live over the years, as well, in my opinion), but none of that's quite as charged or aggro or magical to me.
― Usual Channels, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like the Night Marchers disc, though there are a few tracks that sound pretty Warped Tour-y. And Reis sounds EXACTLY like Mike Ness on at least one of the tunes; it's kind of uncanny.
Can't wait to hear Obits (I generally preferred Froberg I think). The Drive Like Jehu show I saw on that Yank Crime tour was a mind melter.
Here come.... here come.... ROME PLOWS! ROME PLOWS!
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
hose got cable - man it's been a long time since I thought about those guys. That was one of the first indie rock shows I ever saw, after a moving to a town that knew what indie rock was. I remember the opening track on their album was mind-blowing, though I thought the rest was hit and miss.
― pgwp, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Drive Like Jehu show I saw on that Yank Crime tour was a mind melter.
I hear ya. So glad I caught one of the shows for that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wow, digging around I found their tour schedule from that year:
http://www.nyx.net/~gsherwin/dlj_tour.html
I saw the June 7th, 1994 date.
I remember another San Diego band - the far, far poppier Tanner - opened for them. And I remember Guy Picciotto watching Jehu off the side of the stage, looking suitably impressed. I bought the "Hand Over Fist/Bullet Train to Vegas" 7" that night. Oh, 90s alt-rock nostalgia!
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
June 30th show with DooRag for me. But how great is that London lineup soon after! That's a show I'd happily go back in time to attend.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like that he calls it "metal":
Review of Yank Crime from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 22, 1994
by Johnny Angel
San Diego's other big band on the Interscope label, Drive Like Jehu, is as fierce as fuck. But that's not the prime mover behind the total digification of this fine recording. Nor is its contrapuntal guitar-over-bass riffs, or sore-throaty howlings. No, Jehu makes music that is brutal without the vaudeville that so many newcomers seem to indulge in. Yank Crime, the band's major-label debut, doesn't sacrifice the heaviness of its indie releases. How can you not love a band that marries the pounding pulse and bass-heavy, odd-tempoed oeuvre of Slip It In-era Black Flag with the guitar shards of Mission of Burma or Wire (singer Rick Froberg's got that brain-scraping delivery down)? Jehu is Rollins without the shtick, Rage Against the Machine without the anal-retentive political correctness, Tool without the metal residue. "Do You Compute" is a rant that winds and unwinds from its mock-computer guitar intro through its hellaciously tricky arrangement, and, unlike so many compositions, doesn't lose you in its desire to impress with its show of "chops." (Fellow San Diegans Rocket from the Crypt, please take note.)
Besides, sincerity that doesn't announce itself is such a relief today, when imported attitude is the norm. Drive Like Jehu does its do without ugly fanfare, and the record is worth the price if only for the glorious build-up to the chorus of "Here Come The Rome Plows." Metal like this almost redeems every boneheaded CD we jaded reviewers have to endure.
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
I very distinctly remember being stuck in Connecticut the night of their June 9 Maxwell's show. Hindsight screams, "WHY DIDN'T YOU GO SEE THEM IN BOSTON THAT SATURDAY???!!!", and the regret flares up all over again...
― Usual Channels, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Cool to see that Obits' other guitarist is Sohrab Habibion, formerly of Edsel (anyone remember them)?
― monosyllabic, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
I saw them in fall of '93 in Vancouver BC. Unwound opened. It was the week that Unwound's first official album Fake Train was issued.
Fantastic show. Jehu did some sort of encore song that was 15 minutes of chaos that was truly excellent. I had been listening to them since their first 7", but wasn't really blown away until that moment.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
'Golden Brown' - I must have looped that segue,, pre nose dive guitar (but including that as the orgasm) around 2min.20secs a million times.
― Fer Ark, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sorry - just played it -wank runs from from 1-45 to 2.15. Hairs aloft and witchcraft
― Fer Ark, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
So the Deftones covered 'Caress'.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can't listen, at work, but sheesh. Covering Drive Like Jehu seems generally like a losing proposition, i.e., will probably not go well. How did they do?
― grandavis, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
One of my favorite shows of all time involved Drive Like Jehu. If memory serves, it was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, and went something like: Flying Saucer Attack/Prolapse/Drive Like Jehu/Stereolab.
― Position Position, Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Whoa, awesome bill. My one Drive Like Jehu bill was to be Polvo/Drive Like Jehu/Superchunk, but Polvo had van trouble. Still a great show! Drive Like Jehu blew my mind and totally changed my life that night, just fucking unbelievably good.
― grandavis, Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
youtube sound quality is pretty atrocious but the deftones cover sounds fine by me. it's fairly faithful and the song kicks ass so...
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
faithful covers never really sits well with me. well, recorded ones. live is a different thing altogether.
― borntohula, Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
agreed, and yeah, it's hardly essential. but I just looked it up the album and this track is some "itunes deluxe edition" throwaway, so they know that too.
but as far as DLJ covers go, it could've been worse
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah they did a decent job of it.
― borntohula, Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Totally faithful to the point of redundant. I got partway through and realized it'd been a while since I listened to Jehu so I just put that on instead. That said, the average Deftones fan is probably not a Jehu fan so more power to them for hopefully turning their fans on to the best rock band that ever existed.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 21 May 2010 01:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, pretty much every time I listen to "Yank Crime" I think to myself: this just may be the greatest guitar record, or my kind of guitar record at least, ever. Ever. This after 16 years of listening to it.
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 02:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
ASK STEVE SHASTA ANYTHING SERIOUSLY DUDES
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 May 2010 06:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
they way the two guitarists play off of each other on yank crime is pretty much unreal. I mean, "luau" - fuck.
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Friday, 21 May 2010 15:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
"luau" is probably one of my favourite songs ever. SUIT UP!
― borntohula, Friday, 21 May 2010 15:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, "Luau" is great for so many reasons, but a big one is John Reis's playing on that song. Froberg's playing is super-cool all over that song as well, of course, but that crazy tube-frying whistling during the solo makes me crazy every time I hear it. Fucking bummed that I didn't see any of the Hot Snakes shows where they played this. Did see "Bullet Train to Vegas" though, which was amazing.
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 15:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh, also, in every band I have been in there is at least one band practice where I repeatedly went into the main "Luau" riff to see if I could magically make my band play it. Never worked.
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
but that crazy tube-frying whistling during the solo makes me crazy every time I hear it.
yesss.
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Friday, 21 May 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
If I had the patience to do it I would make a poll listing the best moments on "Yank Crime". I mean, there are probably at least 30-40 cool "events" on this record, no joke. Might be slighting the album quite a bit there too.
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
you should do that
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 May 2010 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
this record blew my mind when i first heard it and still does whenever i dig it out
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 May 2010 16:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
I should, but probably won't. Perhaps I will sit down with pen and paper and try to catalogue that shit, but I imagine I will just get distracted by how cool it all is and want to rock instead. Might be able to literally do it without listening to the record though.
Also, someone else feel free to make this poll ...
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 17:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
if only the Don't Look Back/ ATP people would reform DLJ to play the entirety of Yank Crime...
― beta blog, Friday, 21 May 2010 18:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
They are here somewhere I think, those ATP people. Make that shit happen.
― grandavis, Friday, 21 May 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Jamie_ATP (and Barry), make this shit happen for Kutcher's, thanks.
― beta blog, Friday, 21 May 2010 20:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
I kinda hate the whole idea of those "play the whole album through" shows, but I would go to that without hesitation in a split second.
― Becky Facelift, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
the twisty bit at the beginning of "new math" is all-time
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
this year just have All Froberg's Parties instead.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys do know that obits and reis' new band are on tour of the usa right about now?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
and worth it
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
know what i like about the obits is that their OFFICIAL BAND URL is obitsurl.com
sultans >>>>>>> night marchers
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
sultans >>>>>>> night marchers = smashmouth
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 22:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i love this album cover
― del griffith, Sunday, 1 May 2011 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay so Lars Gotrich made the only iteration of this meme I will accept anymore:
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:12 (9 months ago) Permalink