Clutch: Occasionally Classic or Dud?

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I'm usually wary of anything my sister likes but I seem to remember their first or second record being decent. Any takers?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

i heard this album once over at a friend's house and it was good, heavy Jesus Lizard / Melvins / High on Fire type sludge metal

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

one of their videos was in one really funny beavis and butthead episode -- the lead singer starts grunting, and beavis likens said grunting to someone constipated and trying to take a shit.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

I don't much care for the album JaXoN provided a pciture of, but the self titled (Their second album) and "The elephant riders" are great, yummyriffic groovy hard rock.
I quite like Jam Room and Pure Rock Fury too.
Soooooo: classic.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

CLUTCH? Pschaw.
They're the Fun Lovin' Criminals of metal.

― rockchimp, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

PURE ROCK FURY!

CLASSIC!!

ESPECIALLY LIVE!!!

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

i really like clutch.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

more people should listen to clutch.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

they are a hard rock band with hard rock jams. they are funny. they swing. they rock. they roll. what's not to like?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

what's not to like?

Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Let's throw down

Just try me
Just try me
What are you waiting for?

Come on, motherfucker
Let's throw down
Come on, motherfucker
Let's go

Just rear your ugly fucking head
I'll put it on a platter
Just rear your ugly fucking head
I'll put it on a platter

Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Let's throw down

Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Let's go

Hey there
Hey fella
Hey there
Hey fella

Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Come on, motherfucker
Let's throw down

Just try me
Just try me
What are you waiting for?

Come on, motherfucker
Let's throw down
Come on, motherfucker
Let's go

I'll make you wish that you'd never been born
I'll make you wish that you'd never been born
I'll make you wish that you'd never been born
Come on, motherfucker
Let's go

Hey there
Hey fella
Hey there
Hey fella

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

i've never heard that one. i'm not that familiar with their early stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

I liked the 1st album, but the guys voice is pretty much unbearable after that.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

Silver women on the OMNI magazine
They got the future precisely laid out as I need.
That Lux Aeterna sound is so frightening.
Holding hands with Lucifer is never that enlightening.
So fire it up, fire it up,fire it up and the flesh be damned.
Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up yeah that's the ticket now kick out the jams.

Engineer the future now. Damn tommorow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday's for mice and gods.

Life inside the biosphere, dodecahedron fever's here.
Sporting scarlet letters of genetic imperfection, dear
Love child in the reeds. Take a sample for the breed.
Should have left him in the stream. Cooing at the smitten queen.
So fire it up, fire it up,fire it up and the flesh be damned.
Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up yeah that's the ticket now kick out the jams.

Engineer the future now. Damn tommorow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday's for mice and gods.

Slowly, broken windows returning to the sand
The economic factors are no longer relevant
That empty city sound is so frightening
Neolithic fear is such a motivating factory.
So fire it up, fire it up,fire it up and the flesh be damned.
Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up yeah that's the ticket now kick out the jams.

Engineer the future now. Damn tommorow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday's for mice and gods.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, his voice doesn't bug me. it grew on me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was eating dinner at the table with people from the music industry.
They asked me if I liked it in "The City." I said I liked it better in the country.
The label representative asked me what about it most appealed to me.
"I love to listen to the yellowhammer singing 'a little bit of bread and no cheese'."
Then I commenced to do a tap dance on eggplant Parmesan before their eyes.
Guided by voices, whole bag of tricks. Raised by Druids and Horses.
(Then I told them):
"Never underestimate the power of Love. You dig my new horseshoes?
Never underestimate the power of Love."
"Come here quickly he's lost his mind!"
"Frightened? Well I'm not surprised, you've never seen the likes of me.
Check it, I want a big fat advance and my alfalfa free!"
"Come here quickly he's lost his mind!"
The manager removed from the restaurant. A crowd got to gathering around.
I said, "You can throw a man out on his ear, but you can't keep a good horse down!"
Mounted police sprung to action. Never cut me any bit of slack.
But I wasn't going anywhere 'til they got off my brother's back.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

i can see where the voice might be a turn-off though. i can't listen to primus for that reason. well, more than that reason, but that's the number one reason.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

their second (s/t) album is really great. other than that, it's VERY hit or miss.

― deadair (deadair), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

great fun band. live show rocks socks of of me

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

Clutch's last few albums have kicked ass.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

His voice still annoys me, sorry Scott.

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

i really like the hard rock dynamic they've found in more recent times. totally found their groove

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

I do like them but I saw them earlier this year and they played for an hour and a half. I'm sorry but they're just not an hour-and-a-half-long-set band. When they're on top of it they can really be great, and dude is very underrated as a wordsmith

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

i'm not quite sure whether you're suggesting they should have played for a longer or shorter period?

(saw blonde redhead last week, and we got exactly an hour and a half. despite it being a fantastic show, they could have played for 10 minutes less and i'd have been happy - kazu was losing her voice by the end.)

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh gawd, shorter, please. I know they've released many times that much stuff but it was a full venue, ie hot and icky, and there's not a lot of variety in style and tempo across their set

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

hear ya

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

Very, very good in small doses. They don't have a lot of range but are terrific at what they do know.

― moley, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 09:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

"Rock n Roll Outlaw" is awesome, especially the last half of the song.

― van smack, Saturday, 22 September 2007 04:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

I don't know why I wrote these guys off for so many years, I think I may have confused them with another band at some key point and always ignored them. How stupid!

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

Great live band

― van smack, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

One of those bands that has a secret underground cult who will drive outrageous distances to catch a show. A friend of mine won tickets to a show of theirs last year and the place was packed out with people who were STOKED to see some Clutch.

― Robert Necrofrost, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

listening to 'full fathom five' and need to revive this to talk about how awesome the drummer is

― kfb, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

This band really has evolved over time. Not too many bands have combined The Meters grooves with metal, but Clutch kind of has done it. Their drummer is really, really good. He swings pretty good (really).

I can see some not digging the vocals, but respect the groove and the live show.

Clutch are definitely worth searching out to catch a show.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 05:58 (4 months ago) Permalink

An all-time great live show.

― van smack, Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:41 (4 months ago) Permalink

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