Rob Crow's Goblin Cock

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Tired irony or totally legit?

― Rollo Hazelgrove (Rollo Hazelgrove), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this his doom metal band? Read about it in Skyscraper.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i havent heard it, but crow has always liked metal and messed with the form.

― Dr. Walter Freeman (Grodd), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Rob really loves metal.. so it's not ironic, at least. It may not be serious, though. Then again, neither is Optiganally Yours or anything else Rob has done, aside from mostly Pinback -- where Zach of 3MP, a usually more macabre songwriter, is his musical partner.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

then again, Pinback lyrics are usually pretty silly too, if you read the lyrics.. even the Zach songs. Any band that ends their latest "hit" song with "I'll miss you.... but not in a Slint way" can't be humorless.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It's clearly not doom metal, except for the cover art and a few odd snippets. More of a Pinback-meets-buttrock affair... sludge pop maybe. Truly hard to get a bead on.

― Rollo Hazelgrove (Rollo Hazelgrove), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course it's silly. He was in fucking Heavy Vegetable ferchrissakes.

Also, it's more fun to listen to than Pinback.

Also, also it reminds of the also goofy but kinda worthy Goon Moon record.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but should anything purporting to be doom metal be "fun" or "silly"? Isn't that kind of betraying the cause?

― Rollo Hazelgrove (Rollo Hazelgrove), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but should anything purporting to be doom metal be "fun" or "silly"? Isn't that kind of betraying the cause?

Shoud Rob murder some Christians first or something? I don't get your statement. "fun" or "silly" is up to the listener, not the artist. Mayhem can be as serious as they want, but that's not going to stop many people from taken them less than seriously.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"taking".. sorry

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Genres are made to be broken and cut apart for reuse, which Rob always does a fine job of in music.

― Dr. Walter Freeman (Grodd), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Rob is currently working on recording what will probably be the one and only Alpha Males record, which was his hardcore band before breaking up not too long ago. Mike, formerly of Charles Bronson, is/was also in the band.. as he was also in Holy Molar, which was basically Mike with most of the Locust in dentist costumes.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

When you name a band "Goblin Cock", and commission cover art to match, you are intentionally being silly, there's nothing subjective about it--you want people to know it's (at least partially) a joke. I'm wondering if the humor doesn't end up belittling a form of music that is too often snidely dismissed, or worse, ironically "appreciated" in hipster music circles.
Isn't appropriating the imagery and attitude of death metal for what is essentially a pop product no different from what Vanilla Ice did with hip hop, at least in a broad manner of speaking?

― Rollo Hazelgrove (Rollo Hazelgrove), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

..and the crime is?

I mean, was Junior Senior argued to be a "belittling" of party music when they released their album?

I really don't get the whole belittling thing here. Bands cannot control how their fans and listeners will ultimately perceive them.. (yet)

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Also the Rob Crow:death metal::Vanilla Ice:hip hop analogy is just wrong on so many levels. I don't know where to start.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Clap Your Hands Say Goblin Cock

― Reggie, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone ever seriously discussed Anal Cunt's "belittling" of hardcore or metal? what belittling? OMG ROB CROW PUTS OUT A METAL ALBUM AND NOW DEATH METAL IS AT STAKE (PUN NOT INTENDED BUT COMMANDED FROM BEELZEBUB)!

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

KEEPIN' IT DARK Y'ALL. SATAN IN DA HAAAAAUS!

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Cannibal Corpse, on the other hand.

― white boi, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

PSYCHED to hear this.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Truly the best immature band name ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

rob crow already did comedy doom metal when he did "krishna on the ledge" with heavy vegetable. so now he's doing it more hamfistedly it's more serious?

OMG TEH LOCUTST = VANILLA ICE

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

On a related note, has anyone heard anything about the release date for the final Thingy album?

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.absolutelykosher.com/AK034_400px.jpg

http://www.absolutelykosher.com/GCvidstill.jpg
Goblin Cock is:
Lord Phallus - guitar and voice
Bane Ass-Pounder - guitar
King Sith - bass
Braindeath - drums
Loki Sinjuggler - keyboards

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I have heard the album and i really like it. Kinda doom pop if such a thing exists.(it does now)

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Bugger me...

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm gonna plaster that pic of the band on my desktop
.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

You can buy a tshirt of the cover from the labels website http://www.absolutelykosher.com/goblincock.html
I pre-ordered the pic disk but I couldn't bring myself to buy the shirt.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I've let friends who are into the doom stuff hear some mp3s and amazingly the reactions have been positive. Which is most unusual for anything i ever recommend to them.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

GUYS

http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/templateid/4838

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The song in that video sounds more like Weezer than anything else... I like! :)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The video is really funny. Just a smidgen less classic than Optiganally Yours' "Mr. Wilson" video, for Rob Crow in videos, but still classic.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Just seen the video at http://www.wormwoodfilms.com/movies/goblin_cock_2.mpg and its really funny.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 30 October 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

LOKI SINJUGGLER!!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Is "Stumped" (the song in that video) representative of the rest of the album, or is that them at their most accessibly poppy?

― Michael Williams (caek), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Is that the only Rob Crow thread on ILM?

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/82056366/images/13/goblincock_come.jpg new album out now!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 30 January 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

and a reminder of the classic first album http://neerstroem.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/goblin-cock_400px.jpg

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 30 January 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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