PISSED JEANS

ksh, never heard heard Dirty Projectors, that's the whole reason why I wrote 'I wouldn't know'! If you think they are better than Pissed Jeans -- either Live or on record, sure, tell me to check'em out.

Pissed Jeans just continue to be a beautiful, ugly, stupid force.

can't quite think of anyone like them. altho I admit I'm not familiar w/ the bands the get namechecked on the 'nu-pigfuck' thread..

point being that -- my IMPRESSION -- is that 'Dirty Projectors' -- whoever the heck they are, got a lot of corporate crit bleating. by losers who would never set foot in a bar where Pissed Jeans plays. Of course, you see, most of my fave records are by old jazz dudes like Fred Anderson or whatever, so they ain't gonna get nominated for any awards either. So shooting potshots at 'darlings' like "Dirty Projectors" = just a bit of fun, i'm sure you will recover

If Dirty Projectors are all that, I'd love to hear one or two sentences to convince me to check 'em out!

I mean, I don't read 'Pazz & Jop' comments or 1000 post ILX threads anymore, work won't allow it, but fuck -- if DP actually rule I would love to be sold on it. can never get enough great music..

in any case, I sync up with Mencap. I still think that 'Hope For Men' is the best Pissed Jeans record

new one is cool, but I actually do kinda *miss* the weirdness and skits that were stuck into HFM

yes. totally great live. think the jesus lizard reunion was the only other time i've been as impressed with a live band in the past few years. their records are all solid, really. could making a case for any of them being the best.

ksh i would strongly recommend getting "king of jeans" first. arguably equal to "hope for men" in greatness but it's their most accessible fer sher. "hope for men" is them pounding riffs into the ground endlessly with no release or sense of direction and "king of jeans" is them embracing release and rocking out in a more traditional sense. i only really appreciated "hope for men" after having heard/loved "king of jeans". hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

The Ex thows down mightily but they don't tour the states much

would like to see pissed jeans

thanks for the suggestions as to which record to buy first, everybody -- i'm going to add all of them to my ever-growing list of stuff to check out

Stormy: here's a Dirty Projectors song to check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4he_jgJrMCk

live video featuring me fervidly moshing and fist-pumping

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/mar/01/india.railtravel

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-rzAoKm5Y

what was the median age of the ppl at that show?

when i saw Dirty Projectors, it had to have been, like, 19

oh, thanks ksh! that track is really quite nice. reminds of a lot disparate things that kinda come close but don't really nail their sound so I won't mention them here, but suffice to say it pushes some of my buttons. anyway, yeah I was just kinda drunk and ranting last night -- depressed that a band as amazing as Pissed Jeans really *doesn't* get their just due. but that's just how it goes.

iow, i am feeling this;

hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

― tmi finney (samosa gibreel)

ah man, it was the best show. alot of these weird punk shows in montreal lately have been really boring audience-wise, just this silent majority of hipsters and people who like performance art standing around with their arms crossed. but for pissed jeans they got a powerviolence band and an 80s hardcore band to open, tonnes of dudes crowdsurfing and going nuts.

median age at the show last night was probably about 28 (I am 38)

didn't see any of the scenesters from "my generation" of indie/punk/etc rock though, which kind of surprised me. It was a Wednesday though (it was a huge battle to make it into my 8 am start job today, 20 minutes late)

I should also mention that the Empty Bottle in Chicago has amazing drink specials, $5.50 each day for a drink and a shot. Last night, it was Tito's Vodka and a Point IPA in a bottle. Tito's is, like, my fave vodka right now, and I'm not even really a vodka guy. best boilermaker ever

pretty much everyone was over 20. well, at least no one under 18.

yeah, I caught the same general vibe as samosa. crowd actually *did* start off a little arm-crossed, but Pissed Jeans proceeded to break that down relentlessly until, at the end, there was wild moshing to the last couple tracks. they really are unparalleled right now, I think. 50 minute set, no encores, as there needn't have been. they give everything they have for the 50 minutes.

Stormy, glad you liked the DP song!

that's great that the audience was really into it. way too rare these days at many, many shows

these fuckin guys

never listened, just cuz

i heard they had a 7" coming out this year

The 7" is out, at least on Emusic. "Sam Kinison Woman" is great, but the b-side is the kind of lumbering clever-Neandertal dirge that they do better than anyone since Flipper. Stunning in it's groaning, cranking way.

yep there was a run of 500 on yellow vinyl from sub pop. not sure if any are left, was glad i scored one.

Can someone please tell me the name of the song being played in this clip? I was at this show and they opened with this, and it was VISCERAL.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dXZfGAt2k

That looks odd. In any case, yeah -- anyone know the title?

Hey that's the song I'm talking about. The L-Word.

their singer is hilarious. <3 this band.

yep there was a run of 500 on yellow vinyl from sub pop. not sure if any are left, was glad i scored one.

― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Sunday, 7 November 2010 00:23 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for the record there's a, presumably more numerous, black vinyl version if that wasn't clear

also they have a tribute band (sort of)! http://www.myspace.com/shatshorts

^ 7" is great

I won tickets to Pissed Jeans off of WFMU's twitter on Friday.

http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/79955

Opening band is ... Protect-U?? Dance music from D.C. (I saw em at PS1 Warm-Up over the summer). What a weird bill.

/ braggin 2012

mike from protect-u and sean from pissed jeans played together in a dc band called navies back in the day

cool story bro

Wait, that is a cool story bro - I had no idea either of those guys were in Navies. I thought Navies was an ex-Black Eyes thing?

mike from protect-u and sean from pissed jeans played together in a dc band called navies back in the day

huh! well that kinda explains it then.

xp - don't think any of the black eyes dudes were ever in navies, though they played shows together sometimes, and there's a lotta former-member overlap via future times (mike's label)/LIES/100% silk stuff

anyway, this thread revive prompted me to pull out shallow again and it is still so so awesome

love these guys, it's totally time for a new album!

fucking amazing band. seeing them in 2 weeks.

Just heard Sam Kinison woman, fucking awesome. How have the recent sets been? Would love to get these guys in the local DIY basement venue.

they were pretty good at Music Hall of Williamsburg although the sound was a little mushy, guitars weren't cutting through like they should

the singer practically does standup nowadays. it's pretty lol. people in front near the stage got the Don Rickles treatment

New track!
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14585-bathroom-laughter/
It's rather good...

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

i already said this somewhere else but this album is the no. 1 reason to not throw myself under a bus until at least february 2013

yeah, best band

fvk yes \m/

love em forever

this is fucking awesome