Favourite SST Release of... 1986

Yeah, that summer SY tour! They were still trying to figure out how to present themselves, how to transition from being a constant noise-source (adding a barrage of noise or a played tape deck between songs as segue) to something more like a band with tunes. I think the Bad Moon Rising & older songs got more of the noise segue treatment, most of EVOL got the latter. At Metro they looked like they were having a real argument about whether to encore or not (JAMC influence maybe?), Lee stormed off the stage. But they came back. They had things pretty well ironed out by the end of the year though. Dinosaur/Firehose/Sonic Youth, $5 in the dining commons, nice. This thread is bringing back so much noise and nostalgia!

relating old dudes to indie rock. i was going to post my list when people were ragging on 86 yesterday so i'll add Victorialand and Rembrandt Pussyhorse and Greed and Dry Lungs and Gods Favorite Dog and...

i was just Ragin' and rememberin' the life-altering Firehose/(Wurm or DC3)/Always August show at the Apocalypse Monster Club, a huge storage space/warehouse/punk club so the vans were parked inside. we got there wicked early and totally starstruck talked to fIREHOSE and gave Mike Watt our tape and t-shirt (which he wore for the show!). Always August were like the first real hippies I'd seen up close and they played fucking Santana between bands. My band tried to 'jam' for the first time soon after and I decided to grow out my hair...

1986: Big Shot Chronicles, Made To Be Broken, All Night Lotus Party got played to death. In Excelsior Dayglo too! Tom Waits doing Franks Wild Years at the Steppenwolf. "It was a very good year ..."

The Apocalypse Monster Club!

I just looked to see if I had a flier from that firehose show, but I don't. I wonder if I was there. I remember talking to Mike Watt outside, and it feels like it was at the AMC, but it could have been with the minutemen at the Lawndale.

Made me look at my old fliers from 84-87. D.O.A. and Beyond Possesion, Corrosion of Conformity, 7 Seconds with Verbal Assault and Mellow Cats, all at the AMC. I remember seeing MDC there and some kid cracked his head and had seizure or something. I saw Black Flag at Cardi's in that time frame. Henry Rollins came out to the edge of the stage and talked to us with his long hair and black running shorts.

Hardcore all the time in those days. Grunge gradually took over.

Houston HxCx represent! Cardi's...that was the name of that place, i was at that show too, Painted Willie opened iirc. my first hardcore night was Dead Kennedys/Scratch Acid/Culturcide at cardi's then onto the Cabaret Voltaire for some local noise. yeah, Lawndale, Pik'n'Pak, The Axiom, Butthole Surfers at the Maceba Theater melting the best minds of my generation....I still have a bunch of my Funhouse Show tapes. good fuckin times, bro.

I loved fuckin Christmas! I haven't heard In Excelsior Dayglo in decades... it never made it to CD iirc.

Fish eye sandwich = worst thing in the world.

yeah, try finding a copy of ultra prophets of thee psykick revolution online!

<3 this song. 12" single had a cover of "ring my bell" on the b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzn1gw0ex4Y

for the in excelsior dayglo fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW55n1JLBUQ

ok, so maybe you guys know wtf was up with the Psychic TV parody on Ultra Prophets cover/concept. it always struck me as odd since it's not like Gen&crew were even well known enough to goof on, esp. in the US (i dunno, maybe they were huge in Boston with Sleep Chamber and all).

and I totally forgot they became Combustible Edison

There used to be a couple of really nice live Christmas clips on youtube, but they seem to have vanished. I should have copied them when I had the chance.

I have Ultraprophets on CD luckily. Yeah the album concept was impenetrable to me, but it resulted in Liz being sort of naked on the inner booklet so I approve.

otm

back to SST...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE8d6yUpDG0&feature=related

Ah, just discovered who the guy who reviewed Excelsior in Spin back in '86 was (he called it, like, the best album ever)...Don Howland of Great Plains, Gibson Brothers, etc. Thanks Don!

Oh, sorry SST. Back to voting for Zoogz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5XRdBDA-w

I remember that review! Ha Great Plains-- THEIR album got stellar reviews from OPtion, in turn.

Wait who are you, dlp9001?

thank you ILM, for making me get out In Excelsior Dayglo on this rainy day. Tommy The Truck!

Who will j0hn punch this poll?

Is there a connection between Zoogz Rift & Bob Mould both being involved in pro wrestling? Or is did two SST weirdos just naturally gravitate to the WWF separately?

I think it was separate. I don't know about Zoogz, but Mould was an AWA fan in the '80s (he's wearing a Rage in the Cage long-sleeve on the cover of the Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All EP). Then in the very late '90s he joined WCW as a writer during that company's worst ever creative period. If you think wrestling's ridiculous enough already...

j0hn won't punch any of you unless and until he can punch all of you

a punch fap

Minnesota loved its AWA Wrestling, Bob was no different

Like all red blooded Minnesotans, Mould wanted Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan to die in a fire.

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It's weird, being a Brit I never think of Sonic Youth as being an SST band as they were on Blast First over here. Same way I never think of Big Black or the Butthole Surfers as being Touch & Go bands.

Albums on this list I once owned : 22 (approx, can't really remember which exact Zoogz Rift albums I bought)
Albums on this list I still own : 1 (fIREHOSE, who get the vote by default)

sonic youth are one of my favorite bands and were hugely important to me at the time, but i'm still gonna pick i against i over evol

evol's fascinating, but it tends to bum me out and/or irritate me more often than not. and while i Against i is far from perfect, I'm basically always in the mood for it. up there with sister, damaged, happy nightmare baby, born too late, you're living all over me, meat pups II, new day rising and double nickels in my list of things for which I owe SST (& Ginn/Dukowski) an eternal debt.

I'm really hoping EVOL gets 100+ votes...

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it did, although a lot of people have said they're voting Bad Brains (maybe because they know everyone else will vote Evol). I cant wait to see the results to see how close it is.

I would be surprised if EVOL gets over 50.

KIRA'S GOT THE 10.5

don't know most of these. went with EVOL

i get the feeling that sums this poll up

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no 100 vote winner

High placement for '10 1/2' probly the surprise of this thread for me.

Five votes for Slovenly! For anyone who hasn't heard it, and I'm sure there's a lot, it's really worth your time if you can find it.

And don't let all those zero votes fool you, there's some prime wheat among that chaff.

What do you recommend?

The Gone records get a bad rap around here but Ginn's done much worse. Angst's Mending Wall is the best of theirs I've heard; it's not as folky as their other stuff to my ears. The Alter-Natives' Hold Your Tongue is good hyperactive jazz rock. And The Divine Horsemen are also worth a listen, but Chris D's first/main band The Flesh Eaters were better.

080 Sonic Youth Starpower 4

ok 4 jokers love the single that is 2/3rds songs on the album (3/3rds if you count the reissue) more than the album? fuck outta here.

maybe they only like the 1 track?

Favourite SST Release of... 1987

4 jokers love the single that is 2/3rds songs on the album (3/3rds if you count the reissue) more than the album? fuck outta here.

sometimes less is more

Evol is the best SY album though

^thank you

no worries