Since it's probably the best rock record that's going to come out this year: Death (detroit proto punk not metal band) - "...For The Whole World To See" Thread

WrestlingKidHasMarkParent: well... who can you think of that really tells it like it is in regard to your life experience? Who is the Bruce Springsteen of the black community?
CantLiftASingleton: we have lil wayne
WrestlingKidHasMarkParent: does he sing a lot about getting out of small towns no matter what his father says?
CantLiftASingleton: he sing about makin girls lick on his thang like its a lollipop
CantLiftASingleton: i think that speak to the heart of all kines a folks
WrestlingKidHasMarkParent: huh.

On our way back, we stopped by Vicente Fernandez (& family)’s house/ranch/arena/farm outside of Guadalajara. Fortunately, we were able to hire a tour guide to take us to and from Tequila. Coincidentally, his name was also Vicente and he knew everything there was to the area and its inhabitants. Therefore, I learned a lot more than I really wanted to about Vicente Fernandez and his family. If you don’t know who Vicente Fernandez is, take a step into this country and dare to ask any native who he is. He’s kinda like the Bruce Springsteen of Mexico.

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Jukka Karjalainen, whom Savolainen described as "the Bruce Springsteen of Finland"

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Critics have labeled Broza as a post-modern Leonard Cohen, the Bruce Springsteen of Israel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagabuchi_Tsuyoshi -- bruce springsteen of japan

this is one of the best thread derails ever

wrt Das Boot:

In the commentary track Petersen takes great care to note the many additional scenes included on the DVD, especially those that portray the boredom of living on a submarine and the rugged life of 48 men sharing a single bathroom. Sprinkled into the informative commentary are little gems of trivia: "Das Boot's" submarine model did double duty for Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark"; Grönemeyer, the war correspondent, went on to become the Bruce Springsteen of Germany.

are you serious, the submarine in das boot is the same as the one in raiders?! this changes everything.

Every WWII movie gets the submarine it deserves.

Yeah the submarine details were talked about in the Raiders DVD documentary. And Gronmeyer eventually ended up causing the legit rerelease of the Neu! albums so, you know, hero. Literally.

A piping-hot platter of floured-and-fried chicken is the Bruce Springsteen of foods.

Reagan Ray is the Bruce Springsteen of design, consistently producing genuine, face-meltingly good work day in and day out.

Waffles are Little Steven.

I am assuming that Mr. Moussaoui regards himself as the Bruce Springsteen of terror.

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Songwriting faculty member Mark Simos started by cowriting a single song with Jimmy Barnes, the Bruce Springsteen of Australia

since there isn't a thread for it and it got mentioned upthread and the thread is already derailed i just wanna say how much i love gary higgins 'red hash'

yeah that album is magickal

it's a great record, but i think it would have played very differently in the media if it were some young white guys

i wonder if there is bruce springsteen of every country???

Not just one. Norway has two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBDVA3gVmO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9-wLmmlpk

And Sweden has two as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOUev9EgI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1lCmXblKQ

At least one of those has to be John Mellencamp. Can't have two Springsteens or space-time would collapse.

Maybe that. Or Bob Seger. Or John Cafferty.

Left wing rocker Mikael Wiehe is the Swedish Little Steven, so that one is already occupied.

Canada has Bryan Adams.

American TV Anchor: But, Mr. Minister, it isn't like this film is the first troublesome thing to come out of Canada. Let us not forget Bryan Adams.
Canadian Film Minister: Now, now, the Canadian Government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions!

White Guys On Bacon (EZ Snappin)

oh man, good one

You can have it. I'm not really a nickname kinda dude.

so i listened to most of this. should i say anything or do you all want to be surprised?

spill it seward

I like that the first Norwegian Springsteen Geir linked to looks like Lewis Grizzard

well i think if you dig the other stuff then you will want this. but just so you know its not like this is a finished album that never saw the light of day. there is a fair amount of unfinished-sounding/studio jam material. sounds like they had time to hash out some material for a day or two in a studio. the sound is pretty rough. but there are some definite gem-like moments. its skeletal though. i don't know the chronology of this stuff. guessing it was recorded before the politicians stuff? (and there really isn't anything on this as great as politicians or rock & roll victim or whatever.) still, it's fun to hear these guys play. (and if you are a devotee of great rock "1-2-3-4!" count off intros, death are right up there with the greats.)

sounds sweet, I'm a guy who digs listening to demos and boots so

I also eat bacon while I shape my unibrow

Edward minus bacon:

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bacon out of frame obv

not that this thread has much to do with death or their record anymore, but i'm a bit surprised by the blanket rejection of bad brains comparisons. not like dude's a dead ringer or anything, but bobby hackney sounds a lot like HR to me, song after song. and "freakin out" on the whole, hell yeah.

I was a little bummed when I found out the whole story and realized that wasn't an album cover designed in the 70s. Still a great album cover though.

I repeat: ridiculously overrated band / record.

so wrong. listened to it five times this afternoon. ridiculously great band / record, like every song on it is fucking classic. side 2 especially.

i like this album and tbh i'm kinda having a kneejerk reaction to someone calling it overrated. not because it's above reproach or anything but it's been just setting around for years not being heard by anyone. i don't wanna be the one to rain on their parade

i do wonder what sort of reception this album would've received if it would've had a proper release way back when.

It's probably somewhere between "ridiculously overrated" and "every song on it is a fucking classic" (most records are).

yeah, okay, fair enough. i really like it though, my kinda thing in every respect. wouldn't hold it up as an avatar of the divine, like say funhouse, but it's at least as good as simply saucer's cyborgs revisited: high praise so far as i'm concerned.

heard the new one -- some very cool stuff, and some serious barrel scraping. still, if you like the first one, you want this.

It's pretty marginal -- Outtakes and demos, mainly. And a drum solo masquerading as a song. Not anywhere near as must-own as the first one. But yeah, there are some okay tracks on the album's first half: Including one that sounds an awful lot like "Got To Get You Into My Life" by the Beatles.

Also one that could almost be Bad Brains, a decade early.

yeah, no way that beatles thing is an accident. and the drum/bass solos are kind of a waste.

xp Or half a decade, three quarters, whatever. (Nothing on the first one made me think Bad Brains, fwiw -- talked about that upthread, I think. And obviously I'm still not saying this means Bad Brains actually heard them back then, or anything.)

Don't the liner notes say something about that one song being their tribute to the Beatles, actually? (Don't have the CD booklet in front of me.)

Playing California in February:

Friday, February 25, 2011 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's w/ Zolar X
Saturday, February 26, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex w/ RTX

"Politicians In My Eyes" features on a very very good compilation of proto-punk from Kris Needs.

Hmm. Picked this up on a whim today based on how much I loved last year's, hadn't read this thread revive first. Still, hoping theres some good stuff on here.

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/death-concert/20054728-3738356.html

DRAFTHOUSE FILMS TO RELEASE "A BAND CALLED DEATH"
OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR SXSW 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM
HEAR AN UNRELEASED DEMO OF "POLITICIANS IN MY EYES"
ROUGH FRANCIS SET TO PLAY SXSW

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Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced today the acquisition of North American rights to Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino’s riveting rockumentary A Band Called Death, which is set to screen at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in the “24 Beats Per Second” film category. The film chronicles rebirth and rise to cult stardom of early-’70s African-American “proto-punk” trio Death, following a new generation’s discovery of a virtually unheard demo tape more than 30 years later. A theatrical and VOD release for A Band Called Death is scheduled for this summer.

About A Band Called Death

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols and the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in 1971 by three teenage brothers in Detroit, Michigan, the African-American group is widely acknowledged as being one of the first punk bands. After years of struggling with canceled contracts, increasing debts, inner family tragedy, and a controversial name that barred them from future success, Death sold off their instruments and disbanded with their recordings laying dormant in an attic for decades. After years of silence, Death’s moment finally arrived following unexpected demand from rabid internet fans and record collectors which ushered renowned appreciation and a swarm of national media attention that has now secured their place in the annals of rock history. Detroit-born Jack White of The White Stripes said in the New York Times : “the first time the stereo played (Death) I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. When I was told the history of the band and what year they recorded this music, it just didn’t make sense. Ahead of punk, and ahead of their time.”

http://vimeo.com/61023981