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

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

i just listened to this again for the first time in a while and was like damn

saw the doc last night. was good, but the moving photo thing was bugging the fuck outta me.

i hate the way they make documentaries now

yeah that is a pretty irritating effect, about as over-used as the ken burns slow photo pan.

i take it there's no actual footage of the band from the 70s?

there's a bit

was thinking of driving down to boston to see it tomorrow night (presented by its director), but got equally indifferent word from a friend who's a fan both of the band and of fringe music docs. so maybe i'll just watch it on compuder.

Anybody heard anything from Death III yet? (beyond "North Street")

http://pitchfork.com/news/53844-death-to-release-archival-collection-death-iii-share-north-street/

On one hand, watching the documentary a few weeks ago has me excited to hear more, but there was already a sense of scraping the barrel a little with the last one, so my hopes aren't exactly super high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klCL0krHKqc

Superiority of the third collection to the second collection is inarguable & inexplicable.

Really? That's great to hear, maybe I will pick this up after all!

huh I spun "Free" on the radio yesterday just to check it out a bit, I look forward to playing other songs off this in the coming weeks.

it did not sound like I expected it to, very Hendrix vibe

Death and the Collector: The Blinkered Music Geekery in ‘A Band Called Death’

Can someone help me understand what this piece is trying to say? Something bad about white collector geeks, but what exactly?

it is saying that record collectors are white geeks in glasses (the horror), and that their enthusiasms are contemptible

Heya, so new album from the current lineup out soon annnnnd...I interviewed 'em.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/03/15/detroit-proto-punk-band-death-on-n-e-w-album/