― heh, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― lop@plop.com, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
My local record shop is claiming that the new Gravy Train album sounds like the Shangri Las singing Peaches. This sounds oddly appealing.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Well its definitely preferable to Peaches singing Shangri-Las.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a bit garage rock and bit rubbish, and I used to have a lot of time for Gravy Train!!!!.
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i like hawnay troof's enthusiasm. but it's kinda empty enthusiasm. it's like watching kids who've had too many red bulls playing air hockey; kinda fun for about a minute, then really really dull.
xbxrx are the sha-na-na of hardcore. i assume that's the point, though.
― Lawrence the Looter, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
gygax and strongo 1,000% OTM (3 years ago and many many posts ago)
― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
this stuff really did turn out to be the future of popular music, didn't it
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
wtf?
― sarahell, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
wow, i'm pretty sure i SAW gravy train (!!! i guess) back in 2004 or thereabouts, but i remember almost nothing about them. certainly don't remember them being offensive enough to merit the kind of reaction they got here, but hey who knows.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking about Hawnay Troof today for some reason. I saw them (when they were a duo) in 2003, performing in a dive bar in central Europe in their underpants, and it was definitely one of the most entertaining shows I've seen. Not that musically accomplished, of course, but somehow welcoming, intense and fun all at the same time. I had a copy of their LP Get Up! Resolution Love, but it wasn't great except for a few tracks, and I failed to investigate them any further until today, when I found this from 2008, and I dunno, it's pretty good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqT0vgx73CI
Not surprised they/he got a kicking in this thread as he does appear to be sort of a hipster, and people will hate hipsters. What I'm surprised about is that nobody mentioned HT in the context of gay hip-hop, because (especially on the first LP) at least half the tracks seem to be explicity about gay sex, and that isn't something you encounter that often even now, and even less so in 2003.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 30 May 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link