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

Red Hash....Bill Fay...those are two i've gotten fairly recently what else?

Nimrod Workman if that counts as a reissue

Yahowa13 Magnificence in the Memory - June 23, 2009

also that JT IV thing from last year is worth hunting down

this is pretty nice. like the guitar stabs on "politicians". never heard of these guys before.

i mostly meant the JTIV, death, royal trux reissues, and the upcoming george-edwards group LP

too bad their catalog isnt bigger. Someone could start a Death v. Death poll. These guys would have to be really good to win that.

i dont understand...this band was from the 70s, but they're releasing their first album now? are they dead?

oh d'oh maybe i should read that times piece

whoa this is good

wow...this is great.

I hear some judas preist in rock n roll victim, mostly in the guitar. Politicians in my eyes sounds kind of post-punk to me.

wow...this is great.

hell yes. i love this record. sounds plenty punky to me, or proto-punky, whatever. it rocks. really wish there was more to be unearthed somewhere.

yeah it's a bit like that crushed butler EP, you want more (but this is way better than crushed butler)

Politicians in my eyes sounds kind of post-punk to me.

yeah, that's what I thought when somebody leonardo'd the single last year. if I closed my eyes and ignored the chorus I'd say it was a ruts outtake.

Woo, sounds intriguing!

"Since it's probably the best rock record that's going to come out this year"

sad, cause it's a 70's record,but probably true.
will rock music ever be GREAT again?

a: yes
b: this is admittedly ten kinds of k-awesome

will rock music ever be GREAT again?

great rock music is still around, it's just hard to find

kind of like death was in the 70s

can't stop listening to this. the outro to 'politicians' is insanely good. the way it just keeps on going, but they incrementally amp it way up into the red, rallizes/mainliner-style...? amazing.

and so is the intro.

and the rest.

yeah dude rock music has been really good lately!

i don't really have anything to say about this album except that i bought it and it's great

and the fresh air thing is probably worth listening to

beside the obvious influences (stooges, heavy metal...), am i the only one who feels the WIPERS vibe here?

the whole album is beyond great, but the last track is beyond-beyond great.
jaw dropping stuff

is this available on vinyl??

was wondering that myself. seems like not too many copies were pressed. forced exposure has it on their site but I'll bet that's just out-of-date.

is this available on vinyl??

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, April 10, 2009 5:18 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gbx i got mine at fetus...last copy...i don't think they have any new stock coming in..

treehouse is out i know, so is eclipse

i would try: cheapos (fridley can be a good hookup)...maybe call roadrunner

This is great, got it on iTunes last night, the $6.93 price seemed to good to pass up.

not on emusic :(

ooh good to know it's on itunes for that price -- i think i've got a gift certificate for jsut about that amount. and yeah, it does break my heart that drag city is not on emusic -- i'd be able to easily plug a bunch of gaps in my collection if it were the case ...

oh bummer. i'll check the cheapo down the street, but doubt i'll be out in fridley anytime soon

This album is clearly more "whoa three black dudes from Detroit playing rock music that hasn't seen the light of day in 30 years - let me jump on the bandwagon" than "whoa this album just blew me away".

they couldn't fool you!

POWER MEET TRUTH

ENJOY THE SAMEOCRACY, SHEEPLE!

im so deflated that i've been found out :(

don't worry, we'll always have sir lord baltimore

haha, any reissue of obscurity thread wouldn't be complete without a "dude, it was forgotten for a reason!" post.

love is real not fade away

yeah it's a bit like that crushed butler EP, you want more (but this is way better than crushed butler)

uh, no and no. i mean, they're both EPs so that's true, but CB were more on a heavy UK post-blues/pre-glam/proto-metal thing. the second no is obv a matter of personal taste, but CB pretty much hit on every song, death is a little spotty.

just to clear things up:
this album is actually a collection of their singles.

the drummer is awesome.their secret weapon, thats for sure.

"Politicians" does anticipate the Wipers a touch, were the Youth-of-America era Wipers to wank their way through an arena-rock cover (I mean this as a compliment, too) The sound is getting there, but the fluidity and economy isn't, which is a roundabout way of saying that Greg Sage wrote tighter songs when he was seventeen, and then even when he stretched them to the ten-minute mark. And the short ones never waste a note. Death's got some power, but you can't really compare the results to "Telepathic Love," "Tragedy," "Over the Edge," "Can this Be," and so on. It's amazing they existed when and where they did, but that's just musicology, also known as the downfall of many a missing link pre-punk outfit....

"dude, it was forgotten for a reason!"

Which may have had nothing to do with the music. I'm a little surprised that someone from Creem wasn't jizzing over these guys though, since they did occasionally cover local Detroit stuff. If this had come out I think it would have been hailed as a minor classic. It's that good.

Arguing over whether Death are metal, hard rock, or pre-punk (whatever that means)is kind of pointless since those genres either didn't exist or were more amorphous in the early seventies.

i hear pre-forever changes love, sort of like xhuxk says, especially in "where do we go from here???"

not on emusic :(

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, April 10, 2009 1:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really tight, <25 minutes and love the cover, I can get behind it. Anyone going to weigh in on how consistent this is?

yeah it's a bit like that crushed butler EP, you want more (but this is way better than crushed butler)

uh, no and no. i mean, they're both EPs so that's true, but CB were more on a heavy UK post-blues/pre-glam/proto-metal thing. the second no is obv a matter of personal taste, but CB pretty much hit on every song, death is a little spotty.

― cut-off jeans, skinnydipping, and "getting weird" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:17 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark

nah i didn't mean they sounded alike just that i wish both were like twice as long! and i disagree, i think every song on both CB an death are good songs

nabbed this from itunes last night -- hopefully will be able to crank while I paint tomorrow.

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/