― Alex in SF, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I don't care abt insults. Some people will resort to such rubbish but I don't care.
― Julio Desouza, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― owen hatherley, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://www.rcleather.com/images/Doo%20Rag%20-%20041.jpg
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Holla
― Ramosi, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevie, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
How come no-one ever mentions Blue Cheer round here?
― duane, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah, but the mix of that on Babes in Arms is great.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I never saw the 5 but I did follow Sonic's Rendezvous Band when I lived in Ann Arbor. Fred Smith was an amazing musician, pushing the envelope of every performance like a jazz saxophonist on a roll. Hearing him play was saturating, like swimming in the ocean: you'd wake up the next day still feeling partially immersed, with your ears ringing and a funny taste in your mouth. Kick Out The Jams!
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
dave q told me I must listen to 'back in the USA' but you know I keep forgetting! maybe its one for the retirement home.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cb, Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― theophilus jones (theophilus), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Friday, 22 April 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd just like to say that this is shite.
― everything, Friday, 22 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't like the 5 much, though. I prefer Grand Funk. Just bought the remasters of their first 3 albums the other week. They sound amazing.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish.
(get one copy of "space ritual" or "yeti", heh)
Those are two of my all time faves but not really the same kind of thing are they? Yeti's a great proggy Jefferson Airplane trip and Space Ritual is a transcendently minimal slab of sludge more in the spirit of the Stooges and Blue Cheer. Neither have the hyper ice-pick-in-your-ear goood olde time rock-and-rool teenage lust of the MC5. Plus talking bout the MC5 makes me want to type and spell like a real idiot.
Seriously though, in what way were they pretty ordinary? Please point me to some more songs that sound like Looking at You, Human Being Lawnmower, or Future/Now because I'd really love to hear them. I can't see how anyone would think they're overrated either since they barely seem to be rated at all. They get about 1/20th of the love and acclaim that the Stooges get (for example) and they're at least half as good.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Three years later, I'll stand by that claim!
― J (Jay), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Friday, 22 April 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
if you're basing this solely on Kick Out The Jams, then yes.. but that doofus Sinclair was out of the mix after that for the most part (thank god), and so their two studio albums have markedly less posturing (if at all). and walter otm as far as comparisons to Amon Duul and Hawkwind. actually walter otm in general.
― Amon (eman), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been elected to rock your asses 'til midnightThis is my term and I've shaved off my permbut it's alright...
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
It is perfect. That is all.
― J (Jay), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Just reading this old Christgau piece on them and check this out:
"The warm-up was the Popcorn Blizzard (good), the Psychedelic Stooges (awful), and some blather about a religion called Zenta (weird)."
Whoa. Christgau saw the Popcorn Blizzard!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 23 April 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link
People always complain that the MC5 (and the original Raw Power mix) are not "heavy" enough. Sure heavy is great, sludge is cool and Blue Cheer, Sabbath, Hawkwind, Motorhead, etc. did it best. But it's a totally different thing. MC5 weren't trying to be "heavy" by some kind of lame drop-tuned, scooped mids, cookie monster measure of modern heaviness and I think people too often try to judge them by that yardstick.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 23 April 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 23 April 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
The reason I mentioned Hawkwind and Amon Duul is that they were both the kind of similar political/underground thing, maybe the pink fairies were a better brit eqiv than hawkwind? (they probably wished! haha) I like them a lot better than the mc5 as well, though. "What a Bunch of Sweeties" is fucking awesome!
In this context I don't really much care about heaviness either, I mean I really like the early seventies heavy sound - sabbath, hawkwind etc, but what I don't dig about the mc5 is that they just don't rock me. The Stooges rocked, Black Sabbath rocked, the mc5 just kind of ... played fast. bleh.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 23 April 2005 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, innit terrible that some people have the nerve to not like the same music you do!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link