A thread for Australian garage-pop-punk-soul geniuses ROYAL HEADACHE, the best rock band of this decade, occasioned by their forthcoming 2015 album HIGH

Sounds great. Thanks!

Pissing Blood's the standout for me

I like the sonics and I like the label head- ILX0r oriain is buddies with him- and I like some tunes, especially “Love Her If I Tried,” which brought me here, but yeah, so far the songs mostly still sound a little generic to me.

Does seem to split the difference between The Undertones and The Reigning Sound in an intriguing way, with some Bob Pollard vocal stylings in the mix.

Seems to have forgotten to mention the Buzzcocks

we should poll threads on new bands where the thread starter is, uh, extremely enthusiastic about them

most of them vanish into the ether, it's only threads on like shabazz palaces where the thread title sticks around to embarrass everyone

not down on the concept mind, i kind of love declaring a band to be the greatest band in history on the basis of really liking their first single on first listen, i think it's totally valid!

I remain extremely enthusiastic about Royal Headache. I love both LPs and both 7-inches. I saw them live nine times (the best was Baltimore in 2015, the worst was DC in 2017--they had a new, more technically proficient drummer, which didn't suit them at all).

I admit the thread title was (intentionally) hyperbolic, but I still think they were great.

Okay, it’s starting to click

"My Own Fantasy" is one of the only good "rock n roll" songs in decades

Yes, that is one problematic type of song.

My Own Fantasy should probably be the last one tbh

Still like this, and prefer to put this on rather than digging through the thousands of post-Alien Lanes GBV spinoffs, reunions etc, even in distilled playlist form, sorry.

Totally forgot about this band but just got a reminder.

You ate my face
To take my place
So you can shine
In another world

Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl9H_2eN2vQ

Shogun's incredibly dumbly named new band sounds great!

also Royal Headache updated the cover image on their Facebook page 3 days ago

https://finnogunswake.bandcamp.com/album/stay-young

Enjoy the song Shogun sings, might need to spend more time getting used to the other guy!

I saw talk on social media somewhere that there's a live album in the works on What's Your Rupture, which includes some songs they never got to record before they split up. I'd be pretty into that and it would explain the Facebook update.

*bump*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecM24hsY_vY

Did we comment on GBV similarities upthread?

shogun has a new band - https://antennnnna.bandcamp.com/album/antenna-2

yep this is good