Now riddle me this: what does SST stand for?
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
I was going to interview Greg Ginn recently (obv. anyone can at this point, even me), but it all seemed kind of sad and he has some weird cat obsession now and no one else cared about it, but me.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link
It's weird how Angst have become erased from people's minds. I still quite like Mystery Spot. Weren't they one of the Pixies influences? I seem to recall that Frank Black's advert for band members supposedly asked for people influenced "by Angst and Husker Du".
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link
Angst actually played in the UK with Dinosaur Jr in 1987 (I know cos I was there), around the same time the Pixies were starting to become the New Thing. As I recall it they were way better then Dino Jr, who were always terrible live.
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― ddb, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Doctor Wu by the Minutemen was the first time I ever heard someone sing that stupid song, so that's a fave of mine...
Has there been a Homestead C or D? Ahhh sweet 80s hardcore nostalgia... (are all types of music called Hardcore great, btw?)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
chuck you need to hear lawndale's sasquatch rock again, especially with your genre-bending hearing aids in. there's this crazy "whole lotta love"/"take five" medley (90s us indie band paid tribute to with equally screwy "take five" - fab four's "he's so heavy" = unity cover).
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
The only band from my home town, Pacific Palisades CA, to actually "make it". Colin, you seriously could stand their version of "La Isla Bonita"?
The more underrated Pacific Palisades band with SST influences but with proto-Polvo/psych rock sounds was MUSTARD. I'd be happy to digitize their (I think one and only) self-titled 7" from 1990 with "Burn The Green" and "Song For D." on it for interested folks. (you can obviously guess who "D." refers to).
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 13 March 2004 08:50 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
Opal's "Happy Nightmare," Minutemen, first three Meat Puppets, Volcano Suns OTM.
The Divine Horsemen's "Middle of The Night" was on SST, wasn't it? I loved that record.
― M. Specktor, Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Cosgrove Pennybaker, Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― strapped-on records, Saturday, 13 March 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
to be fair, Polvo were already active at the time, but the more bent aspects of the band's guitar playing (mainly Ash's playing) wouldn't be accented until a little later.. and I didn't mean to imply the band were an influence on them of anything, but I hear a little bit of that in one of the songs.. minor comment, really.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
Avoid:MinuteflagZoogz RiftElliot Sharp
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/ilx/sst1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
Bl'ast-the power of expression. (It pains me that even most of you guys don't know this band and this album).
Husker Du-zen arcade.
Black Flag-slip it in.
Husker Du-metal circus.ep.
Black Flag-my war.
Dinosaur Jr-you're living all over me.
Minutemen-double nickels on the dime.
Black Flag-damaged.
Black Flag-the first four years.
Meat Puppets-2.
― Ellis From Die Hard, Monday, 6 June 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jacques bush, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Heh, I never knew Scott linked to my SST discography thingy. The old link is dead but it's still online:
http://macdaraconroy.com/experiments/misc/sst_discog.txt
I haven't added the new stuff yet, and I never got around to writing up discogs for New Alliance, Cruz and Issues.
― MacDara, Saturday, 2 August 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, I just tried to look at the old one!
― sleeve, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
SST Acoustic comp (totally forgotten album with people like The Last, Kirk Kelly and Angst who you might balk at sitting thorugh a whole album of, but get their good stuff represented on here)
-- DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, March 12, 2004 11:09 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
^^^still this - I like basically every song on this comp
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 3 August 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=32829478http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2008/10/sarah_palins_fa.php
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Tar Babies's Fried Milk is a great unsung SST album
After getting a digital copy of this recently, agreed. But really there are so many great unsung SST albums.
I'm sorry but It's In My Blood! is a far better album (and Take the Manic Ride would be good too without the shitty production). Alas, they had a sound too far ahead of their time.
― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
But... isn't Bl'ast's sound basically a mix of Damaged & My War? I mean that's great and everything but it's not exactly ahead of it's time.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link
All the classic Meat Pups, Husker, Minutemen, fIREHOSE etc: but I also realy like the first s/t Buffalo Tom album
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, that first Buffalo Tom album was basically the soundtrack to me skiving off lectures all day and generally fucking up at university. Every time I see it now I feel like a loser all over again. That and the first Anastasia Screamed record, the one with the pink cover.
― NickB, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah that's what everyone always says, but have you ever actually listened to them? The time changes and other intricacies place them as far away from Black Flag as, say, the Minutemen and Sac Trust are.
― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Sure, I dig Power Of Expression and I agree completely about Take The Manic Ride being good if it weren't for the (really) shitty production, I'm not sure about It's In my Blood being better but I like that too. I guess I didn't think anything in particular about their sound hadn't been done previously by Black Flag/Greg Ginn's guitar playing in particular. Not that that makes it any less great to listen to.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
New Day Rising, with Meat Puppets II close behind.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
The SST albums by Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr. and Buffalo Tom have been remastered. What's next? I think Sister in a double deluxe pkg is due sometime soon. Hard to tell if a remaster would do much for Husker Du or Minutemen.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Tom Watson has said that one day he'd like to get the Slovenly stuff reissued (dunno about remastering). Could definitely do with getting Thinking of Empire on CD.
― NickB, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I read that somewhere too, I really hope it happens some day soon. Surely there's someone here who runs a label which'd be perfect for this. I mean, if Slovenly were British it probably would have happened already (with the likes of LTM and so on).
― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link