― peter lloyd (peter lloyd), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Monday, 28 March 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
< 3 mwah
― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Pussy Galore were pretty great. I saw them on their final (I think) US tour in '89; they played some shit club in L.A. on a Monday night, as a trio (no Julie) with some eighth-tier glam-rock band called the Dirt Merchants opening up. PG didn't go on stage until 1 AM, and afterward I bought a T-shirt from Bob Bert for $5 - he wanted $10, but I only had $5. Shirt long gone now, sadly.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― peter lloyd (peter lloyd), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― dlp9001, Monday, 28 March 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 28 March 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)
I really like them, but I'd definitely take Historia over the first three Trux albums. It's the best mixing of Spencer and Hagerty together.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Haven't disturbed my Pussy Galore vinyl in some time, but seems to me they beat the Blues Explosion both live and on disc.
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
It was designed to look like Spanish compilation LPs that you can find in used record stores all over North America, but it is in fact an album of originals and a couple of covers. I've always liked its catalogue number of 007.
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)
NOTE: I never knew what this meant. But it sounds quite cool.
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)
-- Huk-L
?
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Back in 1997 or early 1998, I posted on Matador's message board asking why Historia wasn't getting reissued, and Gerard or Accutron or somebody with authority said they weren't offered it by Jon. I've just assumed that he was trying to bury it and make the official PG story end with Live: In the Red (last show, nothing happened after). Corpse Love was still in print when the Matador reissues came out (dunno if it still is), so that's why it's not on Matador.
Interesting Brit press clipping (spelling Hagerty's name wrong 2 out of 4 times) effectively announcing the end of PG circa Historia and start of Royal Trux: http://www.rtxarchive.com/hagerty/pussygalore/images/pg_historia_disarray.jpg
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Do you like Bob Bert?
I think I do, but it might just be the name.
It is very Sesame Street.
Like Ernie Els.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)
I hear no discernable "influence" on Primal Scream, unless it's BG's terrible singing, and Julia's singing was far far funnier anyway.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)
As for Bob Bert, I can't say I liked the Bewitched album I got all that much.
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)
male singer: "I've got you where I want yeah down on your knees/becuz I'm nothing but a cu-unt tease"
female singer "FUCK YOU"!!!
So it's kind of a call and response thing, I suppose.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Mark, see: http://www.rtxarchive.com/hagerty/discography/publicworks.html
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Wah? My memory must be playing tricks with me, I quite liked the album.
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PQ9727CZQX6K0TP753XHE6XU3
2. Rocks Off
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1AOG59AGG7X9F1TOW4IW8JEX95
Let me know if these two work and I will YSI the rest. I have this as a vinyl single-LP edition with only half the tracks and also as a first-gen copy of the original cassette. The very last track is slightly cut.
Tragically, only "side 3" has seen reissue on the aforementioned Corpse Love disc.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)
Can someone please, please post a link to a copy of Exile ?Here's the whole thing:http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=255VRLSYVYF342N7NLZ1AYD83P
THere's a letter from Mick Jagger's lawyer printed inside Dial 'M'... that says something to the effect of "We regret that Mr. Jagger can not comply with your request" - I've heard that it's either he's turning down an invitation to appear on the album, or denying them permission to release Exile. Anyone know the truth or care to speculate?
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)
Then I guess go chronological - Sugarshit Sharp, Dial M For Motherfucker, Historia de la Musica Rock.
The Live In The Red album is pretty great too.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)
PG were only any good when there were actual women in the band. Their first stable line-up featured Julia Cafritz AND Christina Martinez (who went on to form Boss Hog and eventually to become Mrs. Christina Spencer). They recorded "Groovy Hate Fuck", the "Exile" cassette and the "Pussy Gold 5000". Ace shits.
After Christina quit, they became more rock, less punk. Not that the difference was immediately evident: "Right Now!" still sounds pretty fuggin' messed-up. Picking up certified X-chromosome carrier Kurt Wolf, however, moved 'em even further into "rahk 'n' rawl" flavor country: "Sugarshit Sharp" and "Dial M".
Now, these latter three are all goddam GREAT records -- better than anything they did with Christina on board, so you'd maybe think that estrogen reduction was in the best interest of the Pussy...
But, no. After "Dial M", Julia took off, leaving the all-boy dregs of the band to cut "La Historia de la Musica Rock". And it FUCKING SUCKS. I mean it's got its moments...
"Revolution Summer" is a nice rip on Dischord and the DC scene.
"Song At the End of the Side" is funny, though it isn't really saying anything that "Sweet Little Hi-Fi" didn't.
"Mono! Man", "Ship Comin' In" and (especially) "Will You Still Have Me?" kick ass unrepentantly. And "Drop Dead" rules.
But the rest is lame "blooze" filler. Rote and lackluster. Sucky. Bad. And I imagine THAT'S the main reason Spencer don't want it repressed. It pees on the band's "legacy"...
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)
Historia, however, is brilliant. For one thing, it is far and away their most listenable record (no piling on crap just to make a point). It is also conceptually WAY closer in spirit to the Shaggs and the Godz than anything else they ever did. Side one of the record is as good as one of the sides of Godz 2. Saying it's "rote and lackluster and sucky and bad" is like saying the Godz are "rote and lackluster and sucky and bad."
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)
Just like the Shaggs are RaLaS and GOOD.
Just like "Right Now!" is RaLaS and GOOD. To this very day I can play "Right Now!" for folks who've never heard Pussy Galore, and have 'em roll around on the floor laughing.
"Historia" ain't NEVER gonna do that. It's not "so-bad-its-good." It's just bad. Bad as in average. Hell, it's just-barely-sub-adequate. Some slightly fucked-up white boy blues rock by some more than slightly fucked-up white boys. Less devolved than Devo, and not half as much fun.
Hell, the Gibson Bros./Bassholes did the trepannated blues thing a million times better.
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)
I don't like Historia as a "trepannated blues thing." I don't see it as a lame conceptual record - like a lot of other roots rock/garage bands - in that way. I see it as real manifestation of rock and roll as fun garbage music. Like sixties American garage bands. (Like the Godz!) But not some sort of *conceptual* vision of "Oh, aren't we loose and raunchy and fucked up?" - which is what Pussy Galore was originally.
And the music on the record is not supposed to be "adequate" in the same way that early Royal Trux records were not supposed to be "adequate." (In the same way that the Godz were not supposed to be "adequate.")
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)
On that level, I agree with you: "Historia"'s ostensible intentions are much purer than what PG had been up to before. But purity of intent doesn't = good music. And I think there are a billion better white boy blues records out there than "Historia". The best tunes are those that most resemble the band's earlier output (such as "Will You Still Have Me", which woulda sounded perfectly at home on "Dial M").
I think it's important to distingish the social pose from the actual music. To my ears, "Right Now!" rocks better and more authentically than "Historia". Hell, it's even more pop. So, the act that the band was putting on at the time doesn't concern me much. When PG were acting "fake", their music was real. When they tried to get real, their music became contrived.
As I hear it, the Godz have an, "Oh, aren't we loose and raunchy and fucked up?" aspect, too. As do the early Royal Trux. Doesn't take anything away from the deeper purity of their music, though.
I think "Right Now!" era Pussy Galore are WONDERFUL in almost exactly the same way I think "Godz 2" and "Twin Infinitives" are wonderful. Sure, Pussy Galore were (superficially) full of shit, while the Godz and RT at least pretended to believe in what they were doing. But underneath the pose and pretense, I think all three records are similarly transcendental, unique and perfect.
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
I think this boils down more to irrational personal preference than anything that can be coherently justified...
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)
The distinction is that Pussy Galore always felt like an EXERCISE. Which was a drag. Yeah, exercises can result in good music - Stereolab made good music. But it weighs down on things. Historia feels more like just making music. The Godz were free, Royal Trux were free, and this record is free. (Occasionally, Spencer does seem to be doing his schtick, like on "Mono Man" - one of your favorites on the record).
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)
For me, Spencer's borderline-horrifying attitude schtick just somehow works in PG's dumbfuck noisepunk context. Seems both appropriate and funny. Whereas it really, REALLY doesn't work for the rock/blues thing he moved on to. (Like, I can't even listen to that one song where he humiliates poor old R.L. Burside with his retarded "blues" interjections. "Snake drive!" my black ass...)
Now, I can't say how, exactly, but "Right Now!" fucking does my head in properly. It feels connected and right-on and effortlessly appealing all the way through. Course, there's nothing to the music but denatured "rock action," but it STILL kicks a million miles of flabby white ass.
And I just don't get that same feeling of effortless, exhilarating, spontaneous CORRECTNESS from "Historia". It just sounds like a group of simililarly-minded junkie-pose hipsters rotating the blues grinder while they try to figure out what to do next. Nothing special.
But, you know, that's just me...
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
i haven't listened to these bands in years, but MAN how i listened to them once upon a time (and pretty much around the same time too).
i wonder what i'd think of them all now. i think i got rid of my godz records for some reason.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 September 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)
Ha ha, just watching a rerun of "House" and he's playing an instrumental from "Dial M" to annoy everyone (and eventually to induce a seizure in a patient). It does sound a little annoying out of context.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 03:38 (eighteen years ago)
ha ha ha ha
seriously, tho, where can I find historia?
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:03 (eighteen years ago)
Not a hard record to find, dude, at least not on CD. There's currently one on eBay for $2.50 Buy It Now.
I've been half-heartedly searching for a vinyl version for a few years, though
and just to weigh in, it IS their best album
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
yes it is
― the galena free practitioner, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:24 (eighteen years ago)
historia de la musica! great record. but yeah, doc supes, it's not too tough to find. i even see the LP every few months, i feel like. want a tape of it?
― ian, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)
found it already. I just didn't actually look for it for ten years, and Matador never mailed it to my house, so I assumed it was hard to find.
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)
There's currently one on eBay for $2.50 Buy It Now.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 09:34 (eighteen years ago)
That House re-run was the first time i've seen the show. Kind of an amusing surprise. I was hoping (but doubting) the thread revive was in reference to this.
LO AND BEHOLD
The Alan Milman Sect + Man-Ka-Zam were featured as well.
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 January 2008 10:38 (eighteen years ago)
you Historia boosters are nuts. That record is easily their worst, right behind Right Now.
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)
WTF Right Now is awesome! I guess I would say Historia is their worst album, as in least best, cos I like the others more, but it's still a good album and I don't know why they didn't reissue it when they did the others.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)
I'm not saying it's just their best, but EASILY their best. As someone said upthread, Pussy Galore in theory were awesome, and live (judging by the footage I've seen) were awesome. But come on, those records sound like shit. Historia is just an amazing rock and roll record - proto-Trux, or like the Workdogs if they were much, much better.
For some unknown reason, it's also one of those damn CDs that just won't load into iTunes for me...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 24 January 2008 15:57 (eighteen years ago)
If Historia... on LP is that scarce I should prob try and offload it cuz I never got much out of it
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:02 (eighteen years ago)
those records sound like shit
That's what I LIKE about them! Are you really trying to say Historia sounds better than something like "Kill Yourself"? 'Cause to me, the non-production sound way better and Historia sounds like, well, a Workdogs album.
Don't know what it is about Right Now (no Julia?) but I always preferred Dial M, with Groovy Hate Fuck sitting up about 10,000 light years above it.
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)
never mind, Airport, I just remembered you think Zen Arcade sucks for the same reason. There can be no reasoning with such a stance.
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)
its all about sugarshit sharp
― stevie, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:04 (eighteen years ago)
"But come on, those records sound like shit."
yeah, i'm with sleevey, those albums sound awesome. sugarshit sharp especially, but the other ones as well.
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:14 (eighteen years ago)
Dude, we're talking about Pussy Galore. If you want sonic clarity, go listen to Jean Michel Jarre, for cryin' out loud.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:18 (eighteen years ago)
i always thought they were very artfully shitty. it takes talent to get stuff to sound good and shitty.
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
The guitar noise on Punch Out on Right Now is so fucking great. I should go and put that on now
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:51 (eighteen years ago)
I still agree with myfuckingself upthread: Historia still blows. I suspect that if it actually HAD been reissued with the other stuff, there would be no contention on this point.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:24 (eighteen years ago)
But come on, those records sound like shit. Historia is just an amazing rock and roll record
Sounding like shit doesn't necessarily preclude an amazing rock and roll record. Better produced or not, though, Historia sounds like they gave up on the project before they entered the studio. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Rob Tannenbaum (I believe) wrote a remarkable review of it in Spin, though.
Then again, my taste re: Pussy Galore are unorthodox. I only love two of their records. Right Now! sounds like shit and is an amazing rock and roll record, most amazingly on "Punch Out," the Bad Boy to the NY Dolls' "Bad Girl."
And Dial M For Motherfucker is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s. It's the pig fuck It Takes a Nation, an ADD whole that exceeds the sum of its tape fuckery, stops and starts, voices ghosting in and out, songs midwiving other songs, repeated themes, DNA strand guitar solos, radio transmissions, phone conversations, beeps, bloops, buzzes, etc. All of which aids the Pussies in rockin' the fuck out. Gawd, I adore this record!
I actually saw the beginning of that House episode but didn't stick around to hear PG. Which Dial M For Motherfucker did he play? ("DWDA" fits the description best.)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)
The guitar noise on Punch Out on Right Now is so fucking great.
Ah! A consensus is forming!
But I played that very track for a student a few weeks ago and he didn't get it. I even banged my head a bit to underline the effect. No go.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)
Plus Dial M For Motherfucker is in the fine tradition of godlike albums with crappy posters inside, e.g. Daydream Nation (still another reason why vinyl >>>>> CDs...has a poster ever been smooshed into a CD? Prolly but I can't think of one right now. Right Now!)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)
Thank you, Kevin John Bozelka, for being right about things.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:37 (eighteen years ago)
like the Workdogs if they were much, much better
yeah, sorta my impression. was kinda expecting more hagerty vocals and less Spencer ham. So I haven't really figured out what i think of yet.
― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)
God bless you Kevin John Bozelka. I didn't wanna be all contrarian, but Dial M is a serious masterpiece. Actually pretty tuneful, in a weird way. I was kinda surprised by how obnoxious DWDA sounded in the House episode, 'cause I never thought of it as *that* annoying. One of my favorite albums of the 80's as well.
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:48 (eighteen years ago)
i can't remember the last time i actually listened to pussy galore. it's been a long time. other than groovy hate fuck, which i feel is its own entity in a weird way, the 2nd side of sugarshit sharp is definitely the thing i have played most over the years. i can't understand anyone not loving that sequence of songs and the sound and everything about it. so amazing to me.
i'd probably like historia more now than when it came out. i LIKED it, but i didn't play it much. and i sold my copy years ago, so that must mean something. or it did at the time. i definitely thought it sounded cool.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:09 (eighteen years ago)
OK, I didn't mean for this to become an aesthetic debate - I love the new Times New Viking, Sic Alps, all the prime ear Siltbreeze stuff, scratchy old blues 78s...I'm not against great music 'sounding like shit.' My problem with PG's albums are just that they render almost every song an incomprehensible blur. Dial M is an exception, I grant you, and a good record, but not as good as Historia. I don't like Sugarshit Sharp at all.
I stand by my opinion of Zen Arcade (don't liked it, never did), but offer Replacements's Tim as being an amazing album despite one of the worst production jobs in rock history.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:34 (eighteen years ago)
It's probably worth noting that the original CD of Dial M included all of Sugarshit Sharp except for Yu Gong. As a result, I've always thought of SS as an extension of Dial M.
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:46 (eighteen years ago)
"I don't like Sugarshit Sharp at all."
but why? it's so good.
i always liked how tim sounded. and i love zen arcade. we have way different ears. which is cool.
"It's probably worth noting that the original CD of Dial M included all of Sugarshit Sharp except for Yu Gong."
that's just friggin' idiotic.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:34 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, and the CD added a version of Devo's "Penetration Of The Centerfold" in its place! Which is even MORE idiotic! The only place I have that awesome version of Yu-Gung now is on my original cassette.
― sleeve, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:08 (eighteen years ago)
Groovy Hate Fuck has always been closest to my heart of any PG.
― libcrypt, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:49 (eighteen years ago)
The only place I have that awesome version of Yu-Gung now is on my original cassette. Me too. Bought it when Sound Warehouse went out of business. I don't have a cassette player hooked up right now, though.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 25 January 2008 07:53 (eighteen years ago)
My Sugarshit Sharp CD has both Yu Gung & Penetration In The Centerfold on it, I have the Mute reissues from the late 90s tho.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 25 January 2008 08:10 (eighteen years ago)
"Groovy Hate Fuck has always been closest to my heart of any PG."
What he said.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:16 (eighteen years ago)
Pussy Galore Love!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:33 (eighteen years ago)
Live In The Red is destroying me right now. I never got a chance to hear it before. Everything I could want in a live album. I hope there's a fight on side 2.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 05:42 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, s'great, and Slo Pig's on there, isn't it? Nice to have that official and all.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:07 (eighteen years ago)
any fans of pussy galore,please get in touch wanted live audio/shows I don't have
I've just got these:
AUDIOSHITHAUS(pre-PUSSY GALORE) 1984-85 "live crush" cassete?? 60'
demos 1985 20'
1985-86 Oven Bait(Original Version) 60' *
1985-86 Unauthorized Oven Bait ACR007 60' 1986 1 YR Live 70' *
1986 Exile on main St 60'
Exile on main Street Unmixed Version 1986(DIFFERENT THAN THE CASSETTE VERSION) 60Â’
1-6-86 JedÂ’s?,NEW Orleans,Lousiana 30'*
8-6-86 the Complex,Washington DC 25Â’
10-16-86 the rat,Boston 37' *
9-19-86 hoosier ballrom,Indianapolis IN 45'*
CBGB,NY halloween 1986 3 tracks
CBGB 1986?love you live 7"(bootleg,4 songs live)
8-5-87 the channel, Boston 30'
10-13-87 Brewery, Raleigh, NC 40' *
31-1-87 maxwell's,Hoboken,NJ 40' MASTER=CDR1
7-26-87,asylum,NYC 25'
31-7-87 anthrax,Norwalk,CT 40' CDR1=CDR2
1987?right now cassete extra 2 live tracks 7'
11-18-88 Maxwell's,Hoboken, NJ 30' 1ST= CDR1 *
12-1-88 kennedy's club,Vienna,Austria 40' 1ST GEN=CDR1 *
22-1-88 Limelight,Kortrijk,Belgium 50Â’ CASS
1-8-88 CBGB's, NYC 30' MASTER=CDR2 *
Osaka,Japan ?-?-88 30Â’
?-?-88 Bonn,Germany 30' *
27-1-88 bad club,Hannover,Germany 30' MASTER=CDR1 *
11-17-88 Night Shift Cafe, Naugatuck, CT 35' *
17-11-88 Nightshift CAfe,Naugatuck,Conn. 1st GEN=CDR full show+interview
11-24-88 tropic,club,Bristol,UK 35'*
1-17-88 Effaanar,Eindhoven, Holland 45'*
12-2-88 the Boardwalk,Manchester,UK(this friday night only bootleg LP) 45'
23-2-88 Mean Fiddler,London,UK(cum into my mouth bootleg LP) 30'
30-11-88 drohnland,Nurnberg,Germany 30' AUD3=CDR1
23-11-88 fabrik,hamburg,Germany 70' MASTER=CDR1 *
26-11-88 rose club,Koln,Germany 60' MASTER=CDR1 *
30-1-88 the forum,Enger,Germany 30' *
17-7-89 the probe hollywood,CA 40' MASTER=CDR1 *
3-8-89 ground zero,Boston 45'
24-7-89 old avalon theatre,Minneapolis 40' AUD4=CDR1
?-july-89 apocalypse club,Toronto,Canada 60' 1ST GEN=CDR2
5-8-89 CBGB,NY “live in the red”(last show) 40’ ANY AUDIENCE RECORDINGS??
7-25-90 peel sessions 15' *(probably live tracks from a show of 1989)
VIDEO(V)Maximum Penetration (o) 40'(X)(24) DVD
(V)1-3-87 CBGB,NY 30'(86)(24) DVD
(V)1989 british UK TV (PIG SWEAT)live in London 88+int 5'(86)
(V)Bad Club,Hannover,Germany 27-2-88(Jon Spencer stops taping,date probably as 27-1-88??) 10'
(V)9-7-89 Axis club,Forth Worth,TX 40'(78)(86) DVD
(V)dick johnson clip 5'(86) DVD
(V)22-7-89 Central Tavern,Seattle,WA(Camera Effects) DVD 40Â’
― almudeno, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)
yay
― admrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:10 (sixteen years ago)
classic Jon, Julie, Neil & Bob lineup:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhTplwlLhQ
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 May 2020 18:09 (six years ago)
From the Teenage Riot video! At 00:12 you can see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPytYrYqDbA
― fpsa, Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:41 (six years ago)
bump
does anyone still listen to jon spencer anymore? seems like another case of "the more you hear the less you want to hear". and obviously they are similar artists.
I still listen to Pussy Galore all the time — Dial 'M' For Motherfucker is a masterpiece — but the Blues Explosion never seemed to have any songs, it all sounded like rehearsal tapes of three dudes throwing ideas around hoping something would congeal.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, August 3, 2024 12:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't really listen to pussy galore anymore but i loved them at the time. i bought all the records. i love trash can rock. i got rid of anything i bought after PG that was PG-related. boss hogg. JSBE. i don't think i ever bought a Bewitched record. i was never a royal trux fan. much to the chagrin of 95% of the indie people i know. i think PG just tapped into something groovy and by themselves they were never as strong. i might enjoy Orange if i heard it. that had the most real songs on it i think.
i was a huge gun club fan. and i probably always compared jack white and WS unfavorably (and probably unfairly) to gun club. jack white to me was the pale ghost of gun club, pixies, flat duo jets. but he outsold all of them by 59585853% so good for him. good going fella!
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 2:26 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'll listen to some of the new one on my big speakers though. i'm open-minded!
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 2:27 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i just listened to my first jon spencer album last week (cleaning out some cd's left behind 20 years ago by an ex), and the irony has not aged well. at least jack white committed fully to the bit, and didn't have to keep reassuring you that he was in on the joke.
based on the early reviews here, i'm actually excited to listen to the new one, which hasn't been true since elephant.
― enochroot, Saturday, August 3, 2024 4:06 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Big fan of RTX and JSBE, but I've never heard Pussy Galore. I should probably rectify that. Where's the best place to start?
― Cow_Art, Saturday, August 3, 2024 4:08 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
They have two full-length albums, Right Now! and Dial 'M' for Motherfucker, that are great. Both are on Spotify, but not on Tidal for some reason. They also recorded a track-by-track cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. which is more entertaining to contemplate than to listen to (they clearly lose interest in the project pretty quickly but slog it out all the way to the end). That's streaming, too.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, August 3, 2024 4:35 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
O
― brimstead, Saturday, August 3, 2024 5:40 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
whoops
pussy galore’s music is pretty terrible but they looked cool as hell!
imagine releasing that yuck yuck blues explosion shit in 2024!
― brimstead, Saturday, August 3, 2024 5:43 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i love the sugarshitsharp EP. one side is just an einsturzende neubaten cover.
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:00 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
"neubauten"
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
their last album is kinda the beginning of royal trux.
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:06 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i came on board in a big way in 1986 with the Groovy Hate Fuck release. what can i say, i was a fan of the jesus & mary chain and richard kern and sonic youth.
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:09 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
but the two albums that unperson highlighted are their most sustained efforts. album as album experiences. they're a lot of fun. if you like noise rock with kitchen utensil percussion.
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:10 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
jack white should cover this one for a b-side.
― scott seward, Saturday, August 3, 2024 6:14 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Since we’ve sidetracked into talking about Pussy Galore I’d say Groovy Hate Fuck and Right Now are absolute must listens…two of my alltime favorites…but pretty much everything they did was great including the live album. Agree that JSBE is mostly skippable though.
― Slim is an Alien, Monday, August 5, 2024 9:28 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
for me, Groovy Hate Fuck (the extended UK version that also has tracks from the 1st 7" and Pussy Gold 5000) was the one that blew my mind open back then, but as unperson notes Dial M is also a goddamn masterpiece.
can anyone defend that last LP, the fake "Historia De La Musica Rock" thing? haven't heard it since I sold it back in 1990.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 5 August 2024 18:15 (one year ago)
like i said, if you are a royal trux fan i would think you would like historia. it sounds like royal trux.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 August 2024 18:17 (one year ago)
that was my memory, and what I did not like about it! I do like some later Trux stuff but not the major label ones
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 5 August 2024 18:31 (one year ago)
Dial M is just a masterpiece, I love that record so much. Historia has long been on my mental list of albums to look for in every used shop I hit up, but no dice yet. They need some reissues.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 5 August 2024 19:05 (one year ago)
Matador reissued their catalog many years ago but didn't do Historia. I think Spencer disowns it.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 5 August 2024 19:06 (one year ago)
I don’t know why he would! It’s a fun record. It was on Caroline, right? Maybe that’s why it’s dead, like Live Skull’s Positraction and Snuffer EP?
― timellison, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 20:17 (one year ago)
that could be it. lost in Caroline red tape.
Hi, Tim! It's me Scott from the old days!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 20:18 (one year ago)
Hello my friend!
― timellison, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 20:30 (one year ago)
I've got Historia on CD. I don't think it's bad but it's a drop off from their other stuff
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 20:51 (one year ago)
ha reading this thread back it turns out the reason I have Historia on CD is because someone posted it was on ebay and I bought it!
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 20:53 (one year ago)