whole lineup is A+++ really
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I take Pissed Jeans very seriously.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I take them seriously in the sense that they're a great noisy rock band (again, similar to my appreciation for Mclusky), but I think their lyrics are plainly tongue-in-cheek most of the time. I mean, "I've Still Got You (Ice Cream)", c'mon.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 July 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
take them seriously it's total retard rock are you people british?
― Edward III, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know, I think the lyrics are supposed to be an actual reflection of the kinds of things that desperate men cling to. I like the vocals a lot. Ice Cream is my favorite song.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
excellent point, now let's deconstruct "dick in one hand" by drunks w/ guns.
also, pj much more enjoyable live than on record. I was so-so on them till I saw 'em live.
― Edward III, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
x-p
I think there's some truth in it for sure, I just happen to think that the juxtoposition of the "pained" vocal delivery with the (relatively) small-stake subject matter is more funny than insightful. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 July 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah they are so great live and c. 3ddy o_O like usual. singer = hotttt
― strgn, Monday, 27 August 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
O.G. pigfuckers should not be expected to dig this shit. I do, but I was going to daycare in 1985. I bet plenty of fans weren't even born.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't imagine anybody thinks this is an IMPROVEMENT on the first time 'round.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"o.g.," lol
― hstencil, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
pigfuck 4 lyfe
― dmr, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i still like this but yeah after awhile "Scrapbooking" really become irritating...i love the lyrics....the jogger is way better for the offspeed/changeup talking shit.
still this is pretty epic. i take them seriously. it's seriously good.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Like Hope for Men, don't love it. In part, that's cuz it's only about 1/10th as entertaining as the live show. But it's also less surprising, funny, rocking, noisy than I'd have liked. An good record that's just shy of something great.
― Bob Standard, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL at dudes throwing down about pigfuck bands' lyrics and vocal delivery. it's ugly and stupid, SOOPRISE!? it's also (fucking obviously) no Flipper or Jesus Lizard or Whatever, but it's probably the most satisfying approximation floating around right now.
so these dudes are playing at a more familiar Baltimore establishment, the Ottobar, with Black Dice headlining on November 19th. I'll actually be attending this one!
― circa1916, Friday, 2 November 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"I've got something to tell you I hope you don't take it wrong Well you've got a secret admirer And I think he's singin' a song Yeah, he's a mysterious guy alright I'll give you a clue who it is And I'll throw in a couple of guesses He's in the music biz Oh, he keeps his tongue tied And he's really shy But none of that means that he's a bad guy I'm pretty sure he sees you on weekdays When you're walking home from work He looks out of his window So he can't act like a jerk And he's figured out what car you drive Not totally sure what house is yours He doesn't know what he's truly looking for But he's gonna give/get(?) it
I've got something to tell you I'm not trying to be a creep One day i'll be in your driveway Singin "AYAI AYAI AYAIYAIIIII"
I've got something to tell you I'm not tryin to be a jerk Well one day i'll be in your driveway Singin' "hey hey laida HAEAEAYYYY!"
the lyrics i do understand i actually like. kinda Twee meets Pigfuck. where else can you hear genuine noisefuck odes to scrapbooking and icecream?
― circa1916, Friday, 2 November 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Hearing dude talk about his digital watch and stuff is like watching True Stories in slo-mo. LOL THE BANALITY OF MODERN EXISTENCE
YEAH THEY SHOULD SING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS!!!11!
― filthy dylan, Friday, 2 November 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/07/pissed_jeans_are_the_true_heir.html
^^^haha totally missed this at the time, I guess we all did
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 22 February 2008 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link
for nu-pigfuck though i think STNNNG torches pissed jeans, and are more interesting.
I saw STNNNG a few years ago, was unimpressed really pretty much embarrassed by their performance... Don't care much for the recordings I've heard either. Guitars were real weak sounding (could have been due to the mix in the PA) and most of the playing missed the mark if I recall correctly, singer had zero charisma, didn't like his voice...
I do dig the first Pissed Jeans record, and especially the 7". Hope For Men I can take or leave. When I want piss-sack idiotshit scum rock I usually go with Drunks With Guns or the Brainbombs. Stick Men With Rayguns are probably wittier...and so on like people have been saying...
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 22 February 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I like all those bands! I must have a low tolerance for this kind of thing... duh.
LOL @ wankers on Guardian comments as per
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 February 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
When I say I dig the first record and 7", what I mean to say is, I REALLY dig them.
Also, as far as sludgy suckrock bands that do it a bit better, there has not been one mention of...RUSTED SHUT. But I suppose they're a pretty different beast...
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 22 February 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know about live but on record STNNNG blow my face off. Great lyrics and singing. But really they're more Jesus Lizard angry-but-not-in shambles while Pissed Jeans is more like Flipper drunk + self loathing.
Clockcleaner is another nu-pigfuck band that are tearing shit up/
― filthy dylan, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Loved Shallow and the Sub-Pop single when they came out, but burned out quick. Hope for Men didn't do much for me on the first few spins, but I'm old and jaded.
What's surprising is how much it's all grown on me. I said I burned out on the early stuff, but listening to it recently, I like it a lot more than I thought I would. And Hope for Men is catching up fast. Great lyrics, one of the better/funnier live shows in recent memory, and some great, almost-catchy riffs buried down there in the garbage. Derivative, sure, but at least they're good at what they do. On the downside, the drumming fine, but I wish the rhythm section were a little less predictable. That's maybe my one complaint. Can't imagine they have a "Flying Houses" anywhere up the sleeve.
And it's funny how divisive stuff like "Scrapbooking" is. Gateway for folks who wouldn't ordinarily be able to deal, boring interlude for the converted. Personally, I love the song, and think the album wouldn't be anywhere near as strong without it (and "The Jogger").
― contenderizer, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
the NY Times calls them ****** Jeans...
Primal Call and Response at a Band’s Rumbling Bash By BEN RATLIFF
Correction Appended
Sad-eyed Matt Korvette, lanky and a little slobby, stood on a chair, put his hands up by his clavicle and ripped off his white T-shirt from the collar down. Gathering concentration, he looked straight ahead as he made this strong and pathetic gesture.
What a cliché, right? But then the band started a monstrous rumble, a foursquare beat began, and the dour young man became the horse face from “Guernica”: all teeth, tongue, nostrils and jaws, his mouth open in a scream. Here was someone you wanted to watch. He was bellowing about wanting to kiss boring girls, growing primal as he outlined a stultifying thought, and he would not break his concentration.
His band, from Philadelphia, has a name that lies just on the other side of what’s printable here; it describes a basic bladder-related humiliation, something that happens to the drunk or scared or infantile. As it happens, that described some of Friday night’s crowd at the Silent Barn, a little performance space in Ridgewood, Queens.
This group brings back ’80s memories of hard, slovenly noise, when punk bands realized they could slow down and let their music fall apart a bit. It triggers a deep behavioral response of that era too, before mosh pits became codified.
The crowd at the Silent Barn, a room without a stage, became aggressive, nasty; it wasn’t easy to stay neutral, and people started to huddle defensively on the sides.
The columns of speakers on either side of the band were being used as something to hold on to. Average hipsters started to look like sailors clinging to a mast in a storm. The band’s bassist, Randy Huth, stood in front of the drummer, Sean McGuinness, playing with his back to the audience, trying to prevent bodies from flying into the cymbals and drum kit.
Historically the way a bare-chested, punk-band singer deals with a situation like this is to make it worse. But the band started a new song, “I Don’t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear,” and Mr. Korvette walked slowly into the room, acting abstracted, completely naïve, a man from Mars. It was a nice touch. Nobody bothered him, and the action slowed down around him. “I might just stand here,” he sang. And he did.
Their songs are funny. They’re full of rabid energy about dull or benign things, like cellphone plans or ice cream. Now and then, when Mr. Korvette ripped into a new song looking as if he was going to eat his microphone, or when the band started a new, messy riff, leaking feedback and channeling Black Sabbath or Black Flag, it seemed that this was going to be a very good gig. It wasn’t. It couldn’t hold its own against the mess of the crowd. The set was short, 40 minutes or so, cut off for bad vibes. It didn’t get to where it wanted to go.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 20, 2008 A music review on Monday of ****** Jeans at the Silent Barn in Queens misidentified the bassist. He is Randy Huth — not Dave Rosenstrauss, who left the band.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw that the other day. Kinda surreal. Like big brain alien planet scientists observing the primitive rituals.
― contenderizer, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
'Don't Need Smoke' is way old as well, while they're going about correcting stuff
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
new album in a couple weeks! stoked!
http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/king_of_jeans
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 31 July 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Dudes stepped it uppp
― neden stacey (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
their album covers are always intersting imo
― wilter, Friday, 31 July 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
jazzed for this, definitely
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 31 July 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It's tighter, doomy almost. "Spent" is like Swans, if Gira lived in a milltown.
― bendy, Friday, 31 July 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome. hey pretzel walrus, holler at me if you all go see these guys please!
― daria, actually (daria-g), Friday, 31 July 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
How's this compare with the last one? I didn't care for it that much :-\ Haven't like anything nearly as much as I liked that first 7" honestly. Still, looking forward to this.
― ╓abies, Friday, 31 July 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
cons: toned down the "i STUBBED MY TOE/and it FUCKING SUCKS" style songwriting for something (gack) more "considered"pros: ditched the pulseless feedback dirges that made hope for men pale against shallow.
call it a draw.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 31 July 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Theoretically I like pulse-less feedback dirges but it is not one of their strengths.
― ╓abies, Friday, 31 July 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
^have to agree with this, albeit reluctantly
I've listened to HFM so much at this point that it'll probably take me til the end of the year to have an idea if this one is better, but there are unquestionably stellar moments
― splash the praying duck (DJ Mencap), Friday, 31 July 2009 07:13 (fourteen years ago) link
excited for this, love the one track i've heard (false jesii part 2)
― 6335, Friday, 31 July 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^yeah that song is great! really getting excited.
i liked some of the dirges, but i think they went to the well too many times on hope for men...plus the song about the guy who's like a star wars/comic dork and the jogger were kinda just the same idea, listing off "stuff"....still about half that album rips hard.
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
like "Hope For Men" tried to be emotionless. just this boring album about scrapbooking and jogging and shit. To wit:
"Mainly we just wanted to bludgeon the listener with dull, monotonous droning rock music that just sucks the energy out of you, the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.”
And now they have balls, and play like they give a shit, and are awesome. The end.
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Hope For Men was like a whole album of "Sex Bomb Baby" and this is like a whole album "My War," take yer pic
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked hope for men, i like the new one too
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 1 August 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hope that's ok with you whiney
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 1 August 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
they had plenty of "balls" on shallow. maybe more so. and if there's one band that makes a high art of not giving a shit at the moment, it's these guys. for chrissakes one song on the new one repeats "but i don't bother" about 52,000 times. it's possible to write songs that have force and mass, but not much forward momentum, that still provoke a visceral response. it's also possible to get off on music that wants to oppress you, though i wouldn't make a habit of it.
also describing something as "a whole album of 'sex bomb baby'" as a negative does not really compute.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, 1 August 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, 1 August 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that's pretty good.
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
They're pretty funny and "Vegas" live. Singer is the Karen O of love handles.
Drummer lurched to his feet about 25 mins into set and puked on his kit and stage in a couple sickening spasms. Singer lectures, "We're called Pissed Jeans, not Vomited Stages!" They pressed on another 3 songs or so. That's entertainment!
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
New album is really good.
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 3 October 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i was there yesterday too.Jeans were good and funny, but TV Ghost weven more awesome!
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked them; vocalist's hair made me think he was gonna break into "Rio."
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link