― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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― chaki, Saturday, 12 May 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
No, man. But uhm got the orig "Rock for Light" today and it's so great I just gotta revive
― President Evil, Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
In fact when this version of "Right Brogade" kicked in I actually yelled "OH YEAH!!!!". I am on my own. I'm putting off going out for this rec. No higher praise can actually be afforded a rock record. Give me a week and I may have to change my position pretty squarely.
― President Evil, Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
roffle @ people criticizing production jobs on late 70s/early 80s hardcore records.
black dots is pretty tight, I thought it was just some cash-in shit but I love the raw, upfront sound. 4 guys in a room kicking ass.
― Edward III, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
the black dots version of "pay to cum" is my favorite version of that song
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
INCREDIBLE
http://www.spinner.com/2006/09/26/exclusive-watch-bad-brains-live-at-cbgb-1982-dvd/
― Michael B, Sunday, 18 November 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
wau wau wow
― jhøshea, Sunday, 18 November 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So MTV this week in between commercials and early morning videos (between around 6 and 8 a.m. est) is showing footage of current Bad Braisn jamming and such. I think I recognize Dr. Know and Daryl Jennifer, but am not sure about the rest. Is that HR? They do not sound like the Bad Brains I saw back in the 79 to 85 era...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
HR is still in the band but by all accounts his contribution to live performances now is reminiscent of Weekend At Bernie's
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The utter shock of seeing them with regularity on MTV was completely erased for me by the noodling nature of the clips. I would think that anyone who has only heard about how great the Bad Brains are would see those clips and wonder what the big deal is.
― Standing In The Shadows Of Bob, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Exactly right.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
are these clips online?
― chaki, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2008/02/04/artist-of-the-week-bad-brains/
LOL
― chaki, Friday, 8 February 2008 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
RFID?
― libcrypt, Friday, 8 February 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that first clip kinda sounds like Stain-era Living Colour
― Hurting 2, Friday, 8 February 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugHJ_a8ydUY Bad Brains - Paranoid
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
now ever since '79 h.r.'s been poppin' his collar, poppin' poppin' his collar
― eman, Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
check the backflip at the end
― eman, Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking incredible. What a band. True innovators. One day, they'll be respected like the Stooges are now.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had Bad Brains forever but have never heard Rock For Light. Does anyone prefer RFL to the original and why?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
rock for light is longer and has more great songs (including alot of which are on s/t) but has worse production than s/t and does have some shit songs. you can't really go wrong though, seeing as s/t is the single greatest fucking punk album ever.
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
My Bad Brains interview in Spin, 1987:
http://books.google.com/books?id=komIU8HDrboC&pg=PA83&dq=bad+brains+chuck+eddy&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=bad%20brains%20chuck%20eddy&f=false
― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 March 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
the new darryl jennifer album sounds kinda incredible to me
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 November 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, did not know there was one.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Cbgb-1982-Region-NTSC/dp/B000GI3RKQ
Just buy this and see why they were so, so, very excellent
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that is some valuable advice for people unaware that bad brains are so so very excellent
― haute couture wolf gang frill them all (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to black judas: kinda lol but yeah, good
― haute couture wolf gang frill them all (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
this clip is gr8.. outside stage, chevrolet banner, fist-pumping 80s crowdgoers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53tUc4Ub2zQ
― am0n, Monday, 7 February 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just going to mention the '87 Florida set, odd that it appeared today. Great great set, band's on fire.
Hitched the '89 UK tour. Was fun. Gabba of Chaos Uk wound up getting a lift from somewhere near Bristol to the top of the M5 in a truck with a racist driver. Bumped into him as he got out of the cab at hitching point.
Trying to think what the name of the Best of cd which seems to have pretty decent sound is. What's on my walkman comes from there, think it includes Rock For Light stuff.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I have listened to thousands of bands in my life. When people ask me what my favorite band is, I say that I have heard so much music I cannot really narrow down a list to one single favorite. However, if you held a gun to my head, the first thing out of my mouth would be the Bad Brains and I'd be okay with that.
I often said that the ROIR tape was the best hardcore album ever but "I Against I" was the best album ever. A little hyperbole, but not that much now that I think about it.
Those videos are great! The old one, the one from '87, just amazing!
I got to see the original lineup of the band a few times. The last was in Cleveland in 2002 I think, a reunion tour that had as support a new band featuring the original Faith No More Singer (he was a chef in Cleveland by then!) and HR spent the whole show in a rocking chair on the stage. Very bizarre but unsurprisingly so.
In the article in Spin that xhuxk posted above (some time ago), the photo they used is the one from the inside of the 'I Against I' vinyl. The skinheaded dude right under the drum kit is Raybeez from Warzone. He was doing security at that early show.
Many years later, he and I became friendly in New York and he did security for all the shows at The Ritz and Roseland. I caught the Bad Brains at the latter venue and he was up front. I went up to him and said "Man, it's like that photo" and he smiled, knowing what I was talking about, and said he wouldn't rather be anywhere but right there.
Unbelievably amazing band and a big part of my life.
― NYCNative, Monday, 7 February 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Am I correct for feeling physically ill and actually offended that Bad Brains are *supporting* something called Slightly Stoopid:
http://www.greektheatrela.com/events/event_details.asp?id=1986
― NYCNative, Monday, 14 February 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh i fucking hate that band
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Slightly Stoopid b/w Bad Brains and the Dum Dum Girls.
― dolphins cavorting in a cathedral (staggerlee), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay Reatard was originally supposed to headline...
Mary Stein (daughter of Sire Records Seymour Stein and murdered NY realtor/former Ramonees manager Linda Stein) just premiered a Bad Brains documentary at SXSW. Has anyone seen it yet?
There are also 2 DC filmmakers working on 80s DC HarDCore punk docs now
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
!!! wanna see that
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
Banned in Dc: Bad Brains Greatest Riffswas the compilation I mentioned last year. Think it has been mastered at the right speed and so it seems Caroline have attempted to at least partially right their earlier wrong.http://www.amazon.com/Banned-Dc-Brains-Greatest-Riffs/product-reviews/B00008V5TK/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_4?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addFourStar
― Stevolende, Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Dr. Know is running for president.
http://www.libertystickers.com/product/Ron-Paul-DrKnow/
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
also i think ginn knows mould is really well off and really wanted to shake him down
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Sounds like exactly the kind of asshole Ginn would be. It makes me so mad that so much of the SST catalog is just sitting there, idle. Not that i want Ginn to profit off it while he continues to fuck over the artists, but that stuff should be getting lovingly reissued by someone.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
man I wish I Against I could get the full treatment, remixed and dried out...decades of really *wanting* to hear this record and just always finding it unlistenable
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
I Against I is literally one of my favorite albums ever.I cannot even fathom it being better.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
I don't know it has a really cool energy, good tunes, but I can't stomach that metal sheen it has, the drum sound, weird choices for this band. I usually end up listening to the Quickness instead.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
the weird sound is what I love
this is great news, obv
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
also, wtf were Ocasek and Jennifer thinking with that 1991 remix hack job?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
I thought that was RockFor Light. They did I Against I too?
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
sorry for confusion, RFL is the hack job, I Against I is the weirdo mix that I find endearing
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Black Dots and The Youth Are Getting Restless are my go-to’s
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
Black Dots is fuckin amazing
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
I love the ROIR one and RFL (original) as well, but wow they sure arrived fully formed
all the accusations of homophobia are 100% otm and don't detract one iota from the power of this stuff for me, YMMV
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Would love to hear not just remasters but remixes. Few great band have been shafted worse by unfortunate production choices.
― thewufs, Friday, 4 December 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
*great bands
why it's such a struggle, certainly so much that the Huskers guys essentially gave up the fight - Meat Puppets and Dinosaur got their rights back, Sonic Youth reissued Sister via Geffen IIRC.
this isn't strictly true, i spoke with terry katzman before he died and they used the same lawyers, tried but there were specific things in the husker contracts that were worse than the meat puppets and dino contracts, didn't get into the specifics
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Oh, that makes a lot of sense, thanks UMS.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 4 December 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
got a discogs notice that the Rock for Light reissue is up for pre-order now. grabbed since my non-messed copy has gone missing.
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link