jehu was sort of a blink and you missed them kinda band, so it took at least a couple years for people to catch up. i even saw them play in 94 or thereabouts but didn't really pay attention to the record until a few years later.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
drive like jehu - yank crime: classic or dud?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, thanks. Won't clog this with any more DLJ talk, just curious.
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
dunno what to vote for here as i love a lot of these albums but i like the yank crime love. was big into early rftc but jehu blew them away
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
ok its fudge tunnel or unsane since noones mentioned either
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
sad that AG killfiled me :(
and jjjusten by the looks of it
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
what what?
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
oic
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
didn't butt trumpet win a Spin contest looking for the worst band in America? I'm assuming that was *before* they were signed ... ? help me out here, I don't really feel like googling for the history of butt trumpet
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure the a&r guy meant to sign poopshovel instead but just got confused
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
34 MERCURY REV - BOCES (COLUMBIA, 1993)27 DRIVE LIKE JEHU – YANK CRIME (CARGO/INTERSCOPE/ATLANTIC, 1994)26 FLAMING LIPS - HIT TO DEATH IN THE FUTURE HEAD (WARNER BROS., 1992)17 ROYAL TRUX - SWEET SIXTEEN (VIRGIN, 1995)4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995)1 BOREDOMS – POP TATARI (REPRISE, 1993)
I own and like all of these and have heard the Ween, Flipper, and Jesus Lizard records ... probably voting for TJSA
This was the exact time frame that I worked in college radio (1993-97), definitely a weird time
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtrFVtAgRo
Notes from the LP back cover:
"Album done in a $50.00 a day studio that friends own. It's in the stone basement of a 3 story house built in the early 1900's. We only broke a few things while there. One reel of half-inch tape running at slow speed. Original title of album was "Harvard Zombie Meat" which basically means "educated people without a clue". The lyrics document this theory, though a few songs MAY be considered "positive."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXJOUeHQcY
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
col poo said one of those bands? i need to read better
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
guess i'll vote unsane then if he voted fudge tunnel
I voted for Ween, even though Pure Guava isn't exactly their best album...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
40 CELL - SLO*BLO (DGC, 1993)
oh yeah I also owned this at some point but sold the CD. really don't remember anything about em.
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
that v-3 album is great
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Possession for the first time in a year or so and it's still the best album on this list.
New ears make it feel like Pretty invents .nu-Swans though.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
nice!
4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995) 8
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I am pleased with the results of this poll and the relatively high participation.
Way to go team!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
The correct answer is actually The Monks and everything else that Henry Rollins hoisted onto American by way of Infinite Zero.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
14 MR. BUNGLE - DISCO VOLANTE (WARNER BROS., 1995) 810 GOD - POSSESSION (VIRGIN, 1992) 8
so so happy
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
poor butt trumpet
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
*solemnly plays Taps*
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
*stands up straight and pulls his pants up*
33 MEDICINE - SHOT FORTH SELF LIVING (DEF AMERICAN, 1992) 0
aww i should have voted for this
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, 95% of ween hatred is just people hating ween fans
― fuck wit' lysandre day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:36 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fwiw a few of my favorite people love Ween, including my former roommate whose taste i otherwise loved where i was forever like "seriousy man you're listening to Ween again?"
― some dude, Friday, 18 January 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
although if i'd ever been in the crowd at a Ween show i can easily imagine hating Ween fans in general
Yeah I have a couple of friends with otherwise impeccable taste who like ween
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
scorn for the 6 people who voted for ween should be transferred over to the 6 people who voted for daniel johnston imo
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
UGH
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't heard that daniel johnston record -- is it bad, or do you just not like him? voted pell mell btw. listened to several of these last week and enjoyed that one the most.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
i just don't think it's that weird that ween got signed either, esp compared to a lot of these bands.
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i don't like daniel johnston, mainly due to the typical reservations about being a fan of someone with a serious mental condition. the devil and daniel johnston was great though.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 18, 2013 10:46 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
huh why? i know they got biggish later but they weren't very big or popular at the time they were signed.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
because they essentially write catchy rock and pop songs, just with a layer of genre pastiche and irony and vocal EFX and shit, but i dunno, they are really "weird" in the most boring way possible imo
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
I think it was Trouser Press (4th edition) that summed up the secret of Ween as 'poorly disguised musical skills'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i said it upthread but "zappa without all the good things" is really it...the genre pastiche, the insidery dickhead sense of humour, genre parodies, wacky vocals, funny accents and shit
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
the Ween song that became an alt radio "hit" was p fucking weird though (Push the Lil Daisies)
― dmr, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I kinda like em but definitely had friends who liked em way too much
ween > zappa
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
I liked Medicine, but I don't think there's much weird about them. The stuff on their second LP is extremely infectious. Did you realize they paid Van Dyke Parks a nice fee to work on one of those tracks? I guess that's kind of weird.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
― billstevejim, Friday, January 18, 2013 11:16 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha i'm not a big zappa guy but on the first few original mothers albums alone that's just a ridiculous statement
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
That Trenchmouth record isn't my favorite one of theirs, but the first four songs are completely storming.
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments are the greatest rock'n'roll band ever.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
That ween hit (daisies) i remember getting MTV play. Sort of a weird crossover between novelty song and catchy hit. But definitely a novelty record I think (in the eyes of the people who made it an MTV hit, at least some of them?)
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
missed this :(
would have voted for mr bungle, with boces a nominal second and pop tatari third. need to hear god a bit more - first listen was very promising. and as for drive like jehu, i've only heard 'luau' which rules
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
I think "Push Th' Little Daisies" is great but it's not something that makes me want to dig deeper into the Ween catalog
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, even I like 'Push th' Little Daisies' and I *hate* Ween.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
But definitely a novelty record I think (in the eyes of the people who made it an MTV hit, at least some of them?)
yeah I think so. did the same people see "She Don't Use Jelly" as a novelty record too? they probably did, right?
― dmr, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link