against me!: transgender dysphoria blues

glad i'm not the only one who picked up on it! thought i was going crazy

Against Me! - New Wave lol

https://soundcloud.com/totaltreblemusic/against-me-black-me-out

BLACK ME OUT
I WANNA PISS ON THE WALLS OF YOUR HOUSE
I WANNA CHOP THOSE BRASS RINGS
OFF YOUR FAT FUCKING FINGERS

otm

This sounds great.

this rules

Argh god dammit. Hitting the entire state of Florida but not coming to Philly :(

Haha well they're from Florida

Have mentioned it before and in other AM! threads but the best show of my life was seeing them at the church

yep -- Ft Lauderdale in a month!

a vinyl rip of this is out there

it rules

paralytic states!

Gonna wait til the release date

But in anticipation of this I took a selfie

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/AMWDYLL.jpg

beautiful

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO SMOKE CIGARETTES
YOU MAKE ME WANT TO DRINK WHISKEY

EVEN IF YOUR LOVE WAS UNCONDITIONAL
IT STILL WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH TO SAVE ME

what's up, does god bless your transsexual heart http://www.npr.org/2014/01/12/261095666/first-listen-against-me-transgender-dysphoria-blues

Twenty-six minutes!

is it idk, thoughtless or inappropriate to talk about how/whether laura jane grace's voice has changed at all between albums?

unless you're implying that her transition is impacting her voice (which is like biologically not the case) uh, not really, but is there anything to say other than it's gotten cleaner over the last few records?

"biologically" definitely a terrible word for me to use in any conversation about this, i'm gonna grab another coffee

lex : Paramore's S/T :: me : this album

don't know if i did it right, don't care, you get the point

Although I didn't really take to Paramore's S/T on the first listen either, so I should love this by the third or fourth listen.

This album is fantastic

When was the last time a punk album captured the feeling of marginalization this persuasively? Feels like ages since I've heard an album nail it like this

That's probably due to how (North American) punk is as dominated by straight white dudes as any other guitar-centric genre.

i've never listened to this band but this is great

"FUCKMYLIFE666" is such a terrible song title though

i've never listened to this band but you're wrong

this record is completely gorgeous

Yeah

Fuck me, this album

I haven't gotten around to disentangling songcraft from context and personal resonance yet, but I really love this.

damn good

hey this is p good!

v good

two coffins

i'm disappointed by this, i think it's the production

i need to listen to it more though

production is a little... off. can't really tell why. the guitars just sometimes arbitrarily bury the drums

i love this record 100 percent tho, surprising no one

I have one AM! song, the one they did with either Tegan or Sara, and I've listened to it a million times lol

Production is really harsh, hard to listen to loudly which I really want to do.

I tried to warn y'all about the production upthread

Don't listen to the vinyl rip, get the CD or iTunes

In the end I'm not gonna quibble over the production in a statement record like this

The True Trans EP has the best production I've ever heard in an AM! record

Is spotify the vinyl rip? May buy on iTunes anyway.

Oh I don't know, but it sounds better than the vinyl rip

Agree that it still sounds 'weirdly compressed' per my post upthread

Maura: http://www.emusic.com/music-news/review/album/against-me-transgender-dysphoria-blues/

Also feeling really bad that I didn't nominate FUCKMYLIFE666 for the tracks poll this year

Probably wouldn't have placed anyway :\

it might make a killing in the 2014 poll tbf

this was much much better than I expected it to be & really well-written. basically yeah, go team AM

I want to vote for the acoustic version though : (

In the Rolling Stone interview, Grace spoke about how certain aspects of being in Against Me! made her feel increasingly pushed toward performing “this role of ‘angry white man in a punk band,’” and this album’s no-nonsense look at who Grace is now is an open rebuke to being shoved in that box.

This makes so much sense - always saw "I Was a Teenage Anarchist" as a repudiation of "Baby, I'm an Anarchist!" and now this album is sort of the complete metamorphosis from that identity, didn't know the stakes were so much larger but looking back it couldn't be more obvious

If I adore this album what other Against Me! should I check first?

i like white crosses + new wave so far both more than this album ymmv etc

ughh can't wait to hear this

I love WC and New Wave about the same, Tim, but this album is closer to singer-songwriter rock with a good rhythm section than a band effort, if that makes sense.

The auditors essentially said that the $20,000 or so that Venus averaged per year in her music career — her only source of income — was not enough for her to call herself a professional musician.

(raises middle finger)

yeah a couple years ago the state auditors really seemed to go after the arts community, a recording studio a friend worked at was forced out of business because they suddenly reclassified the type of service that recording studios were and went after them for back sales taxes. of course, faced with fighting it legally...or losing and having to pay the back taxes...given the small tough margins that studios are under these days anyway they just folded :(

meanwhile we dish out zillions to local sports teams for stadiums! assholes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TaRnUKgr9g

http://substreammagazine.com/2015/05/watch-laura-jane-grace-joan-jett-and-miley-cyrus-cover-the-replacements-androgynous/

!

LJG on Orlando:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzL0bD0_r6Y

Update, now that I've seen the whole thing: only the first couple of minutes are about Orlando. The rest is about trans issues, the N. Carolina bathroom idiocy, etc but still a really good interview.

New album streaming, seeing LJG tonight in a small club:

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/661158897/first-listen-laura-jane-grace-the-devouring-mothers-bought-to-rot

Good one played with the band at last night's show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC08TfB0fxg

wow, four years since this album

almost five now!

literally a life-changing record for me

oh shit, you're right!

For a lot of people, I imagine.

xp

FUCKMYLIFE666 still the best fuckin' rock song ever

literally a life-changing record for me

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, November 9, 2018 11:28 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah yeah me too

“Is your mother proud of your eyelashes?” rips me apart

yeah yeah me too

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:21 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

Best album.

yes just a great record

I like this one from the new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0__vF3bUk

this album kinda rules!

oh it very much rules

this album def rules

here's Ezra Furman playing "Black Me Out" btw

https://www.facebook.com/ezrafurmanmusic/videos/1139327736411316/

sorry 4 facebook

New LJG album produced by Albini

https://pitchfork.com/news/laura-jane-grace-surprise-releases-new-album-stay-alive-listen/

Went to see Austin Lucas play a couple of weeks ago, he said his next album will be an Against Me! covers LP.