against me!: transgender dysphoria blues

great record

yow, yeah, that's a hell of a thing (it's the sun in my eyes, i swear).

and after a couple more passes, the pop simplicity of the tunes is wearing quite well. could really have used this album circa 1986 tho.

like this better than either of the butch vig albums, and tho i still prefer the sound of axl rose, this is immeasurably more moving

"FUCKMYLIFE666" is such a terrible song title though

― crüt, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:35 PM (4 weeks ago)

cmon, that's fabulous muscles-level great

okay, i fucking LOVE this album. dug it at first, with a few reservations, but now almost every song is my favorite. and the others are pretty okay too. i want to sing along, but when i do, i get too choked up to follow through, which only makes me love it all the more. nice to love something so unabashedly (and successfully) POP.

so if I buy this on CD does it come with lyrics?

FYI the 1st tack on the CD is mastered at -0.1 DB (I threw the radio station copy into a wav editor to make s clean version)

The vinyl does, so I assume the CD would as well.

Yeah it does

That album title is giving me the Redundancy Dysphoria Blues.

nah, it's perfect

I thought the "Blues" part is redundant with dysphoria there already until I realized "transgender dysphoria" is the official diagnosis and now I'm cool with the whole tittle.

or title even

I made a quickly forgotten mental note to look for writing about this album by transgender women after someone asked about it on twitter or somewhere, but I just came across this:

http://youngist.org/post/77692828622/laura-jane-grace-crucified-trans-woman#.Uwtm0w1Gs_4.twitter

thanks for passing that on, thoughtful.

http://i.imgur.com/mJSOwym.jpg

lol

:D

going to see them tonight, very excited! bringing earplugs...

that was great, have they always played several songs from Axl Rose? really happy that the 2nd guitar dude nailed all the backing vox in the bridge to "Unconditional Love"

total rock and roll heaven

touring w/ gaslight anthem (!!!)

i totally can't afford the ticket lol

i didn't look -how much?

for 9:30 club they were $40, and they sold out fast--a great show to be sure, but the steep price put me off of being interested.

i would even have winced and paid 35 but 40 for a non-arena big rock club show is ridiculous to me

large hoos that is but the difference of five dollars

um also JEW apparently and they're playing at the Mann in philly? feeling like i really want to go...

HOOS, how big is the venue? Against Me play a small club west of Ft Lauderdale at least twice a year and never charge more than $25.

Think I paid like $6 back in 02 or 03

large hoos that is but the difference of five dollars

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, September 8, 2014 10:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but le sarge where does it end my man

where does it end

classic

AOTY for me, easily.

"large hoos" lol

the raggett neds of your summer dress

i love returning to an album after several months, and that you've only heard a few times, and it seems hardwired into your DNA

i would even have winced and paid 35 but 40 for a non-arena big rock club show is ridiculous to me

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, September 8, 2014 9:08 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

large hoos that is but the difference of five dollars

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, September 8, 2014 10:38 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftr i bought a pair for sleater kinney at the same club at the price quoted above

i regret nothing

Definitely the best rock record to come out this year. Like White Crosses and New Wave.

the trax poll brought me here. amazing record.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/laura-jane-grace-on-the-problem-with-pronouns?utm_source=noiseytwitteruk

there was a nice piece i thought at noisey the other day that was like "how i learned to stop worrying and love against me! (again)" about how this fan had gotten off the bandwagon after axl rose but came back into the fold with TDB, really thoughtful read on like "being a AM fan" i thought

I don't really know Against Me! that well, but I wanted to share this local story that I thought was a really nice thing the band did.

on their last tour they took Venus De Mars as an opening act. Venus is a local Minneapolis legend of sorts, she's 55 now, the article says didn't come out as transgender until her 30s, but was known for years locally as the frontwomen for All The Pretty Horses, a sort of punk/glam/metal band that played locally here for many years. Anyway the state audited her for filing as a musician and came after her for back taxes, resulting in a lengthy legal battle (which she eventually won but after a lot of expenses)

anyway i guess Against Me! took her out as an opening act recently which i dunno struck me as a really nice gesture, certainly bigger shows & presumably bigger paydays than Venus has ever seen in doing music for a few decades.

here's the story:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/298162101.html?page=1&c=y

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