OK, tell me all about Wussy

Oops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8feB5IhNG8

Stuck in the corn maze
With only a transistor radio

I recently tweeted:
These days I'm not likely to get hooked on "droney dream pop" w Radio Shack beats, but @muncie_girl makes it work, most of the time, on this 18-track Magic Words collection https://themagicwords.bandcamp.com/ The most unusual talent can be a bad influence: "Hey I can do that!" Probly not.

(she's been promoting it w UK shows)

those magic words tracks are so great, kind of gives lie to the Wussy creation myth though.
personally think she is the best vocalist in rock right now.

This comes out in May. I don't really get why all the prices are British--the songs look they're new, it's not a UK-only compilation.

http://wussy.bandcamp.com/album/what-heaven-is-like

"look like"

That's weird.

They have a bunch of songs I like, but the fact that the new one is inspired by the Fargo TV show is kind of lame.

They've added the American CD/Vinyl links now.

Recently heard an interview with one of the guys from this band and it became pretty clear he doesn't like leaving the house, so there you go.

I wonder if we're in for a new era of Iron Maiden-esque songs about movies and tv shows.

Tracks so far are pleasant enough. Looking forward to the album.

So I wouldn’t have asked for this Beatles cover but...

afghan whigs cover is a bold choice but sounds good!

Is this the new album you're talking about?

I was talking about title track of new EP. Is new album out?

I think the new album comes out next month.

The new one is out and it is predictably excellent. It's a continuation of the noisy sound they developed on Forever Sounds, but the songs are stronger this time around.

I miss their pop moments.

Finally caught up with the not-new-anymore LP and EP. Except for "Dropping Houses," my favourite song of last year, the last one made no impression on me whatsoever. So I think I was intentionally slow getting to Heaven.

Didn't get anything out of the first three songs, but my interest picked up when Lisa Walker came in with "Look away, look away, don't watch me" on "Tall Weeds." After that, except for the pedestrian "Oblivian," excellent. "Firefly" and "Black Hole," the two slow ones from Lisa, are great. "Aliens in Our Midst" is a shameless copy of "Brimful of Asha," and as such, it's insanely catchy. I really like "Nope," and "Skip"..."Skip" is a masterpiece. I can't think of anybody--no American band, anyway; maybe there's some Loveless in there--who's ever made music that sounds like "Skip." If I die in the next couple of years, it'll be in a fiery car crash--single-vehicle, no else involved--because I was playing "Skip" too loud and ran into a tree.

Great "Getting Better" cover on the EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvsQO1UTSfM

I still need to give it another listen, but I liked "Aliens in Our Midst" the first time through (and I certainly like it better than "Brimful of Asha").

"Heaven" is much more engaging than "Forever Sounds". The opener, "One Per Customer" grabbed me and everything flows really well.

I'll give it another listen for sure at the end of the year when I rank albums, but this was to me the boringest of Wussy albums -- the only one from which I kept not a single tune.

I didn’t care for it much on first listen but it’s grown on me.

The opener, "One Per Customer" grabbed me and everything flows really well.

Played those first three songs again in the car this morning; "Cake" and "Gloria" still seemed a little ordinary, but yeah, "One Per Customer" has a really spacey appeal, even if they missed (or, more likely, resisted) the most obvious rhyme in the world, "Knievel" with "appeal."

I'm not a big lyrics guy, but I usually take notice of certain lines and phrases from Wussy. "Aliens in Our Midst" has a verse about a friend who dresses up in his sister's clothes and gets a beating from his dad, and you can also hear the word "dreamers"; it might be a Trump song, unless it's about actual aliens.

The Wussy mix-CD I give to friends gets better and better; I'll probably bump three songs from it to make room for "Skip," "Black Hole," and "Getting Better."

Aliens in Our Midst is a cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44bkhkBYrew

Ha! Never read too much into a song... (I won't discount that they made a Trump connection from the title, though.)

What is everyone's favorite Wussy album?

The eponymous album or Attica!

Yeah, those but still like Funeral Dress a lot as well.

Left For Dead could be mine

I would have said Attica! or Wussy, but, initial excitement being what it is, I might pick Heaven today. (I'm absolutely certain that last year's was their worst.)

Funeral Dress plays like a greatest hits, it's ridiculous.

I'm digging the new one, much more than 'Forever Sounds'-and hell, even looking at that I see it has 'Majestic 12' and 'Hello I'm a Ghost'.
"Aliens' is such a brilliant cover, I saw them perform it a couple of tours ago, it's so great. and the second-half in particular is so back-loaded, I'm having a moment here with 'Nope'.

i love Forever Sounds

Strawberry gets overlooked, but it's great as well.

(xpost) "Nope" is great. They stole the melody of the verses from somewhere--driving me up the wall trying to figure out where--but that's okay.

the west coast has the sunshine and the girls all get so tan

Sort of! That works, but I think I'm thinking of something else (maybe a song that copied "California Girls" so Wussy could copy that song). It has to do with the way Chuck sings those verses too--the combination of that melody and that timbre, I'm sure I've heard it elsewhere.

Yeah I'm not sure California Girls is 100% it but it's close. There's something closer, though.

I do know they got sued by the Undertones for allegedly taking the melody of Teenage Kicks for the song Funeral Dress.

Somebody's Wussy collection:

http://wussycollection.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3fplnE9MZnihAMzyPQ_YHhyZ6CZuNoQPn9az79Ikz-vyUNkrMp0k0rLRg

Also, the mix-CD I made for a friend recently:

1. airborne (2005)
2. crooked (2005)
3. bought it again (2005)
4. millie christine (2007)
5. tiny spiders (2007)
6. sun giant says hey (2007)
7. melody ranch (2007)
8. vivian girls (2007)
9. gone missing (2009)
10. all the bugs are growing (2009)
11. pizza king (2011)
12. little miami (2011)
13. teenage wasteland (2014)
14. halloween (2014)
15. home (2014)
16. beautiful (2014)
17. dropping houses (2016)
18. skip (2018)
19. black hole (2018)
20. getting better (2018)

"Getting Better" was mostly there to reel him in (I do like it); if it were for my own use, I'd replace that with "Aliens in Our Midst."

Geez, no Rigor Mortis or Grand Champion Steer? Those are two of my very favroites.

I think you mentioned that when I posted a different mix-tape a few years ago...I can't retrieve either in my mind, but I didn't save them on my hard-drive, so I guess I decided I didn't like them enough at the time.

Ha! I like to stay on message with all Wussy-related things. You should definitely give those another chance as they are quite possibly my two favorite. Another is the acoustic version of Crooked from Funeral Dress 2.

Re-listened to "Rigor Mortis" and "Grand Champion" off YouTube. Like them both. They've got so many good songs, an 80-minute CD isn't quite enough. But two 80-minute CDs would be too much...with the possible exception of Neil Young, there's nobody who could sustain two 80-minute CDs for me without drifting off into songs I like but don't love.

interesting list clemenza. love that you included the delightful and bizarre 'Sun Giant Says Hey'.
'Motorcycle' or 'Beautiful' are the two I'm most likely to pass on when friends ask about Wussy.

My favorite Wussy song has been "Airborne" from the first moment I heard them, and if you polled a hundred fans, I'd hazard a guess that that would almost certainly end up on top. But the last few months, "Melody Ranch" has been right there with it. It makes me think of Billy Altman's great description of "Black Dog" in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History: "indescribably chaotic."

Wussy does indescribably chaotic as well as anyone. Shunt and Pulverized certainly qualify. And Rigor Mortis maybe most of all.

I'm not so sure they do chaotic as well as anyone-if they did 'Forever Sounds' would be better.

This is a band that I initially thought, "Well I like this one album". Then as I started listening back I kept saying "I like this one, too, I'm all set" - until I had picked them all up. And now I compiled all their non-lp tracks (at least I think I've got them all):

Rigor Mortis EP
Breakfast In Bed - Dangerous Highway Vol. 3
Duo EP
Popular Favorites EP
Public Domain Vol. 1 EP
Folk Night At Fucky's - Dropping Houses 7"
Ceremony 7"
Getting Better EP

It's all very consistent, so much fun!

(xposts) Agree with both of you--sometimes they lose me when they get heavy and chaotic (like most of Forever Sounds), sometimes those are my very favourite songs ("Melody Ranch," "Dropping Houses," "Skip").

"Nope" is great. They stole the melody of the verses from somewhere--driving me up the wall trying to figure out where--but that's okay.

This may be what I had buried in my head, I don't know...the resemblance isn't as strong as I thought (no lawsuits pending), but I can hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FQEcRayK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKGSyXADYg