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Sweet 16 is really dense and queasy, their most difficult lp outside Twin Infinitives.
If you like Accelerator, Transmaniacon is similar.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm eventually going to have to get them all. Right now I'm theoretically on a budget of only buying one cd a week, but I already cheated on that rule this past weekend.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna play "stop" on the radio tomorrow. Or my "The Exception" yeah, I think I'll play "The Exception" and then something from Transmaniacon.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i wanna hear that RTX thing too, one of these days.

i like "sweet 16" but i don't really know which one i like best. i used to listen to that singles comp (well, maybe 1/3 of it) all the time, but i don't think that one qualifies.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

SIngles comp qualifies! All their best stuff was reserved for singles and most of them didn't end up on lps.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No love for Hand of Glory or whatever? I think I may have even given that one away. I've got a live bootleg with a wicked cover of "Suspicious Minds"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There are like 10 used copies of Hand of Glory at Reckless, and I'm sure there are a few more propping up tables in the back.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I love 'Hand of Glory'

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

SHOCKWAVE RIDER!!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

As featured on ONCE AGAIN "Singles, Live, Unreleased", were it a triple Lp ALBUM it'd be the best ALBUM ever made easily. As it is it's merely the best box thing ever, close enough. I wish everyone in the world would buy it.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Also all those NHagerty weird things, 'Hand of Glory' and the HHex records, they're just like long Dylan songs w/more funny noises and slightly less obv choruses, don't be shy (side two of HoG aside I guess)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew -- by 'box vs. ALBUM', I am assuming you mean that S/L/U is but a mere compilation? (cuz obviously there are 3lp thingies that are considered part of the canon, like Sandinista and Yessongs and so forth)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah exactly, I mean if they'd gone into the studio for a few months and made SLU, well, shit. Better than those noble 3Lps even. For some reason that always seems a really lovely idea.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Sweet Sixteen this weekend. I like it, it's kind of murkier and more fucked up than the other ones I have, what with the weird keyboard noise and nonsequiter vocal samples and shit like that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the new one, TRANSMANIACON, is reasonable good.

― russignonald's, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I checked, and I still have Hand of Glory. I may listen to it again tonight.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

In which country did Royal Trux allegedly start a riot with the announcement of their breakup in 2000?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Do tell, Adam.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no, I need you to answer this question so that i can win RTX tickets on Flavorpill!

It's a hard one.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Google is not giving up the secrets.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

bmp

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The "press release" on Drag City's site back in the day (which was removed days later) said that the band announced their break-up during a Japanese press conference, and things went nuts.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe they made the story up as part of the Yin Jim, W. Lester Duo, and the Bones of a Dead Coyote saga or something.

What is Royal Trux?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, doctor funk. And now we wait.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Stories from the Yin Jim file, I'm telling you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

New Howling Hex album out Feb 21 on Drag City. It's currently listed as coming out only on CD; that can't possibly be right, can it?

Song titles and a word or two on the tracks from the Howling Hex site:

"Now, We're Gonna Sing": Start out with a straightforward introduction to the people...

"Instilled With Mem'ry": Try to forget that name and date...

"Pair Back Up Mass With": Self delusion before action...

"Activity Risks": Committee in the brain disagree...

"To His Own Front Door": In and pulled out by the outside...

"What, Man? Who Are You?!": The final confrontation of mistaken identity...

"Cast Aside The False": Ghost of JonBenet Ramsey surveys the battlefield...

"Soft Enfolding Spreads": A final objection and farewell...

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Vic - feasibly, it COULD be CD only, since the Introducing...trilogy is complete. As in, back to the non-limited. Then again, Drag City usually issue most of their stuff on LP, too. Weird.

This is my most anticipated release of the year.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to catch up on what Neil is doing. I liked the first solo album, but thought the second one (that Plays That Good Ol' Rock and Roll one or whatever it was called) was kind of crap.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the third proper solo album was by far the best.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

roger, the new howling hex NAILS it. it's great. very concise, the opposite of the sprawl of the previous four records or so. for me, the best neil's done since the first solo disc.

― jon dale, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Vic - feasibly, it COULD be CD only, since the Introducing...trilogy is complete. As in, back to the non-limited. Then again, Drag City usually issue most of their stuff on LP, too. Weird.

DC has it listed as LP/CD in there news section, so I guess we'll have to wait a few more weeks to find out. But most DC stuff comes out on vinyl, as you said, and it would just strike me as odd that someone would put out three vinyl only albums, then make the next proper record CD only. I mean, DC has concrete proof people will buy Howling Hex vinyl.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

And NMH seems to like the format enough

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone hear anything about a new NMH book?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Never mind, I just checked the DrCi website.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There's info on the HH site as well: http://www.howlinghex.com/

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I won those tickets! Thanks dr funk.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Roger is OTMFM

I'm listening to Veterans of Disorder at this moment and I'm fucking sad that I only saw 'em live one time ('97, the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY).

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

SICK ASS DOG

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

STRAWBERRY SODAPOP

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I CALLED THE DOC AND HE'S IN SHOCK, THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FEDS

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

WITCH'S TIT

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

did playing "sick ass dog" on the jukebox last night ruin it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CHANCES ARE THE COMETS IN OUR FUTURE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I LIKE TO GO TO THE WATER PARK!

(I heard that song used once over a sports highlight reel)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

SHOCKWAVE RIDDDEEERRRRRR

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet Sixteen is a pretty goddamn awesome record.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW CAN YOU BUST UP AN ACT LIKE THAT?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

A SAILOR HAS TO MASTURBATE UNTIL THE SHEEEIP LAAANDS

best rock band ever

― Aaron A., Monday, 4 April 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Virginia's Royal Trux mix bad Company biker blues, Southern rock, synthesized AM drivel and arty college experimentation like an underage bar goer mixes drinks: slamming 'em down till they come back up as regurgitated sonic swill. Combine that with a trailer-trash-chic image – skintight bell-bottoms, cowboy boots and whiskey-warped expressions – and you have an underclass shtick that has made the Trux underground faves.

On their sixth underproduced album and second major-label release (yet another indie band signed in Nirvana's wake), singer Jennifer Herrema works hard at sounding trashy, slurring lyrics in a raspy tone a la Nazareth. She hisses ultranasty lines like "Sweet 16 and never been clean" alongside guitarist and vocalist Neil Hagerty's own thin warble. Indulgent wah-wah guitar solos bump into disjointed drum beats.

Every song on Sweet Sixteen eventually lapses into a meandering mess, even on tunes where the Trux attempt to mimic Zeppelin's repetitive rhythms or the Allman Brothers' jams. Instead of respecting the music they bastardize, the Trux treat it as low art, approaching '70s rock like a cocky adult playing a kids' game. By mid-album, you begin to wish Lynyrd Skynyrd had crashed this recording session and kicked the Trux's pretentious asses into some sort of cohesive groove. (RS 757)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I entirely disagree with that review. I think the quality of their songs started to drop off on that record.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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