Started back in '83Started seeing things differentlyAnd hardcore wasn't doing it for meNo MoreStarted smoking potThought things sounded better slowMuch slower and heavierBlack magic melody to sink this poser's soul
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
(I also vastly prefer pre-84 USHC)
I heard Greater Than One on college radio just a couple days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRjmS_qAQc
― crüt, Thursday, 9 November 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
The Windbreakers and Winter Hours are both fantastic bands. I love them both.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 9 November 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
Ah darn - someone already claimed The Slugs record
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 9 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
this old neon judgement song is cool.. totally harsh awesome coldwavey thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-1WjgkIbX0
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
yeah, good band
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 November 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
I love old Neon Judgement. Don't know that album though
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
re neon judgement : thought so.tis very alien sex fiend vs LS6.if only my local charity shops had such excellence.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
here's some vertigo - pretty similar in style to tar amongst all the amrep noisemongers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkiW8T3pjMI
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
Did you get that stuff from WMUA?
Stuff I own and still love:Syd Straw - "Surprise", a great album and a singular voice. Michael Stipe guests on one track. Also, she was a Golden Palomino!Low Pop Suicide is a hidden gem, Dave Allen of Gang Of Four was their bassist.Winter Hours - friggin' LOVE these guys, sort of alt-country-folk, tremendous lyrics and emotions in their music. The lead singer came to a tragic end.Close Lobsters - c'mon, way too good for this trash heap list. The Wedding Present covered one of their songs on their Hit Parade singles!Bleach - great noisy shoegazers, their singles all bettered their one album.The Creepers - this is Marc Riley's band! Great Fall-esque stuff as you'd expect. Also covered by The Wedding Present.Lois - as in Lois Maffeo, K Records wunderkind, gorgeous voice and guitar stuff.Someone mentioned the Judybats and I still love their debut.
Bands I once owned but no longer:Oyster Band has their moments but never made me love them. Neon Judgement had a great track "Voodoo Nipplefield". Shiva Burlesque - I used to own their albums, Grant Lee Phillips was a member.Cavedogs were a big Boston band, I liked their radio hit.Hex - I think there are multple bands with this name. Steve Kilbey was in one that I had but they weren't very memorable.Clay Idols - related to The Black Watch, J'anna Jacoby and Steve Schayer. Not as good as I hoped.
Many of the rest I heard at the time, maybe even checked out some of the bands, but they belong in the trash.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
The first Close Lobster album is terrific, beats all C-86 fluff to dust
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
LobsterS
Did not know Gang of Four's Pete Allen was in Low Pop Suicide, will check them out! Also want to go back to Death of Samantha, Das Damen (think I've got them on SST, one of the few labels I used to collect, other than ESP-DISK), and I've heard a number of other bands here, but the one I remember best is the Donner Party, who seemed like a crisp, juicy plot twist of the times; xgau got it:The Donner Party [Cryptovision, 1987]R.E.M. as punks. Feelies as folkies. Horseflies without horseshit. "John Wilkes Booth." "When You Die Your Eyes Pop Out." "Jeez Louise." B+Donner Party [Pitch-a-Tent, 1988]Like Camper Van Beethoven, who started the label in their DIY days, they're sardonic ethnic/folk-rock postpunks, just as Kaleidoscope and the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band were sardonic e./f.-r. hippies two decades ago. I don't know why northern California does this to its bohemians, but rootlessness must contribute; rootlessness fertilizes popular culture, forces it to reach out. As in their fabulous folk-punk name, these postteenagers are fascinated by mortality--their most striking songs are about infancy, ingestion, illness, fucking yourself up, and various commonplace-to-horrible vicissitudes. They're posteenage psychologically as well as chronologically because they don't romanticize death--just joke about it a lot. A-Wikipedia: The band consisted of Melanie Clarin on drums and accordion, Sam Coomes on guitar, violin, and banjo, and Reinhold Johnson on bass....Clarin also played drums in another San Francisco folk-rock band, The Cat Heads, and also Harm Farm.[1] Coomes would later play in Heatmiser, and then form Motorgoat and Quasi with his ex-wife, Janet Weiss. Hey, Harm Farm's on Scott's lists too!
― dow, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
donner party
went on to form Pop Will Eat Itself iirc
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
I saw quite a few of these bands as perennial West Coast opening acts...
― sleeve, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
i liked Shelleyan Orphan back in the day, the lead singer died very recently. i also used to love that The High album but i know it would sound dated today. i might have heard like two or three other bands on here and that is it.
― Bee OK, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
i wonder how many of these bands had members who went on to be part of medium-big but not-especially-cool alt-rock bands a few years later. it would not surprise me at all to learn that Sponge or Collective Soul or Seven Mary Three were primarily composed of shuffled-around members from some of the younger bands here.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
I remember loving the Doughboys & would buy an album.
Coffin Break are a sentimental fave - they would play a gig ANYWHERE. Really nice guys, too.
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
TWAS had a nice write-up of that Primitons record: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0008I'm a huge fan.
― campreverb, Friday, 10 November 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
that first katydids record works for me. the one produced by nick lowe. brit bangles?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXYPwsCYZz0
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
Snap Crackle Pop Art is a great, great record. (I wrote the liner notes for the Pop Art retrospective!)
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
Winter Hours, The Cavedogs and the Primitons are all classics, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:12 (six years ago) link
you dnrc
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
oh wait was that a joke /slaps self
Yeah, that xpost Primitons description reminds me I should get back to those guys (and the Individuals-related Wygals, for similar sonic appeal). Primitons (and the HoHo Men, whom I don't recall hearing) were spawn of Jim Bob and the Leisure Suits.
― dow, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Sorry for so many parens.
― dow, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
Death of Samantha also begat Cobra Verde both of which featured John Petkovic on vocals. I got one of DOS EPs which was pretty good if I remember right. I quite like Cobra Verde.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
the magnolias 4 sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irudgfBqUTs
― budo jeru, Friday, 10 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
I have the first Waxing Poetics album; the one with Mike Mills in the producer's chair. Haven't played it in a long time, but remember thinking the guitar work was pretty great throughout.
And Shelleyan Orphan are great, full stop. Humroot is a fantastic record.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 10 November 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
Also, Boris Williams and Porl Thompson play on Humroot. It's great.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 10 November 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
I would definitely buy that Hit The Floor compilation. It's got a cover of "Do You Wanna Funk" on it!
― naus, Friday, 10 November 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
Olivelawn was one of the best grunge bands, maybe even the best and that's no lie. I don't know if they toured and built much of an audience outside Southern California, but they were quite popular here for a time and seemed like they were selling out clubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOPHxiAGek
― timellison, Friday, 10 November 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
I don't know who all here would remember 'em, Ned probably!
― timellison, Friday, 10 November 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
Or our old friend donut. (Do you still post here???)
― timellison, Friday, 10 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
gygax
― timellison, Friday, 10 November 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
Chain Gang were a snotty punk band, featured on several Killed By Death compilations. Matador put out a compilation of all their stuff in the early 90s, presumably that's what you've got there.
I love Les Thugs - driving, almost droney punk with melodic vocals (punkgaze?). NickB knows what's up, Chess & Crimes is a good one.
I'm seeing Lois tomorrow night! Although tbh I never got into her, I'm going to see the Pastels and Kicking Giant and she's also on the bill.
Girl Trouble, Yard Trauma - garage rockers, pretty good too
Victims Family - kinda like NoMeansNo. I like them
We Are Going To Eat You - ex-members of anarcho-punk band Hagar the Womb go indie rock, not v good (I love Hagar the Womb so was pretty disappointed when I bought the We Are Going To Eat You 12" but it was only 50p)
Vic Bondi was the singer of Articles of Faith, dunno what his solo stuff is like
Big Drill Car - pop punk. kinda similar to Samiam iirc (I may not rc)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
is the Three album any good CP? always used to see that around but never bought it - guys from Gray Matter and Minor Threat iirc?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
don't know that one! like Gray Matter a lot (Minor Threat prob goes without saying)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
bit of a non-story but i tried engaging bruce pavitt in a conversation about les thugs at a tad/nirvana show once.
- hey bruce, i hear you've just signed les thugs to sub pop!- what?- les thugs!- who?- les thugs dude!- *blank look*- eh nevermind
either my french was bad, or his french was bad, or both of our frenches were bad but in mutually incompatible ways, but at least i gave him a suggestion for a title for the new nirvana record
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
Yo - were on a couple of Hyped 2 Death's Homework comps, but iirc were fairly straightforward college rock
Reverb Motherfuckers - "scum rock". nothing special
Greater Than One - industrial dance/EBM - OK I think?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
scum rock is right for reverb motherfuckers. bought one of their albums while i was going thru a phase of buying everything on noiseville and similar: bench, unholy swill, unsane, pocket fishrmen
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
I've often wondered how Les Thugs is pronounced by French people - toogs? or do they just use the English pronunciation?
The Pocket Fishrmen 7" on Noiseville is great! I've only heard their first album apart from that, which was v mediocre unfortunately.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
By 'eck as like, the Lez Thugs are a reet class act.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the 7" was the one i had - The Leader Is Burning! was one of the singles in John Peel's record box iirc xp
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
Next we have Blankety-Blank! Hosted by Les Thugs
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
you do rc. in fact that's the only reason I even heard of it
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
i wonder how many of these bands had members who went on to be part of medium-big but not-especially-cool alt-rock bands a few years later.
Reading up on The Ophelias revealed that the guitarist went on to Counting Crows.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
Never heard of Miranda Warning, but that’s a great band name. Would be better if it wasn’t all dudes, though.
I’m friends with one of The Slugs who was always billed as “____ of The Slugs” and I had no idea who the Slugs were but liked what he went on to do.
― Mhm Female (Eazy), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
price too quality ratio a lot of this stuff is the best deal in records right now
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link