Steppenwolf RULES U ALL!!! S/D

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SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is that the one with Earschplittenloudenboomer?

Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

yup

SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: "Born to Be Wild," "The Pusher," "Magic Carpet Ride"

Destroy: Everything else.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's nothing like a song that follows "Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space" with "Like a true nature's child".

Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

They made many many records in a short period of time.

"Earschplittenloudenboomer"??!! I must hear this. All I have is 16 Greatest Hits, but in my youth I played in constantly. Alex, even destroy "Hey Lawdy Mama"?!

Mars Bonfire - greatest rock name ever?

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

"played it", that is. i did not in fact play in Steppenwolf in my youth (I wish!)

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

If the music was as good the cover and song titles they would be gods

SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like "sookie sookie"

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

totally search "28". high and low.

they're talkin', talkin' 'bout molly
she's cryin' isn't it funny?
i turned her without any money
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
she's 28 years old tonight
i told her not to fear it's all very right

cracks me up all day.

brian badword (badwords), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

search "live at the matrix," which was recorded when they were still called the sparrow. 20-odd minute version of "the pusher" with most of it being some pretty keen free improv noises.

your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Rock Me Baby Rock Me Baby All Night Long" = coolest MTV Closet Classics video evuh

Search also: "It's Never Too Late to Start All Over Again", "Sookie Sookie" (?), and "Monster"

Joe (Joe), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...
search "live at the matrix," which was recorded when they were still called the sparrow. 20-odd minute version of "the pusher" with most of it being some pretty keen free improv noises

Holy shit! Yes!! I just heard this on a local college radio station (the 20 minute live version of "The Pusher", that is). Man, before the vocals came in I was trying to guess what it was, and I swore it sounded like one of those side long Brother JT epics or maybe some other lost Siltbreeze classic. An impression aided by the lo-fi recording quality and slowly building spaced-out guitar jousting. I HAVE to get this.

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

Search - Side two of '...The Second' (excluding Magic Carpet Ride.)
-Don't step on the grass, Sam
- Monster
- The Pusher

Destroy - all harley-davidson references.

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

seven years pass...

steppenwolf >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ur favorite rock n roll band

i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Friday, 28 May 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link

don't destroy snowblind man! that top album cover i used to trip out on pretty hard when i was like 5

kumar the bavarian, Friday, 28 May 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link

28 is an awesome tune. i love mars bonfire. in fact...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m0E8h0APHg

drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 May 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Search: s/t (1st) LP, The Second, Monster, At Your Birthday Party, "Who Needs Ya," "Snowblind Friend," (great Hoyt Axton-penned tune, uncharacteristically mellow) "Ride With Me," "In Hopes of a Garden." The last two are from the very under-rated 'For Ladies Only' LP, the last one they did before the (more-or-less) original band called it quits. Oh - and Search "Ball Crusher." Because since there is a song called "Ball Crusher" you require it in your collection.

Destroy: Any & all of the reunion discs, the 1st of which (I think) was 'Slow Flux.' Also, I seem to recall that all of John Kay's solo records are dispicably bad. Really, REALLY bad.

ImprovSpirit, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link

was listening to skullduggery yesterday. "lip service" is one of my fave disco tracks by a hard rock band. don't know if the beardo crowd is hip to it or not, but they should be.

http://991.com/newgallery/Steppenwolf-Skullduggery-453844.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link

This Mars Bonfire track is smokin

Trip Maker, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link

That monster version of "The Pusher" was also released ages ago on the Early Steppenwolf LP.

ImprovSpirit, Friday, 28 May 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...
four years pass...

The bass on some of 'Steppenwolf Live' is so out-of-tune it's almost microtonal composition. Occasionally it slips back in, I guess because the roadie finished smoking his doobie long enough to wander onstage and fiddle with the tuning key as Nick St. Nicholas ploughed on, unaware of anything wrong.

That's all I have to say about this band really.

Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Monday, 24 September 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

“The pusher” on at the bar

calstars, Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link

S’wolf vs Lynrd Skynyrd FITE

calstars, Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link

other animals of the steppe include steppenhorses, steppenyaks, steppenbison, steppensheep, steppenantelope, steppenhamsters, steppenweasels, steppenmarmots, steppenopossums, steppenhedgehogs, and a great number of many different species of steppenbirds.

consult your local library for more information on steppenanimals.

del griffith, Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link

I think Hesse mainly concentrated on the wolf though. Thought it was supposed to be a metaphor for what the urban male was missing too.
Think it was the 60s Penguin copy of that I had that had him saying certain books should only be rad by people of a certain amount of experience. Thought it sounded like it meant middle age so maybe I should read it again now and it'll be that different from when I was 17.
Band name came from the Hesse book I thought.
Came across a history of their evolution somewhere reasonably recently too. From early days as Jack London and the Sparrows or something through Sparrow changing a couple of vocalists along the way until they got John Kay and took on the longer name.
Was it an extended review of recently released early material in an Ugly Things over the last year or something.

Stevolende, Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Steppenwolf finally getting the reissue box set they have long deserved.

Magic Carpet Ride: The Dunhill/ABC Years 1967-1971

8 CDs, tons of bonus tracks (mostly single mixes etc.). I've already pre-ordered mine.

but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 14 August 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link

There's some cognitive dissonance thinking of a Steppenwolf deluxe box set, somehow their music feels like it belongs on scratchy LPs with worn and stained covers. They did more than just the well-known biker rock: "A Girl I Knew" on their first album is not too far from Love or Donovan.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 14 August 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link

There's some cognitive dissonance thinking of a Steppenwolf deluxe box set, somehow their music feels like it belongs on scratchy LPs with worn and stained covers 'WCBS FM 101 History of Rock: The 60's' compilations .

Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link


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