Monoshock. Liquorball.

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I am listening to the new Monoshock singles compilation.

Gygax, please tell us about the recent Liquorball reunion show.

― (Jon L), Saturday, 16 October 2004 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I did on that other thread dude!!!

Where did you get it?

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 16 October 2004 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I missed the other thread I am dim

Aquarius!

― (Jon L), Sunday, 17 October 2004 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

There are so many thread titles on this board which sound really intriguing until I realise they're about obscure bands I've never heard of.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 17 October 2004 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link

YOU EVER HEARD OF THE CRINKLES...THE FUCKING CRINKLES?

― DEEBZ (ddb), Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Are they anything like The Krankies?

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 17 October 2004 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

the crunking champs?
m.

― msp (msp), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

where can i get these monoshock liquorball blackjack things? are they still only on vinyl???

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Liquorball might be attainable at Aquarius -- at least two of their albums.
Monoshock's singles comp should be readily available -- it came out last year on S-S and I know Tonevendor.com carries it for sure since they do all of S-S's mailorder.
Monoshock's one album on Blackjack is usually easily attainable used.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link

the Liquorball 7 inch Willy The Worm/The Slug Brothers is divine.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link

i remember when monoshock's album came out stores in Portland couldn't fucking give it away. i think i might have been the only person in the city to actually buy it and keep it, which is a shame because it is the pinnacle of Monoshockness with the frosting being Graham Lambkin's excellent cover art.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link

wow thanks jack cole

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I will go to aquarius at lunch

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link

two of the liquorballs were there when i was in SF for the antiquarian bookshow at the end of febuary when i stayed at that hipster hellhole the Jupiter in the tenderloin. i never want to see fat fucking hipsters jumping naked into a swimming pool at night again.

other great bands on blackjack:

coffee

icky boyfriends

brainbombs

etc

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

also, my date with gygax! was delightful.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

i am searching for a rare book also

the legend and bizare crimes of springheeled jack

by peter haining

if you see it for less than $40 (which seems unlikely) please holla at yr boy

xp icky boyfriends!

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

bizzarre

I've gone on dates with gygax, he's like a Victorian gentleman, putting his jacket over puddles and shit like that.

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link

he insisted on paying for my cab back and open doors for me and carried me on his back through the mission sherpa style.

menlo park recordings should be reissuing all of the icky boyfriends this month or next. i would think you would be able to find their stuff used around the bay. originally they had some singles and one album plus the amazing movie I'M Not Fascinating.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link

oh yeah. blackjack put out a bunnybrains album too -- Bunny Magick with a great Todd Scherr cover with a two head bunny, one of which wears a fez.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I liked the first two Monoshock singles (plus a demo tape I had) more than the album. Still haven't heard the CD comp.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Monoshock. Liquorball.

Not on slsk, not on CD.

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I do not have gramophone

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link

"not on CD"

not true.

Surely the singles comp on S-S is still in print. Used CD copies of their old album can't be too hard to come by online, are they?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Monoshock, no. Liquorball, yes.

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Not on SLSK nor CD!?!?!?!?!

SACRE BLEU!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link

OH MY GAWD!

(ALL MONOSHOCK ON CD, NO LIQUORBALL ON CD)

MY COMPUTER IS FUCKED.

TERRIBLE BACKGROUND NOISE FROM INPUT OR SOMETHING WHEN I TRY TO RECORD VINYL.

I AM SCREWED.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Not on SLSK nor CD!?!?!?!?!

SACRE BLEU!

Buy me a gramophone, grandpa.

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

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― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.midheaven.com/artists/monoshock.html

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

BUY ONE CD

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link

I AM GOING TO, GYGAX

VERY VERY SOON

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link

LIKE, TONIGHT

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I WILL TAKE ONE TRIP TO AMOEBA

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Not sure about Monoshock.

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I already have Comets On Fire and Mudhoney records!

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.ni9e.com/

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I clicked on the link, looked at the site for a few minutes, still no idea what it is.

Nothing is straightforward with you, is it?

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link

those mp3's double as a review of the entire works of Comets On Fire

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Monoshock >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Comets on Fire

Mudhoney is great though. I don't think that Monoshock and Mudhoney are TOO similar though.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I expected it to be a bit more...prog?

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Nah, more "out" than prog.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't know what "out" means, in this context. It sounds like a section in a wanky record store.

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link

It's an early 90s Oakland thing, you wouldn't understand.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Did I get the wrong CD? I got Runnin' Ape-like...

xp EAT ONE ENGLAND

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link

if you don't like that one, I wouldn't sweat further research. But before you sell it back, listen to it once really loud driving a truck down ocean beach with a huge bottle of ether.

I do like the record but every time I play it, it keys into memories of just how fucked up they were live, so gygax may be right about 'had to be there'

Though by any standard Comets On Fire are a travesty

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link

I like Comets On Fire!

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link

(bites into apple, four teeth break out. short pause, eye falls out, rolls down cheek)

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link

(soundtrack: Swing Out Sister)

Comets On Fire are ok, everything's ok

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link

"Soledad" is a GREAT song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

bites into apple, four teeth break out. short pause, eye falls out, rolls down cheek

oh no milton, don't fall apart!

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link

my teeth are dancing on the apple and it's all your fault for liking Comets on Fire

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link

there must be an easier way to feel old

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link

try dancing!

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link

"Soledad" is a GREAT song.
-- Tim Ellison (timelliso...), April 19th, 2005 3:44 PM. (Tim Ellison)

That is a great single. The b-side is excellent as well!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link

i was never there and yet i love monoshock. comets on fire sucks -- even more so with chesny in the band.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link

HANDS UP WHO HERE ISN'T OLD

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Jack Cole, THANK YOU for the awesome design/packaging/content on your latest offering!!!! It is so awesome, just in time for my trip too! I will share with K!1!Z! as well.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link

KIZ GOT ONE TOO! FOR SENDING ME TORI KUDO TREASURES!

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

I like this Liquorball single I gots.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Rock’n’roll is now old enough to have snatched the spiritual mantle from both jazz and the avant garde, AND to have subsumed both of those artforms into its gasping greedy needy veins.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link

I still have Runnin' Apelike and I can't get into it.

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link

"Soledad" is on that, right? That's a good one.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link

STERNKLANG!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Monday, 30 January 2006 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link

if anyone wanted to make me an admin, I'd salute you

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― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link

milton, you are an admin!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link

It's an early 90s Oakland thing, you wouldn't understand.
-- gygax! (gygax0...), April 19th, 2005 2:58 PM. (gygax!)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link

sagan-salute

Runnin' Apelike is a compilation so it's a bit all overs, but if you just go straight to "Mexican Dentistry" and turn it up I bet you'll end up wishing you'd been in the room

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Two new CDrs of unreleased Monoshock stuff on Silver Current! Lost Shock Vol. 1 and 2. Noisy lo fi boombox recordings.

― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:36 (six years ago) link

would listen to that. i finally got a nice copy of the 2lp monoshock album and man does it ever sound great to me. not too many people left on the noize board who would care. most are dead or gone.

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:16 (six years ago) link

price you pay for rockin this hard

― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:36 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

Monoshock rulz

― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:02 (one year ago) link

troo

― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 March 2019 09:34 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

Cardinal fuzz just reissued the compilation cd Runnin Ape From the backwards superman 1989-1995.
Which is really lo fi and energetic and things.Starts off sounding like an Ozzie Stooge punk band and passes through sounding like Dead C.
Gosh quite exhilarating.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 07:33 (three months ago) link

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