COO: Das Damen or Die Kreuzen

(Double posted to the Das Damen thread on the All Noise Dude board)

What the... https://dromedaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/1986-keeps-me-wild

Revolutionary NYC rock quartet Das Damen have returned with a deluxe reissue of their landmark 1986 debut EP, 1986: It Keeps Me Wild. Newly remastered and augmented with an array of previously unreleased demos, reimagined tracks, and a brand-new issue of Das Damen drummer Lyle Hysen’s legendary fanzine, Damaged Goods (featuring a comprehensive timeline, show flyers, oral history, testimonials from Thurston Moore, Tom Scharpling, and more), DAS DAMEN will be released digitally via Dromedary Records on Friday, September 8, and will include a downloadable copy of the zine. A deluxe vinyl edition will be available in October. Pre-saves and pre-orders are available now.

+Thalia Zedek on one song! And they're playing at WFMU next month. Nutty!

From the songs that sound like other songs thread

I've always felt DD were sort of an underappreciated foreshock [...] of '90s indie rock

― Clientless (Scooter's Version) (morrisp),

I can hear that now having just listened to more Das Damen today than I had in the past 30 years. Seems like Triskaidekaphobe should be held in higher esteem. Was kinda blown away hearing how much the first song sounded like Pavement, esp since I only really remembered "Bug" and...one other song whose name I already don't recall.

Very cool to learn they're being reissued / reuniting. I've been a fan since discovering their LPs (cheap/used) decades ago... I have both the original pressing of their EP (on Ecstatic Peace) and the SST reissue, and the latter came with a cool press kit inside (...or maybe it was the copy of Jupiter Eye, which makes more sense; I like that album in particular, btw).

Their songs are often great, and playing is loose and sloppy – maybe sometimes to a fault. I've wondered if the records don't reflect how they good they may have been live. They did "tighten up" for their last few records, and Mousetrap (on Twin/Tone) is a particularly good batch of songs, but the energy was kinda gone at the end (so maybe sloppy was better). Anyway, they deserve another moment in the sun!

Yeah, listening to Mousetrap now and maybe the production just isn't right for them? Not that Wharton Tiers was some studio wizard on the first couple of albums, kinda muddy tbh, but something in between might have served em well. Just not as much fun here.

These guys prob should've been on Twin/Tone from the start. It put out like half as many releases/year as SST in those days. Looking over the Discogs entry Triskaidekaphobe deserved at least as much attention than, I dunno, a Brian Ritchie or Lee Renaldo solo album.

(As I type that, I hear "Somewhere Sometime" might as well be on Soul Asylum's Hang Time. Not an insult imo.)

woops...that should've been "Someone Somwehere". Oh, and the Marshmellow Conspiracy lawsuit/recall couldn't have helped anything, either.

I’ve been waiting for “Sad Mile,” from Mousetrap, to be discovered for a soundtrack or something…

Yeah, good one! Reminded me a lot of Soul Asylum's "Can’t Go Back" up until the psych solo.