PISSED JEANS

take them seriously it's total retard rock are you people british?

-- Edward III, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:27 (Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:27) Bookmark Link

i still like this but yeah after awhile "Scrapbooking" really become irritating...i love the lyrics....the jogger is way better for the offspeed/changeup talking shit.

still this is pretty epic. i take them seriously. it's seriously good.

Like Hope for Men, don't love it. In part, that's cuz it's only about 1/10th as entertaining as the live show. But it's also less surprising, funny, rocking, noisy than I'd have liked. An good record that's just shy of something great.

LOL at dudes throwing down about pigfuck bands' lyrics and vocal delivery. it's ugly and stupid, SOOPRISE!? it's also (fucking obviously) no Flipper or Jesus Lizard or Whatever, but it's probably the most satisfying approximation floating around right now.

so these dudes are playing at a more familiar Baltimore establishment, the Ottobar, with Black Dice headlining on November 19th. I'll actually be attending this one!

"I've got something to tell you
I hope you don't take it wrong
Well you've got a secret admirer
And I think he's singin' a song
Yeah, he's a mysterious guy alright
I'll give you a clue who it is
And I'll throw in a couple of guesses
He's in the music biz
Oh, he keeps his tongue tied
And he's really shy
But none of that means that he's a bad guy
I'm pretty sure he sees you on weekdays
When you're walking home from work
He looks out of his window
So he can't act like a jerk
And he's figured out what car you drive
Not totally sure what house is yours
He doesn't know what he's truly looking for
But he's gonna give/get(?) it

I've got something to tell you
I'm not trying to be a creep
One day i'll be in your driveway
Singin "AYAI AYAI AYAIYAIIIII"

I've got something to tell you
I'm not tryin to be a jerk
Well one day i'll be in your driveway
Singin' "hey hey laida HAEAEAYYYY!"

the lyrics i do understand i actually like. kinda Twee meets Pigfuck. where else can you hear genuine noisefuck odes to scrapbooking and icecream?

Hearing dude talk about his digital watch and stuff is like watching True Stories in slo-mo. LOL THE BANALITY OF MODERN EXISTENCE

YEAH THEY SHOULD SING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS!!!11!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/07/pissed_jeans_are_the_true_heir.html

^^^haha totally missed this at the time, I guess we all did

for nu-pigfuck though i think STNNNG torches pissed jeans, and are more interesting.

I saw STNNNG a few years ago, was unimpressed really pretty much embarrassed by their performance... Don't care much for the recordings I've heard either. Guitars were real weak sounding (could have been due to the mix in the PA) and most of the playing missed the mark if I recall correctly, singer had zero charisma, didn't like his voice...

I do dig the first Pissed Jeans record, and especially the 7". Hope For Men I can take or leave. When I want piss-sack idiotshit scum rock I usually go with Drunks With Guns or the Brainbombs. Stick Men With Rayguns are probably wittier...and so on like people have been saying...

I like all those bands! I must have a low tolerance for this kind of thing... duh.

LOL @ wankers on Guardian comments as per

When I say I dig the first record and 7", what I mean to say is, I REALLY dig them.

Also, as far as sludgy suckrock bands that do it a bit better, there has not been one mention of...RUSTED SHUT. But I suppose they're a pretty different beast...

I don't know about live but on record STNNNG blow my face off. Great lyrics and singing. But really they're more Jesus Lizard angry-but-not-in shambles while Pissed Jeans is more like Flipper drunk + self loathing.

Clockcleaner is another nu-pigfuck band that are tearing shit up/

Loved Shallow and the Sub-Pop single when they came out, but burned out quick. Hope for Men didn't do much for me on the first few spins, but I'm old and jaded.

What's surprising is how much it's all grown on me. I said I burned out on the early stuff, but listening to it recently, I like it a lot more than I thought I would. And Hope for Men is catching up fast. Great lyrics, one of the better/funnier live shows in recent memory, and some great, almost-catchy riffs buried down there in the garbage. Derivative, sure, but at least they're good at what they do. On the downside, the drumming fine, but I wish the rhythm section were a little less predictable. That's maybe my one complaint. Can't imagine they have a "Flying Houses" anywhere up the sleeve.

And it's funny how divisive stuff like "Scrapbooking" is. Gateway for folks who wouldn't ordinarily be able to deal, boring interlude for the converted. Personally, I love the song, and think the album wouldn't be anywhere near as strong without it (and "The Jogger").

the NY Times calls them ****** Jeans...

Primal Call and Response at a Band’s Rumbling Bash
By BEN RATLIFF

Correction Appended

Sad-eyed Matt Korvette, lanky and a little slobby, stood on a chair, put his hands up by his clavicle and ripped off his white T-shirt from the collar down. Gathering concentration, he looked straight ahead as he made this strong and pathetic gesture.

What a cliché, right? But then the band started a monstrous rumble, a foursquare beat began, and the dour young man became the horse face from “Guernica”: all teeth, tongue, nostrils and jaws, his mouth open in a scream. Here was someone you wanted to watch. He was bellowing about wanting to kiss boring girls, growing primal as he outlined a stultifying thought, and he would not break his concentration.

His band, from Philadelphia, has a name that lies just on the other side of what’s printable here; it describes a basic bladder-related humiliation, something that happens to the drunk or scared or infantile. As it happens, that described some of Friday night’s crowd at the Silent Barn, a little performance space in Ridgewood, Queens.

This group brings back ’80s memories of hard, slovenly noise, when punk bands realized they could slow down and let their music fall apart a bit. It triggers a deep behavioral response of that era too, before mosh pits became codified.

The crowd at the Silent Barn, a room without a stage, became aggressive, nasty; it wasn’t easy to stay neutral, and people started to huddle defensively on the sides.

The columns of speakers on either side of the band were being used as something to hold on to. Average hipsters started to look like sailors clinging to a mast in a storm. The band’s bassist, Randy Huth, stood in front of the drummer, Sean McGuinness, playing with his back to the audience, trying to prevent bodies from flying into the cymbals and drum kit.

Historically the way a bare-chested, punk-band singer deals with a situation like this is to make it worse. But the band started a new song, “I Don’t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear,” and Mr. Korvette walked slowly into the room, acting abstracted, completely naïve, a man from Mars. It was a nice touch. Nobody bothered him, and the action slowed down around him. “I might just stand here,” he sang. And he did.

Their songs are funny. They’re full of rabid energy about dull or benign things, like cellphone plans or ice cream. Now and then, when Mr. Korvette ripped into a new song looking as if he was going to eat his microphone, or when the band started a new, messy riff, leaking feedback and channeling Black Sabbath or Black Flag, it seemed that this was going to be a very good gig. It wasn’t. It couldn’t hold its own against the mess of the crowd. The set was short, 40 minutes or so, cut off for bad vibes. It didn’t get to where it wanted to go.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: February 20, 2008
A music review on Monday of ****** Jeans at the Silent Barn in Queens misidentified the bassist. He is Randy Huth — not Dave Rosenstrauss, who left the band.

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

Saw that the other day. Kinda surreal. Like big brain alien planet scientists observing the primitive rituals.

'Don't Need Smoke' is way old as well, while they're going about correcting stuff

new album in a couple weeks! stoked!

http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/king_of_jeans

Dudes stepped it uppp

their album covers are always intersting imo

jazzed for this, definitely

It's tighter, doomy almost. "Spent" is like Swans, if Gira lived in a milltown.

awesome. hey pretzel walrus, holler at me if you all go see these guys please!

How's this compare with the last one? I didn't care for it that much :-\ Haven't like anything nearly as much as I liked that first 7" honestly. Still, looking forward to this.

cons: toned down the "i STUBBED MY TOE/and it FUCKING SUCKS" style songwriting for something (gack) more "considered"
pros: ditched the pulseless feedback dirges that made hope for men pale against shallow.

call it a draw.

Theoretically I like pulse-less feedback dirges but it is not one of their strengths.

^have to agree with this, albeit reluctantly

I've listened to HFM so much at this point that it'll probably take me til the end of the year to have an idea if this one is better, but there are unquestionably stellar moments

excited for this, love the one track i've heard (false jesii part 2)

^yeah that song is great! really getting excited.

i liked some of the dirges, but i think they went to the well too many times on hope for men...plus the song about the guy who's like a star wars/comic dork and the jogger were kinda just the same idea, listing off "stuff"....still about half that album rips hard.

like "Hope For Men" tried to be emotionless. just this boring album about scrapbooking and jogging and shit. To wit:

"Mainly we just wanted to bludgeon the listener with dull, monotonous droning rock music that just sucks the energy out of you, the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.”

And now they have balls, and play like they give a shit, and are awesome. The end.

Hope For Men was like a whole album of "Sex Bomb Baby" and this is like a whole album "My War," take yer pic

i liked hope for men, i like the new one too

hope that's ok with you whiney

they had plenty of "balls" on shallow. maybe more so. and if there's one band that makes a high art of not giving a shit at the moment, it's these guys. for chrissakes one song on the new one repeats "but i don't bother" about 52,000 times. it's possible to write songs that have force and mass, but not much forward momentum, that still provoke a visceral response. it's also possible to get off on music that wants to oppress you, though i wouldn't make a habit of it.

also describing something as "a whole album of 'sex bomb baby'" as a negative does not really compute.

or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.

that's pretty good.

They're pretty funny and "Vegas" live. Singer is the Karen O of love handles.

Drummer lurched to his feet about 25 mins into set and puked on his kit and stage in a couple sickening spasms. Singer lectures, "We're called Pissed Jeans, not Vomited Stages!" They pressed on another 3 songs or so. That's entertainment!

New album is really good.

i was there yesterday too.
Jeans were good and funny, but TV Ghost weven more awesome!

I liked them; vocalist's hair made me think he was gonna break into "Rio."

they sound like The Birthday Party - Hee Haw era, and thats a great compliment.

jeans & tv ghost = a wonderful bill, wish they would make it over to the uk

how was guinea worms? i wanna see guinea worms.

I did not arrive til 10:30, saw one song of Vee Dee.

I liked that Guinea Worms song on Worlds Lousy vol 8 more before I heard the Great Plains song "Death of A Thought Returns."
It's basically a note for note ripoff with different lyrics. It's still a cool song, but not as cool as I once thought.

or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, August 1, 2009 2:32 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is lol and otm. love this band.

a puke photo, at last (Too Gross for Work?)

http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/05/live-wfmu-fest/

http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/PissedJeans_KingOfJeans.jpg
I'm digging this one way more than "hope for men", it's great.
"she is science fiction" is the jam. These guys are getting better with age!

Just listened to it again after gorging on it for a review. I'm thinking it's my fav of the year now, displacing Future of the Left.

this is awesome

"hit my head leaving your basement, I feel like a giraffe"

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