PISSED JEANS

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half id-i-ot

should have placed higher in a lot more end of year polls. anyone else get the bonus live CD by preordering through subpop? its a recording of their set at the subpop20 event, really good. hope they're back over in europe soon as i miss them.

It placed at #23 in the ilx metal poll.

Well that is the only that matters i suppose.

*one

I love internet sarcasm.

"R-Rated Movie" may be my favorite on this but really I love it all.

i really dont hear enough stuff like this

my favorite rock record of the year, by far

^^^ this.

pretty sure this album stopped me from drinking a fifth of bathtub gin and driving into a brick wall several times during the clusterfuck that was 2009.

the entire pissed jeans discography could be subtitled "...but at least we can laugh about it now"

hahaha

I like this album but it's nowhere near "Shallow." lotta people seem to think the opposite though

"Dream Smotherer" is pretty killer

this should have placed higher on pazz and jop, rock critics are dumbasses shocker

I only did five records for pazz and jop to try to pump this record (and four others) up!

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2009/S2luZyBvZiBKZWFucw==

i think i would have voted for this and a bunch of made-up albums. and taylor swift.

thanks for doing your retarded arguing here and not on the goddamn site where i could at least make some goddamn money

i'll go copy and paste that into the comments box if it means tiny tim will get his christmas goose this year

pretty sure this album stopped me from drinking a fifth of bathtub gin and driving into a brick wall several times during the clusterfuck that was 2009.

^^^basically this

Hope For Men got me through 2007 comparatively more though

This has to be the most embarrassing "look at us, we're RAWK and WE DON'T CARE" band name I've ever encountered.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:47 (3 years ago)

This was totally stored in my head as a gabbnebb post; who knew.

jesus christ. these guys...

the best current live rock band I've seen, for two years running now. nobody can touch them.

although maybe I missed a wicked 'Dirty Projectors' show in the interim or something, wouldn't know

Dirty Projectors were great live when i saw them last fall

what Pissed Jeans record is better, Stormy?

For me, and bear in mind that these are ranked in the spirit of narcissism of small differences: Hope For Men, then King Of Jeans, then Shallow

ksh, never heard heard Dirty Projectors, that's the whole reason why I wrote 'I wouldn't know'! If you think they are better than Pissed Jeans -- either Live or on record, sure, tell me to check'em out.

Pissed Jeans just continue to be a beautiful, ugly, stupid force.

can't quite think of anyone like them. altho I admit I'm not familiar w/ the bands the get namechecked on the 'nu-pigfuck' thread..

point being that -- my IMPRESSION -- is that 'Dirty Projectors' -- whoever the heck they are, got a lot of corporate crit bleating. by losers who would never set foot in a bar where Pissed Jeans plays. Of course, you see, most of my fave records are by old jazz dudes like Fred Anderson or whatever, so they ain't gonna get nominated for any awards either. So shooting potshots at 'darlings' like "Dirty Projectors" = just a bit of fun, i'm sure you will recover

If Dirty Projectors are all that, I'd love to hear one or two sentences to convince me to check 'em out!

I mean, I don't read 'Pazz & Jop' comments or 1000 post ILX threads anymore, work won't allow it, but fuck -- if DP actually rule I would love to be sold on it. can never get enough great music..

in any case, I sync up with Mencap. I still think that 'Hope For Men' is the best Pissed Jeans record

new one is cool, but I actually do kinda *miss* the weirdness and skits that were stuck into HFM

yes. totally great live. think the jesus lizard reunion was the only other time i've been as impressed with a live band in the past few years. their records are all solid, really. could making a case for any of them being the best.

ksh i would strongly recommend getting "king of jeans" first. arguably equal to "hope for men" in greatness but it's their most accessible fer sher. "hope for men" is them pounding riffs into the ground endlessly with no release or sense of direction and "king of jeans" is them embracing release and rocking out in a more traditional sense. i only really appreciated "hope for men" after having heard/loved "king of jeans". hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

The Ex thows down mightily but they don't tour the states much

would like to see pissed jeans

thanks for the suggestions as to which record to buy first, everybody -- i'm going to add all of them to my ever-growing list of stuff to check out

Stormy: here's a Dirty Projectors song to check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4he_jgJrMCk

live video featuring me fervidly moshing and fist-pumping

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/mar/01/india.railtravel

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-rzAoKm5Y

what was the median age of the ppl at that show?

when i saw Dirty Projectors, it had to have been, like, 19

oh, thanks ksh! that track is really quite nice. reminds of a lot disparate things that kinda come close but don't really nail their sound so I won't mention them here, but suffice to say it pushes some of my buttons. anyway, yeah I was just kinda drunk and ranting last night -- depressed that a band as amazing as Pissed Jeans really *doesn't* get their just due. but that's just how it goes.

iow, i am feeling this;

hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

― tmi finney (samosa gibreel)

ah man, it was the best show. alot of these weird punk shows in montreal lately have been really boring audience-wise, just this silent majority of hipsters and people who like performance art standing around with their arms crossed. but for pissed jeans they got a powerviolence band and an 80s hardcore band to open, tonnes of dudes crowdsurfing and going nuts.

median age at the show last night was probably about 28 (I am 38)

didn't see any of the scenesters from "my generation" of indie/punk/etc rock though, which kind of surprised me. It was a Wednesday though (it was a huge battle to make it into my 8 am start job today, 20 minutes late)

I should also mention that the Empty Bottle in Chicago has amazing drink specials, $5.50 each day for a drink and a shot. Last night, it was Tito's Vodka and a Point IPA in a bottle. Tito's is, like, my fave vodka right now, and I'm not even really a vodka guy. best boilermaker ever

pretty much everyone was over 20. well, at least no one under 18.

yeah, I caught the same general vibe as samosa. crowd actually *did* start off a little arm-crossed, but Pissed Jeans proceeded to break that down relentlessly until, at the end, there was wild moshing to the last couple tracks. they really are unparalleled right now, I think. 50 minute set, no encores, as there needn't have been. they give everything they have for the 50 minutes.

Stormy, glad you liked the DP song!

that's great that the audience was really into it. way too rare these days at many, many shows

these fuckin guys

never listened, just cuz

i heard they had a 7" coming out this year

The 7" is out, at least on Emusic. "Sam Kinison Woman" is great, but the b-side is the kind of lumbering clever-Neandertal dirge that they do better than anyone since Flipper. Stunning in it's groaning, cranking way.