PISSED JEANS

'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"

http://www.self-titledmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/pj_koj_poster.png

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!