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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum just signed with The End Records, FYI.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I find their change to The End Records a bit odd. The End Records is a pretty solid metal label/distributor, but I don't quite see them being in line with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- their presence on Web of Mimicry made sense, and I wonder what compelled them to leave and sign to The End. It's a pretty big coup for The End.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Sleepytime is an excellent band. It's like an RIO metal band with a cabaret and street folk vibe. They're not for everyone, since they're too disjointed and strange for most metalheads and far too heavy and ugly for rock fans. They're basically designed for a very small avant garde niche crowd. If you go in expecting a rock band you're going to be very disappointed as they're NOT a rock band.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

They are however extremely heavy live, a lot more brutal than a conventional metal band, albeit in a more jarring dissonant (RIO) way than you might expect from a densely packed death metal sound.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i wasn't expecting anything. i got a cd in the mail one day. it was bad. not saying they can't be entertaining live though. i've never seen them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

What's "RIO"? You mean like Duran Duran??

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

And I like plenty of stuff that's way weirder than that Sleepytime CD. My problem wasn't that it was weird; it's that they didn't seem very good at it. (But again, yeah, I've yet to see them live either.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

the cd seemed kinda old-tymey to me. like a new foetus record or something. and like foetus, i get the whole heavy industrial cabaret thing, but it's not something i really want to listen to. unless it's 1984. and that would be impossible. and speaking of 1984, moe! bought a rat at rat r album off of me on ebay years ago and he liked my description of the record so much that he sent me a copy of a single he had put out which was really nice of him. and the single had melt banana and the flying luttenbachers on it. in keeping with this thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

By RIO, I mean Rock in Opposition.

Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna, Univers Zero, Art Bears etc. were bands in the "movement." SGM have a certain fondness for the sound (particularly Henry Cow and Art Bears) and you can hear it in their arrangements.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I've heard things weirder than Sleepytime as well, but they're not really weird for weirdness sake in my opinion. They are pretty intense though. Their live shows are definitely better than the live material. Their albums can seem a bit anemic comparatively.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

er album material.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno, everything everybody has said in favor of them on this thread screams "annoying novelty band" (homemade instruments, gulp!) but i did like an art bears LP once, so who knows? (it was *winter songs*. wish I still owned it. dagmar krause was even more geddy lee than geddy lee. speaking of art-metal. also, didn't she or they have some connection with slapp happy? i actually put "everybody's slimmin' [even men and women]" in my top ten singles list in 1983 or whatever year it was that it came out. i believe i also voted for "nuclear war" by sun ra that year! speaking of art non-metal. ha ha, i was so wacky then.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah, and come to think of it, i think i also voted for "compulsion"/"pulsations" by test dept that year! (speaking of art-metal made out of actual sheets of metal.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Banging on metal/homemade instruments = Z'ev to thread. There once was a time when I bought Z'ev records and said I liked them. That was twenty years ago. I didn't mean it. It's a common phenomenon with boys. Better Z'ev than have to join the military and have it beaten out of you in basic.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, I bought Test Dept and Neubauten records while I was IN the military,

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Dagmar Krause was Slapp Happy's singer, which is how she was co-opted into Henry Cow and then the Art Bears.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh, "annoying novelty band" is a very subjective concept. Someone might actually genuinely like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum while being a perfectly sensible music enthusiast. People might see a gimmick there, but I actually like their music and find parts of it genuinely moving and I've never been into being different as an end in itself. I like straight pop and metal.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

So Slapp Happy made a comeback after that then? This single was definitely from '83 or so.

By the way, I should note that I for the most part LIKE The End Records, thanks to all their lovely goth metal stuff that has no metal in it. They are just about the only art-metal label around not addicted to extreme and gratuitous ugliness. So maybe, if that label likes them, Sleepyhead Guerilla Mustard are more beautiful than I thought. xp

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Slappy Happy has reformed on occasion, yes.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The Nation and National Review should sponsor a battle of the bands between Henry Cow and Rush as part of a political series.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

http://vs.dead-inside.org/angizia-cover.jpg

Back to the topic at hand.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://vs.dead-inside.org/angizia-cover.jpg

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.alien8recordings.com/release_image/name/192/size600/ALIENCD67CoverRGB.jpg

the newer Nadja record. this is really blowing my mind right now. such a great release.

listen here:

http://www.alien8recordings.com/releases/168/Touched

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stop listening to the Goslings' "Grandeur of Hair". It has so many interesting sounds.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, me too! i heard they are from Florida? do you know where?

man. that Goslings record does rule. it's a husband and wife, i believe.

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I'm an isolated insulated Australian. I have no idea where they're from. Didn't even know them were from Florida.

I did know they're a husband and wife though. and they rule.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Nadja and The Goslings are awesome. You guys should all sign up for the Archive mailing list.

http://www.archivecd.com/shop.htm

Slimm always has loads of Nadja/Aidan Baker stuff and he also released The Goslings on the label.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

art meddler:

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n176/velurenightmare/m-art-thief.jpg

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone needs to hear The Goslings

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i've heard them. it was kind of noisy and not really engaging to me. i'll probably give them another shot someday.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried that Nadja thing this weekend (named after my wife's favorite movie, so it got my attention) but it bored me. Weak pseudo-Godflesh. Maybe I'll give it another try, but I'm very busy this month listening to stuff I'm being paid to listen to, like DragonForce and Dimmu Borgir and that new/old Dokken live album. We'll see.

― unperson, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

read the last month or so of Simon Reynolds' blog? maybe k-punk too?

― fukasaku tollbooth, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Watch out for SuperSonic 07 festival in Birmigham, details of the line up to be announced very soon ! including

Symposium -'Metal'

http://www.capsule.org.uk/Coming_Up/177.aspx

― djmartian, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Invisible Oranges blog on art-metal

http://invisibleoranges.com/2007/03/hipster-metal.html

― djmartian, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god "hipster metal"

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god indeed

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

someone should be shot for coining that

It wouldn't have been so bad if it had at least been Manowar who did it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Nigel Metal

NIGEL HIPSTER
('nI-jel 'hip-st&r)
Noun: Anyone who appreciates or supports black metal for ironic reasons, or because they find it humorous.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the thing about a polarizing term like that is that it excludes people who like black metal for both "ironic" and "unironic" reasons. it's possible to enjoy and take seriously a type of music while appreciating it's abdsurdities.

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh "its absurdities" i mean. i am just incapable of posting without making typos apparently

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The people who throw about terms such as hipster metal and nigel metal are usually people who are not worth listening to let alone reading stuff by them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

heheheh. this thread.

am i really meant to give a toss that some borderline sociopath might think i was a "hipster" or a "nigel" or whatever for, you know, liking a certain type of music?

hellfire. i was "gay" at school for liking erasure and the PSBs as well as the happy mondays; for liking the human league as well as faith no more (oh, the irony!)

i've been accused of being an indie spod, a dilettante, a wigga (no, seriously), a rockist, a popist and a twat (the last usually when i express my undying love for carter USM). perhaps i should be impressed by anyone to whom music, or rather musical taste and tribalism, means so much. but then i think: you poor closed-minded bastard. now piss off.

it's about listening, not lifestyle. siegbran was on the bloody money on april 24, 2003 :)

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

latebloomer OTM.

Hey, the vinyl for Altar -- sunn0))) & Boris -- is out! Bought a copy last night. Thirty bucks, but WTF, you know? Package sure is pretty. It's like a very colorful record-brick. You could build houses out of it. And it even sounds half-decent. (Record is grate! Vinyl sounds ... okay.)

Has weird liner notes by Kim Thayil, who used to be in Soundgarden. They were a band. Anyway, it turns out that Kim writes some goofy-ass liner notes, but I'm sure he's a very nice man. Cheers!

― Pye Poudre, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Angelblood is the right answer.

― MRZBW, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I got my Altar vinyl in today!!! Simon The Wigga* is bound to be able to get one in Glasgow I think,

* The Mind Boggles

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Angelblood is the right answer.

Angelblood are great,
If anyone is interested the cd version of the Dead Raven Choir 3xLP box is out now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Years later, this thread still has a very stupid title.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone ordered the new Earth CD/DVD "Hibernaculam" ?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anybody else spot the vitirolic letter/ad in the last Decibel where the dude's like "Stop hanging out with people who wear Iron Maiden shirts because it's ironic and start hanging around with people who wear them because MAIDEN FUCKING ROCKS!!"

To be honest, guys like him are why it was tough for me to reimmerse myself in metal. There's definitely such a thing as taking anything "too" seriously.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Did he go on about hipster metal too?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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