― xhuxk, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Probably better than Painted Willie, though. Maybe even better than Das Damen! (And what was that other band, Lawndale or something?)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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I remember liking this song, and I have one LP or EP (the one with the bleeding seal or walrus drawing on it) but I don't rememeber anything else about them. And I'm thinking of changing my name to "Swamy Arroyo."
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Lawndale vs. The RaybeatsLawndale vs. Love TractorLawndale vs. the genre of "post-rock"
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
swa were a really good live band. chuck's band right now is worth checking out too.
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Thursday, 26 May 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Wasn't mad keen on Treacherous Jaywalkers at all, but they were *gold* next to Run Westy Run.
(Someone get Troccoli on this thread now!)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
But all that dross;and muggins here bought much of it,all that including those Flag off shoots and instrumentals. All that dippy ,hippy tuneless pap. What was I doing? I have no idea. I can't even remember their awful names but the aforementioned Das Damen and DC3 ring a worrying faint bell and I probably have two or three each of their mid rock disasters in my pain in the butt vinyl i have to shift around everytime another relationship crashes.
― hull hole (hull hole), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Someone I NEVER see any love for: Always August, the bongo-driven strum-along jazz-rock jam-band in the SST roster. Id imagine they probably wore ponchos when they played and had to shake their curly hair lots when the bugs started itching mid-solo. But they were much better than all this makes them sound! Quietly and subtly amazing but everyone else hated them I think.
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember also having mixed feelings about some Tar Babies EP once, but it may not have been on SST. They were from Wisconsin, right? Killdozer country. Sounded sort of hardcore punk funk? I still have a 45 by them on my shelf at home; I should listen to it sometime.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
-- gygax! (gygax0...), May 25th, 2005.
HOLY OTMZZ....GYGAX U RULE.
― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Also: there's a CD reissue of the first two Tar Babies EPs on an Australian label called Lexicon Devil that's really good. They were a really good hardcore band before they started doing the funkier stuff on their SST albums.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I went for the 'Hoes with Attitudes' joke when this thread began, but wisely did not press send.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
And Blind Idiot God..... the first post rock instrumental band complete with specs. I seem to remember that they had a song called 'Shifting sands' which had beautiful , massive alt. tuned chords but I may be wrong. I often am.
― hull hole (hull hole), Thursday, 26 May 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait. Correction is needed, even if it's not actually relevant to the subject.
BWP - Bitchez with ProblemsHWA - Hoes with Attitudes
Thank you.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Was never that big on Riposte, too much seemed to hang on too few words. Not enough of that careening about that I love em for! Thinking of Empire was my favourite album probably, think that a good few folks on ILM might gobble it up if they knew much about it. Not very SST-like at all really despite the presence of a Saccharine Trust guy. Theres Pere Ubu and Television in there, but they also seemed to be very much informed by the Fall and the Blue Orchids (who they covered), Joy Division, early Scritti Politti. And yet they still sound totally unique and original to me. Maybe they sound like a much better, more considered version of the Shrubs or the Nightingales.
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmmm, that makes them sound really shitty though, so Im going to shut up about it now!
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― hull hole (hull hole), Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 27 May 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually listened to some To Damascus last night! First side of Come To Your Senses. It was buried in the back of a cupboard next to Minuteflag and that dodgy Yanamamos thing on New Alliance that Grant Hart played on. Anyhow, I quite liked it! Juncosa sounds both quite spiky and very fluid, creating these glistening little rockpools then immediately strafing them with bullets. Reminded me a bit of Curt Kirkwood, and I guess they share that thing where their voices are all dopey and wayward, but they're still really nailing those notes at the same time.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
"Winter"
What will you do? Where will you goWhen the cold winds start to blow?The children all knowThe winter is here!Yes, it's here!
Dark is the dayWhen we find that we have lost our wayCaught in the stormFurther from the chosen path we strayCan't you hear what all the children say?
Seasons they change and so should weWhen all refuse to seeThe winter is here!Yes, it's here!
The power we gaveThey abused and used it to enslavePut us all into an early grave
In this old world (?)Where children can growYou only reap what you sowOr didn't you know?
(Buried vocals)Can't escape from the stormFind shelter, safe and warmThe winter is here!Yes, it's here!
Fools are the wiseWho would blindly trade the truth for liesSee it written in the children's eyes
Lovers were found lost on the roadIn frozen embrace in the snowThe children all know!The winter is here!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.musiq.pl/images/35/SWA_Winter.jpg
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Their live performance on THE TOUR VHS (SSTV 02) flies high & mightily, showing them doing that out/free-hardrock thing they patented, to great effect. (Get it quick - it's available in booted DVD form on e-bay)
SEE: Dukowski pumpin' away on bass like a human steamboiler! Merrill stutter-steppin' like Jagger on speed! The twin-leads of Ray Cooper & Richard Ford circling/scattering like bloodthursty hyenas in the night! And Greg Cameron drumming, mooring it all like a railroad spike driven straight through the foot.
Sure beat the pants offa the HUSKERS, and maybe the MEAT PUPPETS too (but not SACCHARINE TRUST. Never.)
As usual, there appears to be only like 2 people in the audience. People are stupid, ya know?
BTW: I also once had a tape of a KXLU "Braincookies" live performance of theirs - as I recall, it was 1 continuous, 40-min. improvised heavy jam. Just nuts. Wish I still had that. Hell - wish I still had a tape player.
― Michael Row (mrow), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6VQt2QiiI
Arroyoooooooooooooo! She's my arroyooooo!
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The squaw on guitar is Sylvia Juncosa amirite?
man the Chuck Dukowski Sextet certainly is Dukowskian. RIYL if you like SWA or Wurm, i.e. if you're me and no one else on planet earf
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:57 (five years ago) link