Slovenly - C/D & S/D

Such a bummer that the YouTube video disappeared :o(

Had totally missed the fact that there is a Slovenly MySpace page up and running with a couple of tracks up from 'After The Original Style' and 'Abernathy' plus some Overpass stuff too. Tom Watson says "several records were released through new alliance records (the minutemen’s label at the time), and sst records. they are almost imposible to find but i’m hoping to put them out again sometime soon". Do it Tom, do it!

I hope so too! I recently came into a digital copy of Highway to Hanno's and it floored me. Knowing it's not even their best work makes me want to hear everything else all the more.

Yeah, that's not the best place to start, but not bad either. Other three SST ones are all head and shoulders better. Going through a patch of love for Thinking of Empire at the moment. Always thought it was quite a English sounding record in many ways. Not the fantastic grasp of rhythm though, which the Fall or early New Order or whoever never really had. Well not like that anyhow. Some amazing drumming going on there, pulling all those cross-stitch guitars taut and propelling everything into totally another sphere.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZ50kX_5t8

^ video for 'Movement' is back up

This just made my day ten times over!

My Slovenly interview from Spin, 1987:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gcCEwpvxozAC&pg=PA12&dq=chuck+eddy+slovenly&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=chuck%20eddy%20slovenly&f=false

Saw Mike Watt and the Missingmen in Dublin on Saturday night, great show. Bushie from ESTEL got my CD covers signed by Watt and Tom Watson beforehand. Apparently Tom was very surprised - he hadn't seen the CD cover of Riposte since its only pressing in 1987! I'm glad he knows someone feels the love.

Really wish Slovenly would get a proper revival. Truly one of the best of the "forgotten" American bands. . .

Seconded. Still waiting for any news on a reissue campaign. Potential legal wranglings aside, why Drag City or some label like that never leapt at this opportunity is beyond me...

Maybe they're stuck in SST limbo, like everyone else who was on the label.

I could even see Thinking Of Empire sitting quite nicely alongside a lot of the stuff LTM has reissued, always thought there was heavy whiff of Manchester post-punk on that album.

Have seen quite a few live videos of this lot now, but have found them all a bit disappointing tbh. Maybe it's just the murky quality of the recordings but on stage they seemed to do quite a good job of completely suppressing their tunes.

Actually I take that back - this live set from 1987 is great:

https://soundcloud.com/rob-holzman/sets/slovenly-live-at-the-revival

Needs saying what a fine drummer Holzman is, could listen to e.g. Distended all day long for his part, my ears are just fascinated by that stuff. Talk about well-oiled gears.

sitting semi-sober, horribly bored

this is a great early 7", joy division influence very apparent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7sS8N5UVZQ

and that one song where they sound really like tful282:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7YQP-m-FM

It's like the older their music gets, the more timeless it becomes. I literally can't get enough of this band.

why Drag City or some label like that never leapt at this opportunity is beyond me...

I just bought After the Original Style and Thinking of Empire after only having them digitally for many years from the same seller on Discogs and they arrived in a package postmarked from, you guessed it, Drag City.

Big connection between drag city and the slovs is that Tom Watson plays on some of those later red krayola records that dc put out

I've never ventured into Red Krayola. Is it worthwhile for a Slovenly guy like myself?

Not fully investigated them tbh but i didn't really enjoy the couple I heard at all

to take it back to Slovenly, this song rules the wasteland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbSHwD_UE_w

that final "I'm NOT LOOOOONNNNNNEE-LEEEEEEE" part = shivers

Yeah, I think as far as capturing an isolated mood that's equal parts doom and somehow hopeful, they were kings. It's like a melancholy happiness. Such a unique feeling that they were able to capture.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/food/2015-12-01/remembering-steve-anderson

is this the same steve anderson? this obit seems to paint the picture of him as an austin scene dude, but weren't the slovs mainly bay area / west coast dudes?

this is steve from slovenly sitting atop the ladder: https://img.discogs.com/v8LovkNFJgTyQrK-dIDhP7kbFWI=/600x423/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-315042-1497127252-7384.jpeg.jpg

Doesn’t look like the same guy so i’m pretty sure that’s a different Steve Anderson. From discogs it seems like there were two different punk bands called toxic shock in the early 80s, one with some slovenly guys (Watson, ziegler and anderson) and another from Austin that had David Yow on bass and the other Steve Anderson on guitar.

Hey just found this new slovenly interview that was in PSF a couple of months back! Steve Anderson lives!

http://www.furious.com/perfect/slovenly.html

holy shit, nick! that link is invaluable. what a find! i am ever so grateful.

Having been introduced to Slovenly in the late 80s, I've been revisiting them a lot during lockdown. What a band! I'd love a Numero group style boxset. Does anyone know why on the CDs of 'Riposte' and 'We Shoot...' the running order is different to the vinyl with the A and B sides swapped? Just curious.