Is the rumour that they never paid any of the bands true?
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
like New Day Rising, but with no memorable songs to go w/ the pretty melodies. (actually, in 1985, I put Flip Your Wig not New Day Rising in my top ten, for some reason, but that's probably just because it was newer at the time. Within a couple years I was calling their new albums *Candy Ass Gray* and stuff like that, though -- In fact, *Flip Your Wig* was their last album that I ever liked at all, I think. And all the stuff they did after they broke up seemed worthless to me.)
Then again, I actually gave Crazy Backwards Alphabet (is that what they were called? the Beefheartesque Henry Kaiser super-trio) a good review in CREEM once, so what the hell do I know?
― chuck, Friday, 12 March 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
But anyway in place of that one I pick "The First Four Years" by Black Flag.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Rock Bastard, Friday, 12 March 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
― CL, Friday, 12 March 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago) link
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Black Flag - everything up through Slip It InHusker Du - Metal Circus, Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your WigDinosaur - You're Living, BugSlovenly - Thinking of Empire, Riposte, We Shoot for the MoonSonic Youth - Evol, SisterMinutemen - everything up through Three Way TiePell Mell - Rhyming Guitars (reissue), FlowMeat Puppets - II, Up on the Sun
plus when they took on New Alliance:
Descendents - Milo Goes to College, I Don't Wanna Grow Up
and more, I'm sure.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago) link
― dlp9001, Friday, 12 March 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago) link
Paper BagSWATom Troccoli's DogPainted WillieBLAST!Alter-NativesLawndaleAlways AugustBrian Ritchie
More good SST:
Tar Babies - Fried MilkPell Mell - Bumper Crop
And, to be honest, all the stuff they've released since about 1995.....????? Who knows.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
I forgot they were so awesome. When I was fifteen I wanted to live in the south bay just for this reason
― hector (hector), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
my guitar case still has the big SST sticker on it
― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago) link
< totally anal nitpick I know I know >
under the "Dinosaur Jr." name, it wasn't
< /totally anal nitpick I know I know >
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago) link
And I always liked Alter Natives, but then, I also went to school with them. Jim Thomson later did a stylistic spin and ended up singing with salsa band Bio Ritmo.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:34 (twenty years ago) link
I picked up the a Tom Trocolli's Dog LP in Baltimore last year, and got a dirty look. Old resentments die hard. Now need Oktoberfaction.
SST wins!
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:05 (twenty years ago) link
also, the FIRST (and best) meat puppets album, which sounds like hella!
YES! OTM.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
That shit is awesome. It's some of the wierdest 'hardcore' I've ever heard, and perhaps could also applicable for the shambolic thread.
― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago) link
the one sst band i loved that kept making great records all the way to the end, after husker du started sucking, after the meat puppets started sucking, was the minutemen. i even love "project: mersh."
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
The two Volcano Suns on SST, Farced and Thing of Beauty, have their moments but drag after a while. The latter is like 72 minutes long so this is problematic.
I remember hearing Bias and being surprisingly taken with it. With that, Oxbow and Fatso Jetson I think there might be a case for SST's last stand being underrated.
They were releasing an album a week in the late 80s though weren't they? Clearly *productive* potheads, if nothing else.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
Getting even more analaller than you's twos, the first 'jr' record was the fucking crummy 'Show me the way' EP on SST. You're Living All Over Me came out as just plain old Dinosaur to start with, but got changed for later issues.
We were reminiscing about SST on the Zoogz Rift thread the other day. Slovenly fans might be sad to hear that one of the guitarists, Scott Ziegler, died last year :o(
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
Now riddle me this: what does SST stand for?
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
I was going to interview Greg Ginn recently (obv. anyone can at this point, even me), but it all seemed kind of sad and he has some weird cat obsession now and no one else cared about it, but me.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link
It's weird how Angst have become erased from people's minds. I still quite like Mystery Spot. Weren't they one of the Pixies influences? I seem to recall that Frank Black's advert for band members supposedly asked for people influenced "by Angst and Husker Du".
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link
Angst actually played in the UK with Dinosaur Jr in 1987 (I know cos I was there), around the same time the Pixies were starting to become the New Thing. As I recall it they were way better then Dino Jr, who were always terrible live.
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― ddb, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Doctor Wu by the Minutemen was the first time I ever heard someone sing that stupid song, so that's a fave of mine...
Has there been a Homestead C or D? Ahhh sweet 80s hardcore nostalgia... (are all types of music called Hardcore great, btw?)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
chuck you need to hear lawndale's sasquatch rock again, especially with your genre-bending hearing aids in. there's this crazy "whole lotta love"/"take five" medley (90s us indie band paid tribute to with equally screwy "take five" - fab four's "he's so heavy" = unity cover).
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
The only band from my home town, Pacific Palisades CA, to actually "make it". Colin, you seriously could stand their version of "La Isla Bonita"?
The more underrated Pacific Palisades band with SST influences but with proto-Polvo/psych rock sounds was MUSTARD. I'd be happy to digitize their (I think one and only) self-titled 7" from 1990 with "Burn The Green" and "Song For D." on it for interested folks. (you can obviously guess who "D." refers to).
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 13 March 2004 08:50 (twenty years ago) link
Just got email saying that Wienerworld are rereleasing a bunch of prime SST stuff (Husker Du, Flag, Brains) on vinyl. Weird. Pretty sure that the bands involved won't see any money from this......from what I hear, certain SST bands had the same issue even when Ginn was releasing the records! (/snark)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 21 July 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
My favorite SST releases were by Das Damen, btw
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 21 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
tylerw plz keep us posted on that, sounds cool
I've been just totally obsessed with USHC lately
― sleeve, Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I mean, even more so that usual
Wienerworld?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 22 July 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link