What's the deal with the debut, "Funeral Dress"? It's way out of print, any plans for a reissue?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Another fantastic song. This band is so great.
And they're finally starting to get more attention. I can't think of a band that deserves success more than them.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
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The MP3 album is available on Amazon. Not sure about the physical CD.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
The Big Lebowski song is actually outstanding (and I was nervous about it too before I heard it).
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 5 February 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Where did you hear it?
― cpl593H, Friday, 5 February 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
I know a guy who's reviewing it. I tried to get a copy but no dice. That was one of the two songs I heard, at least I'm reasonably sure it was one of them, since it had lines taken directly from the film in the lyrics (Walter's funeral speech).
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 5 February 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Saw the trio show tonight, which was excellent despite some fits and starts. When it all clicks and Chuck & Lisa sing together it's just mesmerizing, like a darker, Midwestern X or Fleetwood Mac. They also went super obscure and played the Twinkeyz 'Aliens In Our Midst'.
― campreverb, Sunday, 21 February 2016 09:55 (eight years ago) link
The guitars are just huge on this one.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
This is my second Wussy album, and it sounds less varied and certainly a lot slower and more abrasive than Attica. Most notably, nothing here shimmers like "North Sea Girls." Not saying I don't like it, I just need some more time with it.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
It's definitely a departure from their other records. Chuck's songs are better here, where Lisa dominated Attica.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
"she killed hundreds" and "my parade" are the early standouts (besides "dropping houses"). i'm seeing them tonight in the 5-piece configuration, interested in seeing how the new songs work live.
― adam, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Video for "She's Killed Hundreds"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jUTWKy35Q
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
New album's good but not blowing me away.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
i think the production is kinda murky and not in an atmospheric way. live it was much more blistering and raucous. they covered "ceremony" too.
― adam, Monday, 7 March 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm still not sold on the whole thing--the Lebowski song is a slog--but the closing four-song stretch is fantastic. Love how they follow (imho) the album's best rocker ("Sidewalk Sale") with three rather textured ballads.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Great sound, but the songs aren't as strong as usual. Still an excellent record.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 March 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
They did a nice cover of New Order's "Ceremony" for RSD:
https://soundcloud.com/damnably/wussy-ceremony-rsd-7
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
A track of theirs came up in my Discover Weekly this week and I am digging it. Have to admit I wondered for a bit if the female vocalist was Karen O.
― The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 July 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
Song i listened to even referenced my current screen name.
― The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 July 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
My new favorite band, based on Funeral Dress and my other other meanderings through the catalog.
Has anyone who's never read Robert Christgau ever been into Wussy?I heard about this one guy who lives in North Dakota who fits this description. But that's it.― clemenza, Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki'm into wussy because of chuck cleaver, and i'm into chuck cleaver because of the afghan whigs (covering the ass ponys)not that the rest of them, particularly lisa walker, aren't awesome. anyway, christgau is not involved― mookieproof, Saturday, August 30, 2014 4:12 AM (1 year ago)
I heard about this one guy who lives in North Dakota who fits this description. But that's it.
― clemenza, Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm into wussy because of chuck cleaver, and i'm into chuck cleaver because of the afghan whigs (covering the ass ponys)
not that the rest of them, particularly lisa walker, aren't awesome. anyway, christgau is not involved
― mookieproof, Saturday, August 30, 2014 4:12 AM (1 year ago)
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
But yeah, "Bug" is problematic. Is it named after the Dinosaur, Jr. album?
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
My new favorite band
me too
― flopson, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Finally listened to Forever Sounds, which earns its name--which, if they didn't consciously make from Forever Changes and Pet Sounds, might as well have, cos it's that kind of vibrant sonic monument, made of Grade-A Collector's Guide Catnip---but so far can't hear why xgau says it's more the sound than the songs; to me it's the sound of songs, of detail curving in through the wide windscreen strata of perspective (doesn't seem all that overdubby though, even on headphones: think they could get a lot of the same effect on stage, or recording live in the studio). Title also related to the mythopoeic power and ambition and hope and compulsive urge in their surge, x fatalistic or morbid themes: they're off to see thee wizard, even though we're all gonna die sometyme--so: folk music, and big loud catchiness too; sounds like they still like the Who as well as Richard and Linda maybe even more compatibly than ever, and this is what we get after Attica! and Public Domain Vol. 1(harmonium and piano from the splintered parlor show up on intro of last track, even). This pulled me in right away, which isn't absolutely necessary but always favored. Lisa and Hungry Chuck: Mom 'n' Pop ov Dragons (Midwestern loose meat sandwich ones, of course).
― dow, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
"all gonna die someday" if we haven't already, with at least one song about (calling himself)a ghost(because he can be or call himself whatever he wants to) glimpsed already.
― dow, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
that post's a little too off the deep end for me but i think i agree with the sentiment, that there is something special about this album :)
(doesn't seem all that overdubby though, even on headphones: think they could get a lot of the same effect on stage, or recording live in the studio).
this is definitely true. it just sounds like a guitar indie rock band, just a really really good and exquisitley recorded one \o/
I also agree with this, from a p4k review: "there remains something resolutely midwestern in the delivery" which I think you are getting at with Lisa and Hungry Chuck: Mom 'n' Pop ov Dragons (Midwestern loose meat sandwich ones, of course).
dropping horses -> she's killed hundreds is the best one-two punch album opener of the year
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
So with this band are we supposed to assume every perceived reference to something else is really there, for instance that the fire-starting "cigarette alone" of "Beautiful" is the same one smoked on the steps by the fireworks-noticing Joe Doe in "4th of July"?
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Uh, John Doe. Don't know who Joe Doe is or how he got in there.
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Yes, you track down every word referred to by every word of every song. We don't, but you do. Get workin'.
― dow, Friday, 30 September 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
Okay. I'll be back in a little bit
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
Digging the cover of "Ceremony."
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
I hate this band name so much and that they're supposed to be like actually good bugs the shit out of me
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
dude,
1) the name's not that bad???
2) they're siick
― flopson, Saturday, 3 December 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
They write good songs.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 December 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Great name, great band. You want a bad band name, check out his previous band the Ass Ponys. They were great too.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 4 December 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link
I am enjoying a Wussy song. :(
Maybe Christgau is right.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Which one?
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
Don't hold Christgau against them.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
It was from the new album. I think it was Gone. (Was just playing things on shuffle.) Now I'm playing the album.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Snow day here, no students; looking around for something to play, noticed the whole Buckeye compilation is on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T70rE2aB9EQ
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8feB5IhNG8
Stuck in the corn mazeWith only a transistor radio
― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
I recently tweeted:These days I'm not likely to get hooked on "droney dream pop" w Radio Shack beats, but @muncie_girl makes it work, most of the time, on this 18-track Magic Words collection https://themagicwords.bandcamp.com/ The most unusual talent can be a bad influence: "Hey I can do that!" Probly not.
(she's been promoting it w UK shows)
― dow, Monday, 4 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
those magic words tracks are so great, kind of gives lie to the Wussy creation myth though.personally think she is the best vocalist in rock right now.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
This comes out in May. I don't really get why all the prices are British--the songs look they're new, it's not a UK-only compilation.
http://wussy.bandcamp.com/album/what-heaven-is-like
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
"look like"
That's weird.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 25 February 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
They have a bunch of songs I like, but the fact that the new one is inspired by the Fargo TV show is kind of lame.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
They've added the American CD/Vinyl links now.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Recently heard an interview with one of the guys from this band and it became pretty clear he doesn't like leaving the house, so there you go.
I wonder if we're in for a new era of Iron Maiden-esque songs about movies and tv shows.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Tracks so far are pleasant enough. Looking forward to the album.
― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 March 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link