< totally anal nitpick I know I know >
under the "Dinosaur Jr." name, it wasn't
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― 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
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
Opal's "Happy Nightmare," Minutemen, first three Meat Puppets, Volcano Suns OTM.
The Divine Horsemen's "Middle of The Night" was on SST, wasn't it? I loved that record.
― M. Specktor, Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Cosgrove Pennybaker, Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― strapped-on records, Saturday, 13 March 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
to be fair, Polvo were already active at the time, but the more bent aspects of the band's guitar playing (mainly Ash's playing) wouldn't be accented until a little later.. and I didn't mean to imply the band were an influence on them of anything, but I hear a little bit of that in one of the songs.. minor comment, really.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
Avoid:MinuteflagZoogz RiftElliot Sharp
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/ilx/sst1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
Bl'ast-the power of expression. (It pains me that even most of you guys don't know this band and this album).
Husker Du-zen arcade.
Black Flag-slip it in.
Husker Du-metal circus.ep.
Black Flag-my war.
Dinosaur Jr-you're living all over me.
Minutemen-double nickels on the dime.
Black Flag-damaged.
Black Flag-the first four years.
Meat Puppets-2.
― Ellis From Die Hard, Monday, 6 June 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jacques bush, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link