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Hey Salamiguy – If you liked magic moments you might like Snuff’s cover of Tiffany’s "I Think We’re Alone Now", and of course there monumental re-working of the theme from the Shake-n-Vac advert.
I notice your from Canada. There’s some good punk come out of Canada – Propagandhi & Chixdiggit spring to mind. What’s the scene like in general in your area?
Today I have mostly been listening to:
A demo of a song recorded on 4-track by my mates band which hasn’t even got a drummer or a name. It’s pretty damn good.
Picked up the new Pearl Jam album, Riot Act.
Listened to it a couple times, pretty rockin’.
Just more of the same, and as Dino fans we must all agree that that’s not necessarily a bad thing.Pearl Jam found there sound on No Code, and the 3 albums since have just been continuations of the themes and ideas raised on No Code.
Apart from that, this is what’s splayed all over my Sitting Room floor this morning after a night out on the piss (I don’t actually remember playing most of these last night):
The Dwarves……Are Yound And Good Looking (LP)
The Hives – Barely Legal (LP)
The Fuckers – Block Party (Clint Werner from SEAWEED side-project) (7")
Snuff – Potatoes and Melons at wholesale prices direct to you the public (10")
Tool – Lateralus (LP)I gotta agree with Malcolm on this one, Dinosaur post-Bug is better than pre.
I love all the albums, but I think the first few are fairly flawed (definitely the one’s featuring Lou Barlow). It’s not till Bug & Green Mind that J’s song-writing and guitar work really start to mature, and he starts making complete albums.
Hand It Over was a good place to stop being Dinosaur cos it is without a doubt the finest Dinosaur Jr album. Go out on a high, man.British punk all the way:
Consumed: Pistols at Dawn
(this is the new one from the Midlands’ finest – I’ve literally listened to it once and it’s everything I’d hoped for – killer riffs, big drum tracks, tech time changes and a hint of that Fat Wreck sound without loosing any of their Brit-energy)Lambchop: What another man spills
(again picked this up couple days ago, I think it’s from ’98 and it’s beatifull. Very country, very folk, very knowing. I’m very much a newcomer to lambchop, and I’ve been attempting to pick up their albums in reverse chronological order since getting hold of "Is a woman" a few months back. Every time I mention Lambchop to someone I always get the reply "Oh, that’s Kurt Wagner’s lot innit?"
That’s happened to me about 4 times now – before I picked up "Is a woman" (which I bought off the back of a very favourable review on http://www.drownedinsound.com) I’d never heard of the guy. Seems, as usual, I’m the last to know)…and none of them knew they were robots: Liebestod
(Another british punk act of the emo persuasion, but this 6 CD mini-LP is a post-hardcore homage to, well, hardcore, I suppose. And it really is something else – kinda Minor Threat meats At The Drive In.)Hey Wireland, Fat Mike sang "Fuck the government until they fuck you back"
– Looks like you just got laid!Hey Malcolm – I always thought Descendants/All were the grandaddies of EMO. Ah well, diff’rent strokes….
If you like Ramones – try the Riverdales, they’re really good fun.
I’d also recommend picking up Mark Lanegan’s back catalogue – awesome stuff, it really is.
I’ve been listening to a lot of that QOTSA related stuff – Mondo Generator, Masters of Reality etc.
But THE band you should check out has to be The Dwarves – the finest punkrock outfit of all time, kinda like early Damned in a 60’s surf/garage band style.
Finally, check out some modern British punk – Snuff, Consumed and The Killerest Expression (http://www.killerest.com – don’t know how to do links duh!) are at the forefront of the British sound at the mo!
ANOTHER EX-SKATER!
Yup, I skated from ages 11-20, and they were some of the best years of my life. I have problems with my lower spine which has stopped me doing anything more physical than running for the bus!
OK, so I still mosh, but that’s it!Skating also got me into Dinosaur Jr – Again Freak Scene, but this time it was on Mike Vallely’s section (was that Public Domian?)
Then just kept hearing more and more, obviously Neil Blender always had Dino tunes on his sections etc.
But Skate Vids also got me into Operation Ivy – fantastic band.My mate burned me a copy of a CD he got off the internet (don’t know what site, sorry) which has got the entire soundtracks to the first 2 H-Street vids (Shackle Me Not & Hokus Pokus). It’s totally awesome – loads of Kirk & The Jerks and Odd Numbers tunes.
Skateboarding changed my life – it changed the way I saw the world (every time you walk past a building you see lines to skate, blocks to grind), it changed the way I saw society, it made me more conscious of my surroundings and how we interact with them. And most importantly it’s given me the best group of friends a man could ask for.
Most the kids I was skating with like 12 years ago are still good friends of mine, and my best friend I met through Skating.Birmingham council are pretty strict on skating so you always run the risk of on-the-spot fines from the police if you skate in the city-centre, which pretty much sucks. But sounds like the authorities in most town around the western world have a exceptionally dim view of skating.
Just in reply to Simmons, I’ve been after that Mike Johnson album for some time now, his second album "Year of Mondays" is without a doubt one of my favourite records of all time.
At the moment track 2 on the new Mark Lanegan is sending shivers down my spine (I can’t remember the song name or the album title – how lame).
But for a song that thrills me to the core, it’s gotta be "How’d you pin that one on me?" off’f Green Mind. Perfection.
Though "New Cobweb Summer" by Lambchop on the Is A Woman album is also, well, PERFECT.
Been reading quite a lot of stuff at the mo. Went and re-read a couple of Brett Easton Ellis books – Rules of Attraction & The Informers.
They really are both very good, even though every single character is a shallow, vapid, ugly (body & mind), drug addict.
You wouldn’t think you’d be able to read so much about Upper Class college kids in New Hampshire without wanting to throw the book through the window of your local Dolce & Gabbanna boutique, but it works (though I still want to throw SOMETHING through the window of a D&G boutique – who wouldnt?).
I heartily recommend it to anyone who went to Uni/college, did drugs/booze and hates our wonderful consumer society.
I’m going to see Queens of the Stone Age tonight. Should be pretty rockin’. Hope Mark Lanegan’s in good form. Last time I saw him he was surrounded by scanitly-clad groupies.
For a reckovering heroin-addict, I think joinijng QOTSA may have been a mistake!HAS ANYONE HEARD THE NEW NIKE JOHNSON ALBUM?
