Nathan Loud So much of the egg punk over-saturation coincided with our Age of Over-Saturation. There’s too much of everything. Maybe it seems worse with egg punk because it’s fairly one-dimensional.

Egg punk's issue isn’t merely oversaturation, but the way it happened. It wasn’t so much that too many bands emerged, but that they all ended up sounding the same. The outsider spirit that once made it fresh and unpredictable has been flattened into an endless series of clichés. As a result, what began as a spontaneous movement has turned into a codified aesthetic—and when a style stops evolving, it ages rapidly.

Perhaps I’m over-analyzing a genre that, in the end, sounds like an alien short-circuiting on a drum machine. Regardless, the Coneheads remain the best.

      The Touch The Feel From the Permission EP to the This Is A Forest 7" has to be one of the top funniest followups in music.

      Then you flipped to the B side and it is Lumbar Yard. jfc. wasn't the producer Sublime associated? I mean now i wouldn't complain about a sax solo ride out on certain songs, but for the preEggs then it was more frowned upon.

      Sorry, but who are we talking about here?

          Bought my VIP tix to the relaunched Scion Fest, sadly it is being held on the same weekend as the Corporate Retreat. 🙁

          remember when the Termbo Gen X were so sadboi energy over Wavves actually becoming popular while them and their friends were the soCalled Shitgaze generation that a fraction of people knew or cared about. a ha ha now it is Millennials, this time with Gen Z Eggs

          Johnny Sick Shitgaze generation

          Of the bands mentioned on the cover I would say Psychedelic Horseshit, Pink Reason, TV Ghost (at least their early releases) and Nothing People hold up really well. TNV and Eat Skull are okay, but I don't need any of their records. Never listened to Factums and apart from the first couple of singles Blank Dogs quickly became formulaic and boring.

          Which means Shitgaze > Egg Punk. However, there are some good bands from the "egg generation". Coneheads, Eric Nervous and Lumpy & The Dumpers are the first ones that come to mind.

              While searching online for this Mr Egg that everyone hates, I discovered that James McDonald of British post punk greats The Fakes went on to produce techno under various pseudonyms. Mr Egg was one of them.

              Gimmie Sopor I found the only comparison with egg punk was in how people felt weird about having a joke genre thrown around. Maybe weird ounk is better. Especially since I legit forgot that term.

              Still think it is actually good to have these stupid terms b/c then idiot hicks like me or some european's like ratcharge can hear actually this shit!

              Last night I got in a more "suburb life" friend's car and he was rocking egg punk spotify. Had to inform him of the online debate and he was basically bummed out by it.

              Eat Skull are one of the best. Not good with words so I cannot say it so clearly, but they really try to go outside the box. Each song has a dofferent idea. The overall sound is their own and does not have a clear precendent (to my limited knowledge). Nowhere near the every song sounds the sameness of the better egg punk bands or the mid tier shit fi bands like Factums.

                  Gimmie Sopor I have the magazine with me. There is a five-page article on shitgaze. If you are interested, I can upload it-obviously it is in Italian.

                  The Factums I loved them at the time. Along with Nothing People and Pink Noise, they were among my favorite bands in the weird punk scene. Their debut album, "Alien Native," was released in 2004 as a self-produced CD-R, only to be reissued on vinyl in 2007 by the Siltbreeze label.

                  Their sound is dirty, dark and hypnotic, like a fever dream. They mix krautrock, post-punk and noise, with repetitive rhythms, grainy synths and guitars that sound like distant echoes of something eerie.

                  At times they are reminiscent of Chrome, for their psychedelic and alienating approach; in other tracks they evoke the industrial minimalism of early Cabaret Voltaire. But there is also a freer and more experimental soul, such as on the album Gilding The Lilies, which brings them closer to the sound collages of Throbbing Gristle.

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                        paperhose Eat Skull are one of the best.

                        +1 on Eat Skull. I'm still a very big TNV fan, but I think Eat Skull shined the brightest in those shitgaze days. Even their "cleaned up" last record that they did on Woodsist is a standout from the time. In my opinion, at least.

                        If you haven't heard that Hole Class record (Beth from TNV & Rob from Eat Skull) I recommend. More acoustic and folky, but a good listen.

                          I haven't listened in forever but I really loved the first Factums single when it came out but the records after that didn't leave much of an impression. Nothing People were fantastic. I was really excited to see them live and it didn't translate very well, but I love the records.

                          As far as shitgaze goes Psychedelic Horseshit were great and those records still stand up. They had a reputation for being a mess live but were great everytime I saw them with the exception of once, and that one time was comically bad. I booked them at the bar I worked at and the bartenders were not amused. It would randomly be brought up at work after that as "the worst band I ever saw." Tyvek got lumped into the "shitgaze" scene but I think that was more the result of place and time than actual sound.

                          The MTV shitgaze SXSW I saw TV Ghost get their van repoed. One of them didn't get permission from their mom to go to SXSW but went anyways. The mom was upset so she got their van repossessed. They came out to load in their gear and a tow truck driver was getting ready to take it. He let them get the gear out before hauling it off. They played a great set. I remember talking to them afterwards and they were more focused on the fact the MTV had given them beer the night before than the fact they no longer had wheels and were 20 hours from home with all their gear.

                            paperhose Eat Skull are one of the best.

                            For reasons unknown, I mixed up Eat Skull with Little Claw. I'm not sure I've ever heard of Eat Skull, although I've been aware of them since the Termbo hype days. Will check em' out.

                              Randall "the worst band I ever saw." Tyvek

                              For a second or two I thought Tyvek were the worst band you ever saw, but I read too fast. Tyvek are the absolute best, killing it live and on record for almost 20 years now. Put on my fourth show with them last year and they are as good as ever. Such a nice bunch of people too, always a pleasure to hang out with them.

                                  Gimmie Sopor for sure. I have never seen them anything less than stellar. Their set at the Corporate Retreat last year had me feeling about 15 years younger

                                    Johnny Sick

                                    please do upload.

                                    I definitely would not have described Nothing People as shitgaze. They were like glam rock or whatever. Regardless, to paraphrse Casca, it was Termbo Rock to me.

                                    As for NP, I like all of their stuff, but this is still to this day one of my favorite seven inchers of all time

                                        Josh Hineni, hineni. Sadly, can't access the link to the article for some reason. I'm really curious though