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

                    I had forgotten about the autocorrect "clowning on bitches." genius. also, hilarious it actually made it into the article

                    TNV, Eat Skull, Psychedelic Horseshit are all great. Does anyone have an opinion on the Pink Noise? I thought they were exciting, there was a real well done interview back in the day where RK got Mark to talk through every song on an album. Are they only a footnote cause they were from north of the border? or some kind of Sacred Bones stink? I put out a latter day LP that was far from shitgaze to very little fanfare, but i thought it was fantastic, still have like 20 copies.

                      I actually think some egg punk bands (DEVO, coneheads, cheater slicks) are pretty good

                        paperhose Eat Skull are one of the best.

                        Preach. Asked Rod a couple/few years ago about any new music and he made it sound as if something was slowly coming together. Here’s hoping.

                          yeah before anybody jumps to conclusions, i had plans to change the name of my site and head into a different direction for a while now - it has zero to do with Marty's opinion piece. I came up with "Hot Sounds" back in 2022.

                            hotsounds yeah before anybody jumps to conclusions, i had plans to change the name of my site and head into a different direction for a while now - it has zero to do with Marty's opinion piece. I came up with "Hot Sounds" back in 2022.

                            unfortunate timing! hope all's goin well with ya man, must be a weird feelin having an article like that go bonkers on yr site, big fan of paperface hot sounds, lookin forward to readin onnnnn

                              hotsounds haha. So it wasn’t egg punk hackers?