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.
A Case for Hatching: My Eulogy for Egg Punk Explained by Martin Meyer
mamagoblin Paper face site is down (overloaded servers innit). Try this.
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
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Johnny Sick
Wasn't it originally called "Jimmy Rock" after this YT channel? I discovered it a bit late I think - probably when looking for Coneheads stuff but thought, "uh no, I'm not wading through all that crap to try to find a few diamonds..." (This channel appears right above a "Johnny Sick" channel in my subs list!)
https://www.youtube.com/@jimmythedog./videos
ETA: Ahaha that Jimmy channel is even listed in the Wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_punk
fwiw I think Uranium Club is definitely a stand-out of the genre - rising above and beyond it...Were ISS considered Egg? I fucking love them - what are they or members up to thsese days??
Uranium Club might be a great (the best?) example of good songwriting breaking a band out of genre prison. They have all the sonic ingredients of the average egg punk shit sandwich, but they do so much structurally, so much with production, so much with the dynamics and ranges and voices of a four-piece punk band, that they didn't even come to my mind since this thread started.
Uranium Club = objectively cool and good.
11th hour stubble 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 viewed Pink Noise more in the weird punk camp and I really liked Dream Code when it came out. By the time of the second album the weird punk bloat was really setting in and I was tired of the whole thing. I think that had more to do with it than them being Canadian. Gonna go back and visit a bunch of the weird punk heavy hitters again this week.
Nathan Loud I remember really loving the first Uranium Club album when it came out, liking the second, and by the third album thinking I've had enough. About a year ago go I went back and did a deep dive and realized that my original opinion had more to do with my general exhaustion of everything feeling so tight and anxious than their actual output. Their songs have a real lyrical intelligence and sense of humor and the songwriting is incredible.
Also the revision/discussion history for this wiki page is pretty funny. The Australians were added and removed over time, and there’s some legal wrangling over whether egg punk can be described as a microgenre at all.
Within the last few days, someone in Portland made an edit. Pretty sure I know who did it! 
Also, mysteriously no mention of the European egg costume guy, who I thought was like the Chuck Berry of egg punk??? Injustice!
I think people started conflating egg punk with both weird punk and devo core at some point, where I would typically think of egg punk as the intersection of those micro-genres. The meme that named the genre presented all these bands on a chain/egg spectrum, with the Dumpers at like 3/4 the way to full egg. So, by that logic even, like, Warthog was a little egg punk. Anyway, I think that spectrum both highlights the point that egg punk cuts across weird punk, but it also served to muddy the waters in making the distinction, which is probably why folks are too loose with the term these days.
In any event, I feel like “lazy” is the wrong word here. Because it’s not like some kid churning out the most derivative of egg punk is failing to work hard—they’re just failing to be original.
is there a weird punk explainer? that one passed me by