Sukebe_GG Puffy Areolas
Fuck yeah that first album is a masterpiece.
A Case for Hatching: My Eulogy for Egg Punk Explained by Martin Meyer
Sukebe_GG Dear all, I stand corrected. Weird Punk is Egg Punk of yore in sense of the number of bands and varying quality.
Shitgaze similarity was just how invented by lifers (pink reason and wolf eyes) as a joke people thought was funny and inside baseball for a second, then started to react negative.
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It's funny how all these micro-genres names were created. "Powerviolence" was an inside joke of I-don't-remember-which-one from these California guys ; "Mysterious guy hardcore" was a joke by Brace "Fuck DAESH" Belden ; "crust de salon", the French saying, was a joke by parisian grindcore archivist Thrash Manu. But wait, now I feel like I'm posting this in the wrong thread. Oh well.
I disagree, the Puffys with Dusty(RIP) were even BETTER than everyone is saying.
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Saw Puffys 2 night in a row at Class. One night with krauty on vox and one without bc I think he got too fucked up the night before. Met Dusty and we stayed in touch a little bit. He was a sweet guy. But ya puffys, that first night especially is still one of the best live shows I've seen. True freak music. Sic alps also played and unholy 2. Tried to book puffys in Canada but dude said they'd get turned away at the border haha.
Fuck man they ruled.
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Cheveu/Tyvek tour, with Damon from Puffys playing screaming wah guitar for Tyvek was peak weird punk.
Here’s a harebrained theory for ya, it's far from original but:
Within the punk adjacent music community (or whatver), a place briming with amateurism and potential, we may be putting too much stock into the “quick study” archetype. The folks who can mimic are the ones with “chops” even when said chops are used to make fancy free “wild” music. The ones who are unable to mimic make original stuff. Not a question of influences, intent and integrity so much as inability to get in on the trend. Incappable-rock. I think that is silent winner.
11th hour stubble Within the punk adjacent music community (or whatver), a place briming with amateurism and potential, we may be putting too much stock into the “quick study” archetype. The folks who can mimic are the ones with “chops” even when said chops are used to make fancy free “wild” music. The ones who are unable to mimic make original stuff. Not a question of influences, intent and integrity so much as inability to get in on the trend. Incappable-rock. I think that is silent winner.
100% agree! like smashing the table screaming 'that's right' agree. the thing that drew me to spending 60% of my day wasting time on DIY matters was the old school amateurism 'anyone can do it' shite... and in sydney where it's so hard to make rent, the great bands were always the ones squeezing in a 3 hour practice once a week around their shit jobs and forcing whatever can be found in that timeframe into some tunes. the most boring music imo is the shit that people sit there and work on and comb over until there's no texture left, no mistakes, no 'woah that part doesn't fit, but who has the time to fix it' lurches partway through a song.. like that's the essence of LIFE.
11th hour stubble Agree.
The weird punk mix in youtube reminded me that indeed my band originally tried to sound like those bands. This is because we liked them, and to some extent I still do! However, we failed miserably. Unable to record the "right" shit fi, use delay on vocals, no access to even remotely decent gear, etc. Probably my band is just as much of a relic of that era as the others, but we did evolve a bit and sounded less like those groups (just more like others, although at a certain point we stopped talking about influences altogether and just were making stuff).
The true standouts of that era: tyvek, home blitz, ... already had a different sound then, and continue to evolve even more.