“Clowing on bitches”
A Case for Hatching: My Eulogy for Egg Punk Explained by Martin Meyer
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
Real Hank stopppppppp
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.
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
kai To me « weird punk » is the Termbo name, ie « the OG name », while « shitgaze » is the name Spin or whatever-shitty-magazine came up with afterwards for all these bands from the mid to late 00s that have been mentioned here : Tyvek, Pink Reason, Home Blitz, Psychedelic Horseshit, Times New Viking, Eat Skull, etc. I think there was even a « the year weird punk broke » article in Termbo, maybe in like 2007? Or was it 2008? It was called like that because this wave of bands was a nice change from the orthodoxy of garage bands from the previous decade or so, including the 90s. Which can be explained at least partly by the massive democratization of file-sharing, hence of obscure/ « new » influences for bands, as it was the glory days of Mediafire, MegaUpload, etc. Anyway, that’s how I remember things, but I guess someone else might disagree.
Sukebe_GG Puffy Areolas
Fuck yeah that first album is a masterpiece.
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.