VIDEOFLIP 12" is great French punk with lots of rock'n'roll in it. I think my fave track is "Pas de mon monde".
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Record Beach Been listening to a lot of Kitchen’s Floor lately. Love that band. None of That is such a good record. I really dig it all though.
Kitchen's Floor have been such a good band for such a long time! really important to me personally too, one of the local australian bands that really dragged me into an obsession with DIY/underground matters... None of That is a really underrated LP too i reckon.. maybe released in a time when LPs weren't getting much traction, but it's easily as good as any of the other early stuff and 'Before Dawn' one of my all-time fave KF songs ..
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Gimmie Sopor
Reminded me to go back and listen to that album some more - definitely agree about their refreshing straight-forward sound. LC's Pat Todd's current group also scratches that itch. Stuck with Slovenly after that to keep me going through mid-afternoon work, and speaking of rocking froggies
Then to decompress I checked out this with members of Piranhas and Druid Perfume but was pretty meh upon first listen:
Post-dinner shochu in hand, methinking time to blast these Skull Practioners lads (touring guitarist of Dream Syndicate - still, I dunno)
Sukebe_GG and speaking of rocking froggies
Les Lullies are pretty good on record, however, it's on stage where they really shine. Such a razor sharp live band, they put on one of the best shows I saw last year.
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Cool new French band, played with them in their hometown of Bordeaux a couple weeks ago and they were great live as well. Not sure if people here are into that kind of melodic punk-rock, but here it is anyway :
Speaking of French bands, I've been really digging this one lately. Yeah yeah, it's "cold oi" but that's also "my shit" nowadays.
Gimmie Sopor
Co-signed hard! Les Lullies is OK on record, but live they're amazing (and they cover a lot of great songs on stage, from Dead Moon to the Testors to Strychnine). Possibly my current favorite French live band, super tight and powerful the couple of times I saw them. Two members are also in Patrol (based in Barcelona) whose debut EP is really good.
Clif been slowly coming around to pavement, particularly the early singles and "slanted and enchanted". never been crazy about "indie rock" per se but the early pavement stuff seemed pretty rockin and noisy compared to much of the rest of the genre. recently watched the gary young doc and it made me love em even more. can't say i'm an expert on the band but the early stuff definitely scratches a particular itch for me. also if you've ever been to stockton, ca it makes a lot of sense why they'd make the kind of music they made (place is a hellhole).
Vinnie Vacuum try on wowee zowee, it's a compelling splintered and sprawling batch of material.
Nausea - Extinction LP
Nausea - Cybergod/Lie Cycle LP
(Sick reissues of essential classics. Been lookin’ for a copy of Extinction for 30 years. Hope some genius reissues HHIG’s Monuments to Thieves soon.)
Love & Compassion - Or Else demo
Witness 2024 demo
(Love & Compassion are sick as fuck with some Nausea/Axegrinder vibes but keep it fresh (from the gutter.) Witness is the most insane hardcore shit I’ve heard in a long time. The guitar tones destroy everything that’s come before it. Unrelentingly brutal. I turn this up as loud as the car stereo goes and roll the windows down to terrorize the squares.)
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I' never really dug into Status Quo but have been jamming this record but have been jamming this LP pretty constantly as of late. Great psych pop with just enough of the heaviness to keep me fully invested. Nearly perfect album although I could do without the Tommy Roe cover
Johnny Sick Love the Dead Clodettes!
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i grew up with a mom who loved the beatles/monkees and a dad who loved prog rock and i think '70s genesis and elo is where it all meets in the middle. plus im currently transcribing an interview i did with steve hackett
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why don't more people talk about the flying lizards?
"Can't sing"
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this groove gets stuck in my head all the time
Augustus Pablo - Ital Dub LP
Weed store gave me not 1 but 2 free pre-rolls.
Undertones - S/T LP
The very same red-tag bargain bin Sire copy that I got from Amoeba Berkeley when I was 16 years old.
Barmy Army - The English Disease LP
On-U/Sherwood football themed tomfoolery / provocation w/Al Jourgensen & Jah Wobble doing bullshit. Not the sort of thing you'll spin end on end.
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian LP
It's almost like they decided to have fun after making this one.
Faxed - Grotesque Rescue LP
To repeat what my buddy said as we spun this over the weekend: "If this was a real band, it would be my favorite band." Works almost too well. Love it.
I’ve been listening to listening to the Danzig s/t for the past few weeks in the hopes that I’d see him play tonight, but it was not to be. Anyway I forgot how good it is. I hated misfits growing up because it was so hot topic-ified by then, but I’ve come to love it in recent years. I always forget what a genuinely great singer he is.
Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions. I'm a huge fan of everything Kristin Hersh has ever done. This feels a little bit more like a solo album than a Throwing Muses one, certainly compared to the last album they did. It's great though, concise and heartfelt. Cannot wait to see them again in May.
Dumbells - Up Late With... It's really getting under my skin this.
Tyrades - I Am Homocide/I Got A Lot. Didn't get into these until after they'd split. Really good stuff.
Allez Al tyrades are so rad. I missed them in their time also but heard they were killer live.
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Had the pleasure of seeing Tyrades with the Intelligence in Seattle, which I’m pretty sure was Icky Baby release show. Both bands at the peak of their power. Tyrades had their signature work lamp stage lighting and absolutely destroyed. Jim Hollywood is the man.
“I am Homocide” 7” is a stone killer.
I was sick all week, the soundtrack was Slade - Slayed?, The Sweet - Desolation Boulevard, and Peter Ivers - Terminal Love. I woke up feeling back to normal today, so I switched over to Workdogs - Roberta. The common thread: cover art that perfectly reflects the sound of the albums.
Mystery_Ship “I am Homocide” 7” is a stone killer.
+1!
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Mystery_Ship Yet you never hear anybody about A/V Murder or Gallery Night. Different sounds I'm sure, but still. There seems to be little loyalty in punk sometimes.
Is Cheap Time still around? I think they were amazing too. What makes you dislike the second album, Rich? Am I the only one who is a Rat Traps fanboy? So vile! Is any of the Jeffrey Novak solo stuff any good?
If you still have the Rat Traps split with Lamps available second hand, Rich, I'd love to take it off your hands. I've been meaning to ask that forever. Now the whole world knows.
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I love the Gallery Night singles. wish i could see them live. guess I did not remember A/V Murder were a jimmy Hollywood band. might have to look into them.
Rat Traps were amazing the 2 times i saw them. Have all the singles and love them. wish they would have put out an Lp. Novak one man band is very King Louie /Reatard inspired. Not really into the "solo" recordings.
I loved Rat Traps. Never got into any of the solo or Cheap Time stuff. Maybe a single or two. Somewhere I've got a Rat Traps tee which was just the words Rat Traps stenciled on another shirt that was inside out.
Listened to the s/t and most recent Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones album earlier. Other than the song that references the Packers several times I still love it. Their second album was in 2007, 3rd was 2015, 4th was 2022. By that math we are due in 2028.
Actually, you know, the other thing about that Rat Traps tee is it was stenciled on an inside out thrift tee for I don't know a town league sports team because it was a tee with a polyvinyl number on shirt pressed on the back so, inside out, when you were to were the Rat Traps side, the polyvinyl number would press against your back which was extremely uncomfortable. I always doubted they did that on purpose, but it was like crown of thorns punk either way.
Lammie It's been a long time since I listened to it, and it wasn't that I disliked it I just didn't feel it had the same consistency as their other albums. I loved the Rat Traps and Jeffrey Novak's One Man Band. I booked his OMB a tour down to Florida when he was still a teenager and booked quite a bit of the first Rat Traps tour. I'll have to see if I still have that extra RAT TRAPS/ LAMPS 7"
The Touch The Feel I liked the newest HBJO album too. Knowing those guys they have about 30 songs they have written, but will wait to write 10 new one before recording another album.
Mystery_Ship
I actually got to see the Tyrades live in the early 2000s (2003 or 2004), and they were just as amazing as people say. High-energy, raw, and totally unforgettable.
Jamming this today and loving it :
"Intimate recording project" from a Uranium Club member. FFO : The Velvet Underground.
Randall The Fourth Wall is such a great record.
Lammie Am I the only one who is a Rat Traps fanboy?
+1
Randall Reading your post made me want to listen to Cheap Time’s albums again. I totally agree with you: their second album never really convinced me either—in fact, it’s the only one I don’t have on vinyl.
I still remember when they came to play in my area—I was so excited that I even designed the flyer for the show! Unfortunately, I lost it over time, and I really regret it. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll manage to find it again…
ratcharge ah man i love that Ron House solo release! i bootlegged parts of it in a ron house mixtape a while back.. did i see somewhere it was getting reissued on vinyl? or was that one of my weird dreams in which Ron House appears for fuck knows what reason?