Allez Al tyrades are so rad. I missed them in their time also but heard they were killer live.
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT?
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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?
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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?
BARELY HUMAN out now on SILTBREEZE. Can’t wait for my copies to show
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Dennis Pash was crashing on my friend's couch in L.A. in the late '80s. I only remember going to her apartment once and he was extremely shy and basically scurried out of the place soon after we arrived. I'm pretty sure I saw them with Redd Kross around that time but really only recently heard this gem by them.
Speaking of, just getting around to listening to the new album!
Bar-B-Q Killers first recordings. 1988, Athens, GA
Saw Fruited Planes last night. I liked the tape but after seeing them live it really clicked. This song has been in my head all morning
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Saw them play this live and dude being able to remember and sing all the lyrics was insane. Top tier single imo.
The Touch The Feel They were a really fantastic band that doesn't get the credit they are due.
Quite like the Leopards songs and the Harry Sings.
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yeah man they were really tight and i celebrate maybe all of the 7" and although i think i sold back the Fat Possum album it had some trax.
The Touch The Feel I had a bunch of really wild times with this crew. Great band, funny guys, and Josh was a great lyricist. "Are you gonna buy a record or what?" is a feeling I really identify with
I saw i guess on the first album tour. This was probably DC. I remember the keyboard player was selling 7" and I was talking to him and bought something else they had with them and he was like "i'll throw in one of our 7" " and I was like "I've got all your 7" " and this 20 year old from Alabama (?) or whatever was like "you've got all our 7'?"
That was the power of the Termbo influence.
The Touch The Feel Harry Sings is great. Have listened to this one countless times at this point
Durutti Column - The Return Of Durutti Column, LC & Vini Reilly - Singular band/sound . Still kinda funny to think of the guys from Joy Division collating the sandpaper jackets for tRoDC . Need to grip that Vini Reilly bio that came out somewhat recently.
US Maple - Purple On Time , Lay Lady Lay cover rules so hard. good interview with Al Johnson over here --
Lotsa Michael Hurley last few days - RIP to a legend.
My fave Thomas Function song is actually the flip to this - Earthworms. Glad I got the see them live a couple of times at SXSW.
I love Silver Apples but I'm ignoramus'd by this one. It's good. Less structured, no vocals, textured and ethereal. Soundtrack to an alien nature documentary.
This also came across my memory screen as of late. I could live inside the riff.
I realize that Randy Holden had a chance to improve the song after recording with Blue Cheer but the Pop II version does something for me Blue Cheer never could. See for yourself:
Holden's versz is superior in every way. The vast majority of scientists support this view.
One of the best Blue Cheer songs was also a Randy Holden joint:
Blue Cheer's big hit was "Summertime Blues..." They have good songs but when your big hit is a cover? Kind of embarrassing. The Who was ALREADY PLAYING "Summertime Blues" on tour and at festivals (including at Monterey Pop in California, where BC is from, in the year before BC started playing it). Doubly embarrassing. Trying to think of a modern analogy but people don't cover songs in the same way these days.
For the record, I like Blue Cheer. But basically Randy Holden joined, improved, transcended, and surpassed one of the so-called most important bands in the realm of heavy guitar music. And then he went dark for like thirty years, and then he released an album with this next-level cover art:
Astounding.
That's 1997's Guitar God, not to be confused with 2001's Guitar God 2001.
