WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT?

Al Dorado

problemface I like the Opal album too.

problemface

Al Dorado speaking of Opal, I’ve been spinning this new Helen record the last couple days. side project of Liz Harris of Grouper. with member(s) of Eat Skull? good psychedelic dream pop.

ExpKind

Buzz or Howl has been my favorite Minutemen since high school and I do think it's a good one to "crack" them. That and What Makes a Man Start Fires are the ones I'd reach for today.

I honestly think there are a lot of solid records in the SST B (or even C) tiers. Those Volcano Suns albums are good, plus The Leaving Trains. I even dig Slovenly's Riposte. I also may be one of the five people in the world that even cares about Mofungo, but those SST albums are solid. I like a lot of middling college radio shit.

Mitch C.

problemface

Great record! Better than the 1st IMO.

More worthy SST shits: Angst, Bl'ast

Al Dorado

problemface cool, thanks for the tip

Clif

Al Dorado I love thecSST Sonic Youth records. Dinosaur Jr is anotjer band i have never gotten. the vocals kind of grate on me.

Al Dorado

Clif Fair enough. I'm into the guitar with Dino Jr. more than the vox

Clif

Some of Roger Miller's SST stuff isn't bad either. also, I randomly found that Opal record for a decent price yeats ago. it truly sounds different having the record as opposed to cd. the record sounds so much more full. I never quite got the hype until I got the record.

problemface

what about Pat Smear’s first solo record, Ruthensmear? that’s one I’m curious about. Nina Hagen and Paul Roessler are on it. seems interesting. I need to check it out.

Clif

problemface a record i am really curious about. Pat Smear, that is

BARELY HUMAN

Reading the Jim Ruland SST book sparked me to try to listen through the whole label catalogue, or at least sample a bit of everything... Obviously not the most fun experience in the world, but was surprised by a couple I'd written off like Saint Vitus, Saccharine Trust, even Meat Puppets who I was never that into.. the other 'surprises' though were forgettable enough that I can't...uh, remember them

Al Dorado

BARELY HUMAN I read the book too. The philosophy on not having a label sound or signing bands that were alike was interesting. At times it worked well I think but there were an awful lot of SST-related folks with crappy records on the label (Tom Troccoli's Dog, DC3).

B'last is another one I liked. Wish the L.A. Stains LP would get reissued too.

Allez Al

Re: Divine Horsemen (if Chris D and Julie hadn't been such fuck-ups, I don't see why Snake Handler couldn't have crossed over some. Great album), the Stone By Stone W/ Chris D album I Pass For Human is a cool late-period SST release.

Minutemen are weird, it just clicks at some point. It is so strange to me, Rich, that you'd not dig the Minutemen and like Retail Simps so much. They don't sound alike but I definitely get something that comes from the both. Really like the first three fIREHOSE albums too.

I had high hopes for the Pat Smear stuff on SST but never clicked with me. Paul Roessler also. I really want to like them - fascinated by that first wave LA jazz forever and always. It's About Luv by HR is probably my favourite thing he did after the first Bad Brains LP and 7".

Randall

Allez Al Joe made the same comment to me. “It’s so funny you like us so much but don’t like the Minutemen.” They sound nothing alike to me. I can find some similarities in the just going for it vocal delivery, and the combination of dissonant elements, but I feel what they do with those two things are entirely different from each other. The Simps manage to make those dissonant elements work and form a cohesive yet slightly broken song while Minutemen just sounds like high intensity wankery.

Clif

I think I read, or heard, somewhere that In the Red is reissuing the first Divine Horsemen record ( it was not on SST).

Red Menace

Sockeye - Barf On A Globe LP. Almost Ready just put out the collection of their 7 inches on one LP. I am not sure about their impact outside of Ohio, but here they were one of those "if you know you know" bands, kind of like their Kent buddies, Kill The Hippies. First time I saw them, was in the 90's, in someone's basement, I think. The sheer weirdness of that experience was enough to make me a fan for years to come. Imagine the excitement, when my buddy, Gene Mullett handed me this LP a couple of days ago. Been rockin' it every chance I get. Kind of takes me back to a time and a place. But still sounds like it belongs in this period in time. Hats off to Harry for putting this out!!!

Les Ham

Red Menace does anyone remember sockeye spinoff project fossil fuel? With songs like “dogs are gay” and “I buttfucked my dad,” they were probably never destined for mainstream stardom, but their cassette was a staple of many a late night brain dead gatherings long ago.

Emil M. Antonowsky

Red Menace Buttfuque your own faaace!

Clif

Les Ham I remember hearing about Fossil Fuel. a quick look at song titles has me laughing out loud

Red Menace

Les Ham unfortunately I missed that.

ratcharge

RE : SST. My two cents = Milo Goes to College.

Lammie

ratcharge Pareeeeeeeeeeeeents/ Why don't they shut up?

Still relevant!

Les Ham

Minutemen are like the opposite of a guilty pleasure for me. I feel guilty not liking them, but they’ve never fully clicked for me. That said, there’s lots of sst I do like! My fave off the radar stuff: Opal - would somebody please reissue this! Slovenly -all their records have their moments - singer can be an obstacle for some, but whatever; These Immortal Souls - Great undersung Roland S . Howard project! First Always August record is cool in a stoned Meat Puppets sorta way. Angst has its moments! If you could make a best of from all the Zoogs Rift records, that would be something!
Say what you will about Ginn or the heaps of head scratchers he unleashed on the world, SST was, for better or worse, the most adventurous label of its era.

Allez Al

Les Ham These Immortal Souls - Great undersung Roland S . Howard project!

Great shout!

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