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Post by sukebegg on Jan 3, 2021 9:42:07 GMT
I just think she really doesn't like him and his pseudo-hipster historicizing. Who knows, they may have ended up leaving it out of the episode but it was in the last unfinished season. My wife loved Bourdain so I watched him for too long really and, hey, he loves Vietnam but...the whole "nobility in poverty" bs was a part of his schtick and needs to be called out...or not...Remember how bummed out people got when he professed his love for the Lawson's egg salad sando?
Lydia was on the Turned Out A Punk podcast and was super cool about talking about all the esoteric stuff Damien asks about and would just drop a sheepish "yeah, I just don't remember"...She rules but unfortunately my bucket list threesome with her and Rowland S. will never come to pass (remember my user-name before you critique this!)
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 3, 2021 10:07:09 GMT
I just think she really doesn't like him and his pseudo-hipster historicizing. TBH I&ve never seen even a minute of his telly show so have zero idea what sort of dude he is. I dont give a fuck about food and only eat the shit so I dont fucken die |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 3, 2021 10:08:33 GMT
She rules but unfortunately my bucket list threesome with her and Rowland S. will never come to pass (remember my user-name before you critique this!) Will also bear in mind your current line of work: |
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Post by pussycat on Jan 3, 2021 15:59:05 GMT
Damn how rich is Henry Rollins today? Looks like he’s doing pretty good for himself with all the stand up comedy and reality tv gigs.
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Post by hiccup on Jan 3, 2021 20:18:09 GMT
That's the first time I've ever seen or heard of Lydia Lunch. She doesn't seem to dislike him at all. She's just being herself with a little bit of a put on.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 4, 2021 4:32:01 GMT
Damn how rich is Henry Rollins today? Looks like he’s doing pretty good for himself with all the stand up comedy and reality tv gigs. grift, just talking about himself for hours on end and getting paid millions for it. Brilliant. It's all he does. Just talks about himself. I dont give a fuck about him yet somehow know everything aboiut him because as soon as you interact with any of his spoken or printed mediii he will immediately start retelling his entire life history. All the self reference and self reverence becomes enough self reverberence to circumnavigate a career premised almost solely on talking about yourself? Master stroke! |
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 4, 2021 7:18:42 GMT
Such thin skin for such a tough man...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 4, 2021 7:49:39 GMT
Such thin skin for such a tough man... FFS the "chick" just said "I like your band" and he went OMG OMG I have to defuse this volatile situation of hipsters versus me "Get In The Van", that's the title of a very famous book I wrote where the audio won a grammeeeeeeeeee" hahahaha God I hope all that was worth it and he got a root out of it. |
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 4, 2021 10:07:19 GMT
I have to admit...I have history with Mr. Garfield...I was a sXe hc teenager with Jealous Again being one of my first purchases of the genre. I also fell in love with early DC HC and other east coast midwest HC - so when Henry joined BF, it was pretty much Nirvana, the state not the band. I saw them once with Dez singing but then twice right after Hank joined Flag and then a few times over the years as the hair grew longer and the beat slower...I can't even listen to anything after Slip It In...The mainstreaming of Rollins has been going on for a long time but at least he has a good excuse for grabbing the filthy lucre: To reissue Ruts albums!  Hank breathily defends himself... |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 4, 2021 10:20:28 GMT
speakijg of the Stoooges there's rumoured to be a copy of this 7" on the wall of a record store across town... priced at 180,000 yen. $1,800. Discogs median is $1,000. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3865418-1347379369-4008.jpeg.jpg) FFS imagine buying this for 500 yen back in the day. $5 bucks. I wouldve bought two copies! |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jan 4, 2021 20:44:02 GMT
Henry came into the store I worked in and bought a reissue of James Brown Sure Is Funky Down Here.
Acted like a totally normal customer, did not announce himself or make any kind of spectacle, extremely normal and therefore above average record store guest.
You know when you recognize someone and are like well, should I say something or not? I'm not a huge Black Flag fan either way so basically my comment would be "Dude! I know you!" which isn't great and I figured he gets enough grief. He broke out his credit card to pay which, not surprisingly, says "HENRY ROLLINS" in all caps. Again, not weird; my CC is all caps too. Anyway, the inner smart ass in me was right on the edge of saying "Could I see some ID with that?" and bailed.
I guess I regret this, but barely.
It's not that funny and I'm not sure he needed to be treated worst than an average customer.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 5, 2021 22:41:01 GMT
Henry came into the store I worked in yeah to his credit, when they do that youtube "Whats in your bag?" record shop thing, and the Melvins dinguses show off their 50-year old Rolling Stones album purchases, then Hank pulls out his haul and I've never even heard of a single one of the names of the bands let along know what they sound like. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 14, 2021 10:34:24 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 18, 2021 8:49:17 GMT
Iced Earth is a HM band
Correction, they are an Incel Metal band...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 18, 2021 11:37:22 GMT
haha, thought they were going to bust out a verse from "Team America" for a minute there...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 4, 2021 0:57:24 GMT
:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-794828-1159981391.jpeg.jpg) The Verlaines absolute peak. 1984, before their first full length LP came out in 1985, and they'd already peaked FFS. I do not have this record. I have never even seen this record, not even when I was growing up in NZ. It goes for an ungodly amount of $$ online. If I did see this record in the wild I would probably have a fullblown cock aneurysm in my heart and die right there on the spot. Fine by me. |
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 4, 2021 14:36:10 GMT
I was trying to figure out the whole deal with the power-pop The Shoes. Their first album is so rare I can't even find a price!
Power-pop and very offbeat. I heard Butch Vig mention them on a podcast, so I thought I would do a deep-dive on them...
Also just realized Clean kinda farted around for a decade and thus the Great Unwashed...Always remember Hamish tho. I was so giddy when I met someone irl with that name.
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Post by pussycat on Feb 4, 2021 19:20:15 GMT
A friend of mine used to play the Shoes for me all the time, and a lot of it was surprisingly psychedelic. I can’t remember any titles unfortunately, but it was good stuff. And I’m not very big into power pop.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 6, 2021 1:02:49 GMT
fahhk this old pic from 15 years ago is already technologically obsolete? wft does the upgrade look like?  |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 7, 2021 20:33:35 GMT
In a very unpopular powerpop opinion, I can't hang with most of the big boys, and part of this is the vagueness of the genre description. Went to see Shoes, Pezband and Dwight Twilley; this is none of the stuff I like in the first place plus this show was weak as hell. I'd go so far as to really upset IRL friends and say I don't even really care for Cheap Trick, Big Star, or Badfinger. I don't even love the Raspberries, which I realize is heresy.
I'm not saying I actively dislike them or can't appreciate any songs, just that after decades of being passionately into music, seeing probably thousands of bands live and listening to even more records, if I have no urge to put on music from those bands, it's safe to conclude it's just not really for me.
I've also heard the descriptor "powerpop" thrown around to describe just-after 1st-wave-of-punk bands that are a little less punk and a little more melodic, even The Automatics, Rich Kids, The Nerves, etc -- it's a fine line. If "powerpop" means the latter, I really really like it. If it means 70's bands that sound like most other rock bands of that era but who were slightly less successful then I don't really like it.
I realize defining a genre is a larger exercise in futility than this entire message board, but "powerpop" in particular seems like an even less understood genre descriptor than "new wave," plus I have my own particular proclivities in liking "punk" a whole lot but not really the 3 chord bonehead stuff - except sometimes, when it is in fact great. I like the fast tension but I also like songwriting and melodies, hence powerpop at its best can be perfect for me, but add just a bit of water and it's offputting.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 7, 2021 22:19:52 GMT
Oops, turns out I dont really know what "power pop" is either. Still rooting Cheap Trick and Big Star though. Arent Big Star wayyy too maudlin to be power pop? I think of power pop as bands like the Carpettes; generally leave me fairly cold but I havent heard enough to judge. It is a hell of a rabbit hole. Sometimes the planets align for some shit that clicks. eg this 7": if your friends were upset by this they dont exactly sound like the bros4life category of friend......  |
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 8, 2021 15:18:52 GMT
Thee Great Power Pop Debate ~ No doubt a too wide-ranging catch-all for bands that sit somewhere between Hard Rock and hardcore punk...I dunno, I just know what I like. The Big Three of Badfinger, Big Star and Raspberrries have never caught my ear but I like a bunch of stuff that probably sounds like them, like DM3 but I guess it is just Mariani's songwriting or something...I have been listening to tons of 78~81 power poppy new wavey punky stuff recently but don't worry about putting bands in boxes. I dunno, Shoes have a lot of sides, psyche or VUish stuff to cheesy new wave moments...I dunno, I just find myself drawn into stuff...
Carpettes and the more punky power pop or power poppy punk stuff is what I need when trying to translate shipping accident reports around 3 pm when the lids droop. Who knows where Teenage Head fits since they seem like a '70s Devil Dogs, ya know...
ETA* I dunno
Here's Shoes '75 record...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 8, 2021 23:50:28 GMT
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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 9, 2021 5:07:44 GMT
I played in a ska band that covered the Devil Dogs "Big Fuckin Party." True story and I'm aware it's not a cool one. This band was called "Greenhouse" ["Soundgarden are bad but they have good name, let's name ourselves something like that." I'm going to stop saying "true story," these are all true stories] and one of the worst things we did was cover Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go."
This got put a comp and got licensed in Japan on I think Cutting Edge Records, run by guys from Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. I got $50 which I explained to the other 8 members of my ska band they could get fucked about.
A co-worker in Japan was at karaoke going for Green Day and I saw "Greenhouse" "Wake Me Up" and was like, I'm sorry, scroll back.
Then I heard a shitty (shittier than my actual ska band and shitter than Wham) karaoke band recreate our recreation of this awful song.
This was officially the most surreal moment of my life.
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 9, 2021 8:02:43 GMT
ahaha ~ gotta love those coincidances and having the cojones to admit to being in a ska band named "Greenhouse"! Maybe if you were a stoner ska band - shit, you could have invented an entirely new genre! Doing a ska Big Fuckin Party is actually a good idea tho...
I went to some all-night dj thing in Kyoto late-90s because a guy from SkaPara was djing, also someone from United Future Organization - I briefly got into Japanese techno like Ken Ishii and whatnot for a few years. Then a year or so later, someone from SkaPara came to Matsue with his own band but played crap reggae, maybe even a Marley cover third song in or some crap, and I kinda heckled him to pick up the pace, in a typically silent Japanese live house...There were some words exchanged at a distance afterwards and I remember shouting something like, "You should be more like Guitar WOlf!"
You really should be getting residuals for that karaoke version also, no? Probably lots of mistaking it with the original by drunk karaokeeers (karaokers?)
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 9, 2021 8:12:17 GMT
Cheers - The only reference I needed! Bad news though ~ All the records you ordered...You scuba? "Dangerous goods" = Peruvian grindecore rarez |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 9, 2021 8:35:12 GMT
Man you think it'd happen more often. I've heard the ocean can get quite roily and chundery at times during inclement weather.
Still love some ska records, my Bad Manners ones in particular. Also have fond memories of seeing Skankin Pickle many times, wild fun at the time. Never did see Bad Manners during my year living in London though as I'd heard their gigs were quite violent and as a longhair hippie I wouldve been a target.Then I go to US and think ok now I can see them here in nice, mellow California. Then halfway thru the gig I get chased out of the Hollywood Palladium by irate LA skinheads. WFT
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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 10, 2021 16:28:06 GMT
It's always fun to yell in a live house. The German ska band The Busters were there which coincided with a rare visit from my brother so we went. Needless to say we got drunk as hell, my brother didn't make it back home til well after daylight, I'm sure it was a day of my most productive English instruction since I had to work.
Anyway we were I believe the only foreigners in the joint, not that crazy given the genre and timeline, and the Busters were like "Oh sorry we don't speak Japanese" so obviously I start yelling "BOOOOOOOOO!" at the top of my lungs, made everyone good and uncomfortable.
Hey I like the band and the country, I was just trying to have a good time.
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 11, 2021 9:16:38 GMT
Were the irate LAPD waiting outside you chase or beat you? There was a minor riot outside the Palladium after a Ramones show I went to there but apparently it wasn't as big as the one at the Ramone's show the year before...Around that same time (1986 or so) there was a huge street festival in downtown LA with a bunch of bands and stages - remember UB40 (City Hall steps I think), Janes Addiction, Agent Orange, SWA, Faith No More...but there was a rumor the Ramones were going to play last at a pretty stage and so there was a ton of punk miscreants milling about in the dark when baton-swinging and horse-riding LAPD swept in with no announcement I remember... ------- Second-had story from Mattt Kaufman - who did a zine called Exile Osaka, and recently was writing stuff for the Japan Times - mostly about the old-school tachinomiyas and bars he knows. Anyhow, he said when he saw Fugazi in Japan, he was just chatting in a normal voice to his friend between songs but of course there was reverential dead silence among the crowd and somehow this led to Ian chastizing them...Love em but that Mackaye dude seems to be wound a bit too tight in some regards... |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 11, 2021 9:47:23 GMT
haha, saw Fugazi in Tokyo around mid 90's and about 15 MASSIVE american army twats turned up yelling "straight edge" and terrorising the moshpit. Considered playing the hero but these werent ordinary huge cunts, they were built like professional body builders. And they werent exactly in the mood for reasoning. Absolute brick shithouses scattering tiny J-ladies everywhere. Classy guyz!
Anyway, Ian stopped midsong and said we dont start playing again until you leave. Cue silent room and a standoff that went for maybe 5 minutes but felt like 15. In the end the boofheads slinked out and justice prevailed. God only knows what the j-locals made of it all.
a few years later, shared an elevator with Mckaye as he went up for his Sapporo show, just me and him. Thousand things I thought to ask him, including about that Tokyo show from a few years prior. Dude didnt exactly look up for a chat, the usual furious funless scowl, so I didnt bother him.
Looking back, I wonder how responsible Fvgazi were for sucking the fun out of the 90's music scene? Loved their stuff but ffs would it kill you to lighten up, for 3 fuckign seconds?
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