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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 28, 2022 12:08:28 GMT
I could hang with that Michael Yonkers thing Wow that John Reis collab is so mellow. The guy has the golden touch. Used to have this 2x8".  |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Mar 2, 2022 0:36:56 GMT
Man the Registrators were good.
It took a Japanese band to carefully analyze everything that comprised punk. Breathe. Digest. Take a while.
Create something faithful to the original but with a very valid contribution.
Punk. 4 chords, Ramones or Sex Pistols.
Sure. Dig deeper. The Registrators.
First LP. KBD worship. Let's write an LP of tunes that could have been obscure KBD punk tunes but weren't.
2nd LP. WOAH WOAH ------ RED ALERT HOLD THE PHONES WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
Accentuate everything that's good, downplay everything that isn't. Songs are: a lyric book of new wave English phrases. Blank. Zero. Pink.
Songs: Hard on the phaser guitar
#WILDCARD Ren -- basslines are unlike any in any other band, ever.
I can quote the man "Like the Jackson 5, always groovin and movin."
In a punk context? Insane. In the Registrators? Makes perfect sense.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 2, 2022 1:18:55 GMT
They did have a "made in a lab" quality about them. For some reason I always thought of them as Teengenerate-lite. My failing I guess
Got me going thru the old Rip Off discography on discogs though. Man that label hit it out of the park in the 90's. LOLI AND THE CHONES, on and on. Still remember buying up $4.75 copies of Terminal Boredom LP from Mordam. Tough find now, ffs I thought they pressed millions of those things
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 2, 2022 2:07:40 GMT
Maybe my first trip from Shimane to Osaka, I went into Nat Records (not to be confused with Naht, the band!) and they were playing the Devil Dogs. I already knew Guitar Wolf and Teengenerate, so I asked the record store dude to recc'd. similar Japanese bands and he hepped me to the Registrators. And he gave me his band's demo - He was in The Wimpys, a kinda pop-punk band that released a few records over the years. A few years later, I ended up seeing the Registrators with him in Osaka, but they were already in their Oasis phase. Sixteen Wires is a cool little album but I think they got hyped up from their crazy live performances - they toured the US in their Ripoff Records phase. Young Steve's expertise aside, the records after are pretty shit.
"made in a lab" - tbh and maybe kinda dickish about Japanese, I think a lot of Japanese bands, even "punk" ones overthink things, that natural Japanese shyness/nervousness about "doing the right thing" even if it is just stupid punk rock. That band Gasoline went from decent garage rock to some Fat Elvis Show bs. I doubt you would see much difference between GW c. 1995 and 2005. End with KOTJ and grab someone from the crowd to bang on the guitar.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 2, 2022 3:36:58 GMT
Young Steve "made in a lab" - tbh and maybe kinda dickish about Japanese, I think a lot of Japanese bands, even "punk" ones overthink things, that natural Japanese shyness/nervousness about "doing the right thing" even if it is just stupid punk rock. Being hamstrung by societal inhibitions runs deep. There are some insane outlaws who rewrote the story though (GISM). FFS wft ever happened to "Young Steve"?
2 awesome band names I just thought of: "Vaguely Spewing" (warp speed thrash) " Paranoid Funeral" (of course, sludge/doom) |
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 2, 2022 8:35:16 GMT
"insane outlaws" yeah...for sure, and it's a sliding scale. There are a bunch of Japanese bands, mostly in the garage genre I guess, that I think rock in a fairly non-pretentious manner...Prolly mostly Osaka bands...lulz. Also, most of my good Japanese friends in Hiroshima are from the rock scene. Easier to have a conversation and really bond. Still aren't 100% normie Japanese tho, ya know? I remember wanting to slap some sariiman who insisted I worship Clapton or some shite one late drunken night...
For example: Random cool Japanese band I have seen a few times and always enjoyed. More of a metal band, fairly Motorheadish really, but I saw them in Osaka a few years ago, a good 10 years after this album with a massive metalhead friend of mine, a Brit, and he hated them. "No tunes mate" They were sounding pretty Stoogesh/High Rise to me! Bought a tshirt!
Also, a lot of Japanese bands are much better live than their records, or just more fun to see in the moment.
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"Young Steve"? Oh! I will try to find the tabloid article! Found dead in a Kabuki-cho love hotel in '13, stabbed to death with a bottle of Cristal and a few oz. of an "illicit substance" - he had been having an affair with a middle-aged ex-pornstar/Yakuza wife!
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 2, 2022 10:05:32 GMT
"Young Steve"? Oh! I will try to find the tabloid article! Found dead in a Kabuki-cho love hotel in '13, stabbed to death with a bottle of Cristal and a few oz. of an "illicit substance" - he had been having an affair with a middle-aged ex-pornstar/Yakuza wife! wFT, is this from the verdant pastures of your imagination? I think I wouldve read this thread on The Termbo... |
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 2, 2022 11:30:47 GMT
"Young Steve"? Oh! I will try to find the tabloid article! Found dead in a Kabuki-cho love hotel in '13, stabbed to death with a bottle of Cristal and a few oz. of an "illicit substance" - he had been having an affair with a middle-aged ex-pornstar/Yakuza wife!
Sounds nearly legit, no? Fuck, who wouldn't want to go out like that. BUT swear to Allah that he once mentioned fooling around with an older yak-related woman with champagne swigging involved but I think it maybe happened in NYC...He failed the Ikkyu test twice. Must be insanely hard by now because he was crazy into Japanese even living in Minnesota or wherever. Finally gave up on going to conquer Japan and got an MA in psych./counselling, recently bought a house and will marry a nice midwestern young lady. He sometimes pops up selling records on FB so why don't you "Friend" him? HA and HA!
Music? Come's Peel Sessions have just been released together, remastered etc. Top-shelf
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 2, 2022 11:38:27 GMT
He sometimes pops up selling records on FB so why don't you "Friend" him? HA and HA! Not on "facebook". LOL, "facebook".
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Post by nikkeisindex on Mar 2, 2022 14:31:08 GMT
I am overstimulated by the responses to this thread. Young Steve is in MN and served as the officiant at my marriage. We met via Termbo when he went direct from MN to Narita to Poor Cow. I didn't know him but thought well, it's on my way home and I often stop by anyway and you seem like a maniac, why not. I really think TB to 16 is night and day and the dividing line for people. If you loved Terminal Boredom, you would be put off by 16 Wires, or maybe, could hang, but it's not the same. I think it's a work of absolute brilliance. There's no other band I am interested in hearing demos and live versions and in between 7"s from. You can kind of hear the foretelling on the Imagination World 7". And then, take a band that puts that much work into the craft and practice and FUND THEM reasonably -- you get Velocity. I absolutely love it. I do remember seeing them play and realizing oh, I see. On the old stuff the band can jump around and go crazy because let's face it, you're mostly playing A and E. And on the later stuff -- look, you have to fucking pay attention and work really hard to perform something that sophisticated live.
I can neither confirm not deny the yakuza story. Except confirm.
NAT is in Shinjuku. Devil Dogs to Teengenerate overlap is real. TG covered a DD song and I think one of the DD "produced" one of the TG records. All great fun. Pre-internet international good punk times.
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 3, 2022 9:02:12 GMT
No longer Young Steve became very frustrating with his "I will never be able to get to Japan without "ikkyu" FB screeds. I guess he had a visa red mark, and they are anally strict about that. I merely had an official request to allow me to do work outside my allowed range denied and would get stopped at airport immigration for quite a while until I requested they please stop. I met him IRL when Boy's Life played in Osaka also. Fun times...Also, there was indeed a NAT Records store in Osaka, in Amemura right across from the triangle park. I also bought shrooms from a store in the same building a few months before Japan finally made them illegal (2000)...
Of course, DD and TG were connected through Crypt Records early on as TG was on the first Cheapo Sampler and Get Action came out soon after but it took me a while to hear more by them. Not sure when I found out that Teengenerate was dudes from American Soul Spiders but I had this single, and maybe one more- I loved the fact that a Japanese band was paying homage to one of my fave contemporary local bands:
But Velocity man, I dunno..
Oh and instead of "prententiosness" above, I think "studiousness" could/should be substituted...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 3, 2022 9:48:26 GMT
No longer Young Steve became very frustrating with his "I will never be able to get to Japan without "ikkyu" FB screeds.
Yeah he used to go on about this on termbo too. Daft really. Like Japan was some sort of Shangri la and would fix everything. Meanwhile dopes like me who cant read or write kanji for shit (and have zero interest in it) toodle along here for 30 years. Just another place to live ffs. |
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Post by pussycat on Mar 3, 2022 14:26:49 GMT
From what I recall of the Registrators, the 16 Wires LP was pretty good. Kinda interesting and different, though I haven’t heard it in a while. Terminal Boredom was ok. They seemed like one of those bands with too many albums to get through, and maybe like a lot of them were unavailable outside japan. I remember hearing other stuff by them that sounded like 90’s pop punk, and not very good. One of my favoritest japanese garage releases would have to be that King Bros lp on bulb. Very noisy and great, with lots of nice screaming. youtu.be/Ca6c4Je3984 |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Mar 3, 2022 16:13:47 GMT
Yes, Steve will get way in his head and create complicated constructs that don't do him any favors.
Nobody's perfect!
I did not know that about NAT Osaka.
The first time I visited Japan was to Osaka in 2001, so I must have caught the last possible second before shrooms became illegal. I'm pretty confident on this timeline. I'm a pretty straight guy chemical wise but thought hey, visiting Japan for the first time, might as well eat psychedlics. Not much more to the story. My friend bailed on his portion so I ate them. Mostly freaked out in a convenience store while my friend took what felt like 2 hours to choose a bento. Low level drug story.
To each their own on taste. I think that Registrators bookend is fascinating because Set Me Free was on their 1st 7" and then they redid it on essentially (I realize not technically) their last recording totally differently. I like both versions.
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Post by fuckface on Mar 3, 2022 22:47:31 GMT
I could hang with that Michael Yonkers thing Wow that John Reis collab is so mellow. The guy has the golden touch. Used to have this 2x8". yonkers actually toured aus in the early 2000's with a pickup band. dude must have been around 60 and was ripped as all fuck. ramboesque. his private press lp from '68 is a thing unto itself and pretty damn good. |
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 10, 2022 10:13:14 GMT
Welp, looks like the TermBore Forums are dead. I blame that Nordic HM dude. Decades of obscure musical knowledge down the memory hole. Thank god. Future gens will beating bones on animal skin drums for quite a while anyhow.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 10, 2022 10:33:51 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 13, 2022 4:33:34 GMT
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Post by pussycat on Mar 18, 2022 16:50:43 GMT
Never heard much live fall before, chief. I had the double cd version of Palace Swords Reversed and disc 2 is all live. Probably the best version of I’m into CB I ever came across.
Been listening to a lot of Neu! These guys only had one good album but they did 3 times in a row. Also listening to Homogenic, my favorite by Bjork. Also J Dilla’s Donuts, a very high watermark for sample based music in the oughts. And also listening to stuff by Heart of the Congos, Dorothy Ashby, and Orchestra Baobab.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 20, 2022 0:20:22 GMT
Been listening to a lot of Neu! These guys only had one good album but they did 3 times in a row. Only have the first LP but the other 2 do sound quite appealing in the motorik monotonous style. Very goddamn relaxing. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 21, 2022 0:26:18 GMT
ffs bugger all new bands formed this century have gone on to become "my thing".
And NONE in the last 7 years. Quelle fucken pathetique.
2000 Hot Snakes, A Frames, Sunn
2001 Reigning Sound, Fistula
2002 Part Chimp, Buried At Sea
2003
2004 King Khan & BBQ Show (although I've gone off this band bigtime), Hey Colossus
2005 Lamps, Indian, Torche, Slomatics, Pissed Jeans, Blind Shake
2006 LivefastDie, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Bongripper
2007 Austerity Program
2008 UV Race
2009
2010 Conan
2011 Whores
2012
2013 Life Stinks, Spray Paint
2014 Watery Love, Disrotted
2015 Chrch, Sumac
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 22, 2022 8:35:16 GMT
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Post by pussycat on Mar 22, 2022 17:14:48 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 22, 2022 22:52:22 GMT
Can’t say I’m surprised imagine dragons is at the top of the list. If anyone’s done more to ruin music. I've never even heard of their goddamn name. That was an eye opener. Especially how there's no point "execs" trying cos the real $$ is made from lawsuits not music sales. This though... Sorry, the boomers could be onto something. That beepy casiotone templated shit is designed for the frequencies of teenage girls mobile phones? Can't imagine anyone getting hyped enough by it to buy the LP version to pump on their stereo at home.... |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Mar 24, 2022 14:57:25 GMT
I wonder. I feel like in punk, almost everyone feels like they "just missed it." And there's always someone slightly older around to tell them they did. But after that real late 70s first burst, I'm not sure that's true. Or maybe it's just diminishing returns over time. I could see late 70's being better than early 80's and early 80's better than late 80's and after that I'm not sure it matters.
I tend to think there are 2 serious eras of music: 60s and 70s. You could be a 50s rockabilly guy or a blues guy sure. But if you're like "NO! As a grown man with internet access I think the early 2000s were the all time best!" I think you're INSANE.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 24, 2022 22:53:27 GMT
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Post by pussycat on Mar 26, 2022 16:43:42 GMT
I wonder. I feel like in punk, almost everyone feels like they "just missed it." And there's always someone slightly older around to tell them they did. But after that real late 70s first burst, I'm not sure that's true. Or maybe it's just diminishing returns over time. I could see late 70's being better than early 80's and early 80's better than late 80's and after that I'm not sure it matters. I tend to think there are 2 serious eras of music: 60s and 70s. You could be a 50s rockabilly guy or a blues guy sure. But if you're like "NO! As a grown man with internet access I think the early 2000s were the all time best!" I think you're INSANE. This guy Mark Fisher has some interesting thoughts on the matter: crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/mark-fisher-interviewed/ |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 30, 2022 11:51:06 GMT
Goddamnit I just do not know how this Fall album slipped through my feverishly anally cunted wantlists
The fucker is right there in 1982 between godhead outings Grotesque and Hex Enduction Hour. How could it not be a desirable Fall album?
I guess I moranically thought of it as a throwaway live LP
DRONGO.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 2, 2022 22:44:03 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 15, 2022 23:33:23 GMT
Reagan era inspired so much raging hardcore punk.
Is it just me or has that political aspect tapered off?
Are there even bands called Trump Youth etc raging against Donnie? Maybe the youth are resigned to it so are all in their bedrooms on their laptops making blip plop tracks about how unhappy they are about dodgy smartphone reception or something.
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