the weather makes them do it

[7875]

granted i do love techno and all its branches but there is nothing quite like the visceral energy coming from a group of young working class white kids thrashing about on stage and beating the guitar strings raw with knuckle scrapes and fists clenching drum sticks, beating down a heavy bottom to roll upon. anyone heard any new garage/punk groups that have blown them away?

[Lady E]

yes i recently saw the yeah yeah yeahs. despite being disgustingly fashionable here in the UK i thought they were AMAZING. totally brilliant. im going to buy any records of theirs i can even if they are signed to Ministry

also saw the marvellous mr bobby conn on saturday - not punk or garage but definitely experimental RAWK!!

[MUX]

best non-techno thing i heard lately is "Down' made from the old Pantera chaps... and some lesbo le-tigre action too

[darnymarfy]

yeah, i saw the strokes a while ago...they've had a hard time, with their millionaire parents forcing them to wear trashy clothes from multiple-hand charity shops.

although they don't really thrash away at their instruments, they really only only strum and tap away in an exact manner, as if being remotely controlled by some sinister higher power.

anyway

[bitch one]

and sounding oddly like the wedding present

[darnymarfy]

oh. but seriously, i remember being pretty animated when i last saw melt banana play - perhaps not from the english working class school of geetar based music but interesting nonetheless

i know what you mean about the excitement of watching (and being in) a passionate live band, on stage going ever so slighty mental

damn my parents for sending me to tin whistle lessons at the local irish club - why couldn't the fuckers buy me a fucking guitar, an instrument with infinitely more possibilitiesafbiU CVB!!!!!!!1VFSD...i COULD HAVE BEEN A GENIUS GUITAR MAESTRO BY NOW....but now, i sit like a zombie in front of my computer, battling with bastard music software trying desperately to mangle sounds that could possibly be considered to be music.

[Lady E]

the boredoms are playing in bton next wednesday. im there!

[aleks]

if anybody wants to do remixes for the yeah yeahs go to www.yeahyeahyeahs.com ... and they do rock indeed!

[Loz]

Originally posted by emma
yes i recently saw the yeah yeah yeahs. despite being disgustingly fashionable here in the UK i thought they were AMAZING. totally brilliant. im going to buy any records of theirs i can even if they are signed to Ministry

I agree, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock amazingly much.

I've got their EP, and I do listen to it an awful lot. Can't wait for a full album.

Although didn't know they were fashionable. Isn't everyone still caught up with the Strokes?


On another note, I saw The White Stripes live last weekend, and they are RAWK too. Although I did find out that I am too old for a moshpit now. Everyone in the pit was about 16!

[Lady E]

i like the white stripes but its nothing that exciting...i guess im holding back from praising them as a backlash against myself for getting sucked into the strokes hype

the strokes are pretty good - i love the references more than anything. it always makes me listen to television and the stooges and that is a bonus. but that album is now unlistenable, it was a cheap infatuation with no longevity, a three night stand. another album that i cant listen to is the first badly drawn boy one - went to see him a few years ago, he was brilliant. bought the album and loved it...for a few weeks. it now almost sickens me to even see it...but its not a bad lot, i still like him and i think he's talented. its just overkill

i really should learn not to binge on indie pop music...

[MUX]

emma: same syndrome with me .. both albums as well + Kid A ( i think i personally disgust it due to over-play but i aint sure )

well, BDB.. i saw him at glasto 2000 , and was laughing my head off when he did this sweet Wycleaf Jean impressions.. sticking a 'one time... two time..' line in a couple of the happier tracks .. was really impressed when i saw him on stage.. cause i had seen him that morning.. walking a round the market ( u cant forget that silly beany.. ) with david holmes & andy votel .. after pointing out mr.votels rare adidas .. not knowing it was him..

i have a couple of earlier EP by him that sound very good.. and that u.n.k.l.e. track was a masterpiece

the white stripes look great.. saw them live on mtv movie awards last week.. and shit arent they raw? they look like the pop dressed children of satan .. probably filled with secret messages and shit.. but damn it .. where talking snar drum , bass drum, and guitar here.. quite noisy in such a good way..

rant rant rant etc.

and guys.. check this out
http://www.absolut.com/albumcovers/

[V Knid esq]

The Strokes are "OK". I missed the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - gutted - but managed to snap up a copy of their first EP, and it's fucking great. I like the White Stripes quite a lot (though how much of that is to do with Meg's breasts and slightly demented look I don't know), but I couldn't sit through the whole album. They do, however, represent the tip of a massive Detroit iceberg of trashy bluesy punk rock... I heard John Peel present an hour long documentary the other month - he played about 25 different bands and they were all great. The best ones who're readily available are the Von Bondies and the Dirtbombs, but there are loads more. Check out a really good compilation called The Sympathetic Sound Of Detroit.

My current favourite band, though, is a sort of mondo scifi performance punk band from Texas called the Flying Guillotines. Bloody grate, they are.

[V Knid esq]

I am also loving the Breeders new album, and also one by this band of girls called Mooz. They are a bit sort of spikey punk-funk like the Slits or Gang of 4, but really modern cos the drummer plays lots of D&B and techno-influenced rhythms... the singer sounds a bit like a more soulful PJ Harvey. They are top.

[Lady E]

i am loving the breeders new album too. kim deal rules!

i am also loving the slits Cut.

[7875]

'Cut' is an awesome album. lived with someone who had it and it always seemed to be in the house cd player.
there was a group that i remember growing up in Arizona that were just unbelievable. the type of band that, had they been picked up or gotten more exposure, they could have been huge (but would the small town fans be willing to let them go to the "big time?") they were called Malignous Youth and thankfully they put the majority of their stuff on a cd compilation because all the original 10"/12" had such small runs and have been deleted. later they went through a Christian phase (it happens) but they recorded an album all sung in Latin and it's just phenomenal.
has anyone heard the Need?