MANWOLFS

if anyone saw the film MACHO TAILDROP then you might be digging this Manwolf shiz...

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AVERAGE SONG SHIT VIDEO

whatrudoingdwyer? dont let me down like this!!"!!!!!1 :(

MARSUPIAL PUNK

So I got this compilation the other day from Katrina Records mate called 'Where Birdmen Flew'. It's a collection of late 70s Australian Punk mate and basically every song is totally killer, mate. This song by X deserves special mention mate because when I was growing up, my mum, mate, from Brisbane mate (big up), would talk about a band called the Coloured Balls who were the big group at that time, mate. They were sort of proto-punk I guess, a bit glam maybe as well mate, and their somewhat demented fans were known as 'sharpies' (like the pens, doyyyy). Anyway mate, I'm only writing all this because Lobby Loyde was the singer of Coloured Balls, mate and he produced X's album 'X-Aspirations'. It's all connected mate. Cheerio!

see the sharpies go at it

Threaten the patriarchy!

WOW

2wks

WUGAZI

Sleep Rules Everything Around Me by WUGAZI

Forensic Shimmy by WUGAZI

Sweet Release by WUGAZI

Old post.

I saw I had this as a draft from ages ago and never published it.
I don't know why.
Why I didn't publish it and why I chose this song in particular.
It's pretty earnest. Like when I was at one of their gigs on the Holloway Rd and a girl burst into the toilets while I was trying to have a wee, ranting about how she didn't believe in binary gender differences. I couldn't go for the wee.

Moving the theme on, here are some of my favourite 'hardcore bands covering 80's indie/pop songs':





Number three was going to be Abjure's cover of Suzanne Vega's Cracking. But I couldn't find it.

BEDROOM MOSHERS

Inspired by the Entombed song from Rob's post... which I remember being a regular in my "songs to put on repeat and mosh to in the bedroom" sessions... Here are a couple of other songs from that period in my life, all of which are metal bands covering punk bands, it took me longer than you'd think to realise that I actually really liked punk rather than metal...

Machine Head covering Poison Idea (bonus track on the 1994 special edition digipak of their debut album. my favourite song on the album)


Pantera covering Poison Idea (the b-side to the 7" of 5 minutes alone released in conjunction with their appearance at Donnington Monsters of Rock the same year - which Robert, Andreas & I went to)


Metallica covering the Misfits (notable for Lars' insanely camp drumming)


This is also in tribute to my friend Tim (also Wes' housemate) who is playing on the mainstage at sonisphere this weekend with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Teen Dreamz.

P.S. wikipedia was not used in conjunction with this post.

Church of noise

I recently started listening again to one of the first cd's I ever had, a formative musical experience containing these fucking incredible songs.

EAT MORE CHIPS

TOP FUNF - WG EDITION

1. Deathprod - Dead People's Things
Still for me one of the most densely atmospheric things I've ever heard. Hearing Deathprod for the first time completely blew my mind, for a while people I lived with would know when I was in a pretty bad way because this track or Cloudchamber would be coming from behind my closed door. It wasn't the sort of thing that I wallowed in though, it was really because it gives you another space to inhabit than the one you are currently in.

2. Fugazi - Rend It
"My love song went wrong". Even when I was 16 and me and everyone else I was friends with (2 people total) were listening exclusively to youth crew, Fugazi was sill this weird thing I was obsessed with and couldn't explain why. When End Hits came out I got given it to review for the zine I was writing because the other guy didn't like 'muso shit' (LOLZ) and I was like 'what the fuck is this music, I need to know what this is right now'. I don't believe they have ever made a bad song. Also, Instrument is probably my favourite music documentary of all time.

3. Godspeed - Monheim
I was living in the US for a few months and generally listening to a lot of speed metal and thrash, wearing sleeveless denim jackets, repelling girls etc. and a friend of mine was talking on the phone and said "hang on I'll ask - Wes, do you want to go to see Godspeed You Black Emperor tonight?" and I shrugged and said why not. It was at a church in the freezing winter in Connecticut. They played on a dias in front of a huge pipe organ, with one small light so they could see and a 16mm projector showing their film footage onto the domed ceiling. We were all sat in pews, leaning back, craning our necks to watch the projections, and it was the most intense experience I have ever had. Completely rewired my brain in terms of musical performance, which to me before was all about on-stage energy and loudness and guitars. I absolutely would not be living the life I have now had I not gone to that gig. They played Monheim (it was on the Skinny Fists tour) and the sound was so immersive that I think I actually got a kind of hypnotized and was in some weird hypnagogic state. That was the first time I became interested in acoustics, resonance, sound dynamics too.

4. Will Oldham - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Oldham has written so many amazing 'songs for a sad man' that I sometimes forget until, in the middle of a record, I come across this or Another Day Full of Dread or Black or I See A Darkness. This is one of those 'fuck you, world' tracks for me, being a gentleman of a certain disposition. There's so many amazing versions that he's done of this as Palace, Bonnie Prince/Will Oldham, all of them have some other thing going on. That's the thing about Oldham, everything is interpreted from different angles each time it's played live. He was fucking great in Old Joy too. Plus, Jonny Cash covered him, you can't fuck with a motherfucker like that

5. Supersilent - 6.2
Man, those fucking Norwegians. This is the first record that opened me up to improvisation and loose structures, as well as totally opening my mind to how amazing brass instruments can sound when played outside of the traditionally accepted style. Helge Sten (Deathprod) is also in this. Supersilent do not rehearse, they just get together, record a big load of improvisation, and then Rune Grammofon puts it out. Mental. I once decided to test my tolerance for drink when I was living alone in a mansion in a forest, and watched the Supersilent 7 DVD on my laptop, drank 2/3 of a bottle of Jack, and then was sick everywhere. Watching that DVD makes me feel dizzy now, for real, it is amazing. Everyone come over and drink whiskey with me and watch it sometime.

REVENGE

I watched this film, Ms. 45, at work at the box office last week, on headphones. I stole the write-up from the actually excellent Permanent Plastic Helmet.

"Clearly modelled on the likes of I Spit on Your Grave and Death Wish, Ferrara imbues his rather tawdry source material with a distinctly sleazy New York sensibility (the clothes! the streets! the music in the first scene!) – a vein that he would go on to mine in later films – and an almost incongruously stylish sheen which belies its low budget, and adds to the oppressive mood. The closing party sequence, filmed in slow-motion, is exquisitely unsettling and almost unbearably tense.

Ms. 45 is played by the stunning Zoe Lund, who went on to co-write and star in Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, before dying of cocaine-assisted heart failure in Paris in 1999.

‘Enjoy’ is perhaps not the right word, but this is absolutely worth a watch."

NUDITY

that Neu track is fucking great, I remember I played this Nudity track to Stevie a couple of years ago and he could not believe this track is only 5 years old. Tim Green does a remix of it on the B-side o the 12", which rules.

TOP FUNF

I think this is probably in my top 10, no 5, songs ever along with these ones off the top of my head really quickly -

1. The intro to Dire Straits 'Money For Nothing'.

When I was about 9 or 10, me and my friend Mark Lewis (now bald working in a canning factory, sorry Mark) used to put this on my dad's hi-fi cassette player, take our shoes off and 'ski-dance' frantically on the top of our expensive gregorian-style Ercol dining room table. The action of rubbing our socked feet on the highly polished mahogony tabletop made for a tingling experience. As soon as it got to Knophler's excellent guitar break signalling the beginning of the song proper, we would jump off the table, stop the tape, rewind it to the start and eagerly begin the whole ritual again from the top. This would go on for hours. Endlessly ski-dancing, endlessly rewinding, endlessly tingling.

2.Neu - Hallogallo.

I think I like this song all the more for finding out the title is a German slang term for 'wild partying'. This song doesnt sound like Wild Partying to me, it's more like a chill sway but all the better for it. Do you understand?

3.The Shamen - Scientas

I guess this was the first music that touched on 'psychedelic' that I ever encountered. As previously written here, I would put this on my walkman whenever it rained and just stare at the rain, breathe in the rain smell, and kind of just zone out. The Shamen used to sound like Spacemen 3 and that is FUCKING COOL ok?

4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - I Can Be A Jerk

A theme tune of sorts. The term 'Sausageman' was coined after a first date with a certain person culminating in me not only losing the first of 5 iphones, but also purchasing a 2 foot long saucisson from an off-licence, taking a bite (through the plastic) and then hurling the remaining 1.78 ft at the windscreen of an oncoming 149. This song is about me doing romantic stuff like that. What a gent

5. tbc

slap bass, slap face

the golden rule

Rob Fordham & Tara Cleary

Apologies to the Grip Jobbers who don't know these two, but I know a few of you do and it's music related so I thought I'd share it.

Long story short: Rob Fordham got in touch with the Flaming Lips to see if he could get on stage with his girlfriend Tara to be in the backing dancers where he planned to propose quietly at the back. When Rob told Wayne Coyne, he thought that Rob should do it in front of the crowd during the encore. So Rob told Tara that for her birthday he'd arranged for them to be on the stage with the Flaming Lips. Then the rest is in the video. You might also recognise some of the faces of their friends in the crowd at the end. They had no idea and the reactions are priceless.

RICHARD HEAD

http://youtu.be/_15ZQL82P4M

computer music.

BANGER

I just invited the wonderful Crispi Murphy, Loliver Fisher and Rezmond Tutu to start contributing to this online mego fun time... welcome boyz.

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