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Entry 260: 1/21/2012: Pappy Punk's Geriatric Dance Frenzy Vol. 26 and Video Review
The Playoffs (And Naked Raygun) Rule The Wasteland
"In its energy and complexity, football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent, and I don't mean because it features long breaks in which advertisers get to sell beer and treatments for erectile dysfunction. It sits at the intersection of pioneering aggression and impossibly complex strategic planning. It is a collision of Hobbes and Locke; violent, primal force tempered by the most complex set of rules, regulations, procedures and systems ever conceived in an athletic framework.
Soccer is called the beautiful game. But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out. It doesn't get any more beautiful than that."
"Sex
Pistols' Drawings as Important as Paleolithic Art?"
Wuh?! Pappy knew Johnny Rotten was old but this
is ridiculous! He don't look a day over a million. Paleolithic? Don't that mean
pale and thick? Sounds like Johnny all right. Couldn't they have just said
Really Really F--king Old? My social worker tried explaining it to me but I
fight learning like hippies repel soap. Good for Johnny being taken seriously
during his present profession of
butter salesman.
Cave, Man!
Here's
Pappy Punk's Geriatric Dance Frenzy Vol. 26
(download zip file at Rapidshare)
And You Will Know Us... - "Days Of Being
Wild"
Kill Sybil - "Broken Back"
AKA - 645 Dog"
Half Japanese - "US Teens Are Spoiled Bums"
The Pagans - "Six And Change"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Orgone Accumulator"
Los Reactors - "Dead in The Suburbs"
Atom And His Package - "Going To Georgia"
Wire Train - "Chamber Of Hellos"
The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic"
The Raincoats - "Lola"
Toots & The Maytals - "Sweet And Dandy"
Ren & Stimpy - "Happy Happy Joy Joy"
Eater Live:
Outside View (dvd review):
The (literal) kids punk rock band
Eater
formed in 1976 and broke up three years later. This show from 1997 is
one of singer Andy Blade’s periodic band name resurrections. It doesn’t
have much to say for itself and an air of desperate self-promotion is
whiffable when Andy (real name Ashruf Radwan) reads from his
autobiography. The guy’s making the effort, so I’m not going to sit
back in my sweat and Doritos-covered chair, scratch myself
inappropriately and call Andy a loser for trying, but still, Eater was
a gimmicky footnote of the first wave UK scene, famous for their ages
and abusing a dead pig’s head on stage one glorious evening thirty-plus
years ago (and fading fast). I don’t see an Eater constituency existing
to rile up for a march to the book store. The image I get is a farmer
trying to milk the oldest cow alive.
The show is shot single camera on VHS-quality tape. Andy and Brian Chevette are the remaining original members. I like their sound generally and enjoy a few of their songs (“Thinking Of The USA”, “Outside View”, their cover of Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” and Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane” and “Waiting For The Man”) but much of this show bleeds into itself forming a shapeless, loud rock mess. Pick random places on the disc and the sound will most likely be the same, and not much of note is happening except for playing and singing. I hope I’m not the only one who hears a band and marvels how the musicians themselves can remember the subtle differences that make up most of the songs.
Legendary producer Don Letts opens the show with a drive-by recommendation of Eater, the band plays, then there’s a twelve minute, soft-spoken interview and a short piece of Andy reading from his book. Andy and the other guitarists are wearing thin-lapelled sport coats and Andy’s sporting a bow-tie, so visually that’s not very ’76. I thought maybe some waiters had wandered on stage during a band break and were giving it a go.
I’m giving Eater Live: Outside View a hard time but it’s not bad as much as it is grossly after the fact. They had their day and through appearances on various compilations they’re grouped together with bands of greater consequence. Eater’s greatest accomplishment was being Old Skull waaaay before Old Skull was Old Skull.
Set list: “You”, “Annie”, Lock It Up”, Space Dreaming”, “(No More) Bedroom Fits”, “Point Of View”, “Get Raped”, “I Don’t Need It”, “Outside view”, “My Business”, “Queen Bitch”, No Brains”, “Thinkin’ Of The USA”.
Entry 259: 1/14/2012: CD Review & Video Review
"I'll be sure to send my dry cleaning bill... to Hell."
Leatherface
- Live In Melbourne: Viva La Arthouse (cd review):
Leatherface: "Sour
Grapes" (live)
Leatherface: "Springtime"
(from Mush)
Leatherface: "Lorrydriver's Son"
(from Horsebox)
The two great love-hate relationships of my musical life are The Residents and Leatherface. With Leatherface it's the disappointment I have with how their records sound and with Frankie Stubb's drunken lack of ambition. Maybe more on that later. With The Residents it's the roller-coaster quality of their project choices, their short attention span, and the artistic scam of their post-Molly Harvey period. That and the Santa Is Real idiocy of pretending they're an "unknown" band.
Historically few can claim to be a bigger Leatherface fan than I but my exceedingly high expectations has led to a disappointment in their ongoing output. Their discs are recorded as if on a cassette recorder with the Dolby button pressed - hard. Anyone of my generation knows what that means - musical mud. Is this by choice somehow? Are their instruments or recording studios too cheap? Can I blame it on the sound engineer? Leatherface cds should be recorded with the same care as classical Spanish guitar to catch the magic of their left-right guitarists - Frankie and whoever is the other guy of the moment. It's freaking epic I'm telling you.
When I first listened to Live In Melbourne: Viva La Arthouse I thought it sounded muddy by default of the sound board. I then realized it doesn't sound any worse than their two previous studio recordings, Dog Disco and The Stormy Petrol. The latter is ok to me now but at the time I was beside myself in some lyrical and musical laziness I found in it. "Broken" is basically Cindy Pauper's "True Colors", which Stubbs covered on the most excellent 2000 release Horsebox (for those keeping score, the must-have Leatherface cds are Mush, the split with Hot Water Music, and Horsebox). Starting at 2:13 on "Broken" there's an instrumental bridge so unformed it seems Frankie never got around to writing it to completion. On "Monkfish" they really could have done better than repeatedly singing "When all's said and done, it's good to be home". But I digress. It's a decent album with a few glaring flaws.
Live In Melbourne is a decent show from a great band. It's surely not the place to start if you don't know Leatherface, the most important punk band (non-grunge category) to hit their mark in the 1990s. Thankfully there's two guitarists as when it's only one it's like owning a stereo with only the right speaker working. The set list is their usual mix of old (think UK Subs) to new. Here's where I once again remind the world Leatherface doesn't sound like any other band. By definition it's the other way around. Learn it, live it, love it. Act like ya know.
The
Phenomenauts – Beyond Warped
(dvd review): This is
one of several promo dvds put out as consolation prizes (I guess) to bands who
played the side stage at the Warped Tour of 2004. Clocking in a 25 minutes it
contains a handful of live songs and an equal amount of interviews with San
Francisco’s
The Phenomenauts, who released their first disc in 2003 but didn’t hit their
stride until 2008’s
For All Mankind, which ditched the slightly pompous grandstanding of their
earlier songs for a more melody and power driven attack no doubt inspired by
their tour with
The Epoxies, the best synth-wave band of their generation. Keyboardist Fritz
M. Static of the Epoxies jumped bands in 2008.
The Phenomenauts play psychobilly new wave surf with a heavy dose of Devo shtick injected thusly in the posterior. Fans of Servotron wouldn’t be disappointed. On this dvd I liked “Year 2000” but the others didn’t do much for me beyond being decent enough. Their stage gear is fun to look at for however long that lasts. Video and sound quality are excellent. The interviews wore out their welcome after the first one because the band, all in character, made up shtick as they went along. I did like the line that they were “A local band from right here on Earth”. Buy For All Mankind and then pick up a few Epoxies cds. This dvd is a memento and should have come free with a magazine of some kind.
Entry 258: 1/7/2012: Pappy Punk's Geriatric Dance Frenzy Vol. 25 and Video Review
50 Is Not The New Anything. 50 Is F--king 50.
Oldpunks 2011 Annual Report
Oldpunks.com, a division of
oldpunksglobalcorp ©, is a
non-profitable company founded in 1997 for the purpose of either proving
something or to accomplish some other thing. We forget. Something to do with the punk rock
and the new wave before the latter went south maybe. What it did do was waste perfectly good zeros and ones better
suited for cat poetry or animated gifs of idiots falling down, and that
tradition carries on today. In 2011 few people visited and fewer still stayed
for longer than it took to realize there no free bisexual dwarf porn to be had.
Only a few people bothered writing to tell me I sucked
ruled should send them something for free. All according to plan. That plan -
we lose a dollar on every sale but we make it up on volume. Thank you.
What's
today? Saturday? And the year? 2012!? It's next year already? Am I still in
Cleveland? Oh, hell. I woke up in the morgue this afternoon when they started to
slice me open for an autopsy. Again. Living the punk rock death march lifestyle
like I do
leads to these misunderstandings when I drink myself into suspended animation.
I've made medical examiners crap themselves in six states,
three provinces and one temporary dictatorship. I wear a medical alert punk pin
on my leather jacket that reads "May Just Appear Dead",
but do they? No. My natural body odor has been described as "decomposing".
That's good, right? I admit I haven't aged well, but check out my friend
Clony. Lookin' good Clony! See ya' at the next crustyfest.
Here's
Pappy Punk's
Geriatric Dance Frenzy Vol. 25
(download zip file at Rapidshare)
The Clean - "Beatnik"
The Sound - "Hothouse"
The Nails - "88 Lines About 44 Women"
The Suspects - "Catfish"
MDC - "John Wayne Was A Nazi"
Cletus - "Beer"
The Mighty Giordinis - "Rock N Roll Therapy"
Chuzpe - "Chinese Chive"
Julian Cope - "World Shut Your Mouth"
Teenage Frames - "We Hate It When We're Disrespected"
Tights - "Bad Hearts"
Tones On Tail - "Go!"
Copycat Massacre - "If Eye Was A Pirate"
Bad
Manners– Don’t Knock The Bald Heads
(dvd review):
You could say I was disappointed by this live set – and you’d be correct! It
looked like they were playing the Copacabana Room on a discount cruise ship
making port of call for a Jimmy Buffet concert in the Bahamas. I mean that
literally. Half the band’s wearing Hawaiian shirts and cargo shorts! 2004’s
Don’t Knock The Bald Heads will make you nostalgic for a time that may not
have existed in a place you’ve probably never been. I was hoping for
Dance Craze and instead got a local polka revival with ska instead of oompa.
They open with Glenn Miller’s 1939 Big Band hit “In The Mood” and lucky #13 is a
1967 charter for Frankie Valli. And what, no “Lorraine” or “Inner London
Violence”? The first scans of the audience, a sparse bunch, focused on some old
squares who looked like they wandered in expecting a limbo dance contest. Oi….
The show is a slight diversion and neither here nor there. The thirty minute interview with Douglas Trendle (Buster Bloodvessel) is worth it as he’s a pleasant, soft-spoken, friendly man lacking negativity or an agenda. He once started a run for mayor of London based on a standard Labour Party platform but with extras like free tampons for all women and creating a series of one-way roads to help traffic flow. The thirty McDonalds hamburgers in one day wager is another good story.
For-like-ever I thought Buster also went by the name Fatty Lipbuster, but it seems I made that one up.
Here’s the set list: 1. In The Mood 2. Echo 4 + 2 3. This Is Ska 4. My Girl Lollipop 5. Fatty Fatty 6. Black Night 7. Feel Like Jumping 8. Walking In The Sunshine 9. Skaville U.K. 10. King Ska-Fa 11. Pipeline 12. Red River Ska 13. Too Good To Be True (Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You) 14. Just A Feeling 15. You Fat Bastard 16. Skinhead Girl 17. El Pussycat 18. Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu 19. Don’t You Be Angry 20. Woolly Bully 21. Special Brew 22. Don’t Knock The Baldheads 23. England Football Medley: - Tom Hark - March Of The Mods - The Great Escape - Come On Eileen 24. Lip Up Fatty 25. Can Can.
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