hawks - barnburner

label: year of bad luck
released: 2011

the jesus lizard
the birthday party
shorty
drive like jehu
the "my dog barks some" scene from WILD AT HEART
hawks

and bam!
you just had a lesson in brevity

DL: barnburner

black sabbath - paranoid

label: vertigo
released: 1970

if'n it weren't for black sabbath....there wouldn't be a melvins

true story

i mean....imagine it if they were influenced by some other band...like...oh...i don't know...kiss...i mean that would be....

ohwaitaminute.....

DL: paranoid

iron reagan - worse than dead

label: magic bullet
released: 2013

i'm pretty sure some of you folks here at the SGM can handle some of this action

do you own more than one old school suicidal tendencies album?

do you own more than one not rastafarian bad brains album?

do you own more than one old school corrosion of conformity album?

do you own more than one septic death album?

do you see what i'm getting at here?

this is what happens when members of the bands municipal waste and darkest hour get together and throw down and get gnarly,brah

DL: worse than dead

godflesh - merciless ep

label: earache
released: 1994

FACT: this is awesome to listen to through a pair of headphones that cover your entire ear while sitting on a beanbag in a dark room under the influence of certain substances

or so i've been told

normally...when it comes to the whole remix thing...i'm not really a fan (though it is pretty funny when you're listening to a cd and it skips and someone yells out "remix!"...yeah...i'm looking at you...and i'm lying...it's not funny...it's never funny...no matter how many times you say it...it just shows everyone that you're too lazy to buy/download another copy)

but i digress

the remix...not really a fan...but there are a few rare occasions where it's done properly...and this is a prime example of that

i bought this on cassette when it came out...i had just recently discovered the band (via the radio of all places)...and had bought the STREETCLEANER and PURE albums a few weeks prior...so i was going in thinking it was going to be more of that business...

and i was hooked immediately by the gargantuanosity that is the opening track ("merciless")

so what they did was take the grinding sludge that they had been known for previously and spread it open a bit more

now you may be asking yourself "what songs are these remixes of?"

track 1 ("merciless") was actually a song recorded by a band that justin broadrick was involved in pre-napalm death (he provided guitars and vocals on their SCUM album) that went by the name of fall of because

track 2 ("blind") is an original song

track 3 ("unworthy") isn't so much a remix as it is a borrowing of a song called "last of the biomechanical urgents" by a band called murder inc. being black backwards as godflesh gets godflesh all over it

track 4 ("flowers") is a remix of the song "don't bring me flowers" from the PURE album

in the space of those 4 songs...they hit you in the head with a brick...and then give you something to listen to as you drift off into unconsciousness

or maybe i'm just rambling...as i've read that sort of thing happens when some sort of substance is introduced into the situation....

DL: merciless ep

kabul golf club - le bal du rat more

label: uproar for veneration
released: 2012


do you like a basstone that sounds so crunchy...you find yourself saying out loud "daaaaaaamn...that's some crunchy bass...and i bet that it stays crunchy even in milk!"?

you like the blood brothers album BURN,PIANO ISLAND,BURN,yeah?

what about the refused album THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME?

what about fugazi's IN ON THE KILL TAKER?

and what about at the drive-in's RELATIONSHIP OF COMMAND?

this is what would you'd hear if'n you were in the next room and the above mentioned albums shacked up for a "lost weekend"

DL: le bal du rat mort

beastie boys - some live bullshit

label: bootleg
released: 1997

listen all y'all...if you don't shake yo' rump-ah...it's sabotage

DL: some live bullshit

kmfdm/my life with the thrill kill kult - naive/the days of swine and roses remix split

label: wax trax
released: 1994

kmfdm remixes my life with the thrill kill kult

my life with the thrill kill kult remixes kmfdm

and that's all i have to say about that

DL: kmfdm/my life with the thrill kill kult split

joy division - the best of

label: rhino
released: 2008

happy birthday,death of ian curtis


fun fact: this was found in a free box at a garage sale

am i the only one that can hear echoes of black sabbath's "war pigs" in the "new dawn fades" guitar tone?
probably.

1 - digital
2 - disorder
3 - shadowplay
4 - new dawn fades
5 - transmission
6 - atmosphere
7 - dead souls
8 - she's lost control
9 - love will tear us apart
10 - these days
11 - twenty four hours
12 - heart and soul
13 - incubation
14 - isolation

DL: the best of joy division

trophy wives - old scratch

label: latest flame
released: 2011


hello.

please come in.

you've been asked here to answer a few questions.

are you comfortable?

thirsty?

oh...so you're one of those "get to the point" kinda folks,eh?

fair enough.

we've been told that you're a fan of bands like:

young widows
queens of the stone age
lords
coliseum
mudhoney

should i stop there?

i should also tell you that the band has some ex members of some of the above mentioned bands...vocalist/guitarist billy bisig was a member of lords...bassist tony ash was a member of coliseum...and drummer geoff paton was a member of young widows

well...i can tell by the squirming that you're doing in your chair that you'd like to leave

so...take a copy of this

and we'll have to place the burlap sack over your head again

thank you for stopping by

DL: old scratch

Motorist - Days Of Young

Label: Self Released
Year: 2013

Setting the Way-Back Machine circa 1993 or so, and landing it on one of the sketchier city blocks of Trade Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ground zero for the local underground music scene (shout out to the New Start posse!), you would have found a couple musicians who were loosing the moors tethering them to a strictly hardcore aesthetic, and experimenting with melody, dynamics, and mood. They made the initial forays into the nascent "post hardcore" landscape, and formed a band called Shatterhed, who put out two phenomenal 7"s of big, rocking, riffy songs that you never heard (unless you're in the Contacts section of my telephone).
Setting the Way-Back Machine circa 1995 or so, and landing it on that same pock-mocked strip of downtown Winston-Salem (which is easy to miss, mind you), and you will witness another group of musicians giving their own spin on hardcore and later post-post-hardcore with a band called Codeseven who put out a few albums that you might have actually heard as they garnered a good deal of praise and platitudes from the general public (oddly enough, I did not hear these albums until this year...I was, how do you say, "out of the loop").
Now, set the Way-Back Machine for the heady summer of 2012 (if you can remember that far back), and, surprisingly, park that thing on the renovated and family friendly Trade Street (my, how times have changed), and you will find a new band forming that takes their cues from the music that informed both Shatterhed (Jawbox, Iceburn [that's right...Iceburn], Seaweed, Fugazi, Quicksand, Nomeansno), and the latter era of Codeseven (Cave In [middle period], Texas Is The Reason, Hum, some shoegaze, some space rock, some Radiohead even), lots of reference points firmly rooted in the 1990s. And when you add all that up, you get a wholly satisfying jolt of big hooks, burly riffs, towering melodies, and shimmering dynamics.
Imagine a new band like Aeges (also firmly rooted in mid-90s post hardcore), and combine that with an older band like Shiner, and there you are. It has the touchstones of the music you've loved for years, and adds a new sheen and a kick in the ass. I've been listening to this album a few times a week since I got a copy, and I promise you, it gets stronger and stronger as you revisit it. I can't recommend it any higher.

DL