steel pole bath tub - 7.7.94 - lounge ax - chicago,il

i'm going to make this as clear as i can for you....
this is the band steel pole bath tub being steel pole bath tub in front of a crowd of people located in chicago,il that paid money for them to be steel pole bath tub in front of them.

ok?
ok.

1 - bozeman
2 - borstal
3 - twist
4 - carbon
5 - train to miami
6 - 3 of cups
7 - decline
8 - home is a rope
9 - pseudoepherdrine hydrochloride
10 - hey bo diddley

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sifl & olly - songs of season one

released: 2001
label: 111 productions

you remember sifl & olly.
if it weren't for them you'd never know that hos gotta wash their clothes too.
if it weren't for them you'd never know about chicken flavored air conditioning.
if it weren't for them you'd never know if'n you were crescent fresh or not.
if it weren't for them you'd never be aware of the russian hopscotch mystery of 1942.
if it weren't for them you'd never be aware that it's ok to be wearin' your leatha at 3:00am out on the corner.

and you should be grateful.
most kids didn't have anything but a bottle of nyQuil and a half-eaten snickers bar and a magazine they found in an alley teaching them life lessons.

DL

radioactiveman - growl

released: 2008
label: control tower

by a show of hands....
who remembers the 90s?
ok.
ok.
who remembers the electronic music from the 90s?
aka "electronica".
it's ok,bros.
even though you have that beard and that black t-shirt with whatever band on it,it's still ok to admit to liking some of it.
i did.
i still do.
i'll still put on the prodigy's THE FAT OF THE LAND or portishead's PORTISHEAD or massive attack's MEZZANINE or whale's WE CARE or the chemical brothers' DIG YOUR OWN HOLE or dj shadow's ENDTRODUCING or anything by bjork or aphex twin.

and yes.
i'm well aware that there are more than a few genres mentioned up there but they all essentially fall under the heading of "electronic music".
shut up,nerd.

what lead to my liking of the sorts of things mentioned up yonder was weed and headphones. there were many times where i'd get high and just strap on my headphones and go. and sure. it was just an eventual journey to whatever foods i'd had handy but at least that journey had a decent soundtrack.

yeah yeah.
i'm know that i'm rambling.
you're either going to give this a try or you're not going to give this a try.
that's up to you.
but i'd also like you to take notice of the fact that nowhere in all of these words did i make mention of moby (well. other than that and that's more than enough.).
that's gotta mean something,yeah?
friends don't let friends listen to moby.
remember that one time moby got beat up by a bunch of hardcore kids back in the day?
yeah.

DL

pig destroyer - blind,deaf and bleeding ep

released: 2012
label: relapse records

some of you may know who pig destroyer are.
some of you may not know who pig destroyer are.
this really isn't the place to start if'n you don't.
this isn't exactly them in their natural habitat.
you'll be wanting to start with the PROWLER IN THE YARD album.
truth be told: that's where i kind of started losing interest in them.
don't get me wrong though: TERRIFYER and PHANTOM LIMB and BOOK BURNER are ok. they're just not PROWLER IN THE YARD.
as for HEAD CAGE....
have you ever found yourself thinking "i wonder what pig destroyer would sound like if their drummer played on cardboard boxes."?
yeah.

but what we've got here is something that was released as part of the deluxe version of the BOOK BURNER album. it's an ep of covers. that sounds like fun,yeah? because it is fun. and if you find yourself liking the covers you should really look for some of the others they've done as well....
helmet's "in the meantime"
unsane's "understand"
melvins' "oven"
dwarves' "fuck you up and get high"
stooges' "down on the street"

1 - depression (black flag)
2 - wolfsblood (misfits)
3 - lights out (angry samoans)
4 - can't tell no one (negative approach)
5 - deny everything (circle jerks)
6 - betray (minor threat)
7 - who are you?*/underage** (*void/**poison idea)

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black sabbath - black sabbath deluxe edition disc 2

released: 2009
label: warner bros. records

we should already be well aware of who black sabbath were/are.
we should all remember where we were the first time we heard black sabbath.
i was in the 5th grade and it was the song "electric funeral".
i'd borrowed PARANOID on cassette from a friend of mine.
black sabbath was the gateway drug because after all of that how was i supposed to just go back to listening to whatever i was listening to at the time?
and then came iron maiden.
and then came metallica.
and then came slayer.
and then came death.
etc. etc. etc.
and let me tell you: my parents were thrilled.
good times.

1 - evil woman (don't you play your games with me)
2 - black sabbath (studio outtake)
3 - black sabbath (instrumental)
4 - the wizard (studio outtake)
5 - behind the wall of sleep (studio outtake)
6 - n.i.b. (alternative version)
7 - evil woman (alternative version)
8 - sleeping village (intro)
9 - warning (pt.1)

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dysrhythmia - pretest

released: 2003
label: relapse records

hello there,person in the don caballero t-shirt.
yeah.
you.
right there.
i'd like to tell you the story about the time i saw this here band live....

picture it. ybor city,fl. the year is 2003 and i'm standing near the stage in an establishment called the orpheum. i've actually seen a few bands here before this. hmmmmm. let's see. i'd seen cky. i'd seen atom and his package. i'd seen jucifer. and now i stand here ready to witness the RELAPSE RECORDS CONTAMINATION TOUR roster which was made up on these guys and uphill battle and cephalic carnage and mastodon. i was there alone but the original plan was that i was going to take one of the waitresses that worked at the denny's i was working at at the time but she was a no show. sure. i was a little bummed but what could i do? invite my then girlfriend that wasn't even into this kind of music to come along? that would've been fun.

so dysrhythmia opened the show. all that i'd heard from them was a song called "bastard" that was on a relapse sampler. they weren't on stage for all that long but i was impressed enough with what i'd heard that i went looking for a copy of their album the next day (i would've gotten one directly from them after the show but they were fresh out.).

as for the rest of the show....

uphill battle were pretty solid.
i was almost decapitated by cephalic carnage's guitar player during the song "pseudo".
while mastodon was playing i was just stoked to see 2/3 of IN THE EYES OF GOD era today is the day doing what they do right in front of me.

yeah.
it was a good show.

so yeah.
if you like some don caballero and some early dillinger escape plan and some of the fucking champs and some behold...the arctopus (whose bass player is also in this band) and some postman syndrome and some brain tentacles....

i could just keep naming off bands all day or you could just take the initiative and give this a go.
damn.
kids nowadays.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

DL

flipper - live at the fillmore 1981

released: 2010
label: cd presents

you already know who flipper are.
this is them opening for PiL at the fillmore in san francisco,ca.
you know who PiL are.
you know where san francisco is.
stop reading and start listening.

1 - instrumental
2 - sacrifice
3 - survivors of the plague
4 - life

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disincarnate - dreams of the carrion kind

released: 1993
label: roadrunner records

what i've brought for you here today is just some good ol' fashioned all american death metal. ah,the sweet sweet metal of death.

what's important here is that there's a guitar player on this album that you may or may not have heard of and he's played with some bands that you may or may not have heard of....

the name: james murphy
the bands: cancer/death/malevolent creation/obituary/testament (just to name a few. and no. he didn't play in them in alphabetical order.)

this is the band's only album.
unless you count the re-release back in 2004 which is essentially this album with some demos tacked on at the end.

i'm not really sure what more i can say about this other than it's awesome.

but i'd like to say a little something about roadrunner records. they were a fairly decent label once upon a time. they'd released albums by the likes of brujeria and fear factory and karma to burn and nailbomb and sepultura  (again,just to name a few. and no. it wasn't done in alphabetical order.). and then they started signing bands like nickelback? that's all i need to say about all that. now get offa my lawn.

DL

crisis - the hollowing

released: 1997
label: metal blade records

"no. seriously. the singer is female. why would i make something like that up? i'm not lying to you. it's not like that time i'd told you that i was your real dad. you can't get mad at me for that one. you're the one that bought into it. so yeah. calm down. totally female. and i'm not your real dad. no. get ready for this truth bomb. i'm your twin brother."

that conversation may or may not have actually taken place but back when i'd bought this album after having heard the song "kingdom's end" on some random sampler. remember back in those days,bro? back when magazines came with some pretty kick-ass samplers? you'd discover all kinds of things and maybe discover a little bit about yourself in the process. yeah. those were the days. now how about you go and make daddy a nice nyQuil smoothie before mommy gets home. ah,ya little scamp.

this here album has everything you could possibly want...
the sludge.
the distortion.
the guttural screams.
did i mention the sludgy distortion with guttural screams?
i probably did.
sounds like something i'd do.

so if you're liking of things drifts toward some early kylesa and some acid bath (and speaking of acid bath: their guitarist shows up on this album a few times. so that's something,yeah? yeah it is.) and maybe some early neurosis this is for you,friend.

seriously though...
where's that nyQuil smoothie?

DL

Trigger Cut - Buster

Label: Token
Year: 2019

We (the collective "we") have come to count on Ralph Schaarschmidt to bring us the finest German noise rock, by way of Chicago's finest forges, for the past few years. Recently it was Buzz Rodeo, but now we're dealing with Trigger Cut. Which, if you liked the former, you're going to be excited by the latter. It's essentially a continuation, or refinement, of that pent up, nervous energy, staccato push-and-pull pelting. And while one (the collective "one") would be remiss to not acknowledge a very subtle rhythmic melody trying desperately to rise above the clanging guitar scree, and the galvanic roil of the bass and drums simultaneously building and up and toppling the song's riffs, the basic sense of Trigger Cut is urgency. An uneasy urgency that's driving you somewhere. Where? Off a cliff? Through a wall? To hell? Hold on and let it ride.
I highly recommend this one, it's a really great representation of the ideal "noise rock" paradigm circa 2019. It scratches that itch with aplomb. Or, an A-bomb.  One of those.

DL