fugazi - in on the kill taker

label: dischord
released: 1993

this is where i consider the band heading into the sonic youth portion of their career

wanna fight about it?

DL: in on the kill taker

firehose - 1988 peel session

"if you're driving a van...your name had better be either mike watt or person of interest" -me

nuff said.

1 - intro
2 - she paints pictures
3 - making the freeway
4 - hear me
5 - choose any memory

DL: peeling fiREHOSE

unrest - 2.19.93 - 40 watt - athens,ga

this is SGM

you already know who/what unrest is

1 - bavarian mods
2 - christina
3 - suki
4 - i believe you're blushing
5 - international nautical miles
6 - skinhead girl
7 - love to know
8 - cherry
9 - june
10 - nation writer

DL: unrest @40 watt

kylesa - self-titled

label: prank
released: 2002

well...first of all...there's the pushead artwork

and then there's the sludge

so...if you've been paying attention thus far...there's some pushead artwork and some sludge

thanks for attending class today

DL: kylesa

snort - ron

label: self-released
released: 2013

this was sent our way by a fella that goes by the name of addy

and addy is the band's guitar player (actually...he's one of three....yes...three)

and we felt kind of obligated to post this as the guy on the cover of their album (which i'm assuming is named ron...but he looks more like a steven...so from here on in...we'll only refer to him as steven...got it?) is wearing some of SGM's favorite bands upon his jacket

also....we like the music

it's what you would expect from a band that plays some of that "instrumental math rock"....you know...kind of like the stuff you'd expect to hear from some don caballero and piglet and the like

so...do steven a favor and snag this up...he's a good kid

and if'n you'd like to be pals with these guys...go here...and that will lead you to all kinds of things (none of which involves a dark closet)

DL: ron

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