Re: who cares if someones on yer bands case?/no ec-content.
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jonathan Dacey wrote a lot about logos getting ripped: anyhow personally my 2 cents is that the whole thing is rather lame .. most bands rip off cool logos.. ie youd probably wear a shirt with the original logo on it cause its a cool logo... so whats the point really? the novelty of saying wow thats the snickers logo.. thats funny is pretty minimal and wears off preaty quick... now sure even good bands have ripped off logos.. namely pavement.. and ;like all things this isnt a cut and dry matter... in pavements cse you have to realise the logo they stole (the peavey powered .. amp motto) was so but ugly no one in their right mind would have worn the original shirt and thus they put a suitably pavement slant on the issue... um. to all you pavement freaks out here. like three years ago (or something) pavement had this really amazingly cool tee on which they had ripped off the logo to the danish beer tuborg. me, living in scandinavia, i've since birth known what this logo looks like, but do any of you northamericans do so? anyway, the shirt was pretty dark green with the white logo on front. i've only seen one of these and i remember how incredibly bad i wanted one too. it was (and still is) the coolest. .per
Re: th+gbv+uo
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Michael Damian Catano wrote: it's a perfect bill. it seems ludicrous that people would be talking about leaving the show before UO play, to avoid the tired rock antics, .maybe you just *don't want* to see the next band after having been *totally* blown away by the previous one..? i can only speak for myself, but after i had seen shellac live i sure as hell didn't want to watch another band for the rest of the night..! and this was at 8 pm at an outdoor festival where beck, hole and smashing pumpkins were all getting on after shellac. 0 don't let a really great show by your #1 favourite band get ruined by the band getting on next. just leave. it won't get any better watching a band your hardly know/like. the headliners will always come back some other day. .per
hp.
h. the disc of the band which once used to include one mr.johnnie cox as well as drummer mr.matt clarke has surprisingly been seen here. yes, it's the promo cd of the album which was made before johnnie left the band and, soon after it's official release, matt left too.. it's funny how journalists get the rarest/most fun stuff and then don't get what's on the disc just because the band don't sound/act like oasis or blur. and then they go on selling it to a used records- store.. anyhow, :per. ps. thanks to the very nice people at derivative who introduced me to the band shotmaker i am now turning hardcore. so, the question is, does anyone knows who the guys making such lovely energic noise are? and just to make sure i'll stay hardcore, *unsane* will be comming here in november. mmm, and that sure is something to look forward too, eh? :) pps.the sleeve tells me that tara played guitar and rick bass on the e2h sappy release _forward to snow_.
superfriendz/murder spotted in europe!
hej again. (..aaw, why do the batteries in my walkman have to give up on me right now in the middle of _my valuable hunting knife_ .. oh well, i might as well quit this..) anyhow, *i forgot* to tell you all about my several east-coast moments i had last thursday in stockholm. i not only saw _somebody spoke_ for the first time in a store, i *also* got to see the first murder release here ever! woo! it was the superfriendz cd and i even got the owner of the store to play it out loud! wow! _karate man_!!! yeah!!! maybe i could become canadian indy rock-promoter in these part of the world!(?).. oh, anyway, it was cool.. and i also spotted the nerdy girl 10 too.. the word is really starting to spread, i guess. i (almost) feel like a traitor as i ended up getting the latest man or astroman? and rodan's _rusty_ on cd.. oh well.. shoot me. :per.
Re: Hardship Post
hej, yes the hp album is some good.. i finally got it yesterday from subpop together with the hey drag city comp. and as i've been listening to it about ten times more than the drag city-comp it must make hardship post ten times better than all of them drag city-bands like gastr del sol, smog, silver jews and, um, pavement put together.. right? ;) and for those of you who are not yet convinced of hp's greatness you should check out their own www-page at the subpop-site.. eight reasons are listed there why hardship post are so good.. '..mr.lippa called himself johnnie cox on the advance cd for no good reason' is just one of them.. (and the best one too..) overall: they rawk. but not quite hard as they used to..and that doesn't neccessarily have to be a bad thing.. per. after a listen or two i became hooked on the new cd, probably my favorite release since weens cc...lee
Re: how could? + t5
hej. i couldn't agree more with what jonboy wrote: how could 500 up, i can feel it and coax me be on someone's bottom list. hello? wake up. those are three sweet tracks baby. and even though i hear coax me and underwhelmed countless times too, i am not sick of them yet. long live the sweet stuffs. j to the b. my top 5 sloansongs ever would today be: 500 up - it's pure pop prefection everytime andrew sings that chorus... :) median strip - at times a little annoying. when not, heaven. :P people of the sky - quoted friend: what poppy pavement really should sound like. the best songs are andrew's ?!? pretty voice - krutpop. where krut is that explosive powder out of which mr.alfred nobel started making dynamite. :) the overall muddy sound quality on 'peppermint' tends to drown a few of the songs on it. this one floats even better! :) underwhelmed/ penpals/ i can feel it/ slightly left of centre - are all on the top 5 some days. i just couldn't pick which one to be there today... they are all canon, you know... :) just like what the norweigan boy/criss sings in penpals... it's funny as the word kanon is a slangish way if saying 'wicked' in both swedish and norweigan... :) hursomhelst, punk rock popsicle per
th7
hi. tara l w told us that.. a phone call...) Thrush Hermit is releasing a 7'' on Bongload records soon. They're supposed to be touring ASAP in Ontario. and, from what've heard, they'll soon be releasing a 7 on genius as well. :) p hampus e ps. *no sloan content whatsoever* um, why was it that the team canada goalie corey hirch was sooking big-time, wearing sun glasses in rainy weather and threattening to sue sweden post on swedish national tv the other day? sweden post have made a stamp picturing the final penalty shot from the sweden vs canada gold-game from the lillehammer-94 olympics. peter forsberg, already named canadaian goalie, a puck and a goal all had the honour to be pictured on the stamp. corey *was not* pleased. the puck was behind him. in the goal. there was no way i could've made myslelf not laugh out loud. corey looked and acted *exactly* like one of them *real cool* rock'n roll stars! corey rules! :) :) :) :) :) pps.hey yan, swedish girls just love to hear sloansongs played acoustically belov their balconies. ;) multiplied 'thank you's!
popexplosionreview
i should have been in bed a long time ago. i can't believe i am actually doing this at half past four in the morning... anyway, here is the melody maker review on the pop explosion. it was published november 12 and jonathan selzer wrote it. goodnight. Per HALIFAX POP EXPLOSION '94 New Brunswick Hall, Halifax Neil Young's relocation to the Amerivan heartlands exemplifies the way Canadian rock is overlooked, because it would seem less poignant in a climate of relative health. The music scene here is caught between striving for independence of character and wanting to compete with the US on the very terms it shares - feeling stranded, basically. Canada's answer to MTV, Much Music, shows endless singer/songwriters who convey all the romanticism and sincerity of the terminally parochial. Indie bands, meanwhile, find a common purpose and hold annual events in tiny but hip university towns like this one - complete with indie symposium - to pursue it. CHANGE OF HEART hail from Toronto and are the musical equivalent of the Gatorade Energy Drink available in the US, the one that declares No natural fruit juices on the label. They hit all the right buttons without enriching you whatsoever. This is a compliment. COH have a job to do, shocking you upright, left and, well, who needs a centre anyway? They leaving you with nothing to fall back on. This song's about a squirrel that came into our yard. We fed it peanut butter, but then it got run over by a truck. It's called 'Massacre'. I live for moments like these. MARY LOU LORD is a singer/songwriter. She sighs as if, well, there you go, the songs happened yesterday, and sings with just the right amount of helplessness to gratify the male protective impulse. I'll say this for her, she's very, very cute. I'll even suggest it for an epitaph, no extra charge. ZUMPANO live in this country, but they're as far away from home as I am. I think we have an understanding here, a bit of mutual, if displaced, ground. The current vague for Britpop sucks, it's like a necrophiliac expecting the corpses to respect him in the morning. When Zumpano showcase their love of swirlin' Sixties theme music (with a bit of Jimmy Webb thrown in for good measure), it comes out bewildered and pure. STEREOLAB aren't so different, in theory at least. They are too immaculate and apocryphal, a remnant from some speculative past. When the organ perpetuates its peak, it's like the final burst of radiation from a long-forgotten generator, an emission so glorious that it transcends its own design. If Stereolab are methodical, it's because methodology will ultimately prove itself naive, and naivety is indeterminate potential. Tonight, they're positively resurgent. If I gave up writing tomorrow, I'd consider myself blessed by circumstances on perhaps four counts: Cranes, Shudder To Think, Total's Beyond The RimLP and BLONDE RED HEAD, a band so unforseeably beautiful, so absorbed in their own integrity we should be looking for unnamed constellations to enshrine them now. Two identical Italian twins, two Japanese female guitarists and two voices that sound like the last angels left in heaven. Theirs is a glacial, devastated grace, guitars sliding into a wake and then slowly piecing themselves together, a crippled recollection of a former, defining moment. BRH are beyond themselves, an invocation that can only summon up a fundamental lack. And yet at its heart is the most intimate, most hallowed absence of all. They're already past the point of greatness. THRUSH HERMIT like to spread their pain around. All three guitarists get to sing, occasionally combining forces into swelling harmonies pumped full of just-corrupted innocence. It looks good, a united yet vulnerable front, but at least three times tonight they remind me of Ride. This counts against them. Let's hope time becomes a great wounder. There once was a time when menace became an absurdity. SIX FINGER SATELLITE bring it all back. This is the sound of New Wave-the real stuff, none of the New-won-wer shit-after it's been spiked. It's all pathogenetically clogged riffs laced with sci-fi synth pulses, and fronted by a fever-pitch snarl from a deadpan showman with a habit for crawling on top of his audience. Awesome. Indie's answer to the New Man is the New Dork, and HARDSHIP POST are the latest, most pitifully complacent incarnation. What do I know? they whimper. Well, now they know I hate their f***ing guts. SCARCE have Chick Graning, ex-Anastasia Screamed and subject of Neil Kulkarni's quasi-sexual fantasies, the world's coolest bassist and a wonderfully perplexed EP called Red. Tonight they play good-time grunge instead, and I'm too drunk and too undiscrening to care. The final Sunday is the all-ages show only. I've been conscientiously avoiding these up til now, largely because young people are crap. They like any old shit.
