Finally bought the Bug album from last year. Damn, it’s a really good album - wish I’d listened to the hype earlier.
Where was the hype?
I’d be surprised if anyone in the media was pushing an album that uncompromising! hahahahaha…
Check out Bug’s instore Amoeba set greeny…
Where was the hype?
I’d be surprised if anyone in the media was pushing an album that uncompromising! hahahahaha…
Check out Bug’s instore Amoeba set greeny…
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/videos/bug.html
Thanks for the live set!
Hype mostly from here and a good review for Pitchfork (I believe). It was one of those albums I knew I’d like, I bought some tracks off the single “Poison Dart” and liked them and knew I’d like the album but for some reason I never picked it up.
Hiya,
I just purchased JJ too, also on Pitchfork’s recommendation. What a wonderfully refreshing album! My only regret is how short it is…
Happy to hear I’m not alone here in liking this album. I’m listening to it right now in fact. It is quite refreshing, isn’t it? Couldn’t even begin to explain what else it sounds like, it fills a space of it’s own.
It is rather short but I’ll take too short over too long. Albums that go on too long tend to get passed by, whereas the short albums I just keep re-playing.
I’m listening to “ecstacy” right now - probably my favorite track on the album right now.
Neko Case
knew I’d like the album but for some reason I never picked it up.
In that case you’ll HAVE to score the upcoming King Midas Sound album. KMS are a collaboration of Bug and soul singer Roger Robinson if you aren’t aware. They’ve already dropped two BIG 12"s.
http://www.myspace.com/kingmidassound
Listened to ‘The Dark Knight’ today for the first time in months. Forgot how good it is. ‘Why So Serious?’ is such a class song.
Palast der Republik - Neubauten.
Armenia’s an odd song to hear at work, heh. Was Ist Ist peps you up though.
julie london.
damn the gay gene.
Been listening to King Midas Sound, very good stuff! Thanks for the heads up Toot!
By the way Toot, it would be great if you had a blip.fm account, I’d love to be able to instant hear picks from you.
still julie london. chris connelly, jeff beck.
Been listening to King Midas Sound, very good stuff! Thanks for the heads up Toot!
Yeah they’re awesome. Looking forward to the long player.
I’ll look into the blip.fm account. Never heard of them before???
I’ll look into the blip.fm account. Never heard of them before???
Blip.fm is like Twitter for music, it’s intuitive to use and rather addicting at times. My current account is at blip.fm/YogaGeek I find out about a lot of new music through there.
Godflesh ‘Songs of Love and Hate’. Forgot how good this sounds LOUD.
Ordered some Final. Can’t wait.
Godflesh ‘Songs of Love and Hate’. Forgot how good this sounds LOUD.
It’s the greatest album in the world LOUD as far as I’m concerned.
The bass sound is amazing and Brian Mantia’s drumming is superb…then you have Justin’s soaring and crushing riffs.
This is my favourite Godflesh album by a country mile.
ministry in their good days were the best loudest band alive. i challenge anyone to refute that.
give me some peace.
ministry in their good days were the best loudest band alive. i challenge anyone to refute that.
give me some peace.
I can agree with that. I think from LORAH to Filth Pig, you can blast those albums with some vengeance. Godflesh is a pretty brutal force to be reckoned with also - The entire love and hate album, and Xnoybis is a particular one to that comes to mind. I was actually blasting Lard earlier actually on my headphones. Oh, how I love the Power of Lard.
Right now, it’s Lustmord in the background though. Just discovering the new album.
ministry in their good days were the best loudest band alive. i challenge anyone to refute that.
give me some peace.
You I’d agree Ministry was the best live band on the planet for a while there although I was never lucky enough to catch a live Godflesh show.
Godflesh made better albums than Ministry though. Plus Songs Of Love & Hate OWNS.
I saw Ministry live in 1995 and it was just about the best gig I had been to up til that point. Worth seeing for the 10 minute version of Scarecrow if nothing else.
That was one full year before Filth Pig (finally) came out.
Only complaint was that the setlist was very unadventurous - NWO, Just One Fix, Thieves, Stigmata…you know the drill.
Godflesh were great, but I soon lost interest when they beefed up their sound and became more of a ‘metal’ act. ‘Songs Of Love And Hate’ has its moments but the beats are too prominent and too hip hop sounding and the ‘macho tough guy’ vocals just don’t do him any favours.
Preferred the more dissonant atonal and distorted ‘StreetCleaner’ where everything is whacked beyond belief and the vocals sound like the tape was trying to chew itself up and spit itself out during the recording process. It all sounds so wrong - which is why it works so perfectly. Like Napalm Death doing Throbbing Gristle covers during a particularly nasty acid trip.
hey carmangary. i too saw chris isaak. awesome singer. my friend was his AR person.isaak was one of the few people at warner’s to actually have a card key entry to the building in LA. nutty. good guy.