View Full Version : rolling WTF moments of 2005
johansen smith
10-10-2005, 02:01 PM
go back exactly one page, George.
george
10-10-2005, 02:39 PM
oh dang. sorry.
tinobeat
10-10-2005, 06:04 PM
Sonic Youth got all that stolen gear back... crazy.
I guess calling someone "fukkerz" really workkz!
S M @
10-10-2005, 10:30 PM
^^^^You mean the stuff that got stolen quite a while ago?? Like a few years or more? Or did it happen again more recently?
^^^^You mean the stuff that got stolen quite a while ago?? Like a few years or more? Or did it happen again more recently?Yeah, the same stuff that was ripped off several years ago. Apparently, the thief's cousin (or something) blew the whistle on him.
johansen smith
10-10-2005, 10:35 PM
I saw some doc on Sundance a few years ago about all their guitars, it was astonishing.
tinobeat
10-10-2005, 10:54 PM
^^^^You mean the stuff that got stolen quite a while ago?? Like a few years or more? Or did it happen again more recently?
1999 I believe. right before recording NYCG&F...
pabost
10-10-2005, 11:23 PM
1999 I believe. right before recording NYCG&F...
If that's correct, some fukkerz may want to steal their gear again so we can get another decent album.
tinobeat
10-10-2005, 11:24 PM
wait, are you suggesting that NYCG&F was a decent album?!
or rather, more decent than the two after it?
Somebody call a doctor! Bost is off his meds again!!!
pabost
10-11-2005, 01:34 AM
Somebody call a doctor! Bost is off his meds again!!!
Ha! Yeah, I fucked that one up by misreading tino's post to say that the equipment was stolen after that dreadful record. All of that is to say, I'm looking forward to something more in the vein of Murray St. or Sonic Nurse, not the SYR series.
Download the mp3 (http://www.uschristianflag.com/ac.mp3)
Here's the thing. I'm not hating on Christians, and I'm not even hating on this Michael Combs fella... but, like the guy who pointed me to this link said, I feel that there's a sect of the church these days who believe that if you aren't American and Christian, you're somehow a lesser species. But the misguided lyrical direction of the song is only half the fun. Michael Combs sings like the bastard lovechild of Joe Cocker and Rolf the Dog from the Muppets.
vesper
10-11-2005, 10:24 AM
Download the mp3 (http://www.uschristianflag.com/ac.mp3)
Here's the thing. I'm not hating on Christians, and I'm not even hating on this Michael Combs fella... but, like the guy who pointed me to this link said, I feel that there's a sect of the church these days who believe that if you aren't American and Christian, you're somehow a lesser species. But the misguided lyrical direction of the song is only half the fun. Michael Combs sings like the bastard lovechild of Joe Cocker and Rolf the Dog from the Muppets.
dude, that's going to close my year-end mix!
NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a great album and I do like it more than Murray Street (which I really like as well) and about 100 times better than Sonic Nurse (At this point I think it should be really be a "special circumstance" to warrent a double album from Sonic Youth and Sonic Nurse certainly wasn't one. It would have been a killer single LP though.) I don't really understand the non-love for NYCG&F.
SYR series has been rather good if you ask me and I'm looking forward to the new volume (Live at Anthology Film Archives w/Tim Barnes).
Dave
george
10-11-2005, 04:12 PM
I don't really understand the non-love for NYCG&F.
cause pitchfork hated it so everyone else has to.
tinobeat
10-11-2005, 04:47 PM
cause pitchfork hated it so everyone else has to.
*rolls eyes*
I thought Pitchfork's 0.0 score was ridiculous and had absolutely nothing to do with the music, considering the article was just a rant about Jim O'Rourke selling out to NYC. fuck that.
I also, totally independently, heard the album and saw the songs performed live and decided I didn't like it.
shocking!
Salman
10-11-2005, 06:36 PM
NYCG&F is the second best album SY has released on Geffen.
johansen smith
10-18-2005, 12:33 PM
Charles Rocket apparently read the Good Soldier.
vesper
10-23-2005, 09:45 PM
METALLAGHER (http://www.metallagher.com/)
TheSadDebaser
10-23-2005, 11:09 PM
NYCG&F is pretty bad. The SYR series is really great. Sonic Nurse is pretty bad, too. I never read the Pitchfork review of NYCG&F.
One Thousand Leaves and Murray Street are magnificent.
Fiona
10-24-2005, 07:51 AM
Arctic Monkeys make #1 in the UK Charts - Domino's first chart-topping single (if my memory serves me right). Congrats to Laurence et al!
johansen smith
11-05-2005, 12:13 AM
Hipinion reports that the drummer for Shonen Knife has died. not always the place to turn to for accuracy, but it seems true.
tinobeat
11-05-2005, 09:20 AM
From another board:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello
It is with a lot of grief and weariness that I announce that tonite’s DMBQ and friends show @ Club Exit has been cancelled following a tragic car accident today.
DMBQ’s van rolled from I-95 in Delaware en route from Baltimore to Brooklyn this afternoon. All members of the band have been hospitalized, as well as Michelle Cable from Panache Magazine and booking, who has been managing their tour.
Mana “China” Nishiura did not survive the accident. China was DMBQ’s drummer, as well as the drummer in Shonen Knife. China will be missed.
Michelle Cable is conscious following surgery for a head injury. The other members of DMBQ are stable but sedated and are expected to recover.
That’s all the information I have.
None of the bands tonite nor I felt up to a rock show following the news.
We are tentatively planning to continue with tomorrow’s show @ Kingsland Tavern as a benefit to cover DMBQ’s travel and medical expenses. If the bands and I decide we can’t go through with the show, I’ll send out a cancellation.
Thank you for you support and your understanding.
Todd
vesper
11-05-2005, 11:19 AM
i hate the crippling feeling i get whenever bands i like lose a member. i mean, what can i really say other than sorry, wish i'd seen them live, too young/talented, etc? wtf indeed.
Salman
11-06-2005, 04:55 PM
For those obsessed with Vincent Gallo:
http://vgmerchandise.com/misc.html
johansen smith
11-11-2005, 07:40 AM
Arrested Development basically cancelled:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117932759?categoryid=14&cs=1&s=h&p=0
Miss Tasty Princess
11-11-2005, 08:52 AM
Arrested Development basically cancelled:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117932759?categoryid=14&cs=1&s=h&p=0Sometimes, I just want to slap the shit out the folks at Fox. Of course it does poorly in the ratings when viewers can never be sure if, and even when, it's gonna be on, goddamnit! A fellow fan thought she had missed some episodes when I lent her a tape of the last one previous to this week and I assured her that, no, she had not, it was merely preempted for an entire month.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Didn't those idiots learn anything from the Family Guy experience???
tinobeat
11-11-2005, 10:20 AM
dammit!
same thing happened to Futurama. I loved that show and every time I turned on Fox at 7:30 on a sunday in the fall, Football would be on. and instead of knocking their whole schedule back a half hour, they'd just start playing the episode 15-20 minutes in, so you could see the end of the awesome episode you just missed.
what idiots...
george
11-11-2005, 11:19 AM
Arrested Development basically cancelled:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117932759?categoryid=14&cs=1&s=h&p=0
the real wtf of that article is the word "skein". wtf???
japanese_moon
11-11-2005, 02:46 PM
dammit!
same thing happened to Futurama. I loved that show and every time I turned on Fox at 7:30 on a sunday in the fall, Football would be on. and instead of knocking their whole schedule back a half hour, they'd just start playing the episode 15-20 minutes in, so you could see the end of the awesome episode you just missed.
what idiots...
This also happened with HOUSE. Fucking baseball...
johansen smith
11-11-2005, 06:40 PM
I don't want to live in a world where Arrested Development is cancelled and Stacked is renewed.
Lukas
11-28-2005, 08:03 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/photo;_ylt=AgHB_ZTbNiM.xf2r9Nrm1e1DubYF?slug=px105 11290008.eagles_ashes_arrest_px105&prov=ap
did lukas have his bar mitzvah (http://tabloidbaby.blogspot.com/2005/11/exclusive-photos-mitzvahpalooza.html) yet? dreams can come true.
Lukas
11-30-2005, 02:35 PM
nah man I'm 16, my party was kickin' though and I hate areosmith. Once I was at a bar mitzvah where they got one of the american idol finalists to perform. The guy sucked.
Miss Tasty Princess
11-30-2005, 03:07 PM
Once I was at a bar mitzvah where they got one of the american idol finalists to perform. The guy sucked.Was it Justin? I used to refer to him as "the goat fucker."
Lukas, as you said you are only 16, but what gives with the hate on Aerosmith? Sure, they're old, sure they'll do pretty much anything for $, sure most of the material they've released while you've been alive has been wack, but the first five LPs are all great if you ask me.
Dave
Lukas
11-30-2005, 03:14 PM
I really don't like a lot of stuff that falls under their category of rock. So it is more of a distaste of the genre itself.
tinobeat
11-30-2005, 03:24 PM
I really don't like a lot of stuff that falls under their category of rock. So it is more of a distaste of the genre itself.
you don't like most of what you listen to?
Miss Tasty Princess
11-30-2005, 03:54 PM
Lukas, as you said you are only 16, but what gives with the hate on Aerosmith? Sure, they're old, sure they'll do pretty much anything for $, sure most of the material they've released while you've been alive has been wack, but the first five LPs are all great if you ask me.I'll never regret picking up the Box of Fire for $36.50 or so a few years ago and I still crank up the radio anytime "Dream On" (or any other early hit, really) comes on.
Lukas
11-30-2005, 03:59 PM
you don't like most of what you listen to?
Aroesmith isn't anything like Pavement or bands like Apples in Stereo? I'll give another example of bands I don't fancy - Van Halen. Just can't stand them, or Kiss for that matter.
Miss Tasty Princess
11-30-2005, 04:09 PM
Aroesmith isn't anything like Pavement or bands like Apples in Stereo? I'll give another example of bands I don't fancy - Van Halen. Just can't stand them, or Kiss for that matter.Please don't compare Aerosmith and Van Halen. I've hated VH since I was younger than you. :) Seriously, I called a radio station when "You Really Got Me" was a hit to ask who it was. I then told the DJ that I'd be sure to never buy anything by them and I've stood by that declaration. Kiss, on the other hand, recorded a lot of great songs and are great showmen but their quality hit the skids long before Aerosmith's.
Of course, none of them sound like Pavement (haven't heard Apples in Stereo, to the best of my knowledge).
mydogcheckers
11-30-2005, 09:05 PM
Please don't compare Aerosmith and Van Halen. I've hated VH since I was younger than you. :) Seriously, I called a radio station when "You Really Got Me" was a hit to ask who it was. I then told the DJ that I'd be sure to never buy anything by them and I've stood by that declaration. Kiss, on the other hand, recorded a lot of great songs and are great showmen but their quality hit the skids long before Aerosmith's.)
Aw c'mon-The 1st Van Halen Album beats anything in Kiss' catalogue. Although Kiss has got Eddie and the boys beat with their appearance on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special (I just saw this over Thanksgiving)
Lukas
11-30-2005, 09:08 PM
"You Really Got Me"
(haven't heard Apples in Stereo, to the best of my knowledge)
Don't you mean the Kinks?
and you really should check out AIS; they are part of that amazing elephant6 collective. Start with their first release - Fun Trick Noisemaker
tinobeat
11-30-2005, 09:13 PM
lukas, honestly, the 70's rock phobia has got to go. Without that stuff you'd have nothing to listen to. I know "indie rock" is totally tits and the awesome stuff and all that, but Aerosmith is of a long tradition that shares something with bands like Led Zeppelin, by association The Yardbirds, by association The Kinks, by association The Apples in Stereo. It all connects and it all makes sense. Listen to Dave. Aerosmith have lost the plot more than most bands on the planet, but when they were at their prime, they were something else. and that something is not something to be shunned.
You listen to rock music if you listen to Apples and Pave and New Pornographers, and the whole history of it is rich with amazing music, even the totally popular acts.
Aside from Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, and Bablicon, most of the Elephant 6 collective produced material that's just medicore-ly rehashed versions of old popular rock like the Beach Boys and The Kinks and others.
Miss Tasty Princess
11-30-2005, 10:36 PM
Aw c'mon-The 1st Van Halen Album beats anything in Kiss' catalogue.Sorry, I've always hated 'em and nothing is gonna change that. I've heard most of the first VH album and it has two songs I kinda like ("Jamie's Cryin'" and "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love") vs. many Kiss songs I dig.
Kiss has got Eddie and the boys beat with their appearance on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special (I just saw this over Thanksgiving)Ha! I saw it when it was on the first time.
Miss Tasty Princess
11-30-2005, 10:48 PM
Don't you mean the Kinks?Nope. VH's first hit was a cover of The Kinks song and I hated it. The original, on the other hand, is great but I did hear the VH version first. I knew The Kinks at that point, though, 'cause I'd seen them on SNL and used to hear songs from Sleepwalker, and, of course, "Lola," on the radio sometimes.
pabost
12-01-2005, 01:08 AM
I hated VH as a child/teen/college student, but unbeknownst to me at the time, it was a product of Sammy Hagar, super-saccharine "Right Now," and album titles like OU812. Once I started listening to the early stuff, I really got on the bandwagon. In fact, "D.O.A." off of Van Halen II has been on heavy rotation lately.
Hagar hate is probably too predictable and trite, but it's oh so valid.
Man, I love DLR-era VH. Maybe even enough to put them in my top 5 favorite bands of all time. But, as much as it pains me to admit, Eddie's best album guitar-wise is OU812... there's some unbelievable playing on there.
otto midnight
12-01-2005, 02:00 AM
Don't you mean the Kinks?
and you really should check out AIS; they are part of that amazing elephant6 collective. Start with their first release - Fun Trick Noisemaker
fun trick noisemaker was not the first ais release.
Great story here and even cooler, funnier stuff to look at:
http://board.crewcial.org/?func=thread&id=89555&r=82
rad. i recently dug up some of my elementary school notebooks and was equally amused. too bad they didn't find a few painted denim jackets--you so know those are overdue for a comeback.
Miss Tasty Princess
12-01-2005, 11:14 AM
I still have a few high school and college notebooks full of band logos and whatnot. The high school ones are all metal as I didn't get into punk rock until my senior year and that was just The Damned and Dead Kennedys (this was 1981). I bought all the early Dischord records and Black Flag records during the summer before I headed to college so my college notebooks are mostly full of hardcore logos. There are a handful of drawings but all silly stuff, no punk rockers beating up longhairs. :D :D
Miss Tasty Princess
12-01-2005, 11:16 AM
. . . painted denim jackets--you so know those are overdue for a comeback.I still have a flannel shirt with the Flipper fish painted on the back in white-out and outlined with black magic marker to make it really stand out.
Salman
12-01-2005, 03:44 PM
Aside from Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, and Bablicon, most of the Elephant 6 collective produced material that's just medicore-ly rehashed versions of old popular rock like the Beach Boys and The Kinks and others.
I would add The Music Tapes as an exception too. The Gerbils are really good too.
Oh, and I found a notebook of mine from middle school over the summer with a lot of band names written in with white-out. Is white-out still used these days?
overheard in office: "has anyone heard of 'indie rockers'? are they a band?"
Lukas
12-01-2005, 04:30 PM
fun trick noisemaker was not the first ais release.
really was it science fair then?
otto midnight
12-01-2005, 05:23 PM
really was it science fair then?
i remember getting the tidal wave ep when i was 22 so that was 95. there was another ep on bus stop then fun trick noisemaker. then science faire which was (i believe) the ep's and other odds and ends.
johansen smith
12-12-2005, 11:43 PM
Sam Seder on THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/sederchristmas.wmv
god why can the rest of America not be like Sam Seder.
Lukas
12-13-2005, 08:53 AM
So is CNN turning into a sope? That was pretty funny.
Lukas
12-16-2005, 07:57 AM
news flash - my exam got cancelled by a blizzard . SWEEET!
johansen smith
12-16-2005, 06:25 PM
the West Wing's John Spencer died of a heart attack today. depressing as hell, he was great on the show.
Lukas
12-19-2005, 06:51 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm
so many sites have been taken down already, this is so stupid! Do you think it would be wise to take my tabs of my own site?
Whatever happened to free speech, I think this would be under it?
vesper
12-19-2005, 08:40 AM
1. hearing kate bush cover "sexual healing" on some xm station.
2. nearly getting in a bar-fight with some amped up and 250 lb redskins fan. he got mad that my 120 lb ass sat down with my girlfriend.
tinobeat
12-19-2005, 11:36 AM
Mothers Against Noise (http://www.geocities.com/motheragainstnoise/)
Martha Stewart buys 1/4 of Nirvana (http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16444555&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=song-sale--70m-for-courtney--name_page.html)
the UK mirror is like the US Enquirer right?
Lukas
12-19-2005, 04:17 PM
Mothers Against Noise (http://www.geocities.com/motheragainstnoise/)
10/20/2004 Metro Times " Earlier this year, when Wolf Eyes toured with Sonic Youth for three weeks, they met up with proof that they were doing something right in the form of M.A.N. — Mothers Against Noise — a group of middle-aged mothers picketing outside a California venue. Quote John Olson :“We pulled up to the venue in San Diego and there’s all these women outside with M.A.N signs. And (Sonic Youth’s) Thurston (Moore) was like, ‘That’s not for us, dude. That’s for you.’”
Lukas
12-22-2005, 08:23 PM
Read about this in the paper today, I almost gagged on my coffee.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=8a567dc0-940c-40ba-ad7b-d58feec1ba7e#
btw, tony duny's son recently commited suicide. That really blows
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