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11-29-2011, 12:22 PM
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Still sends his reguards.
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it was my plan to ruin your life
  D I V O R C E so this is one of the "newer" bands on my list....not a whole lot of info (just the basics) the basics Divorce are four dorks from Glasgow, Scotland....their names are Vickie McDonald, VSO, Jennie Fulk and Andy Brown.....they've been together since 2008.... the end what Lydia Lunch said about them.... "DIVORCE...HA! Fantastic blast of no wave thrash bashing like ungodly offspring sprung from Cuntzilla's incubator a bloody smear of nasty mutation oozing a sickly runoff of infectious virulence naughty little bastards...." they have release on Ep, a split with the band Comanechi, a split with the band Ultimate Thrush, and a handful of singles.....i think most of this is available on their bandcamp page.....so if you love this as much as i do....google them and give them a couple of pounds for their great music  ST-EP Early Christianity 4:21 Pipe Down 3:19 Juice Of Youth 3:42 Scissor Fight 5:01 four songs and clocking in at just under 18 minutes....this is the shit!!!!!.....each song just compliments the next and this turns out to be the best 18 minutes of your life....crushing and well orchestrated the opening track Early Christianity opens with revolving drums, then fast but loud bass....the blasts of jarring guitar quickly blending into a visceral chaotic mess....then the vocals start....."We've got lepers and thieves, We've got thieves and whores, Unconditional love of early Christianity"....man can this chick scream....it makes me wonder if after a live set she can even talk.....seriously this one of my absolute favorite female vocals....just amazing then straight in the slower yet thunderous Pipe Down....nicely structured with just bass and drums....till the chorus which just explodes all over you....from that point the song just builds and builds till its very abrupt end....next is my favorite track on the album Juice Of Youth (which ironically is the only song i could not find on youtube!)...it starts of fairly conventional....nice bass and high hat drumming.....then the vocals (oh the sweet vocals) "Children stay in line....." after that it becomes just a wonderful mess....a real delight....damn i love this song....it seriously is all over the place....the final track Scissor Fight....starts of very conventional (for noise rock) straight of the text book written by the likes of Flipper, clockcleaner, jesus lizard and pissed jeans.....noisy and bombastic......the song continues with grinding faster section to gut wrenching feedback and slow parts....a wonderful ending that in my opinion just comes way to soon  to end this post....here is Glasgow's (fab four) playing a free show under a bridge.....these guys are on the top of my need to see live list.....so if by chance any member of this band comes across this review....a)my name is Bob....i live in Reno, NV USA....where it is still legal to drive with a rifle and shot gun in your car as long as you only use it to kill animals....and you guys are one of my favorite bands that i've found in the past couple of years b) at least try and make it to San Francisco....i'm am positive you'll be welcomed with open arms c) i'm coming to the UK in about a year and a half....so please don't break up and continue to tour the islands end transmission.
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01-06-2012, 11:43 AM
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Still sends his reguards.
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gonna start the new year off right with
GOD BULLIES  out of all the bands i'm reviewing in this thread.....this is by far one of my all time favorites God Bullies hailed from the creepy town of Kalamazoo, Michigan (which coincidentally also houses the states largest mental health hospital)....forming sometime around 1986 the band consisted of Mike Corso (bass), Mike Hard (vocals), Adam Berg (drums), David Livingstone (guitar).... its really hard to put a finger on their sound....although they are a large part of the AmRep family all stars....they were never as "hard edged" as many of those bands during those wonderful years.....no.....God Bullies added an almost surf rock fun to their music.....that is if you went surfing with Satan in great white infested waters.....and seemed to insist in recording in a white noise surrounded almost lo fi way......i've read interviews with Livingstone where he regaurds those old recordings as "Shitty."....personally i feel this adds to the charm of this band.....basically the rhythm section is pretty average if not maybe even a little sub par and possibly at times "slow"......Livingstone's guitar work is fucking amazing and seriously is taken from every era of rock known to man added with distortion and simple out of tune noise.....and then there is the front man....Mike Hard.....Mike is the perfect mixture of crazy eyed serial killer, sarcastic librarian, evangelistic satanist, and sheltered creepy mammas boy.....he really comes out live God Bullies mainly released albums of Amphetamine Reptile with a few super groovy singles released on both Mans Ruin and Sympathy For The Record Industry....with their final album being released by fanboy Jello Biafra's (this right here should tell you something about this band ) label Alternative Tentacle's in 1994....they disbanded shorty after and seemed to basically all get day jobs.....Mike Hard really is a Librarian!....Mike later formed what will be three more reviews in this thread.....Thrall, Brainsaw and last but in no way least...\They Never Sleep (the later with Livingstone and berg from the original line up of God Bullies)i just want to say it was very hard for me to choose what the "ideal" God Bullies album would be......i suggest listening to all of them .....so one that i felt...."perhaps i'd better start at the beginning" God Bullies - Mama Womb Womb Act of Desire 5:37 Creepy People 3:02 O Shit 3:29 Fear and Pain 3:12 What Reason 3:39 The Godfather Moves to Arkansas, Part 1 1:04 Follow the Leader 3:52 Sex Power Money 3:49 Red Blood 2:15 All I Want Is My Mamma 3:48 What Are You Looking For 6:16 released on AmRep in 1989 this was their first recording opening perfectly with "Act Of Desire"....a whirlwind of guitar noise, groovy bass lines and satanic beats.....mixed in with some rather interesting samples of Jim Jones and Art Linkletter as well as others....about half way Mike starts repeating "Acts of Desire" over and over as the song just gets more and more chaotic....and straight in to "Creepy People" which is a perfect showcase of late 80s early 90s noise rock....its loud, repetitive, somewhat bass heavy and a bit scary....but right there in the middle of the song is an almost arena rock scratchy guitar solo....the idea of the perfect corporate executive up in his smug office looking down in fear of the "creepy people" below him laughing at him as he cowers in fear in the corner....then straight into one of my favorite tracks by this great band "Oh Shit".....i can't count how many times this ended up on some mix tape i made for a girl i was infatuated with!.....most the time with good results....but sometimes with the exact opposite.....this is where you can really hear some of that great groovy 60s surf rock influence......and the "chorus" is just hilarious..... "Fear and Pain" is a fine example of God Bullies general sound.....starting with the sample "Welcome to Interworld Airlines' Flight F-I-N-A-L: non-stop supersonic service to the New Jerusalem"....and just smashing you in your undeserving face with a chaotic slap of noise that just goes on and on with Mikes desperate moans and screams....its slow and scary and sounds just as the tile might suggest....this is the type of song that may invoke a talk if your parents happen to walk in on you listening to it "What Reason" always creates an image of Adolph Hitler and John Wayne line dancing in hell at some sock hop.....just a great bass line along with bursts of heavy distorted but well planned out guitar....and as always Mike's insanity in his vocal delivery.....next up "The Godfather Moves to Arkansas Pt 1"...is a simple sample of honestly i have no idea but it fits....its short and to the point and involves no music at all....and then into "Follow The Leader" just again showing what damn near perfect album this is.....just rock n roll at its absolute best....simple and revolving making your head feel heavy....and again Mikes sarcastic and judgmental lyrics "oh my children my little sheep lets go to heaven in a tangled heap"....yummy......then back into a slower and by far more scary track.....much like Fear and Pain....this is a return to constant noise with a few rock elements....."Sex Power Money"....putting vocals second to the frightening driving music setting up perfect for the more rock driven "Red Blood".....another often used mix tape contribution from my youth ....a perfect blend of traditional rock intermixed with heavy noisy distortion....and Mike's ramblings about how cold you will be soon.....and my favorite "i think i just cut myself right here on my hand.....WIPE IT OFF!!!!".....short and to the pointand into my favorite track on this album "All I Want Is My Mamma"....this is a perfect example of Hard's consistent exploration of taboo human nature....something that is all over not only God Bullies discography but everything he has touched.....it lyrically follows a losers attempt at sex and love....starting with mommy, then sister, and finally daughter....its gritty disgusting and absolutely real....a perfect exploration of the progression of sexual deviance coupled with a scratchy soundtrack.....last track is "What Are You Looking For".....ending the entire album as it has been....a nice blend of introspective and somewhat misanthropic lyrics mixed with super groovy yet very much badly recorded (with charm) rock music and scratchy somewhat frightening guitar creepiness....and ending with a sample about this all being a "dog show"....the tile for their next album
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03-28-2012, 11:08 AM
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COSMIC PSYCHOS  Cosmic Psychos are a noisy punk rock band from Melbourne Australia.....these boys seem to have been around since the dawn of time (1982 )....and have been credited as the fathers of grunge....basically being noted as major inspiration from all the major players of that so called genre including Kurt Cobain, Buzz Osbourne, Donita Sparks, and Eddie Vedder.....i have to say that personally out of all of those i REALLY see the influence of these guys in the music of L7 overall....^Australian National Anthem my basic review of these guys is loud, drunk distorted bass lines mixed with insane wah effects on guitar.....i have to say that these guys are more of a strait forward rock and more influence of the wonderful sounds to come but i still love this shit and it deserves you fucking attention! their first official release was in 1985 and they've released at least 13 albums and a bunch of EPs on several different labels including the infamous Sub Pop and the glorious Amphetamine Reptile labels.....reading about them now i guess they actually started a genre called Yob Rock which celebrates the Australian males way of life....seriously if any Aussies here read this i would love an explanation of this! as far as i can tell this means lots of drinking, dead roos, more drinking, s+m relations, another beer, shooting at the neighbor animals, a drink, and the occasional mental break down due to drinking....some boning and a beer before bed.....and lets not forget about the rabbits! for whatever reason this band never really got the world wide acclaim i feel they deserve....i mean its great fuzzed out rock with clever and often funny lyrics....maybe a bit crass but fuck CeLoo Green made himself famous by writing a song called Fuck You....i don't know maybe the world market hears this stuff and realizes that Australians should be feared and respect....personally i think they sound like a fucking blast!....for my review i'm going with their amazing and practically perfect 6th release from 1995 Self Totalled  Bullet 3:41 Shot The Cat 3:53 The Man Who Drank To Much 3:19 Bad Day 3:14 Thank Your Mother For Rabbits 3:22 Neighbors 3:18 Psycho Shelia 3:14 Whip Me 4:19 Almost Home 2:53 Come On 3:54 as i said this is pretty straight forward rock with great lyrics....so in all honesty its kind of hard to review it....at least in they way i have been....not a bad song on here i suggest listening to the couple of tracks i could dig up on youtube, running to the store and picking up a case of your favorite brew, drink them all while playing this entire album very loud over and over again, and then punching holes in neighbors walls while they cower in the corner calling the cops on their cell phones! alright! opening track is called Bullet which as far as i can tell is basically about getting drunk and killing some chic...."talk about bullets baby i go three, thats two for you and thats one for me!"...this is a great opening track and will basically set up the entire fell of the next hazy 35 minutes of you life the next track Shot The Cat is a hilarious little track about getting sick of the neighbors cat pissing all over your stuff...esp the damn beer fridge....and even includes some pretty awesome guitar effects made to sound like a dying cat!....then we go straight into what could easily be many of our theme songs!.....The Man Who Drank To Much "another round and i'm on the ground, i raise my glass and i'm on my ass!" like i said fucking perfect.....Bad Day is yet another song i think everybody could easily relate to....Mondays = bad day and in this he describes all the stupid shit that could make you day horrible....with a great chorus "Days like this i wanna run away!".....Thank Your Mother For The Rabbits is probably one of my favorite tracks on the album....man i would to see this song live....the bass is perfect for this type of music....great drunk dance music "feeling tired and i've been thinkin'....i should have killed you....got my gun and now i'm drinkin'"....look these lyrics ain't poetry but dam are they genius!....into the song Neighbors as i said just continues with the same great bass heavy rock and drunken misanthropic lyrics "don't think the neighbors like me, why the hell don't they come down and fight me"...i would say since i keep reading online that this is considered punk rock....which the elements are there for sure......much like they are in any Motorhead song....anyways i would say that Psycho Sheila is the best example of this very well done and could easily be good for some great circle pit fun.....the next track Whip Me is damn near a polar opposite.....slow bass heavy....honestly reminds me more of Lubricated goat than Cosmic Psychos but still a great song about some of that great hard lovin!....and as always another beer!!!!!....this also spawned one of a couple videos released on the AmRep series "Dope Guns and Fucking Up Your Video Deck"....the vid pretty tame but could possibly insult someone who is very uptight....so maybe wait till your home for this one almost home is one of my favorite tracks to listen to while out driving.....great fast paced great lyrics about well driving way to much....dead roos on the side of the road.....and of course drinking (which i do not do )....live the lyrics "i ran out of smiles, just to many miles, but i'm almost home so get ready to bone!" as you can see it is also almost under a minute shorter than any other track on the album....this leads us to the final track on the album Come On a honestly perfect ending to this album.....drunk and mad Come on Come on Come on Come on CUNT yeahenjoy this band they deserve it |
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