I listened to the Cramps Bad Music For Bad People today at work with my buddy Dillon (Die-Lawn if you watch Chapelle Show) and we agreed that the Cramps have as much strange noise content, as they do lyrical content. Then the last track played (we had it on random)She Said, and we ran into the E-O-ooo-a-a, and realized that the content in a Cramps song is an entity all its own. Half of which is wierd noises.
The Cramps are a band that for the most part is slower than a lot of the tunes I listen to, but they rank in my top 50 (I got a lot of favourites) because of the lyrical content. Lux Interior had a great voice, and when combined with the freaky guitar, bass, and drums the Cramps really put together on heck of a production.
These guys are the psychobilly originals. They remind me of the Misfits not only becuase they sing about The Fly, but the way they play music that sounds harmless, but is filled with wild lyrocal content such as "I want to give you milion hugs," nice right "but you look so good covered in blood." There are loads of great songs such as Goo Goo Muck, New Kind of Kick, and Drug Train. Most of the songs are about girls, or drugs so it is not surprising, but still disappointing that Lux Interior died just over two years ago. I hope the Cramps never re-form because there is only one Lux.
The vocals are on line with Danzig, Jello, and Elvis - at least for this guy.
They are wierd, but they come at you like a wave. I just want to take the ride.
Stayed tuned for a Flamejob tomorrow!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Cramping The Psychobilly Scene
I was on a long search to find good psychobilly bands after I heard the Misfits American Nightmare. I slowly picked up on bands like Necromantics, the Reverend Horton Heat, and finally a find in the Cramps who I just started listening to at the beginning of January, but fell in love with after hearing a nifty rendition of Surfin' Bird, but I am still not too familiar with them.
Over the next three days I will listen to, and analyze the three albums I own from The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People, Flamejob, and Psychodelic Jungle/ Gravest Hits, and get back to ya’ll about which is my favourite. Let me know what you think if you are a Cramps veteran.
Until then here is the first track from Bad Music For Bad People - Garbageman. It is actually a pretty cool video. Enjoy!
Over the next three days I will listen to, and analyze the three albums I own from The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People, Flamejob, and Psychodelic Jungle/ Gravest Hits, and get back to ya’ll about which is my favourite. Let me know what you think if you are a Cramps veteran.
Until then here is the first track from Bad Music For Bad People - Garbageman. It is actually a pretty cool video. Enjoy!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Greatest Summer Ever - Upcoming
I have been trying to mix up the blog, so for today I got a little bragging going on. I was recently informed that Shecky has been able secure us tickets for the Asian Man reunion show taking place in San Francisco this June.
The coolest part is Shecky set up the whole thing and we are staying at Asian Man records creator Mike Park's house while we are in California.
Anyways this show is going to be legendary. Mike Park has tried to get every Asian Man band that has ever been on the label together for a festival that will last days. Shecky could only get tickets for three shows, but check out the bands that are going to be at these shows: Skankin Pickle, Link 80, Slapstick, MU 330, The Queers, Alkaline Trio, and there is a chance Less Than Jake, and hopefully the Bruce Lee Band will also be there.
I am pretty fired up about the whole thing, and I believe CreComm had something to do with it. I am so pumped for Chicago that I know the money it will cost for both trips is worth it. Here are four of the bands I mentioned. The Skankin Pickle video is extra cool.
The coolest part is Shecky set up the whole thing and we are staying at Asian Man records creator Mike Park's house while we are in California.
Anyways this show is going to be legendary. Mike Park has tried to get every Asian Man band that has ever been on the label together for a festival that will last days. Shecky could only get tickets for three shows, but check out the bands that are going to be at these shows: Skankin Pickle, Link 80, Slapstick, MU 330, The Queers, Alkaline Trio, and there is a chance Less Than Jake, and hopefully the Bruce Lee Band will also be there.
I am pretty fired up about the whole thing, and I believe CreComm had something to do with it. I am so pumped for Chicago that I know the money it will cost for both trips is worth it. Here are four of the bands I mentioned. The Skankin Pickle video is extra cool.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sabotage Times Two
All right we have got two days in a row going, and we move onto one of my most life changing experiences of my childhood - watching The Beastie Boys Sabotage.
What a video. The album overall was pretty good, but this has got to be arguably the best video ever made. If you have never seen the video it is a spoof the intros to 70s cop shows featuring the boys as
“The Chief”, “Cochese”, and “Bobby the Rookie”. This video includes the three in a number of outfits, and even a large African American fellow the goes by the name Fred Kelly, or “Bunny” as the credits read.
The best parts of the video include numerous tackles of apparent felons, many into boxes, and two dummies being tossed off a bridge, and the other from a moving vehicle. In a later version of the video replaced with ninjas doing kicks - damn you censorship.
That horrible memory has been replaced however by the Cancer Bats and their good cover of Sabotage, but a great video - maybe one of the best ever - as they search for the Beastie Boys to be in their video, and loosely re-enact the entire original .
PS The Cancer Bats put on one heck of a show. I saw them three weeks ago with Baptised in Blood, and Devil Driver, and all three bands put on a great show.
What a video. The album overall was pretty good, but this has got to be arguably the best video ever made. If you have never seen the video it is a spoof the intros to 70s cop shows featuring the boys as
“The Chief”, “Cochese”, and “Bobby the Rookie”. This video includes the three in a number of outfits, and even a large African American fellow the goes by the name Fred Kelly, or “Bunny” as the credits read.
The best parts of the video include numerous tackles of apparent felons, many into boxes, and two dummies being tossed off a bridge, and the other from a moving vehicle. In a later version of the video replaced with ninjas doing kicks - damn you censorship.
That horrible memory has been replaced however by the Cancer Bats and their good cover of Sabotage, but a great video - maybe one of the best ever - as they search for the Beastie Boys to be in their video, and loosely re-enact the entire original .
PS The Cancer Bats put on one heck of a show. I saw them three weeks ago with Baptised in Blood, and Devil Driver, and all three bands put on a great show.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Streetlight Lights Up West End
So I put together zero consecutive days of blog, but the rockiness Streetlight Manifesto had me distracted from the time they hit the stage until just now, plus I got home after midnight so it kinds foiled my day of concert first blog momentum, but we are on point now.
I missed the first bands due to some classic blinding migraines, luckily I saw a shirt from one of the bands that read “Boston Pop Punk,” so it may have been less annoying to go numb in my bedroom than drag my self up two hours early to go see a band that proudly represents pop punk. Regardless of what you may think of some of my 90s picks I can assure you most of the bands would hate to have that name attached to them, or not care - whatever.
I tell ya once someone explained to me the baritone Sax, was particle, not just hilarious, I was really into the whole experience. The experience included teaching an 8-year-old (who was a brother of a friend, of my buddy Shecky’s step kids) how to skank during a great version on Keasby Nights.
The set was honestly one of the fasted to go by that I have ever experienced, although someone did tell me the set was a little short, but the hit all the classics: Saddest Song in the World, Mephisto’s Café, and they even played their cover of Linoleum in the encore.
I was in a little pain, but I gotta say shows were getting old for me until Shecky started bring his kids and their friends it is great to see kids getting into the scene the way I did when I was their age, and it even gives this old squid a reason to get back in the pit.
One thing you should know though is that a ska-core band like Streetlight is amazing to watch, as they perfectly time eight instruments to create what I believe is a ska-salsa hybrid nobody else even approaches. They are original, precise, and the West End Cultural Centre looks awesome.
Too bad I went to the Garrick Theatre first. Read those tickets carefully kids.
- The streak is on. Second blog coming Monday afternoon.
We Will Fall Together - One of the best tunes they played Saturday night - awesome!
I missed the first bands due to some classic blinding migraines, luckily I saw a shirt from one of the bands that read “Boston Pop Punk,” so it may have been less annoying to go numb in my bedroom than drag my self up two hours early to go see a band that proudly represents pop punk. Regardless of what you may think of some of my 90s picks I can assure you most of the bands would hate to have that name attached to them, or not care - whatever.
I tell ya once someone explained to me the baritone Sax, was particle, not just hilarious, I was really into the whole experience. The experience included teaching an 8-year-old (who was a brother of a friend, of my buddy Shecky’s step kids) how to skank during a great version on Keasby Nights.
The set was honestly one of the fasted to go by that I have ever experienced, although someone did tell me the set was a little short, but the hit all the classics: Saddest Song in the World, Mephisto’s Café, and they even played their cover of Linoleum in the encore.
I was in a little pain, but I gotta say shows were getting old for me until Shecky started bring his kids and their friends it is great to see kids getting into the scene the way I did when I was their age, and it even gives this old squid a reason to get back in the pit.
One thing you should know though is that a ska-core band like Streetlight is amazing to watch, as they perfectly time eight instruments to create what I believe is a ska-salsa hybrid nobody else even approaches. They are original, precise, and the West End Cultural Centre looks awesome.
Too bad I went to the Garrick Theatre first. Read those tickets carefully kids.
- The streak is on. Second blog coming Monday afternoon.
We Will Fall Together - One of the best tunes they played Saturday night - awesome!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Streaking Casualties
I claimed to revamp the "Punk o' 90's Flashback on Monday, and then left it hanging till Friday, but that alright, just like the Lookout weekend that started the Flashback on a roll in in October. I propose a blogging streak challenge. A blog a day, for as long as I can keep it going stay tuned, Streetlight Manifesto concert review tomorrrow after the show.
Speaking of shows on of my favourites went down at the Pyramid in 2003 - Dropkick Murphys, and the Casualties. We can talk about Dropkick on a later date, but right now it is getting Casual-ties. The funniest thing I have ever heard at a concert was lead singer Jorge asking the crowd if the were in gangs. I'm not sure if gangs in New York are like in The Warriors, bu tif they are like in Winnipeg they aren't that cool. The crowd confirmed this with a confused silence. Jorge rolled with the punches, but I think he still wasn't aware that although a lot of these people dressed like New York punks I bet they don't roll like them. Before breaking into "Stay Out Of Order" Jorge yells "Well you know what I'm talking about? Drinking beers, sniffing glue. Let's go!"
Stay Out Of Order rocked, and I'm pretty sure the Casualties aren't hooked on glue. The point of this whole blog is that there are very few bands that establish an old school punk vibe, and the Casualties do it up proper. I f you get a chance check them out. I say them with Gwar in December, and they haven't missed a beat, but the Casualties have gone a little to more growl than screech in the vocals. Good stuff.
Check out Streetlight Manifest Saturday February 19. It will be sweet.
If you don't like cursing don't watch right to the end of this stay out of order video. Some guy puts some Fers up at the end.
Speaking of shows on of my favourites went down at the Pyramid in 2003 - Dropkick Murphys, and the Casualties. We can talk about Dropkick on a later date, but right now it is getting Casual-ties. The funniest thing I have ever heard at a concert was lead singer Jorge asking the crowd if the were in gangs. I'm not sure if gangs in New York are like in The Warriors, bu tif they are like in Winnipeg they aren't that cool. The crowd confirmed this with a confused silence. Jorge rolled with the punches, but I think he still wasn't aware that although a lot of these people dressed like New York punks I bet they don't roll like them. Before breaking into "Stay Out Of Order" Jorge yells "Well you know what I'm talking about? Drinking beers, sniffing glue. Let's go!"
Stay Out Of Order rocked, and I'm pretty sure the Casualties aren't hooked on glue. The point of this whole blog is that there are very few bands that establish an old school punk vibe, and the Casualties do it up proper. I f you get a chance check them out. I say them with Gwar in December, and they haven't missed a beat, but the Casualties have gone a little to more growl than screech in the vocals. Good stuff.
Check out Streetlight Manifest Saturday February 19. It will be sweet.
If you don't like cursing don't watch right to the end of this stay out of order video. Some guy puts some Fers up at the end.
Monday, February 14, 2011
New Format for the Flashback
I thought that the Flashback could use a bit of a revamp, so instead of just talking about albums I am going to get it down to great songs, concerts, and even stuff I think was over-rated if I am in a bad mood. I hope that will attract more readers. I am also going to go back further in history, and into stuff like Streetlight Manifesto that came out after the 90s. Go see Streetlight Manifesto when they are in Winnipeg on February 19.
Let me know what you want me to talk about. Tell your friends, and let me know what you think.
Check out these great albums for now,
1 Dead Kennedys - Freash Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
2 Bad Religion - No Control
3 Screeching Weasel - Kill The Musicians
4 Descendents - Livage!
5 Nitro Records Comp. - Deep Thoughts
Let me know what you want me to talk about. Tell your friends, and let me know what you think.
Check out these great albums for now,
1 Dead Kennedys - Freash Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
2 Bad Religion - No Control
3 Screeching Weasel - Kill The Musicians
4 Descendents - Livage!
5 Nitro Records Comp. - Deep Thoughts
Friday, February 11, 2011
Julie Wilson gets touqued, or festivalled.
Reading on the bus is a passion of mine, so I was interested to hear what inspired Julie Wilson to write her Scene Reading blogs. I was thrown off a little buy her completely blackout apparel including a touque, and a shirt I think a rapper would wear. I was tired of people dressing up for the seminars anyway. The difference was nice, and made me feel better about my hatred, and avoidence of shaving.
I was surprised to hear that publishers give better advances for non-fiction than fiction, becuase I always thought, and still do, that it is harder to write fiction than non. Wilson gave a great explanation about the way publishers know what demographics will support the non-fiction piece, whereas the fiction could land anywhere.
That said I think her Seen Reading blog sounds much more interesting than,the True Blood book. I just don't like those kind of pieces, even the Simpson's one. The only time I like books like that are non-fiction pieces like American Hardcore, or something by Hunter S. Thompson, or Chris Walter. I think it comes down to me liking to find facts for myself, rather than be told them, especially any that border on opinion.
I was surprised to hear that publishers give better advances for non-fiction than fiction, becuase I always thought, and still do, that it is harder to write fiction than non. Wilson gave a great explanation about the way publishers know what demographics will support the non-fiction piece, whereas the fiction could land anywhere.
That said I think her Seen Reading blog sounds much more interesting than,the True Blood book. I just don't like those kind of pieces, even the Simpson's one. The only time I like books like that are non-fiction pieces like American Hardcore, or something by Hunter S. Thompson, or Chris Walter. I think it comes down to me liking to find facts for myself, rather than be told them, especially any that border on opinion.
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