Favourite bands past and present
- what was the first song you liked?
Tough one.. It was probably something like Blink 182 'Dammit' I remember getting a copy of Dude Ranch on tape, around the same time I got one of the Vans Warped tour 98 CD, I was hooked on skate punk from that moment on.
- what bands were you into up to the age of 18.
Tool, Deftones, Pennywise, Korn, Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura, Millencolin, Frenzal Rhomb, Grinspoon, Nirvana, Lagwagon stuff like that. Lots of music from bodyboarding and skate videos in the 90's early 2000's.
- did your parents hate it? What did they listen to?
My old man loved Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin etc. so appreciated some of it. He got me tickets to Tool in Wollongong back in 2002 and we have gone and seen them every time they have come out since.
- when you started going out did your musical tastes change?
I got pretty deep into House & Techno when I started going out. I bought turntables and have a bit of a record collection of sort of left field House and electronic music. It's a rabbit hole of record labels and artists that never ends.
- what do you listen to now? Changed tastes? Still a diehard? Do you revisit your teen years?
Still love a lot of the bands I listened to in my teens and with streaming I have been able to listen to some of the bands and albums I didn't pick up when I was a teenager and CD's cost 30 bucks. I have been going down a Dinosaur Jnr rabbit hole at the moment and have been loving it. Listening to music and finding stuff is as much of a passion as being in the ocean for me.
seeds wrote:
Haha true that good old auntie
Actually care to expand on American Hardcore. What bands? After getting into Rollins and his merry men backtracked to Blag Flag and found Bad Brains. Ever see that doco ‘A Band Called Death’
I love Bad Brains,
seeds wrote:
Haha true that good old auntie
Actually care to expand on American Hardcore. What bands? After getting into Rollins and his merry men backtracked to Blag Flag and found Bad Brains. Ever see that doco ‘A Band Called Death’
I love Bad Brains,
Wilhelm Scream wrote:
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Going to see the these guys in May. First ever festival. Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, The Bad Seeds, The Hard ons, Iggy Pop. Plus a few others, 17 years old. Been fucked ever since.
Favourite Band: the Jesus Lizard. Seen live twice.
As a kid. AC/DC
Notable album as a kid: Listen Like Thieves, INXS.
What I listen to now. Everything, even a lot of the same rap that Indo mentioned.
Seen lots of great bands. Stand outs have been Shellac, Japandroids, Rollins Band, Helmet, Rage Against the Machine……fuck I love Music
Newer stuff, Liars
Still listen to it all.
Sick topic Seeds. Once you start typing the shit just flows..Shaka and a hoot mate.
I haven’t seen this version on YouTube before. Seems a bit slowed down compared to the album
Hey gents I just came across this. And from the comments beer bottle dodged like a ninja at 8:42 mark
One track off a soundtrack of Bourne identity...the book trilogy and movie series was based on uplifts life.
amazing bad brains obs seeds, my son and i watched hr's bottle dodge at 8:42 on slow mo about 20 times : O
basesix wrote:
amazing bad brains obs seeds, my son and i watched hr's bottle dodge at 8:42 on slow mo about 20 times : O
Epic!luv the Brains,seen em in early 90's.punk reggae,gotta be good if your'e banned in D.C.
seeds, dazz, stu.. holy shit. thank you for introducing me to these awesome lads!
Obsessed with Sleaford Mods new album at the moment. Not my preferred genre by any means, but they're the most politically aggressive band I've listened to since RATM so naturally I'm a huge fan. The film clip for UK Grim is equally golden.
Agree, loving it. The lyrical rhythm of the accent rolls into some very strong lyrics describing a time and area and people abandoned and forgotten after a terrible deindustrialisation - and the anger is real. The music is sparse, packs emotion and at times even funny and frisky. No wonder it's a hit. Great list of guest artists/collaborations. Not my genre either, thanks to Wilhelm for posting it up.
After a couple of listens that really gets stuck in your head. Love the film clip. In the comments they’ve put up the lyrics.
It really does. Jobseeker is still my fav track of theirs, but have been listening to Dirty Rat, Mork and Mindy, and UK Grim on repeat all week at work. One of the things that strikes me is how it is almost unimaginable that a band in Australia would ever be so pointed and aggressive about Australian politics, government and society and that mainstream media would give them a platform. Like can you imagine someone singing about the pointless bureaucratic hellhole of Centrelink on The Project?
Now you’ve roped me in. That Mork and Mindy is catchy AF. Billie Nomates is a great voice too. I’m now checking out her stuff. This is the best, discovering new artists like this!
Lovin the Sleaford Mods. Check out this Ren clip, awesome song and performance, lots to think about. There's implications with the adulation he's getting from the mental health community, and the irony in the lyrics, should he become popular.. the slightly cringey monologue at the end...
His busking clips, before he got ill are a fun internet dig. Looks to have been a talented, happy, middle class kid...
Not into grandstanding pollies, or belligerent Scots (I am one), but how compelling is Mhairi as a speaker? And how good are the Mods for going 'well she's said it all' Haha, love it.. What's Williamson's grab? A self-aware jab at a sample song?
Wilhelm. Go the Jack Russell. I’m getting Pixies vibes with Iggy vocals vibes on Who didn’t like this?
Gunna get to see Boing Boing this Saturday. Theebine Hotel NW of Gympie. Can’t wait!!
Ps. Free entry free camping
Nice seeds, have a ball, hand out some GLT fliers.. post a report.
blackers: Mudhoney was great, old guys doing a thing really well. Their nonchalant charisma reminded me of last year's Pixies tour, or Hoodoo Gurus' casual playing on a small stage surrounded by Sound Relief hype in Sydney 2009: smart casual dress, tight playing, great vocal energy, no physical symptoms of poor life choices, just doing what they do with their mates to an appreciative mixed-crowd:
bearded 50+ year olds who saw them in 1990 standing & smiling in their Mudhoney and Tad t-shirts and a frenetic mosh pit of 30 year-olds singing along with songs as old as they are. Even heard some 20-year-olds at the bar fact-splaining the olden-days of sub-pop-seattle-grunge to each other in challenging vocal-fry tones over the noise which cracked me up..
Cheers mate, sounds like it was fun. Will have to catch them next time.
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@ seeds ... a Fauves favourite. Lucky enough to see them in Melb back in the day..
Geez...gonna have to rip out the seats for Ultimate swellnet Fauves Gig Rig.
If ya need a spare wheel...tbb can spin a few Fauves tunes...already on board!
What dya know? I thought they were all done, but they're playing near(ish) me soon. 25th anniversary of their lazy highways album. (Geez I'm old).
Unfortunately I don't think I'll make it, but it's good to know they're still having a crack.
https://www.thefauves.com/
https://www.songkick.com/artists/484351-fauves
Oh yeah the Fauves were good live. Remember a support they did for Helmet at the Roxy in the Valley in the 90’s (don’t think it had become the Arena yet) Singer paid tribute to Kyuss, as they’d broken up, is a tidbit I remember. Helmet good as always.
Boing Boing at the Theebine pub Saturday past. Flyer said 5 bands. Event starts at midday. Sweet, an arvo sesh at a country pub, probably wrapping up at sunset which suits me just fine.
Arrived at 2pm with the better half and our 19 year old son. Parked in a paddock they’d mowed for parking and threw the swags down while hearing some live music from the pub about 100 metres away.
Walking to the pub see bikes, bikers and tattoos everywhere. No patches and from what I can tell mostly just recreational biker clubs. Turns out it’s being held by a mob from the coast called Held South.
I don’t know why other then I had a VB with the son recently but VB became the beer of choice for us that afternoon. 2 and a bit VB’s later the second band finally starts. Don’t get me wrong we were having a ball anyway but it was the first thought of how late this might go.
2nd band= BUBBA BISHOP
Enjoyed their set with Bubba on vocals and acoustic rhythm while his lead player was impressive on his telecaster. Little bit Oz rock Oz country with a tinge of Seppo Deep South. (no footage)
With another schooner of cats piss from the bar in hand we had a gander at the classic car and bike show. Only small show but some lovely cars. Bikes? Not my thing but I loved a couple of those old style choppers that had the old rusted out look. We then grabbed a seat on the new front deck only to be engulfed by tyre smoke every 15 minutes from the younger bikers learning how to get a ticket from the coppers down the road hiding in the gully. (no idea if this happened but the cops were down there) Didn’t mind it. When in Rome hey!
3rd band= LAGN
They get stuck in first song and it’s immediately obvious they are a Kyuss loving stoner rock band. The nut atop my neck starts banging up and down. Great watching the young guys having a ball. They finished up with Hurricane by Kyuss which went down a real treat with some of us in the crowd. I’m not sure if other songs were originals or not.
The sun has just left us and I’m thinking better get a feed at the overpriced bbq’s soon. By the time I had that thought again the grills were stone cold and the 4th band hadn’t hit the stage.
Sitting on the front deck with my son, watching the moon rise above Mt Kanigan,
I was having negative thoughts about my level of inebriation for my age, you’re too old for this shit, do I take a nap in the swag and risk not waking up? Do I know how to punctuate a sentence anymore?
Thankfully the answer was NO! and the destiny of my Sunday (the next day) was set by a couple of the Boing Boing boys and their mates walking into the pub.
4th band= CITY COUNCIL
Chats style music. Fun to watch live but not my cup of tea.
Met Albert and Paul and brother and mates while City Council were playing. Great bunch of guys. Lady bass player not met I don’t think. Drummer still on way from Brissy if I remember the story correctly. Thanks VB.
5th band=Boing Boing @11pm.
I’ve got a few too many VB sheets to the wind after 9 hours and it must been a site me dancing around trying to get a couple of clips of them while dropping my phone. Gave up and just enjoyed the(my) silliness.
They’re an awesome live band and the crowd were jumping. Reckon Albert is a great frontman.
Oops. cont…
As soon as it ended I got out of there real fast as I was not long from an horizontal state and don’t remember climbing hitting the fart sack at all. The better half joined me soon after according to her and our son went to party with Boing Boing at their camp. Morning of my demise dawned and number 1 son wasn’t in the back of the wagon. Went and saw the Boing boys and he’d buggered off back to the coast with one of their mates at 3am.
We bid our farewells to our new best mates and left dreaming of a bed at home that couldn’t come soon enough.
Thankfully the missus drove as the breatho was few kilometres out of town in the middle of nowhere and she was fine. Made it into bed at home by 10am and couldn’t have been happier. Big previous day for someone pushing the boundaries way to far.
Bloody good fun.
Great work Seeds! Boing Boing look unreal, gotta check 'em out sometime.
very generous share seeds, good stuff! Glad it blew out some cobwebs - assume yr lad got home ok?
Was very good lads. Cheers.
Their next gig is Black Mountain Festival at Cooktown in August.
They don’t gig much. Turns out they live on the Sunny Coast these days except Albert the singer who is in Cooktown.
Haha talk it up! Albert spins a good tale. They did ‘Let There Be Rock’ the other night and he spun a story in the middle just like in this clip. Different tale every time.
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Fun fact for Friday. Boing Boing is a term used for crotch rot up north. eg “I’ve got the boing boing”
My mate reckons this one is Wiggles for drunk adults
https://youtube.com/shorts/yF-wcKYCGUA?feature=share
ha, that croc one sounds like B52s meets Music Machine.. TROUBLE is a garage stonker (more Roobarb the dog fuzz)
the riff might sound familiar..
No comprende good sir? Never heard of Music Machine
This is still my favourite B52s
Basesix ~ Ramones dug Music Machine as does tbb since '80's Nuggets intro.
Can have a crack at yer rogue Hives riff...
Basesix ...B is for Brutus ~ Sounds like an MM Tribute...
Kinda like...
Lobby Loyd - GOD tributes Link Ray - Jack The Ripper
Ed Kuepper - The way I made you feel tributes Quo - Sunny Celophane Skies
Just as here...often outed openly 15 years later...gotta be careful to intro not accuse as they're fans!
Can recall when Ed was outed much later he felt a loss of innocence...as if he was being accused!
If any ask them...Yeah! Coz their My idols...so what's yer problem...(An open unapologetic tribute!)
So yeah! Musos can get worked up over it...as it's their personal psychotic groove...(Sorry Dude!)
tbb has come across it with local / Oz bands...can't rush them if it's their story to tell!
1. Firstly notice the Hives are all in Exact same Black Shirts / Pants as Music Machine dress.
2. Note the Covering / Gloving of Power Fist ~ MM Logo
3. Now check the 2004 timing...
1st Jan 2004 Hives B is for Brutus rip is likely a 2004 MM Euro Commemorative Tribute!
Go as far to say it was likely a blatant pitch to score the dream 2004 MM Tour for immortality!
So Cal Garage Band Larksmen got the gig & later recorded with MM!
tbb keeps an open mind on such...If one shit hot band rips another...it's 100% Tribute to their Idols.
Considering it was the same year as Tour...fans of both would've noticed & saluted the gesture!
Thanks for sharing as tbb likes the Hives as well...Win! Win! Score a Double Music Machine gig!
Double Yellow Line > Crispiest rogue new wave Psych Slab.
Dark White > Goth Classic projects way beyond our tiny minds & time!
totally agree. TBB would also agree the best ugly-things/nuggets/pebbles are an attempt by devoted players to emulate their idols, and failing, in ripping style. Can't be Dee Dee/Tek/Kurt if you don't first like 50s doo-wop /Oysters/JohnPaul. Some good threads for me to pull there tbb, i'll go have a tug.
(Ed Sheeran's win was a win, eh?)
Haha duck me you astound me Truebluebasher!! You are one of a kind.
Indo got me thinking the other day about this after mentioning he was into rap and hip hop as a young fella.
- what was the first song you liked?
- what bands were you into up to the age of 18.
- did your parents hate it? What did they listen to?
- when you started going out did your musical tastes change?
- what do you listen to now? Changed tastes? Still a diehard? Do you revisit your teen years?
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