i don't care what anyone says, faith no more are still one of my all-time favorite bands. although they are best known for the horrible single "epic" which got them tagged as an early 90s one hit wonder, and for inspiring a lot of the worst bands of all time to mix metal and hip hop, please don't hold these things against them. this is a band who made tons of really fucked up, heavy and weird music. after selling millions of records with "the real thing" they were in a position to have more musical control and unleashed their masterpiece "angel dust" upon the world, which had a little bit of success but then it seems like everyone forgot about them. well, being a teenager in the 90s, FNM was a band who stood out from the herd and who's weirdness, smartness and sarcasm spoke to me, so i followed their career long after most people stopped caring. i think it was around 98 when they replaced original guitarist jim martin with trey spruance from mr. bungle (whom singer mike patton was also a member of, duh.) and recorded the fine album "king for a day, fool for a lifetime" which, while not as consistently good as "angel dust", features some of the bands best work, and was mostly ingnored. there's a couple cheesy moments here, but "ricochet", "digging the grave" and "the gentle art of making enemies" are classic rocking FNM while "take this bottle" is one of the most heart breaking ballads i've ever heard. enjoy.
if you've come this far in life as to be wasting time (while you should be working!) reading my crappy blog, then you are already well acquainted with NWA and all of their retarded brilliance and incendiary politics, or lack there of. but have you heard their first, self released cassette, "NWA and the posse"? holy fuck, this shit is awesome! straight outta compton might have defined west coast gangsta rap, but this early shit is raw as fuck and, well... fun. "drink it up", an ode to all things alchoholic sung/rapped to the tune of "twist and shout" might be the greatest party song i've ever heard, on par with the best work of my personal favorite ol' dirty bastard. assemble your crew, twist off a forty cap and blast this shit, punk ass niggas! nwa and the posse oh, and since i'm talking about NWA i should also include this hilarious "explicit content only" remix of strait outta compton and easy duz it, hot-linked (yummmm...hot link) from the cosmic hearse, thanks, ace!!! bitch nigga titties damn
as you may or may not know, my good friend jack shit does an interweb radio show on 9th floor radio, titled, aptly enough, jack shit. i was a guest on his show recently and had such a good time i inquired about getting my own show but there's no open slots right now. soooo... jack has asked me to fill in for him once a month! this is very exciting for me, i've always wanted to have a radio show since i first saw "pump up the volume"
anyway, my first show will be this tuesday, with special guest star spencer grey (my homie who paints those crazy dinosaurs, plays guitar in thrips and hates the internet) we will be playing music by our bands and all kinds of other crazy shit, and discussing the impending apocalypse. you don't wanna miss it!
listen live. .tuesday april 7, 3-5 pm at www.9thfloorradio.com shows are also archived so you can hear the whole thing at any time (24 hours after broadcast) by looking in the 9th floor radio archives under jack shit! you can also hear my previous appearance on jack's show in said archive, it says featuring jason storm of the human beings, ha! i sound like a dork but i play good music. and some bands i've been in. okay.
i just saw the movie "what we do is secret", a biography of darby crash and the germs, one of my all time favorite bands. wow. what a fucking piece of shit. it shouldn't surprise me too much that hollywood would take the story of one of the greatest, most influential punk bands of all time and turn it into some typical drivel, but what really bothers me is that the original band members all participated in this project, even going so far as to play some shows with the actor who portrays darby fronting the reunited band. and fronting is definitely the right word. the guy just reeks of hollywood shmarm and fakeness. it's pretty obvious that he's not into punk or gay and has never done drugs (it always bugs the shit out of me when people shoot up wrong in movies, don't you think there'd be at least one former junkie around who they could, like consult, or something?) but in the hands of a better actor that wouldn't matter. the film is contrite and depicts entire years of peoples lives through brief montages that never really give you any character development or insight into who these people you're supposed to care about are, and definitely would not convert any new fans. in the film characters are always talking about what a ingenious and tragic figure darby is, but the way he's portrayed he just comes of as a conceited prick, which he may have been sometimes but i'd like to think he was a much more complex and multi-faceted individual. if i knew nothing about the germs this movie would not make me interested in digging any deeper, but as a longtime fan i'm just fucking disgusted. i first heard the germs as an angry impressionable youth and the weird, fast music and darby's dark poetry spoke deeply to my tortured young soul. i don't know if i could have made it through high school without my cassette of MIA. darby has also been a huge influence on me as a singer, writer and performer, i would take pride in the comparisons after people saw my band play. the germs were one of the bands that inspired me and my teenage troublemaker friends to pick up instruments and try to do something with our lives, even going so far as to do a set of germs covers for a halloween show (we played on the street with the faggz as nirvana, that was awesome) and often including "communist eyes" and "land of treason" in our sets. i just can't believe the surviving members of the germs would shit on their legacy to cash in like that, letting down a massive cult of dedicated fans (how many of you have germs burns?) and scaring away any potential new ones. so, yeah, this movies not even worth watching for free on the internet. just get a copy of the book of the same name and read that if you want to know more about this amazing band. oh and if i ever end up beating the shit out of the fake darby crash, please come visit me in jail cuz you know that pussy would press charges.
here's the real germs in all their glory, from the decline of western civilization, just watch that again.
hey it's been awhile since i posted anything on here, not that i haven't been bored, i've just been too drunk all the time to properly type, so yeah. i also realized there's only a couple music postings, and they're both rap. i don't intend to do a "music blog" but i'll try to keep a good balance of music, weird articles and bitchy rants about my stupid life and shit that pisses me off. anyway, i'm a pretty big fan of the Norwegian black metal/prog rock band enslaved, but am debating whether it's worth paying 30 bucks to see them open for gay-ass opeth. enslaved has been around for 17 years or so and started as a pretty straight up black metal band, appearing on a darkthrone tribute comp and releasing the killer demo "yggdrsil". over the years the group has changed members several times and broadened their sound to the point where you can barely tell it's the same band, which disillusioned a lot of metal purists. well, metal purists are assholes who expect bands to just make the same album over and over, so fuck them. i'll admit it took a few listens to get into "vertebrae" but it has definitely crept into my subconscious. on this album the band delves even deeper into a spacey prog sound, incorporating lots of atmospheric keyboards, trippy effects and haunting melodies. at times this reminds me of a metal pink floyd, which in my book is an extremely good thing. so pull the stick out of yer ass, take a couple bong hits and give this record a chance, why don't cha?
while most rappers are still talking about bitches and money, it's good to know there's still some real revolutionary MCs out there. i saw Immortal Technique perform only once, and it was the greatest hip hop shows i've ever seen. he might have talked between songs more than he even rapped but for some reason it was okay because everything the dude says is so fucking righteous. the highlight was probably when he went on a tirade against the record labels. he was talking about downloading music and said (paraphrasing from a spotty memory) "i know we're all broke, if you can afford to buy my new album, get that shit, but if not, go ahead and download that shit off the internet! but do me a favor, don't just sit there in yer crib, listening to that shit while you play playstation, put your speakers in the window and blast that shit for your racist fucking neighbors!" uhm.. fuck yeah! so, in that spirit, here's immortal tech's latest, the 3rd world, a collaboration with dj green lantern. word.
http://sharebee.com/c8210720 (sorry, copy and paste that) (courtesy of hothiphopalbums.blogspot.com)
i bought a computer. now i'm making a blog. so it seems like i'm being productive, but really i'm just wasting time. i'll have something worth saying eventually, for now enjoy my jam of the week- DRAMA by the RZA, this is the remix, yo. i haven't been able to get this out of my head for daze...
or download the whole new album "Digi-snacks" here... http://www.mediafire.com/?wwnn4ytyn4w (sorry, you'll have to copy and paste that until i figure this shit out...)
i don't care what anyone says, faith no more are still one of my all-time favorite bands. although they are best known for the horrible single "epic" which got them tagged as an early 90s one hit wonder, and for inspiring a lot of the worst bands of all time to mix metal and hip hop, please don't hold these things against them. this is a band who made tons of really fucked up, heavy and weird music. after selling millions of records with "the real thing" they were in a position to have more musical control and unleashed their masterpiece "angel dust" upon the world, which had a little bit of success but then it seems like everyone forgot about them. well, being a teenager in the 90s, FNM was a band who stood out from the herd and who's weirdness, smartness and sarcasm spoke to me, so i followed their career long after most people stopped caring. i think it was around 98 when they replaced original guitarist jim martin with trey spruance from mr. bungle (whom singer mike patton was also a member of, duh.) and recorded the fine album "king for a day, fool for a lifetime" which, while not as consistently good as "angel dust", features some of the bands best work, and was mostly ingnored. there's a couple cheesy moments here, but "ricochet", "digging the grave" and "the gentle art of making enemies" are classic rocking FNM while "take this bottle" is one of the most heart breaking ballads i've ever heard. enjoy.
