(I almost said Sadistic Exploits!)
No Milk!
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
Head Cheese.
These are all old bands since I'm profoundly out of the loop. (Except for Conjunto 23, but that's a different sort of thing.)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
Odean Pope Saxophone Choir!
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
and oh yeah: Josh Wink! King Britt!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
also, shout-out to the now-dispersed Red Square scene: Jen Turrell, Rabbit in Red, the Snow Fairies, the Skywriters, Thrift Shop, etc.
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
NOT KRS-One, who emphatically states that "No, I'm not from Philly!"
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
Also: Johnny's Dance Band! FOD!
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
thanks to everyone who contributed this thread. it made my day.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― George Smith, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― George Smith, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
funk dungeon was a huge cavernous warehouse space in north philly where they would have massive parties and shows in the 80's. i did acid there once and had to walk home to center city in a snowstorm. that was frightening and memorable. and it took forever. it was miles from center city. but temple people would go there.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
You were probably at least safer thanks to the snow, but it doesn't sound like a great idea overall. Was Funk Dungeon north or south of Temple?
I was kind of a wuss in terms of what venues I would venture to, or what crowds I wanted to be around (although generally keeping a distance from skinhead punks was not such a bad idea).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
i want to say it was on cecil b. moore so not that far north actually. it probably just felt like a million miles that night. nowhere i would have gone sober. i used to walk everywhere in philly when i was young. mostly during the day, but i would start walking north or west or south and just keep going. looking for records usually. i never took buses. just walked. but i never really "hung out" much outside of center city. that was my base except for a brief time in west philly.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
at night sometimes i would walk to a show at the khyber from my place and then take a cab to my door when it was done. i was all about getting in and out in a hurry.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
it was all so long ago. i don't think about it much anymore. it wasn't exactly cool to be in philly in the 90's. though it was a perfectly okay place to live. when we moved rufus was 2 months old and now he's 14! already many moons ago.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:15 (seven years ago) link
scott, where in west philly were you?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 March 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
False nostalgia, incidentally, because (a) a lot of these bands were mediocre at best, to be honest and (b) I wasn't really having such exciting times nor was I that immersed in these scenes.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
scott, oh yeah, I used to walk all over the place all the time (though took occasional public transportation and cabs). I miss that. I remember walking back from the Chestnut Cabaret to Spring Garden/Art Museum Area. Even when I was doing salsa dancing, I used to walk home to center city from Delaware Avenue at 2AMish and never really had problems.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link
Sounding so old.
https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,UakgnonR5rqJUHsssYdlg7jwUTIdLQP-nBC-u3EcLDeSC2o3QVqHgIspvyvp0mvRJGHghZlw1_U4ysu1HBgZ0OIhTVMNKw4e6zKFI0yLdkT1wpl1UmjYEef2U2z0aWCPxKTT8KKoLoRVauNbaTnMswvZ6Xqf7GhnWg4YeGvspZBlEyLohL-ngVQ_RGtMWhRsWvTBQCK6v8Kyp-v_mrf38NFa0xfcpV1bHg
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
that's where i lived in west philly.
i used to have to take the trolley to the subway to old city to work in the morning. maybe that's why i walked everywhere for the next decade.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
wow I live two blocks away from where you lived! it's a v happening neighborhood these days.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 March 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
I was going to put this on a Christgau thread, but it's only tangentially related to him (because it took me forever to find it, it became the most elusive A-record from his '80s book for me): Persian Gulf's Changing the Weather. Once through, and the two songs that jumped out were "It's a Good Thing" and "(I'm So Glad I'm) Living in the Free World." The latter struck me as good, not great, but I thought it pretty interesting how it anticipates Neil Young by five years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABntttO9pKA
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 August 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
Some missing RUIN tracks finally appearing on youtube:
Great Divide, psychedelic speed metal/punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2qGOu9xZkQ
From their previous album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flf-TrOVk0A
etc.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Did not mean to make this into a nostalgia Saturday. That usually happens when I'm a bit depressed, which I'm not today.
My other favorite from Fiat Lux follows something like the Great Divide formula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO-b1bJgMhM
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Altar, good inspirational hardcore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buylfmEkjUo
And the classically brief Rule Worshipper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLhB3hZgdc
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Apparently this is all a result of their two albums being reissued last year which I missed.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
They plead being but coming persists!
You tell 'em!
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Oops, ruined it:
They plead being but becoming persists
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
He-Ho is such a good album. I used to prefer Fiat Lux. I think I like my favorite Fiat Lux songs more, but He-Ho has pretty amazing flow:
https://open.spotify.com/album/78INC6nI6P9fgXYuU4qJMA
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
Throw in a few bonus tracks of course and that throws off the flow. Mouse was not on the original album. Don't even know where that came from.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
Although the one-two punch of You and Make Believe at the beginning of Fiat Lux is nothing to dismiss lightly.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Nice to see these reissued on Southern Lord alongside so much Boris!
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link