― Ryan McKay, Friday, 22 November 2002 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Friday, 22 November 2002 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Friday, 22 November 2002 05:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
Uk please also thx
― itchy bits (itchy bits), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Saw 'em tonight at Dante's in Portland--as always "RRAGG" was the third song they played--I somehow think that's kind of hilarious. (Maybe it's because they also like looking at the crowd right after it to see who's never seen them before, because they're the people who have expressions on their faces like "did they just do that?") They also pulled out a cover of Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge." If there's a guitarist who uses pedals more expressively these days than Agata, I don't know who it would be. And I am very sure there's not a better English-language lyricist whose native language isn't English than Yasuko Onuki.
― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― original bgm, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I only own Cell-Scape so far & fear I may never see them live :-(
I concur, that solo record is worth picking up. Fun and even pretty in parts. Also reminds you just how unfathomably great & out-there his riffage in the group set-up is.
xpost - I like that outro... more ambience than noise tho?
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
True... but it's a fine line, I suppose.
Teeny Shiny is like Cell-Scape v0.7. Pretty solid, but still not quite the amicable merge of pop and grindcore it should be.
― original bgm, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Nov 6 2005 8:00P Pavillion Theatre Brighton UK,Nov 8 2005 8:00P Fleece and Firkin Bristol United Kindom,Nov 9 2005 8:00P Medicine Bar, Custard Factory Birmingham United Kingdom,Nov 10 2005 8:00P Garage London United Kingdom,Nov 11 2005 8:00P AC2 Manchester, United Kingdom,Nov 12 2005 8:00P Oran Mor Glasgow United Kingdom,Nov 13 2005 8:00P The Georglan Theatre Teeside/New Castle United Kingdom,Nov 14 2005 8:00P Nottingham Trent Uni. Nottingham United Kingdom,Nov 15 2005 8:00P Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff United Kingdom,Nov 17 2005 8:00P BBC session London United Kingdom,Nov 18 2005 8:00P tba Leeds United Kingdom,Nov 19 2005 8:00P The Adelphi Hull United Kingdom,Nov 20 2005 8:00P Garage London United Kingdom,Nov 21 2005 8:00P tba Southhampton United Kingdom,
bought my ticket for 10th november yesterday. phear me.
― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― marcg (marcg), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
It is banana yellow.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
(support slot last night was DJ Scotch Egg doing his usual GameBoy Gabba thing. divided the audience somewhat but i loved it)
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 11 November 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
My ears ringy. It's all good. I don't need to hear ever again.
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I think they're a little disappointing on album, but the live show is amazing.
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
They covered Uncontrollable Urge & Neat Neat Neat, which was fun. So glad I went (I had to go on my own, as I suffer from a distinct lack of noisecore loving friends).
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
the BBC session mentioned above will be broadcast by Rob Da Bank, i think this thursday evening. (ie tonight)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/meltbanana549p01.shtml
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-YEAH!! (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
On their sixth full-length studio release Melt Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before. The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!" The truth is MxBx makes music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be. Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fastblast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for nonalbum releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bassless "Theremin-core".
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― rio natsume, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
<3
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:47 (two weeks ago) link
I'm seeing the Denver show in less than a week. Incredibly stoked!
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:41 (two weeks ago) link
they still got it!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 6 June 2024 12:41 (yesterday) link
I once saw Melt Banana play in a transvestite bar called the Blue Flamingo in Austin, Texas. The club where they were supposed to play (EMOS) had double booked, so they had to move next door. The club was the size a large kitchen. They set up in the corner of the bar (no stage, just the corner). I got up on a side ledge, with my head pressed up against the ceiling. Let me tell you a little somethin' somethin'......I've seen lots and lots of shows, and that particular show was the most motherfucking incredibly beautiful sonic assault on your senses I've ever experienced. The perfect hybrid of fuck-you punk rock, teeth melting noise, and on-time syncopation. And it was obvious that every person there, who could get in, realized how incredible that event was.So Melt Banana is great. Really really great. And they're nice people, too.― Gage-o
So Melt Banana is great. Really really great. And they're nice people, too.
― Gage-o
big shout-outs and much love to the Blue Flamingo. dungeons and drag bars, people. dungeons and drag bars.
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i'm just gonna c&p my review of their live show from the "reunion bands" thread because i didn't get around to writing it up until just now
i don't think melt-banana broke up either... they've been touring, they just haven't released a record in 11 years. they're releasing a new one this year. i never saw them live before. they were pretty amazing to watch to be honest. it wasn't all older hipsters like at the deerhoof concert. or at least i don't think so, i look at 40 year olds these days and think they're young. it was pretty great because of how yasuko is using technology. she and agata showed up there and just fucking killed. their last album was their best one yet, but that was over a decade ago... and with them being a duo i wasn't sure how they'd be able to play their songs live. i figured it'd be a lot of playing to backing tracks.
and what they did wound up being way cooler than that. yasuko had her phone out and she was using it to change up the bass and drum patterns on the fly. it's the first time i've ever seen technology used to create something that doesn't sound like singing to a backing track like on _top of the pops_ or some dude sitting behind a laptop. they were full-band songs performed by a duo but had the freedom of interpretation that i'm only used to hearing from rock groups - the songs _didn't_ sound exactly like the albums at all. it was felt like she was using the rhythms to kind of conduct the mosh pit. there was a mosh pit, too! they're a noise-rock duo of people in their like 50s and people were out there moshing. i was out there moshing, even though i regretted it. i'd rather hear melt-banana play "uncontrollable urge" than hear DEVO play "uncontrollable urge". devo are cool and all but i've never seen them and never really wanted to.
turns out yasuko is a guest vocalist on an album by a group called _squid pisser_, on the title track. it sounds great! yasuko sounds amazing!
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:04 (yesterday) link
tbf they've been doing that for ages, their last album was a duo as well, I saw them in 2014 for that and it was the same set up
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:08 (yesterday) link
Been trying to think back and they were doing it in 2010 as well, although I think it was more band structured rather than random squalls.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:20 (yesterday) link
tbf they've been doing that for ages, their last album was a duo as well, I saw them in 2014 for that and it was the same set up― Colonel Poo
― Colonel Poo
i'm not necessarily always on the cutting edge, haha, 22 years ago being in the Blue Flamingo would have made me really uncomfortable for reasons i wouldn't have been quite able to articulate
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:20 (yesterday) link
they still had a backing band on the 2010 tour, I saw them then as well
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:28 (yesterday) link
pigeons on my eyes
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 6 June 2024 17:07 (yesterday) link
Theirs remains one of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. There was this palpable ENERGY winding through the crowd that felt like you could've easily been swallowed up by the sea of bodies and would've been utterly menacing if the overall vibes hadn't been super-positive. It was like being in a venue-wide mosh pit comprised entirely of your family and loved ones.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 June 2024 17:15 (yesterday) link
“Backing band” is a bit impersonal; Rika was their bassist for about 20 years before she left, or was dismissed, I don’t actually know what happened there. I hope it wasn’t a Janet Weiss-style shitcanning.
I saw them on that 2010 tour as well, and then again a few years later as a duo, and yeah they were better as a full band to me. I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them again. I am looking forward to the new album, though.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 6 June 2024 18:51 (yesterday) link