Team Dresch - C or D?

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I always liked their second album. And there's a little-heard 7" that was awesome.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

HAZEL over TEAM DRESCH any day

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i have that 7" though if anyone is interested.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to say, I like Hazel a lot, but Team Dresch never did much for me. There was (I think) a Team Dresch spinoff (maybe) called the Third Sex that had a couple interesting records and a fun live show. They were on Chainsaw and from Portland, anyway.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

That second album, Captain My Captain I think it's called, is great. I immediately thought Eleanor from the FFurnaces sounded a lot like Kaia from Team Dresch.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I got the second album for $3. It rules; totally awesomely dated cover art too :D

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc700/c736/c73612q99od.jpg

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

that's the one! "Take On Me" and "Don't Try Suicide" - emo: dykestyle! Awesome. Plus, "The Council" rocks

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I love the opening guitar on this album!

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Personal Best is my fav TD album. "Freewheel" and "Fagitarian and Dyke" are just awesome tracks.

― darin, Friday, 1 October 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I've only heard a couple Team Dresch tracks (okay), but Hazel fuckin' ruled.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

DARIN OTM. PERSONAL BEST PWNZ. THE SECOND RECORD IS WEAK. THEY WERE A GOOD BAND. A BIT TOO CARPET MUNCHER-GUSHY. BUT THEY ROCKED.

― DEEBZ (ddb), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Both bands ruled, in different ways... but the first TD album is irresistible. And like 20 minutes long.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Totally great/underrated band (and related groups) here, methinks.

First album is a classic--one of my 90s faves. The second is pretty good--the opening and closing tracks, especially--and the new drummer is a plus, but it's not the same.

Which single were you guys refering to? The post-second-LP one with the different line-up? I haven't heard that. Or did you mean the one with "Hand Grenade"? That song is absolutely incredibly...!!!

The Butchies are great, too--love that varied first LP. And of course Kaia's stuff--the odd numbered LPs are fantastic, especially the most recent. What about Infinite Xs, anyone have that?

― John 2, Friday, 1 October 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

John - I don't remember which 7" it was - I'm thinking of the one with the pulp novel type cover, and the song that goes

"You super butch / punk ass motherfucker / come up here / and say that to my face!!!"

- that one was totally off the meter (and under the radar, methinks)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and how is that artwork "dated"? I always thought it was unique, to me. And cool. If some band eventually rips it off--er, "HOMAGE"es it--I just might have a hand in it...

― John 2, Friday, 1 October 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a good idea, but i think it's a little too early to reference (or else I'd totally be into doing it)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a big Personal Best fan. Not so much with the second album. "Fagetarian and Dyke" is such a fantastic song, both lyrically and musically. (And yes, I belong to the contingent of dykes who thinks Kaia is a total foxx.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 2 October 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

There's no Kaia (solo) thread at all and that disappoints me.

New album is fantastic.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

My wife grew up besties with Kaia in a itty bitty Oregon town.

Anyway, this song is still incredible after nearly 20 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPALFX9QPQ0

― Darin, Friday, 30 January 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link

Way underrated band. Dragged their 2nd album out recently and liked it just as much as I did then.

Was disgusted when I read Sara Marcus' Girls to the Front book and it didn't so much as mention Team Dresch. There was plenty about the villainous Jessica Hopper, though. Talk about losing credibility.

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 31 January 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link

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