Leatherface: Mush

Oh yeah, I was gonna ask what else is good.

No answers? Wow!

You will not top "Mush."

I rebought "Horsebox" last week, and it is surprisingly good. Great cover of Nick Cave's "Tallships," which almost forgives the irritating cover of Lauper's "True Colors."

"Cherry Knowle" is early, and has more metal/hard rock guitar. Features a nice rendition of Elvis' "In the Ghetto."

"Dog Disco" has the worst album cover of all time. The songs are okay, but there is no magic. I remember it feeling like a disappointment.

Never heard "The Last," or "Minx" (never found them at a reasonable price), but I actually bet that they are better than the above-mentioned!

I want the FUCKING moon...

listen to the wind....

drink a lot of gin

That's every evening with you.

haha i acutally just heard this band for the first time this morning...they are great! i didn't know they had bands like this in the UK...never really heard anything influenced by the whole husker du/naked raygun midwest post hardcore thing....

anyway this is great and if it were not a work day i could totally go for a gin & tonic.

Yeah, they are good, this album in particular. One of those bands that just got lost a bit at the time but sound pretty great years down the road. (The UK had other bands like that but most were kinda lame.)

RIP Dickie Hammond :(

aww man! RIP

Sorry to hear that.
JUst been redicscovering the band thanks to that Razorblades and Aspirin compilation 3cd thing on Fire. Which I'd heavily recommend. has all of Mush on plus Minx, Fill Your Boots and related singles and e.p.s.

Wish I had kept yup with the band's output after I moved to Ireland. I did wind up going from Dublin to Cork with them on a tour in around '92 thanks to us staying in the same house after their Dublin gig. that and knowing them before I headed over to Ireland, & the guy from Snuff even a bit longer.

Wound up staying in Frankie Stubbs place in Sunderland after hitching to their gig there and finding out it had been cancelled because a firedoor wasn't up to specifications.
Did pick up a couple of later lps along the way though.

Really nice obit on the NY Times blog:
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/punk-is-beautiful-dickie-hammond-1965-2015/?_r=0

That is lovely. For some reason it's delightful to me that Dickie's top 10 punk albums included Dag Nasty's Can I Say

Looking at it again, it's a wonderfully weird list. All the non-U.S. bands (aside from Leatherface--he put his own band on there, and why not) are pretty standard late-70s heavy hitters: Damned, Clash, Pistols, Ruts, X-Ray Spex, Saints, and Stiff Little Fingers. But the American bands he includes are Moving Targets, Dag Nasty, Samiam, and Government Issue! I'd really like to know which G.I. record is on there, snce the photo cuts it off..

there's a certain type of punk listener to whom all those bands, plus Leatherface, are canon in an emo-not-emo sort of way so it makes sense to me

the GI album is likely one of the later ones

^ very much so, my wife has an internet friend up in Newcastle who loves all that stuff. He's been really hit hard by Dickie's death. Leatherface were one of his favourite bands.

never really listened to leatherface, but i really liked hdq when i was big on this sort of thing and moving targets, dag nasty etc make perfect sense if you ever listened to them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91_0mg2R_I

Of course it makes sense. They're all punk bands, they're not THAT different. It's just funny to see a list where canonical late-70s UK/Irish/Aussie bands rub shoulders with Samiam and Dag Nasty, with basically no stylistic or chronological buffer between them.

I mean, it's all non-U.S. stuff from 76-79, then all (Leatherface aside) U.S. stuff from 86-94, and nothing between. That's noteworthy! NOTEWORTHY, I SAY!

Listening to Minx for the first time in years and it still sounds good to me. Why was this album so slept-on? They didn't have a lot of visibility in the States so I really didn't follow their story

Totally slept on band in early 90s - I sought out their releases, just 'cause I happened to hear 'em on a radio show circa Mush and really liked it - gave up on 'em around 'Dog Disco' though ...

everything under the sun
must be for everyone

this is the greatest album of all time

<3 I love it so much

i don't usually like big man voice punk but this has such a melancholy heart

Always love to play this in late winter/early spring. Mush : March :: Behaviour : October.

absolutely unmatched classic, definitely.

and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WANT THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON