that's what we're talkin' about! don't think I ever heard any DMZ yet tho.
― blunt, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
DMZ's self-titled album is pretty good. The rarities/outtakes comp When I Get Off is a bit crappy though.
Lyres "On Fyre" is awesome.
Dirty Water records just reissued the Don't Give It Up Now single. My copy's warped really badly though :(
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes to "On Fyre" and also to "A Promise Is A Promise"? I guess the rest is hit/miss, which is why a thread's in order to help SORT THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF. I haven't heard any 90's stuff either.
― blunt, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lyres Lyres" is pretty good too.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't like A Promise Is A Promise.
xpost oh yes "Stacey" is on that
― blunt, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Get DMZ's major label debut.
"Help You Ann" is the best Lyres tune and it's on "On Fyre," the rest of which fades from memory quickly after playing.
I saw the Lyres a couple times in Boston on weekends and Mono Man/Connelly was fair. If you were into sock hop garage rock in a bar, you might have thought they were better.
― Gorge, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The DMZ studio album has some very interesting metallic parts, far heavier than anything Connelly did later. Search out "Don't Jump Me Mother" for one of the best Raw Power rip-offs from long before everyone was ripping off the Stooges.
As for the Lyres, don't forget "Don't Give It Up Now", also from On Fyre.
― bendy, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Don't Jump Me Mother" kills. That's a good description of it. My other favorite was "Baby Boom" which takes a completely different tack. "In a hospital room, from midnite to noon, it's the g-ga-goo-goo-gah-gah - uh- ... baby boom."
― Gorge, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
get DMZ's major label debut
yeah I like this way more than the lyres
― m coleman, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
get thee the Lyres' first EP: What a Girl Can't Do/ Buried Alive. Also second "On Fyre", and for raw sloppy fun the "Let's Have A Party" live record.
Or the first Barrence Whitfield and the Savages LP.
― pauls00, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
just a reminder that y'all could be listening to the DMZ self-titled album right now
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
It is a marvellous album, it absolutely rocks bells, is shitloads of fun and there is nary a dud moment on it.
― xelab, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Yes it is. Is it still available? I wonder if its on Spotify?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
it is.
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Just bumping it again cos it is ace.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og9hQirCA6k
― xelab, Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
The new comeback Barrence Whitfield & the Savages record is not as good as the first early '80s one. The new one is kinda speedy garage-rock by numbers, while the former had that Little Richard & Smiley Lewis aspect to it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
But Barrence and the Savages sounded great tonight (though I still like the older songs better). Guitarist Peter Greenberg's garage rocking guitar was good live.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
Greenberg was a guitarist in DMZ, so that's why I am posting here. Although I am tempted to give Barrence his own thread even if few ilxors these days seem to know of him.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Saw Barrence Whitfield & the Savages again. They covered MC5’s “Ramblin Rose”, & Barrence wailed like a garage rock Smiley Lewis. DMZ guitarist Greenberg is still in the band.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Any other Barrence Whitfield fans here? Need to do an ilm search .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/03/20/barrence-whitfield-and-the-savages
Nice interview with Barrence
Below is a 2015 one with Peter Greenberg
http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/cincinnati-kid-peter-greenberg-of-barrence-whitfield-the-savages/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link
I think Rambling Rose is a bit older than the MC5 I have a great version by Jerry Lee Lewis from the 50s. I think it was from before him too.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
Actually it's a title used by several songs and the MC5 version is a different arrangement of the 1961 Jerry l;ee Lewis hit. His is more syncopated. I have it on a compilation with his 50s stuff. Worth hearing.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Found out earlier that the MC5 version seems to be based directly on the Ted Taylor soul cover
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_JQcdZjiDU
― Maresn3st, Monday, 12 July 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link