https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3tn45ww9c
feeling this.
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
there is also this Stones cover with Kurt Vile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXrrumfoijU&feature=related
not that interesting, imo
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
not crazy about the new name but always happy to hear that herrema's got something new coming out. love her production, or whoever produces her stuff, it's like total maximalist rock insanity.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
me too. like some modern rnb shit lol
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
not *that* modern though, to me it sounds like Jonzun Crew's "Welcome to the Future" reimagined as a rock record or something
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
total maximalist rock insanity.
otm, i'm p invested in the howling hex but am generally just glad that JH is making crazy records in a weird room somewhere once in a while
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
RTX is now Black Bananas.
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
have never been that enthusiastic about rtx stuff but this track is great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
I am just discovering RTX and am loving them! particularly singles, live, unreleased...how does ILM feel about Pussy Galore? I just watched the clip of them on the Uncle Floyd show which is unreal
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw Singles Live Unreleased is "proper" Royal Trux with Jennifer and Neil, RTX was the (intentionally?) confusing name for Jennifer Herrema's post-Royal Trux band (and Black Bananas is the same people as RTX I think, they just changed the name)
― dmr, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
nothing i've heard by howling hex does anything for me, seems like hagerty has no interest in writing songs anymore and just wants to noodle.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
that's crazy. i mean it's true of at least one hex record but there are ~song~ songs through all of the records; 'breakaway', 'faithful sister', a great cover of the old trad 'de colores', slinky workouts on all-night fox, basically all of XI, 'you can't beat tomorrow' on the same record, know that on NMH, &c&c&c. you should try to find a couple of these if poss.
i thought i'd be able to illustrate this w/youtubes but there's hardly anything there; this isn't exactly proving my point but yknow i still like to listen to it as a wriggly hex jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1OH9S2u17I
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOjqTTRK5o
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
don't remember which ones i've heard, honestly - dude puts out a ton of music
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
you should check out the one that looks like this, lots of great songs
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515sZjY7HbL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
would rock this patchhttp://www.dragcity.com/system/stories/primary_images/471/large.jpg?1324508257
― mizzell, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Neil Michael Hagertyaka Royal Trux
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
^^^this record is amazing
You Can't Beat Tomorrow is chock-a-block with quality tunes
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
yah the one w/ triangles cover is a stone classic, plays that good old rock n roll is great too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
FYI, nmh's s/t album (before howling hex, after royal trux) is dope. tuneful too
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
how does ILM feel about Pussy Galore?
I don't know about ILM, but Dial M for Motherfucker is just an amazing album and truth be told, I prefer it to most of the RTX stuff I've heard.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
everybody loves Pussy Galore!
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
was very surprised by the reunion thing. not as surprised by Neil not being involved.
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:18 PM (3 minutes ago)
OTM
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw Singles Live Unreleased is "proper" Royal Trux with Jennifer and Neil, RTX was the (intentionally?) confusing name for Jennifer Herrema's post-Royal Trux band (and Black Bananas is the same people as RTX I think, they just changed the name)― dmr, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:15 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Thanks, dmr...I was wondering about that! Probably gonna be a while before I check out RTX. I just dl'd Twin Infinitives, very psyched to check it out
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Dial M for Motherfucker is just an amazing album and truth be told, I prefer it to most of the RTX stuff I've heard the best RTX song on the best day of its life.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
This thread has gotten a little crazy.
Trux / Hex > RTX >>>>> Pussy Galore
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to this again, it sounds like three Chrome songs and one Cinderella song all playing at the same time. I'm OK with that.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 13 January 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
your crocodiles are confused
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
not very into pussy galore here either. kind of a novelty band???
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
Um, no. Dial M is better than anything that followed. I might think for a minute about Cats & Dogs vs. Dial M, but after the minute passed I know what I'd decide...
― dlp9001, Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
Extra amazing that, given their rep for being unable to play at all, the reunion sounds pretty much exactly like the original tracks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmLdcgFnGg
― dlp9001, Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
No Hag, no interest from me. Sorry. (and I'm glad he didn't lower himself to this).
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 14 January 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
given their rep for being unable to play at all
this never made any sense to me, those parts are really hard! and in strange tunings!
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
most people who talk about whether a band can play or not (or whether people can sing or not) know next to nothing about playing or singing ime
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
I think the "Pussy Galore can't play" canard comes from stuff like "Cunt Tease", "Kill Yourself", the Exile cassette and their early shows. Total fucked-up ineptitude was a fashionable pose at the time.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 January 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
There's a kind of stupid youtube parody of Pussy Galore that I'm not going to bother linking, but the one funny part is Julia C. in the studio with headphones on, very carefully recording her, "Fuck you!" part.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
stupid review: http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6899
but i didn't realize this was coming out soon enough to be reviewed! pumped!
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
comes out next week
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BvpRSbjhplg
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
stupid review
wow, amazingly so
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
i like mosurock's still single column on dusted, but sometimes it just seems like he's listened to *too much* of this stuff. like he's jaded about things that really aren't worth being jaded about.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
anyhoo this album is extremely entertaining. also, seeing howling hex tomorrow! excited. last time i saw any royal truxsters was uhhh 1997!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
young people don't like funkadelic? what?
i love the idea of doug mosurock delicately placing the black bananas CD into his home hi-fi setup replete with "really good studio speakers" and wrinkling his nose
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
I had personal reasons for hating him prior to this, but that's just really shitty writing
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
sad excuse for a review, there.
so long as you're interested in weird punk, rock and noise-related obscurities, mosurock's column and tumblr are valuable as a consumer guide: notes on what's out there by someone who's taste is fairly obvious and thus easy to calibrate for, whether or not you agree with him on the details. never read him for the writing quality or even the analysis.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i do agree with him that transmanicocosnsopvn sucked tbh
― 69, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
although it had the best album cover
― 69, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
totally disagree, I love the first side
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
plus "speed to roam" + "pulling out now" on the second
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
True and yet completely false.
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
kinda otm except this album's really good, which makes it a massive outlier in that field
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I kind of feel like the album has a viscous surrealism going for it, which reminds me of nothing so much as the new Le1f mixtape*
*(despite the two albums being like oil & water to my ears)
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
In contest for worst live show I've ever seen.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
they were so bad in nc a few weeks back. worst show i've seen in a really long time. this album is fucking great.
― pretzel walrus, Saturday, 2 June 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I probably wouldn't expect this to be anything but an incoherent mess live.
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 3 June 2012 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
they were so bad in nc a few weeks back. worst show i've seen in a really long time. this album is fucking great
at the Pinhook? I almost got out to that one but my sleep schedule was fucked up from travel so I didn't. last time I saw RTX, at 506, they were great! what happened?
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 3 June 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
They sucked in Atlanta, too. I'm willing to cut JH so much slack, but that show was tough to endure. Abusively, pointlessly loud. No live drums, much to my surprise, just hesher dudes on electronics not groovin' at all.
Really like the record though, great psychedelic production.
― InternationalWaters, Monday, 4 June 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, at the pinhook. i didn't mind the drum machine, but they waited forever to play (went on after midnight when magik markers finished up well before 11), it was definitely "abusively, pointlessly loud," which killed any of the vibe of the record and replaced it with undifferentiated volume, and they were just totally uninterested in playing. i mean, it was "interesting" in a negative drive-kinda sense, but not, y'know, actually something that i wanted to be around.
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
man, Earthquake/Overpass/Nightwalker is SLAYING me tonight!!!
― bride of lecherchaun (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
new track http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15236-hey-rockin/
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
blowin my wig off
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 April 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
makes me miss the Trux
― nostormo, Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
any word on the new album
― nypc blue (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 19 October 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
So this is the cover of the Physical Emotions 7" out on Drag City on 4/22/14:
http://madmackerel.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/black-bananas.jpg?w=698
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
They're going Dam-Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GTuYxZQbqrQ
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
and I'm pretty into it?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah pretty cool
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Yessss
― what goes in vegans stays in vegans (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
this rules!
― schlump, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Yessir!!!
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
wow it even has a drop of sorts
― RSD-rolled (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
would that this video attract as much attention as sky ferreira's! where is the outrage?
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Liars remix: http://www.stereogum.com/1684380/black-bananas-physical-emotions-liars-remix-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
Not as good as Black Bananas' remix of Liars: http://www.stereogum.com/1666011/liars-mess-on-a-mission-black-bananas-freezer-jam-remix/mp3s/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
i feel fairly confident that black bananas fans would enjoy the music stylings of defunct glasgow band Stinky Munchkins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ank0snDu99I
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
i haven't listened to ^^ or any remixes or anything but i still can't believe how good physical emotions is
― schlump, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Album is streaming now: http://pitchfork.com/advance/473-electric-brick-wall/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I love Herrema's insane blown-out production style. It's the epitome of doing stuff that's "wrong" but end up sounding amazing.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I love this. Maybe the best thing she's done since "Transmaniacon."
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Loving this so far, especially "Eve's Child" and "Give It to Me"
― bunny slopes, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Rad Times Xpress IV is one of my favorite albums of the decade; I'd be super stoked if this was like that but better
― the fourth death of ernest borgnine (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Ahhhhh this is nice.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
"Ride the Chump" is such a fuckin jam.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Pitchfork review checklist:
"drugs""squalid druggy transcendence""carton-a-day""fucked up" (1)"heroin chic""coke addled""stoner grooves""cough syrup" "debauched""seedy""fucked up" (2)
Hey next let's write a Steve Malkmus review talking about what a slacker he is. That irreverent slacker!
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
My main issue of the review was that only 2/5ths of the paragraphs were about the new album.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
A whopping six sentences.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is symptomatic of a much larger trend in rock writing in general where discussion of the actual music contained in a release is mostly incidental to the overall narrative of the artist's career (which I really v rarely care about, but that's what media consumption is increasingly oriented around, the story of the "artist")
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
I dunno why I said rock writing there, just music crit in general. maybe it was always this way and I'm just more aware of it now, I dunno.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Also, weird how Hagerty continues to make brilliant records to almost no notice whatsoever (new 10", cassette just released) while JH gets all the love. I get that her stuff is more, err, populist (obviously, I use that term very loosely), and I dig it and everything, but Hagerty's stuff just gets better all the time, and it seems like his fanbase shrinks in proportion to his awesomeness.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
possibly not helping his case by releasing his new music on 10" and cassette tbf
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
the RTX stuff is getting a push via publicists, etc it seems like. hagerty meanwhile doesn't even mention that he has records out during shows. he's never had a merch table or anything.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah it doesn't have anything to do with the music and everything to do with which one of them wants attention more
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
circa maybe the mid-00s it seemed like Hagerty was getting more crit respect out of the two but yeah probably not the case now
xp yeah I didn't know he had new stuff
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
tbf Hagerty's also strayed pretty far from the easily-summarizable narrative noted in the pfork review - the r'n'r debauchery arc - and Herrema's stuck with it. Hag's been making pseudo mexican polka records w no drums, makes no references to drugs/partying, clearly dgaf about "rock" in any real way etc.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
This is all true.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Can't stop listening to this record. So fucking good!
― cwkiii, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/files/IMG_2522-462x800.jpg
Listening to this Fat Pat song for the first time based off Jennifer's endorsement...can totally hear its influence on Electric Brick Wall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOU0yV2dj8U
― cwkiii, Friday, 21 November 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
I feel like RTX/Black Bananas fans need to hear Sheer Mag, if they haven't already: https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
I missed that before but hell yeah Jennifer's a fan of Rodion G.A.!
― you can now get married in a church of bacon (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 25 April 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link