PISSED JEANS

are you... available?

ME TOO

http://villagevoice.com/nyclife/0533,musto,66911,15.html

Of course there are more tastefully individualistic divas du jour—like the Black Eyed Peas' FERGIE, who, at Paper magazine's dinner at Luda in her honor, was sweet and effusive in all her Heatheretted-up glory. She was so sweet, in fact, that I hated to corner her with a pesky question involving personal hygiene. Had she seen the photo from their recent San Diego concert, linked on gawker.com, in which a giant, crescent-shaped stain jazzed up her pants crotch? (Reports claimed that since she and the Peas had arrived late, Fergie was in a bind and had to relieve herself onstage.) "I had a bad day that day," she told me, not moistening—or clarifying. Point taken—but did the Black Eyed pee? "No!" she exclaimed, half convincingly. "Well then," I generously stammered, "maybe it was perspiration?" She half nodded, still smiling, but being as much of a gentleman as she's a lady, I didn't pursue that or other far worse options. (You know . . . never mind.)

How cool is the piano outro on "Ugly Twin (I've Got)"!

Drunks with Guns vinyl record prices to skyrocket!

I had been hoping it would turn up at one of my usual physical store haunts but I will probably give up and go the mail order route soon

They are going to break a lot of gay watersports enthusiast's hearts with that band name.

(although I really like GIRLS who piss their jeans.)

I do have a feeling this stuff is smarter than its letting on.

yeah, i mean it's a pretty deliberate attempt to mine sexual frustration/torpid deviance for lyrical content. works wonder, i say.

'Boring Girls' ....laugh, laugh to a Drunks With Guns one chord-a -thon about the beauty of the ladies.

To the thread originator, I'm almost 39 you young buck.

The last time punk rock decked me in the head this hard was Fucked Up.

The Ginn-style guitar is so fucking visceral, and the rhythm section sometimes lopes into Jesus Lizard territory.

It's so cool to see bands revisiting the weird side of early-80s hardcore.

Here's a page about Fucked Up if anyone is interested.

Shallow is my most listened to rock record in a long time

yep, pretty RAWK all right

Looks like they are reissuing Shallow.

October 14th, 2006 @ On Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA w/ Brain Handle, Slices
October 15th, 2006 @ Nihilist Gallery in Chicago, IL w/ Binges, Number None
October 16th, 2006 @ Slaughterhaus in St. Louis, MO w/ the Hell, the Adversary Workers, Bill McClellan Motherfuckers
October 17th, 2006 @ Tower 2012 in Cleveland, OH w/ Vietnam Werewolf, Insurrect
October 18th, 2006 @ Valentine's in Albany, NY w/ Bare Bones, Nuclear Family
October 19th, 2006 @ Massart in Boston, MA w/ Relics, Scapegoat
October 20th, 2006 @ Bard College in Annadale, NY w/ Pearls & Brass, the Motel Bible
October 21st, 2006 @ Wesleyan in Middletown, CT w/ Pearls & Brass
October 22nd, 2006 @ PA's Lounge in Somerville, MA w/ Pearls & Brass
October 27th, 2006 @ The El Mocambo in Toronto, Canada w/ Fucked Up

3.5 stars from Rolling Stone? Sub Pop what have you done to the jeans???? (Haven't heard the album yet, waiting to pick it up tomorrow)

so these guys are playing in Baltimore this friday at "The Bank". problem is i've never heard of "The Bank" and google's turning up zilch. can any Baltimoreans help me out here?

Am I wrong in thinking that these guys are not to be taken seriously, ina Mclusky sort of way? Not as witty, to be sure, but "Scrapbooking" is funnier than anything on that last Art Brut record.

I was thinking that "The Bank" was that place on the corner of Eutaw and Baltimore but then I realized that that used to be called "The Vault" and is something else now so it just had me confused. Now I have no idea where "The Bank" is but I feel like I've walked past it at some point. Jess?

I've never heard Pissed Jeans but I was going to try to check out that show for one of the local openers.

"not to be taken seriously" is a v. problematic turn of phrase but I *think* you have the right idea

nevermind, I found the address:
The Bank
2013 Frederick Ave.

yeah it's on the westside

i will be there will bells on

sweet, 69 and i gonna rock this shit out

whole lineup is A+++ really

I take Pissed Jeans very seriously.

I take them seriously in the sense that they're a great noisy rock band (again, similar to my appreciation for Mclusky), but I think their lyrics are plainly tongue-in-cheek most of the time. I mean, "I've Still Got You (Ice Cream)", c'mon.

take them seriously it's total retard rock are you people british?

I don't know, I think the lyrics are supposed to be an actual reflection of the kinds of things that desperate men cling to. I like the vocals a lot.
Ice Cream is my favorite song.

excellent point, now let's deconstruct "dick in one hand" by drunks w/ guns.

also, pj much more enjoyable live than on record. I was so-so on them till I saw 'em live.

x-p

I think there's some truth in it for sure, I just happen to think that the juxtoposition of the "pained" vocal delivery with the (relatively) small-stake subject matter is more funny than insightful. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

yeah they are so great live and c. 3ddy o_O like usual. singer = hotttt

O.G. pigfuckers should not be expected to dig this shit. I do, but I was going to daycare in 1985. I bet plenty of fans weren't even born.

I can't imagine anybody thinks this is an IMPROVEMENT on the first time 'round.

"o.g.," lol

pigfuck 4 lyfe

take them seriously it's total retard rock are you people british?

-- Edward III, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:27 (Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:27) Bookmark Link

i still like this but yeah after awhile "Scrapbooking" really become irritating...i love the lyrics....the jogger is way better for the offspeed/changeup talking shit.

still this is pretty epic. i take them seriously. it's seriously good.

Like Hope for Men, don't love it. In part, that's cuz it's only about 1/10th as entertaining as the live show. But it's also less surprising, funny, rocking, noisy than I'd have liked. An good record that's just shy of something great.

LOL at dudes throwing down about pigfuck bands' lyrics and vocal delivery. it's ugly and stupid, SOOPRISE!? it's also (fucking obviously) no Flipper or Jesus Lizard or Whatever, but it's probably the most satisfying approximation floating around right now.

so these dudes are playing at a more familiar Baltimore establishment, the Ottobar, with Black Dice headlining on November 19th. I'll actually be attending this one!

"I've got something to tell you
I hope you don't take it wrong
Well you've got a secret admirer
And I think he's singin' a song
Yeah, he's a mysterious guy alright
I'll give you a clue who it is
And I'll throw in a couple of guesses
He's in the music biz
Oh, he keeps his tongue tied
And he's really shy
But none of that means that he's a bad guy
I'm pretty sure he sees you on weekdays
When you're walking home from work
He looks out of his window
So he can't act like a jerk
And he's figured out what car you drive
Not totally sure what house is yours
He doesn't know what he's truly looking for
But he's gonna give/get(?) it

I've got something to tell you
I'm not trying to be a creep
One day i'll be in your driveway
Singin "AYAI AYAI AYAIYAIIIII"

I've got something to tell you
I'm not tryin to be a jerk
Well one day i'll be in your driveway
Singin' "hey hey laida HAEAEAYYYY!"

the lyrics i do understand i actually like. kinda Twee meets Pigfuck. where else can you hear genuine noisefuck odes to scrapbooking and icecream?

Hearing dude talk about his digital watch and stuff is like watching True Stories in slo-mo. LOL THE BANALITY OF MODERN EXISTENCE

YEAH THEY SHOULD SING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS!!!11!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/07/pissed_jeans_are_the_true_heir.html

^^^haha totally missed this at the time, I guess we all did

for nu-pigfuck though i think STNNNG torches pissed jeans, and are more interesting.

I saw STNNNG a few years ago, was unimpressed really pretty much embarrassed by their performance... Don't care much for the recordings I've heard either. Guitars were real weak sounding (could have been due to the mix in the PA) and most of the playing missed the mark if I recall correctly, singer had zero charisma, didn't like his voice...

I do dig the first Pissed Jeans record, and especially the 7". Hope For Men I can take or leave. When I want piss-sack idiotshit scum rock I usually go with Drunks With Guns or the Brainbombs. Stick Men With Rayguns are probably wittier...and so on like people have been saying...

I like all those bands! I must have a low tolerance for this kind of thing... duh.

LOL @ wankers on Guardian comments as per

When I say I dig the first record and 7", what I mean to say is, I REALLY dig them.

Also, as far as sludgy suckrock bands that do it a bit better, there has not been one mention of...RUSTED SHUT. But I suppose they're a pretty different beast...

I don't know about live but on record STNNNG blow my face off. Great lyrics and singing. But really they're more Jesus Lizard angry-but-not-in shambles while Pissed Jeans is more like Flipper drunk + self loathing.

Clockcleaner is another nu-pigfuck band that are tearing shit up/

Loved Shallow and the Sub-Pop single when they came out, but burned out quick. Hope for Men didn't do much for me on the first few spins, but I'm old and jaded.

What's surprising is how much it's all grown on me. I said I burned out on the early stuff, but listening to it recently, I like it a lot more than I thought I would. And Hope for Men is catching up fast. Great lyrics, one of the better/funnier live shows in recent memory, and some great, almost-catchy riffs buried down there in the garbage. Derivative, sure, but at least they're good at what they do. On the downside, the drumming fine, but I wish the rhythm section were a little less predictable. That's maybe my one complaint. Can't imagine they have a "Flying Houses" anywhere up the sleeve.

And it's funny how divisive stuff like "Scrapbooking" is. Gateway for folks who wouldn't ordinarily be able to deal, boring interlude for the converted. Personally, I love the song, and think the album wouldn't be anywhere near as strong without it (and "The Jogger").

the NY Times calls them ****** Jeans...

Primal Call and Response at a Band’s Rumbling Bash
By BEN RATLIFF

Correction Appended

Sad-eyed Matt Korvette, lanky and a little slobby, stood on a chair, put his hands up by his clavicle and ripped off his white T-shirt from the collar down. Gathering concentration, he looked straight ahead as he made this strong and pathetic gesture.

What a cliché, right? But then the band started a monstrous rumble, a foursquare beat began, and the dour young man became the horse face from “Guernica”: all teeth, tongue, nostrils and jaws, his mouth open in a scream. Here was someone you wanted to watch. He was bellowing about wanting to kiss boring girls, growing primal as he outlined a stultifying thought, and he would not break his concentration.

His band, from Philadelphia, has a name that lies just on the other side of what’s printable here; it describes a basic bladder-related humiliation, something that happens to the drunk or scared or infantile. As it happens, that described some of Friday night’s crowd at the Silent Barn, a little performance space in Ridgewood, Queens.

This group brings back ’80s memories of hard, slovenly noise, when punk bands realized they could slow down and let their music fall apart a bit. It triggers a deep behavioral response of that era too, before mosh pits became codified.

The crowd at the Silent Barn, a room without a stage, became aggressive, nasty; it wasn’t easy to stay neutral, and people started to huddle defensively on the sides.

The columns of speakers on either side of the band were being used as something to hold on to. Average hipsters started to look like sailors clinging to a mast in a storm. The band’s bassist, Randy Huth, stood in front of the drummer, Sean McGuinness, playing with his back to the audience, trying to prevent bodies from flying into the cymbals and drum kit.

Historically the way a bare-chested, punk-band singer deals with a situation like this is to make it worse. But the band started a new song, “I Don’t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear,” and Mr. Korvette walked slowly into the room, acting abstracted, completely naïve, a man from Mars. It was a nice touch. Nobody bothered him, and the action slowed down around him. “I might just stand here,” he sang. And he did.

Their songs are funny. They’re full of rabid energy about dull or benign things, like cellphone plans or ice cream. Now and then, when Mr. Korvette ripped into a new song looking as if he was going to eat his microphone, or when the band started a new, messy riff, leaking feedback and channeling Black Sabbath or Black Flag, it seemed that this was going to be a very good gig. It wasn’t. It couldn’t hold its own against the mess of the crowd. The set was short, 40 minutes or so, cut off for bad vibes. It didn’t get to where it wanted to go.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: February 20, 2008
A music review on Monday of ****** Jeans at the Silent Barn in Queens misidentified the bassist. He is Randy Huth — not Dave Rosenstrauss, who left the band.

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

Saw that the other day. Kinda surreal. Like big brain alien planet scientists observing the primitive rituals.

'Don't Need Smoke' is way old as well, while they're going about correcting stuff

new album in a couple weeks! stoked!

http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/king_of_jeans

Dudes stepped it uppp

their album covers are always intersting imo

jazzed for this, definitely

It's tighter, doomy almost. "Spent" is like Swans, if Gira lived in a milltown.

awesome. hey pretzel walrus, holler at me if you all go see these guys please!

How's this compare with the last one? I didn't care for it that much :-\ Haven't like anything nearly as much as I liked that first 7" honestly. Still, looking forward to this.

cons: toned down the "i STUBBED MY TOE/and it FUCKING SUCKS" style songwriting for something (gack) more "considered"
pros: ditched the pulseless feedback dirges that made hope for men pale against shallow.

call it a draw.

Theoretically I like pulse-less feedback dirges but it is not one of their strengths.

^have to agree with this, albeit reluctantly

I've listened to HFM so much at this point that it'll probably take me til the end of the year to have an idea if this one is better, but there are unquestionably stellar moments

excited for this, love the one track i've heard (false jesii part 2)

^yeah that song is great! really getting excited.

i liked some of the dirges, but i think they went to the well too many times on hope for men...plus the song about the guy who's like a star wars/comic dork and the jogger were kinda just the same idea, listing off "stuff"....still about half that album rips hard.

like "Hope For Men" tried to be emotionless. just this boring album about scrapbooking and jogging and shit. To wit:

"Mainly we just wanted to bludgeon the listener with dull, monotonous droning rock music that just sucks the energy out of you, the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.”

And now they have balls, and play like they give a shit, and are awesome. The end.

Hope For Men was like a whole album of "Sex Bomb Baby" and this is like a whole album "My War," take yer pic

i liked hope for men, i like the new one too

hope that's ok with you whiney

they had plenty of "balls" on shallow. maybe more so. and if there's one band that makes a high art of not giving a shit at the moment, it's these guys. for chrissakes one song on the new one repeats "but i don't bother" about 52,000 times. it's possible to write songs that have force and mass, but not much forward momentum, that still provoke a visceral response. it's also possible to get off on music that wants to oppress you, though i wouldn't make a habit of it.

also describing something as "a whole album of 'sex bomb baby'" as a negative does not really compute.

or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.

that's pretty good.

They're pretty funny and "Vegas" live. Singer is the Karen O of love handles.

Drummer lurched to his feet about 25 mins into set and puked on his kit and stage in a couple sickening spasms. Singer lectures, "We're called Pissed Jeans, not Vomited Stages!" They pressed on another 3 songs or so. That's entertainment!

New album is really good.

i was there yesterday too.
Jeans were good and funny, but TV Ghost weven more awesome!

I liked them; vocalist's hair made me think he was gonna break into "Rio."

they sound like The Birthday Party - Hee Haw era, and thats a great compliment.

jeans & tv ghost = a wonderful bill, wish they would make it over to the uk

how was guinea worms? i wanna see guinea worms.

I did not arrive til 10:30, saw one song of Vee Dee.

I liked that Guinea Worms song on Worlds Lousy vol 8 more before I heard the Great Plains song "Death of A Thought Returns."
It's basically a note for note ripoff with different lyrics. It's still a cool song, but not as cool as I once thought.

or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, August 1, 2009 2:32 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is lol and otm. love this band.

a puke photo, at last (Too Gross for Work?)

http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/05/live-wfmu-fest/

http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/PissedJeans_KingOfJeans.jpg
I'm digging this one way more than "hope for men", it's great.
"she is science fiction" is the jam. These guys are getting better with age!

Just listened to it again after gorging on it for a review. I'm thinking it's my fav of the year now, displacing Future of the Left.

this is awesome

"hit my head leaving your basement, I feel like a giraffe"

http://www.self-titledmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/pj_koj_poster.png

half id-i-ot

should have placed higher in a lot more end of year polls. anyone else get the bonus live CD by preordering through subpop? its a recording of their set at the subpop20 event, really good. hope they're back over in europe soon as i miss them.

It placed at #23 in the ilx metal poll.

Well that is the only that matters i suppose.

*one

I love internet sarcasm.

"R-Rated Movie" may be my favorite on this but really I love it all.

i really dont hear enough stuff like this

my favorite rock record of the year, by far

^^^ this.

pretty sure this album stopped me from drinking a fifth of bathtub gin and driving into a brick wall several times during the clusterfuck that was 2009.

the entire pissed jeans discography could be subtitled "...but at least we can laugh about it now"

hahaha

I like this album but it's nowhere near "Shallow." lotta people seem to think the opposite though

"Dream Smotherer" is pretty killer

this should have placed higher on pazz and jop, rock critics are dumbasses shocker

I only did five records for pazz and jop to try to pump this record (and four others) up!

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2009/S2luZyBvZiBKZWFucw==

i think i would have voted for this and a bunch of made-up albums. and taylor swift.

thanks for doing your retarded arguing here and not on the goddamn site where i could at least make some goddamn money

i'll go copy and paste that into the comments box if it means tiny tim will get his christmas goose this year

pretty sure this album stopped me from drinking a fifth of bathtub gin and driving into a brick wall several times during the clusterfuck that was 2009.

^^^basically this

Hope For Men got me through 2007 comparatively more though

This has to be the most embarrassing "look at us, we're RAWK and WE DON'T CARE" band name I've ever encountered.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:47 (3 years ago)

This was totally stored in my head as a gabbnebb post; who knew.

jesus christ. these guys...

the best current live rock band I've seen, for two years running now. nobody can touch them.

although maybe I missed a wicked 'Dirty Projectors' show in the interim or something, wouldn't know

Dirty Projectors were great live when i saw them last fall

what Pissed Jeans record is better, Stormy?

For me, and bear in mind that these are ranked in the spirit of narcissism of small differences: Hope For Men, then King Of Jeans, then Shallow

ksh, never heard heard Dirty Projectors, that's the whole reason why I wrote 'I wouldn't know'! If you think they are better than Pissed Jeans -- either Live or on record, sure, tell me to check'em out.

Pissed Jeans just continue to be a beautiful, ugly, stupid force.

can't quite think of anyone like them. altho I admit I'm not familiar w/ the bands the get namechecked on the 'nu-pigfuck' thread..

point being that -- my IMPRESSION -- is that 'Dirty Projectors' -- whoever the heck they are, got a lot of corporate crit bleating. by losers who would never set foot in a bar where Pissed Jeans plays. Of course, you see, most of my fave records are by old jazz dudes like Fred Anderson or whatever, so they ain't gonna get nominated for any awards either. So shooting potshots at 'darlings' like "Dirty Projectors" = just a bit of fun, i'm sure you will recover

If Dirty Projectors are all that, I'd love to hear one or two sentences to convince me to check 'em out!

I mean, I don't read 'Pazz & Jop' comments or 1000 post ILX threads anymore, work won't allow it, but fuck -- if DP actually rule I would love to be sold on it. can never get enough great music..

in any case, I sync up with Mencap. I still think that 'Hope For Men' is the best Pissed Jeans record

new one is cool, but I actually do kinda *miss* the weirdness and skits that were stuck into HFM

yes. totally great live. think the jesus lizard reunion was the only other time i've been as impressed with a live band in the past few years. their records are all solid, really. could making a case for any of them being the best.

ksh i would strongly recommend getting "king of jeans" first. arguably equal to "hope for men" in greatness but it's their most accessible fer sher. "hope for men" is them pounding riffs into the ground endlessly with no release or sense of direction and "king of jeans" is them embracing release and rocking out in a more traditional sense. i only really appreciated "hope for men" after having heard/loved "king of jeans". hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

The Ex thows down mightily but they don't tour the states much

would like to see pissed jeans

thanks for the suggestions as to which record to buy first, everybody -- i'm going to add all of them to my ever-growing list of stuff to check out

Stormy: here's a Dirty Projectors song to check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4he_jgJrMCk

live video featuring me fervidly moshing and fist-pumping

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/mar/01/india.railtravel

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-rzAoKm5Y

what was the median age of the ppl at that show?

when i saw Dirty Projectors, it had to have been, like, 19

oh, thanks ksh! that track is really quite nice. reminds of a lot disparate things that kinda come close but don't really nail their sound so I won't mention them here, but suffice to say it pushes some of my buttons. anyway, yeah I was just kinda drunk and ranting last night -- depressed that a band as amazing as Pissed Jeans really *doesn't* get their just due. but that's just how it goes.

iow, i am feeling this;

hands down best rock band in the world going right now though.

― tmi finney (samosa gibreel)

ah man, it was the best show. alot of these weird punk shows in montreal lately have been really boring audience-wise, just this silent majority of hipsters and people who like performance art standing around with their arms crossed. but for pissed jeans they got a powerviolence band and an 80s hardcore band to open, tonnes of dudes crowdsurfing and going nuts.

median age at the show last night was probably about 28 (I am 38)

didn't see any of the scenesters from "my generation" of indie/punk/etc rock though, which kind of surprised me. It was a Wednesday though (it was a huge battle to make it into my 8 am start job today, 20 minutes late)

I should also mention that the Empty Bottle in Chicago has amazing drink specials, $5.50 each day for a drink and a shot. Last night, it was Tito's Vodka and a Point IPA in a bottle. Tito's is, like, my fave vodka right now, and I'm not even really a vodka guy. best boilermaker ever

pretty much everyone was over 20. well, at least no one under 18.

yeah, I caught the same general vibe as samosa. crowd actually *did* start off a little arm-crossed, but Pissed Jeans proceeded to break that down relentlessly until, at the end, there was wild moshing to the last couple tracks. they really are unparalleled right now, I think. 50 minute set, no encores, as there needn't have been. they give everything they have for the 50 minutes.

Stormy, glad you liked the DP song!

that's great that the audience was really into it. way too rare these days at many, many shows

these fuckin guys

never listened, just cuz

i heard they had a 7" coming out this year

The 7" is out, at least on Emusic. "Sam Kinison Woman" is great, but the b-side is the kind of lumbering clever-Neandertal dirge that they do better than anyone since Flipper. Stunning in it's groaning, cranking way.

yep there was a run of 500 on yellow vinyl from sub pop. not sure if any are left, was glad i scored one.

Can someone please tell me the name of the song being played in this clip? I was at this show and they opened with this, and it was VISCERAL.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dXZfGAt2k

That looks odd. In any case, yeah -- anyone know the title?

Hey that's the song I'm talking about. The L-Word.

their singer is hilarious. <3 this band.

yep there was a run of 500 on yellow vinyl from sub pop. not sure if any are left, was glad i scored one.

― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Sunday, 7 November 2010 00:23 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for the record there's a, presumably more numerous, black vinyl version if that wasn't clear

also they have a tribute band (sort of)! http://www.myspace.com/shatshorts

^ 7" is great

I won tickets to Pissed Jeans off of WFMU's twitter on Friday.

http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/79955

Opening band is ... Protect-U?? Dance music from D.C. (I saw em at PS1 Warm-Up over the summer). What a weird bill.

/ braggin 2012

mike from protect-u and sean from pissed jeans played together in a dc band called navies back in the day

cool story bro

Wait, that is a cool story bro - I had no idea either of those guys were in Navies. I thought Navies was an ex-Black Eyes thing?

mike from protect-u and sean from pissed jeans played together in a dc band called navies back in the day

huh! well that kinda explains it then.

xp - don't think any of the black eyes dudes were ever in navies, though they played shows together sometimes, and there's a lotta former-member overlap via future times (mike's label)/LIES/100% silk stuff

anyway, this thread revive prompted me to pull out shallow again and it is still so so awesome

love these guys, it's totally time for a new album!

fucking amazing band. seeing them in 2 weeks.

Just heard Sam Kinison woman, fucking awesome. How have the recent sets been? Would love to get these guys in the local DIY basement venue.

they were pretty good at Music Hall of Williamsburg although the sound was a little mushy, guitars weren't cutting through like they should

the singer practically does standup nowadays. it's pretty lol. people in front near the stage got the Don Rickles treatment

New track!
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14585-bathroom-laughter/
It's rather good...

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

i already said this somewhere else but this album is the no. 1 reason to not throw myself under a bus until at least february 2013

yeah, best band

fvk yes \m/

love em forever

this is fucking awesome

great innit. I'm going to revisit their old albums by way of celebration.

Now if only Clockcleaner would release another record!

good band but Jesus Lizard is better

that statement works for nearly every band is the thing

Clockcleaner broke up didn't they?

I don't think I heard the last Pissed Jeans record. Which I should probably do something about.

re. Clockcleaner, I think so too, but it was difficult on cursory examination of Wikipedia etc. to confirm that was the case. Anyway they were good too!

Clockcleaner singer dude subsequently did Puerto Rico Flowers which very v little rock and lots of goth. have a feeling that too has come to an end

Clockcleaner definitely had a goth thing going on, but more on the Cramps/ Gun Club end of the goth-psychobilly spectrum I would have said.

So glad Pissed Jeans is BACK

now Air Conditioning just needs to return

the last pissed jeans was just unbelievably good. amazing live band and good guys too.

clockcleaner broke up & richard sharkey formed puerto rico flowers who i'm not sure have released anything this year but released an lp last year, more gothy less punk

jesus lizard are one of those bands i know i am wrong for not loving more but tbh have always prefered most other amrep to them. find the bass too metal funk-ey or something & hasn't aged well, compared to halo of flies for example. kind of feel the same way about butthole surfers. i def prefer pissed jeans but obv my mileage varies, i wasn't listening to any of this stuff in the 90's

find it amusing that Matt Korvette writes for Spin's fashion/style blog: http://www.spin.com/writers/matt-korvette

now Air Conditioning just needs to return

Hell yeah.

easily one of my most anticipated albums

Definitely excited about this. Last album was great.

Korvette's blog is really great by the way. He reviews a ton of records and has pretty broad tastes. Does some really cool interviews as well.

Here it is: http://www.yellowgreenred.com/

Huh - got kind of bummed out about the SPIN fashion blog (fuckin' gross, both the parts where he's making fun of it and the parts where he's serious), but then got pretty psyched on his blog, which is a total 'zine throwback and is a lot of fun.

Didn't read the Spin thing, not really interested. Blog is a throwback and is not snarky/gross at all, pretty straight takes on records and interviews with interesting bands that are not getting interviewed many other places. Dude has listened to a lot of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbC0XlqJ-1w

the lyrics are great! what do y'all want, poetry?
― strongohulkington, Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:01 AM (5 years ago)

vocal perf. is masterful

so good

Angry local music fan yells at local paper for article:

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR-Youre-not-punk-and-Im-telling-everyone.html

lol "REAL punk bands practice TWICE a week and sometimes play FIVE shows a MONTH"

I hope the next Pissed Jeans album is just a dramatic reading of this letter.

the latter of whom do not take wrestling as "a gimmick"

"romanticize me" is an early fave from the album

Bucketflesh and Spent Flesh?

Haven't had a chance to listen to this yet, but the copy I bought at Reckless came with a free 7" of their 2003 demos. Super excited to hear those too.

lol "REAL punk bands practice TWICE a week and sometimes play FIVE shows a MONTH"

yeah I don't think I've ever heard the "you're not punk, you don't practice enough" argument

FIVE shows a MONTH. Black Flag ain't got nothing on these guys.

"TWICE a week" says to me that your drummer is two-timing.

if that letter dude is such a badass how come his handwriting is so neat

guess he practices writing letters regularly

'when it comes to sleepin, i'm a talented man'

http://i.imgur.com/A6CjyEf.gif

saw them last week and korvette has to be one of the best frontmen going. his dance moves/stage antics are sick and he started off with a rant about the weather, about god trying to keep them from getting to chicago, that ended with him cursing god and demanding to be struck dead on the spot. he also tore his tshirt straight down the front literally as soon as the band started playing. the next day i was looking on youtube trying to find clips to show my wife how great he is but couldn't find any that measured up to what i had seen.

yeah, he's spectacular, maybe my favorite rock frontman atm. only seen them a few times (and not in a couple years), but he's never failed to put on a show. whole band is great, but i particularly love watching brad and matt.

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/three-querulous-dancefloor-rejects

What a life affirming treat these were Live in Leeds last night.

Apart from the hilarity and sheer catharcism, it brought home to me that this band can actually play too - much to their disgust

yeah they banged in London also. Apart from BORING GIRLS I don't recall any specific standouts but it was consistently entertaining. Nothing off Hope For Men iirc? kinda odd

free in W'burg Sat afternoon

http://www.union-pool.com/calendar/

The thing they put out on Record Store Day is pretty fun:

http://static.squarespace.com/static/52ac25ede4b06d986ca7d69a/t/5345899ce4b012983d5db220/1397066157393/logo_rsd_NL_square%20%282%29.jpg

jesus lizard are one of those bands i know i am wrong for not loving more but tbh have always prefered most other amrep to them. find the bass too metal funk-ey or something & hasn't aged well

U crazy! Sims = so great

otm, not-so-secret weapon

People who like Pissed Jeans should listen to Watery Love

https://twitter.com/mattkorvette/status/573880265740718082

Cracks me up every time.

Today's melange of flak from a project manager, neighborhood burglaries, and a deer tick bite necessitated shuffling through the Pissed Jeans discography all afternoon.

convinced that a) they are one of the great bands of the current era and b) "goodbye (hair)" is the greatest song title of the current era

I miss Pissed Jeans

mist jeans

perfect timing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJscLzuxiWc&feature=share

yesss

new album out in Feb, co-produced by Lydia Lunch(!)

http://pitchfork.com/news/69821-pissed-jeans-announce-new-album-why-love-now-share-new-single-the-bar-is-low-listen/

i feel like "i'm a man" is the ur-pissed jeans song title

This is such a good Pissed Jeans album.

They're not mere pigfuck revivalists, but at their best they remind me why I love that sound.

Is there already a promo kicking around?

https://streetstains.bandcamp.com/album/street-stains
side project by the drummer and guitarist of pissed jeans

no sorry, pissed jeans drummer and chris richards who i think was in q and not u?

and is an occasionally controversial music critic for the washington post

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/stream-pissed-jeans-fierce-new-album-why-love-now

Great album

I was not expecting to marvel at the thoughtful pacing and sequencing in a Pissed Jeans album but here we are

ugh this is so good. "i'm a man" is amazing and made me put a lindsay hunter book on hold at the library.

also Korvette is a legit amazing vocalist

this shit suxxx

This is good!

Korvette really going for it. Some cool production flourishes too.

LOL at the bleep on the first track.

"Love Without Emotion" is the best song Mudhoney never wrote

or a kinder, gentler tad?

also Korvette is a legit amazing vocalist

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, February 17, 2017 12:51 PM (three weeks ago)

"Waiting On My Horrible Warning" testament to this. Little but a bass drone & MATT KORVETTE LADIES & GENTLEMEN.

They (Pissed Jeans) are playing the Empty Bottle in Chicago on April 28th which I only mention cuz then band I am in (STNNNG) is playing as well.

We played together at the Bottle in 2008. Which was a long ass time ago.

i just saw that and put it on my calendar and also a reminder to buy tickets tomorrow. great lineup!

this video is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7aBnoaYPQ

shit i can't believe its been 10 years already for these guys. got Shallow on and its such a good debut. nice guys, fucking amazing live band. fill that perfect mudhoney/jesus lizard shape hole in my life.

forgot how much this band rules

https://pitchfork.com/news/pissed-jeans-announce-new-album-half-divorced-share-video-for-new-song-watch/

yesssssssss

what happens to the pastry in his pocket after the coffee is spilled?

"Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt" on repeat

The single made me a bit fearful, but the LP rules. Everywhere Is Bad is my highlight.

Saw someone raving about this new one , but haven't listened yet

Faster! Kinda Poison Idea sounding, but with their fine sense the torture of the mundane.

They've never had a bad album, but this new one is exceptionally good and might be my favorite since King of Jeans.

some of their fans don't like it because it's more "punk" than "noise rock" but I'm ok with that, I think it's great

i like the new album but nothing really jumps out at me as a particular highlight/something i would add to a "best of pissed jeans" playlist other than "junk time" which is the most noise rock song on the album. but i probably need to listen to it more, a lot of the songs zip by very quickly. i love PJ for having humor in their songs but "everywhere is bad" is maybe 10% too jokey for me, and i don't love the chorus.

anyone know who's doing backup vocals on "seatbelt alarm silencer"?

> "everywhere is bad" is maybe 10% too jokey

It's that way if I think about it too much, but when it just wheezes by it's great. "Junktime" is the best in their familiar way of oozing, but I love that they play a lot differently here overall. Agree that this is their best since King of Jeans.

Yeah "Junktime" is probably my favorite, but also love the breakneck punk ones.

That hanging chord halfway through Junktime is tremendous. Really love the lead work on this album.

That hanging chord halfway through Junktime is tremendous. Really love the lead work on this album.

That hanging chord halfway through Junktime is tremendous. Really love the lead work on this album.

That hanging chord halfway through Junktime is tremendous. Really love the lead work on this album.

bendy posting the way Pissed Jeans hammer in those noise riffs, respect.

Haha

Saw them play a lot of these songs live a week or so ago and they sounded excellent. "Junktime" was for sure the highlight but "Moving On' and "Killing All The Wrong People" sounded great too. "(Stolen) Catalytic Converter" is another highlight for me. Great album overall. Reminds me a bit of Hot Snakes more than their others. "Moving On" reminds me of "Plenty for All" a little bit.

as someone who loves pissed jeans but doesn't know much about hardcore, who would you say are their primary musical influences/predecessors?

their big innovation is applying adult disillusionment to a genre built on youthful nihilism. But for the psychic horror, Flipper. For the ugly journeymenship, Poison Idea.

not a predecessor but the album ‘skullduggery’ by wiccans scratches the pissed jeans itch for me