This just made my day ten times over!
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 26 December 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
My Slovenly interview from Spin, 1987:
http://books.google.com/books?id=gcCEwpvxozAC&pg=PA12&dq=chuck+eddy+slovenly&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=chuck%20eddy%20slovenly&f=false
― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Mike Watt and the Missingmen in Dublin on Saturday night, great show. Bushie from ESTEL got my CD covers signed by Watt and Tom Watson beforehand. Apparently Tom was very surprised - he hadn't seen the CD cover of Riposte since its only pressing in 1987! I'm glad he knows someone feels the love.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 20 June 2011 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Really wish Slovenly would get a proper revival. Truly one of the best of the "forgotten" American bands. . .
― Austin, Friday, 5 April 2013 07:19 (eleven years ago) link
Seconded. Still waiting for any news on a reissue campaign. Potential legal wranglings aside, why Drag City or some label like that never leapt at this opportunity is beyond me...
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 5 April 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe they're stuck in SST limbo, like everyone else who was on the label.
― luigi nono no-no-nono no-no-nono (Matt #2), Friday, 5 April 2013 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
I could even see Thinking Of Empire sitting quite nicely alongside a lot of the stuff LTM has reissued, always thought there was heavy whiff of Manchester post-punk on that album.
Have seen quite a few live videos of this lot now, but have found them all a bit disappointing tbh. Maybe it's just the murky quality of the recordings but on stage they seemed to do quite a good job of completely suppressing their tunes.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 5 April 2013 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
Actually I take that back - this live set from 1987 is great:
https://soundcloud.com/rob-holzman/sets/slovenly-live-at-the-revival
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
Needs saying what a fine drummer Holzman is, could listen to e.g. Distended all day long for his part, my ears are just fascinated by that stuff. Talk about well-oiled gears.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
sitting semi-sober, horribly bored
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 24 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
this is a great early 7", joy division influence very apparent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7sS8N5UVZQ
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 24 October 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
and that one song where they sound really like tful282:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7YQP-m-FM
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 24 October 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
It's like the older their music gets, the more timeless it becomes. I literally can't get enough of this band.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 11 October 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
why Drag City or some label like that never leapt at this opportunity is beyond me...
I just bought After the Original Style and Thinking of Empire after only having them digitally for many years from the same seller on Discogs and they arrived in a package postmarked from, you guessed it, Drag City.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 11 October 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Big connection between drag city and the slovs is that Tom Watson plays on some of those later red krayola records that dc put out
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
I've never ventured into Red Krayola. Is it worthwhile for a Slovenly guy like myself?
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Not fully investigated them tbh but i didn't really enjoy the couple I heard at all
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
to take it back to Slovenly, this song rules the wasteland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbSHwD_UE_w
― the tune was space, Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
that final "I'm NOT LOOOOONNNNNNEE-LEEEEEEE" part = shivers
Yeah, I think as far as capturing an isolated mood that's equal parts doom and somehow hopeful, they were kings. It's like a melancholy happiness. Such a unique feeling that they were able to capture.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/food/2015-12-01/remembering-steve-anderson
is this the same steve anderson? this obit seems to paint the picture of him as an austin scene dude, but weren't the slovs mainly bay area / west coast dudes?
this is steve from slovenly sitting atop the ladder: https://img.discogs.com/v8LovkNFJgTyQrK-dIDhP7kbFWI=/600x423/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-315042-1497127252-7384.jpeg.jpg
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Doesn’t look like the same guy so i’m pretty sure that’s a different Steve Anderson. From discogs it seems like there were two different punk bands called toxic shock in the early 80s, one with some slovenly guys (Watson, ziegler and anderson) and another from Austin that had David Yow on bass and the other Steve Anderson on guitar.
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
Hey just found this new slovenly interview that was in PSF a couple of months back! Steve Anderson lives!
http://www.furious.com/perfect/slovenly.html
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
holy shit, nick! that link is invaluable. what a find! i am ever so grateful.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Having been introduced to Slovenly in the late 80s, I've been revisiting them a lot during lockdown. What a band! I'd love a Numero group style boxset. Does anyone know why on the CDs of 'Riposte' and 'We Shoot...' the running order is different to the vinyl with the A and B sides swapped? Just curious.
― Grantman, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link