Local H: C/D?

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Most Nirvana lovers probably dismissed this band outright (I sure did when "Bound For The Floor" first came out), but I think these guys have aged much better than their, in AMG-speak, "post-grunge" peers. Grade-A midwestern angst with sharp lyrics and catchy hooks. I don't have "Pack Up The Cats" or "Hamfisted" yet, but "Here Comes The Zoo" and "As Good As Dead" are filled with some of the wittiest, most biting hard rock of recent years. Has anyone else out there given these guys a chance?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I certainly did! I loved them in middle school. In retrospect they're almost too mopey to tolerate, but it seemed natural then (i cant imagine why). Search "Cynic", "Fritz's Corner", most of the singles... I remember their hardest stuff being the best, but I haven't listened in years.

(I feel like I got something off my chest here)

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I vaguely remember hearing some of the albums from the midnineties and after. Didn't stick.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

So C it hurts. "Popular" was great.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 15 December 2002 05:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wasn't that Nada Surf or something?

― Clarke B. (emily), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Sterling's bringing the wit!

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Great live show; Pack up the Cats is all great - but the videos are all amazingly shitty.

― David Allen, Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hstencil, if you drop in and respond to this, could you address the burning issue of Loud Lucy as well?

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I don't mean that as a Dig on Local H, who I don't have much of an opinion about.) (See what I did there?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

'copacetic'

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 15 December 2002 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

'pack up the cats' is one of the best hard rock albums of the past decade.

― clinton doggett (clinton doggett), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still don't know the name of their big single, but every time I come across it on the radio, I BLAST IT AS LOUD AS I MOTHERFUCKING CAN.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haha I wish I was bringing the wit. I liked Nada Surf better so unthinkingly shoved the two together.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

'pathetic'

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 16 December 2002 04:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eddie Vedder!

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

Every song on As Good Is Dead is awesome. .. one of the best sets I've ever seen was by this band in May 2000.

I haven't heard everything they've put out.. if anyone has suggestions from Ham Fisted or any of their more recent albums, or b-sides whatever..

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link

p.s. the title of the "big hit single" is in the first post of this thread, and then never appears again

I don't remember any of their videos, and I doubt the band does either.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link

i like their message of racial harmony.

― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

"All the Kids Are Right" is a masterpiece amongst masterpieces.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

So Scott Lucas has this things called Scott Lucas and the Married Men now, and their full debut album Blood Half Moons is either out or coming out and it's quite enjoyable in a post-Nick Cave/Gira-as-Johnny-Cash vein. The whole power pop thing underpins the arrangements in unexpected ways as well, not bad at all.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link

Actually scratch Saint Nick -- more Crime and the City Solution. But always with a bit more joy to the proceedings, or a live-wire energy.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

apparently they are still putting out music? and its... pretty good!

even weirder is they somehow got Michael Shannon to be in their new video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUb-FqpjLA

― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Thursday, 6 September 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

I don't know them that well but this new Albini-produced single sounds real good to me

https://youtu.be/Npe6A3QIPdk

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link

they still rock hard, this is cool

― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link

I love Eddie Vedder and it hasnt ever left my rotation. video is a sweet slice of 90s too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5YSrfj2Ns

― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

So about this Awesome Quarantine Mix-Tape

― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 October 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link

Nice cover of “Hackensack” off of this just showed up in an algorithm. Will have to listen further.

― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 October 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 16 October 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link

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