The Nig-Heist vs. The Mentors

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I really only know the Mentors from mp3s but I think these two bands need to be compared.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't heard nig-heist yet. curses. but the only mentors song that really kicks my ass still is "police hotel" on the "copulation" comp.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Nig-Heist: FOBF (friends of Black Flag) trying their hardest to sound dumb. The Mentors: actually that dumb.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you serious? I totally thought they were being silly... jeez.

Also, Ian McKaye playing mysogenistic rock = win

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 2 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

bend up and smell my ANAL VAPOURS!!!

― dave q, Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah ...they were both kinda lame, and boringly "gross" and sexual". But Nig-heist didn't usually even come close to being "music" as we know it, whereas the Mentors usually had some semblance of song structure to remember after the abuse was over!

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 2 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

the nig heist live cd is amazing

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Nig-Heist studio LP was good, "Hot Muff" being my repeat listen. Short, too, which how this type of crass stuff works best. But they don't equal The Mentors' "Live at the Cathay" which works as a vile comedy album interspersed with sections where the the band playing bad heavy metal with the lyrics and titles set to fit El Duce's raps (Free Fix for a Fuck).

The Mentors "trashbag" EP was their best in the studio. Again, brevity -- "I'm Going Through Your Purse." Trying to make studio albums for Metal Blade maybe wasn't so good an idea. They ran through their best XXX jokes and shticks before Tipper Gore made them briefly infamous.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

the two-part structure of (the Nig-Heist's) Tight Little Pussy is pretty killer - the crooning opening is so gleefully bad that when it kicks into the rock bit, it sounds totally slick by comparison

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.dragcity.com/products/nig-heist

Drag City has just re-issued the Nig Heist LP.

Does anyone know where the name comes from?

― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:22 (fourteen years ago)

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