Anger & Scratch Acid Virginity Gone

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i am very angry today....I am listening to The Greatest Gift by Scratch Acid that I borrowed from a friend at work for the first time...

THis album is very very good for the angry person. It's like early 80s punk vomiting out its spleen or something. Discuss it's genius.

(I searched and didn't see any threads on this album, sorry if i missed them)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

crunk.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it is genius. get yerself some killdozer while yer at it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Brilliant stuff. Listened to that disc again myself a few months ago. Those records blew my mind when I first heard them years ago. I heard those guys before I heard the Birthday Party, so I was unaware of the obvious indebtedness, but no matter. There's room in my universe for the both of them.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, discuss the genius. Um, the guitars are really loud. David is a fine singer/songwriter. They were wonderful.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Yow was a better writer than Nick Cave. discuss.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yow's be some fucked up lyrics.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

haha -- yeah, I thought about saying something like "better rhythm section" too, but then I was like, wait, Birthday Party kicked some serious ass. So, I dunno.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yow seems more desperate than cave, like he's trying to hang onto his mind.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

so far they seem better than jesus lizard to me. (but this is the first time i've heard SA like i said, so i could have newbies' enthusiasm)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Beserker better than anything by Jesus Lizard. And I love Jesus Lizard.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

But I probably like Goat more than Just Keep Eating. But Crazy Dan is probably my favorite Yow song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe i just mean different not better. like this seems stranger and amorphous in an intriguing way that is appealing right now.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

now there's a horn section! (song 13!!!)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I love love love The Greatest Gift. Hearing Scratch Acid makes me like Jesus Lizard far less.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Goat is pretty undeniable. It's a tough call. I have fonder memories of the Scratch Acid stuff, I think, just cuz it had such a huge impact on me. But I actually got to see JL a bunch of times and this point I'd probably reach for Goat over Greatest Gift in a pinch. If someone put a gun to my head. Although "She Said" is probably my favorite Yow song.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the way he says "I rrrrreeeally didn't come here of my own accord" is awesome

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The horns are great on the jesus christ superstar cover. those are the only horns i think.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The horns are great on the jesus christ superstar cover. those are the only horns i think

okay that makes sense it sounded like a cover but I've never really heard JCS except for bits on tv

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Great but the Birthday Party is damn near untouchable. But like I said, still great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, scratch acid had the same effect on me as all that like-minded stuff at the time. Buttholes. Killdozer. Cuz i was a kid on acid, you know?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I always had a good time on drugs though. I don't know why i wanted to listen to so much bad-trip music.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

did you ever think your face was melting?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I always think my face is melting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I just miss being able to decipher Yow's singing.

(yeah yeah, Birthday Party were great too.)

Also, grossly underrated Birthday Party worshippers...

U-Men.

Up there with Scratch Acid in my opinion.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

come to the minnesota state fair....we can sculpt you in butter and really watch your face melt.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not angry anymore...scratch acid has soothed the savage beast.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the U-Men!! Awesome. That singer was great. Did any of those people do anything else? Did they end up in like, Gas Huffer or some 2nd rate band like that, or is that just my imagination?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

They do that! You get to wiped-out to be angry anymore.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Who were the God Bullies trying to sound like?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

probably Bauhaus or some shit like that. No, I'm kidding, I liked the God Bullies!! Kalamazoo reprazent!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck, I even went to see the singer's post-God Bullies band, Hand Over Head a couple times. They weren't too bad actually. Probably about as good as Head Over Heels in the grand scheme of things.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

on being a virgin: "The dead princess lay screaming and her cunt is ripped."
Class-sick.

― beta beta, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

jeezo beezo flying houses ROCKS

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

...Probably about as good as Head Over Heels in the grand scheme of things.

...but how do they measure up compared to Heads, Hands & Feet?

Yeah, Scratch Acid were a fine mess, but I didn't enjoy either of the followups as much as that first EP. (And I never liked Birthday Party either. So sue me.) Hey, I recently caught a few minutes of the '83 "Twilight Zone" movie and was surprised to hear an audio sample I recognized from one of the "Just Keep Eating" tracks. (Title, who knows?) Just like listening to "The Downward Spiral" and recognizing the sample from "THX-1138".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Owner's Lament is great.

Why does AMG not have a tracklisting for that s/t Scratch Acid album, i only have a cd-r now with no tracklisting and i can't remember what many of them are called.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I was listening to that first record for the first time in ages just last night and was enjoying it just about more than ever. Have to say I hear more of the Cramps there than I do Nick Cave. Always vaguely remember a Byron Coley quote about David Yow that goes something like 'if you turn off the light and turn the record up loud, there is no other singer that gives you quite the same feeling that he's in there with you, prowling round the room and just about to rip out your throat'. That might not be strictly true, but it gets pretty close to the nubbins of what Yow's about.

What did the guitar player go off to do? I know about the other three blokes, but where be Brett Bradford now? Also: are there any bands around today that I might be missing out on that deliver the same sort of foul package? Not just the vocals, or even just the intensity of the music, but the whole tightness of the band, that feeling of barely controlled ferocity.

Hari Ashurst: looking at the tracklist for The Greatest Gift, the first eight tracks are that first s/t record. So -and I think this is the right order- it goes...

Cannibal
Greatest Gift
Monsters
Owner's Lament
She Said
Mess
El Espectro
Lay Screaming

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 8 October 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I saw God Bullies play once on some AmRep package tour along with Halo of Flies, Cows, Surgery and possibly someone else too. Ah yes, it was Helmet. God Bullies were much better live than the records that I heard. Reminded me a bit of Crust and also the Beatnigs too I think. Ho hum.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey thanks NickB for that tracklist, it's been driving me crazy.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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