Deadly Snakes: C or D?

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They are hard as nails, yet they are cuddly as chubby checker.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tragically underrated an unknown. with any justice, they'd have been as big as the white stripes or the strokes by now.

― fritz, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. They will go the way of the Spaceshits and Los Sexareenos, no doubt, with no recognition. How about The Reds? I'm loving their new one.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

les sexareenos just toured japan - so maybe people will catch on. the white stripes might open people up to some more in the red / sympathy type bands. Don't know The Reds. I'll check them out.

― fritz, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You speak in riddles, sahib. Who are all these bands, more Sympathy for the Record Industry fun?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

amazon.com has some decent real audio samples of Deadly Snakes if your computer is hooked up to speakers, that is. If you choose to go there, search Deadly Snakes and click on the album that shows a picture icon. Every song has a sample. The Reds is about the coolest thing to come outta the punkish scene in, hell, since the Problematics?

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Ned, The Spaceshits & Sexareenos (essentially 2 configurations of the same band) have 2 records each on SFTRI. The Deadly Snakes 1st one is on Sympathy, their latest is on In The Red. I'd say they're pretty much the cream of the garage rock crop, not so hung up on goofy retro imagery as a lot of their scene but still agreeably Luddite. The Snakes' new guitarist, Greg Cartwright, was in The Oblivians - another criminally underrated band.

― fritz, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

deadly snakes are definitely worth keeping...also check out detroit cobras if you haven't obviously done so already

― Ian M, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deadly Snakes are alright but they sound a bit wink-wink-nudge-nudge on the newest record, and really they aren't worth the effort compared to the Oblivians. Comparing is fun. Greg O's other current band The Reigning Sound make nice country music.

Oblivians - Soul Food Vs. Goodie Mob - Soul Food. Fight!

― joel, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the deadly snakes are wink wink nudge nudge? they're about as straight ahead as you can get without turning into george thorogood.

― maryjanedownthelane, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite a few of the songs sound like jokey pastiche to me, regardless of being straight ahead in style. Having said that, I wouldn't normally mind or notice, even if the record was called 'Jokey Pastiche Vol. 1'. So maybe their tunes are just a bit lame.

― joel, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

GO GET ODE TO JOY NOW.
It's like 50 times better than I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore even w/o Greg Cartright.
Upbeat songs about beatdown folks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

agreed.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 16 May 2003 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Arent they playing the Silver Dollar sometime soon?

Goood cheap beer to be had there.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 16 May 2003 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread belongs on ILE, where we can discuss how deadly snakes such as the mamba and the adder are indeed total CLASSICS

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 May 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

I heard the new Deadly Snakes double 7 inch this weekend... 2 great covers (Shot Down by Neil Diamond & Eddie Floyd's Big Bird), one jokey stones hommage (nasty boots), 1 old song from ode to joy (i can't sleep). would be nice to hear more new original stuff but still worth it if you're a fan.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Fritz, have heard the new Andre Ethier solo alb?
It's really good in that archetypal sombre male singer-songwriter (Leonard Cohen/Randy Newman/Nick Cave/whathaveyou) kinda way.
I thought I posted something about it, but maybe I just dreamed that.

― Huck, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't yet, huck, but i'm really looking forward to hearing it... hope it's not tooo singer/songrwitery or sombre but I've heard really good things about it

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not bleeding-heart whaa-wha or anything.
I really like the first track: "Let Me Put My Suitcase Down" and the last track "Sweep Up After Me" and oh yeah, the ones in between. If you like "Sink Like Stones" on Ode, you'll like this record.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Has anyone heard anything from the Deadly Snakes record coming out on In The Red in March? It's supposed to be a double album recorded live in a log cabin or something. I've heard there's some mp-3's floating around, but I haven't been able to track anything down.

― Crackity Jones, Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome! I was just talking to a guy about them last night and he was like "They're about due for another album."

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

that'd be nice, but a new Andre Ethier album would make my YEAR

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Cartwright likened it to the first Blood, Sweat & Tears record (before David Clayton Thomas joined). So that could be interesting. If you indeed do track down some mp3's, please link.

― Will (will), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yikes! anyone heard it?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yikes?" The first BS&T RULES HARD my friend

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i must hear it to believe it!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha it's true, man. I went through a period where I listened to that record a lot. And i got some skeptics such as yourself on the train as well.

Surely you can find it on vinyl for >$1 most anywhere.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

don't get me wrong, i meant it when i said I MUST hear it... the lesson of the bob seger system is not lost on me: judge not, lest you miss out on "ramblin' gamblin' man".

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 22 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Anyone heard the new record yet? It's not out until Sept. but it is floating around on Soulseek, supposedly, but it's yet to filter down to Limewire nerds like me.

― Wok With Yan, Monday, 25 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

1 mp3 here http://homepage.mac.com/betthasha/.Public/By_Morning_Im_Gone.mp3

― wok With Yan, Monday, 25 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

i am very sad to say that i found this to be a very disappointing record, "mature" in all the boring ways, but i'm hoping that perhaps i'm wrong.

dan posted a track at Said the Gramophone, and it's probably the best one on the album.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Mature like Andre Ethier's recent solo disc? Or mature like Age of Danger now calls himself Age of Minivan?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd say it's of the nick cave/tom waits/dirty 3 school of mature. a switch from beer to scotch, perhaps? There 's a couple of baroque-psyche songs a la zombies & love that i find a little much. There's one really nice bluesy one with a bunch of people singing together on it. most of the record sounds 0% like the snakes of old, so I predict a few garage rockers walking the plank with this one and a bunch of indie rockers jumping onboard.

― Mister Klein, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like I might like it. Does it have a name?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i was actually thinking the green day/bad religion/sting kind of "mature" (or, more kindly, oneida). i'm more indie than garage, but while i found "ode to joy" fucking electrifying, this is just dull. i may yet be swayed.

it's warmer than the ethier album, more comfortable.

It's called Porcella.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

"porcella" or maybe "porchella", something like that

― mister Klein, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

tracklisting & canadian tour info from pitchfork:

New Deadly Snakes Album Coming in September

Jason Toon and Amy Phillips report:
Cold-blooded Toronto garage eccentrics the Deadly Snakes will release Porcella, their fourth full-length, in two versions on September 27. The first fruit of their new union with fellow Canuckleheads Paper Bag Records (former home of Stars and Broken Social Scene) will come in differing CD and vinyl versions, both taking a step away from rock hysterics into the "mellow and weird," as singing keyboardizer Age of Danger (yes, that's his "name") told Spill magazine: "There's a lot of strange sounds on there. We basically locked ourselves up in this cabin with a bunch of weird instruments and did the album."

Consumers of digital media on plastic 5" discs will hear this version of the album:
01 Debt Collection
02 200 Nautical Miles
03 Sissy Blues
04 High Prices Going Down
05 Gore Veil
06 So Young & So Cruel
07 Let It All Go
08 Work
09 Oh Lord, My Heart!
10 I Heard Your Voice
11 By Morning, It's Gone
12 The Banquet
13 A Bird In The Hand Is Worthless

Meanwhile, those who prefer 12" vinyl discs will get two, for this four-sided werke:
Side A:
01 Debt Collection
02 Sissy Blues
03 High Prices Going Down
04 Oh Lord, My Heart!
05 Ambulance Man

Side B:
06 She's Going Home With Him
07 Break Up Conservation
08 Bound To Get Lonely
09 Veronica Brown
10 By Morning, It's Gone

Side C:
11 I Heard Your Voice
12 Don River Jail
13 Let It All Go
14 A Bird In The Hand Is Worthless
15 No Sympathy

Side D:
16 Gore Veil
17 So Young & So Cruel
18 Work
19 200 Nautical Miles
20 The Banquet

If you want to see what the Age of Danger looks like up close and personal, and you love that balmy Canadian weather, the Deadly Snakes have a trek across the Great White North with Tangiers planned for this fall:

09-23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace*
09-29 Montreal, Quebec - Cabaret Music Hall#
10-17 Hamilton, Ontario - Underground$
10-18 London, Ontario - Call the Office$
10-19 Waterloo, Ontario - Starlite$
10-20 Kingston, Ontario - Grad Club$
10-21 Montreal, Quebec - Salla Rossa$
10-22 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox $
10-24 Sudbury, Ontario - Townehouse Tavern$
10-25 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Apollo$
10-26 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Royal$
10-27 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - U of Saskatchewan$
10-28 Edmonton, Alberta - Victory Lounge$
10-29 Calgary, Alberta - Hi Fi$
10-31 Victoria, British Columbia - Logan's$
11-03 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards$
11-04 Whistler, British Columbia - TBA$
11-05 Regina, Saskatchewan - Exchange$

* with Heartless Bastards
# with the Dirtbombs
$ with Tangiers

― The Frugal Gourmet, Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

I hope they still sound like B S & T's Child Is Father To The Man. One of my faves in high school. We were already trippin on (and over) Al Kooper with the Blues Project: (hushed)"Ear-ly in the maw-nin, jusaboutthbreakofday. I *get* down, on mah(loud, the worst falsetto you never saw)KNEEE-HEES,Ah"--and then, Child was all "KNEEE=HEEES," in terms of gauche gory glory. Some of it deliberately, it seemed, but a lot of it was meant to be cool. (Okay, so when I sang along with "I could be President of General Motors, Baby, or jus a tiny lil grain of sand," I meant it. Cos "I love yah, Baby, more than--youlleveahknow")("WEAWRIGHT",so horns, goose that 'setto).

― don, Sunday, 14 August 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck? I was totally looking forward to this and it's nothing but flutes and shit. It's like when The Makers went all "concept album" on us. Bullshit. At least we've still got The Reigning Sound.

― w, Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

eeeuuuu, so: like *2nd*/Kooperless/(HIT)BS&T, with Satie in sugar coma, and "Whut, goes, up, must, cum, down" ?!

― don, Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Fuck. "Gore Veil" is awesome. Flutes whoo!
This is like hangover nihilism compared to the balls-out swaggering drunk nihilism of Ode to Joy. Not as pulse-throbbing, but pretty dang enjoyable. A lot better than the new Tricky Woo album.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i love ode to joy. and i also love mattie who is SO CUTE

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

they're breaking up. last show ever is in a couple of weeks here in toronto. damn.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

crap that sucks. bands i like with "snakes" in it always break up

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was gonna say, hot and deadly are both gone now.

― gear (gear), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

onto their respective planes.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Classic. Ode to Joy p much always scratches whatever itch I have for this era of “garage rock”

reunion tour when

― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 16 April 2022 12:21 (four years ago)

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