Cub - C/D?!

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I've looked for a thread about Cub , but couldnt find any.
I like their Beat Happening style approach - simple to simplistic songs, which are very catchy and well written,though they seem like a kind of love it or hate it sort of a band:maybe to cute and stupid for some..
The "Come out" lp is really great..

― emekars (emekars), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cub fans have all been tortured to death. How did you escape?

― Pow Pow Pow (Ian Christe), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

And now you too must die.

The anecdote I heard that made me declare a fatwa -- that at a live show one of them said by way of conclusion "And remember, smiles are for free!" DIE WITH YOUR SUMMER-CAMP CHEERINESS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tin soldiers Ned Ragett's coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Lisa Marr has a great voice, even when she sings with Joe Queer. I always liked "Magic 8-Ball"

― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Notable for writing possibly the lamest song They Might Be Giants ever recorded, which must be worth some sort of special award in hell.

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

That makes no sense whatsoever. "New York City" is a great song, both by Cub and by They Might Be Giants. If you can't get any enjoyment out of lines like "Now I walk through blizzards just to get us back together", then at least acknowledge that TMBG have truckloads of worse songs. Patchyness is one of their schticks, is it not?

As for Cub, the Canadian "cuddlecore" scene (Meow, Cub, Jael) was a little late to make much impression. It had already all been done better by Tallulah Gosh etc. I still quite liked them though and as far as I know, they are all still doing music in one form or another.

Neko Case was in them for a while too. That should put the price of their 45s up a bit.

― everything (everything), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

then at least acknowledge that TMBG have truckloads of worse songs.

I said "possibly the lamest". There's nothing on the first 4 albums worse than New York City, for me. I'll allow it gets pretty iffy after that, but then I haven't put much time into those later albums.

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got my Cub cd for a dollar. For Come-Out, I made the "Cuddle-Core" as the front cover because at the same time I got that cd, I got that D.O.A. record and I thought that was funny. Then again, I am retarded. "Ticket to Spain" has been on many mixtapes from when I was a freshman in college.

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Sunday, 30 July 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I wuv cub!!!
Awwwe. Widdle Neddy Bear doesn't wuv cub. B-b-but smiles are for free!!!!!!!!!
Yay!!! Twee!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be serious, now. For me at least, cub is classic, but, only barely, barely classic. I like their sound pretty well, and I like them for what they are, the Shonen Knife surely without the irony, (I love Shonen Knife, I think they're classic, but I still don't know what to make of them,). I don't like the vocals in cub too much though, and they always make me think of what Go Sailor would sound like if Go Sailor just wasn't good, or something, (that should say how much I think of Go Sailor). To me, they're just too much fun to be dud. I don't know, they're really just one of those bands that either speaks to you or doesn't. cub speaks to me. I understand the hate. But, to me, they're classic.

― blood bitch (blood bitch), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Classically awful.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't really say either classic or dud on this one -- they were kind of fun to have around, but it's not like I can imagine myself recommending them to strangers these days, or anyone who wasn't pointedly digging through 90s indiepop.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Classic! They were my favorite band for a time in High School, and Betti-Cola is one of my favorite albums, listening to them was really a revelation to me. I've always been addicted to the simple pop songs, but if you wanted your pop songs in a rock context in the mid 90s, you usually had to wade through a whole lot of angst and noisy suffering. Even if pop punk was your thing there was usually a certain aggression and machismo associated with it. But with Cub it was all pleasentries and fun. They wrote simple songs and performed them with a bare minimum of competence, and the songs were great, and the bad playing seemed like extreme wonderful example of DIY. Hell, their output got less interesting and more generic as they got better on their instruments.

Maybe there were better bands out there that mined the same territory, but Cub was the only one that came to play near my small town. So for that, Classic! Oh, and at one show i was 1 of only 6 people that showed up to see them play, and they fuckin' played.

― brontosaur (brontosaur), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.iflipflop.com/nomar.jpg

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

i love lisa's voice

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

ned's pretty twee, why does he hate twee?

― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rndng3rd.com/NYMHall/players/C/Joscar.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

ned's pretty twee

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ambrose Bierce is one of my literary heroes = I am not twee.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

heavens!

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost haha Ned you're probably the twee-est dude I know, if only virtually in this case. Anyway, if memory serves me right, we agree on Cub, although I've always thought that "New York City" takes on a whole new dimension if you read it as biting social commentary. ("Everyone's my friend in New York City/ And everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty" is a pretty heavy statement, if unintentionally so.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

(I really like NYC BTW, although I've never felt like everyone's my friend there or that it all looks beautiful.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

haha Ned you're probably the twee-est dude I know, if only virtually in this case.

Good lord, what a thought. Oh well! Maybe I bridge the boundary between twee and crab.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

aw, a twee crab!

http://static.zoovy.com/img/handsnpaws/W150-H150-Bcc9933/soft_touch_sea_creature_crab.jpg

Cub: like Betti-Cola a lot and *love* Come Out2. Great singles, too: "Your Bed," "The Day I Said Goodbye," etc. I started to lose interest around Box of Hair - whomever said they got less interesting as they learned to play better was right. Live, they were about twice as fast and loud as on recordings. Much more of an edge, "smiles are for free" nonwithstanding.

I sold my Maow 7" for a surprising $40 a few years ago. Can't even imagine what it's worth now.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love "Your Bed"! Also: "New York City" and "Magic 8 Ball"

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