Shihad: Classic or Dud?

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Most definitely classic, and so unbelievably underrated considering the utter crapola that passes for popular music these days. (Arctic Monkeys? I think not).

― GLC (ZakAce), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

Massive fucking DUD from the land of the long white cloud and that's even without that name change debacle. Aural shite of the worst order, rank it beside the Arctic Monkeys and burn it. Should have been drowned at birth.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

^cosign

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 19 November 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

pacifier, more like assifier amirite?

― the gangsta Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (H2-H4), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

that's why the always play at the big gay out lol

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

First two albums v good, everything else boring as shit

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

terrible. even their live shows, which are energetic, come up short

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

first album was excellent. never got into them after that.

actually, part of what made the first album so appealing to me was that my vinyl copy was scratched, but in a way that introduced some really artful and clever skips and twists into the time signatures... and thus was possibly was single-handedly responsible for my later love of the mathy stuff.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

was the first one churn?

i sold that in 1998 or something

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

LOL THREAD

― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Sunday, 19 November 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

was the first one churn?

killjoy, I think.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Sunday, 19 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

No "Churn". How the fuck has anyone outside Nz even heard of these guys? "Churn" and "Killjoy" were kinda poppier versions of the Skeptics anyway, go hear them, they eat Shihad for a notsotasty tea any day

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Monday, 20 November 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I stand corrected.

as for how they're known outside of NZ, they supported FNM on their UK tour in 1995, played the odd festival date over the next couple of years, and 'the great electric' was quite feted by kerrang!, if I recall correctly.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

correction: 'the general electric'

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

i can't bear jon toogood's banter between tracks:
"fucking choice bro! you guys are awesome!"

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

"i can't bear jon toogood's banter between tracks:
"fucking choice bro! you guys are awesome!""

Sometimes it can be funny, though. I've got the live CD, and after "Wait And See", he's all like "OI!!11!shift+one!" and it makes me laugh every time, mainly because of the mental image I get. Eh, whatever.

― GLC (ZakAce), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

I never gave these guys a chance after hearing them in the mid-90s. Jon Toogood led The Adults, which included Shayne Carter (one of my favorites), and the results seem pretty decent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5VatI8ZkE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6G0NGZJxU

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 26 July 2013 03:03 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

New album, "FVEY" is the best thing they've ever done. Produced by Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke, it sounds a helluva lot like KJ and it's full of righteous anger about the state of the world. FVEY (Five Eyes) being an infermation-sharing treaty signed by the English-speaking powers.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 01:06 (eleven years ago)

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