Thanks!
― baaderonixx, Friday, 24 October 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
New RTX album JJ Got Live At RaTX is out soon. It's not much different to the rest of their stuff, but it's y'know, it's RTX.
― the next grozart, Friday, October 24, 2008 3:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it came out this week ... waiting for drag city to get my vinyl copy to me
― metametadata (n/a), Friday, 24 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think trux sound much like pussy galore, except for maybe neil's odd song ('walk' off corpse love). i'm not crazy about acclerator either - its brash and winningly 'pop', but i miss the languid slithering mush of Cats & Dogs/Dogs Of Love era, and the gonzoid excesses of Sweet Sixteen.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know how this relates to the above but dc are reissuing the first two trux lps come january.
i say pound for pound and thank you for top trux. radio video's great, too, and the liar single with phenomenal dire straits cover. it always kills me how great the musicianship is, considering they've a rep for messy, hastily arranged records.
― schlump, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, Hagerty is a great guitarist. I'd like to put a word in for the 3 Song EP as well, which features the excellently named "The United States vs One 1974 Cadillac El Dorado Sedan".
― Neil S, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
oh holy crap that song is COLOSSAL. "faaaaamous laaaaand of nod!"
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
how apocryphal are most of the stories surrounding TRUX and drugs?
weird how addictive this band can be
― I'm glad the chihuahua beat it this wkend (latebloomer), Friday, 24 October 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
accelerator's probably my fav, it was my perfect intro to their little world.
yeah i think i bought all of their albums within a one-year period
― metametadata (n/a), Friday, 24 October 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i've said it before, but 'back to school' off dogs of love ep is just wonderful.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
the first time I heard the trux I had a panic attack
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i was like OH MAN WHAT IS THIS MUSIC???
plus I was in a car where the dude who was driving was on a ton of speed and I didn't even realize it until we hit the highway
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
― I'm glad the chihuahua beat it this wkend (latebloomer), Friday, October 24, 2008 7:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― metametadata (n/a), Friday, October 24, 2008 7:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
so so true
― 69, Friday, 24 October 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
oh also that panic attack thing is true in the best way abt accelerator, esp on 45rpm
I would go for:Three song ep.SinglesAcceleratorThank YouUntitled? (has Junkie nurse on it)Vetrans of Disorder
All of these are great not sure about the rest. When I got that 3 song ep I played it all the time. The Singles box set and Accelerator were the early phase of my relationship, the part where you have sex every day and every single moment is grand but the Three song ep was when I truly fell in love.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 24 October 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
god damn this thing on the Drag City Hour compilation, I had no idea. twenty-two minute freakout, full sonics, glorious '92-vintage shit. The tune is called "Fairy Godmother" and I always thought it was just some stray comp track but WHOAH.
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 August 2009 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
is it on the 3cd comp from a few years back? i think i want to hear this!
― like i'm the fucking orange juice man (stevie), Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
no, it isn't! that's why I tracked it down. It is described in the liner notes as a "chimp opera". the CD is sequenced as one long track which is a drag, but I chopped it out.
― sleeve, Friday, 14 August 2009 07:14 (fourteen years ago) link
why es eye?
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 14 August 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^OTM
― She's big on the mental illness scene (stevie), Friday, 14 August 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
AOK
Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― sleeve, Friday, 14 August 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
you, sleeve, are a star...
― She's big on the mental illness scene (stevie), Saturday, 15 August 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
why are a number of their albums OOP? i thought drag city kept everything in print? maybe the artistes have reclaimed the rights? deluxxxe reissues in the works? hmmm..
― amateurist, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thank u & sweet 16 released by virgin
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but there are some originally on drag city that are also OOP, like accelerator.
― amateurist, Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously? i'm sure the domino pressings are still in print though...
― 'dude, hydroponic uterus' (stevie), Saturday, 15 August 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsWfrupQ6jU&feature=related
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
fckk A++++
― hobbes, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Singles, Live, Unreleased out, anyone heard it? Strangely enough, the CD version is actually sold out but not the LP. Usually the other way 'round for Drag City.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i found it used on cd during the height of my royal trux fandom a few years ago, it's got some really good stuff on it
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's a reissue, isn't it?
― nostormo, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
my favorite record of theirs, so glad they repressed it.
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, it is just titanic... and there's tons of stuff that wasn't actually on singles, so even if you have like a half dozen of their 45s it is still totally worth it.
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I gotta get that.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's great, and gives a taste of every aspect of their sound, from fucked up lo fi to hard rocking jams to spacey synthy stuff. Cool cover too!
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah originally released in 1997
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
still fuckin love these dudes, probably one of the best american rock bands. was thinking today that i want to learn how to play "stevie" and "stop." their fucked-up slow soul jams.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
the mere fact they wrote a song about fat greasy Buddhist Steven Seagal makes them grade A awesome IMO.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
so good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MivHQRIAk"people think that the united states are a sweet bowl of plastic flowers"
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
or "sweet ol' plastic flower" ?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Royal Trux succeeded in the rare combination of making music that sounds familiar and unique at the same time
― nostormo, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Got this when it came out all those years ago and it kind of cemented my view of RT as makers of astounding music. It seemks weird to say that a box set of rarities, b sides and unreleased stuff is all essesntial and also a good place to start for a beginner but thst what I would say about this set. Brilliant. Brilliant. So much stuff and just a great wild time to get to know all these tunes and non tunes.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 10 November 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
A-sides too!
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 November 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yes asides. A good way to keep secrets.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 11 November 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
Royal Trux (and Hagerty more generally) are totally going to be more widely recognized for their awesomeness somewhere down the line, I'm convinced. Probably in fifteen years or so, when some Tarantino analogue uses one of their songs in a movie.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, the Singles, Live reissue is sold out on CD? I don't even see it listed on the Drag City website as having a CD version, just LP or mp3....grrr!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://pl.ayli.st/Royal+Trux/Faca+Amolada
― Mariusz Smiley (admrl), Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the SLU has been OOP on CD for a while. why? i don't know.
i've been fans of these guys forever and i've seen them live twice but i still have no idea what jennifer herrema looks like. i can't find a single photo where her hair isn't over at least 2/3 of her face.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 November 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link