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What is your favorite Royal Trux album and why?

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

at the moment thank you
cause them southern rock licks sound great on my ears

― brock (brock), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Trux
Twin Infinitives
Untitled
Cats and Dogs
Dogs of Love EP
Thank You
Sweet Sixteen
Singles, Live, Unreleased
Accelerator
Veterans of Disorder
Pound For Pound
Hand of Glory

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank You. I'd probably take Twin Infinitives second and the third album and Cats and Dogs after that. Their evolution into a real rock and roll band was unexpected and gradual and they just kept pushing it. Thank You was the ultimate statement.

They were disappointing to me after that. Didn't seem like there was much inspiration behind their direction.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

gear, Veterans of Disorder that is the one I listened to today, prompting me to start the thread. goddamn it's so great. for some reason in my mind i always think of the first side as all these normal rock songs, when in reality they're not at all.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the singles comp better than all the records, ~~you filthy rockists.~~

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's a great compilation and I was listening to Veterans of Disorder in the car this afternoon, windows down, and I just realized again how fucking awesome they were. I wouldn't bet against them getting it together for another album or two somewhere down the line, either, despite the success of the Howling Hex and RTX.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

CATS & DOGS YO

― SAD FACE x 1,000,000,000 (ddb), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't bet against them getting it together for another album or two somewhere down the line, either, despite the success of the Howling Hex and RTX.

ooh! I would bet against that!!! there's a lot of gnarls drama there... fugly stuff.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's for the best! the past few months have made me very happy re: Royal Trux-related material (All-Night Fox, Transmaniacon, and the new Weird War, if that counts at all sans Hagerty)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite Royal Trux single: a tie between "Hero Zero" b/w "Love Is" and "Red Tiger" b/w "Law Man"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Singles comp, cuz it's got the live version of "TEETH"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

THE MASH SONG IS PROPER.

― SAD FACE x 1,000,000,000 (ddb), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

having trouble locating Twin Infinitives at stores

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

$12ppd. from the label and they usually send lots of goodies in with your order, paypal accepted as well.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Royal Trux.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.theottobar.com/photos/RoyalTrux.jpg

― gear reese moran (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

gear I thought that new weird war record was kinda shitty! especially compared to the last one.

― haitch wolf gave me haitch (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

but enough of that, this is a TRUX thread. thank you = SO good. "mercury" / "shockwave rider" = one of the great singles of the '90s! I really need more of the late stuff but it's always very expensive in the shops here.

― haitch wolf gave me haitch (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

i actually copied and then sold the new Weird War, it wasn't that good really. rouffle

― gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

accelerator!

― latebloomer: snakes, snails, and puppydog tails (latebloomer), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I HAVE PLAYED AT THE OTTO BAR YAY ME

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

RAH

― up close, perfect, farther back, eeg (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Thank You is, like, my third favorite album of all time.

so, Thank You.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Pound For Pound is really underrated, yo.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

also, L.A. bros, Amoeba has a used LP copy of Singles Live Unreleased at the moment, $30.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

which of you dudes is going to see THE HOWLING HEX tomorrow night?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Is there a question?

― barf bag special (mistymartinez), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

BANANA QUESTION

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Is that a question? Is that a fucking question?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I saw Howling Hex in Chicago. By the end of the night, 10 audience members remained: Will Oldham, his lady, and friends of the cholos in the band. So, what did you think of Howling Hex live?

― Peter Twinklehole (Peter Twinklehole), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i liked 'em. ladyfriend didn't, so much. audience didn't seem to be fading in nyc by the time i left, but i didn't stay to the end.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Unanswered Questions

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5611085&Mytoken=1D589E28-9B09-43E8-881552B2D55C3B062579403515

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Gear and Adam,

Comment in the comment box here shows that I am NOT ALONE ...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

wow I never responded to this thread? must have been working.

anyway, SWEET SIXTEEN, because the songwriting is genius, the playing is outstanding, and it just doesnn't stop

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

In the collage there's a tiny part that says, "Yin Jim, W. Lester Duo, and the Bones of a Dead Coyote." Is that related to the song "Yin Jim vs. the Vomit Creature"?

NH: There's this psychic agent team for this one cause who are against the other group of agents who are trying to control things. Both sides are trying to control freedom, yin and yang. One side is lead by Yin Jim and he has a fucked-up sidekick named W. Lester Duo, like a snake-oil salesman. They're heroin addicts. Everyone's a heroin addict in the future. He's waiting for Yin Jim to come back from copping. Yin Jim's out with the Bones of a Dead Coyote, the coyote spirit that's Yin Jim's master, you see what I'm saying?

Sort of.

NH: Two guys and a dog. It's a kid's story. One guy's a Parker Stevenson kind of guy, and the other's...

JH: Like Sancho Panza.

NH: But weirder even. They're walking on the beach on the way home. These other agents are looking for these life-giving crystals. Reanimating crystals. It's a classic sci-fi image, you know what I mean?

Most assuredly.

NH: These agents from the other side who are fighting for world domination, but more like controlling people and systemizing everything, they attack Yin Jim and the Bones of a Dead Coyote because they think they've got the crystals on them, but the crystals are at home and all they've got is heroin. Back home, W. Lester Duo can't wait anymore so he starts looking around for the stash and he finds the crystals. He thinks they're heroin. Since Yin Jim's been waylaid by these other agents, he goes ahead and does it up. Cut back and the Bones are just laying there because Yin Jim's been taken away. He has to be in the vicinity so there can be a strong psychic bond to animate him. Yin Jim's concentration was broken by the agents interrogating him about where the crystals are. W. Lester Duo does so much of the crystals that it makes him puke. The crystals come out with his vomit and goes down into the sewer system and this sewage-vomit creature rises out of the San Francisco Bay. Meanwhile, Yin Jim gets beat up and hit so hard that it releases some psychic anger and reanimates the Bones, who run to W. Lester Duo, who's laying in the bathroom all fucked up. The coyote passes on the energy, because they're all psychic agents. Psychic warriors. You know what I'm saying?

I follow you.

NH: So they rescue Yin Jim. They find out what happened and W. Lester Duo's like, "Gee, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was crystals. I thought it was heroin. " Yin Jim's like, "Do you know what you've done? You've created the Vomit Creature that's terrorizing the city." They do battle with it, vanquish it, but not until after it kills a bunch of people on Broadway and Columbus. Trashes City Lights bookstore. Goes into the Garden of Eden, starts rampaging onstage, kidnaps one of the girls, who they accidentally kill during the battle. You know, "It's a close shot, but I think I can get it. Oh, shit. Missed." They give her a shot of the life-giving crystals so she's alive again, but she's all fucked up. This go-go dancer who's really sexy but she's cut on her tits so they're flapping around and she's full of bullet holes, covered with Vomit Creature marks that can't be removed. Then they go into a bar, Mr. Bing's, to celebrate another day in the secret psychic service. Now it's four people - the go-go dancer, the zombie, Yin Jim , W. Lester Duo, and the Bones of a Dead Coyote.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

WHATEVS IN CASE U DIDNT NOTICE THIS IS THE NOISE GIRLS BOARD NOW.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

accelerator

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

still have never heard this band. i've heard pussy galore and seen boss hog live. aren't they related somehow?

― o -- (eman), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

neil hagerty was in pussy galore.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Eman!! you would love them. swear to god.

based on taste I'm thinking pick up Twin Infinitives and then Sweet Sixteen. you will be in heaven.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

RTX WANTS DIFFERENT DRUMMER

RTX WOULD LIKE A DIFFERENT DRUMMER.....FROM LOS ANGELES, ORANGE COUNTY AREA. NEED TO ATTEND REHEARSALS AND AVAILABLE TO TOUR....RESPOND TO [email protected]

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

gear you should apply! live the dream!

― electrogrouse (haitch), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

i cannot drum : (

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

but they are looking for a "DIFFERENT" drummer

― electrogrouse (haitch), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

basically I reckon you turn up with an 808 and some weed, you're in.

― electrogrouse (haitch), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

RTX also needs songwriter.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

where was that posted??

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

myspace.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

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You found that track on the New York Ear and Ear Control comp? with the ramones sample?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

um no i actually dont know what yr talking abt - and according to this there's 3 early tapes too http://www.rtxarchive.com/discography

obv not the completist i make myself out to be

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Jet Pet #1" worth tracking down for slo-mo Shockwave Rider meets Driving That Car (with the Eagel onna hood) styleee

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

i have new york ear and eye control at home, i could up it sometime. great comp in general.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

That Timber track on NY E&EC is really good. The Cop Shoot Cop track is kind of duff, tho.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have it on cassette.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

RTX - Western Xterminator
Make no mistake—RTX’s second full-blown release is a hard rock album. It’s not trying to subvert, teach, or deconstruct. It doesn’t wink, smirk or giggle. It just rocks.
While most Royal Trux fans will be thrown off by the title track, a psych folk drone full of hand drums and Amon Duul I-inspired noodling that opens the album, this tasty number is an anomaly—welcome though it is—and is most likely bandleader Jennifer Herrema’s way of showing everyone she can out-psych the psych-folk set. She does. From here on, though, the album kicks into high gear and never slows down. “Wo Wo Din” is thrash metal gone stony, and like the opening riffs to many of these songs, parts of it could easily be mistaken for Cinderella or Ratt, at least until the flange kicks in. Herrema is clearly and wisely playing to her strengths, as she’s always proven an exemplary rock vocalist, and here, she impresses throughout. The faithful cover of Fang’s “The Money Will Roll Right In” is perfect, right down to Herrema updating the reference to a certain Hollywood starlet to reflect a desire to fuck the singer of Motley Crue.
Western Xterminator is also notable in that it continues to cast a light on Herrema’s tendencies toward ‘rock’ arrangements, and in titles like “Dude Love” and “Balls to Pass,” one can begin to sketch out exactly how formidable her influence was in Royal Trux. The album’s last track, “Rats Will Kill,” even wanders into prog territory, with its synthesizers and echo-y vocals ending the album on a creative high note. Suddenly, Twin Infinitives doesn’t seem all that long ago.
The jury may still be out on whether or not the sorely missed Royal Trux were more than the sum of their parts, but Herrema and her band continue to make some of the most inventive and vital rock music today. Western Xterminator will be misunderstood, sure, but only by assholes. For the rest of us, it is an absolute pleasure to listen to from start to finish, and likely one of the best records of its kind in a long, long while. [Drag City—NOT in stores until March 20th, 2007]

James Jackson Toth - Your Flesh

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

PARTS OF IT COULD EASILY BE MISTAKEN FOR CINDERELLA OR RATT, AT LEAST UNTIL THE FLANGE KICKS IN

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I READ I HEART HERREMA'S MYSPACE BULLETINS TOO

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kingkamali.com/gallery/arnold2002/large/middle%20finger%202002%20arnold%20expo.jpg

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

u mad

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Interviewing her this week - I think it's bad form to ask this, and hate when people do on this board, but if anyone has any burning quesions for her they'd like me to ask...

― Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

dude how did i sleep on veterans until now??? im reTARDed and this is awesome.

― 69, Monday, 5 November 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone know why they had to change the name to RaTX?

The man came down on us, telling us that in a court of law the album would be struck down and that we must cease and rethink. Thusly armed, we went to RTX and told them that a rebirth was at hand. Fortunately, they were up for the change – and RaTX is the inevitable result!

from dragcity.com

― badg, Monday, 5 November 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

ill ax my friends who play w/hex

― jhøshea, Monday, 5 November 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

western exterminator is the name of an exterminator chain, so they had to change the name of the album to ratx

― omar little, Monday, 5 November 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

LOLOLOL

― 69, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Rat at Rat X

― Snop Snitchin, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

banana question

― am0n, Friday, 15 February 2008 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

dont be a liar............................................. dont be a liaaaaarrrrrr!!

― sleep, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

strawberry soda....

pop

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

i jam SS a lot cause it comes right after the M*A*S*H theme on the SLU box

― 69, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

ha, i played "liar" at some point last night, vic

― bb, Friday, 15 February 2008 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

have you guys ever jammed accelerator on 45rpm? it is INSANE

― 69, Friday, 15 February 2008 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

whoa...that makes me head hurt...that very idea...

though i will toss it into tractor later and throw the speed all crazy to see

― bb, Friday, 15 February 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

god that self titled album threw me off for so many years until i heard 'juicy juicy juice' on mushrooms in the back of my cousins car one night. every track on that is utter classic btw

― Michael B, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

great logo too. i wanna get a parka and put it on the back

― Michael B, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

ITS IN YOUR BLOOD ITS IN YOUR BRAIN DRIVE EM ALL INSANE

― Michael B, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

should i go to rtx show y/n

― am0n, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

should i go to rtx show y/n

-- am0n, Friday, February 15, 2008 10:59 PM (2 weeks ago)

― am0n, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'm thinking: n

― am0n, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

i vote no

― 69, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

itll be bad but u should go anyway just to seeeee

― jhøshea, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

i'd go if its convenient
but i havent seen them live maybe they sux who knows!

― sleep, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

i listened to myspace samples and agree with 69

― am0n, Thursday, 6 March 2008 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

CAPS

― and what, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

From: Royal Trux
Date: Jan 4, 2009 9:49 AM
Subject: ROYAL TRUX VINYL RE-ISSUES!!
Body: FIRST 2 ROYAL TRUX LP'S REISSUED ON VINYL.....LINK TO BUY ON PAGE!
THIS SHITS THE SHIT!!!!!!

― my fingers is a jellyfish (omar little), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

HOLY SHIT!

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 5 January 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

HOLY SHIT!

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, January 5, 2009 9:13 PM (11 months ago)

― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 4 January 2010 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

ACCELERATOR is a really great new year's album. So motivational.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

I used Another Year on my first radio show of 2010

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

pound for pound is still king imo but i cud be swayd

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

I am going to play Another Year on the radio tonight.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

never really liked pound for pound

― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://pitchfork.com/news/40486-royal-trux-reissue-five-albums/

this shouldn't matter to any of you fellow trux stans, who presumably already own everything~

― rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

Are there any Trux live records from Thank You on? That might be nice.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

2014

http://i.imgur.com/K1cEK31.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 August 2014 18:05 (eleven years ago)

yellow popup

― ͡ᵒಠಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠಠᵒ (am0n), Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:01 (eleven years ago)

I think he's retweeted me before too.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:14 (eleven years ago)

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