Unrest Classic or Dud?

keep repeating keep repeating

Turns out it's an acoustic version of Light Command, another Perfect Teeth track. Dunno where it comes from, or if it appears anwhere else but on BPM.

perfect teeth is great!

― scott seward, Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:31 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

everything post KK Blaxploitation through to the end is near flawless, inc Perfect Teeth

one of my favorite bands ever, so creative

Light Command is a great song. Haven't heard that acoustic version tho.

Wanna pick up a copy of Perfect Teeth now, as I haven't heard it in ages and the PT-era stuff on BPM is just as good as Imperial etc. I have a tendency to fall hard for a certain record and to look askance at whatever comes next simply because it isn't that thing. Years later I'll hear the follow-up record I once denounced and be completely shocked by how RONG I was. Perhaps this is one of those...

I just noticed that a kind of ok Unrest track that's not so easily found has turned up on one of them there blog things. Song is "House Proud" on the soundtrack to Hippy Porn from 1991, which was supposed to come out on Matador, but never did. It sounds a bit like one of their Air Miami demos. I like it, even if it is pretty short. I've had it on cassette for a while but could never manage to transfer to digital.

The soundtrack has a number of other big names on it (Unsane, Frogs, Cop Shoot Cop, Thurston Moore) and a very unessential Dustdevils instrumental. Googling the pertinent bits of this post will turn it up.

can someone tell me the name of that Mark Robinson solo album that's all cutup voice and sine waves?

I believe you're thinking about the *Taste* EP: http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Mark-Robinson/dp/B00004TJZ1/

Those early Unrest cassettes are available on CD from Teenbeat's site now. I'm guessing they're made to order CD-R's but I may be wrong. But to finally hear Twister and Lisa Carol Freemont after all these years of wondering.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/04/three-unrest-lineups-to-headline-teenbeat-26th-anniversary-shows-in-july/

I've got to find a way to get to one of those shows.

bummed, no west coast dates!

I think the Black Cat show in DC is on sale now.

DC area local me should get a ticket before it sells it.

Some of you might find this article that discusses the old Teenbeat house in Arlington, VA., to be of interest

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/38231/the-orange-line-revolution-the-year-that-punk-rock-left

Wow Ropers opening in Hoboken SO FUCKING EXCITED!!!

great article, thanks! xp

I love this band so much.

I saw them 3-4 times back in the day & once as Air Miami. They are an absolutely terrific live band! Such simple arrangements & yet such lockstep rhythm b/w the guitars & drums - Mark R has such a huge voice too. Hopefully it has aged well?

I might have to make my way east this July.

I saw them the night Clinton was elected. All I remember is them playing "Hydroplane" for 8-10 minutes and Bridget resting her head on Mark's shoulder while they effortlessly jammed out.

One of the best double-bills I've ever attended: Unrest & Stereolab in '93 @ St. Andrews Hall in Detroit - touring for Perfect Teeth & TRNBWA respectively.

^^^ was at that same show...awesome

One of the best triple bills I ever saw: Unrest, Volcano Suns, Wesding Present at the 9:30, 20 years ago. Anyone else going to the Cambridge show?

Suki is pretty catchy. I've seen a couple lists that rank Imperial ffras the number one indie album of all time - DO NOT AGREE. But I can't deny it's a pretty attractive album, all the songs are very well done. But holy shit, talk about iconoclasm. I'm sure people have seen the list I'm talking about.

xxp - have we been through this before, henry s? I think we were probably at a lot of the same shows.

One of the best double-bills I've ever attended: Unrest & Stereolab in '93 @ St. Andrews Hall in Detroit - touring for Perfect Teeth & TRNBWA respectively.

Caught that bill out here at UC Irvine, with Idaho opening. Hell of a triple bill.

idaho, unrest and stereolab in one concert? why wasn't i there?

xxp - have we been through this before, henry s? I think we were probably at a lot of the same shows.

I think we both piled on some thread about Detroit venues, or St. Andrews Hall, or something like that...(I live in Boston now, but am from the D, and went to a ton of shows there in the 80's and 90's)...

Got my tickets to the NYC show!

^^^jealous

one of the few bands I would be excited to see a reunion performance by (the other one was Camper Van Beethoven)

Gotta buy my plane tickets next!

Would killllllllllllllll to see that.

Brooklyn show sold out!

Come to Hoboken, people.

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/07/02/mark_robinson_and_his_little_teenbeat_label_celebrate_a_big_legacy_and_a_26th_anniversary/

huh, a designer for Houghton Mifflin

I love that he writes hand-written notes for mail orders (I got one for that Maybe It's Reno CD)

will anyone be at the Friday 7/9 show in Brooklyn?

man i was so disappointed at that maybe it's reno album :\

really? I thought a lot of it was very much of a piece with Perfect Teeth

Yeah, maybe it's reno is great. Takes a few listens to kick in.

I love that he writes hand-written notes for mail orders

Hah, yeah! I only ever ordered from Teenbeat once, got Vomit Launch & No Trend CDs because they were impossible to find here, and got a note from "Mark" I did wonder if it was really him ; )

3 versions of Unrest were great in DC tonight ( Versus were as well; and Rondelles weren't bad....Missed the first band...Jonny Cohen in between band was well Jonny). Unrest did "Cath Carroll", "Teenage Suicide," "Suki," "Makeout Club" and many more. Mark's got that wonderful boyish grin as he strums away and sings.

Unrest were great in Hoboken.

a crucial influence on the transition of american indie aesthetics from B&W photocopies of skulls to colour photocopies of 70's airport lounges.

― fritz, Monday, February 18, 2002 5:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

all time 2nd response HOF

Pals of mine who dj'd at the University of Maryland's WMUC and who hung out with Robinson in the mid to late 80s and early 90s shared Mark's interest in Factory Records. While such interest may not have been prominent as a musical theme in America at the time, it was not necessarily unusual.

Mark's lost a ton of weight.

I had not seen him in so long, I missed the heavy phase.

I was trying to determine the best Unrest record.

the first one a little too juvenalia for my tastes, and perfect teeth never did it for me. a noble failure.

that leaves malcolm x park, kustom karnal, imperial. kustom karnal is great, but a little too genre-bound. imperial has their best songs, but

malcolm x park is their best record.