― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I spent a good three years under the heavy sway of the trux. Twin Infinitives, s/t, Cats and Dogs and Thank You pulled me out of the grunge tarpit and made me ditch most of my AmRep records. That bluesy, classik rok swagger, that mystical druggy miasma, those voices. So fucking cool. I interviewed Hagerty around the time Thank You came out. It was great. He talked about the house they just bought in Virginia. How he hung bells on all the bushes on the property.
I have to admit, my exposure to their later albums is minimal. I'm going to have to rectify that.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I first saw them in 92 or 3 opening for mudhoney and was all - what exactly is going on here? Needless to say, I've been a devotee ever since.
My point: pound for pound = best album. Where's the love, people?
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes. It's cosmic. Check it out. Check out it's cosmicness. Particularly deep country sorcerer. That song, in me, inspires awe and fear. Also this album has Dan Brown, which is a major plus. He is a ++ bassist and catcher. Small thief and sunshine and grease are so open and tender, platinum tips is titillating, call out the loins is triumphant; the whole album sounds like it was recorded really loud. It sounds good.
Because my geekiness has been peaked, I will now list their releases in order of greatness - eps, singles and (because I haven't heard them) the 3 NMH limited edition lps are excluded. Solo and collaborative works are included:
Pound for PoundRoyal Trux (3rd Album)Cats & DogsVeterans of DisorderThank YouNeil Michael Hagerty - The Howling HexSweet SixteenAcceleratorNeil Michael Hagerty - Plays That Good Old Rock n RollSingles, Live Unreleased (great songs, but the sequencing, ugh)Royal Trux (1st Album)Twin InfinitivesA Drag City Supersession - Tramps Traitors and Little DevilsNeil Michael Hagerty - Neil Michael HagertyThe Howling Hex - All-Night FoxWeird War - Weird WarRTX - TransmaniaconThe Drag City HourHand of Glory
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― The King's English (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― The King's English (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
By the way, the label on the Introducing... record states that it is okay to digitally copy and distribute the album. I assume that the same permission is granted for the whole series.
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Law manyou know you look to be a lot younger than me andI'd hate to shoot a babyyou've got a long way to go before you're old and slowand it could beit could be a good time if you change your mindwell I'm tired and sweet from making loveand it's just too lateyou'll have to waitbring your business around here in the morning
well I've heard your lineand you've heard mineand I'm just too tired to take a sidebring your business around here in the morningDon't you want to be easy look therelet some of the things you see go on by oryou can burn them into your brain go on homeDon't you see the children, they're just like youthey want everything to be fine but they let it slideand the laughing lets you know that smiling breaks the rules
Law breaker you know it could be meand if you had your way we'd all be downunder the face of a clock that's just too old to be woundand you can see now the old hands won't move aroundone way or the other,fool card brother this could be,this could be, the first time.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Does anyone have the 3rd one?
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
1. "I'm Ready" - opening credits. As soon as the song abruptly explodes into existence, our hero is shown sitting straight up in bed in shock, facing the camera. As the song and credits continue, a sped-up montage shows him brushing his teeth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, walking out the front door, looking for a few seconds at an abused, dented dune buggy that sits in the family garage (foreshadowing), and riding his bike to school.2. "Yellow Kid" - Hero sits mournfully in bathroom stall, having just been confronted by school bullies for being the "weird new kid" in front of an attractive young girl. He slams the bathroom wall with his fist in desperation. He IS the eponymous "Yellow Kid."3. "The Banana Question" - Having gotten news that dune buggy racing is the hot teen activity in his new town, our hero decides to fix up his brother's old dune buggy, despite the fact that his brother was killed in a freak dune buggy accident. Another montage sequence ensues as he tightens bolts, polishes roll bars, gets squirted with oil, etc. Good wholesome teenage fun.4. "Another Year" - Plays behind slo-mo footage of the race, the camera whips around often so the footage is blurred and chaotic. Sand flies as the buggies leap over the dunes, hanging suspended in the air. Our hero thinks he has a grasp on first place, but in an accident eerily close to the one that killed his brother, he spins out and collides with a palm tree.5. "Juicy Juice" - Our hero, his arm now in a cast, has given up on dune buggy racing, has resigned himself to being unpopular for the rest of high school, and has taken a job working at an ice cream store in a mall. But who should walk in but the attractive girl from his school! As the camera slowly pans over her nubile young body, this song plays.6. "Liar" - Our hero is confronted by his parents, who are angry that he has been racing and are afraid that he will be killed like his brother. But our hero is starting to regain his confidence and needs a way to impress the girl, so he rebels and says he will race in the state championship that weekend, and there's nothing they can do about it. Doors are slammed, tears are shed.7. "New Bones" - Our hero and the girl have quickly fallen in love, he has confessed his fears of ever racing his dune buggy again, but she convinces him that he needs to race, and win, to honor his brother's memory. They kiss shyly, then passionately. Then they get really high on mushrooms and screw. This controversial scene earns "Accelerator" an NC-17 rating.8. "Follow the Winner" - The climactic race. Spurred on by new love and his fresh lack of virginity, our hero has grown into a virile, manly specimen who intimidates the other racers with his masculine charm, making this an easy win for him. The lesson learned: Dune buggy racing is a sport of confidence and mind games, not to be trifled with by the weak.9. "Stevie" - Following the award ceremony, the girl and the hero jump into the dune buggy and ride off into the sunset. Closing credits.
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
They kiss shyly, then passionately. Then they get really high on mushrooms and screw.
Then add maybe: an apocalyptic meteor shower, return to cave-living, mutant politicians and a talking cat. Um, scuba diving, pirates, helpful dolphins, skate boarding with a sail attached to it across the desert, jesus freaks and Vermont.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
The Return of the Third Tower:http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19LHLBAHGED2U08QV8UKI6AM55
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ranking Rupert (Ranking Rupert), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 4 September 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
To me, Historia de la Musica Rock is like a Godz 2 kind of awesomeness!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link