Boredoms S/D

I'd say Chocolate Synthesizer.

I still remember hearing "Michidai"/"Fuanteidai" for the first time and picking my jaw up off the floor.

it is I, Frances. getting onto this thread way too late I know....um, the thing I played was Vision Creation Newsun. If you heard me on Resonance last night, I was playing Super Are, off Super Ae. Yeah, get both of these albums, and MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL go see the Boredoms live.

I'm sure you have been told this many a time already. But that's because it's true. Live, they have this intense aura of of gonzo wisdom that completely blows my mind (man). And, like 'stirmonster' says, DRUMS! Drums that will make you dance like a mandrill on too much ibogane.

Anyways, was good to meet you the other night! F

But VCN, Super Ae, and Super Roots 7 are all untouchable. I'm liking the new Seiichi Yamamoto album too, but it's nothing like those others. (very quiet/pretty)

I'm not sure what you mean by "heavier" but Soul Discharge was less "heavy" in the usual rock sense (loud guitars, pounding drums, riffage) than the early Boredoms material that preceded it, on which they sounded more than a bit like a Japanese Butthole Surfers.

This may be what I'm thinking of then. Like I said, my early Boredoms knowledge is not so hot.

(I hear a lot of echoes of the Butthole Surfers here, but maybe that's because they just happen to the band closest to this sort of thing that I have listened to the most in the last ten years.)

The super punk ethics shop won't carry major label albums.
The hardcore store only carries hardcore.
The indie stores only carry YYY's, White Stripes, Sonic Youth and Flaming Lips.
Newbury Comics has gotten me the aforementioned albums + one OOIOO CD
The mall CD stores? HAHAHAHAHA

The last two albums are INSANE in their greatness. I mean, I loved the noise stuff to a degree but fuck.. vision indeed.

I think those bastards are just waiting around to release a big ole Super Roots box set. Or maybe not. Either way I need all the Super Roots. Anyone that wantsta trade, please email...

Where do I go from there tho? It seems thay're totally different every record they make, which is thoroughly commendable but not a little daunting.

The word "heavy" has come up a lot here, and the other thread talked about "groove". The earlier boredoms had their moments of these, but would subvert the expectations these set up rather than run with them, as the more recent boredoms do. I can see why the latter might make for a more "enjoyable" listening experience. But the earlier boredoms has its own pleasures, even if they aren't related to coherence. My own feeling listening to those records is that they are like a huge disorganized messy pile of brilliant half-realized things. I'd say Chocolate Synthesizer is the apex of this. And it somehow manages to be idiotic and cerebral, funny and serious, arty and artless all at once.

The "new" boredoms go to the opposite extreme--monomaniacal intensity--which somehow makes perfect sense to me. There's an extremity and obsession in ALL their "phases", which give their stylistic shifts a coherence below their surfaces.

So, yes, some of their recordings on their own are probably worth searching over others (I'll defer to above recommendations), but this is also a band that can be appreciated in its totality and (for me, at least) transcends an easy accounting by search and destroy.

I assume you're talking about "Super Going", that guitar tone & the Moonian cymbal wash -- that's one of my favorite tracks on the album. But then, I like Tommy too, so hey.

But that's part of why it's so great!

the splinter band with EY3 and Y0shimi is known as either V00redoms or 7v07 depending on the amount of drums or electronics or DJ-ing is involved. EY3 has been DJ-ing all over Japan in the last month, Yoshimi has SAIC0BABA and her okinowan/hawaiian hardcore band SUNPM0:00oo, and OoioO is currently on hiatus.

Really? But what about (for instance) their appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties L.A. last year? That wasn't "The Boredoms"?

And as for early Boredoms, the reason I'm a bit biased and ignore this material despite later albums being some of my faves is because the first Boredoms record I ever bought was Super Roots 1 about 4-5 years ago. I knew nothing about it, vaguely recalled some Boredoms hype, and bought it because it was cheap. Damn near put me off on the Boredoms forevar. Felt like I was on the receiving end of some prank they'd pulled.

Prob. a little silly to still have this bias but I'm a small man!

WOW2 has just been released in the UK, but i'd stear clear if you're not a fan of Onanie Bomb or Soul Discharge.

Does an UNKLE Rebore megamix really exist? This sounds horrid.

How are the Boredoms regarded in Japan? Are they music superstars, a national treasure? Is Eye a media hero? (Without knowing, I would guess that they must have, at the very least, the status that Sonic Youth has in the U.S. - if not even more exposure/popularity/"institutional" respect.)

I'm surprised that they couldn't get anything released that they wanted to release.

has some good stuff too

"Yamatsuka Eye had released a solo album full of samples of “The Pod”"

What Eye album is being referenced here?

good question!

Z-Rock Hawaii was recorded in 1994 (released two years later) so it must be from then or before, maybe Chocolate Synthesizer or Super Roots?

...yet neither of those are eYe solo albums.

It's Hanatarash 4: AIDS-a-delic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bDNP5H9VY

sweet, thnx, I don't think I've ever heard 4 or 5

https://www.nts.live/shows/remote-utopias/episodes/eye-boredoms-3rd-may-2020

https://www.nts.live/shows/remote-utopias/episodes/yoshimio-ooioo-2nd-may-2020

awesome, thanks!

listening now, crossposting to NTS thread

Thanks!!!!!!

that Eye mix is INSANE, pitch-twisted dancehall madness

weren't they supposed to reunite this year or something? 2020 sucks

EYE live audio/visual performance on streaming:

2021.02.07（Sun.）
COSMIC LAB presents EXPANDED -Audio Visual XstReam Live Sessions-
OPEN (JST) 19:30
START (JST)20:00
ライブ視聴可能期間
2.7 SUN 20:00 - 2.15 MON 00:00
詳しくは↓↓

https://www.expanded.cosmiclab.jp/

Sunday 20:00 JST =
Sunday 3am PST
Sunday 6am EST
Sunday 11am GMT

Sunday 3am PST

sad lol, noted, thanks

The live listing says it will last for over a week (?) so you may have plenty of time to tune in haha.

looks like it was three hours and change but i think the set is still accessible or for a week if you bought a ticket

watching the eye set now, it’s cool. very digital noise but still the same old eye we all know and love.

Super Roots 9 just giving me tingles non stop

i don't like VCN, it sounds like what oasis are gonna be doing in 10 years
― gi66y, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:24 AM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

hilarious. i wish

The question is, was that a truly steaming take in 2003 or something it was possible to reasonably conceive of.

No. Not at all conceivable.

Listening to Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony: “ah this is what 100 gecs will sound like in 10 years”.

VCN is the greatest album ever made

checks out

yes

Thirded