Royal Trux : Classic or Dud ?

i dont care i want to see the full world tour royal trux extravaganza

the first time these two actually see each other again should be as they walk out on stage

― tylerw, Thursday, May 14, 2015 1:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful post

actually really lovely & interesting to know that rtx collaboration & now this are a thing, though

http://bombmagazine.org/article/6931428/neil-michael-hagerty

I was looking for the Puncture article about Royal Trux where Neil is all paranoid in their rural Virginia house and I found this: http://www.royaltrux.wolfzen.com/rtx_ints_needs_formatting.txt A whole bunch of Royal Trux interviews/articles on a long unformatted page

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did the thing to send that whole page to my Kindle for later reading.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I highly recommend doing this. One of the best books I've read this year.

that bomb interview is great, thanks schlump

Saw one tweet indicating that Jennifer and Neil have yet to meet face-to-face about the reunion, saw another tweet that there's a special Royal Trux t-shirt only for sale at the festival

gonna be a weird trainwreck, that's for sure. which is appropriate.

Saw one tweet indicating that Jennifer and Neil have yet to meet face-to-face about the reunion

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, August 6, 2015 12:24 PM (9 minutes ago)

lolllllll! link?

Here: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/cult-rockers-royal-trux-on-gearing-up-for-their-first-show-in-15-years

doesn't seem like a crazy problem imo

& otoh i am hyped for the tshirt

they've known each other since they were kids. should be easy to get steezy on stage

that long text file is amazing

Neil: Did you read the Royal Trux thing in The Voice?
Lisa: No.
Neil: The Voice is just one of those things, like Karl Marx or the Don't Tread
On Me flag. The Village Voice staff from 1970. The way I see it, there's a
certain force operating underneath social life. To me. Royal Trux is like the
trip, like the word life. It's like, I'm on a Royal Trux.
[A conversation here about communism and its connection to the Don't Tread On Me
flag too confusing to transcribe.]

"Herrema has plenty going on – as well a new Black Bananas LP, she's starring in the new series of the Judd Apatow-produced Netflix romcom Love"

Wait what!

lol yes

Of course that wasn't going to be it. NYC show in December - http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/10/royal_trux_play.html

ugh webster hall. tix on sale friday 10am

highly considering going, though now it's a bit more likely that more shows could happen...

related/semi-self-hype: I did a piece on Twin Infinitives for PSF that sort of fits in with a lot of the conversation in this thread:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/royaltrux3.html

https://royaltrux2016.bandcamp.com/

haha awesome

yess!

I was at the Chicago reunion show, it was pretty much what I expected (a weird/awesome mess).

I don't think there's a bad (or at least boring) Trux LP, but I love Cats & Dogs - Dogs of Love - Thank You - Sweet 16 so much more than the breathrough stuff that followed

have never been able to hear Sweet 16, annoys the shit out of me

JH is doing a DJ/podcast thing:
http://dublab.com/labrat/labrat-jennifer-herrema/

Playlists look pretty good. Just fired up the latest episode with Rian Murphy.

Playing in Manchester next year with The Fall, Loop and others - http://www.dragcity.com/tours#royal-trux

i've been listening to accelerator and 3-song ep a bunch lately but i don't know much else other than some random songs on youtube. what should i check out next? cats and dogs? does anything else sound like 3 song ep?

Yeah "Cats and Dogs", definitely

If you like Accelerator get Veterans of Disorder and Pound For Pound

My first RT was an impulse buy of the triple vinyl Singles, Live, Unreleased and I'd recommend that, as well as everything already mentioned

Cats & Dogs is their best imho

The odds & ends comp is the one I keep going back to:
https://www.discogs.com/Royal-Trux-Singles-Live-Unreleased/release/1269891

this is one of those questions where everyone's going to give you a different answer

I still have never gotten that into any of the pre-Cats & Dogs albums but my general recommendation wrt RT is to just get everything they recorded from that point on plus the singles compilation because it's almost all great. Top three albums after Accelerator would be Cats & Dogs, Veterans, and Thank You.

Cats and Dogs is my go-to, but the preceding self-titled (with the gold pile of skulls) was my first and it made a big impression on my tender young brain almost 25 years ago (shit).

Singles/Live/Unreleased is a goldmine of killer Trux tunes, covers a lot of stylistic ground. Worth it for "Shockwave Rider" and "Back to School" alone.

Cats and Dogs is my go-to, but the preceding self-titled (with the gold pile of skulls) was my first and it made a big impression on my tender young brain almost 25 years ago (shit).

knock five years off that timescale and this is me also

To echo the posts above... start with Cats and Dogs, then work forward/backward from there.

still have never gotten that into any of the pre-Cats & Dogs albums

Same here, the early looser stuff doesn't appeal to me much. Sweet Sixteen is my favorite.

Cats and Dogs is my go-to, but the preceding self-titled (with the gold pile of skulls) was my first and it made a big impression on my tender young brain almost 25 years ago (shit).

Yes. Junkie Nurse and Sun On The Run and Air and a bunch of others make this a must.

Junkie Nurse is so spooky. Love the guitar-playing on that one.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/399

https://www.thewire.co.uk/img/scale/1240/1528/2017/04/04/May-OFC-01.jpg

well well

noooo even the haggmeister has a beard now :(

new vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BneR3bjueI

or not. duh.

don't get my hopes up like that

my bad.

GTFOH with that 20 year old "new vid" revive...

http://www.dragcity.com/products/platinum-tips-ice-cream

http://imgur.com/a/QQB2s

Then someone in the comments posts a link to the drone-jam 2nd part of "Half A Canyon", to which Jen replies:

"Their Royal Trux homage to Spike Cyclone at @ 2:22-2:45 is the best part" which is OTM!