― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Editorial ReviewsAmazon.comAfter four (mostly unexceptional) releases on Chicago's hipper-than-thou indie Drag City, Haggerty and Herrema moved on up to Virgin in 1995, becoming label mates with what's left of their heroes, the Rolling Stones. Some might have considered the David Briggs-produced Thank You a sell-out, but it was as weird, sloppy, and attitudinal as ever. Only this time, there were bona fide pop songs that stuck in your craw, indicating for the first time that the Truckers might be more than just another Lower East Side art-rock rip-off. Sweet Sixteen is even better. To the extent that I care or can be bothered to decipher 'em, the lyrics tackle the same old concerns: sex, drugs, and rock & roll in-jokes. It's the musical settings that matter. Haggerty and lovingly reconstruct every '70s sound they ever smoked a bong or nodded off to: Sly Stone-style funk ("The Pick-Up"), Allman Brothers twin guitars meet prog-rock synths ("Don't Try to Hard"), stoner country-blues-jugband shuffling ("Roswell Seeds & Stems"), and even ultra-ironic Abbey Road-era Beatlemana ("Can't Have It Both Ways"). Of course, Redd Kross and Jellyfish/Imperial Drag (to name but two) have been building winning pop from this junkyard wreckage for quite some time now. But while the members of Royal Trux are coming to the party late, they're arriving with their arms full of treats.Jim Derogatis
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
i like "sweet 16" but i don't really know which one i like best. i used to listen to that singles comp (well, maybe 1/3 of it) all the time, but i don't think that one qualifies.
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a hard one.
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
What is Royal Trux?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Song titles and a word or two on the tracks from the Howling Hex site:
"Now, We're Gonna Sing": Start out with a straightforward introduction to the people...
"Instilled With Mem'ry": Try to forget that name and date...
"Pair Back Up Mass With": Self delusion before action...
"Activity Risks": Committee in the brain disagree...
"To His Own Front Door": In and pulled out by the outside...
"What, Man? Who Are You?!": The final confrontation of mistaken identity...
"Cast Aside The False": Ghost of JonBenet Ramsey surveys the battlefield...
"Soft Enfolding Spreads": A final objection and farewell...
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
This is my most anticipated release of the year.
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
DC has it listed as LP/CD in there news section, so I guess we'll have to wait a few more weeks to find out. But most DC stuff comes out on vinyl, as you said, and it would just strike me as odd that someone would put out three vinyl only albums, then make the next proper record CD only. I mean, DC has concrete proof people will buy Howling Hex vinyl.
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm listening to Veterans of Disorder at this moment and I'm fucking sad that I only saw 'em live one time ('97, the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY).
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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