Not to brag but I saw Unrest at Maxwells and The Ropers were the openers...
...in 2010
― Evan, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I kinda want to be a completist but it is expen$$$ive.
― sleeve, Wednesday, February 27, 2013
five years later, the only formal Unrest releases I'm still missing are the "Make Out Club" 7" and the split tape with Dust Devils, but then there are a bunch of impossible-to-find Teenbeat cassette compilations as well.
― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Were you really finding it expensive at the time? None of my Unrest records are worth that much money. I don't see a lot of interest in Unrest these days in general. I'm wondering if they will be "rediscovered" by p4k or someone and have their classic status affirmed a little more among the general public someday.
― Evan, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
the really expensive one that I still don't have is the UK LP release of Perfect Teeth, it's like $80 or more
Make Out Club single is > $20 and I just can't justify it since I have all the tracks already afaik
most of this stuff is pretty affordable, I think I had to spend $40-50 on the 1st LP original
― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
This one? https://www.discogs.com/Unrest-Perfect-Teeth/release/1622164
― Evan, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
yes, trying to find a copy for sale in the US is very difficult
― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
Based on that marketplace, Germany is hoarding all of them!
― Evan, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Any Air Miami fans?
*raises hand
tbh I bought the Air Miami CD because I saw it 2nd hand for about £2.50 some time in the 90s because of the Unrest connection, listened to it a couple of times but didn't think that much of it. A few years later when I first started talking to my now-wife about music she was a fan (of both bands) and sent me a copy of their demo and got me to listen to the album again, and that time it clicked for me.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 8 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
Any Cotton Candy fans?
― henry s, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
me otm 16 years ago about flin flon and ESPECIALLY about panax's "the garden" (from the 2000 teanbeat sampler):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiP1U1DIcMM
when i was a kid in dc the teenbeat stuff felt a lot less cliquish than the dischord post hardcore cool guys and a lot more stylish than the theater dork pukka shell stylings of the dismemberment plan.
― adam, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
sleeve, i will keep an eye open for that one for you
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
<3 thank you!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Oh my god, I Do Believe You Are Blushing, where have you been? Apart from, of course, on my shelf for the last decade, unlistened.
Where do I go after Imperial ffrr?
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Perfect Teeth, immediately :)
― sleeve, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
and then BPM
I do believe your blushing is their best song imo
― nostormo, Saturday, 16 February 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
uh wow
Unrest 06-09-1991 Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVDyKwVZws&feature=youtu.be
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
aw man, gone already
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
nah it's there, just Google "Unrest 06-09-1991 Middle East" and it'll be the first result
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
thanks!
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryyk4ee5Tw
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
nice thx
― adam, Monday, 27 January 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndlZ3NJfZSE&feature=youtu.be
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
what was that supposed to be?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
oh wow is it gone already? Unrest live at the Khyber in Philly 1992
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ndlZ3NJfZSE
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea-MgTUWkAAFAqL?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
A new radio programme debuts tomorrow morning at 11AM on @wmbr. Mark & Evelyn's American Top 41 starring @evelyn0909 and Mark Robinson. http://wmbr.org
Cool! They do a lot of kitschy station identification jingles for WMBR, and every now and then pop up here in town (Cambridge/Somerville, MA) in their Cotton Candy guise, so this show should be a lot of fun.
― henry s, Saturday, 20 June 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
that's very good
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 20 June 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
also, this is not really related, but I'd like to post it here anyway, just for fun
https://cdslimspine.com/assets/photo-img.png
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 20 June 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
Terry Tolkin (R.I.P.) did a lot more besides release Imperial, but that’s where I know his name from. Mark tribute from earlier today:
Terry, me, Richard. Teenbeat 173 with Teenbeat 178 on the table. Teenbeat Banquet 1995. pic.twitter.com/JoRm4u16sO— Teen-Beat / Mark Robinson (@Teenbeat463) January 22, 2022
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
I need to look back at that Teenbeat item re to Tolkin No. 6 label .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 January 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
In an email I just got
Party MilkYour Problem as a Mountain35-song single LPThe new album from the duo D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark R. Robinson (UNREST). Originally dubbed FANG WIZARD, this dynmaic group of two changes their moniker with every release.
Pop experimentalism like you've never heard before. An electric, eclectic, and electrifying duo from Washington, D.C. Their unique, (mostly) lyric-less instrumentals are created by combining old school melodies with futuristic beats and bizarre, fractured howls.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 May 2023 14:52 (eleven months ago) link
AIR MIAMI Me. Me. Me. Double LP gatefold 2 x 45 All 16 tracks from the session remastered — three not on the original album. On Miami orange and sea blue vinyl. New jacket design. A Teenbeat / 4AD co-release. Comes out July 28. PRE-ORDER NOW:https://t.co/b32MQ5lSJt pic.twitter.com/y2esqpCygP— Teenbeat / Mark Robinson (@Teenbeat463) June 7, 2023
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:05 (ten months ago) link
the really expensive one that I still don't have is the UK LP release of Perfect Teeth, it's like $80 or more― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:25 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:25 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
sleeve, i will keep an eye open for that one for you― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:24 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink<3 thank you!― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:29 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:24 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:29 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
is a sleeve still in need?
― NickB, Saturday, 15 July 2023 16:59 (nine months ago) link
no, but thank you! I found an autographed copy a while back. much appreciated!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 15 July 2023 17:32 (nine months ago) link
oh good stuff! finally found a copy for cheap today, guess I'll just sell it for £££ instead :)
― NickB, Saturday, 15 July 2023 17:38 (nine months ago) link
yah ebay that sucker!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 15 July 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
actually... if ilxor Johnny Fever is around, I think he was also looking fwiw
Here's a pretty good new interview/article about Air Miami, from the 4AD website: https://www.4ad.com/news/1340
Regarding the break-up of Unrest, it says: Unrest broke up in the winter of 1994, giving only “exhaustion” as the reason. Nearly three decades later, Cross is still vague: “The best I can say is that we were just kids and didn't know what the hell we were doing.”Then later on in the article: “But I’m still not sure what happened with Air Miami, why Phil wasn’t on it, why it wasn’t an Unrest record. And I don’t know if that’s something we even want to talk about because it’s painful, you know?”
― ernestp, Monday, 24 July 2023 22:38 (eight months ago) link
Thanks for sharing that. Nice Royal Trux detail
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Monday, 24 July 2023 22:43 (eight months ago) link
yeah that's great, thank you!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:21 (eight months ago) link
The new LP reissue of imperial f.f.r.r. is really elegant.
When all the dust settles (well it's been 30+ years), this may be one of my top 10 LPs of all time. Curious to hear what Cross is referring to regarding to the breakup. Mark seems to be coy about talking about late-era Unrest as well.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
aside: Mike Fellows (the ersthile Trux member referenced in the interview) was pretty much the Drag City house drummer at that point. A couple years later he drummed on American Water.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:47 (eight months ago) link
Well I went to an Unrest show circa 2010 so whatever interpersonal issue there may have been at the time wasn't bad enough to prevent that joyous reunion show.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:49 (eight months ago) link
The Fellows aspect is interesting, b/c it draws a connection btw. these very different bands with DC-area roots (Rites of Spring, Unrest, Trux)
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:44 (eight months ago) link
This discussion of the Unrest breakup reminded me of a small detail. I worked at Teenbeat (Mark’s house) over two days during the summer of 1994 folding singles and doing mail order. I remember at some point Mark taking a phone call and talking with the other person for a bit about their respective bands breaking up. I don’t remember any real details from the call other than after he hung up, he just said to me “That was Calvin Johnson.”
― city worker, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link
I've just started listening to this from Discograffiti:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jrXyJVQpwFrom the description: "Welcome to Part 1 of the longest (16 HOURS), most definitive (every single release covered), and objectively the best interview ever conducted with Unrest/Grenadine/Air Miami/Flin Flon man and Teenbeat label head Mark Robinson."
― ernestp, Sunday, 7 January 2024 20:29 (three months ago) link
!!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 7 January 2024 20:31 (three months ago) link