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I checked, and I still have Hand of Glory. I may listen to it again tonight.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

In which country did Royal Trux allegedly start a riot with the announcement of their breakup in 2000?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Do tell, Adam.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

no, I need you to answer this question so that i can win RTX tickets on Flavorpill!

It's a hard one.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Google is not giving up the secrets.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

bmp

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

The "press release" on Drag City's site back in the day (which was removed days later) said that the band announced their break-up during a Japanese press conference, and things went nuts.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe they made the story up as part of the Yin Jim, W. Lester Duo, and the Bones of a Dead Coyote saga or something.

What is Royal Trux?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks, doctor funk. And now we wait.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Stories from the Yin Jim file, I'm telling you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

New Howling Hex album out Feb 21 on Drag City. It's currently listed as coming out only on CD; that can't possibly be right, can it?

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

Vic - feasibly, it COULD be CD only, since the Introducing...trilogy is complete. As in, back to the non-limited. Then again, Drag City usually issue most of their stuff on LP, too. Weird.

This is my most anticipated release of the year.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to catch up on what Neil is doing. I liked the first solo album, but thought the second one (that Plays That Good Ol' Rock and Roll one or whatever it was called) was kind of crap.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

the third proper solo album was by far the best.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

roger, the new howling hex NAILS it. it's great. very concise, the opposite of the sprawl of the previous four records or so. for me, the best neil's done since the first solo disc.

― jon dale, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Vic - feasibly, it COULD be CD only, since the Introducing...trilogy is complete. As in, back to the non-limited. Then again, Drag City usually issue most of their stuff on LP, too. Weird.

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

And NMH seems to like the format enough

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone hear anything about a new NMH book?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Never mind, I just checked the DrCi website.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

There's info on the HH site as well: http://www.howlinghex.com/

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha! I won those tickets! Thanks dr funk.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Roger is OTMFM

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

SICK ASS DOG

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

STRAWBERRY SODAPOP

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I CALLED THE DOC AND HE'S IN SHOCK, THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FEDS

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

WITCH'S TIT

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

did playing "sick ass dog" on the jukebox last night ruin it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

CHANCES ARE THE COMETS IN OUR FUTURE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I LIKE TO GO TO THE WATER PARK!

(I heard that song used once over a sports highlight reel)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

SHOCKWAVE RIDDDEEERRRRRR

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Sweet Sixteen is a pretty goddamn awesome record.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

HOW CAN YOU BUST UP AN ACT LIKE THAT?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

A SAILOR HAS TO MASTURBATE UNTIL THE SHEEEIP LAAANDS

best rock band ever

― Aaron A., Monday, 4 April 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Virginia's Royal Trux mix bad Company biker blues, Southern rock, synthesized AM drivel and arty college experimentation like an underage bar goer mixes drinks: slamming 'em down till they come back up as regurgitated sonic swill. Combine that with a trailer-trash-chic image – skintight bell-bottoms, cowboy boots and whiskey-warped expressions – and you have an underclass shtick that has made the Trux underground faves.

On their sixth underproduced album and second major-label release (yet another indie band signed in Nirvana's wake), singer Jennifer Herrema works hard at sounding trashy, slurring lyrics in a raspy tone a la Nazareth. She hisses ultranasty lines like "Sweet 16 and never been clean" alongside guitarist and vocalist Neil Hagerty's own thin warble. Indulgent wah-wah guitar solos bump into disjointed drum beats.

Every song on Sweet Sixteen eventually lapses into a meandering mess, even on tunes where the Trux attempt to mimic Zeppelin's repetitive rhythms or the Allman Brothers' jams. Instead of respecting the music they bastardize, the Trux treat it as low art, approaching '70s rock like a cocky adult playing a kids' game. By mid-album, you begin to wish Lynyrd Skynyrd had crashed this recording session and kicked the Trux's pretentious asses into some sort of cohesive groove. (RS 757)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I entirely disagree with that review. I think the quality of their songs started to drop off on that record.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

That's where they started getting even better!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Royal Trux were a great band. Every record they put out for a long time was interesting. That covered a span of five albums and a lot of singles. When Sweet Sixteen came out, it seemed to me like all of a sudden this was a band who were just treading water with no real discernible inspiration.

And it's not like it got better after that either.

How in the world is that record better than Thank You or Cats and Dogs? The songs aren't as good and it's more of a fucking mess. I like messes, but they'd already made messes with GREAT records like Twin Infinitives. Their trajectory at the time was that they were getting tighter -- from the third album to Cats and Dogs to Thank You. Then, all of a sudden they stopped. Why? I really don't understand what the point of that album was (and the psuedo-cryptic stuff about "it's our seventies album in our sixties/seventies/eighties album trilogy" seemed like a bunch of gibberish).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

you are wrong

― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

"Accelerator"'s pretty tight

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

gear otm. Tim is so very wrong. Thank You is definitely one of my all time favorite albums, maybe in the top 3, but Sweet Sixteen is an absolute masterpiece. I can't think of a 'challenging' record that yields a greater reward after you do 'get' it.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I like all of their albums that I have heard (which is all of them except the two self-titled ones and Hand of Glory).

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I still haven't heard Sweet Sixteen!
But I've been reacquainting myself with Cats & Dogs (which I used to have ON CASSETTE!), and my new all-time favourite Royal Trux song is "The Spectre".

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

awww man, n/a, the second s/t record is one of their best!!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll get to it eventually, it just seems to be harder to find. I'm not avoiding it or anything, I just tend to pick them up as I find them used or around town.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I will happily accept any Royal Trux music that anyone wants to send me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm psyched for the Howling Hex DVD in November. Should be awesome

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

This website looks pretty good for Royal Trux info. If you click on Aesthetics they've got a lot of the Herrema fashion photo spreads.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

MORPHIC RESIDEEENT

― gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

what a good band! i'm gonna listen to cats & dogs now! i think veterans of disorder is underrated! i think thank you might be the best! i love twin infinitives!

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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