This is good stuff!

Yes I Am:

you know it, babe!!

listening to this rn:

Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis

Me too. Don't know if it's actually out yet, but my friends at the record store have me a promo copy for $5.00. They did the same with the new No Age, and it was good. This is better.

dang, i m listening to Nirvana.
in utero; bit bored of it though.

In Utero is BORING. always has been. Like the Beatles "Let It Be" BORING

I am listening to this

Dude, In Utero is one of the best albums of all time, it should get more attention than Nevermind but Nevermind had a bigger cultural impact so its above In Utero on the list. Besides, as an unapologetic crusty, its the Misfits that are boring, get some Civil Disobedience or The Varukers and listen to some REAL punk ;)

Shit son, you got it screwed up! In Utero is so dull, so boring

fantastic production, interesting lyrics, innovative sounds and instrumentation, syncretic blend of noise/feedback music with classic rock solos and chord progressions? Its like if Sonic Youth merged with Credence Clearwater Revival. How can you hate on something so original? I could even accept if you said Bleach or Nevermind were boring (to a degree, they are) but In Utero is an epic departure from the lesser interesting Nirvana records.

In Utero should be flagship record for all music that came after, but it didn't get enough attention from listeners, so Nevermind has that by default.

As to Misfits, again, meh, boring over-simplistic punk with mediocre drumwork and drums are the essential element of innovative or creative punk (after all, what variation can you do with 3 chords and crunching feedback?). Get back at me when you've expanded your horizons into the depths of better punk like this, especially this, and how could I forget this




..and what is the deal with the beaf-cake fetish?THE WHOLE BAND LOOKS LIKE THIS!!!!!

First, who the fuck ever implied that I don't like Jack Nicholson. I LOVE Jack Nicholson, just not his work before the 1980s. Second, Nevermind is a terribly over-produced, overly "pop" record which even the band admitted to regretting. What they wanted to do was lost in production, Butch Vig murdered that record. So the band put out WHAT THEY WANTED NIRVANA to sound like on In Utero. It is the more "Nirvana" sounding record, it reflects more of the what their stage-show consisted of from 1990-1994. Also, please note, if you like those boring beefcake "pseudo-punks" the Misfits then you are already on my chump list homie, see the links I posted. THAT is punk, Misfits? Not so much ;)

My bias, I'm a recovering crusty from the gutter scene, the whole punk enough pissing contests about authenticity or sincerity dominate our narrative. I just don't think the Misfits are aggressive enough musically compared to the bands I linked such as Varukers, Allergic to Whores, or Civil Disobedience. Further, I was dissing them more in the context of Rob's comments that somehow In Utero is boring, but the Misfits aren't. Simply put, punk enough or not, I find their music slow, unoriginal, and boring.

Actually, believe it or not the peak of crust, gutter, and anarcho punk is the mid-to-late 1990s. In the late 70s-to-mid-80s there are some pioneer and cornerstone bands of the genre, but in the 1990s the scene was expanded, there were WAY more bands, WAY more shows, and WAY more crustys all over the place lying in gutters drinking and bumming change. I know, I was one of them ;)



To that I can agree emphatically, but I still find it boring, and the entire point was that Rob said it was better than In Utero, to which I disagree, its way more boring in my opinion. Needs more blast beats, growls, and unintelligible pissed off lyrics that are exclusively NOT about your ex-girlfriends ;)

Of course, but that is boring ;)

Punk is, by my definition, more often the latter than the former. When I think of punk, true punk, I think of Half Japanese, Beat Happening, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, the Fall, Ramones, Stooges, and the Birthday Party. All bands that it would be unfair to call " angry," since they made music that channeled so many emotions other than anger and frustration.

That said, I also think of tons of pissed off bands, who were defined by their pissedoffedness (Minor Threat, Albini/Big Black, Nirvana, Dead Kennedys). most of those bands were more frustrated than angry, or they were angry about social issues. Anger is definitely part of the deal, but it's not a prerequisite for punk. Emotion, however, and an absolute refusal to inhibit the expression of your emotions, no matter how chaotic, silly, or retarded it makes you look/sound... That is an absolute necessity.

Those bands up there did anger, sure. But they also did whatever the fuck else they were feeling. Punk is more artistic by design than angry, from my perspective. I think it's a broader genre than the stereotypes would suggest.

Gutter punks are pretty angry and violent. Though the angry ones tend to be the alcoholic ones, who are usually pretty good people. It's the smack and speed fiend gutter punks who will surprise you with how quickly they can get a sharp object into your leg and start throwing blows.
And these are the 39-40 year old "GP" I'm talking about. The 20-30 are probably absolute fucking bastards, and I hope I never encounter anyone under the age of 20 who I would call, or who calls himself (because really, what's worse than that, you know?) "gutter punk." I don't think I would be able to handle it.

In Utero? Misfits? BORING?

..to each one their own i guess.

You know, that is a true statement. In my teens and early 20s as a punk, we used to get into way too many brawls. That is in part, a significant reason why a joined up with a bunch of Rastafari folks, after spending several years getting into street fights hanging out with punks and getting fucking shot at hanging out with gangsters (yeah, I made a lot of poor decisions in my younger days), a lifestyle around peace, harmony, and brotherly love with your neighbors was very centering. Its made me an entirely different person, and I haven't had to get in a fight or almost stab somebody in at least seven years!


That summarizes my best friend Mikey D and like 10 other people I used to hang out with. Me and Mike were in a crust band together. Mike was a fucking brawler, and a miserable drunk. but he remains one of the best people I've ever known, guy has serious heart. He settled down, sort of, just last year after having his first son. We were thinking, finally! Yeah, gutter punks will get you into some shit, but it is what it is, great music and as you said, drunk aside generally good people.

to me, boring is something like Adele.

then again, over the years i've seen pretty much every artist getting called "boring" here, including SY themselves.

name one artist who isn't boring. YOU CAN'T.

e-40 is NEVER boring and he got like 50 albums now! Maybe I'm just too hood like that.. biased

nurse with wound.
havent in a very long time. years actually.

great, just great.

chocolate ladyland, sweet jesus the top two are good. FF not really what I wanted from them but having followed them for so long it's a development which is wholly welcome. armed courage is just another fucking classic from a band who are certainly among the greatest of all time at this point. since I last paid out halcyon digest on here it's gained a bit of respect in my eyes (mainly because monomania is perhaps the worst album I've ever heard in my life, seriously), not because of its songs but rather a renewed like for its atmosphere, that feeling it perpetuates. still not a patch on microcastle/weird era, much less cryptograms and fluorescent grey.


brilliant when you're absolutely and utterly fucking miserable. stone island is also fantastic, can't even begin to think about how I should digest these records given the history of hype (RIP my lovers, the last visionaries of pop)







also in & out of rotation...
craig leon - nommos
pere ubu - dub housing
gate - moths
daniel menche - marriage of metals
hair & skin trading company - jo in nine g hell
wreck small speakers on expensive stereos - river falling love
derek bailey - incus taps
bruce gilbert - this way
parquet courts - american specialties
vakula - you've never been to konotop
the clean - vehicle
mats gustafsson - bengt
stare case - ash from the burning....vol 2
company flow - funcrusher plus
dinosaur jr. - you're living all over me
nico - the end...
bill orcutt - the history of everyone
sun araw - heavy deeds
helm - silencer
ital - dream on
constant mongrel - heavy breathing
uv race - racism
mad nanna - I made blood better
marginal consort - instal glasgow 2008
greg beato - pma ep

sorry dewds

Armed Courage is seriously the best Dead C album I have heard. Better than H7R, better than The White House, better than all of them.

Holy shit this is great. I've been really digging Sub Pop's newer "loud rock" signings (this, METZ, Pissed Jeans, No Age, even Dum Dum Girls)

I was comparing In Ute with Bleach and Nevermind, two propulsively listenable albums. In Utes is like a dirge I don;t wanna hear. Mudhoney does dirges better than In Utero in their sleep.

Probably. Yeah. But Nirvana made better songs and better albums, and were a better band with a better name, a better overall and better lyrics and more unique sound than Mudhoney will ever be capable of creating.

I fucking love Mudhoney, but comparing them to Nirvana really just isn't fair. It's like saying Zorro could beat up Batman. Mudhoney did a lot of amazing things, and I don't think the true magnitude of their greatness has even been realized yet. But come on, man. Nirvana has them beat.

In Utero is NOT a dirge, it is more noise (Radio Friendly Unit Shifter) and feedback (Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle, Serve of the Servants, tourette's) than Nevermind or Bleach were. In that regard, you'd think the Sonic Youth community would love it even more!! I think In Utero better reflects a Nirvana live stageshow than Nevermind does..

I quite liked the singles that came out before this LP but this is better.

Kurdt would have loved His Electro Blue Voice. Don't ask me how I know.

fkn awesome yes

I'll probably listen to that about 4 more times through the rest of the day.

It's not a competition.