[Genteel Death 2]

Gee Tee - Busted From the Vaults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJRNPCAtfg

[Toilet & Bowels]

The Shadow Ring, Jandek and stuff released on Mindbenda.

[choc e-Claire]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Geordie Greep

https://youtu.be/A4EU_0vFzuU?si=z-W-_2V94VYbOb4Y

This is the most self-indulgent mess I have had the misfortune to come across in a long time.

No longer content to merely look like James Chance, Greep's solo career looks set to dip into the same playbook.

[Antagon]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

No longer content to merely look like James Chance, Greep's solo career looks set to dip into the same playbook.

All the while, ripping off one of Earth, Wind and Fire's most well-known hits.

[Diesel]

Here's something to make up for the ear rape: NSFW cover incoming in...

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Dodgy (or should that be doggy) cover aside is good shit https://youtu.be/39bpbO6BN1k?si=FGVYghpc4Bo9sX82

[Diesel]

 

https://youtu.be/jX8KnSx0Pzc?si=ENKK6LY479B6gce8

and...

 

https://youtu.be/Qu2G2NWC_1Q?si=roG-IqhezMQsIKlJ

[Antagon]

 

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but this just didn't do it for me. I much prefer her debut with Rustin' Man. It is a very consistent and well-structured album, gonna give it that. But upon first listen, I found the compositions pretty drab and rigid. Beth's voice sounds more frail and she leans into the wailing vocalizations a lot more - which I'm not a particular fan of. I really liked the closing track and can appreciate some of the more playful parts peppered in here and there, but overall, I wasn't loving this. I really wanted to love this. Maybe repeat listens will do that? It remains to be seen.

[choc e-Claire]

 

Twenty years of the album that changed my fucking life.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

Twenty years of the album that changed my fucking life.

Jesus, how bad was your fucking life before...

[choc e-Claire]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Jesus, how bad was your fucking life before...

Fuck you, man. Contrary to what everyone here pretends, we're not all born with obscure underground tastes in music. I was fifteen and I hadn't really thought that much about music before (there were songs I liked, of course, but I wasn't really an album person and I didn't spend money on it), but I had some birthday cash leftover and I took a chance and it just instantly rewired my brain. It hit basically everything I could have wanted at the time, and I quickly became obsessed with not just that band but music as a whole - cue my tastes quickly expanding, the desire for more novelty and noise, then a year later I got on this forum and now I'm a college-aged hipster asshole who listens to Nurse With Wound. But nothing's going to take that teenage joy and admiration from me - maybe you should try and tap into it sometime.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

Fuck you, man. Contrary to what everyone here pretends, we're not all born with obscure underground tastes in music. I was fifteen and I hadn't really thought that much about music before (there were songs I liked, of course, but I wasn't really an album person and I didn't spend money on it), but I had some birthday cash leftover and I took a chance and it just instantly rewired my brain. It hit basically everything I could have wanted at the time, and I quickly became obsessed with not just that band but music as a whole - cue my tastes quickly expanding, the desire for more novelty and noise, then a year later I got on this forum and now I'm a college-aged hipster asshole who listens to Nurse With Wound. But nothing's going to take that teenage joy and admiration from me - maybe you should try and tap into it sometime.

We're not that different, at least for now. I just dislike that band - a lot, and for several reasons. (The only Green Day-adjacent thing I like is Armstrong's line in This Is 40: "Shut the fuck up, Tom Selleck!" I've yelled variations of that in concerts...) But look, no joke: soon you'll be more of an adult than me, only younger - you'll get your degree(s), hopefully a good job, a car, a house, a stable decent income, a very stable partner (or you'll date constantly; for this post's purposes it's the same, more power to ya), then you'll have new goals, ambitions and dreams about what's next. I have NONE of that and never will. I'm afraid I took The Replacements a little bit too literally and it's too late to turn back. So, teenage joy? That, and/or a version thereof (as time goes by you discover more, understand more, etc, so The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks" resonates even stronger, believe it or not), is not only one of the few things I have left, but maybe the reason not to shoot myself in the face.

[choc e-Claire]

Lighten up, man. To paraphrase what you've said, we're probably a lot closer than we'd normally admit - I've got my degree, for one thing, but it's still not helping me when I'm stuck in my parents' house in the suburbs trying not to feel like the world's abandoning me. But hey. It could always be worse, and through getting through life (and some chemical intervention) I've been trying to keep my eyes open ahead of the world that's coming for me. And whatever floats our boat in that time is good - for me it's a couple of mid-00s pop punk records, for you it's the Replacements; we'll all figure something out in the end.

For now, I'm listening to Boredoms' Seadrum / House of Sun, which is having its 20th anniversary a couple of days after that previous record.