Rocket From The Crypt - Plays The Music Machine 5"

Tripouttaniss (haha, love this GIF!)...is the Colbert Report considered liberal media?  Never really looked at media as being left or right wing, as it is it's own beast, selling sensationalism and not concerned with any kind of social responsibility.  I guess these days though with Fox on the right and MSNBC on the left, the news can be a little more black and white.  Fascist and Communist...hahaha. Love the Colbert Report though where anything political is fair game, left or right, and open to being exposed for it's hypocrisy and fallacy.  Actually a fan of satire in general because we can find humor in just about everything we do, although I guess we can find our lives/points of view to be a pathetic travesty as well.  This is a good week for optimism though because a jaded view of humanity can become a burden and it gets boring to listen to someone bitching all the time.  It has warmed up here in the sparsely populated, desolated, isolated, pseudo wasteland that is Northwest Kansas and the snow has all but melted.  The guy I get hay from thinks the worst of winter is over, but of course being the pessimist that I am, I feel like we haven't paid yet for the fact that winter got such a late start.  Life is like that too, when it's been especially hard you look for that light at the end of the tunnel that signals that you crossed over to the other side.  On the other hand when things are going great you've got to be careful and not let your guard down because that's when the shit will hit the fan.  To use an AA cliche, "one day at a time" right?  In case you're a "friend of Bill W." or you're looking to be enlightened/entertained, check this out for 400 AA Slogans! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLpZtcMAoU&w=560&h=315] Music imitates life too...I guess people imitate music as well.  Lately I've been "spinning" a lot of garage music.  I don't know too much about the mid 60's garage scene, except that maybe on ebay, when a guy is trying to sell a record and he puts in the description that it's garage, you can count on him adding another $10 to the starting price (same thing if you list it as "Northern Soul").  I suppose as a genre, historically those bands are considered proto-punk and in the late 70's early 80's you see a garage revival thing going on.   First thing I think of is the Cramps, the masters.  My bro Jefe mentioned The Music Machine in the comments on a Troggs post a while back...felt like I should have heard of these guys a long time ago, but I'm no expert and the day you stop learning is the day they may as well cut off your oxygen.  "Dig" Music Machine, have them on the ebay radar, but in the meantime have downloaded everything I can find..their hit, Talk Talk slightly lesser known, but still two killer tunes Trouble Masculine Intuition miraculously that little bit of garage sweetness somehow led to another little diddy, by an equally killer band, The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard be sure to check my buddy Peter's Killed By Death Records you get a punk cover of that one. Go figure that the 60's garage sound was popular and influential in the late 70's, early 80'. Pogue's frontman Shane McGowan's earlier band the Nips (aka Nipple Erectors) had a sock full 60's padlocks to split your head open to.   On a side note,,,Mr. McGowan is proof positive that some can be sloppy shit faced 24/7 drunks for 30+ years and somehow maintain (not me), anyway...'66 garage done in '70 punk rockness, The Nips - All The Time In The World In 1984 the Damned did an album (and a 7") under the name Naz Nomad & the Nightmares, a bunch of covers and a couple of originals that are worth some time for you reckless 60's junkies who know how to dance "the jerk". She Lied (the Bittersweet cover) Action Woman (the Litter cover) So on the Music Machine tip we have Rocket From The Crypt. Saw them play at least once in San Diego (The Casbah), but the memories are hazy as apparently they did not withstand the brain cell genocide associate with being excessively drunk, or maybe they just didn't impress me that much.  Reflecting on that, up to a point I sure had a blast partying, but damn, what's the point of being pass out drunk, you can't even remember if you had a good time.  On the other hand maybe "remembering" isn't all it's cracked up to be.   Saw a hell of a lot of bands over the years, but for the most part I don't remember if they were good, who played with them or even who I was with, sometimes.  Anyway this 5" EP is from 1995 and to be honest with you it's alright, but the originals (up there) just have something more authentic and original, obviously...still cool though.  This is what I've been listening to so...

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Just so you can get a sense of the "real" Rocket from the Crypt (and it's kinda worth it), here's two tunes (originals) from these guys off their first LP "Paint as Fragrance" in 1991... Maybelline [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdO42K36suE]

Jamaica 69 - Matehuala Rides Again 7"

Life is good...just got done re-alphabetizing my records (no small feat), which reminds me of taking my own mental inventory. A seemingly linear thing to do but there's something holistic about that, worthy of a ceremonial puff of tobacco.   Digressing...was checking out some of my favorite sites similar to this one and was admiring their short but sweet take on the music, something if you've spent any time around here, I have a hard time doing. An obstacle (which is what the word "sin" means) to enjoying this place, how I seem to enjoy reading my own writing.  I work with people who enjoy the sound of their own voices and I don't like that... Heard a double shot of the Kinks on the radio the other day, two tunes worth sharing from these pre-punksters.   The first, their 1966 classic, describing people you probably know, maybe even your Dad (sorry for the shitty sounding rip), The Kinks - A Well Respected Man The second, this version recorded live 20 years later about the shared hatred of two brothers, but I think we can relate to as a general point of view, The Kinks - Hatred (a duet) Stumbled across these sites, 420 Music Blog (a lot more musical variety than the blog title suggests) and LBC 90804.  Was actually looking for some live bootleg Sublime stuff and encountered a band from my past, Slightly Stoopid.  Saw those guys play in San Diego in the late 90's and was blown away (got in a fight with my then girlfriend after the show partying with the band because I felt like she was getting too flirty with the singer...I was stupid when I was drunk). Anyway these guys have some obvious influences like Operation Ivy/Rancid, Sublime/Long Beach All Stars and I guess that whole punk/hardcore/reggae/ska thing in general. Kinda fit well with well with the main band for this post.  These tunes are off their 1996 self titled album on Brad Nowell's Skunk Records, their best in opinion because it's got the most hardcore injected into it. slightly stoopid - operation slightly stoopid - opportunities slightly stoopid - stop slightly stoopid - american man As I said, what I was looking for was some live Sublime, so here's a taste of that, Sublime - Saw Red Sublime - Pool Shark-Myage-z-man "Now I've got the needle and I can't bleed, but I can't breathe. Take it away and I want more and more One day I'm gonna lose the war" ...speaking of dead junkies, I stumbled across this interesting site, Fuller Up: The Dead Musician Directory ...then Hudley Flipside mentioned another better site on that same topic, Dead Punk Stars This record goes out to my good bro Alex. A tall glass of water and a wide cup of coffee to the memories of skanking away. Alex was the skank master...have you put on your dancing shoes in a while. This also goes out to the RA in the dorms that told you and Gilbert to turn off your "hat dancing music". What I expected when I got this was some Mexican ska from the year 1969, but this 7" was recorded in 2003. The other down side to it was that it had  two massive warps.  Warps so huge I thought for sure it would not be playable, but I think it sounds okay.  On the upside this is some VERY sweet 60's Jamaica styled ska (that may not be favorable to some).  I know nothing about Jamaica 69 except that they take me to back to those carefree times of limited responsibility and hanging out with the homeboys.

 

Mi Generacion Rudy Enamorado Se Acabo El Amor Sexy Reggae Edit: Not quite as short of a post as I thought it was going to be.

Filth / Submachine - This Is Why We Are The Drunks split 7"

EDIT: This is not the original animated gif that was inserted here, that was lost to the ravages of time, more specifically the switch from my own dot come website to a wordpress...it is what it is. Einstein will have to do...

Tripottaniss...how do you like this one? There are some real masters at creating these GIFs out there, it makes it a real pleasure to steal them and use them for my own purposes (non-profit of course). I have Photoshop, just need to learn how to use it.  On a side note, but maybe the most important thing said on this post, gotta thank y'all for all the comments on the last post, I really enjoy the interaction. The final outcome may not be mind blowing, but I put a lot of work into every post so...thanx!

I know I complain about the weather every once in a while round here (small talk, ya know), but bear with me.  This morning at 7am I went outside (we don't smoke in the house, people tell me it makes the house smell, I wouldn't know) for my morning ritual of a smoke with a cup of coffee.  Noticed that it was pretty damn cold out with a heavy wind, but you know how things are when you just get up (hazy).  Apparently it was -10f outside with a wind chill of -30f.  I know it's colder in other places in the world, people throughout the history of humankind have had to deal with it and worst of all there's folks that have to go out and work in it.  I spent about an hour doing chores and decided that fuckin wind taught me what my limit was. A whole generation of kids that will not end up learning to play real or even their own music. They need to invent a game where you plug a real guitar into (that could be my million dollar idea). We talk about movies sometimes around here and wanted to HIGHLY recommend a flick called, Winter's Bone.  Not what I expected or one of the genres my wife and I usually watch, but this one was intense.  The roles of men and women, the culture, how people look at the future, the subtle brutality of the characters, the blunt dialog...damn. Must see movie, check that out. Did Gary Numan's "Cars" a couple of posts back and my buddy Shawn mentioned a cover of the tune, not necessarily as being good, but just that it existed, [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSoKp6dRUH0&w=790&h=593] Found another cover of sorts, a live version with Mr. Numan on vocals... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qlUFKFHNIU&w=790&h=444]Nine Inch Nails - Cars (with Gary Numan, London 7.15.09) It's been a while since we explored this territory, but thought it was about time for some more Filth. A long while back, we had their first 7" Live the Chaos and also a track from the There's a Faggot in the Pit comp (along with some tracks I picked up here and there). If you're a fan of Filth do yourself and them a favor and go pick up some of their stuff at Alternative Tentacles. This 7" has never been repressed and the Filth tracks are what you'd expect from their special brand of abrasiveness. The big surprise on this thing is Submachine or at least that first shredding track. If you listen to one tune on this post make it "Suicide Drive". [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oULfzx5pw&w=790&h=593] I don't know much else, this was released on CI Records in 1994. That's enough babbling for this post, listen to the music. Filth Buttshits Dear Fuck Submachine Suicide Drive Laughing Bonus Beer Song (duh)

Couldn't find the split in it's entirety on Fucking YT, but I thought the Filth discography made a nice substitute and some damn good listening... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFYpFzQ6rk&w=790&h=444]