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JLowe

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I just have one question.

How the fuck is Public Enemy being awesome "surprising"?

Because I saw them back in 1992 at their height of their career and they were disappointing and somewhat lifeless. Honestly, both House of Pain and Ice T blew them away at that show.

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The woman at 5:50 in the Sir Mix-a-Lot video was determined to embarrass herself, but her friends were true blue and stopped her.

Nothing could be further from the truth, the correct response to that situation is...The woman at 5:50 in the Sir Mix-a-Lot video was trying to enjoy herself, but the woman she thought was her friend fucked up her fun.

 

Mariah Carey is coming out with an interactive beverage that is described as "“a melodic beverage inspired by the magic of Mariah Carey.”  I've been wondering what the magic of Mariah tastes like since I was about 13.

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J.T.

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I always fall for the obvious new fad traps.  I really dig the title track for Lazaretto and this Royal Blood song, Out of the Black, is growing on me.

 

I am sure that no one else on the board likes these songs but me.

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Johnny Sorrow

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I always fall for the obvious new fad traps. I really dig the title track for Lazaretto and this Royal Blood song, Out of the Black, is growing on me.

I am sure that no one else on the board likes these songs but me.

Nah man , I heard some of the tracks on NPR the other day and I'm buying that album come payday. It sounds fucking awesome.
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I'm digging Lazaretto way more than Jack's other solo album.  It feels almost like a Stripes album, but with a darker worldview.  Super heavy at times.  Weird stuff.

 

Can't wait to catch him on tour this summer.  Some of this new stuff is going to be pretty fucking electric.

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Lawful Metal

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Just saw Failure play for the first time since 1998. Incredible show. House of Blues was packed, too! If only they drew crowds like this they might've stuck around.

They played damn near all of Magnified and Fantastic Planet -- 2 hours of awesomeness. Failure is probably my favorite band of all time and it was probably the best they've ever sounded. And ... They announced a new album on the way!

And, it looked like they didn't hate each other. That's good.

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In happier news I got a ticket to see Motley Crue and Alice Cooper at MSG. Being billed as the Crue's final show in NYC, and I'm really excited to be seeing Alice for the first time.

interesting that in NYC Jello Biafra has a show a week after the "Dead Kennedys" (put in quotations because there is no Dead Kennedys without Jello IMO). Thinking of going to see Jello, wouldn't go to see the equivalent of Nirvana with some random guy singing if it were across the street.

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The Motley Crue thing is weird.  They did this whole big contract signing legally binding them from never playing together again, or any of them using the name, to make this "farewell" tour more meaningful.  Unlike Kiss's never ending retirement tour, I guess.

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Any good-hearted GBV fans feel like helping a brother out by directing me to a non-torrent King Shit & the Golden Boys, or any other aborted album for that matter? I only have KSGB on vinyl from Box, lost my copy of ...Saturn X and don't feel like shelling out $10 to download the former off of Amazon.

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I always fall for the obvious new fad traps.  I really dig the title track for Lazaretto and this Royal Blood song, Out of the Black, is growing on me.

 

I am sure that no one else on the board likes these songs but me.

 

I like it musically, but the affected ghetto pronunciations are annoying.

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Lawful Metal

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Went to Warped Tour 2014 yesterday.  If you watch the webcast, you can see me in the Bad Rabbits crowd.  My 15-year old daughter and I go every year (since 2011).  She loves practically every band that plays, and I'm the parent that's designated to go.  I was lucky that Bad Rabbits were playing.

 

All told, we saw 11 bands.  There was a sign language interpreter for Devil Wears Prada and a shopping cart in the mosh pit for Ice Nine Kills.  I'm somewhat baffled by the karate moves being employed in mosh pits these days -- spinning kicks seem a bit silly to me. 

 

It seems to me that in all these metalcore bands (and, as an aside, as a metalhead myself, I cannot get into these metalcore bands at all.  I just don't get it.) have an older member who looks like he should be in another band.  This older member plays lead guitar and often sings the "clean" vocals.  I'm guessing he writes all the songs and the other members just look the warped tour part.  But every metalcore band seems to have one.  Just an observation. 

 

My daughter had a blast.  I loved Bad Rabbits.  They seem destined for much better things than the Warped Tour.  I'm sunburned all to hell today despite all our precautions.  We were allowed one bottle of water and they had a free refilling station.  Less people dropped dead from heat exhaustion this year than other years.  I guess that's progress. 

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All told, we saw 11 bands.  There was a sign language interpreter for Devil Wears Prada and a shopping cart in the mosh pit for Ice Nine Kills.  I'm somewhat baffled by the karate moves being employed in mosh pits these days -- spinning kicks seem a bit silly to me. 

I'm 26. Few things make me feel older than shows with opening bands that attract the high school crowd. The moshing confuses me. As does the techno/pop infusion. But I can't complain. I was one of the metalcore kids a decade ago, going to see Darkest Hour, Black Dahlia Murder, etc. 

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I went to the Toronto Riot Fest last year because FUCKING REPLACEMENTS REUNION!! but the lineup this year is amazing and I have no one to go with. Argh.

 

Also, the new The New Pornographers song is amazing.

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I went to Riot Fest in Philly a few years back and it was so f'n great. I went with my best friends from back home. The Descendents were the headlining act. I hadn't seen them before. Our first forays into punk music was like everyone else -- The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols. One of our friends went to California on vacation and came back raving about The Descendents. Their cassette tapes were what we blasted when we drove around the North Jersey suburbs with nothing to do, hanging out at the 7-11 in Livingston or going to random, neverending diners. We went to the punk store in Montclair from there, which introduced us to Lookout Records and the like (along with Green Day), and also saw fliers for local bands. The Descendents are one of my all-time favorite bands and one of the most influential on the person I became.

Other bands on the bill included Hot Water Music (I was never a huge fan but they were awesome) and 7 Seconds (love them) and The Dead Milkmen and Weston (pop-punk from Philly/huge rasslin' nerds/helped start Chikara/former member used to post here a little bit). But the band that stole the show was Plow United. They were a band from suburban Philly that played seemingly every local punk show. I saw them countless times and liked them but they never made a huge impression one. This was the first time they played since '97 or something like that. They blew everyone off the stage that night. It was probably the best live set I've ever seen in my life.

I couldn't swing the time off to go to Riot Fest in Chicago last year and I can't this year, either. It sucks because the show this year includes:

1) The Cure -- One of the favorite bands of both my wife and I. In Between Days made our wedding mix CD.
2) Weezer -- I believe their doing The Blue Album, which is still my favorite album.
3) Social Distortion -- I have somehow never seen them live. One of my favorites.
4) Wu-Tang -- My favorite rap group of all-time.
5) Descendents
6) Teagan and Sara
7) Cheap Trick -- The kings of power-pop!
8) Pussy Riot - !!!

9) Patti Smith

10) Paul Weller

11) Superchunk -- They've been my favorite band of all-time and certain points in my life.
12) Billy Bragg -- I saw him do an in-store last year and it was transcendent.
13) THE HOLD STEADY -- The best band in the world right now.
14) Bosstones -- Say what you want, but they're so f'n fun live.
15) GWAR -- I'd imagine this will be highly emotional.
16) Buzzcocks -- SINGLES GOING STEADY!

17) Andrew WK -- I saw him a few years ago and it was absolutely fucking nuts. Completely insane and ridiculous.
18) The Bouncing Souls -- I grew up on these guys. I'm not a huge fan anymore but their Gold Album is terrific.
19) Kurt Vile -- One of the best in the world right now.
20) 7 Seconds
21) The Menzingers -- On The Impossible Past is my favorite album of the past few years. Such an incredibly band.

22) The Front Bottoms -- One of the best bands in the world, too. So great.
23) Pizza Underground

24) Modern Baseball -- The next big thing in punk.
25) Ex Friends -- One of the guys from Plow United. Their album is really f'n good.

Man, maybe I do have to go to this...

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badfish69

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Maybe they have different lineups for different shows but Denver has Primus, Slayer, Rise Against, NOFX, Violent Femmes, Face to Face, Bob Mould, and  the Flaming Lips among others.  Looks like both have the Decendents, Weezer, Social D,Wu Tang and the Cure.

 

I have seen Social D three times.  You will enjoy them.  The are pretty great live.

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Lawful Metal

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Quicksand's Slip is one of the best hard rock albums of the 90's that no one has heard of. Well at least not many people. Itunes has it for $6 and it is worth every penny.

Quicksand lyrics completely covered my notebooks in high school. I was obsessed with Slip and Manic Compression.

Fazed

Dine Alone

Freezing Process

Thorn in my Side

Landmine Spring

Blistered

All essential and still regular rotation in the iPod.

I mean, every time I have to eat by myself I hum the lyrics to Dine Alone. I do always know how much I'm paying.

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