GoonSquad
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16 Dec 2010, 1:28 am
katzefrau--I'm thrilled to find someone here who loves MoB! 
I got one of my fist guitars because of them--I got a Fender Lead, like the one Roger Miller plays. I still have it although it's unplayable now. I stumbled across a copy of Vs. in the bargain bins one day, back n '85 maybe, and I loved the cover--it was like nothing else. And I liked the band name. That was why I bought it. Loved it from the start, it was like a new universe of music for me, but I never met another Burma fan all through the 80's. In fact, I had to special order they EP and live album and bootlegs because the local record stores wouldn't stock them. It wasn't until the internet about 10 years later that I found out they had been something of a cult success!
I love Peking Spring. I have a bunch of BoM songs on my MP3 player and I think that's the one most listened to. I love Forget too. But my all time favorite BoM song is probably Mica. Utterly brilliant.
I won't be the one to tell you to stop posting vids! Look at how many I've posted!
16 Dec 2010, 7:15 am
16 Dec 2010, 11:50 am
Scratch Acid could be defined as punk. 
I'm in Texas and I recall that band quite well from the 80's. I was going to post a vid of them here (if I didn't already and just forgot!). They were sort of like the Flipper of Texas--a punk band that did everything very punk, but sounded unlike any other punk band so people wanted to them to be non-punk. They, along with the Butthole Surfers, were the Texas hardcore punk scene of the 80's. And seriously, no one was "hardcore" the way Scratch Acid were. There wer e some crazy stories about them coming out of Austin. I still like their stuff, but it's not the most accessible stuff around. I never got into the Jesus Lizard though.
I hated Steve Albini back in the 80's--he was such a fat-mouth jerk back then--so I didn't listen to Big Black. I have changed my opinion of Albini over the years and i really appreciate what Big Black did, but it's kind of dated for me. "Bad Houses" is an awesome song though.
And I never got into Sebadoh that much. Some of their songs are classics though and I do have some of their CDs. I'm a big Elliott Smith fan--stepping further out of the punk sphere there--and he may never have had a solo career beyond Heatmiser if it hadn't been for Lou Barlow making it acceptable for a dude from a noisy band to play quiet "lo fi" music with just a guitar. So I'm cool with Lou and Sebadoh.
16 Dec 2010, 8:20 pm
I'm in Texas and I recall that band quite well from the 80's. I was going to post a vid of them here (if I didn't already and just forgot!). They were sort of like the Flipper of Texas--a punk band that did everything very punk, but sounded unlike any other punk band so people wanted to them to be non-punk. They, along with the Butthole Surfers, were the Texas hardcore punk scene of the 80's. And seriously, no one was "hardcore" the way Scratch Acid were. There wer e some crazy stories about them coming out of Austin. I still like their stuff, but it's not the most accessible stuff around. I never got into the Jesus Lizard though.I hated Steve Albini back in the 80's--he was such a fat-mouth jerk back then--so I didn't listen to Big Black. I have changed my opinion of Albini over the years and i really appreciate what Big Black did, but it's kind of dated for me. "Bad Houses" is an awesome song though.
And I never got into Sebadoh that much. Some of their songs are classics though and I do have some of their CDs. I'm a big Elliott Smith fan--stepping further out of the punk sphere there--and he may never have had a solo career beyond Heatmiser if it hadn't been for Lou Barlow making it acceptable for a dude from a noisy band to play quiet "lo fi" music with just a guitar. So I'm cool with Lou and Sebadoh.
Just the fact that you know who these guys are is enough to impress me. Even if you don't like them that much
found this a few months back.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnvmlGeCKk[/youtube] husker du doing their anti-rape song diane. I like this record best "the metal circus ep"
I quite like elliot smith too. Do you like anything on Drag City? Thats one of my favourite labels. I love smog especially! Also Will Oldham and Six Organs of admittance.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmzYfzuidw[/youtube]
16 Dec 2010, 11:56 pm
me too
good taste all around.my first (functional) guitar was a Fender Jazzmaster. partly because it is what Tom Verlaine (Television) played and also i just love the sound of it. i'm not an especially good guitarist but i am a guitar nerd all the same.
Mission of Burma still tours. i saw them last year or the year before.
well, i can't remember what i've posted here and what i haven't. so here are a few things i don't think are in this thread yet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux1Za8Wmz_s[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AS4bBEMT44[/youtube]
jamieboy, "kerosene" is an old favorite of mine. i used to listen to Big Black all the time, Atomizer and Songs About F***ing.
(Steve Albini might actually be a fat mouthed jerk, but the music is good)
and that's one of the great Husker Du songs .. i was going to post asking everyone's favorite Husker Du song.
here's mine:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCL1xq6hNU[/youtube]
as far as whole albums go i think i favor Candy Apple Grey. but i don't know all of Metal Circus.
17 Dec 2010, 12:29 am
17 Dec 2010, 11:51 am
I loved, loved, loved Husker Du back in the 80's. I was Husker Du pusher--I tried to get everyone else into them. LOL. Metal Circus was probably my fav. But as for songs specifically it's a toss-up between these two, kind of depressing ones 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISGjNeBENXw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjfl0yhyRk[/youtube]
I got pretty burned out on them and Mould kind pissed me off when he started whining in the 90's how the Husker Du fans of the 80's would not have accepted if he had come out as gay then. Maybe that would have been true up north where they were from, but none of the Du fans I knew, or me, would've cared at all. In fact, most of us already knew. It was like with Michael Stipe. We kind of just knew and we didn't care. It wasn't like people was going "Hey, did you hear Bob Mould's a f-g?" I never heard people talk about Mould like that. Never. We always talked about what an awesome guitarist he was. Same thing with Stipe. No one talked about him being gay. We just talked about how hard it was to understand his lyrics when he was mumbling them all the time!! !
19 Dec 2010, 5:03 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLKYngRjbQc[/youtube]
19 Dec 2010, 5:07 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU0wByOE-6E&feature=related[/youtube]
this looks like it would of been a fun little show to be at. I like the fact that he still looks like an indie dork even though he must be in his 40's.
21 Dec 2010, 2:28 am
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