Tue 11 Nov 2008
That’s right!! I woke up the comments section. Comment away!!! Either you people are too lazy to send e-mail or I have absolutely no readers…or both!! Either way, the shit is boring!! Thinking about my year-end lists. Looks like 2008 is going to be “The Year Of The Double Album”
* Boris Smile - Only the Southern Lord vinyl version…the extra side-long track (is that the one?) is the tits! Like I said before…Boris does Animals-era Floyd doing early Robin Trower doing Houdini-era Melvins doing Major Stars doing Firefall? I can live with that.
* Fucked-Up Chemistry of Common Life - Probably too clever for their own good. The ONLY band allowed to have 5+ members, even if they could have belied some “Canadization” by keeping it intimate. At least they sound like they have 5+ members. Not hardcore by any means (a note to other writers: stop that shit), and not reinventing the GM 2.3 litre Quad 4 banger (of late-80’s Cutlass Ciera fame…great engine if kept under 70K), but it’s what they do with their record collections & general rock and roll loves. So you’re going to sit there and tell me that an Antiseen/Sonic Youth/Black Flag/late-80’s Brit-noise-drone hybrid DIDN’T need to be in glossy music mags? No, I’m not quite ready for my check…send more to the table…NOW!!
November 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Thinking about my year-end lists as well … thinking about not doing one! Overwhelmed by the sheer scale of releases (even in my specialized little area of rock music) and underwhelmed by nearly all of the contents of this year’s volume, I must settle for being simply whelmed.