(Side note: Somebody should totally get on that idea!)
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.The Derbys sucked at first, but since '99 they've really evolved. "What's In The Big Bag" was probably the most epic 8 minutes I've ever heard and was the best way to end Fish off.
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘Wheezing Derbies is too pretentious for my liking, especially when they insist on the British pronunciation of the word "derbies" (DAR-beez), even though the band members are all from Coral Springs, Florida.
There was a photo of that man-chick singer with the town's mayor presenting him the Key to the City in an issue from Rolling Stone a few months back that was good for a minor LOL though. That "rainbow" of assorted hair dyes in his giant afro sure puts Rollen Stewart
to shame (and makes Rollen Stewart appear slightly sane).
edited 22nd Mar '11 8:04:25 PM by SeanMurrayI
I just looked up how Rollen Stewart looked and he looks exactly like the Whispering Hippies' guitarist, Tracy Calavagerri. Man, they only made one good album before breaking up two years ago, but I heard something about them reuniting.
I want them to. Classic Deodorant Stick was the best album of 2007 and I loved the "Swagger Tag" EP.
edited 22nd Mar '11 8:09:57 PM by Tre
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘
Well, I've done some research. There'll be a shiny new re-release of Classic Deodorant Stick with a whole new disc of songs... and four entirely new songs they've written for the new release, and it might lead to a full reunion if it's a strong seller. Unfortunately, only one of them's a Calavagerri tune - two are by Pete Dudek, and one's co-written by Pete and Russell Berezovsky. Might not turn out so great - "Wall With A Demon Within" was classic, of course, but Pete also wrote the two biggest fillers on Classic Deodorant Stick.
Russ from the Thunderbolts? They're cool. Prog that somehow also manages to be hilarious is a hard act to pull off but they do it with aplomb. I have to admit, though, that last year's album, Solid Snake, was not as good as Goodyear Tires and No Pressure were, but that phase is over with.
But a Hippies/Bolts collabo would (and hopefully will) be EPIC.
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘Why did Eldritch become a Dead Horse Genre? I mean, I know that some modern pop singers takes a lot of inspiration from it, but I want to hear more of the pure stuff.
My friend and I were discussing about what happened to [META]phrast these last few months, with that ugly feud between Yoen and Shin Arisu over...a girl. That bar 'confrontation' has become quite the noodle incident. You should've seen the flood of deathfics in the Western LJ comms. Yoen IS talented, but what a diva...mixed feelings about him leaving the group. I heard they're getting Shuuya from boneblack as the new bassist, which I guess is enough to keep [META]phrast afloat for the time being...
But damn, I was waiting for that collab with Kanon Wakeshima. Derailed! D:
Eh, [M]p are too strange for my taste. Weird, considering who's talkin' here.
I like what Kanon W. has done since he left dragonEYEBALL though. In all honesty I thought they brought his vox down with their cliched, chord1-chord2-chord3-repeat formula that 86% of their songs used.
edited 27th Mar '11 8:52:27 PM by Tre
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘^Hey, hey, don't knock Three Chords and the Truth. That shit is pure heart and soul!
Though I will admit that dragonEYEBALL is no Spunk Addicts (but does anyone buy Spunk's insistence that their rough, simplistic approach to music is predominantly inspired by the classical genre?)
Here are the best albums in the genre:
- Jupiter Exploded in My Embrace — The Shells of a Bright Blue Sun
- A Thousand Blue Butterflies — When the Exit is Blocked, I Dance Around Embers Like a Frog on Helium
- The Great Cold Death of the Earth — Companion of Pale Shadows
- So I Watched You from a Distance of Miles — Jumping Across the Space of the Eternal Waters of Life
- Mutilated Embryonic Facefuck — Killing Bitches with Meathooks
I really like When the Exit is Blocked..., but I can see why people would dislike it. It gets kind-of repetitive after a while, and the transitions between the progressive postcore bits and the deathgrind bits isn't handled very well. However, it's a classic of the genre, so I had to include it.
Am I the only one who thinks that Killing Bitches with Meathooks is one of the best albums ever, in any genre?
last.fm | RYMSeven years after that album, I still have mixed feelings over 'Killing Bitches with Meathooks'...but the song 'While The Blood Trickles' will always be a mainstay in my top ten list ever. Too bad Mutilated Embryonic Facefuck will always be known for that pyrotechnics fiasco during their farewell concert. XP
Whatever quality it may have, it doesn't outweigh the vast, galloping misogyny carried in every damn lyric it has.
Seriously, you'd think it was written in the fucking Middle Ages...
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
But the misogyny is half the fun! I find the lyrics to songs like "My Wife Cheated on Me, So I Stabbed Her in the Eye and Fucked Her Corpse" and "Stay in the Kitchen, or I'll Chop Your Legs Off and Force Feed Them to You" absolutely hilarious. Then again, I've got a childish sense of humour.
One thing I love about the album is its Lyrical Dissonance, playing typical (but very good) progressive postcore with really violent lyrics sung in a passive monotone. Also, am I the only one who hears a strong noisegaze influence?
last.fm | RYM^Although given that the majority of the vocals are incomprehensible screeches and growls and the instrumentals are equally incomprehensible thrashings and bangings, reading the song titles on the back sleeve (or at the iTunes Store, if you prefer) is about the only thing that anyone can fully understand. The song titles may be good for a laugh, but it's the only thing anybody can make sense out of... and they can get all the joy from that (or reading the song lyrics) without ever buying any of the band's music or listening to it (which I would never recommend doing; your money is better spent dumping it in a trash can and setting it on fire).
edited 28th Mar '11 11:22:51 AM by SeanMurrayI
One of these does not look like the other.
last.fm | RYMI must be getting them confused with Anal Cunt then. I'm almost certain that they recorded a "song" with the title "Stay in the Kitchen, or I'll Chop Your Legs Off and Force Feed Them to You", too.
So you're talking about the one with the "passive monotone" vocals? The only time I think that's ever been effective in music is when that new wave act Digital Echo recorded "1101001010110" and attempted to convey the thoughts of a digital robot who yearned to feel emotion but couldn't.
It certainly doesn't work with overly violent lyrics; that just creates a thematic disconnect that's more jarring than interesting.
edited 28th Mar '11 11:38:34 AM by SeanMurrayI

Hey, it's better than what happened at Johnny Bacon's show the other day. I swear, that scene horrified Rob Zombie.
On an unrelated note, I've been going through The Wheezing Derbys' discography lately. I never knew that someone could possibly combine the music styles of Sinatra, Madonna, and Nirvana all into one!
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