KUCI Molotov Cocktail Hours 20/04/1991 Poll

A year and a half before I arrived there. This does feel just familiar enough as a kind of set I could have heard someone play at KLA at UCLA at the time as well.

tough call between Ministry and Vomit Launch

I think Vomit Launch.

Voted Front 242.

that was going to be my vote but when for a more popish song "Cartoon."

Always going to vote for Cartoon.

"Cartoon" is underrated for sure but "Louie Louie" is Dez's first vocal and among his finest moments (of many) in Black Flag:

"Who needs love when you've gotta gun"

I put this up well in advance just to make sure I did but now I have had a look at it:

Classics:

NoMeansNo - The Day Everything Became Nothing (1988, The Day Everything Became Nothing 12")
Helmet - Repetition (1990, Strap It On LP)
Front 242 - Headhunter (1988, Headhunter 12")
Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball (1987, Locust Abortion Technician LP)
Dr Janet - Starry Eyes (1990, Ten Years Gone 7")
Screaming Trees - Transfiguration (1987, Even If And Especially When LP)
Ministry - Stigmata (1988, The Land Of Rape And Honey LP)

There was only ever going to be one winner here tbh.

Dr Janet was a "super group" made up of Yo La Tengo, Screaming Trees, Das Damen & Chavez members, covering a song by the Records which we both loved. And I tracked down the 7" shortly after we got married. I loved you Babs.

a lot of the punkier/metaller songs were probably played by her friend Sonia that she fell out with for reasons unknown, they were like 18/19 so assume teenage drama

xp Which Das Damen & Chavez members??

let me google that for you:

Gary Lee Conner: Screaming Trees
Ira Kaplan: Yo La Tengo
Lyle Hysen: Das Damen
Matt Sweeney: Chavez

Wow... did not know about that. Awesome. Can you look up the tracks on YouTube for me as well??

what the fuck is wrong with you

(?)I’m genuinely interested in what you’re posting about (the YouTube thing was a joke at my own expense). Sorry to get yr hackles up somehow

morrisp was probably just discussing music in the first post

he was being sarcastic in the second

haha, xopst

ok sorry if you were genuinely interested than I'm sorry I flipped on you, but I made this post about my wife who passed away last year, which you probably didn't know about, and maybe it was just a bad idea I did this. But no you can look those songs up on Youtube or we can just forget about ever caring about this again.

I'm sorry for your loss Colonel Poo

I am sorry, I did not know that. (Re-reading your post, I realize that I missed the context.)

first of all i have to say that i love the concept and execution of this post, cp. everything about it agrees with my worldview. what a nice reminder of your wife. it makes me smile man. seriously good vibes.

and i don't know what it is —maybe the replies, or maybe i'm just a delicate flower— but it has broken me. i am sitting here with tears rolling down my face as i type. the last year has been so absolutely brutal for everyone and everything. and just when we think there's a light, the tunnel gets darker. i'm fucking tired of it. everyone is constantly just emotionally reeling and unable to get our collective balance again. why is this world the way it is? what can we do to get through it? can we ever be sentient, content and idle, even just for a bit? maybe with posts like this?

idk man. i have no words. i don't even know your real name, but man you're such a good person. i am feeling such intense sadness for your right now that i am literally angry.

i am so sorry for your loss.

smashing post. voted giant sand.☮

hi CP <3

this is super sweet. I still need to digitize a bunch of old shows.

I LOVE that Flaming Lips song but had to go with Ministry

a lot of the punkier/metaller songs were probably played by her friend Sonia that she fell out with for reasons unknown, they were like 18/19 so assume teenage drama

I'm guessing this is the same Sonja I knew from (just after) then, still friends on FB. Such small circles the world can give us. I didn't say it earlier but it really is a lovely project you've done here.

probably quite likely it is the same Sonja

I also very much appreciated this, CP.

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Missed this poll. Wow, small world - I was an undergrad at UCI when Molotov Cocktail was on (I graduated in 1992) and I recall listening to it when I could.

Would have voted for Firehose.

<3