I dare you to take track 3 off of Wolf Eye's "Slicer" and talk shit about it.

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pure primal, ratty skate punk noise out the ass. easily one of the most important bands of today. album just got reissued from 2000 on hanson records. bring the flames.

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

but where's the tuba man? every great recording has a tuba.

* ducks *
m.

― msp, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I understand "pure primal, ratty skate punk noise out the ass" better than I do "one of the most important bands of today."

Last night, a guy told me the Strokes were important.

Who is more important, the Strokes or Wolf Eyes? Or Johnny Cash? Or Johnny Rotten?

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Wolf Eyes are definitely better, and in that sense more "important," than the Strokes. No question about it. They're a little young to be even considered with those two Johnnys, though (even though I listen to Wolf Eyes more often than Cash or Lydon).

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they sonically menacing?

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sure, whatever that means.

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

. . . like whiplash skullcrack pounding menace machine music?

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about that, but I once fell asleep while one of their CDs was playing and had some crazy nightmares.

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the swagger of this thread. The implication is someone might get roughed up for actually having the nads to talk shit about Wolf Eyes.

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they're cute

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

they are cute!

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and cuddly!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and noisy as all-git-out!

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

john "dr. smoothie" olson... (to assist with the cuteness, and maybe breakfast...)

http://www.lansingnoise.com/stories/youmakeit/030827_makesmoothie.html

― msp, Friday, 5 December 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wolf eyes are indeed the best band in the land right now. I highly recommend the black dice collaboration lp and the smegma one.

― chris besinger, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the strokes and wolf eyes should totally collaborate. i would love to see albert hammond jr. on stage cluelessly trying to keep up. i think nick and nikolai could totally hang with wolf eyes though.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to a little of Slicer and thought it was structureless in a non-interesting way. The sounds they made didn't strike me, and the mood they seemed to want to conjure has been done better before. I really like the most recent EP (Dead Hills?), though, and I was disappointed with what I heard of Slicer.

― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Wolf Eyes are sick fuckers, and I love that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The best Wolf Eyes experience is the live experience--there's something about the total blanket of sound, the volume. Hair Police too are just this total SCREEECCCCCH live--beautiful.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

thing about slicer is that you just have to buy it and make yourself listen to the fucker. it lacks the pop sensibility of your "dead hills" or "dread," but eventually the 'basement laundryroom satanic ritual' feel starts to seep through.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 6 December 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just surprised that they're in the new Wire, in a main story, not just a Bites profile. Shit, not even Lightning Bolt or Black Dice managed that.

The Black Dice/Wolf Eyes collab is indeed a good one, but not nearly as fierce as I expected it to be.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Saturday, 6 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i love both bands, but lb and black dice are both ultimately rock bands. wolf eyes just seems to have tapped into something a little more rootfully experimental, prime for wire's image as a chin scratching beat measure journal.

of course, anybody that's seen wolf eyes live knows that there's just as much headbanging there as there is at any metal show. perhaps that's what ultimately excites some avant noisers... they can finally pull out their bics and flash their tits like they've always wanted to.

― msp, Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree that Lightning Bolt is more of a rock band than Wolf Eyes, but I tend to think of Black Dice as more in the same experimental vein as Wolf Eyes.

I guess it's partially surprising to me because LB played to at least 100 or so people in Detroit last time while Wolf Eyes still won't draw more than 50 or so people in Detroit. But they should.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Detroit is the only place they DON'T draw, man. The only reason I still go see them in New York is cuz I get to hang out backstage, otherwise I'd skip it because I hate the crowds.

Re: the Wire article - About fucking time! Extra points for the cool ass picture of noise queen Tovah O'Rourke of Dead Machines in the DeStijl fest review a buncha pages on.

I've said it before - America's best band.

― roger adultery, Monday, 8 December 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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