Monster Magnet vs. The Darkness

I love the Magnet, one of the best bands I've ever seen live.

Is that rockist?

Check out "Spine of God," "Nod Scene," "Powertrip," "Bummer," "See You in Hell," "Cyclops Revolution," or "Cage Around the Sun."

Monster Magnet is just noise and screaming.

You should hear all of God Says No (the whole album) first. Lots of Monster Magnet old timers would cry foul, but if you're going from the Darkness, it's probably the most natural bridge into the netherverse that is Magnet Music.
As for other ideas, the big breakthrough song was "Negasonic Teenage Warhead," which kicks as much ass as any song ever has. The closest they came to a hit is, I think, "Spacelord," which is a bit watered down.
By the way, Monster Magnet all over the Darkness. It's like comparing Sabbath to Slade. They're both good, but come on.

Yes, but both Sabbath and Slade are good. The subjects under comparison don't quite work that way for me.

(nb Tab25 for proper rockist terminology you need to be using the phrase "cut it live"! Or saying things like "It's like comparing Sabbath to Slade. They're both good, but come on.")

I like all their albums, but you're right otto, a lot of hardcore Magnet fans (all ten of 'em) don't like it because it's not as psych as the old stuff. But it's a great album. In fact, they haven't done a bad album.

Noise and screaming? I hope you're kidding, Geir. Def Leppard was and always will be utter crap.

Great responses! I'm starting to love y'all! I was starting to feel like the only living Magnet fan.

Perhaps more like comparing Acid Mothers Temple to Poison, or Hawkwind to Faster Pussycat.

YOU LIE, sir. At least in my experience. No Pyromania when I was 12 = no love of metal and loud guitars. It was the gateway and it was and is great pop. As was Hysteria!

But you are not the only Magnet fan, in fact I think I did a slew of the AMG reviews, not just the one I linked.

I love Monster Magnet - best song Dopes to Infinity

But that's just my opinion. I had Pyromania and High & Dry when I was a wee one myself, but it doesn't hold up for me.

yeah, geir, you are wrong about that. there is plenty of stuff of theirs that you would dig, as a lot of it is steeped in that 60's rock thang that you like. especially the later stuff.

i was just listening to monster magnet the other day.

Me, too. Hauled Superjudge out last week. Love their version of Hawkwind's "Brainstorm," and the lyrics are fucking hilarious...like some stoned teenager scribbling apocalyptic visions in his math notebook in 1978.

Treble=good
Bass=bad

:-)

Two of the AWFUL bands I've seen open for Magnet, Staind and Buckcherry, went on to have big hits. Wyndorf deserves a hit!

i gave god says no a good review in the voice. i said that we needed bands like them...um..for some reason. i can't remember. something about riding the tractor on the drug farm.

I remember your Voice review (did you say something about the many moods of Wyndorf's penis?) That was great!

They have a new album coming out on the 17th, "Monolithic Baby," on a German label.

the Darkness - a shredded, runny, soiled condom in the face of the definite article.

There is absolutely no comparison, and SHAME ON YE to suggest otherwise.

I still wanna hear the scrapped version of La Sexorcisto that was produced by Jim Thirlwell.

The new album, from what I've heard, sounds crap though.

It's the same thing with the new Courtney Love record: No, it's not "Live Through This." But it out-rocks any other female "rocker" at this moment. What, Pink? Fefe Dobson?

By the way, comparing The Darkness and Monster Magnet is ridiculous. Just for the record.

That's all I was sayin'.

I remember seeing an interview with Wyndorf on MTV where he explained that at the time, all the hard-rock/metal bands were making Pearl Jam-influenced videos where everyone in the group sat around looking mopey and desolate, and only rappers were putting hot chicks and flames and all the stuff that makes rock great in their videos. It's still one of the best videos I've ever seen (I'd put it up against "Hurt" anytime), and perfectly captures Monster Magnet.

tab...25 is such a killer record. 25 is right up there with Elves and Death Valley 69 as one of my all-time favourite Stooges rips!

yeah, one of my all-time favorites too, tho not just as stooge-rip. demo version floating around is maybe even better, meaner, rawer. hell, first few mmagnets are among my favorite records of any sort (glitterhouse ep, spine, tab 25). dopes and POWRTRIP aces too, tho maybe more darkness-like, giganto rock comedy shtick

just felt the need to correct the lyrics misquoted above:

Bought another copy of Zoso
Seeds were bustin' up the spine
Think I wet my pants doin' whippets
Not too many buds just fine
Sit me in the lap of the gods, babe
Cover me with skin and hair
Rider #1 on the hump train
Screw you if you think I care

would also like to clear up the confusion regarding the "tab" EP, it is not called "tab 25" it's just called "tab" and the name of the band is monster magnet 25

I spent my 21st birthday at the brighton bar in long branch NJ watching mm25 play "tab"

awesome! i spent my 21st birthday drinking whisky with high schoolers in Homer's 'nice' trailer park...I tried walking home, and ended up waking up the next morning on some lady's porch, just in time for the sheriff to drive me home...

errr...i wish i were you edward.

awwww

just cuz I love you guys here's a copy of "needlefreak", a wyndorf-mcbain-cronin jam from 1989, only noise no screaming

http://www.mediafire.com/?vmtmizzymyg

dave wyndorf once wanted to play bass in my band but I told him no cuz he couldn't make it to practice (?!?) so being me isn't all it's cracked up to be

oh yeah he also wanted to play drums in *another* band with me but the guitarist and I couldn't agree on a band name so we said forget it... double fucking stupid!

what bands are these?

both of these things happened while he was in monster magnet, around '90 - '91

life lesson: if rock genius wants to play music with you, let him do it m'kay

right on...ill remember that

obscure unknown bands that you would have heard of if I weren't such a stupid cunt

xpost

first band was called prader willie, second was unnamed because we couldn't agree on one

waow man...did you ever get to jam with him?

yeah, a couple of times, I grew up with the monster magnet crew

tim cronin played drums in prader willie

awezome!

yeah wow cool never knew! upload prader jamz

nod scene = THEE BEST wyndorf lyrics. also, if satan lived in heaven he'd be me. it's true

what's frightening is I can type out these lyrics from memory (original song title was "snake dance through rings of reefer smoke" but I think they got tired of writing that on set lists):

clear a spot in the cornfield
we got a girl in an army coat
pull up the gran torino
play some music for the holy goat

go go go
yeah let's smoke up bones

praise be to the bullgod
she's got release stuck all over her skin
take a dive in the nosebleed
and let the snake dance begin

she licked a sheet of blotter
now she's breathing through her teeth
just like a snake with tits
squirming up to me

go go go
yeah let's smoke up bones
go go go
I'm so fucking stoned

if satan lived in heaven he'd be me
an acid dirty dozen stupid sheep
that bulging triple eye can make you see
rub that naked belly up to me

up to me yeah up to me

How many psychedelic drugs did they take vs. the amount of psychedelic drugs they wrote about?

are you a narc?

for the record, nobody in monster magnet ever took drugs, ever.

city gardens lol

crappy quality but there's so little live footage of the band with mcbain, dude was such a fucking animal on the gtr

for the record, nobody in monster magnet ever took drugs, ever.

really??? That's so f'ing insane!

I mean a good 60% of their songs are about pot and/or acid...I was just wondering how much of it, as with any band, was part of the act.

in the parking lot at a wisconsin atomic bitchwax show i saw a van side door slide open, spilling spumes of smoke out like in some cheech & chong joke. down stepped whoever the guitarist was who replaced ed mundell, grinning to high heaven. i can only imagine what touring was like for the main band

yeah it was all just dumb luck, they somehow figured out what sounds totally awesome when you're high as a kite without ever taking anything

(okay I can't keep this up much longer)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/monstermagnetwrittento.jpg

the final days of mcbain

lol @ the fan letter