past, present, whatever. list 'em here.
search:the teeth / raccoon "christmas city" ep[both excellent bands, this is the best work they've individually released]
s prcss "mnml"[i dont know if this band is defunct or just on hiatus.]
the swims s/t ep[keeping the fires aflame at the temple of love worship; contains a member of an albatross]
national eye "the meter glows"
the trouble with sweeney "i know you destroy"
clockcleaner s/t cd[flipper, with a sense of humor]
lenola's full-lengths[i never got into MBV the way that lots of kids my age did, but i sure as hell do love lenola.]
the interpreters "back in the ussa"[people love to hate on this band, but in philly thats not surprising. people just hate on everything here. this record isnt so bad, in retrospect. however, if i listen again, it might wind up in destroy. it walks that fine line.]
hail social "pink" and "blue" eps[guitar based indie rock thats just better than the rest. reminiscient of lots of 90's bands.]
cordalene "blue" ep[high octane power pop. most excellent.]
destroy:this radiant boy "proud to be a chemist"[not as good as their forthcoming record, a weak document of their earlier lineups.]
the capitol years, whatever they've released[100% fun in live performance, snoozeworthy on record]
lenola "oh yes, jeep is good!" 7"[i played my copy the other day and it just wasnt very good.]
thats all i can come up with in 5 minutes.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
S PRCSS has a new album, Taste Like Daughter coming out in May on My Pal God Records.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― briania, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddddddddddddddd the boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooook!
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)
(I almost said Sadistic Exploits!)
No Milk!
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Head Cheese.
These are all old bands since I'm profoundly out of the loop. (Except for Conjunto 23, but that's a different sort of thing.)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Odean Pope Saxophone Choir!
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh and he's got live footage of RUIN from the 80s:
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/?cat=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvYu_DUrpQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAJssHF6Bw
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
Thank you youtube, I'm not getting any laundry done.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:53 (fifteen years ago)
This Baby Doll might be the best of the live videos I've checked out so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xah7WYiqJHU
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 20:07 (fifteen years ago)
Anyone heard of Alex G?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_G
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:15 (eleven years ago)
Yeah! I saw him play at OK Fest this year, he is p amazing
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:23 (eleven years ago)
There is so much amazing music in Philly right now (Pinkwash, Sheer Mag, Girlpool, Hop Along, Swearin', Waxahatchee, Cayetana, Amanda X, Chondria, +HIRS+, etc)
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:24 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr2um9KXkgQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHh5FWxxSy4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDprSv9DjxYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx3FcZmGyn8
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:31 (eleven years ago)
The Goats were Philadelphia weren't they? & were actually a band when they played live at least.I love Tricks of The Shade but not No Goats No Glory so much. They lost a central member between the 2 releases though I think. Have hoped that some live material by the band might appear somewhere but think I've only got one track possibly.
I know the Arkestra did spend some time in Philadelphia but can't think what era they were based there in. What Sun Ra lps does that relate to?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:31 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLqs-fwDM4
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:02 (ten years ago)
Started a thread about this band, but I'm going to post it here too. These are reacreations, years later, by band member Todd Shuster, but I think the songs still come through. Late 70s Philadelphia punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88VGIIkTOAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozfE4v5-MQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5DQJiq35s
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:32 (ten years ago)
Sink Manhattan (mentioned upthread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFdJeupPLlQ
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:06 (nine years ago)
Ghostwriters (who I mistakenly called Ghost Riders upthread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh1t1he4IEY
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:09 (nine years ago)
no mention thus far of the great PURLING HISS? tsk tsk...
― alpine static, Sunday, 19 February 2017 10:10 (nine years ago)
Lots of grist for my false nostalgia:
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:51 (nine years ago)
Rudipherous, when were you in Philly?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 March 2017 14:35 (nine years ago)
As a child, something like 1973-1978. As an adult: 1989-2008
But also went to Temple 1983-1987, and worked and played there most of 1987-1989.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 March 2017 16:24 (nine years ago)
Rightly or wrongly, my paying attention to local rock (and related fringe things) was largely limited to the 80s.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:02 (nine years ago)
lol i wonder if you're friends with any of my friends who were doing the whole lancaster ave punk squat thing in the 90s
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 March 2017 22:18 (nine years ago)
I wasn't doing anything that interesting back then, although it's certainly possible that I might at least know someone who knows them. I smoked a joint at the Fake House once. That's about the closest I got to that scene.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:02 (nine years ago)
I saw RUIN and Scram! much more often than any other local bands (not counting the Sun Ra Arkestra). Also, a lot of my experience of the bands from that era was via WXPN and WKDU (especially 78-83 before I started college).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:28 (nine years ago)
(Or Relache, not that they were even a band of any sort.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:31 (nine years ago)
Relache! man, talk about nostalgia. ever go to a show at the funk dungeon? or hang out at the crass house at temple?
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:12 (nine years ago)
i think i moved there in 1988. just in time to see karen finley at the painted bride.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:13 (nine years ago)
Nope to both of those. Was that a house occupied by Crass fans or something?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:39 (nine years ago)
I know there were a lot of houses for different organizations (though that sounds unofficial!). I was in the honors program at Temple (not really what it sounds like) and when I first started there, they still had their own house. I think my college years (and beyond) would have been a lot more interesting if they had kept that house.
Like most Temple students (at that time--probably still?) I commuted. Had crushes on some of the Yardley girls who headed home every day in more or less the opposite direction.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:44 (nine years ago)
yeah, it was just a big punk party house at temple. they would have shows.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:52 (nine years ago)
funk dungeon was a huge cavernous warehouse space in north philly where they would have massive parties and shows in the 80's. i did acid there once and had to walk home to center city in a snowstorm. that was frightening and memorable. and it took forever. it was miles from center city. but temple people would go there.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:56 (nine years ago)
You were probably at least safer thanks to the snow, but it doesn't sound like a great idea overall. Was Funk Dungeon north or south of Temple?
I was kind of a wuss in terms of what venues I would venture to, or what crowds I wanted to be around (although generally keeping a distance from skinhead punks was not such a bad idea).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:03 (nine years ago)
i want to say it was on cecil b. moore so not that far north actually. it probably just felt like a million miles that night. nowhere i would have gone sober. i used to walk everywhere in philly when i was young. mostly during the day, but i would start walking north or west or south and just keep going. looking for records usually. i never took buses. just walked. but i never really "hung out" much outside of center city. that was my base except for a brief time in west philly.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:11 (nine years ago)
at night sometimes i would walk to a show at the khyber from my place and then take a cab to my door when it was done. i was all about getting in and out in a hurry.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:13 (nine years ago)
it was all so long ago. i don't think about it much anymore. it wasn't exactly cool to be in philly in the 90's. though it was a perfectly okay place to live. when we moved rufus was 2 months old and now he's 14! already many moons ago.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:15 (nine years ago)
scott, where in west philly were you?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 March 2017 03:16 (nine years ago)
False nostalgia, incidentally, because (a) a lot of these bands were mediocre at best, to be honest and (b) I wasn't really having such exciting times nor was I that immersed in these scenes.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:23 (nine years ago)
scott, oh yeah, I used to walk all over the place all the time (though took occasional public transportation and cabs). I miss that. I remember walking back from the Chestnut Cabaret to Spring Garden/Art Museum Area. Even when I was doing salsa dancing, I used to walk home to center city from Delaware Avenue at 2AMish and never really had problems.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:27 (nine years ago)
Sounding so old.
https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,UakgnonR5rqJUHsssYdlg7jwUTIdLQP-nBC-u3EcLDeSC2o3QVqHgIspvyvp0mvRJGHghZlw1_U4ysu1HBgZ0OIhTVMNKw4e6zKFI0yLdkT1wpl1UmjYEef2U2z0aWCPxKTT8KKoLoRVauNbaTnMswvZ6Xqf7GhnWg4YeGvspZBlEyLohL-ngVQ_RGtMWhRsWvTBQCK6v8Kyp-v_mrf38NFa0xfcpV1bHg
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:31 (nine years ago)
that's where i lived in west philly.
i used to have to take the trolley to the subway to old city to work in the morning. maybe that's why i walked everywhere for the next decade.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:33 (nine years ago)
wow I live two blocks away from where you lived! it's a v happening neighborhood these days.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 March 2017 15:28 (nine years ago)
I was going to put this on a Christgau thread, but it's only tangentially related to him (because it took me forever to find it, it became the most elusive A-record from his '80s book for me): Persian Gulf's Changing the Weather. Once through, and the two songs that jumped out were "It's a Good Thing" and "(I'm So Glad I'm) Living in the Free World." The latter struck me as good, not great, but I thought it pretty interesting how it anticipates Neil Young by five years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABntttO9pKA
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 August 2017 02:34 (nine years ago)
Some missing RUIN tracks finally appearing on youtube:
Great Divide, psychedelic speed metal/punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2qGOu9xZkQ
From their previous album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flf-TrOVk0A
etc.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:53 (nine years ago)
Did not mean to make this into a nostalgia Saturday. That usually happens when I'm a bit depressed, which I'm not today.
My other favorite from Fiat Lux follows something like the Great Divide formula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO-b1bJgMhM
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:57 (nine years ago)
Altar, good inspirational hardcore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buylfmEkjUo
And the classically brief Rule Worshipper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLhB3hZgdc
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:00 (nine years ago)
Apparently this is all a result of their two albums being reissued last year which I missed.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:04 (nine years ago)
They plead being but coming persists!
You tell 'em!
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:13 (nine years ago)
Oops, ruined it:
They plead being but becoming persists
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:14 (nine years ago)
He-Ho is such a good album. I used to prefer Fiat Lux. I think I like my favorite Fiat Lux songs more, but He-Ho has pretty amazing flow:
https://open.spotify.com/album/78INC6nI6P9fgXYuU4qJMA
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:03 (nine years ago)
Throw in a few bonus tracks of course and that throws off the flow. Mouse was not on the original album. Don't even know where that came from.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:14 (nine years ago)
Although the one-two punch of You and Make Believe at the beginning of Fiat Lux is nothing to dismiss lightly.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:19 (nine years ago)
Nice to see these reissued on Southern Lord alongside so much Boris!
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 22:22 (nine years ago)