Defend the Indefensible - Mission of Burma

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Unlistenable crap!

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Nope! And... lock thread.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

you are a human fart.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't have a good beat and you can't dance to it.

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Try harder.

― briania (briania), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Here come all the indie dullards to defend this shit.

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I sort of agree. I never understood the appeal. I like Forget, though. And their cover of "1970." But overall, never saw what people were going bananas over.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

They had, like, two really good songs. And a nice guitar sound.

That's about it. Debut single was better than debut EP; debut EP was better than debut album; debut album was better than everything later.

― chuck, Friday, 1 October 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I hward one song I kind of liked once... but I mean even JOY DIVISION had a dozen good songs or so.

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

half a dozen

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I like the singles versions and the album versions of those songs though!

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

they were pretty good when i saw them on the island this summer. i was surprised by how many songs i knew. and they did a pretty good cover of astronomy domine. i dig the sproton layer album more than any burma records though. i was never a big fan. and i like MOST crit faves.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

and they did a pretty good cover of astronomy domine.

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Goddamit, the HTML angel ate my arrow-exclamation mark. Did they cover that in the 80s?

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. A bigger fan than I would know more. They did it as one of their encores here this summer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

corny contrarian fuxxx

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

debut EP was better than debut album

I'm not sure I agree with that one. I can see the logic but Vs. is more RAHHHHHHHH!!!!! which I dig.

I've seen 'em twice (once in Philly when I realized the coincidence we were both there at the same time and a few months later at Siren Festival). Both times I got consistently more pogo-y as the show went on, finally bopping like a big dork during the cover of "Youth Of America" and anything that followed. I think part of the reason is that they're way older than me and uber-exuberant, so I don't get self-conscious about hopping.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

OnOFFOn doesn't really compare to the earlier stuff but if this was a new band I'd say they were pretty impressive.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

god this thread is sooooo wrong yet sooo right

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

actaully its just wrong its teh gum talking

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Clint's first record with Consonant >>>>> any MoB release.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

also re: Vs. vs. Signals: "Secrets" is my favorite unhinged MoB song, "Dead Pool" is my favorite ballad and "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" is my favorite zippy number. And stuff in between doesn't bore me a bit.

I would like to hear Consonant.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I saw thwm last year and they were amazing. Much better live than in the studio..

― Amy Meacham, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

MOB > Volcano Suns >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all else MOB related

― REFICUL!, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Pretty good band, but woulda been better if they let the bassist write ALL the songs, rather than the guitarist/ostensible leader.

Clint Conley's songs had actual TUNES in 'em.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I used to feel that way, and while Conley wrote most of my favorite tracks, the Roger stuff has plenty to offer.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

"Defend The Indefensible" sounds like it could be a future MOB release or boot or something.

― REFICUL!, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Jon you know you're a cornyindiefuxxor at heart. All these vehement attacks just make it even more clear.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Easiest defense of the indefensible ever! Doesn't it help to pick someone/something that is almost unversally reviled? These guys aren't it.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

do you realize who started this thread?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

>MOB > Volcano Suns >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all else MOB related <

I kinda used to like the first Birdsongs of the Mesozoic EP, actually (and the cover of the Rocky and Bullwinkle theme on their subsequent album, though I hagen't heard either for years).

― chuck, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

anyone who likes them is stupid and wrong wrong wrong

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

i mean i guess some people don't like them, but mission of burma really means alot to me....it was the first kinda "punk" thing I ever bought as a kid (based on a review of the original ryko comp in Rip magazine of all places so I thought they were a metal band), I actually bought Forget at Musicland on cassette, and was just lost in that tape for so long, it just seemed to suggest this mystery and possibilities that i hadn't been exposed to up until then (i was pretty much straight up fargo rock city small town midwest metal kid)....anyway, lots of their songs I think are just gorgeous and wierd and noisy yet poppy and rocking....um so yeah i guess maybe their overrated by some people (like me) but man the one time I saw them live was the best show i've ever been to and songs like Mica and Academy Fight Song and Forget and This Is Not A Photograph and all the others really do something for me that most bands don't.....they always had great pop songwriting even at their most aggressive or wierd or noisy and a sort of wistful feeling....i've always preferred them to sonic youth for this reason....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago)

anyone who likes them is stupid and wrong wrong wrong
-- Professor Challenger (Brontasauru...), October 1st, 2004.

That's a good argument.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Guys, this thread = laziest attempt to troll ever.

But hey, we get to talk about MOB, so who cares.

― REFICUL!, Friday, 1 October 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I like how Peter Prescott looks like he's on the verge of a coronary during the first few songs of a set. At the philly show Conley couldn't get his strap to slide up and the roadie was awol. They did a series of songs with him putting one foot up on the drum riser and propping the bass up on his knee while Roger sang everything. Then during a break where Conley was struggling in vain to tighten it somebody yelled "TIE A KNOT!" he got all smiley and put knots in the strap till he could play it again (and he holds that thing low already so he must have a crazy long strap)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Roger Miller should dress like a Keebler Elf on Halloween

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

"even JOY DIVISION", tee hee

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago)

the roman empire never died!!
just turned into the catholic church!!

blech

― mattp, Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago)

is this thread meant to be aja-bait (or aja's mom-bait)?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago)

They had this song, Max Ernst, I really like it. I always end up deleting them from my computer, but someone invariably brings them up again so I re-download that song.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, that '88 Rykodisc compilation (single + EP + LP + a few leftovers) was the second compact disc that I ever bought, and remains the ONLY 80-minute CD I've ever encountered. (80:05 to be precise.) Anyone know of any others?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 3 October 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago)

remains the ONLY 80-minute CD I've ever encountered. (80:05 to be precise.) Anyone know of any others?

Paul McCreesh managed to squeeze Bach's St Matthew Passion onto two discs (80.16 and 81.16). Valery Gergiev crams the Nutcracker onto one disc at about 81 minutes. There are some other classical examples.

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 3 October 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago)

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