Royal Trux - "The United States vs One 1974 Cadillac El Dorado Sedan"

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I've been sort of obsessed with this song for a long time (even above my already robust level of RTX fandom). It "sounds" like a whole slew of (non-musical) associations for me - kids with a cheap boombox out behind a house in rural Virginia, in the early '80s; some cars rusting in the weeds...

I feel like there should be a bunch of late '70s music that sounds like this, but I've never really heard anything that qualifies. Can anyone suggest some?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus Christ, I STILL don't think I have ever heard a Royal Trux song. There's that thread about important bands you've never heard, and this is definitely one of those bands for me. Morris, please tell me where to start if I were to go to Aron's tonight and buy 1 of their albums.

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd recommend Thank You.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 16 July 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Either that or the second self-titled one from '92.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 16 July 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

no,no,no...Cats & Dogs

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 16 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'd second "Cats & Dogs" as a starting point, and you can work forward and backward from there. It's a good "midpoint" (both chronologically and style-wise).

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Try Black Oak Arkansas 'Raunch'n'Roll Live' and imagine Herrema's voice there instead of Jim Dandy's

― dave q, Friday, 16 July 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Canned Heat

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 July 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Go bananas and drop on "Singles, Live & Unreleased"
They always saved their best for singles and the set covers all their bases, from the art damaged to the classick rock boogies.

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, like "Shockwave Rider" which almost sounds like hip hop

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for Cats and Dogs. Coherent enough to start with, but weird enough to get the gist of where they came from.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 17 July 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find US v. Cadillac,etc. on slsk. Would a kind soul be willing to send it to my gmail account (wooderson at gmail)?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 17 July 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

You should be able to find it on slsk - I have it for one (but am so rarely on slsk, it is little or no point to try and find me).

It is an absolutely brilliant Royal Trux song though - from the time when they had David Pajo playing bass with them.

― ___ (___), Sunday, 18 July 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Drink 2 40's of your favortie malt liquor or a half gallon of Mad Dog then listen to Twin Infinitives as loud as possible.

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

this a great track. production seems half-assed (the other 2 tracks on the EP work better i think), but the sentiment that they capture in the song title alone almost makes it a RTX classic.

yeah i can't really think of anything late '70s that reminds me of this song.
i don't know about Canned Heat there.

― jointchief, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

oh btw i'm on soulseek and i just put up tons of Trux goodies. that's about all i have right now actually.

my handle is... roswellseedsnstems
yeah, cuz their song titles are kewl.

― jointchief, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

You know, I often think of this thread cuz I totally know what Morris is talking about. I can't put my finger on it but .... I know the perfect counterpart song is out there! gah, so frustrating. I've been meaning to revive this actually.

the closest I've come is "Had To Cry Today", the leadoff track from the Blind Faith album. It's not perfect, as it doesn't really have the spacy coda thing goin-on, or any of the dubby effects or anything like that.. but there is a definite affinity with the "stompy" quality of the main riff..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

I bought this EP from the BAND themselves in 1998.
I always blur "Deafer than Blind" into "TUSvO1974CeDS" because it just feels like one song. One Royal Trux song. "Run, Shaker, Life" is a separate song, but the first two, ONE SONG.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

ohhh MAN!! has anyone heard the track from Drag City Hour (never even knew there was such a compilation) called "Fairy Godfather"??

it is intense. it's 20 minutes long and it's all old-skool Trux live-in-studio with messy heavy-handed keyboard playing. starts out like "Statik Jakl", all Victory Chimp narrative, and then goes "Edge of the Ape Oven" or "Spike Cyclone" or "Osiris" (when they played it live) or SOMETHING.

i haven't even finished listening to it yet! what a trip.

― jointchief, Thursday, 24 November 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

I have returned, 12 years later, to note that this song still rules...

― morrisp, Friday, 3 February 2017 22:53 (nine years ago)

haha welcome back, I love this thread

xp "Fairy Godfather" totally rules

― sleeve, Friday, 3 February 2017 22:58 (nine years ago)

I remember someone saying at one point (I thought on this thread, which is why I looked it up) that this song "sounds like the Seventies never ended, but just kept mutating and getting gnarlier..." (I'm paraphrasing; it was probably written better than that).

― morrisp, Saturday, 4 February 2017 01:10 (nine years ago)

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