Taking Sides; APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION VS. CHIPMUNK PUNK

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Okay, now I'm just being a dick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.collectorscum.com/8tracks/chipmunks.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

chipmunk punk has THREE knack songs!!

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Appetite all the way. Alvin's voice is so annoying. Was he sucking helium the whole time this was recorded?

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"now"

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

david seville welcomed you to the jungle two decades before axl did, with his number-one single "witch doctor." his subsequent hit "the bird on my head," in which i think somebody told me once that he invented sampling (i've never heard it myself) may well have prefigured axl's hair. so he was clearly the more influential artist. later acknowledging on *chipmunk punk* that billy joel, linda rondstadt, and queen were punk rockers makes him the artist more willing to challenge assumptions and upset the apple cart as well.

― chuck, Friday, 22 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(Geddy Lee clearly the missing link between these two, btw.)

― chuck, Friday, 22 October 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

did those fuckin' chipmunks upset the apple cart again?
Goddamnit, get OUT OF THERE!
Motherfuckers.
I really need to get some traps.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

*Chipmunk Punk* vs. *Out of the Cellar* by Ratt makes more sense.

― chuck, Friday, 22 October 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i love ilm!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay Condom and the Sex Munx version of God Save the Queen pisses all over Chipmunk Punk. Chipmunk Punk fucked up when the Chipmunks inexplicably forgot to include any punk covers on their rekkid.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still waiting for chipmunk crunk, and chipmunk monks.

― chuck, Friday, 22 October 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

linda ronstadt is totally punk! she attended an early ramones gig at cbgb!

and i liked her new wave album.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

chipmunk crunk

Bahahahahahahahahahhahahahaaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah - chipmunk crunk is my new favorite genre.

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Axl vs. Alvin = indulging in cigarettes cuz it's "naughty" vs. sucking on a helium balloon cuz it's fun

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 23 October 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronstadt totally dissed the Ramones.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Constricted . . . hemorrhoid music." Something like that.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my God. I don't understand this Chipmunk Punk thing but it has got to be heard. The label is called Excelsior??? Is someone pulling my leg?

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

in europe, we got 'appetite' with this kinda not very sympathetic cover

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.br-online.de/bayern3/musik/meilensteine/img/07_gunsnroses.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, has the girl been raped or what? no-one cared back then, though.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The painting itself dates back to 1978 by Robert Williams. I believe the big red robot is about to exact revenge on the robot in the brown blazer for having his way with the girl selling miniature pink robots. What that has to do with Mr.Brownstone and the Jungle, you tell me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. i amazed you know this. dontcha think that the guys in the band just got horny from seeing the girl's knickers way down her legs? i never really paid it much attention, the cover, but now it strikes me as voyeristic in a somewhat gross kind of way. but maybe that's just me. luv the album any old how, of course.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

rather than a robot, isn't the red thing more like the fleash-eating plant outta 'little shop of horrors'? and also: no matter how you read it, it is a fucking weird painting. but hooray for imagination.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know,...I mean, yeah, I love Robert Williams' paintings, but the band just completely co-opted both the painting and the painting's title for their album (I want to say I remember reading an interview with Robert Williams about how he hates their music....although I'm sure he was well paid). It's kinda like if they called their album Guernica because they liked the image of the bull stepping on the horse (oblvious to whatever deeper meanings said painting has). This is not to say that I think there's some deeper meaning to this particular painting by Robert Williams, but it just seems kinda lame to have appropriated it wholesale for the G'n'R record.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/williams/williams.jpeg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how is it "appropriated" if he sold it to them? it's not like they used it without his permission, is it?

has the girl been raped or what? no-one cared back then, though.

i think that's kind of off the mark ... as I recall it (maybe my fellow oldie alex can back me up on this) people did indeed get upset about it when it came out, and the cover was replaced with the innocuously crappy bad tattoo logo:
http://www.discstickers.com/music/covers/appetitefordestruction.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

how is it "appropriated" if he sold it to them? it's not like they used it without his permission, is it?

Fair point, really. I guess I just feel the same way about it was when a band lends their music to a commercial.

People got WICKED upset by the RW cover, by the way. Fritz otm. That's why the original versions are now collectors' items.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

RW also did the covers for Scatterbrain's Here Comes Trouble (the title was theirs).

http://img.kelkoo.com/pdb/34001/large/72/03/720382.jpg

..and this Wall of Voodoo record

http://www.barryrudolph.com/stories/graphics/voodoo.gif

Neither fared as well as Appetite.

Incidentally, speaking of disturbing album covers, I always felt this Wall of Voodoo 12" was rather scary....

http://www.wallofvoodoo.com/mrfl.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. i remember being really fascinated by the cover back then (i must have been 15 yrs old back then), but nobody 'round these parts really seemed to be upset about it at all. come to think of it, we never really talked about it, probably because we didn't know what to make of it. the scandal was more about the lyrics for 'one in a million' on 'lies'. but is it really a collectors item? i believe my lp is in mint cond.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

but is it really a collectors item?

I believe it is. Maybe not on the same scale as, say, the Beatles' fabled "butcher" cover, but it's a big ticket item for some.

Witness:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=53261&item=3846547770&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, I believe Chipmunk Punk in playable condition is probably harder to find.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Or not...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=4045575700&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that the record label is Excelsior

http://i1.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/ab/b8/33_1_b.JPG

I had it on cassette "back in the day", myself.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Shadow tried cutting this at a Minneapolis in-store "fans bring the wax" thing back in '97

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 23 October 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(it was not a successful effort)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 23 October 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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