Soul Junk >>>> Nirvana

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Was just listening to Soul Junk's 1953 album from '96. Marveling at how '90s rock it sounds, but what excellent songwriting!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Junk's good fun! I never owned any albums but always liked what I heard, Glenn's a fine feller. Donut Debonair will say more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Soul Junk is a good name for a band.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this album might be their furthest development of their rock music. I like the hip hop stuff that followed as well.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love 1956 (rap stuff) and 1951 (Truman's Water + Christ) the best...

Is there supposed to be a trail in relation to Nirvana, or does >>>>> mean something else?

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It means that Tim is on crack, but we love him anyway.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They're "greater than" symbols.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, sorry for the ignorance. 4x as great, no less?

I definately would rather listen to Soul Junk these days than Nirvana, but it would be hard compare Soul Junk to memories of seeing Bleach-era Nirvana at the Vogue and CoCa a long time ago...

So I'll bow out, but 1956 rulz.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't know about everyone else, but I don't use multiple greater than symbols to mean twice, three times, four times as good, etc., but rather to distance the one artist from the other to the extent that it seems visually appropriate.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just kidding - I'm nobody anyway, so don't worry about it. And I think I'm killing your thread.

Back to Soul Junk - do they tour anymore? Their website is kind of unreadable/cryptic and I'm not sure what is going on...

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Monday, 21 February 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, but I live in San Diego (where they're from, obviously) and I haven't seen a listing for them playing in a long time. I do know that Glen is a jingle writer/producer and his company/studio does lots of commercials. Once, I saw a jewelry or perfume commercial or something that had this version of the Troggs' "A Girl Like You" on it and I recognized Glen singing.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That's great. I'd seen a review of a live show they did with other Christian acts, but there was no date. I got the feeling that it was late '90's, maybe even fairly recent. The review was a Christian related site, so it was all positive, but it was kind of funny. Something along the lines of "not your usual Christian-alternative act" - the other acts listed sounded like a Good Charlotte type thing, it would have been fun to see them in that setting.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite of the hip hop stuff is 1957. noisy, fucked up assault, drinking music, helps parties start in with the falling-down dancing

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw him about 3 years ago at a church in Berkeley with a few other Xian bands: Danielson Familie, Deerhoof, and Half-Handed Cloud... none of those sound like Good Charlotte at all.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

soul junk has a new album out. SOUL JUNK REMIXED 1937.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wobbly does one of the remixes, also.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

long been curious about soul junk and picked up a cheap LP copy of their/his 1st album (1950) the other day. comes in the sleeve of an old dutch hc comp* that's been wrapped in "soul junk" screened tinfoil. it's intriguing, but very homemade, primitive & lo-fi. somewhere between the freed weed and sebadoh III, soundwise. danielson family are obvious fellow travelers. dig it a lot. i might not ordinarily be able to hang with the emo xtian zeal, but the fucked up sonics are a good foil, scans more as vaguely scary outsider art than evangelical indie rock.

recommendations for other soul junks?

* emma compilation 1986. looks pretty cool, really, wouldn't mind hearing it. gots sonic youth, negazione, and a bunch of unpronounceable euro HC.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 31 January 2011 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

damn i had no idea they had so many albums

listening to "1956" this AM, so good

― the late great, Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:14 (ten years ago)

Octagrape is a Soul Junk minus the Jesus project that is fucking EXCELLENT. Less wild and more melodic so ymmv but I love this stuff

https://octagrape.bandcamp.com/

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:19 (ten years ago)

thanking u

― the late great, Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:35 (ten years ago)

haha saw the bump and was hoping it was for octagrape.

― cwkiii, Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:59 (ten years ago)

ha weird my band opened for octagrape last month, never woulda thought they had an ilx thread

― flopson, Friday, 25 September 2015 00:47 (ten years ago)

had a good little time putting on this video and then realizing the roof they are playing on is the roof of the building in which I currently live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0DY2Sgbss0

― del griffith, Friday, 25 September 2015 01:11 (ten years ago)

damn it always blows me away how built up our skyline is getting. del you're in bankers hill?!? i thought I was the lone SD ilxor!

― the late great, Friday, 25 September 2015 05:32 (ten years ago)

unless Tim is still lurking?

― the late great, Friday, 25 September 2015 05:33 (ten years ago)

yup, I am! bankers has been home for a while, though I used to be directly underneath the planes (see?)

Not to brag or anything but I met Ned Raggett at the Casbah twelve years ago.

― del griffith, Friday, 25 September 2015 06:37 (ten years ago)

so did i! was it at an acid mothers show?

― the late great, Friday, 25 September 2015 07:05 (ten years ago)

eight months pass...

going through a heavy SJ/Octagrape phase for early summer, just the perfect music for these hot days

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:12 (nine years ago)

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