Is There A Better Or More Impressive North American Rock Group Than The Sun City Girls Currently Working And Playing?

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― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

sun city girls are a rock group?

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

but they're so much more

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

rock contains multitudes. actually, i would call them a folk-rock band. wow, i guess there is nobody greater or more impressive. i thought so.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

They are unparalleled.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's pretty much what i was thinking.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

There may not be better, but there are equal to the elder statesmen.

also, not folk rock.

just ROCK.

ROCK IS THE GREAT DEVOURER, ABSORBING ALL, hence it's beauty in it's perpetual adaptation.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

i like sun city girls. although i dont like rock music

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

i dont have many rock records, (check the guy's rock record)

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I like the SCG but when I saw them live they were terrible. So, yes.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

in my opinion, there is no finer example of 'underground' music.

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

"i dont have many rock records, (check the guy's rock record)"

you lie. what about all those happy mondays records? and, apparently, Fall records.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

they are the last of the Great Baetniks

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

damn, so it's official! no other band even comes close. total consensus from ILM! SCG rule!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Or so you thought...

*rubs hands together and cackles in glee*

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

if the Butthole Surfers read a few more books, maybe.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

And whatever happened to the Mesa Girls, or the Scottsdale Girls?

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

you lie. what about all those happy mondays records? and, apparently, Fall records.-- scott seward

they are the last of the Great Baetniks
-- The Sensational Sulk

well i do like quite a lot of what I've heard of SCG, but to be honest, i like the above sequence of posts nearly as much , heheh.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I've been saying this for a dozen years. Well, when I wasn't saying Royal Trux. But yeah.

Although Mcd is correct, they CAN put on some ... unsatisfying live shows. I've seen them three times and the first two times were mind-blowing, but the most recent time was a bit subpar. Still, their breadth and reach and strangeness and improvisational ability and humor and all-around singularity means that they rule all. I have everything they ever did.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

New Rick Bishop dates up on the SCG website including -YAY!- some UK dates at last. Man, hope that Nyoukis is going to lure him to Brighton.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

felt like I was in the presence of the devil...

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I love the Girls, but the recent Girth show I saw was just unparalled as far as being able to combine "free" sounding elements with highly precise instrumental mathy speed metal, and make it a fun show that similarly made me feel like Satan was present... they're definitely not comparable to the Girls at all, musically... but if Girth continues in this direction, it's possible I might have answer "yes" to this question. (Mind you, Girth's new album is their guitar+drummer older stuff, although it still roolz the rock roost.)

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

have you seen SCG live, db?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

donut, what was that show we saw in seattle? was that...climax golden twins?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I've seen SCG several times. The best "straightforward" show was the one time I saw them in Portland instead of Seattle (with Cerebral Shoal opening, summer of last year I think.) I keep on missing all the great, amazing barely-announced local Sun City Girls shows, even though I've still loved the ones I saw, ultra-absurd as they may have been.

Maybe the Bumbershoot 2004 show was the best, just because it was a completely brilliant "fuck you" departure show, w/ ghoul masks, banana dances, wiffle balls angrily being batted into the audience, beers aimed at Alan "I Love Osama Bin Laden" Bishop that actually hit me instead, the animatronic Saddam Hussein mannequin sitting and giggling in the background on stage, the use of the Skychurch video wall to showcase cuts from violent horror hentai to home videos of Charlie Goucher doing air puppets, and.. well much more -- as opposed to being an irritating "fuck you" departure show (like the infamous "Sun City Girls play Coltrane, Live in 1970" show in San Francisco, with the Thinking Fellers)

Terry, if it's the one that was at Graceland, with the Twins opening, then yeah I was at that one. That was alright, but one of the least memorable. The one at Bob's Java Jive in Tacoma in December 2003 was really great, if only for Saddam Hussein coming out to "introduce" the band and throwing "gifts" i.e. street trash into the "feelthy American peeg" audience... followed by an absurd "free keyboard" solo. (A week later, Hussein would be captured. The Girls may have helped Bush after all!)

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Hear me pee.

― Jack, Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

listening to box of chameleons :(

but also :)))

cuz lil' cyrus dancing around singing "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

:-) Mr. Gosher would like that.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

still no one...

― scott seward, Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

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