Where is the LOVE for 16?

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So unloved, they don't even have a website. "Drop Out" and "Scott Case" -- the latter named after the record holder for stuffing smoking cigarettes into his mouth -- are great. Crunching slo metal with pig fuck vocalist, named a song after Apollo Creed and you'll have no idea what they're on about. Much much much better than Crom. Belong on the shelf with Harvey Milk. They probably died in a meth lab fire at a development in the Inland Empire. Absolutely no one except me and the guy who wrote this seems to like them:

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My favorite band of all time. The World's Most Thunderous Band. New cd now in stock!!

This cd's 10 tracks will flatten your shit.

Price for Broken Halos members? $7. Yep, just $7 dollars. Only for you the faithful. And I give you a money back guarantee, if you are not crushed, I'll buy the cd back from you!!! Anybody who don't like -(16)- ain't worthy of owning their cds, hence the Ugly Knuckles money back guarantee.

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― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm listening to "Drop Out" tonite! I may also put on "Blaze of Incompetence," which was perhaps too self-perceptive a title.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh man. I heart 16. I saw them and they chewed tobacco!

― Freedy, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

C'mon. I had a 16 night. It is said they spent time in jail for things not worth being sent to jail for. Or maybe it was excess drinking. One record even has a bonus cut stolen from some New Age dame doing her routine to muzak, trying to get you to lighten up and relax to scented candles. A good idea after hearing the heavy metal mincer for 50 minutes.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Best thing on Theologian records and "Cry Now Cry Later" comp. Even better than the punk rock band that sang a whole album's worth about hating men who were wifebeaters, Divisa, might have been their name.

So has anyone heard the new Go Betty Go record? They're from Californai, too, but probably would hate the almighty 16.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm now going to play "Scott Case" at neighbor-hating level. But they are tolerant because I am a mostly community-minded fellow who looks out for their property, and returns the balls and toys the kids throw into the yard and feeds and befriends the cat when the owners are away.

The county fair is in Pomona this week. They always have lame classic rock bands when the Pomona concrete and wasteland inland experience is really all about 16.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Did you know that not only do 16 belong on the shelf with Harvey Milk, but that the band also goes well with any CD by Trouble? It's true.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

I just got that comp of early stuff. I used to see them play all the time in OC..(they were a South Bay/O.C. band, right?) One time with Olive Lawn and 411(?). Anyway, yeah, grossly underrated.. Helmet had gotten huge around the time this band started, so they unfortunately got overlooked for all the other bad Helmet wannabe bands in town that sprung up.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Somehwere between South Bay and Santee/El Cajon, it would seem. Killer drummer on those records. "Scott Case" appears to collect a bunch of 7-incher splits and such they did prior to "Drop Out." I'm surprised they did so many records and achieved virtually nothing. I don't have all the LPs but three of them are all pretty killer. I seem to have never seen two of them. Very 1972-74 -- except the singer who's in the troubled pigfucker style -- down-tuned and in the basement with adjustments made for higher power, violence and recording precision commensurate with modern times.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

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