a.r.e. weapons

Thread hijack! Everyone keep calm!

You're the third person to warn me away from seeing Suicide live, so I guess I'll pass on them if they come around here despite my new- found passion for the band.

BTW, anyone hear anything about the album that they are putting out next month? Does it glow or does it blow?

I heard the band before I saw what the looked like. I agree -- they are entirely incongruous, and huge Suicide fans.

Cover art = still frame of Satan's face from "The Excorcist."

ARE stands for Attitude Raw Energy, I've come to understand. Take them with a grain of salt and it's kinda fun. I'd listen to their album 1000 times before I listen to a single Yeah Yeah Yeahs piece of shit.

I dunno, I kinda have a soft spot for them, as fashionista and contrived as it all is. Plus, as I've said many times on this board, their previous bands (Army of Ghosts / Aylers Angels) were KILLER.

Oh yeah, and "Hey World" is atrocious - someone here comapred it to Love Stinks, which is OTM, but the Geils band rocked...ARE Weapons, on that song, certainly do not.

I still have never heard anything by them but this explanation makes me want to beat them savagely with a rusty pipe.

"don't you know, you don't mess with a man's hat. that's universal."

haha.

he also thought possibly there was a nyc band rivalry and that was the motivation for the hat knocking.

they're going to court now.

That said, I got the back of anyone who rumbles with any artist who's ever had anything to do with Grand Royal ever.

http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1165/article11161.asp

I can't explain why I'm drawn to the music/schtick. On paper (and initially to the ears), it's really lame/amateur/verging on the retarded. However, it's almost endearing how uncool it actually is, like it's made by really enthusiastic (for Suicide, 'The Warriors', Apocalypse Now etc) nerds (Suicide were big nerds too). Plus, I like the organ stab on "NY Muscle". Also, in some interview, they said something along the lines of "We're not influenced by Suicide, we want to be Suicide", which is part of the same logic.

It may very well be the guiltiest pleasure of the year.

Down with guilt! Up with enjoyment! :-)

in attendance and looking hot in heavy eyeliner and a tutu

1) A.R.E. Weapons, A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade) New York City, very self-mocking about their street smarts, very anguished about the street, and utterly expert in a way that hides all craft. Guys come hunching down the sidewalk in their leather jackets: "Let's hear it for America," says the singer, sarcastic and completely straight. As a heartfelt adolescent plea for parental forbearance, "Hey World" has the defiant lift of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Our Time" and the regret of the Clash's "This Is England"--you can imagine it coming out of Claire on Six Feet Under, and it's stirring. "You're either part of the problem," you hear as the band sets you up to ignore its clichés, "or you're part of the fucking miserable solution we call life."

http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1166/article11172.asp

More like My So-Called Life's Rayanne Graff.

I love it when he says, "So everyone thinks you're a spazz...so what, Spazz! Spazz out!" Or something like that.

I guess now I can tune into the final Buffy episodes without feeling guilty.

I'm uhhhhh, really enjoying it, and it's so not my thing. I feel bad and dirty.

Apparently there was so much coke at their London debut you could see it on people's faces.

and at the end of the set, some little punk with a mohawk threw a beer bottle at the singer from about thirty feet away. it missed his head by like two feet and smashed against the brick wall behind him, but he didn't flinch, which was fucking tough, because i jumped like a foot in the air.

also, paul's gangsta-print versace hoodie: fucking classic.

Still can't get over that. Do you reckon if we say his name 3 times we get a tribal style war?

I wonder if this many people hated the Ramones.

"I want people to say we sound like the Wu-Tang, but nobody does," he laughs. "Lou Reed was cool back in the day, but Jay-Z is cool now. We want to be modern, although we don't want to be a white rap group either. Still, if you throw a party, you can play Blondie records all night -- only a few people will dance. When you throw on Jay-Z or 50 Cent, people go fucking crazy. Hip-hop is the new rock 'n' roll.

"And fuck, I'll pistol-whip electroclash," McPeck stresses. "We're not about pretending to be from the '80s. Those kids have their funny little haircuts and their ties, they're just as fucking retarded as I am -- it's all just a retard riot. But I don't give a shit if people call us electroclash. Like, you can call me a girl, or a fucking monkey, but I know I'm a dude."

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.29.03/thebeat/areweapons.html

Ned in sounding-just-like-my-mum shockah?

"don't be scared" is in my top 10 singles so far i think. still havent heard the album.

jess, get "street gang" and "hey world" and yr set. the rest ain't so hot but those three alone make the record the best, ya know, like, ever!

The outfits better than the music, but this might've been because the synth wasn't up high enough and they ended up sounding like a weedy Limp Bizkit....

Snakes On A Plane!

Could someone plz seriously ysi me that what the fuck song?

huh? which one?

sometimes i listen to hey world when i need a chuckle

a.r.s.e weapons more like

-- haha, Saturday, 31 May 2003 20:10 (4 years ago)

These are always the best posts.

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haven't some of them died or something?

re death.
yup : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.R.E._Weapons

Trivia

* J Allard, leader of the Microsoft team that created the Zune is a fan.[1]

"Hey World" and "Don't Be Scared" are both awesome.

Both of those songs had that 'hugely famous former pro-wrestler delivers positive lifestyle speech to teenage fans' vibe to them. It's a shame there wasn't one called 'Stay Away From Drugs'.

I still like this band. Anyone heard the new one, Darker Blue?

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God we played with these guys once. Sucked.

someone in that a.r.e. weapons band is related to someone famous/talented, iirc.

nme listed them as a band-of-the-future, or some such nonsense, in the early part of the last decade.

One of them is Chloe Sevigny's brother. "Don't Be Scared" is still one of my favorite songs of the last several years.

The two guys from A.R.E who aren't Paul Sevigny or Thomas Bullock (pre-Sevigny) have another project that's slightly different called TV Baby. It's still pretty Suicide but maybe a bit more Metal Urbain.

I like the new album okay, though definitely not as much as the first one, and probably not as much as the third. (Didn't like the second, at least not at the time.) Best cut is easily "Confusion Is The Sign," which is basically a Velvet Underground pastiche. After that, probably "Jeffrey Lee" (presumably about Pierce) and "Street Justice." "Radio Radio" isn't a Costello cover.

And yeah, the one time I saw them live, they were horrible -- Probably the worst show I've ever seen by a band supporting an album I liked enough to put on my Pazz & Jop ballot (the debut).

one of the worst things we ever had at our club but super nice guys. we had been warned before how "rock n' roll" they were so when they asked if they could get the keys to my place before the end of the night i headed home later expecting the worst. arrived back to find one of them tucked up in bed, one of them reading charles dickens and the other one (thomas) doing my dishes.

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