The Mooney Suzuki?

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Any info? any good?

― Poops Mcgee, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They blow. Too much posturing. Only seen them live and the show was complete with groan-worthy mock "preaching" and the like. Oh, and their guitarist spent the entire show playing his guitar like it was a cock rocket.

But I seem to be in the minority on them.

― Yancey, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i've seen pictures of them and in every pic, some dude is doing some crotch splitting pose everytime. i wonder if its the guitarist. he must have a fascination with his own genitalia.

― Poops Mcgee, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

laughably horrible. are these guys a joke? saw them live (about half a set) and then had the misfortune of hearing a few tracks which fall somewhere between hair music and electric frankenstein (why are those guys so popular?)

― ddd, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The one time I saw 'em (circa 2000, I think), I thought they were just fine, phallic symbolism and all. I'm all for demonstrative posturing, as long as the music has enough oomph to back it up.

― Daver, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

even their name says, "we are an ass neo-garage band." (c. 2001 padgett.)

― jess, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fuggin A, they are killer. People Get Ready is a great swaggering rock rekkid. They are hot as sin too! I find all the press photos pretty damn funny actually, and it ads to their shtick quite well.
― Brock K., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― minna, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like them (but not as much as i like the clone defects). i like the whole garage rock revival (ad nauseam) thing, because i never got to go through it before. do you naysayers want to deny me actually getting to see it live? or do i have to stay home and listen to the nuggets box set?

― minna, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or do i have to stay home and listen to the nuggets box set?

PRECISELY. ;-) No, like I said, if you're happy with it, rock out. I just encourage checking out all their sources of inspiration -- but as that other recent thread noted, sometimes the bands inspired by a certain act hit home for you more than the act itself.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Naming a Yardbirds-obsessed garage band after two Can vocalists isn't cool? Changing your name from Sam Buonaugurio to 'Sammy James Jr' (it's the 'jr' which gets me) isn't cool? The last Yardbirds obsessed Italian-American to do that was one Steven Tallarico, who cahnged his surname to Tyler. Whatever happened to him? Hell, their guitarist (the crotch grabber, I presume) even works on the family cider mill, he he. That new album is the dumbest good thing I've heard since the last dumb good thing. They even call have an instrumental called 'It's Showtime Pt II'. (Roman numerals see) CCR, MC5, Hendrix-alike vocals, they sound fine to me. And two Strokes failed an audition for them apparently. Honestly, they could be Swedish.

― Snotty Moore, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i've said it before and i'll say it again: they do an amazing live show. if they come to your town, go see them. their live shows are worth it.

― geeta, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They are The Strokes before the The Strokes were The Strokes. Also The mooney Suzuki are genetic clones to The Brian Jonestown Massacre. When I saw them late 98 they werent that horrid crotchcentric but I could see them going that way.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sammy james jr. is sexy sexy sexy and the mooney suzuki is SEX. Let the cock rockets continue!

― sandrine, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But if the Mooney Suzuki is sex, does that mean sex is dancing around yelling with loud music in the background and then leaving? Damn, I've been doing it wrong all this time!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mooney Suzuki sing and play with the swagger that meant rock would be with roll forever and a day.

― Sonicred, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

does that mean sex is dancing around yelling with loud music in the background and then leaving?

Yes, as if you needed to ask.

― Sean, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

i care not re the thread hate,
i bloody love 'alive and amplified',
i never saw them live,
i have never done any digging into their thing,
i bought the cd on the strength of the cover art alone,
and have loved this bands take on major label vs garage r-n-r excess ever since.
summary : this album is a lot of fun.
actually, i would place them in the same micro-genre as major label era urge overkill.
sort of.

― mark e, Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:36 (nine years ago)

i still want an epiphone wilshire (or coronet?) because of that guitar player

― andrew m., Friday, 13 May 2016 15:30 (nine years ago)

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