i want to start a thread that isn't a poll thread cuz i'm kinda sick of those, but i'm outta ideas.

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i mean, i wish i had an alternative. but i got nothing. and, yet, there isn't a thread that i feel like hanging out on. isn't there anything fun to talk about it? maybe it's a slow month.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I found this record for a dollar the other day. Totally incompetent, poorly produced early 90s political thrash:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/UncleSlamWorkFood.jpg

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And yet, it is awesome for both the cover and all the reasons I listed above.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

How are you today, scott? I saw that radio station shirt (WYYZ or something?) in my drawer yesterday and thought of you. Did you enjoy the tastykakes?

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll say i enjoyed them! i brought them to work with me. that is my time for all things sweet. thanks again!

That Uncle Slam album looks great.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Musical scattegories?

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

where does everyone work? stevie d, you are in school, right? jeff, where do you work? tape store? i work in a hospital. i like it there.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a high school student; I work in hell.

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm at school at Rutgers and work at the film library here (which is where I am now).

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

what kind of film library does rutgers have?

high school! awesome. do you carry a gun? what's it like in high school?

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a screenwriter, but not like the bullshit "I'm working at a restaurant and writing scripts about lonely twentysomethings finding love in my spare time but really I'm a screenwriter" sort. No, I don't have anything made yet, but I'm a good way there. I do have a comic book adaptation with the production company at Paramount that has a lot of momentum behind it (fingers crossed) and some potential comic book projects, etc. I even made a soundtrack of totally kick ass Southern rock and metal for the comic book adaptation screenplay, and the producer and potential director liked it. So, spreading the gospel! Anyway, as much as I feel like an asshole talking about being a screenwriter, there you have it.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's the track listing if anyone cares (since this seems to be a thread of randomness anyway):

1. Rebel Meets Rebel - Time
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend
3. Alice Cooper - Pretty Ballerina
4. Motorhead - Sheet You in the Back
5. Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places
6. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
7. Throttlerod - Whistlin' Dixie
8. Alabama Thunder Pussy - Three Stars
9. Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Slow Ride
10. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Plenty Strong and Plenty Wrong
11. Point Blank - That's the Law
12. Corrosion of Conformity - Rise River Rise
13. Lords of Acid -Out Comes the Evil
14. Drivin 'N' Cryin - Rush Hour
15. Black Label Society - Battering Ram
16. Brand New Sin - the Proposition
17. Murder by Death - Sometimes the Line Walks You
18. Down - Losing All

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(dammit, that should be "Shoot You in the Back")

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like someone placed an annoying asshole magnet in the middle of a building and then plagued the attracted assholes with useless information and standardized tests. Don't ask how I fit into all of this.

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i just got this sabbath cover album called sabbatum where they redo the songs in a medieval style and chant the lyrics in latin. don't know if that's fun to you to talk about. sure is fun to listen to

― kamerad, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that's awesome, jeff! good luck with the script. and that's an awesome soundtrack too.

tape store, yeah, that sounds about right. it's everyone's cross to bear. it's never easy. especially if you have a brain.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(As for where I work, I work from home, which is like my own personal hell of staring at the wall and losing my mind. ILM helps with stemming the tide of oncoming insanity, but not so much with the productivity.)

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you like the hospital's atmosphere? It seems like it could get depressing (depending on where you worked, I guess).

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i wanna hear sabbatum! sounds great.

i just reviewed this album by Tony Naima, a Swedish dude, and on his new album he does really nice alt/folk/rock versions of songs by Swedish death metal legends Dismember. Some of the songs are so pretty.

http://www.metal-norge.com/images/omtaler/2049.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Do you like the hospital's atmosphere?"

i live on a small island, and the hospital is so small and down-home, so the vibe is really casual and community-oriented. the people who work there are pretty close. I see scary stuff sometimes, but it's not a bad place to work at all. i feel right at home there.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TNPZ1J84L._AA240_.jpg

Bhangra versions of Sabbath songs. Surprisingly cool.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, i wanna hear that too! i got a weird sabbath tribute thing a year or two ago, but most of it sucked except for one track by racebannon.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you heard the Pat Boone metal cover album, Scott?

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it was about what i expected. silly and all that. what i like about stuff like the tony naima album is that it transcends novelty. he makes those death metal songs his own.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel so sorry for that teddy bear on the cover. It legitimately makes me sad.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, if that was a dismembered guy on the cover, I wouldn't even bat an eye. But a teddy bear? That's just so sad.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like cheese.

Oh, here's some music-related content:

I just did my Metal ordering for the store I work at and found two nifty things ---

1) A reissue of Obituary's Slowly We Rot on 180 gram vinyl. An employee and a local hip-hop dude Envelope (who loves metal wax) already reserved copies.

2) Some label reissued the first four Count Raven discs! This is the pre-St. Vitus band for Christian Linderson (he joined them after Wino left). I have one of the four discs and I remember it being quite good so this is cool for all old school doom fans.

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

some of the translations are pretty obvious

1. Verres Militares - War Pigs
2. Oculu Filioli - Junior's Eyes
3. Funambulus Domesticus - A National Acrobat
4. Symptoma Mundi - Symptom Of The Universe
5. Post Murum Somnii - Behind The Wall Of Sleep
6. Post Aeternitatem - After Forever
7. Magus - The Wizard
8. Solitudo - Solitude
9. Rotae Confusionis - Wheels Of Confusion
10. Planetarum Vagatio - Planet Caravan
11. Via Gravis - A Hard Road
12. Architectus Urbis Caelestis - Spiral Architect

and it all sounds authentically medieval. not enigma or gentle giant or something. i'm thinking of getting the new rhino diosabbath comp. i haven't heard any of the dio era albums yet

― kamerad, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Medieval like this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/WorldesBlysse.jpg

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I have that comp! I have a strange Sabbath comp as well, something on a tiny German label called Frequent Frenzy. I happened to see it at Venus Records, the indie store I worked at for a moment in Manhattan in 1991ish. Let me see if I can find info on it...

Yeah, here it is:

http://www.klicktrack.com/shops/freq/releases/freqcd004/images/ff_legacy.jpg

01 - Webstrarna - War Pigs (5:04) Play
02 - Mobile Whorehouse - Iron (Wo)Man (5:27) Play
03 - On Target - Supernaut (4:19) Play
04 - Zonk - Sweet Leaf (4:58) Play
05 - Union Carbide Productions - Planet Caravan (4:57) Play
06 - Sort Sol - Black Sabbath (5:32) Play
07 - Omnitron - Symptom Of The Universe (4:44) Play
08 - New Clear Family - Who Are You (3:57) Play
09 - Oven & Stove - Paranoid (3:05) Play
10 - Eld - Tomorrow's Dream (3:29) Play
11 - In The Colonnades - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:14) Play
12 - White Stains - N.I.B. (5:25) Play
13 - K-9 Corps - Changes (5:07) Play
14 - All Steel Coaches - Evil Woman (3:21) Play
15 - Raw Animal - Into The Void (4:59) Play
16 - Omala - FX (3:30) Play

I only knew a couple of the bands from some early Wax Trax things (ELD, White Stains and Union Carbide Productions is the "biggest" name, prolly) and it's a strange mix of electronic, garage and oddball stuff. Some of it is wretched but some cool in a kitschy way.

You can hear snippets here:
http://www.klicktrack.com/shop/release.jsp?r=18505&tn=9

The Oven & Stove version of "Paranoid" slays me!

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I have some lounge music tribute to Black Sabbath called "Sabbath in the Suburbs," but it was post-The Osbournes, so I think it was trying to cash in on that theme song.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone else have this? I found it for a quarter. Somewhat amusing. Apparently Lars likes it.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f238/f238073h3dn.jpg

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Other than Union Carbide, i don't know ANY of those other people. would like to hear that too. the more the merrier! i'm no purist. i don't know if i've ever heard a GREAT sabbath cover. plenty of okay ones.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I just woke up in the middle of the night and heard the ending of 'must be the moon' by !!! and thought it was quite good.

don't want to go to work tomorrow.

xpost

― whatever, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

where do you work, whatever?

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I always had a soft spot for the Black Box version of Supernaut by 1000 Homo DJs...

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

But, oh, christ, I remember that Nativity in Black album as being really shitty... It did make me go out and buy real Sabbath though...

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

There are some great covers on those Nativity in Black CDs! A lot of crap, but some great stuff too. I like the 1000 Homo DJs, White Zombie, and System of a down covers.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey dudes in re: unexpected Black Sabbath/etc covers, I saw free jazz trio The Thing the other night and they did "Symphony of Destruction" and "Iron Man," which kinda rock my face off.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Dio Sabbath tribute album:

http://www.dio.net/pictures_cd/dehumanized_witch_us_front.jpg

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this thread

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't the Cardigans do Iron Man at some point? Or was that a fevered dream?

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

They definitely did "Iron Man". And, on a previous record, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" IIRC.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't there some guy who covered reign in blood using an unusual acoustic instrument?

― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

here he is, he plays the h'arpeggione!

http://cdbaby.com/cd/erikhinds3

― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

he's got my review of his album on that cd baby page. that was a cool album. okay, i swear i've only written TWO novelty metal cover album reviews. and i liked them both.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Sure, sure, Scott, we all know that you've got a pen name out there somewhere who specializes in novelty metal covers and has quite the ouvre.

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow this thread has come full circle.

have you ever heard beat of the earth, scott? cuz supposedly the sleeve says "If you're looking for psychedelic music, do not buy this album unless you're looking for psychedelic music." which is a great thing to put on your album of psychedelic music.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/BeatOfThe_EarthLP_fr.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

scott, i work in a council housing department in manchester (uk). couldn't sleep.

― whatever, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

can't go any further with dodgy metal band covers other than the pat boone one.

although 'the king' album is good, northern irish elvis impersonator singing songs elvis never did (e.g. 'love will tear us apart').

― whatever, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

That "Iron Man" cover by the Cardigans is also noteworthy for the fact that they beat novelty lounge covers of Black Sabbath songs by a good four or five years. Also, the Cardigans rule.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i am at work. kinda bored. lots of messes to clean up though. read about the coachella festival in the paper. sounded kinda boring. but it's not really my kinda thing. i'm sure it's lovely there though. read about the jazzfest in new orleans. that sounded spicier. even if lucinda williams played too. she's not that spicy. read the story on the guy who owns the coachella land. he sounds kinda shady. i don't trust real estate moguls. i guess it might be fun to hang out at something like that. as long as there are clean bathrooms. and beers are under ten dollars. and i could get a hotel room nearby.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My friend who goes to Coachella every year once slept under a truck. So, I think you'd be out of luck there. Although I'm totally in agreement with you.

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's a cheesy Monchy & Alexandra video for you, scott. (I like this song though, no irony there):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjPPi-nvs0

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, is this like a non-bachata version of it? Duh, no wonder it doesn't sound as good in the video, it's not even the same song really.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i must admit i got a little bored of monchy and alexandra - even with hottie yacht model eye candy - and found myself more intrigued by the wild world of LOST speed painting! As LOST is the only one hour drama that I currently watch (and never miss), i was, um intrigued by this new development in fandom.

Sawyer speed painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4TYDKUyO38&mode=related&search=

John Locke speed painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_NQe57C-k&mode=related&search=

Kate speed painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNsm0KxLeVY&mode=related&search=

Sayid speed painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3p94rsG0JY&mode=related&search=

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

did u ever hear th melissaaufdemaur sabbath cd?she gets dressed in fringe and rips it up

― danbunny, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cdbaby.name/h/a/handofdoom.jpg

― danbunny, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

this new album by MASERATI, while maybe not as good as an album by TRANS AM, does hit some pretty nice moroder+krautrock+theme for great cities-era simple minds+post-rock spots at times. just in case anyone was wondering...

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

heidi collins - classic or dud?

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7747/view041kz.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4473/heidicollins927040129ce.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not sure about the combination between his facial expression and his hand position

― whatever, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

heidi certainly looks like she's interested in everysinglething you've got to say for yourself. but i've not got cnn, so she might have the voice of a drain. somehow, though, i think not.

― whatever, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

heidi collins - classic or dud?

is she the one who's on CNN in the mornings? longer hair now? cause DUD. i'm terrified of the legion of female replicant anchors they've got.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i like her depending on what her hair is up to. i never tire of jack cafferty's ed anger routine. i like that cnn is now the immigration channel.

our cable was fucked up for a week and the only news channel that would come in was fox. i would watch it with the sound down while listening to music and all i remember is footage of police chases and prisons and terrorists in prisons.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, here's a question: when did american guitar-based indie rock die? in what year did it become a predominantly precious and lifeless bourgeois pursuit almost completely disconnected from the vitality/energy/creativity of its punk/hardcore/post-punk roots? just wondering.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, which mainstream genres are NOT stagnant right now srsly?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, i am not very mainstream these days. what about Beyonce-Rock? seems pretty strong the last i heard.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Beyoncedelia? she deserves her own genre.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, here's a question: when did american guitar-based indie rock die?

depends who you ask? 1988? 1991? 1994?

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it was when husker du put out "makes no sense at all."

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

that just killed the whole thing for me

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

putting out an awesome song killed rock?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes that's all it takes

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

that's right I'm looking at you kurt cobain

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hey have any of you ever read renaissance magazine? i looked at it while in barnes and noble the other day! it's pretty awesome, i should have bought it...made me want to hear Blackmore's Night...I was thinking Espers should market their shit towards this crowd...

http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/img/rz53.gif

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

greg weeks could never pull off a jerkin. or a tunic. seriously, he's about 75 lbs and half of that is knit scarves.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd like to blame the death of indie rock on all the FORMER MEMBERS OF SQUIRREL BAIT. shit, i was two feet away from david grubbs in seattle at that EMP thing and i totally forgot to ask him if he killed indie rock. him and his crew are responsible for grunge, post-rock, AND tons of post-hardcore and even metal. without those dudes, who knows what would have happened.

ritchie looks like he seriously wants to woo my ass. did he buy that wig from a fur trapper?

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

posters i had on the wall of my room when i was 17 years old:

black sabbath

squirrel bait

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp from waaaay back)

My favorite metal novelty record:

http://plaatjes.hemisphere.nl/007782.jpg

The Slappin' Mammy's Bondage In Blackface - a New Jersey troupe (where else?) who supposedly performed in blackface (I never had the privileged of seeing them live) and played metal versions of Al Jolson songs. The disc came out way before 1995 which is what is says on Amazon... I remember hearing it (and getting it) when I was writing for NYROR which ended way before that - I am thinking 1991 or so.

Well worth the http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00000E0PJ/ref=dp_olp_1/103-9077167-2959001.97 that the cheapest one on Amazon goes for

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the coding is fucked but that link will still get you there...

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yikes, that looks scary. and i don't scare easy. is it funny in a FROGS way or funny in a, um, SOD way.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Oddly enough the songs were kinda serious sounding - some kinda like riff-happy Anthrax, some more classic metal, but all with a ferocity and intensity that made you kinda wonder if it was a joke or bizarre, tragically misplaced fandom.

― NYCNative, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I still lol'ed however. Especially at standards I knew well such as "Alexander's Rag Time Band."

― NYCNative, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

And it's only $1.79 + shipping!

― NYCNative, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I have that Die Krupps cover album. Listened to it once, ick.

― John Justen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of cover albums, anyone else ever get into this:

http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers2/ath-1361.jpg

?

― John Justen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

hi scott! the kids are finally just asleep. hope you don't have any babies tonight so you can watch lost ...

― Maria :D, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

maria did her radio show today and she did an all japanese show that was really cool. you would have liked it. good noisey stuff too.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 June 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link

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