i don't know how anyone else feel about it but i'm a little underwhelmed by 200 million thousand. i loved "good bad not evil" but somehow feel like they've regressed? since getting into the band a couple years ago i've discovered a slew of bands that not only sound alot like the black lips but are kind of better, too. not that anyone should stop liking the black lips, but they've gotten alot of press for pissing in each other's mouths and have turned our attentions away from some equally attention-deserving bands.anyways, probably there is already an ILE thread for in the red/garagewhatever bands but here we go:
harlem (www.myspace.com/harlemduh)
the strange boys (www.myspace.com/thestrangeboys)
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:22 (seventeen years ago)
all these 2nd gen black lips bands seem less good than black lips, but maybe better than black lips on a bad day. harlem record is excellent, though.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:34 (seventeen years ago)
Are you such a lame indie fuck that you've never heard of 60s garage?
― Reatards Unite, Sunday, 15 February 2009 20:59 (seventeen years ago)
i got no beef w/the black lips but yeah i guess all 8 CDs of the nuggets 1 & II box sets
― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)
lol sez the guy named reatards unite.
― ian, Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)
hey reatards: awesome job w the easy answers and being a smug shithead. gold star
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
plus also, christmas island, but only kinda (no vids ;_;)
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:14 (seventeen years ago)
― kamerad, Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)
although i don't think they sound all THAT much like the black lips, agreeance on the "being better than" part
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:22 (seventeen years ago)
same ballpark, i guess...
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:28 (seventeen years ago)
crusaders of love are doin some of the best black lips songs since let it bloom and killed @ gonerfest last year. christmas island are a good time as well.
there's a ton of stuff in this vein discussed on the rolling non-indie punk thread, too!
― pretzel walrus, Monday, 16 February 2009 03:18 (seventeen years ago)
There is something nice about listening to bands that actually exist on the earth at this time. Even if they play in an old style.
The Grabbass Charlestons are the wrong scene of punk for this thread, but there are still some similarities, and I'm out of touch with the modern world.
― mr. feeling better (james k polk), Monday, 16 February 2009 05:46 (seventeen years ago)
I just listened to all the Black bands (to finally get them straight), and I kind of liked the Black Hollies.
― mr. feeling better (james k polk), Monday, 16 February 2009 06:01 (seventeen years ago)
the Strange Boys sound like my favorite band to go see live
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 16 February 2009 06:35 (seventeen years ago)
i was going to post king khan & bbq show but i figured they'd be better known. it's a close call but i prefer em' to the shrines.
(http://www.myspace.com/thekingkhanbbqshow)
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 16 February 2009 22:59 (seventeen years ago)
i don't know if that's really what i meant by bands that sound like the black lips. it's obviously an influence, and who cares what you call it, but do the black lips really just play "60's garage"? i think there's a little bit (but not much) more to it.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 16 February 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)
the new album is kind of a dud but the black lips fucking rule
― autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:04 (seventeen years ago)