The best Live Skull record is...

Bringing Home The Bait is missing. I'm a Dusted kinda guy though.

oops...
everyone who think BHTB is the best just say so, and it will be added to the final results.
(is there really anyone who think it's their best?)

Cloud One is the best. Dusted is great though. S/T is really good and has "I Was Wrong" on it which is the best Marnie song. The best version of that song is on the Speed Trials comp though. Bringing Home The Bait is excellent too, but it's a dry run for Cloud One which is the masterpiece of mach one version of Live Skull. Pusherman is great for the title track. The live album is amazing, but it's a live album. And I can live without Snuffer and Positraction. But I can't live without every Come album.

I've known people who repped for bringing home the bait. back in the day.

scott is otm. I really like the way-underrated first EP but love love love cloud one. "raise the manifestation" on the pusherman EP is great, I actually prefer the version of "pusherman" on don't get any on you.

I should leonardo my homemade live skull comp, it's called "my body of work was left for dead".

Positraction.

Dusted for me but I'm not all that familiar with the early stuff, since it was so hard to find pre-mp3 era.

Positraction, but hats off to "I'll Break You."

I only have Dusted and think it's really good but maybe(?) not my thing; should I pursue other albums or sit on this and give it another chance y/n

God, years and years go by and I'm still trying to get into this band. I've always liked Fort Belvedere since hearing it on Wailing Ultimate. 5D is good too (sadly the video seems to be gone from youtube, though I have it on a videotape somewhere). Circular Saw also pretty great.

I just can never seem to focus for a whole album, and (stupid as this sounds) I hate most of their drum production to the point where it's a real distraction. Had their records sounded (production) like the last few Band of Susans albums, I'd probably be all over them.

I guess Positraction wins, but it's not among my favorite noise rock things.

"But I can't live without every Come album"

i thought about a Live Skull vs. Come poll.
it seems Come would be the winner there.
they are generally better reviewd and accepted than Live Skull,though personaly i never went beyond eleven eleven somehow.

Personally I'd be interested in Live Skull vs. Rat At Rat R vs. Dustdevils (which is, I guess, the three "other" big-ish noise rock bands of that time).

I feel like Dustdevils are a little later? I guess they overlapped but Live Skull and Rat at Rat R started in early/mid 80s NY while Dustdevils moved to NY around 89 or something, so I think of them as being later...

I kind of know what you mean, although their first ep came out in '86 which is pretty close. I think they formed in '84.

My favourite noisy bands of the era were Live Skull, Band of Susans, Nice Strong Arm and Ut.

live skull were WAY better than rat at rat r. rat always struck me as more of an art project.

and my favorite noisy bands from that era were, um, swans, sonic youth, and live skull. but i'm boring like that.

i honestly do love everything that come ever did. from first to last. can say the same for swans. but not live skull and sonic youth.

Rat At Rat R have at least three tracks (sorry for the stupid scumrock titles) that are probably in my top 10 of this sort of thing: Asshole, Rape, and The Beautiful. That last one (off of their ep) has this instrumental thing that starts about 3:15 in that may be my favorite musical bit to come out of the whole movement. They also rocked harder than just about anyone but Dustdevils on their good days.

BoS I love love love, but they're more about Chatham minimalism than Branca confrontation.

my fave rat song was big rock joke doll. i think that was the title. i liked the album i had by them okay, i just didn't play it much at all.

I gave it short shrift when I first got it, then came back to them in a big way years later...

Positraction (I Love You, Thalia!)

My favorite song by them is the one on the Homestead 'Human Music' comp.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Positraction

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Apparently, there was some post-Positraction material, some of which was recorded for the BBC:

"I would want to complete and record a final album. With working titles at the time of Dynasty (Thalia leaning against a column of a Greek revivalist Newport Mansion) or Shit Happens (maybe the van wrecked at the bottom of a canyon) we had started an album in abstract: developing a new super-jazzed hybrid sound, some of which was captured on tunes recorded live on the never released BBC Peel sessions."

https://adriansol2.blogspot.com/2018/07/an-interview-with-new-old-skull.html

Heck yeah!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/live-skull-prep-first-lp-in-30-years-new-old-skull-have-a-song-on-martin-bisi-comp/?fbclid=IwAR0M1qIvl8W1OThVmnyTFHqQ-4iGjRbQcDSaifJQNtjrEiu2YN1Bg0V43bQ

cool! there was already a band called old skull though, weren't they like a noise band that were all nine years old or something? one of them was a son from someone in the tar babies iirc

new song is pretty decent btw, that marnie and rich sound is great

So glad Zedek is going to be on the album. The songs she did with them at the first BC show sounded fantastic.

Who else is going to the BC35 show tonight?