outhud S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.

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anyone heard the full album?
just got it promo style, and after a handle of listens, i love it. "-Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information" is one of my favorite singles of the year. its got that Factory Records feel, without the blah feel of the up and coming bands of late. Thudding basss line, alienating feel, and down right dancable grove. i get all wet thinking about the possibilities. give me some love.

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Friday, 13 September 2002 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's simply supurb! Actually, I need to give it a couple more listens. Gets off to a bit of a slow start, but we're agreed on "Too Much Information". New Order up and down this courtyard. Pretty hot. The acronym's lost on me, tho.

― Ryan Pitchfork, Friday, 13 September 2002 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Curse you Pitchforkers and your promo copies!

― scott pl., Friday, 13 September 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

pardon the typos, i gotta quit posting stuff drunk.

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

What is it with these post-post-punk bands and cutesy titles?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait until you see the song titles, Tom.

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

god, i love this band, but this thread makes me feel hella guilty for doing so.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember when these guys lived in Sacramento.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

why all the guilt?

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"alienating feel" - who's it alienating? Not you - you like it!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

being alienated by music doesn't automatically mean you have to dislike it. i think, in my confusion last night, while listening to the album, i got hostile out of the blue. the white wash at the beginning of track 2 got me real pissed for no reason. hence the alienated feeling.

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha OK fair enough. Who are the blah up and coming bands its better than?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

tom, i would say that outhud are better than every other nu-post punk band out there and you will hate them.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds ominous.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i predicted this back when outhud released their first 7" on gsl (64th best single of the 90s you know) and the rapture released their crappy first 12" of bland neo-glam on gravity. (which of course makes the rapture one of the great turnaround stories of the 00s so far.)

also, i feel as guilty for liking some ryan likes in public as he feels guilty for liking andrew wk in secret.

tom, they do sound like more un-pop side of new order, spec. the instrumentals, slightly uh "aquatic", dubbed out cello/violin, no vocals (unless that's changed) except little sampled phrases occasionally. they sound slightly "queasy" (which may be what brock was getting at with his "alienating"), but very pleasant to my ears.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, and i don't think you'll actually hate them, necessarily. they just don't strike me as giving too much of what you usually like to "get" from nu-ppunk/disco based on yr writings/postings. ("danceable" in the most nominal sense, slightly willful/oblique/cryptic, expressly "experimental" but thankfully not in a dry lab-coaty kind of way.)

and don't let the fact that it's on kranky throw you!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Kranky? Ewwwww.

Ryan likes lots of good things.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

tis a joke, see.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm getting some sort of meta-ironic headache trying to sort out all this indie doubletalk. Where's my kazoo?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a bunch of stoners taking a stab at dancey post-punk, and that's basically what it sounds like.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Alternately, you could consider them the dub version of !!!. I'm happy for them, but I find them a bit boring. I haven't heard the new album though.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I heard !!! once. They weren't very good.

Most of the 'groove-based' post-post-punk I've heard so far has too much ego in it eg the Liars, stop fucking howling so much and pay more attn to the bassline you c-farmers.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, !!! suck.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

they're a more "angular" jon spencer blues explosion.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I think they sound like Cake actually, if we're talking about !!!. Which would probably be the one thing you could tell them that would piss them off more than anything, given that Cake is the side of Sacramento bands like !!! and Outhud were presumably set-up to destroy. Outhud has no vocals, right?

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

nope.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they sound like early U2?

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 14 September 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

I don't think !!! would be offended by the Cake comment, considering that their guitarist, Tyler Pope, has played on the last few Cake albums.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i think this album is going to rock. but how the hell do you pronounce 'outhud'?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It's actually two words on the album. Out Hud.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"ow... thud" ["..." = two seconds of silence]

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

i only just heard 'Put It Away, Put It Away, Put It Away Dad.' for first time but it's not on any version of this LP right?

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

i got a promo copy of this for $1 at a record sale...i really like it. i'm kinda behind the times on buzz bands. maybe next year i will get into LCD soundsystem.

― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

Outhud had some absolutely fantastic stuff when they first started out. I think this album was part of that, but I'm not sure. They did some damn fine tributes to post-punk. Maybe I'm talking about the singles that came out before this album.

― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i mean on first listen i see the parallels to stuff like ESG or Liquid Liquid etc, but it definitely doesn't feel like a "tribute" to post punk to me...it's definitely slicker and more modern dance music influenced than that type of stuff, like it seemed like a record that would have been made in the 2000s not a record that would have been made in the early 80s

― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

it was the singles and live gigs from before that album that gave them the "post-punk" tag, as they were murkier and dubbier. By the time of this they were moving away from that. For what it's worth, with them and !!! it was never an intentional "let's sound like..." but they were honestly punk rockers (of the 90s) drawing from disco, funk etc, so if they sounded like Pigbag or Liquid Liquid or Konk or ESG or whatever, well that makes sense.

― dan selzer, Monday, 9 February 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

I was really into Outhud until they started singing. I still pull S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. out occasionally and it holds up for the most part. I could never stand the singing with either Outhud or !!! .

― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 9 February 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

!!! would have been 10x better w/o singing.

this outhud record doesn't have singing. which is probably good.

― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 February 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

Right. The other one, Let Us Never Speak of It Again has a lot of singing. Although, of course, that allmusic review says everything about it is awesome, so your mileage may vary.

― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 9 February 2009 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

the early our hud singles and their side of the split with !!! are great stuff. really ex dubby guitar playing. i never liked this album as much as that stuff.

― mizzell, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

also, i really liked the singles from the second album (it's for you and one life to leave) but never heard the whole record.

― mizzell, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

Second the love for "Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called 'Too Much Information'" and "Put It Away, Put It Away, Put It Away, Dad." Outhud were great, as were (are?) !!!, but my personal fave out of all of them was the Rapture's Pieces of the People We Love, which is just a perfect non-stop dance-rock monster of an album that everyone should own. I miss early-'00s disco-punk.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

I got a $5 copy of let us never speak of it again a few weeks ago, It's excellent, earned a separate thread revive here from me too, actually.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 01:36 (sixteen years ago)

!!! are ace - whatever happened to Out Hud?

― Mahatma Blagojevich (redmond), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:22 (sixteen years ago)

Broke up a year ago or so.

and they were way better than !!!, if you ask me.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

agreed^

― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)

It seems like !!! have aged pretty poorly too (I imagine there's probably a lot of retrospective "oh, disco-rock ca. 2003" shame thats coming to the fore lately), whereas I think Out Hud are good enough to be exempt from that shame, especially when it's much easier to just pin it it all on The Rapture.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)

Molly's got a new solo pop record.

http://www.myspace.com/jeanonjean

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

heard this today for the first time in over a decade and it holds up pretty well. Never connected with the follow-up, but the debut and their side of the split with !!! were definitely my shit at the time

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:42 (seven years ago)

listened to it a month ago for some reason, still sounded great

― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:44 (seven years ago)

yep agreed very good lp

love the early singles as well

― brimstead, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:48 (seven years ago)

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