MELVINS - Tora Tora Tora (4 x 7-inch bootleg, 1995)
Not a whole lotta need to scribe a damn thing about these gents. Yer either thee type that'd eagerly consume a tape of King Buzzo, Dale Crover and their bassist of the week wrestling with thee beer shits (Coming Soon! With Mike Patton as 'guest' flatulence) or you'd have a smirk on yer mug for a week if their tour bus fell off the face of a 200 ft. cliff (hopefully with Mr. Patton on board). Depending on the day, I fall into both camps. However, if you fall into the former, here's a decent, if not spectacular-sounding boot from their "Stoner Witch" Tour. If I had a scanner that wasn't a complete piece of trash I woulda included deluxe pix of thee exquisite packaging-- a hardcover book fastened together with actual bolts which opens up to reveal sleeves for each 7-incher... but the truth is, I don't. So who cares?
Tracks:
revolve / skweetis / with teeth / night goat / specimen / concert warning / kisw interview / hooch / queen / johnny reno / gunfighter / oven / goose freight train / goggles / sweet willy roll bar / radio interview / road bull
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UPSIDEDOWN CROSS - S/T (1991)
I've oft-heard this band described as "Flipper's Retarded Younger Brother," and certainly even after the most cursory exposure to the mongoloid whose had his Tonka Truck stolen yelp of Larry Lifeless, the comparison has some merit... but there's something far more depraved at work here. Not that it comes as any surprise when you consider this combo's pedigree: three-quarters of Boston, Massachusetts debauched purveyors of slothful noise-punk, Kilslug (the aforementioned Lifeless, bassist Cheez and guitarist Rico Petroleum). Sitting in on skins was, from thee "Holy Fuck! I can't believe I enjoy an album with HIM on it" file, J. Mascis.
This is disgusting, filthy, down-tuned decadence. Since we brainless humans like to deal in primitive concepts like "good" and "evil," I'll bite and call it perhaps the most "evil" recording I've ever heard. There ain't a corpse-painted creep with 666 odes to Lord Gobbledygook to his credit that can touch thee confrontational slime that'll ooze from yer speakers when the disease known as Upsidedown Cross launch into one of their Hymns of Heinousness. Imagine a lobotomized Tony Iommi with a seriously unhealthy fetish for his wah pedal and yer still coming up short in getting a handle on the kinda fuzz-scuzz on display here. Couple that with Larry Lifeless' testimonials like "Jesus was dumb," and "a phony" which I admit sounds pretty stoopid typed out here, but spat from his noxious piehole takes on a (much) higher level of blasphemy.
Fuck it-- here's a crudely disturbing video for "Mass in Blood." Don't say you weren't warned.
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hell yeah!!upsidedowncross are absolutely amazing and Larry Lifeless's voice is disgusting ,in the best possible way of course.their second album "evilution" is good too but not as evil,dirty sounding and therefore great as this.
ReplyDeleteI always swing back and forth between "childish" and "frighteningly disturbed" when I think about Upsidedown Cross. or Kilslug for that matter. when I first heard this so many years ago, I couldn't help thinking it was a piss-take on metal by some hardcore/indie dudes in "disguise" - an impression that wasn't helped by the fact that my copy was on Taang! recs... I should move this album into my "getting rid of unwanted houseguests" folder on my HD, heheh
ReplyDeletea small question:i can't seem to be able to download anything from 4shared.i press the download button but nothing happens.am i doing something wrong or am i missing out on something?please help.
ReplyDeleteThe Stoner Witch tour was a great one at that, only my second concert EVER in life that I went to... and the Melvins really made going to shows irreversible for me, to this VERY day!!. Although much to some stipulation... "Houdini" and "Bullhead" were my personal favorites... outside of rockers....trends setters and believers they were!
ReplyDeleteHey guys. Sorry I've taken so long to get back to y'all, but between working like a dog and feeling as sick as one, I haven't checked in 'til now. Anyway:
ReplyDeletechrisc: Sometimes it goes wonky if they've got too many people dl'ing... at least that's what I think it is. I tried a few just now, and they seem to work fine. Is it any file in particular? It may have become corrupt.
Mogo: I thought Lifeless & Co. were bullshit artists at first too, until I immersed myself in their work for a while. Then I started hearing all the bizarre tales of their depravity and such, and the rest is history.
Sandy: They do crush live. I've seen 'em countless times and it's never the same show twice. Particularly if they decide they hate the audience and start playing goofy cover songs or doing 35 minutes of nothing but feedback.
Ha ha! You ripped on J. Mascis!
ReplyDeleteI have always felt the same way about him as well.
I do dig the Kilslug stuff alot though, I just try not to think about him is all...
Like shooting fish in a barrel, man. How hard is it to slag a douche that revels in his "I'm so slothful and pathetic" persona, hangs out with even BIGGER douches like Sonic Youth and plays music that sounds like Neil Young without 1/10,000th of the songwriting ability (I have no desire to hear this stoner thing he's doing now)? In all honesty, I never particularly cared much for Deep Wound either-- I mean, if you've got "Condensed Flesh" in yer collection, who the fuck needs 'em?
ReplyDeleteJake,thanks for the advice.unfortunately it's not about one file and i've already tried twice.anyway,it's about time i stop complaining.keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI seen Kilslug quite a few times and even helped put on a show in NH w/ them headlining over Dinosaur Jr and they were/are the farthest thing from HC/indie dudes taking the piss out of anything...a buddy of mine (who actually ended up playing keyboards w/ UDC for awhile) was hanging outside some club in western mass where they were opening for Flipper and Kilslug pulled up in an old station wagon and asked all the hardcore kids (this is like 82, 83...the height of the DYS/SSD NE scene) "where the hookers at in this town" and then, after getting directions to the shitiest part of town I assume, took off. For whatever reason (I fill in the blanks w/ really dark and not nice stuff) they weren't able to make it back to the club on time and ended up headlining...playing to the 10 people who sat all the way through Flipper. Trace their music back through the Groinoids and the Sickness..they were sick people making sick music for sick people in a scene of healthy jocks frome the get go. Thanks for that Melvins shit as well btw.
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