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Go to school and get stabbed in the lavatory

verlainek@gmail.com — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:33:26 GMT

My Bloody Valentine sung pretty pop songs about sex underneath walls of fx-pedal haze and shrieking feedback. This is one of their darker sounding songs and the opening track off their album Isn't Anything. For a lot of people that album is synonomous with being crushed out on someone and these tracks are still showing up on crush mixtapes. Having said that I doubt this one got placed on shy teenagers cassettes often because it sounds really psychotic and evokes blood being spilled by the scalpel thing feedback onto fresh snow.

My Bloody Valentine - Soft As Snow (but warm inside)

There comes a time in every child’s life where it seems the air presses down on their lungs with a extra weight, making them act 'not right'. This, for me, occurred in year 9 when I decided that it was destiny that I burn down my school. Anyway, this track from our myspace fwends Die! Die! Die! (<3 for life) captures perfectly the betrayals, violence and heartbreaks of that period in everyone’s life. These guys were produced by Steve Albini and their music has echoes of his former band big black, as well as references to joy division, minor threat and john lennon.

Die! Die! Die! - Year Nine Yeah!

Sunn O))) is a man living in the middle of nowhere contracting colon cancer and the cancer slowly engulfing his body while he lays paralysed on his wheat bed, faeces running down his loincloth and his stomach bloating. A duo of guys who got teased at school making hideous black metal drones that are said to cause people to have involuntary bowel movements. Take that jocks + jerks. I wanted to post a track called My Wall from their White 1 album but couldn’t find a link, so I put this track from Black 1 up...not too sure how it sounds, but I am sure you will enjoy it (especially if you are into drinking cough syrup..)

Sunn O))) - It Took the Night to Believe

Bones

verlainek@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:46:35 GMT

Equal parts paganism, glen brancaism and doom: the ex-rhythm section from the liars and some other guy with an innocent voice form to creep us all out...and it all kinda sounds like trench era liars (but with all of the sounds and textures and heavy vibes from drowned era liars). Watch out for the minimal Blixa Bargeld guitar part bursting into a howling wolf head in the chorus and the brilliant/dire/brilliant lyrics. I recommend wearing a headdress, getting naked and dancing around a fire with some friends while playing this. Anyways, enough from me..i just really dig this.

No Things - Coward

): O (|) <--Mile Davis was an old black man who once met the stooges, smoked lots of crack and tootled on a trumpet. Oh, he also made the most mindfucked music ever (because it was real , Maaaan). This 1974 track is the sound of a man turning his back on jazz to face the boiling vats of children and bat creatures he often saw in his mind. Note that throughout this track Miles was pretty much just standing in the middle of the stage death staring his band and occasionally assaulting a keyboard, which is rad. I guess liking this means i like jazz. At the school i went to as a kid the music room had a giant sparkling sign above the door that read "JAZZ" and my music teacher informed us that he didn't like "black" rap but he liked eminem because he "is a true poet". Next time i see that music teacher i am going to cease headbanging, turn down the cannibal corpse cassette, jump out of my black van and beat him while waving my permed hair around.

Miles Davis - Moja Pt.1

If you are not into Big Black, then you are mos def missing out. Steve Albini and his crew (including Roland, the drum machine) made acidic guitar noize that would make Odin cry. To get his particular guitar tone it is rumored Albini fashioned his guitar picks out of sheet metal. The lyrical content of their songs was often ironic (?) and inflammatory sexual politics and homophobia and you could never be sure if they were a product of Albini's desire to "piss off hipsters" or were his views (he is said to be a massive asshole). But ultimately what made Big Black such a great band was the fact that they were really catchy and in the center of all of the feedback and misanthropy were genius song structures. This song begins with a primal drummachine beat worthy of instant losing your mind and dancing like a dork-ness and then moves into a thumpy distorted bass line and some guitar that could strip the flesh off your arms. What a useless set of legs indeed.

Big Black - I'm a mess

Slashed wrists and doo-wop

verlainek@gmail.com — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:22:34 GMT

overdose on drano and get hit by your parents car outside the club. they are disgusted by the state of your eye makeup

test-icicles - circle square triangle (chrome hoof remix)

on the highway, abducted by leatherjacket pagans in a chaingang and sacrificed to the night.

psychic ills - i knew my name

somones being raped up there!

towering breaker - #2

R.I.P

<3James Brown