Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    
    re. GTI
    
    Buy It!!! Butthole Surfers rule!!!! I haven't gotten it yet myself but
    plan on doing so SOON!

    Wot a bloody awful band.
    
    I`ve got Hairway to Steven and Lotust Abortion Technician,and whilst
    it may be clever to some,to your average geezer who likes a good tune
    it`s utter crud.
    
    so there.
    

    Hey,Let's not Dis_Courage,Shawn on this Band.
    I Mean...Look at his P_Name!!!    DoOoOOooOOo0
    
    
    Crazy_I_Never_Gave_BHS's_A_Chance_Al         

> I heard "Who Was In My Room' on the radio last week, I think,
> and saw the video Saturday night ... crankin'!!  I had thought
> it was Aerosmith [sounds like "Toys in the Attic" stuff, IMO].

I just heard this song this morning - it sounds *exactly* like old Toni Iommi 
on guitar! The sound, the playing style, the leads, everything! It was a
pretty cool song, not awesome, but pretty good.....

alan

    Wicked Awesome TUNE!

    They have several albums out & I have foggy recollections of liking
    whatever cuts got played on the radio over the years. I don't own any
    of them, but based on what I've heard, they're all pretty solid. The
    newer ones are probably better produced.
    
    Ya, I get the Black Sabbath (or early Zeppelin) connection too, not so 
    much Aerosmith though.
    
    Paul

    
    I'm with GTI - I'm gonna get this just for that one song! (wouldn't be
    the first $12 single I purchased, d'oh).
    
    I see the Iommi guitar, can't really say it sounds like old 'Smith to
    me, but I like the fuzzed out voice - it's the same type used on 
    the Four Horesemen's "Moonshine" (another totally cranking tune).
    
    - Sean

    there's a really fuzzed up voice on jesus built my hotrod by the
    Ministry!Another excellant tune!
    
                                               ian

>    there's a really fuzzed up voice on jesus built my hotrod by the
>    Ministry!Another excellant tune!
    

	Aren't the larger % of Gibby's vocals thru a megaphone.  Last
	time I saw them that's all he did.  Scream thru a megaphone into
	the microphone.

	/Cap'n Quad

    no idea,I haven't seen 'em live.
    
                                                ian

>    there's a really fuzzed up voice on jesus built my hotrod by the
>    Ministry!Another excellant tune!
    

	ian,

	JBMHR is vox.  The megaphone could have been for that show,
	I don't know.  SWIMRLN sounds like a vox.   If you get JBMHR
	anyone, get the single, the LP has the pusillanimous version.

	/Cap'n Quad

>	Aren't the larger % of Gibby's vocals thru a megaphone.  Last
>	time I saw them that's all he did.  Scream thru a megaphone into
>	the microphone.

    Is that how he gets that distortion?  I wondered what kind of
    distortion processor he used.  It was obviously heavily EQed.
    
    gh

    
    	After listening to it some more, the only thing that sounds
    	like Aerosmith is that the vocals sort of sound like Steven
    	Tyler, which is who I thought it was when I first heard the
    	song.
    
    	I was with a friend when I bought the CD, and popped it into
    	the player on the way home, and when "Who Was in My Room"
    	started he said "This sounds like sh*t!!" ... so I had to
    	tell him it was supposed to sound like that, and then he
    	thought it sounded pretty good.  8^)
    
    							GTI
    

    
    
    OK.  I did go out and buy this.  And far from my worries (joke band)
    and expectations ($12 single), this CD is coming close to vying for
    my favorite album of the year.  These guys may not have the production
    of U2 ('though I notice John Paul Jones of Led Zep produces), but this is
    definitely a crankin' album.
    
    "dust devil" is a non-stop jam.
    
    - Sean

    I was just looking around to see if I can find some info on naurosis
    and bumped this topic
    I think I may be of some assistance to you:
    
    I.W.S (the last lp) is the closest thing the B.S ever got to heavy
    metal,if you liked them enough to go try some of their earlier stuff
    I belive I have the whole stock:
    
    1983 - brown reason to live-alias "pipi the sailor" - very rough noisy
    music which reminds the early bands of the eighties (not available on
    c.d)
    
    1984 - live pcppep - live performence (n.a.o.c.d)
    
    1985 - caso raro - a very rare bootleg which holds unreleased material
    & new virsion to older songs (n.a.o.c.d)
    
    1985 - blind eye sees all - a video release of live performence at the
    chicago traxx + very sick interview with the band (especially gibby
    haines)
    
    1986 - psychic...powerless...another mans sac - three singles - not very
    metalish
    
    1986 - rembrandt pussyhorse/cream corn from the socket of david - this
    lp is mostly based on samplers and electronic music (I hate electronic
    music but this as usual is great)
    
    1988 - locust abortion technitian - an absulutly amazing
    album,definitely their best piece
    
    1988 - widowermaker ep! - another exelent piece, the 4th track H.M
    lovers would like (called "booze,tobbaco,dope,pussies,cars")
    
    ? - hairway to steven - kind of a melodic lp, much softer than their
    other stuff
    
    1990 - double live cd - the only thing they ever done that I dont own 
    if there's anyone out there who knows where I can find it please inform
    
    1991 - pioughd - this is becoming closer to what you're probably
    looking for
    
    1993 - indipendent worm saloon - you'll probably like & it seems you
    already have it (atleast some of you)
    
      B U T T H O L E   S U R F E R S    R U L E ! ! !
    
    AMIT ISRAEL
    

    Yeah, the Surfers used to be a cool punk band, but now they sound like
    metal.  Bummer, I liked their old sound better.
    
    gh

    
    
       I have only heard one Surfers song.  It was some thing like, 
    Wow wow enyawelallsoI mastadumadfsal, Who the hell was in my bed
    eyowwww! It was on Beavis and Butt-head. It sounded pretty cool.
    
    
    
     
                                                *B*

    they did a cover version of "if you want my body" about a year ago and
    it got played a it on UK radio...it was ok!
    
    
    
    						ian

    re: .17
    
    Yeah, that's the "hit" from their most recent album.
    
    gh

> Wow wow enyawelallsoI mastadumadfsal, Who the hell was in my bed
>  eyowwww! It was on Beavis and Butt-head. It sounded pretty cool.
   
	Sounds like you got  Jesus Built My Hotrod mixed up in here
     somewwhere...
	
     /Cap'n Quad 	 

    
    I like the new sound!!  Independent Worm Saloon totally roolz!  
    
    - Sean
    
    P.S. My wife just finished Parasitology at Vet school and could name
         for me all the worms on the CD cover.
    

    re .18:
    >they did a cover virsion of "if you want my body" about a year ago and     
    >it got played a it on UK radio...it was ok!
    
    it is truly an ok song but they didnt do it...
    the song was covered by the revolting cocks (al jourgenson & paul
    barker from ministry + some other guys [like chriss connely])
    the lp it came from - linger ficking good - is regarded as a
    disappointment.
    
    I have a little technical problem and thought you might help:
    I'd like to know how exactly can you people see the latest replies and
    topics from a certain date
    I know the since command but it shows me only the new topics while i'd
    like to be aware of new replies to old topics...
    
    hope you may be of assistance...
    
    amit

    
    	New album [of old material] out:
    
    	"The Hole Truth, and Nothing Butt"
    
    	Live tracks and demo versions of some of their stuff.
    

    
    #$%@^&!
    
    I hate contractual obligation CD's like that.
    
    I want something new.

    
    	I picked up "Psychic, Powerless ..." the other night out of a
    	bargain bin ... these guys are very strange.  Vox vocals are
    	OK in small doses, but not when used to extreme.
    
    	I definitely don't like it as much as IWS, that's for sure.
    
    	I also picked up "Hurdy Gurdy Man", but haven't listened to
    	it yet.
    

    
    New CD coming out soon - something like ElectricLarryLand.
    
    - Sean
    

    
    Picked up ElectricLarryLand the other day...  
    
    Not too bad -- a few of your basic BHS punk-rockers like "Birds,"
    "Ulcer Breakout," and "LA," the requisite bizarro numbers like
    "Let's Talk About Cars," and "Thermador," and the delightfully
    out-of-place ballads like "Jingle Of a Dog's Collar" and "TV Star."
    
    "Pepper" is an interesting piece, although a bit derivative - take
    one part Jim Carrol's "People Who Died" and two parts Beck's "Loser" 
    and you got this.
    
    A good one for fans, not the one to start on for newcomers.
    
    - Sean

    So does 'AAF play that song "Pepper" at all? The radio stations out
    here are playing the heck out of it. I'm not sure if I like it or not,
    but I do think it's weird.
    -ss

    
    	Yes, I believe WAAF and WHJY are playing it.
    
    	I don't listen to the radio too much so I can't say how often
    	that play it.
    

    Sounds too much like Beck.

	Whe sounds too much like Gibby....

    re .29
    
    Funny, I thought that too.

    
    Mostly the alternative stations are playing this one, although 'AAF is
    spinning it.  This is turning into the song that makes me hate the
    Surfers.  :^(  Enough already.
    
    Gibby was funny talking about the obvious rip-off this song is.  He was
    recalling how one critic said it sounded like Beck, Jim Carroll's 
    "People Who Died" and the Nails "88 Lines about 44 Women."  I guess some 
    reporter than did a critique of the CD and complained that the song
    covered Beck, Carroll and the "Nine-Inch Nails."  Gibby got a good laugh 
    out of a reporter plaigarizing a review, and incorrectly to boot, that 
    criticizes him for plaigarizing.  :^)  Then again, maybe it doesn't take 
    much to make Gibby laugh.
    
    Obviously I agree with the critisim, though, as I stated the same
    thing (except the Nails part) in my first review a few notes back (but
    I came up with it my own, honest).
    
    - Sean

    
    	See, I told you it sounded like The Nails.
    
    	8^)
    

    I heard Beck!

    Me too.