Greatest Hits

I was curious to see what was the most downloaded file here after going "strong" for a few years so here's a top ten list

10)Down By Law - Punkrockacademyfightsong
9) Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
8) Tilt - Play Cell
7) Articles of Faith - Core
6) Arcane - Destination Unknown
5) Leatherface - BBC Sessions
4) Number Girl - Sappukei
3) Dead Milkmen - Soul Rotation
2) Boss Hogg - Boss Hogg
1) Cows-Sorry In Pig Minor

The top two don't surprise me at all however there are a few eyebrow raisers there for me. The fact that a progressive speed metal band rated highly is weird to me and that Number Girl is so popular is puzzling to me as much like the Pixies who they're often compared but I find both mostly irritating rather than interesting. The Down by Law album was expected to rate higher.

SLC Punk

If you've seen the movie SLC Punk, you'll know the mix of Mormons and punk rock ain't a good one and that the movie should have never been made. This album by Mohawked SLC punkers, Endless Struggle is very much of the same ilk. It's difficult to listen to the whole thing. I make it to about the fourth song before completely losing attention. I'd be interested to hear far you get so there's no denying that I am begging for comments from those with shorter and longer attention spans.

Can you make it til the end?.

File Under Better Late Than Never

A reader asked for more Chemical People quite some time ago....Possibly well over a year but up until recently I'd only been able to find albums that had already been posted here. So if that reader still checks in here (which is unlikely as number and regularity of posts have been cuts mainly due to time constraints) and blogger have made finding drafts unneccessarily difficult.





Badaboom

D.O.A Bar Bodega Wellington March 5 2011

Decided pretty much at the last minute that seeing Canada's D.O.A was a worthwhile investment. On the other side of town a bunch of NZ bands were playing at the homegrown festival, the only name that caught my eye were Die! Die! Die! and The Clean and it was about four times the price of the touring international band.


Arrived towards the end of Rogernomics set, who I walked out on due largely to not being in the mood for shouty type hardcore. Getting money from an ATM for potentially buying merchandise seemed like a better idea than standing around and watching a band I wasn't into.



Above: The Dead Scene

Next up were three piece band The Dead Scene. I dug these guys who seemed to make good use of two vocalists.

The drummer in Black Lick didn't need to alter his kit between The Dead Scene and Black Lick's set because he drums for both band. Black Lick opened with a song called horoscopes and due to fellow blogger, Brushback's commment that some of their early material was reminiscent of the Hard-Ons I couldn't help thinking the comparison was bang on for that particular song. Most people moved forward for these guys who later in the set threw out copies of their latest single. Didn't manage to get a copy.



Above: Black Lick


D.0.A. are basically Joey and two guys young enough to be his grandkids. I don't recall ever actually hearing a full D.O.A but much like The Vibrators. It turned out I knew a number of songs and Joey's stage presence mimicked those of Hendrix (playing the guitar with the teeth) and The Who period Pete Townshend(windmilling). The mixture of older and newer material worked well. An encore was played which included a version of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.

Steel Wings

Back to post while between earthquakes. A while back I was asked to post some NZ metal so here is some from an 80's band called Stonehenge with a rare beast entitled Wings of Steel. Stonehenge.

I was never a fan of Wellington metallers Backyard Burial but this story is a horrific happening.

TMGE - Singles (Taiwan release)

A reader(TDWN) requested a reup so here he goes

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant were a rawkus garage rock band from Japan. Some internet sites would make you believe they were the biggest rock in Japan. Well, I don't know about that however there are definitely huge crowds in the live clips on the "Film Stars Not Dead" DVD I picked up.


I found this singles collection in the Japanese owned Sogo department store in Taichung, Taiwan and bought it based on a recommendation and was rewarded. I've lost the cover so the above picture is the back cover. I've looked around the internet for more information on this release but couldn't find any. It appears it may have been a Taiwan only release.

Here

RIP Gary Moore

Damn!