The Evolution of Trash
If I had known what my afternoon had in store for me at Mill Run yesterday, I probably would have stayed home and watched hockey. I headed up to the highland without having swung a club in eight months and without a tee time hoping to squeeze in with some other group. So I ended up with three guys my age who hailed from Keswick. And who were stoned. And who were drunk. And who had brought their own beer (Carling, of course). And who were driving carts. And who crashed their cart into a tree going down the hill from the ninth hole to the tenth teeoff. They completely destroyed the top of the cart as it was abused by limb after limb. After "playing" two more holes, they left after 12 and I'm pretty sure that Mill Run won't ever see a dime in repairs from them. Idiots. Ended up 39-34-73 with a birdie too.
The hamsters are doing well, and by well I mean they haven't killed each other yet, from being confined in one cage. I haven't decided on names yet though I'm kind of hoping that all three are female so I can call them Amy, Leslie and Emily not Lisa though because Lisa kind of sucks. So I definitely need to find out the sex of these beasts so they don't start the "sex" and the eating of the "babies". Hyper little bastards, they are.
Something I'm going to try doing here for a bit is taking a look back to the bands that SPIN magazine said we should keep an eye out for. Each issue had one A-list up and comer, one or two B-list ones and three or four C-list ones. So let's start with the first issue of SPIN that I own with this feature:
January 2000; Cover: Trent Reznor
A:
Tommy Lee (Methods of Mayhem)
"Actually Methods of Mayhem's album isn't half-bad. Sure, it's got the now-predictable heavy guitar riffage and supermacho vocal attack long ago patented by Rage Against The Machine and others. ... Most of all, Lee's got an unhesitating passion for body-moving, pleasure-seeking beats that's rare in most rap-metal."
Ugh, this is not a promising start. Who can forget 'Get Naked'? That song sure rocked the pants off me and countless other sixteen year-olds. Right? That's what happened wasn't it?
B:
Shivaree
A band from the L.A. area was a sound described as "Southern Gothic sound effects with trailer-trash-heroine like lyrics" release their debut album in 1999.
Never heard of them. Though they still seem to be around and have released two more albums, most recently in 2005. You've probably heard one of their songs and didn't even realize it. Their song Goodnight Moon was played over the closing credits of Kill Bill: Volume 2.
Nebula
"A raw, psychedelic hard-rock album full of fuzzed out guitars that often recalls Mudhoney and vintage Blue Cheer."
So this sounds like stoner rock to me. It looks like they got dropped by Subpop after their second album. Who gets dropped by Subpop in the early part of aughts? Prior to this revitalization they weren't exactly the most thriving label. They're still around releasing an album in 2006.
C:
Space Raiders
"The British Trio deliver a mix of deep-house disco-funk and '70s synth beats"
Too late to cash in on the electronica rage of 1997, they had moderate success in the U.K. but couldn't make it across the Atlantic since if it wasn't nu-metal it wasn't getting played. Do Electronica produders who get together to make an album disband after they're done? Nothing since 2000.
8Stops7
"8Stops7 sand down Pearl Jam-like brawny rhythms, riffs and persecutions while singer Evan Sula-Goff tries to build a better Vedder on vocals."
Wow, a band emulating Pearl Jam in 1999 or 2000. They were a dime a dozen, my friend and you got what you paid for. It seems like they only had this one album and broke up or disappeared. Oh well.
The Butchies
"The lesbian punk equivalent of the Backstreet Boys."
God, what does that even mean? Do they have lesbian punk dance sequences? Last album in 2004.
Lil Wayne
"A hardcore reality rapper who doesn't curse, Lil Wayne brings old-fashioned Southern flava to his rapid-fire rhymes."
Finally, someone with some success. Or at least a name I've heard in this millennium. Probably, best know for his nickname "Lil Weezy". He is now the president of the Cash Money Records label and Young Money Entertainment. Weezy is still releasing albums, most recently in 2005 which has sold just less than 900,000 copies.
The hamsters are doing well, and by well I mean they haven't killed each other yet, from being confined in one cage. I haven't decided on names yet though I'm kind of hoping that all three are female so I can call them Amy, Leslie and Emily not Lisa though because Lisa kind of sucks. So I definitely need to find out the sex of these beasts so they don't start the "sex" and the eating of the "babies". Hyper little bastards, they are.
Something I'm going to try doing here for a bit is taking a look back to the bands that SPIN magazine said we should keep an eye out for. Each issue had one A-list up and comer, one or two B-list ones and three or four C-list ones. So let's start with the first issue of SPIN that I own with this feature:
January 2000; Cover: Trent Reznor
A:
Tommy Lee (Methods of Mayhem)
"Actually Methods of Mayhem's album isn't half-bad. Sure, it's got the now-predictable heavy guitar riffage and supermacho vocal attack long ago patented by Rage Against The Machine and others. ... Most of all, Lee's got an unhesitating passion for body-moving, pleasure-seeking beats that's rare in most rap-metal."
Ugh, this is not a promising start. Who can forget 'Get Naked'? That song sure rocked the pants off me and countless other sixteen year-olds. Right? That's what happened wasn't it?
B:
Shivaree
A band from the L.A. area was a sound described as "Southern Gothic sound effects with trailer-trash-heroine like lyrics" release their debut album in 1999.
Never heard of them. Though they still seem to be around and have released two more albums, most recently in 2005. You've probably heard one of their songs and didn't even realize it. Their song Goodnight Moon was played over the closing credits of Kill Bill: Volume 2.
Nebula
"A raw, psychedelic hard-rock album full of fuzzed out guitars that often recalls Mudhoney and vintage Blue Cheer."
So this sounds like stoner rock to me. It looks like they got dropped by Subpop after their second album. Who gets dropped by Subpop in the early part of aughts? Prior to this revitalization they weren't exactly the most thriving label. They're still around releasing an album in 2006.
C:
Space Raiders
"The British Trio deliver a mix of deep-house disco-funk and '70s synth beats"
Too late to cash in on the electronica rage of 1997, they had moderate success in the U.K. but couldn't make it across the Atlantic since if it wasn't nu-metal it wasn't getting played. Do Electronica produders who get together to make an album disband after they're done? Nothing since 2000.
8Stops7
"8Stops7 sand down Pearl Jam-like brawny rhythms, riffs and persecutions while singer Evan Sula-Goff tries to build a better Vedder on vocals."
Wow, a band emulating Pearl Jam in 1999 or 2000. They were a dime a dozen, my friend and you got what you paid for. It seems like they only had this one album and broke up or disappeared. Oh well.
The Butchies
"The lesbian punk equivalent of the Backstreet Boys."
God, what does that even mean? Do they have lesbian punk dance sequences? Last album in 2004.
Lil Wayne
"A hardcore reality rapper who doesn't curse, Lil Wayne brings old-fashioned Southern flava to his rapid-fire rhymes."
Finally, someone with some success. Or at least a name I've heard in this millennium. Probably, best know for his nickname "Lil Weezy". He is now the president of the Cash Money Records label and Young Money Entertainment. Weezy is still releasing albums, most recently in 2005 which has sold just less than 900,000 copies.
You know what? Just name them Joe, Dana, and Ashley, and you'll be good whatever they are.
Did you take a picture of the super scrabble board?
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Albert |
10:09 AM