Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Lord Agz! Punk As Fuck 77 not 666: GG Allin - Tonnes Of Stuff, Nearly full discograph...
Lord Agz! Punk As Fuck 77 not 666: GG Allin - Tonnes Of Stuff, Nearly full discograph...: "GG 'fuckin' ALLIN THE ULTIMATE ROCK STAR fuck your Elvis, fuck Iggy, fuck Jagger, fuck the pistols, fuck everyone..............."
Monday, October 18, 2010
Beer Beer
What do Emilio Estevez and Shane MacGowen have in common? Not a whole lot, except that both are awesome and both had a brief affiliation with indie movie director extraordinaire Alex Cox in the 1980's. You may remember a little movie he directed called Repo Man which featured Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton hunting alien sausages, spilling beer, doing lines of speed, and getting chased by vatos locos in an LA canal ditch. It is the best movie of 1984 and quite possibly of all time. The sound track for Repo Man is legendary and has on it some of the best punk rock ever recorded. Suicidal Tendancies' "Institutionalized" alone makes this album a keeper, but you also get some Fear, Black Flag and the Circle Jerks (bass player Zander Schloss even makes a cameo in the film as main character Otto's bespectacled best buddy) . Iggy Pop recorded the title track and it is one of his better solo songs in my opinion. A sequel for Repo Man called Waldo's Hawaiin Holiday was written by Cox but never turned into a movie, however a graphic novel adaptation of the script was created and released by Gesalt Publishing in 1997 and looks pretty awesome. You can check it out here . A year after Repo Man, Alex Cox was commissioned to shoot a video for Celtic folk punkers The Pogues and their song Pair of Brown Eyes, easily the best song off of their album Rum Sodomy and the Lash. The video is a dystopian vision of gouged out eye balls and dancing New World Order police men and is a total hoot. I love that Cox was able to work scenes of the
Pogues performing amongst all of the Orwellian creepiness. Alas, Shane MacGowen was not the only punk rock legend Cox would collaborate with. He and the late, great Joe Strummer would also hook up to work on a couple of films: Straight to Hell and Walker , neither of which achieved the cult hit mega status of Repo Man, which in turn never achieved the critical acclaim of Cox's other masterpiece, the heart warming date movie Sid and Nancy.
Labels:
Beer,
Movies,
Punk,
Repo Man,
Shane MacGowen,
The Pogues
Sunday, October 17, 2010
More Hot Sauce!!
Hopefully you have some taste buds left after digesting that spicy goodness I heaped on you last time. If you do, then you are in for some what of a treat. Metal tacos!! Well, joke metal tacos actually, as served up by this somewhat obscure thrash metal band, Extra Hot Sauce. These east coast goof balls smoked a lot of dope and wrote some pretty stupid songs in the eighties, but were actually kind of relevant for including S.O.D and Anthrax drummer Danny Lilker. It's as sloppy as a gooey plate of cheese enchiladas, but if you get past some of the dumber songs on here, there are a few nuggets of worth to enjoy. This album is not the most savory by any means, but make sure you check out the Skynyrd cover at the end, it's a mild classic.1.taco of death
2.aids
3.hairpie
4.paranoid
5.tony's dilemma
6.clueless fucks
7.i need a job
8.caucasian beat
9.extreme hatered
10.communication breakdown
11.hommina hommina hommina
12.lookout for the cheeba man
13.passive terrorism
14.freebird
tacos
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Numero Uno
Everyone is familiar with DC hardcore pioneers Minor Threat and my favorite holier than thou front man Ian MacKaye, but are they familiar with Minor Threat THE HOT SAUCE? Apparently a pickle company from Brooklyn decided to name one of their recipes after one of the most influential and important punk rock bands of all time because the hot sauce has a mild flavor. MILD FLAVOR??? What the fuck??? I guess these food inventor people, Wheel House Pickles, sent Ian MacKaye a bottle to try and this is what he had to say: “I don't have an occasion to eat a lot of hot sauce, but I thought the Minor Threat stuff was nice.” I guess Ian isn't into spicy food and he certainly isn't into companies of any kind using the likenesses of former projects to make a buck. He had won a legal battle with Nike earlier over the use of Minor Threat graphics without his permission and wasn't too thrilled about the graphic that Wheel House was planning to use. The bottle that the sauce entrepeneurs sent him to sample had the image above on the label but Ian wasn't down with that so they were forced to change the label to something far less awesome. You can read the entire article here and even order the darn stuff here if you like. I probobly won't because I like it hot. Anyway, I thought I might kick this blog off with a little Minor Threat. Here is one of the spiciest albums of all time. Nine minutes and twenty seconds of punk rock bliss. Enjoy it with chips.
Minor Threat EP
"Filler" – 1:31
"I Don't Wanna Hear It" – 1:13
"Seeing Red" – 1:02
"Straight Edge" – 0:46
"Small Man, Big Mouth" – 0:55
"Screaming at a Wall" – 1:31
"Bottled Violence" – 0:55
"Minor Threat" – 1:27
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