They remind me of Mountain

This band is hilarious, and I'm laughing with them.

Beautiful Sunrises makes me lose it everytime. I can watch it over and over.

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:They remind me of Mountain

That drummer would fuck up the cowbell on "Mississippi Queen".

I took some time off from this, honestly... (my most recent comment about them was made from memory).

BUT having watched again, and dug around some more on the Internets - I am about pissing myself laughing all over again.

OK, here goes:

http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/2 ... blues.html

(no big deal - someone else has caught on to this and is commenting on their blog... but then this is where I completely lost my shit just now...):

Scott McLemee wrote:UPDATE: If you want to play the bass part to "Hoogie-Boogie Land" but cannot do so by ear, you might want to consult the tab.

"Beautiful Sunrises" is a pretty good litmus test for whether or not you like music for reasons I can get behind. If you don't appreciate "Beautiful Sunrises" as a unique and untempered piece of genuine expression, then you probably like a lot of bullshit music.

If I could spend five minutes of my life as completely into something as the vocalist of Complete is about being the vocalist of Complete, well then I'd think I had reached some sort of life accomplishment pinnacle.

Beatiful Sunrises

I love that "beautiful" is misspelled on the video. Very fitting. I prefer the misspelling.

Glenn W. Turner wrote:

Beatiful Sunrises

I love that "beautiful" is misspelled on the video. Very fitting. I prefer the misspelling.

Remember 'The Beers'? Do you have those demos? Can you post them? I think they run on a parallel track, albeit with a little less conviction...

This music is totally horrible. I can appreciate that they are genuine about what they do, but that doesn't really change the fact that what they do is repeat the same two power chords over and over again behind a lame mock-drum roll.

To compare it to DNA or the Boredoms or Teenage Jesus or Flipper or the Shaggs or early Royal Trux makes sense, because those bands also made garbage music. But to liken it in any way to early Beefheart or U.S. Maple just blows the mind clear out of the water. Listen to those groups' early albums: every chord has been winnowed with precision, every seemingly-disjointed series of notes eventually makes perfect sense once you wrap your head around it. Those guys were serious, inventive musicians who just happened to play music that initially seems like chaotic, unschooled garbage.

The only music I've ever heard that's worse than this stuff is Eric Gaffney's material on Sebadoh's early albums. Man, that stuff was godawful.

NerblyBear wrote:To compare it to Teenage Jesus or the Shaggs or early Royal Trux makes sense, because those bands also made garbage music.

FYP.

Don't call DNA or Flipper garbage. They are the antithesis of crap.

rayj wrote:

Glenn W. Turner wrote:

Beatiful Sunrises

I love that "beautiful" is misspelled on the video. Very fitting. I prefer the misspelling.

Remember 'The Beers'? Do you have those demos? Can you post them? I think they run on a parallel track, albeit with a little less conviction...

Unfortunately, no. Hess may be the man to ask.