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offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 08:32 [#01515799]
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damn, this guys are awesome..and their discography is
huge!!
basically rock oriented stuff, but with every possible sound
imaginable..sounds like improvisation type of music..i
thought it was sort of weird compilation thingy at first
since the songs are so various..fantastic stuff!

official site


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 08:35 [#01515807]
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mp3s, samples


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-02-28 08:35 [#01515808]
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definitely interesting dudes... i'm still sort of getting
into their stuff... have a bunch of albums on the computer,
but i haven't quite connected with any of them yet... but
yeah, they have a weird series called Carnival Folklore
Ressurection, which is truly strange... perhaps that's where
your album is from? check out 98.6 is death if you
haven't... it's messed... i have lots of their stuff in my
shared, if you're interested... oh yeah, plus Sublime
Frequencies is their undertaking, and it's super
interesting...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 08:44 [#01515812]
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haha, thanks, but i think i have pretty much all of them,
sublime frequencies and sun city girls..it's been pretty
much all i've been listening to lately. that 98,6 has some
fantasitc stuff on it!! weird you find hard to get into, i
thought it'd be right up your alley.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-28 08:45 [#01515815]
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i've heard of this band many times, but i haven't heard
their music before... i listened to the "web exclusives"
mp3's and i don't like those much at all.

i tried to play the .ra files but they aren't working for me
at the moment. what do you recommend listening to on this
page?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 09:03 [#01515825]
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their discography is huge, but i'd say those web exclusives can
give you a pretty good idea of their general sound..

3 more songs here

more info about their releases

here's a big essay about them

more samples (that 'unplayable' song is fantasitc btw,
gets totally wicked towards the end..)


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-28 09:14 [#01515834]
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wow thanks for all the links! yeah, the stuff on boomkat
and the .ram page sounds better to me. interesting stuff.

but i prefer this. :)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 09:23 [#01515837]
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yes, it's a real nice song, definitely much more to do with
real music, but i sort of prefer that raw, minimalist, odd
improvisations at the time :)

'radio one' is perhaps my fav album of theirs in case
someone else is willing to give then a try :D


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 09:29 [#01515841]
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haha, didn't you recommend me black flag couple of days ago?
:)

"Rick: (It was) opening for Black Flag. We came out with a
weird jazz approach to a bunch of skinheads. They absolutely
hated us, started throwing things at us. We ended up getting
most of the skinheads on stage with us playing horns by the
end of the night... They were bad- mouthing us over the
mikes while they were onstage, telling the audience how bad
we sucked... At first they were against us, then they were
for us. We didn't give a shit what they thought."


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 09:33 [#01515844]
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The Sun City Girls are America's premier underground band.
No qualifiers such as "arguably" or "possibly" are
necessary. For going on 20 years now they have steadily,
relentlessly amassed a body of work that is simply without
peer or precedent in American music, "rock" or otherwise.
Their ouevere encompasses a dizzying array of styles,
genres, and influences, yet no bands' music is more
completely and distinctly their own. In their live and
recorded performances, they have challenged and explored the
implications of such anachronisms as "art," "beauty,"
"humor," "culture," "reality" and "bullshit" in ways that
none of today's artists in any field can even imagine. While
the bumper stickers on every other Volvo encourage us to
"subvert the dominant paradigm" and every other
punk-funk-ska-swing band insist that they are "into all
kinds of music," the Sun City Girls take these and many
other kinds of ideological and aesthetic statements, push
them to their conclusions, and reap the attendant rewards of
obscurity, confusion and ridicule. Apparently they believe
that somebody has to


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 10:00 [#01515858]
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another fun song :)


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-28 10:15 [#01515874]
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yes, and black flag also had a lot of trouble with their
audiences. they didn't like the traditional "punk rocker"
at all. that's why they grew out their hair and started
playing jazzy metal and had these weird opening bands - to
piss off the annoying skinheads who would come to their
concerts.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 10:18 [#01515880]
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haha, nice touch..i downloaded 'damaged' and gave it a
couuple of listened already, sounded quite alright from what
i remember..will have to give it a few more listens..

here's the full unplayable song.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-28 10:20 [#01515886]
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cool - thanks! :D


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-28 10:23 [#01515900]
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yeah, i dig that track. i bet that's a pretty cool record.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 10:29 [#01515912]
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hard to tell since all the other 'songs' are completly
different :)

that batman theme song i posted above is from the same
album, but again the only song of that kind :)


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-02-28 14:46 [#01516205]
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it is right up my alley... i just have to get off my ass and
spend more than 10 consecutive minutes with it... things
keep coming up that prevent me from doing this for some
reason...

black flag is also quite cool, i really dig the song
Sixpack...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-28 15:09 [#01516223]
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i see, yes, that can be a problem..i hope you sort it out, i
mean get more time for stuff you enjoy..but that0s another
problem isn't it..too much stuff to enjoy, i have sort of
similar problem :)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-03-01 03:42 [#01516678]
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maybesomeoneelsewouldwanttocheckthemout. ok


 


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