Fucked Up - Looking For Gold
This is Fucked Up’s high-water mark, when they showed the world that hardcore could be progressive without being boring…then went on to being a boring prog band. Go figure.
Permanent Ruin at Damaged City Fest after-show, April 12th/13th.
Guy on the left = greasy sax player from the Lost Boys? THINK ABOUT IT.
Just got a copy of Flipside #39, which I think was published around fall of ‘83. Just scanned this interview with Articles of Faith. Will post more as I read them.
The first rule of tumblr is: Always reblog anything AoF related.
where was the best burrito you ate on this tour?
It’s a toss up between La Fuente in San Diego and Taco Bell in Rock Springs, WY. Salt Lake’s burritos were unfulfilling and Tijuana had pretty insane tacos, but still nothing touches El Taco de Mexico.
Men’s Recovery Project / Normal Man
Men’s Recovery Project are hard to explain. The first time I encountered them, I was absolutely baffled. After Born Against (one of my all-time favorite punk bands) disbanded, two of it’s members, Sam McPheeters (who was also in the Wrangler Brutes, owned Vermiform Records, is a fairly respected artist/cartoonist, and has published a novel) and Neil Burke formed Men’s Recovery Project. Their music was fairly unclassifiable, ranging from hardcore punk to Residents style soundscapes, DEVO-ish new wave, spoken word rants over cheap electronics, short stories set to atmospheric music, or bizarre jokes (songs like “Get Your Dick Out Of My Food”, or “Man Urinating, Laughter”, which consists of exactly what the title implies). People tend to find them either completely unlistenable or endlessly fascinating (you can guess which camp I fall into). Their live performances were strange performance art, often not involving music and sometimes consisting of things like a boxing match between Sam and Neil (while wearing cardboard boxes on their heads) or Sam stripping naked onstage and having a friend run up and drag him screaming out of the venue and into the street. At one point they opened for Autechre, which went about as well as you would expect.
Anyway, “Normal Man” is one of their more straightforward punk songs off of their singles comp The Golden Triumph Of Naked Hostility. I’ll probably post more of their stuff in the near future because I can’t get enough of it.
