tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41916862443612747472024-03-14T01:17:12.365-05:00music ruined my life...now I'd like to ruin a bit of your time.jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comBlogger1416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-43151071639038382142014-08-07T09:03:00.002-05:002014-08-07T09:05:43.852-05:00Jerry Jerry: The Sound and the Jerry (1997)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"A part of me felt Like Elvis, it was not a large part."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jerry Jerry</span></div>
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Jerry ended his recording career and his contract with Aquarius with a 1997 solo album named <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sound and the Jerry</span>. It's truth in packaging, as the record is the sound of pure Jerry, sans his Sons of Rhythm Orchestra.<br />
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While the loss is palpable - Jerry shines with co-writer and a full band - there are a slew of witty moments herein and some nice raw guitar, as on "I, Showbiz".<br />
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Jerry's never less then entertaining and fans of his early work will find plenty to grin about here. On this album, Jerry (and his percussionist, Tino Izzo) sounds a bit like an urbane Mojo Nixon, melding cutting wit and minimal instrumentation to a blues-rockabilly-country-folk foundation to great effect on tracks like "Balloons" or "Eyes on the Road".<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">MRML Readers weigh in with a comment: What do you think of Jerry's solo sound?</span><br />
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<br />jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-44256815271735110612014-07-31T09:05:00.000-05:002014-07-31T09:05:16.274-05:00Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra: Don't Mind If I Do (1992)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Everybody's gotta believe in something, no matter how stupid, destructive or wrong; case in point, Aleister Crowley."</span></i></div>
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The Third-Album Mellow-Out is in full-effect here, as Jerry's manifests his Sinatra-aspiratons (see "Grandiose"or "Skin") and his Nashville Sound affections, as heard on the lone single, "Jimmy Reeves".<br />
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Amidst the mellower material, there is also a passel of sarcastic up-tempo songs like "The Ballad of Jon Card" (celebrating the former D.O.A. and S.N.F.U. drummer), "How Can People be So Wrong", "Banner Day and the witty country novelty song, "No Ass Tattoos in Heaven".<br />
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Now I grant you that I instantly rejected this album back '92 but I have since found it a charming record that bears repeat listenings. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.<br />
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In 1986 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jerry_and_the_Sons_of_Rhythm_Orchestra">Jerry Jerry</a> and his ever-changing Sons of Rhythm Orchestra emigrated from Edmonton, Alberta to Montreal, Quebec. The band moved from <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/search?q=it+came+from+canada+og">Og Records</a>, to the <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/search?q=doughboys+tradition">Doughboys</a>' 1st home, Piepline Records before settling on their final label, Aquarius Records (home of great Can-Crap from April Wine to Corey Hart to Sum 41).<br />
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For <span style="font-style: italic;">Battle Hymn of the Apartment</span> (1987) Jerry found his definitive band, with Paul Soulodre (guitar,vocals) George Wall (guitar,vocals) Duke Bronfman (drum, vocals), future Asexual Blake Cheetah (bass), not to mention backing horns, keyboard and a vocal trio.<br />
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As the credits suggest there are layers and layers of vocals here and all those voices underpin Jerry's role as the leader of a strange midnight choir. For proof of how this ensemble feeds Jerry's "Pusher for Jesus" personae - give this track a listen.<br />
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On this album Jerry Jerry really claims his voice and that voice is a whiskey-and-cigarette soaked baritone that fires off venomous sermons. The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra are a super-tight unit that propel Jerry, turning his gospel and R n' B pastiches into torn flesh and dripping blood rockers.<br />
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A1 Runaway Lane <br />
A2 Bad Luck At Tulane <br />
A3 Pushin' For Jesus <br />
A4 Free Love <br />
A5 She's Been Used <br />
A6 Hurtin' Her Won't Make You A Man <br />
A7 The Mexican In Me <br />
B1 The Hard Way <br />
B2 In The Hands Of The Lord <br />
B3 Wazoo <br />
B4 Mistaken <br />
B5 Downhearted <br />
B6 The Drift<br />
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At the height of Canada’s eighties stomping garage-rock revival, spearheaded by Og Records (<a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/search?q=it+came+from+canada+og">see here</a>), along swaggered this hard-drinking, testifier, <a href="http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=5&csid2=779&fid1=453">Jerry Jerry</a>, (born Jerry Woods) and his seven piece band, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jerry_and_the_Sons_of_Rhythm_Orchestra">the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra</a>.<br />
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"Canadian city boy thinks he's a hillbilly preacher sings late '60s Texas acid rock." is how Jerry Jerry's debut album <span style="font-style: italic;">Road Gore: The Band That Drank Too Much</span> (1985) was once described. And that just scratches the surface. The tempos are speedy, the lyrics sarcastic and the band chops up elements of blues, country, gospel, rockabilly surf and punk rock to make a thick n' chunky stew. The resulting sound is roots-rockin' cow-punk a little like their Edmonton, Alberta brethren <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2009/02/cow-punk-addendum-roots-rock-weirdos.html">Jr. Gone Wild</a> (and even a little like really early k.d. lang). However, there's not much R.E.M. style jangle in these boys spurs and you can bet your ass that Jerry would make short work out of Micheal Stipe should they ever meet.<br />
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In that spirit, here's Jerry's brilliant anti-socialism screed, "Bad Idea". While still-gelling <span style="font-style: italic;">Road Gore</span> may not be Jerry's strongest album, this song stands as his greatest achievement - no wonder it's track one, side one of the whole <span style="font-style: italic;">It Came From Canada</span> compilation series. The lyrics are both humorous and deadly-serious. Jerry uses a stinging guitar line as his soapbox to condemn the evils of Big Government (Alberta <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> Canada's Texas) while the whole band offers full choral support. Eventually Jerry's righteous fury builds to an explosive triple-time ending. (Studio version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBFgSEZI_Ik">here</a>)<br />
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A1 Gospel Surfer <br />
A2 Rhythm Crazy <br />
A3 Color TV <br />
A4 Baby's On Fire <br />
A5 Livin' On Top <br />
A6 Hell And Back <br />
A7 Daddy Was A Peacock <br />
B1 Happy Nun <br />
B2 Bad Idea <br />
B3 Rancher King <br />
B4 Dumb Love <br />
B5 You Make Me Blue <br />
B6 Judgement Date <br />
This MRML-exclusive "edition" of the hopelessly out-of-print <span style="font-style: italic;">Road Gore</span> has two bonus tracks, "Radical Look" and "Yap Yap", culled from the <span style="font-style: italic;">It Came From Canada</span> series.<br />
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So, Tommy Ramone, the last of the original Ramones is dead. Sad, fucking sad. Tommy was one of the architects behind the the band, supposedly only taking the drum stool after auditions failed to secure anyone capable of understanding what the band was doing. When the band lost its way in a fog of big-name producers in the early 80's, it was Tommy who took the producers helm for the comeback album "Too Tough To Die and righted the Good Ship Ramone.<br />
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Here's an artifact of the Tommy-era. The sound is dirty as hell but it's still amazing that this not only exists but how how clearly it demonstrates the band's focus well before the recording of the first album.<br />
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The fact that this was filmed says that a lot of people, artistic director Arturo Vega not least among them, knew that something earth-shaking was afoot in NYC.<br />
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Some bands use the 'tag option on Bandcamp with deadly accuracy: The Haywains labels themselves: "alternative, c86, indie-pop, jangle-pop, punk-pop, twee, United Kingdom" and that says it all. Well, almost. What that promising and accurate summary doesn't explicitly state is that the band are not part of some 21st century twee-revival but were actually slightly-latecomers to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C86_%28album%29">c86</a> party, having put out their first release <a href="http://www.haywains.co.uk/">back in 1988</a>!<br />
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On "Get on Board With...". The Haywains prove they're still bursting with clever lyrics, catchy hooks and a relentless energy. There's no shocking musical developments here just seven-and-a-half minutes of alternative-c86-indie-pop-jangle-pop-punk-pop-twee perfection.<br />
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An eternal debate - which is more important the word or the image? Obviously in the medium of sequential art - which we usually just call comics - this question is particularly nettlesome.<br />
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Legions of devotees of the the medium's most legendary artist, Jack Kirby, declare the man credited as his writer, media magnate and seeming immortal, Stan Lee, was a fraud. That Lee also worked with different artists in creating an intricately-woven, deeply-human mythology so rich that writers, artists and film-makers still haven't tapped the well is often lost on these devotees. Skeptics of the Artist-Is-All position will point to Kirby's work as his own writer, which is often praised for its intricate artwork but rarely for its dialogue, characterization or comprehensibility. Defenders will protest that this period is Kirby at his most ambitious, to which I would agree.<br />
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Howard Chaykin is right on many levels; the artist certainly spends more time on each page than the writer does and when we read we are more likely to skip a chunk of words than a panel. As well, Chaykin as writer-artist is responsible for some mighty work, including his run on his own creation, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Flagg!">American Flagg</a>.<br />
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However, like so many readers, I know that a writer's name in the credits is the single most reliable metric of a comic's potential. After all, we view movies, we watch TV, we gaze in art galleries but we <i>read</i> comics. Mark Waid has written an amazing run on Daredevil that has lasted years. While he has had numerous talented artists that have helped make this run so successful, none of the changes in artist have altered either the quality or the essence of the book in the way that Waid's departure surely would.<br />
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Writers' 'alpha position' in comics is probably a good thing, as I've heard from many people who survived the reign of terror that artists who decided that they didn't need writers in the nineties unleashed. We're in a thrilling period where a great many talented artists and writers feel they can express themselves best in this medium. In the end, it's the perfect intersection between word and image (and often colour!) that makes or breaks a comic and not the resolution of the eternal artist vs. writer tug-of-war.<br />
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Bruce Springsteen is gonna play Winnipeg, Manitoba...eventually! After all, we've got a big new stadium, a fanatic fan-base and a musical history he can plunder for all those ingenious locally-themed covers he's been doing on the High Hopes Tour. A partial list of Springsteen's recent live covers would include: AC/DC's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGhw2aO6yg">Highway to Hell</a>" in Adelaide, INXS' "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFIkABkwlLY">Don't Change</a>" in Sydney, The Bee Gees' "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-7N8Y1s68">Stayin' Alive</a>" in Brisbane, Lorde's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6VToqhUd-0">Royals</a>" in Aukland and (with a slight twist) The Specials' "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltpP6anAVVI">Free Nelson Mandela</a>" in South Africa. I've ranked the potential Winnipeg covers on my list from least to most likely and have tried to strike a balance between my own personal favourites and the de rigeur local classics. For more
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10. Personality Crisis "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1983)<br />
Certainly a million to one shot, this old-school punk band with rock chops dominated Winnipeg's scene in the early 80's thanks in no small part to the antics of barrel-voiced wildman Mitch Funk, who Springsteen would surely admire if he knew of him. Plus, doesn't "Twilight's Last Gleaming" just sound like a Springsteen song title already?<br />
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9. Terry Jacks "Season in the Sun" (1974)<br />
Okay, Bruce (and half of the world) may still harbour mixed feelings about this sentimental song from one of Winnipeg's less celebrated pop figures but it has that epic grandeur in both the chorus and the story-line that would make it fit right into Springsteen's wheelhouse. <br />
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8. Propagandhi "I Was a Pre-Teen McCarthyist" (1996)<br />
Another daringly unlikely choice would be for Bruce to cover a song from the Winnipeg's political thrash lords, whose riffy song about father-son relationships and U.S. imperialism (that's just how those boys roll) is pretty catchy and would be given a twist by that Springsteen intensity.<br />
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7. Greg Macpherson "Churchill" (1999)<br />
While intense rocker Macpherson doesn't hide his adoration of Springsteen, his own brand of music is strikingly singular and Springsteen could do a fantastic <i>Nebraska</i>-esque take on this train ballad of the frozen North.<br />
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6. Bachman Turner Overdrive "Roll on Down the Highway" (1974)<br />
Thematically and musically this chestnut hits all the Springsteen buttons and would have the added benefit of not being "Takin' Care of Business", which at this point has just become part of the musical furniture.<br />
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5. Jeffrey Hatcher "(Born to Be) Riding Only Down" (1995)<br />
Hatcher is just the kind of tenacious, gifted rock n' roll lifer (like Willie Nile, Southside Johnny or Jesse Malin) that Springsteen admires and invites to share his stage. This soaring kiss-off song by The Blue Shadows (with Billy Cowsill of The Cowsills) would be electrifying in a Bruce-E-Street context.<br />
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4. Burton Cummings "Stand Tall" (1976)<br />
Another slightly purple bit of melodic melodrama from the seventies that would get pumped up to gargantuan-proportion by the man and his band.<br />
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3. The Weakerthans "Anchorless" (1998)<br />
Bruce keeps his ear close to the ground, music-wise, so I suspect he's aware of John K. Sampson & co.'s wordy folk-rock. While the most known entry in the Weakerthans' catalog would be "One Great City", that song's "I Hate Winnipeg" chorus would make it a tough sell for a visitor, even for one of Bruce's stature. "Anchorless", on the other hand a finely-detailed song about the "small towns that we live and die in" would speak very directly to experiences shared by performer and audience.<br />
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2. The Guess Who "Share the Land" (1970) or "Shakin' All Over" (1965)<br />
When it comes to Winnipeg's most famous musical export it's a toss up* between "Shakin' All Over" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakin%27_All_Over">already a cover</a>) which would indulge Springsteen's love of early sixties rock that he can stretch out into long vamps and "Share the Land" which plays to his love of social justice mixed with a good tune. Your call, Mr. Springsteen, your call.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">*"American Woman" is not only too obvious, it's brand of anti-Americanism doesn't jibe with Springsteen's more subdued criticism of his homeland.</span><br />
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1. Neil Young "Long May You Run"<br />
There's no question that "Heart of Gold" would produce a rapturous response and be a fantastic choice (as would other Young songs including ones Bruce and Neil have sung together like "Helpless" and "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World"), but "Long May You Run' has those Bruce motifs of running and remembering that would make for an epic show-closer! Plus, Springsteen must be aware that when Bob Dylan came to town he <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>headed</i></span> straight over to Neil's first rockin' abode as soon as his show was done. Bruce, let me just say that I guarantee you that we will lead a goddamn parade to Neil's house with you as the Grand Marshal if that's what it takes to get you to visit our One Great City.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dubious Suggestions: Fred Penner "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9f04Dctz4">The Cat Came Back</a>", since even bad ideas, like Springsteen doing a beloved kids song, can make for good entertainment, The Crash Test Dummies "Superman's Song" who's solemn lament for the original superhero would fit Springsteen's vocal and narrative range nicely and Venetian Snares "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTutlX4Mzw">Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole</a>" the longest of the long-shots for many, many reasons which are none too hard to discern.</span>jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-44210070264661211162014-02-15T08:35:00.002-06:002014-02-15T09:09:01.534-06:00Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World by Robbie Robertson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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is a hard book to classify. It works as kids' guide to rock n' roll, as
a gorgeous hardcover coffee table book on music history, as an art
book, as a compilation album with massive liner notes or just a
refresher course on the musical hell-raisers of the twentieth century!
As he and his group, The Band, did in his the legendary film <i>The Last Waltz</i>,
Robertson and his co-conspirators bring us a parade of musical legends
that encompass a huge swath of music history. Unlike that Martin
Scorsese directed documentary, here Robertson really sticks clearly to
his curatorial role, only offering a single vignette that begins each
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<b>Continue reading my review <a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol20/no23/legendsiconsandrebels.html">HERE</a></b><br />
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There were a lot of amazing roles that <a href="http://Phillip Seymour Hoffman"><u>Phillip Seymour Hoffman</u></a> inhabated but it was his channeling of the late, great Lester Bangs in Almost Famous that endears him to music nerds the world over! <br />
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In this documentary the late Biggie Tembo (of Zimbabwean band The Bhundu Boys) does a fascinating inversion of the staid reporter goes to a strange land to investigate its traditional music trope. In "darkest England", Tembo reports on the still-earnest but creatively vibrant English folk scene of the mid-eighties featuring The Barely Works, Kathryn Tickell, Billy Bragg, The Oyserband, Robb Johnson and more besides. <br />
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As I said for Part One (see <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.ca/2013/12/best-comicsgraphic-novels-of-2013-pt-1.html">HERE</a>): I
read a lot of comics this year, stuff from all over the history of the
form. As a result, I certainly didn't read any significant fraction of
the year's new material. Here,
comics differ from music, my usual beat; no music critic has covered a <i>significant</i> percentage of 2013's releases but some comic critics probably have. So, this list is by
no means a definitive run-down of all the essential sequential art
but just a heavily biased look at some good work that arrived this calendar year.
My biases are; I'm writer-centric but am drawn to artists with a strong
individual style, I'm a Marvel-ite but think Image is on fire of late, I
think less of DC but some of the best older stuff I red this year was
from DC and Vertigo. Oh, and I like a series with a sense of humour but
dark undertones. My final caveat is that I read more trade paperbacks
than
individual issues, so a few things here may have been published in
single-issue form in 2012 but it's TPB came out this year. For more
cultural awesomeness (music, comics, film, politics etc.) <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large" href="https://twitter.com/jeffen69">Follow @jeffen69 on Twitter</a></span></b><br />
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<b>11) Afterlife with Archie</b> by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla (<a href="http://afterlifewitharchie.com/">Archie Comics</a>)<br />
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A shocking idea executed with just the right amount of creepiness due to the perfect teaming of Aguirre-Sacasa and Francavilla.</blockquote>
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<b>10) Something Terrible</b> by Dean Trippe (<a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/somethingterrible/">Web-comic</a>)<br />
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A poignant-as-hell comic about child abuse that Trippe <i>needed</i> to write but we also <i>needed</i> to read.</blockquote>
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9) <b>Hyperbole and a Half</b> by Allie Brosh (<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Hyperbole-Half-Unfortunate-Situations-Mechanisms/dp/1451666179">Simon and Schuster</a>)<br />
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<b>8) Saga</b> by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (<a href="https://www.imagecomics.com/comics/series/saga">Image Comics</a>)<br />
Not only is this brilliant and beautiful domestic sci-fi story on everyone's Best of the Year list but I'm wary of anybody who'd leave it off theirs!<br />
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<b>7) Tales Designed to Thrizzle V. 2</b> by Michael Kupperman (<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/tales-designed-to-thrizzle-3.html?vmcchk=1">Fantagraphics Books</a>)<br />
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Back in the eighties we called this strangley smart, randomly obscure and non-sequitur-ious style of cartooning at which Kupperman <i>ex-cels</i>, "college humour" now that that's the name of a run-of-the-mill frat-video site we'll just call it "Thrizzly Humour".</blockquote>
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<b>6) Captain America</b> by Rick Remender, John Romita, Carlos Pacheco (<a href="http://marvel.com/comics/creators/11835/rick_remender">Marvel Comics</a><br />
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It sucks following up a defining run like Ed Brubaker's, a version of the character so definitive that the second Captain America film is already adapting it. So Rick Remender decided, with little fanfare, to banish Cap to an extremely hostile dimension and then gave him a kid to take care of. Instead of getting sappy or unbelievable, it turned the title into the comic book version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.</blockquote>
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<b>5) It Came! </b>by Dan Boultwood (<a href="http://titan-comics.com/c/16-it-came/">Titan Comics</a>)<br />
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It's
Tim Burton's Ed Wood film, Alan Moore's 1963 comic,
every MST3K commentary and that Monty Python sketch where the pilots
talk in outrageous WWII slang all mashed together! If you missed this, as many did, do us all a
favour and <a href="http://www.comixology.com/It-Came/comics-series/10443">BUY IT NOW</a>!!!</blockquote>
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<b>4) Goddamn This War</b> by Tardi and Jean-Pierre Varney (<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/goddamn-this-war.html">Fantagraphics Books</a>)<br />
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A sequel every bit as brutal and every bit as necessary as "It Was a War of the Trenches". </blockquote>
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<b>3) Todd the Ugliest Kid on Earth</b> by Ken Kristensen and M.K. Perker (<a href="https://www.imagecomics.com/comics/releases/todd-the-ugliest-kid-on-earth-vol.-1-tp">Image Comics</a>)<br />
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Heinous
and hilarious, satirical and snide, this twisted comic that didn't really
hit its demented stride till it became an ongoing series. </blockquote>
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<b>2) Hawkeye</b> by Matt Fraction, David Aja, Francesco Francavilla (<a href="http://marvel.com/comics/series/16309/hawkeye_2012_-_present">Marvel Comics</a>)<br />
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This
is a superhero comic, one part of a massively successful big-budget
franchise, done in a lo-fi indie style. It's a futzing great concept and
it's executed perfectly, bro. </blockquote>
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<b>1) March </b>by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (<a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/march/760">Top Shelf Productions</a>)<br />
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March
threatened to be dry, history but instead it resurrects an era - the
end of Jim Crow - in all its beauty and all its ugliness.</blockquote>
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Honorable mentions</b> FF by
Matt Fraction, Lee and Mike Allred (Marvel Comics), Manhattan Projects by Jonathon Hickman (Image Comics), Daredevil* by Mark Waid and Javiar Rodriguez + Daredevil Dark Knights 1-3 (Marvel Comics), Sheltered by Johnnie Christmas and Ed Brisson (Image Comics), Velvet (Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting (Image Comics). Also thanks to Peanuts (Boom Studios) and Bongo Comics in general for always giving my kids something to read (even Sergio Aragones!)<br />
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I
read a lot of comics this year, stuff from all over the history of the
form. As a result, I certainly didn't read any significant fraction of
the year's new material. Here,
comics differ from music, my usual beat; no music critic has covered a <i>serious</i> percentage of 2013's releases but some comic critics probably have. So, this list is by
no means a definitive run-down of all the essential sequential art of 2013
but just a heavily biased look at some of the great work that arrived this calendar year. My biases are; I'm writer-centric but a huge fan of artists with a strong individual style, I'm a Marvel-ite but think Image is on fire of late, I think less of DC but some of the best older stuff I read this year was from DC and Vertigo. Oh, and I like a series with a sense of humour but dark undertones. My final caveat is that I read more trade paperbacks than
individual issues, so a few things here may have been published in
single-issue form in 2012 but it's TPB came out this year. For more
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<b>20) The Black Beetle</b> by Francesco Francavilla (<a href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/23-729/The-Black-Beetle-Volume-1-No-Way-Out-HC">Dark Horse</a>)<br />
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Francavilla spins an entertaining pulpy yarn but it's the moody, dynamic artwork that really gets under your skin.</blockquote>
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<b>19) Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life</b> by Ulli Lust (<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/today-is-the-last-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life.html">Fantagraphics Books</a>)<br />
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Lust's story of sex, travel and poverty is so finely detailed in word and image that the reader becomes completely shifted into her world.</blockquote>
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<b>18) Private Eye</b> by Brian K
Vaughan and Marcos Martín (<a href="http://panelsyndicate.com/">Panel Syndicate</a>)<br />
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Fucking hell, does Brian K.
Vaughan have any bad ideas? Even his slight adaption of Michael Chabon's The Escapist was loaded with deft flourishes like the jock who just wants to be letterer. This ten-issue digital only series concerns the world of 2076 where after the internet bursts open privacy must be maintained by way of secret identities and it promises to be another Vaughan success.</blockquote>
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<b>17) Dial H for Hero</b> by China Miéville and Mateus Santolouco and (<a href="http://www.dccomics.com/tags/dial-h">DC Comics</a>)<br />
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One we lost in 2013 was Miéville & Santolouco's dark, twisted, funny and deeply bizarre take ("heroes" like Boy Chimney, The Iron Snail, Hole Punch, Captain Lachrymose and Cock-a-Hoop must be seen to be believed!) on the gimmicky Silver Age title "Dial 'H' for Hero". </blockquote>
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<b>16) Sex
Criminals</b> by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (I<a href="https://www.imagecomics.com/comics/releases/sex-criminals-1">mage Comics</a>)<br />
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Y'know sex in comics is almost never well-handled; if The Guardian gave out a Bad Sex in Comics Award, they'd be too swamped with awkward nominees to ever declare a winner. So with all the forms' issues with human sexuality, how can Matt Fraction create characters who have the ridiculous ability to have magic orgasms, which they use to rob banks and say ludicrous lines like "Jon..is your dick glowing" and still have it be insightful, relatable and laugh-out-loud funny? God, I don't know but clearly Matt Fraction is one dangerous bastard!</blockquote>
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<b>15) Edison Rex</b> by Chris
Roberson and Dennis Culver (<a href="http://www.monkeybraincomics.com/tag/chris-roberson/">Monkey Brain</a>)<br />
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We've seen a lot of faux-Superman stories over time, we've even seen a few faux-Superman stories where the faux-Lex Luthor vanquishes his foe but none have been done with more heart, inventiveness and, yes, wit then Robertson and Culver's Edison Rex.</blockquote>
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<b>14) Rat Queens</b> by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch (<a href="http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/series/rat-queens">Image Comics</a>)<br />
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It's a character-driven fantasy story that's light on the exposition and heavy on the satire, kinda like early Cerebus only with four homicidal female leads ("Take that, Dave Sim!"). Rat Queens manages to be both gory (sensitive eyes be doubly-warned) and funny ("Come on! Candy is awesome..." says the blonde, lesbian Smidgen who's packed the rations for the quest). </blockquote>
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<b>13) East of West </b>by Jonathon Hickman
Nick Dragotta (<a href="https://www.imagecomics.com/comics/series/east-of-west">Image Comics</a>)<br />
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Jonathon Hickman is insane and we are all the beneficiaries of his madness. Whether it's the historical-disemboweling of the scientists involved in The Manhattan Project, imagining a religious war that follows the return of a deity in God is Dead or the sci-fi western about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that is the fucked-up East of West, Hickman and his allies have spent the year delivering the mad goods.</blockquote>
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12) The Fifth Beatle by Vivek Tiwary , Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker (<a href="http://thefifthbeatle.com/graphic-novel/">Dark Horse</a>)<br />
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A landmark work that acts a political statement on the right of people to love whoever they want and an argument for the importance of the men and women who love the music enough to work out of the spotlight. Sure, there are some moments where the dialogue grows awkward (in that way they did in Walk the Line or Ray) but in those moments Robinson and Baker's inspired art carries the story.</blockquote>
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11) The Superior Foes of
Spider-Man by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber (<a href="http://marvel.com/comics/series/17959/the_superior_foes_of_spider-man_2013_-_present">Marvel Comics</a>)<br />
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Sure a comic done from the villain's point of view has been done before but never with the piercing wit and attention to small detail that Spencer and Lieber bring to this title. If Elmore Leonard had ever written a superhero comic, this would be it!</blockquote>
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>#10- #1 coming in the New Year</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you missed our Best Albums </b></span></span><br />
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Our second BotY list covers all the releases too short for that "Best Underappreciated <u>Albums</u> That Rocked 2013" (see <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.ca/2013/12/fifteen-underappreciated-albums-that.html">HERE</a>). Once again the list is a little punk/pop-punk heavy due to the fact that both genres worship at the altar of brevity plus I'm old and set in my ways. For more musical awesomeness <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large" href="https://twitter.com/jeffen69">Follow @jeffen69 on Twitter</a></span></b></div>
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Geoff Palmer & Kurt Baker form their own Rockpile!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An ode to Pussy Riot from the New York ant-folk cartoonist/singer-song-writer Jeffrey Lewis. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A German language original, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">a fun throwaway HC song</span> and a Tony Sly cover from Wyoming's finest.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A return to gunk-rock glory from </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eric Davidson, formerly of The New Bomb Turks</span>. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/official7seconds">7 Seconds</a> - My Aim Is You/Slogan on a T-Shirt 7"<br />
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If Crimpshrine had moved to Minneapolis to get Paul Westerberg to produce their album of Merle Haggard covers, it might sound like just a bit like The Slow Death.<br />
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Just watched this amazing BBC documentary on the Pogues & Kirsty McColl's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq9hdMIVpac">Fairytale of New York</a> ". Highly recommended for the early (or late) hours of Christmas Day.<br />
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<br />jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-72012856870168504592013-12-24T11:37:00.002-06:002013-12-24T11:37:47.535-06:00Merry R.A.B.S. XMAS - Vol 8 (Free Download!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whatever your seasonal preferences, enjoy this Christmas-themed collection of artists from the U.S.A, Australia and the U.K. as a free gift from Rock Against Bullshit. Thanks to the way-too-cool Maria from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/undecidedbydefault">Undecided By Default</a> for her work on this comp. For more musical awesomeness <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large" href="https://twitter.com/jeffen69">Follow @jeffen69 on Twitter</a></span><br />
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<br />jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-36186151935929023072013-12-23T09:20:00.003-06:002013-12-23T09:27:04.659-06:00Fifteen Underappreciated Albums That Rocked 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The TL;DR version of all previous lists (see <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.ca/search/label/Best%20%20Albums%20of%20the%20Year">HERE</a>) is: indie rock <i>doesn't</i>, so MRML vouches for the under-valued rocking and/or rolling albums of the year, based on our scatter-shot listening experience. Speaking of scatter-shot, there's an above average number of entries that straddle the years but that's just the nature of the fluid times we live in. For more musical awesomeness <span style="font-size: small;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large" href="https://twitter.com/jeffen69">Follow @jeffen69 on Twitter</a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/MOTO/17549598293">M.O.T.O.</a> - Pack Your Troubles In Dreams</span></span></span></div>
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Paul Caprino's one man assault on American mediocrity has taken on ever greater force recently. Sure the recording/release date of this album is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Obvious">a bit muddled</a> but whatever their vintage, these songs are timeless, fire-breathing rock n' roll.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.dirtboxdisco.co.uk/">Dirt Box Disco</a> - People Made of Paper </span></span></span><br />
Attitude-driven British punk rock with both a metallic edge and a pop coating. Early Wildhearts or Troublegum-era Therapy? would be workable points of reference. I heard PMoP and the the late-2012 album Legends this year and both deserve your attention now!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://the-connection.bandcamp.com/">The Connection</a> - Let It Rock</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If Nick Lowe ever took a pop-punk band under his tutelage, Portsmouth, NH band The Connection (</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"garage rock for now people" as they put it) is exactly how they'd sound!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/weareUPSET">Upset</a> - She's Gone</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This
new L.A. band, featuring members of Vivian Girls, Best Coast and...Hole
[!], got some decent indie-press for the their first K Records meets
Lookout! Records retro-riot grrl sound but were soon ignored for more typical indie fare</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/veronicafalls">Veronica Falls</a> - Waiting for Something to Happen</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pretty, echoey second album by this British band who sound a lot like what would have happened if a C-86 band had stumbled into <a href="http://the%20batcave/">The Batcave</a>.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.willienile.com/">Willie Nile</a> - American Ride</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></div>
The troubadour of New York, Willie Nile, has been putting out fantastic rootsy rock n ' roll albums records for years to wide acclaim but limited fame. I hope that's gonna change one day soon...<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7. <a href="http://www.barrencewhitfieldsavages.com/">BarrenceWhitfield & The Savages</a> - Dig Thy Savage Soul</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bostonian Barrence Whitfield has been showing off his</span> explosive garage-rock/R&B amalgam for years but may just have perfected it with this record. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8. <a href="http://firstbase.bandcamp.com/">First Base</a> - S/T</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the tags have it; "rock, bubblegum, garage, lo-fi, pop punk, Toronto".</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9.</span> <a href="http://www.badreligion.com/news">Bad Religion</a> - True North<br />
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These veteran LA punks have never disappointed (hey, I heard "Into the Unknown ten years after the fact and was surprised at how much better it was than I'd been promised!) in their thirty years+ and this return to <i>No Control</i> era speed-rock kept their streak alive, especially the classic Mr. Brett style-song, "Robin Hood in Reverse".<br />
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Winner of this year's Dylan Was A Punk Award (Cate Blanchett Division), Londoner Louise Distras rocks an acoustic so forcefully that she's the very image of what the offspring of Joan Jett and TV Smith would be!<br />
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As a kid, I loved rock n' roll and comics with equal abandon. Both were gifts of escape; the comic books came from my older brother, the rock n' roll records were left behind by an American draft-dodger my parents had offered sanctuary. In both cases, I don't remember my first contact; the coloured pages and the black grooves were things I began picking up and exploring long before my permanent memories were formed. <br />
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By the earliest and most awkward phase of adolescence, comics and music both dominated my attention; I recall one summer that revolved around my love for both The Doors and The X-Men ("People are strange...").<br />
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But girls. As girls went from being bewildering remote creatures, to <i>close</i> but still bewildering creatures comics became a mark of immaturity that I could ill afford to bear. I never stopped reading comics entirely but I poured so much of my obsessive nature into music that there wasn't much left over. When I did visit comic shops, I was often put off by the gimmick-driven garishness of the nineties glut and then again by steroid-and-revenge addled comics of the post-9/11 era. <br />
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It seems like the members of Dot Dash are in a race to build a mighty discography. In two years the band have released three albums (see <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.ca/search/label/Dot%20Dash">here</a>), each possibly better than the one before, that showcase their unusual power-Brit-pop-punk hybrid. At this rate we can exorcise the ghost of their past bands (Youth Brigade DC, Swervedriver, Modest Proposal, Julie Ocean) and focus on the future, after all as the band reminds us, "You can't turn back the hands of time!"<br />
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We've had a slew of Toxic Reasons (see <a href="http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.ca/search/label/Toxic%20Reasons">HERE</a>) posts, which is all the more Reason to offer up one more Toxic rarity. This 7'' was released in 1990 on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfless_Records">Selfless</a> <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/Selfless%20Records">Records</a>, though the recording was done on June 18th, 1980 at Sam's Club in Dayton, Ohio.<br />
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What makes this single so fascinating is that it adds so much to the little we know about the early, Ed Pittman-led version of TR (to see Selfless' other early TR rarity go <a href="http://paynomorethan.blogspot.ca/2008/11/toxic-reasons-zero-boys-split-ep-91.html">here</a>). Not only do we get two originals never recorded, we also get a Ramones and a Clash cover - a perfect indication of the Anglo-American sound they would develop over the decades to come!<br />
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Thanks to Mister Poof, we are now able to view an entire MTX show from the possibly-golden era of 1992 (the <i>Milk Milk Lemonade</i> tour). This show was videotaped in Störtebeker, Hamburg and is typical of the murky-but-watchable footage of the pre-digital era.<br />
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Ya can give Joey 'Shithead' Keithley a beard and a new guitar player but D.O.A. just kept spitting out that ferocious rock-punk that made D.O.A. semi-famous. The band's late 80's period (including 1987's "True North Strong and Free" and 1990's "Murder) should be re-examined by every lover of the old loud n' fast. Enjoy this simple-but-effective footage from a 1988 show!<br />
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Unlike some of their early 80's SoCal pop/punk/hardcore brethren like Bad Religion or Social Distortion, Mad Parade has never had a really wide audience. Like Channel 3 or D.I., the band has had to make do by building a narrower but yet surprisingly far-reaching following.<br />
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Mad Parade has pulled off the cult following thing with style and grit. Their discography is spread out over almost thirty years but remains committed to Anglo-American punk/pop hybrid full of catchy sing-along choruses , layers of roaring guitars and never-say ballad rhythms.<br />
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<i>Cat-Bitten Tongue</i> is 1996 single demonstrates the band's fidelity to it's loud, catchy n' pissed-off sound (even their mid-80's album where their label made them pout prettily on the cover still <i>sounds</i> like a Mad Parade record which you can't say for most of their peers). Besides the two rocking originals, the EP contains a cover of their under-known compatriots, The Stepmothers' song "If I Were You". <br />
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