Following Screeching Weasel's very public self-destruction at SXSW last year, we now get to answer the question of who put out the best post-break-up work. Well, if Screeching Weasel II's Carnival of Schadenfreude EP and Dan Vapid's self-titled LP with The Cheats are anything to go by, Vapid's just kicked Weasel's ass.
Weasel's rushed-sounding EP reeks of self-pity and petulance (see the title track or "Under the Bus" for damning evidence). On the other hand, Vapid, who's also been in Sludgeworth, The Riverdales, The Methadones and Noise By Numbers, has picked himself up from a devastating loss and begun yet another new band, Dan Vapid and The Cheats. Vapid's new band draw on '77 punk, power pop, new wave and sixties girl group ('natch) to delirious effect. Killer tunes like "Baby Baby Get Over Yourself" and "Heartbeat" survey the wreckage of the past with steely-eyed optimism and a near-complete absence of bitterness.
Okay while readers are still offering some back-n-forth on how damaged Screeching Weasel's legacy is (see HERE), I'll offer a final bootleg of a surprisingly well-recorded 1993 show (circa Anthem for a New Tomorrow). Enjoy...
If you survived the late 80's, this is a pretty jaw-dropping line-up
Track Listing: 1. Veronica Hates Me 2. Peter Brady 3. Slogans 4. Falling Apart 5. Teenage Freakshow 6. Leather Jacket 7. I Can See Clearly Now 8. Every Night 9. Kamala's Too Nice 10. I'm Gonna Strangle You 11. The Science of Myth 12. Mary Was an Anarchist 13. Rubber Room 14. Cindy's On Methadone 15. Don't Turn Out the Lights 16. Ashtray 17. Joanie Loves Johnny 18. Totally
19. Let the Sun Shine In
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Yesterday's episode, The Tragedy of the Weasel - see HERE, generated some smart responses, so in hopes of furthering the discussion here's a bootleg that collects up the Screeching Weasel's 1986 demo and a 1992 (?) radio broadcast from the venerable WMFU.
Tracklist
1986 Demo
1 Society 2 Serial Killer 3 I Can't Stand Myself 4 I Hate You 5 Whip You/Shopping Spree 6 Don't Touch My Car/Mother 7 Fred Is Dead 8 Fast Food 9 In The Hospital 10 Leave Me Alone 11 Work 12 Raining Weasels/Pick Up 13 K-Mart 14 Feel Like Shit 15 Oscar Myer/Nothing Matters 16 Devil At McDonalds 17 I Hate Old Folks/Cows 18 You're So Boring 19 Stupid Hippy 20 Bullshit
Live On WMFU Radio (1992?)
21 I Can See Clearly 22 Teenage Freak Show 23 Daddy Is A Whip 24 Jeannie's Got A Problem ... 25 High School Psychopath 26 Joanie Loves Johnny 27 Murder In The Brady House 28 I Wanna Be A Homosexual 29 What We Hate 30 Don't Turn Off The Lights 31 Guest List 32 Veronica Hates Me 33 Ding Bat 34 Cindy Is On Methadone 35 Supermarket Fantasy 36 Science Of Myth/Crying In My Beer
Leave us your thoughts on the Weasel in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the Punk Rock Superheroes link).
Point One: Screeching Weasel were one of the most influential bands of the nineties.
Point Two: Ben Weasel's cowardly attack on two women in Austin in March of 2011 and his subsequent semi-apology and follow-up screed (which combined the self-aggrandizement of Charlie Sheen and the sense of victimization of Sarah Palin) have damaged his band's reputation, possibly forever.
As for point one, I'll still keep listening to my old SW records. But in light of point two, I will not support Ben "Weasel" Foster until he takes personal responsibility, rather then blaming others for the fall-out of his act, and stops hiding behind this mentally unstable idea that he's just playing a 'character'. I do believe the man can sort his shit out, he's overcome some serious problems in his life and he's done a lot of good things for people.
So in remembrance of the mightiness of Screeching Weasel the band, here in one of their primes with Dan Panic on drums, Johnny Personality on bass plus Jughead and Danny Vapid on guitar, is a live radio broadcast from 1993. The set-list, shows the band, and Weasel always needed strong back-up, leaning heavily on the then-new album Wiggle (on Lookout Records - more HERE) and giving those songs an edge that was missing in the recording studio.
1 Intro
2 I'm not in love
3 Second Floor East
4 One Step Beyond
5 Jenny's Got A Problem With Her Uterus
6 Achtung (Authority cover)
7 Automatic Rejector
8 Joanie Loves Johnny
9 Radioblast
10 27 Things I Wanna Do To You
11 Slow Motion
12 The Girl Next Door
13 Sad Little Girl
14 Ain't Got No Sense
15 Cindy's On Methadone
16 Danny Is A Wimp
17 Murder In The Brady House
18 Crying In My Beer / Interview
So do you care less about this Ben Weasel fracas? Is it old news or an open wound? Does it change your view of Screeching Weasel, the band? Do we need another post to talk more about the MUSIC? Let us know in the COMMENTS section(which is where you'll find Live on WZRD).
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