Major Disappointment Reporting For Duty
Like I promised, I tracked down those two Ganglion records. It wasn’t that tough; I just had to find their MySpace page and then follow that to their Interpunk page. Interpunk’s price schedule for shipping is kind of jacked for small orders, so I hunted around and ended up picking up a few other things (including a Drowningman album I didn’t have, with its requisitely smartassed song titles – one of which, in turn, provided the title for this post). They included a free label sampler, as is their way, but I’m not very hopeful that anything other than the No Trigger song will be any good.
While I was at it, I bought this album I discovered through Mutant Sounds, because I was really enjoying it and the MP3s linked from Mutant Sounds sound like crap. And I grabbed two more Dan Deacon releases, which I may end up regretting (song titles like “Shit Slowly Applied On Cock Parts” do not prefigure happy fun-time easy listening), but I love Spiderman of the Rings, and maybe naming things just isn’t his strong suit: another song is named “ksjfhgljkhertykjlehgskjhkjvhda”. (I bought these three using Amazon’s MP3 store, which is scarily easy to use, in case anyone’s curious.)
Finally, I grabbed these crappily encoded MP3s of Steve Albini recording demos for Fugazi because Cosmo’s description was interesting.
So here’s the newest grist for the mill:
- Dan Deacon: Meetle Mice (Carpark)
- Dan Deacon: Silly Hat vs Egale (sic) Hat (Carpark)
- Fugazi: In on the Kill Taker [Steve Albini demos] (bootleg)
- Ganglion: Of the Deep (self-released)
- Ganglion: As Steel Takes to Flesh (self-released)
- Drowningman: Don’t Push Us When We’re Hot (Thorp)
- Last Perfection: Drawing Conclusions (United Edge)
- Shizzo Flamingos: Years Passed By 83-85 (Fuego)
- Supermachiner: θριαμβος της μεγαλης μηχανης (Undecided)
- v/a: New School Records: Summer Sampler 2007 (New School)