[kj] Music wanker poll

[Jim Harper]

My knowledge of Japanese punk extends no further than The Stalin and Zibet, alas. It's difficult enough to find material by fair-sized Japanese bands, anything obscure or out of the mainstream is a nightmare...

Jim.

On Fri, 15/11/13, wessidetempest . <wessidetempest at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll
 To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
 Date: Friday, 15 November, 2013, 15:55
 
 My goto
 reference used to be Rodriguez. And I only knew of him
 because of my location in Detroit and being friends with his
 daughter. 
 Nowadays that's tough. Either the bands have
 gotten recognition or are to obscure to question why
 they're not bigger. And I no longer am on the
 pulse. 
 Someone mentioned Japanese bands. I'm miffed
 that Gauze isn't huge in the punk/hardcore here in the
 US. If they ever came back it would be a big deal. But not
 as big as they should be. Even the Nu Yawk thick necks would
 love them. 
 Chris
 On Nov 15, 2013, at 10:40 AM, "Rheinhold Squeegee"
 <kjlist at live.com>
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 Rocket from the Tombs
 Electric Eels
 Half-Japanese
 James Blood Ulmer
 Au Pairs
 Klaus Nomi
 
 etc. etc.
 
 Date: Fri, 15 Nov
 2013 15:06:12 +0000
 From: tabazan at gmail.com
 To: gathering at misera.net
 Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll
 
 >I'd add Jandek
 and Lycopodeia to the list.
 
 Has someone nicked my name? 
 
 
 On Fri, Nov 15,
 2013 at 2:59 PM, powens <powens at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 Great call on Nina Hagen and MX-80. I'd add
 Jandek and Lycopodeia to the list.
 
 
 On 15 November 2013
 14:51, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com>
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 R. Stevie Moore
 Deaf School
 Zolar X
 Belfegore
 MX-80 Sound
 Nina Hagen
 et. al.
 
 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:35:07 +0000
 From: tabazan at gmail.com
 
 
 
 To: gathering at misera.net
 Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll
 
 Casually throwing an original copy of
 Rude Bootleg by Cardiacs on the table should get some
 attention 
 
 
 
 
 Hugely influential and more hated by the music press
 (back in the day) than even Killing Joke it took Tim having
 several heart attacks and a massive stroke to get them any
 form of acceptance 
 
 
 
 On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
 wrote:
 
 
 Ooh, toughie. Lots to choose from (and isn't
 THAT a dick comment?)
 
 I'm going to go with the Modern Lovers.
 Arguably as influential as The Velvet Underground and the
 Stooges, yet hardly as renowned, the original foursome made
 only one set of demos (later "produced" by John
 Cale and released as an album years later by California
 indie label, Bezerkly), but those end results were as
 seismic in shaping punk as anything by Iggy or Lou.
 
 
 
 
 The original line-up featured Jerry Harrison on
 keyboards (later to join Talking Heads) and Dave Robinson on
 drums (later to join The Cars). At one point in the
 proceedings, lead singer/strategist Jonathan Richman let his
 eccentricities hold sway and decided that he no longer
 wanted make music that would "offend the ears of
 children." As such, he told Dave Robinson to quit the
 drums and provide percussion by rolling up a newspaper and
 slapping it on his knee, to which Dave replied, essentially,
 "fuck that and fuck you, I'm out of here."
 That incarnation of the band -- unsurprisingly -- fell
 apart, and the blunt, proto-punky energy of the Modern
 Lovers vanished, replaced by Richman's bizarre penchant
 for childlike whimsy (a huge influence on later acts like
 Beat Happening -- WHO FUCKING SUCK -- and Jack
 White).
 
 
 
 
 Richman's solo albums have their own merits,
 but in terms of a criminally undersung, yet wholly
 influential slab of vinyl by a band who should be a
 household name --  to my mind -- one is hard pressed to
 cite someone more significant than The Modern Lovers.
 
 
 
 
 YOUR TURN!
 
 
 
 On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:37 AM, bongo wrote:
 kitchens of distinction
 
 
 
 
 
 "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the
 world has been postponed indefinitely..." 
 
 
 On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
  Given that name-dropping Killing
 Joke (esp ‘early’ Killing Joke) is the music-wanker
 equivalent of a triple word score in Scrabble, the poll
 question is as follows:
 
  
 Which artist or band would you name-drop to get the highest
 possible score at a music-wanker convention?
  
 
 Criteria include but are not limited to: lack of attempt at
 commercial success / downright self-sabotage, uniqueness,
 humour, social commentary, mental illness, artistic pain,
 substance dependency, early / mysterious / humorous death,
 ability to use ancillary wank-terms such as ‘musique
 concrete’, ‘the sound of the earth vomiting’ and so
 forth.
 
 
 
 
  
 I’m going with ‘What is Pere
 Ubu?’
  
 
  
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