Waste of time

So I took some time with my boxes of 7"s and got through listing pretty much all of them.
I still have a lot of LPs to do but that'll wait till another day.
http://www.recordnerd.com/lists/sethbeard/

It's a nice day for a.....

I started work on a blog for my sister's wedding and for the pictures.
http://joshandbritthoward.blogspot.com/

Used Bin Bonanza

So I grabbed a small handful of LPS from chaz's today.

He had just gotten some stuff out used.
I picked up









Then Chaz let me listen to this and it was so good I had to get it


Not a bad little haul. Now I just have to compel myself to take the Gentleman Jesse LP and the Devour LP off long enough to listen to these.

Awesome record days

So I have gotten my hands on the Logic Problem 7", the Devour Test Press, the new Gentleman Jesse LP, and all three Fucked Up - Year of the Pig 7"s within the last 24 hours.

The logic problem layout turned out awesome (i'll put up scans of the cover and what not later).
DEVOUR!!!!!! Holy fuck...... those are the only words to describe it.... I don't want to ruin it for anyone but prepare to have your mind blown. Seriously... this record sounds close to perfect. I can't wait for the real version and for lyric sheets. From start to finish it just destroys everything though.
The Gentleman Jesse lp is good. There doesn't seem to be the catchy hooks like the 7" or the split 7" but still it's really good. Haven't had a good enough chance to really get through it though. I have noticed that it's apparently cool to write half of the song title and then the other half in parenthesis.
Haven't listened to the Fucked Up 7"s. Really I bought these to hear the B-sides, and decided the worse that could happen would be that they suck and I put them up as a lot on ebay. I'm guessing it's year of the pig split into three sections and each section is an A-Side for each 7". Again I haven't had a chance to listen to them yet so this is only speculation. I wouldn't put it past the band to do something weirder and less logical.

We Won't Get Fooled Again

Tonight is the debut of the VH1 Rock honors featuring a set by The Who. Most people who know me know I love The Who but I am skipping out on watching it tonight to go out and watch the Dry Heathens play a free show in Raleigh. Still if there's anyone who has nothing to do tonight I do suggest flipping over to VH1 at 9pm.

VH1 Classic has been showing documentaries and other little shows about The Who all day and last night. It made me really want to drag out a couple of albums to listen to.

First up


I am glad I picked this up. Really an amazing collection of songs. The album starts out with I Can't Explain. Everyone probably knows this song a great poppy hit. Hidden behind the catchy rememberable vocals are some really great guitar tracks. Next up is The Kids Are Allright. Another catchier pop tune, pretty straight forward song, you can hear the aggressiveness in Keith Moon's drumming. Third is Happy Jack. I never was much of a fan of this song since it was a little too playful and silly for me. Though I really don't like the song too incredibly much it's worth listening to just for the drums. The drums are going crazy through what is otherwise a rather mild song, very rough very loud, brought up above everything else. Next is I Can See For Miles another big hit. Again growing up with this song it's easy to focus on the vocals I'm so familiar with missing the other components of a song. Listening to this song is a completely different feeling on vinyl than on the radio. You can here the intensity of the drums in the background with the high droning noise of the guitar, the guitar solo isn't much of a solo, it's more of a disintigration of the music into chaos and feedback, something Townshend was amazing at. He could play so little yet make it sound so big. Yet this song ends with a fade out.... something I cannot stand. After a slight silence Pictures of Lily starts in. This song is weak up until it starts getting to Townshend and Moon start in with a harder heavier part unfitting to the vocals. After this is My Generation, probably one of the Who's biggest hits. Everyone shines in this song, especially Entwistle's bass playing. Everyone should know this song. I wonder if I'm the only one who is waiting for Daltry to say "Why don't you all f-f-f-fuck off". Side A ends with The Seeker. Again another slow starter. The song stops with the lyrics "I'm a seeker i'm a very desperate man" and then after a brief silence goes into a very bluesy solo. I think a poor choice to end the A side with.

God the B side. What an amazing start. First up is Anyway Anyhow Anwhere. An amazingly ripping song. So much distortion, the middle break just sounds like destruction, the drums are going crazy and the guitar is making ungodly noises while the bass keeps the pace. Then with two hits of the snare it's right back into the song, snapping straight back to the order of things. Towards the end it starts building up towards what sounds like more chaos but ends with the guitar fading off into the distance and clicking. After that comes in Pinball Wizard, starting out with the lone guitar and then busting out into the heavy riff we all know. When ever I hear this song I wait for the little drum roll at the "Sure plays a mean pinball" part. I don't know why but that is the part I always think of. This song definately shows the Who's talent for composition since so much seems to be going on throughout the whole song. Again a fade out.... lame. A Legal Matter is the next track. Townshend apparently is the lead vocalist on this track. I hadn't heard this song till I got this album. It is very different from most Who tracks. I can't exactly put my finger on it. Anyways next is Boris the Spider. Unlike Happy Jack i do like how childish and fun this track is because it has a weird ominous darkness about it. Consisting mostly of bass it has a very low sound to it. Entwistle wrote this song which is why it focuses mainly on the Bass. The creepy crawly part makes me laugh every time. Next is Magic Bus... one of my lesser favorite Who songs. Substitute is next. a lighter pop song that still keeps at a pretty upbeat tempo. Nothing too amazing or special about this song to me. The album ends with I'm A Boy. A good closer. The song goes through a couple periods of droning on kind of seeming to wait for something to happen. The vocals don't entirely do it for me. They seem too happy. The song discusses a family wanting a girl yet getting a boy, so they treat the boy as a girl. I feel the lyrics are a little too high and poppy for the song and for the subject matter.

Aside from a couple songs that are snoozers this is a great album. It's one of my favorites to listen to since it collects a lot of my favorite Who songs.

Punk's Dead When John Lydon Says It Is

So out of boredom and nothing to do today I watched "The Punk Years." It was pretty enjoyable (i admit i did skip some parts). One of my least favorite parts aside from the constant images repeated over and over in the background along with the same like 5 clips of live shows being shown repeatedly was John Lydon. He doesn't say anything good about any band. Otherwise there were lots of interesting people interviewed. They seem to have a weird obsession with Atari Teenage Riot though, and Chumbawumba. They brought up some interesting bands that rarely get the light of a documentary. What was kind of weird was the lack of pre-punk influences who are still alive not being on there to speak. They talk about Iggy Pop and David Bowie and many other iconic figures of the time and yet have none of them on to speak of what they were doing. The look at zines and the record companies is great too. I'd say it is for the most part a good watch. Nothing in it is too amazingly great, like no amazing live footage (and if there is it's only seconds of it) but it is inspirational in a way. The power the sex pistols had to play a show and then inspire people to the next day go out and form a band is amazing to me. I feel like there's people in the area who have the ability to play music but don't take that and apply it. I'm hoping within the next couple of months there will be some more bands coming together. It would be awesome to have more locals only shows and have them be awesome and not the same bands over and over.

Speaking of mostly local shows come out monday to Bull City HQ in Durham to see DEVOUR with Sex/Vid and my band logic problem.




Expect a more informative post tomorrow, I'll probably try to write reviews of some of the records I've picked up lately.

Small update

I'm running late for work. It's been a weird week.
These are a couple of the things that have been getting me through.