Melvins - Live at the Showbox - Seattle - 07-26-08

Label: Bootleg
Year: 2008

This is a soundboard recording which accompanied a video that a guy was circulating around the internet a couple years ago. The sound quality is pretty ace, as you would expect from the soundboard.
The show features a good amount of Nude With Boots material, plus some songs from Bullhead, Houdini, Electroretard, (A) Senile Animal, the "Star Spangled Banner", and their version of "My Generation" that surfaced a couple years later on The Bride Screamed Murder.
Not that you're on the fence about the Melvins or anything, but my own opinion is that even though the band's recorded output has suffered from a lack of editing as of late, their live shows are still impeccable. The dueling drums are blistering, and Buzzo's guitar is as damaging as ever.

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the jesus lizard/nirvana split

released 1993

some band called the jesus lizard do a song called "puss"

some band called nirvana do a song called "oh,the guilt"

it's ok

DL: the jesus lizard/nirvana split

mudhoney - superfuzz bigmuff plus early singles

released 1990

everyone knows about some mudhoney

really?

there's always gotta be that one guy,man

well...if it weren't for mudhoney vocalist mark arm...there probably wouldn't have been any of that grunge business (well...it might've had a different tag anyway...it's rumored that he's the one that came up with the word "grunge")

they came together back in the year nineteen of eighty eight after the band green river split up (members mark arm and steve turner were members)...and they were joined by former melvins bassist matt lukin and bundle of hiss drummer dan peters

so that right there should tell you all you need to know

you see all of the band names,right?

it's called "pedigree"...and this band has it

this combines the band's SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF and BOILED BEEF & ROTTING TEETH EPS and their half of a split they did with sonic youth (covering their song "halloween")

so go and get that flannel out if it's tupperware container....get drunk...and start throwing yourself off of the back of the couch (i don't care if you are a recovering alcoholic...that's what AA meetings are for...and you know you want to be the first one to ever say that you relapsed because of grunge)

happy birthday,mark arm


DL: superfuzz bigmuff plus early singles

The Last Crime - The Last Crime

Label: The Omega
Year: 1997

Kevin Egan is another one of "those dudes" whom I will always listen out for, and whom I am generally pleased with their entire canon of work. He just seems to have good taste in music and musical collaborators. Maybe he's a total dick in real life, maybe he's a pedophile, maybe he clubs baby harp seals on the weekends, I don't know (but for the record: SGM does not condone baby harp seal clubbing or pedophilia, and we in no way accuse Mr. Kevin Egan [hereto for known as "Client"] of any activities not permitted by the United States Constitution, or those laws defined by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich England) but I've liked everything he's done, Beyond, 1.6 Band, all that stuff.
The Last Crime took their hardcore roots and dipped them in a heavy mixture of June of 44, Native Nod, Unwound, and Drive Like Jehu. Diagnosis: delicious!

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v/a - the tyranny of the beat

released 1991

This pretty much has everything that'll make goth punks in their 40s super stoked (if that can even happen)

it covers all the mascara covered bases with some early industrial...some post punk...some electronic noise....

1 - SPK - in flagrante delicto
2 - throbbing gristle - see you are (live)
3 - cabaret voltaire - automotivation
4 - chris carter - solidit (edit)
5 - die krupps - wahre arbeit, wahrer lohn
6 - DAF - co co pina
7 - einstürzende neubauten - tanz debil
8 - NON - cruenta voluptas
9 - can - oh yeah
10 - wire - our swimmer (live)
11 - swell maps - midget submarines
12 - the boys next door - shivers
13 - dome - cruel when complete
14 - monte cazazza - candy man
15 - the hafler trio - a thirsty fish/the dirty fire

if you take anything away from this post...let it be this: the awesomeness of the can/wire/swell maps triple threat


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camp climax for girls - ten dollar birds

released 2004

i saw these fellows from alton,il in concert back in 2004

i had never heard of them prior to the show (as i was originally going to see a band called the great redneck hope)...and they had kinda just gotten thrown onto the tour...and all i needed to do was see the band's name to know that i was gonna be in for a pretty sweet time (and i'd totally throw down cash money to watch a movie with that title...like you wouldn't)

so if you like yerself a little bit o' post-TRANSITIONAL SPEEDWAY LEAGUE clutch...some post-(A) SENILE ANIMAL melvins...some queens on the stone age...

sadly...the band split up back in 2005...and this was their only album

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dirty talker

this is a trio from lincoln,ne that got it's start in a band called dean armband (in the form of guitarist adam j. 2000 and drummer brendan mcginn)

they actually played under the dirty talker title for the first time as part of this

do you like gang of four?

what about mission of burma?

maybe some wire?

if anything...you have to (read: NEED TO) snag this up for their cover of the jesus lizard's "mailman"


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John Henry West - John Henry West 7"

Label: Gravity
Year: 1993

So this post comes to you as a result of a conversation I had (via text, so maybe "conversation" isn't the correct term..."exchange"? Is exchange a better word?) with a friend who had just seen another friend after a prolonged absence. So those two gentlemen are talking, catching up on old times, and since they were both active in the 1990's hardcore scene, and more specififically the hardcore scene on the Western Coast of the United States, they started talking about mutual acquaintences from that time period. One peculiar thread of their conversation, the one my friend found worthy enough to relay to me, and now I am relaying to you, is that while visiting San Francisco on a recent visit, this other guy had run into Mike Kirsch, of John Henry West fame, who was now going by the name Sally as a he had undergone a sex reassignment surgery and was in fact, a woman. Huh?!
Can anyone confirm this report, because it seems super weird to me, but maybe I'm just old fashioned and in my day, bearded, sensitive, hardcore dudes who liked to ramble between songs about the plight of the El Salvadorian textile worker's union were just that...dudes.
Also, it was reported that Mike/Sally was battling cancer, and if that's true, we here at Shiny Grey Monotone wish him/her the best of luck. Cancer is no joke, and Mike/Sally seems to be a very nice man/woman, and I hate to hear of that happening to him/her. Here's hoping that he/she finds the strength to beat cancer and get back to making more great music.

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nirvana for beginners

happy birthday,kurt

1 - i hate myself and want to die
2 - oh,the guilt
3 - territorial pissing
4 - floyd the barber
5 - moist vagina
6 - gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip
7 - curmudgeon
8 - scentless apprentice
9 - aneurysm
10 - endless,nameless

DL: nirvana for beginners

far - quick

released 2008

some of you might think that this really doesn't belong here

some of you might think that this fits in nicely amongst everything else and recall some fond memories of days gone past

some of you might find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife

and you might ask yourself "well,how did i get here?"

this (the band's second album) was originally released in 1994...and then quickly went out of print

on this (the re-release)...you get 3 covers (pj harvey's "sheela na gig"/madonna's "live to tell"/led zeppelin's "heartbreaker"...which also has a nice little nod to helmet)

the band split up back in 1999...but reformed and released an album back in 2010 (AT NIGHT WE LIVE)...but apparently that's all the band could muster and split up once again (as vocalist jonah matranga put it..."there's too much drama")

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