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Originally Posted by Norma J
Nations of Ulysses are fantastic.
From that list, you're obviously more into the earlier 'Hardcore' stuff. Which I like too, but they're not the bands that I love the most from Dischord.
Right now I'm actually listening to El Guapo's album Super/System. Fantastic album.
Antelope's Reflector album and The Year in Seven Inches comp is also sitting infront of me.
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no, it's not that i like hardcore better, it's that they were the best bands in the label, best bands period. void alone can take any band in the label, they can even take minor threat and fugazi combined, musically. i thought of putting swiz or soulside or ignition in there but decided to leave jawbox because they were an amazing band.
i ned to give a chance to el guapo, i remember they were so so, same with lungfish and circus lupus.
the first year in seven inches is fantastic.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Nation were interesting enough but I wasn't always excited to listen to their "I-hate-everything" swagger. Love their lyrics, though I hate their vocals. Love the song that goes "Ain't talkin bout Beatles songs written 100 yeats before I was born." and one of my mix tape staples, "You're my Miss Washing D.C."... one of those bands that's hard to listen to a whole album, but not bad in small doses. I always think Refused kind took what NoU did and better'd it.
My favorite Dischord bands were Minor Threat, Faraquet, and the first Q and Not U record.
Fugazi.. "the Argument" is a great album.. I actually think they kind have gotten better as they went along... like, I don't really like "13 Songs" at all. I dunno, it's pretty good stuff. Nothing to get excited about.
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yes, thank you! (about the refused comment).
ahh yes, faraquet too, need to give it a chance.
and fugazi, again, yes i prefer minor threat, but i do like fugazi. i too don't care much for both eps in 13 songs, repeater is a great album, so is red medicine. my favorite is probably in on the kill taker.
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Originally Posted by Glice
4) To Mr Neurotic - NOU do sound fake; but something like 'today I met the girl I'm going to marry' is something like a garage/ doo-wop sentiment over a (pseudo-, I suppose) hardcore backing. Ian Svenonius has, in most of his career since, made an outstanding job of undermining and parodying genres without pitying and hating them; a fakeness born of love if you will.
5) Somehow NOU avoid being anything like a 'postmodern' band.
6) These words are my own, and not terrifically important.
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ian is (was?) in weird war, right? that band was (is?) good. i understand the garage doowop and the parodying of the genres. it sound embryonic and a bit lost with ulysses, though.
but are't nation of ulysses a post-post modern band, by your own definition? taking the piss and parodying while walloing in those same terms?