[porkmarras]

Any admirers?Cant post a lot on here at the moment.Leave you thoughts on here and i'll check them later.

[trance feeeedback]

Awsome band! I really don't think a lot of weird experimental bands like butthole surfers would be around if it wasn't for them. A lot of people argue about who was the first altrenative/experimental rock band godz or velvet underground, I think the godz made the velvet underground sound like tame pop music.

"I went to the airport, and they asked if I had a reservation, I said what the hell do I look like an Indian?"

[Iain]

Haha...that's one of my favourite Godz lyrics. They are great.

[Glice]

Ace band. Was it them that were on ESP? ESP, generally, was (/is?) a fucking ace label.

I really, really need a proper mint original of Patty Walters Sings.

Some of my favourite music is that made by people who have no idea how to play instruments, but are determined to be great (see also the Slits and the Shaggs)

[porkmarras]

Nice to see you Glice.The only by that i have by them is indeed on ESP and it brings the whole house down when i play it.

[porkmarras]

Godz 2 (ESP-Disk 1047, 1967

[porkmarras]

This made smile:





hecklerspray
Jan 11, 2005
CD [Rating1448143]

This is quite possibly the most inept record I've ever heard, which has gotta be worth something. Yeah, you thought you were pretty cool gettin' drunk with your high school buddies, and playing your three-string acoustic while warbling improv lyrics and tunes into your cheezy tape recorder. Well I'm here to tell ya that the Godz did it first! I remember one of my friends recording a song called "Coughing Song" where he proceeded to hack and wheeze in a most annoying fashion while occasionally plucking his guitar. I'm surprised that's not here. Instead, we have a song called "White Cat Heat" where the band does the best impression of sexed-up kitties I've ever heard (this lasts 2 minutes and 11 seconds). Then there is a song called "Turn On", the lyrics of which are "Turn On/Oh Turn On" (4:19). After that, there is the vaguely Eastern sounding "Na Na Naa", where the singer warbles "Na Na Naa" over and over again (2:57). You get the idea. The sleeve tells me the Godz were part of the same scene which produced the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders, but they are nowhere near the wonderful craziness of those bands, and the sleeve also says the Godz sound "like a prototype for Half Japanese or the Shaggs", but they have none of the purposeful/accidental charm of either of those artists. On the plus side, there is a quite listenable cover of Hank Williams' "May You Never Be Alone Like Me" closing out the album. All told, this entire record is only 25 minutes long. See if you can make it to the end.

Rated:

 

torn_curtain
Dec 13, 2004
Vinyl [Rating632149]

[Gulasch Noir]

Dei magnifici sunt!

Sooooo, I went to the airport! Haha, indeed.

[nicfit]

Lovely band.
Can't express deeper thoughts now.
Still trying to figure out if porkmarras avatar is a tombstone or a toaster.
see ya.

[DJ Rick]

Deiz magnifici sunt!


The Godz represent an important piece of the puzzle in the evolution of rock music from something rather formulaic to something that could be wide open enough for total freedom of expression. And when you consider how much the dudes in Godz and the Fugs were touched by seeing free jazz performed live, and then infusing their own version of street music and protest songs with those ideas and spirit, then it makes perfect sense why ESP-Disk's catalog looks the way it does.

[Everyneurotic]

yeah, they kicked ass, the fugs, the godz, the deviants (not on esp disk and british but still...), all those bands were awesome...

i saw the godz 2 album last saturday for $30 dollars aprox. i bet 10 years ago, i would have found it for $3...