A Prayer To God is the best opening track to any album ever, in my opinion.

damn straight my brotha

metallica's 'batterey' and 'fight fire with fire' come to my mind as well. but thats for another thread i suppose.

best opening lyric...

"gonna eat what i pick...
and i hope you choke on it!"

ha, you picked a photo form their Sofia gig.
boy that was awesome!
i posted more pictures in my own thread.
maybe i could repost them here, since it's the OFFICIAL Shellac appreciation thread.
gotta love this band.
or die.
or else...

no English, no money

tatata
tatatatatatatatatatatatata
tatatatatatata

is that johnny thunders in the middle?

I have to be in the mood. They're not like a lot of bands where putting on the record can make me in the mood for the band and its music. I have to want to hear the Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac sound before I can drop the need or cue the tape.

Not sure what that says about how much I appreciate them. When I'm into them, though, I'm really into them. They're just not a band I turn to every day.

That hoody still kills me.

Sunn Albini.

Merry Christmas.
I was tidying a whole bunch of files in the old PC when i stumbled on this really nice baby. This is the mighty SHELLAC, live @ Maroquinerie in PARIS ; march 2004.
16 songs (including early versions of Excellent Greyhound songs to be released only 3 years later...) and 4 questions to the band" session.
The sound if interesting as it really sounds as if you're close to the stage , full and crispy. Very energetic set. approx 212 variable bitrate.

HERE GOES, "be preopared"

yeah, thats a brilliant recording....... isnt that the one with wingwalker where steve goes off on a tangent about scramjet engines?

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet distinguished by supersonic combustion. At higher speeds, it is necessary to combust supersonically to maximize the efficiency of the combustion process. Projections for the top speed of a scramjet engine (without additional oxidiser input) vary between Mach 12 and Mach 24 (orbital velocity). The X-30 research gave Mach 17 due to combustion rate issues. By way of contrast, the fastest conventional air-breathing, manned vehicles, such as the U.S. Air Force SR-71, achieve approximately Mach 3.4 and rockets from the Apollo Program achieved Mach 30+.
Like a ramjet, a scramjet essentially consists of a constricted tube through which inlet air is compressed by the high speed of the vehicle, a combustion chamber where fuel is combusted, and a nozzle through which the exhaust jet leaves at higher speed than the inlet air. Also like a ramjet, there are few or no moving parts. In particular, there is no high-speed turbine, as in a turbofan or turbojet engine, that is expensive to produce and can be a major point of failure.
A scramjet requires supersonic airflow through the engine, thus, similar to a ramjet, scramjets have a minimum functional speed. This speed is uncertain due to the low number of working scramjets, relative youth of the field, and the largely classified nature of research using complete scramjet engines. However, it is likely to be at least Mach 5 for a pure scramjet, with higher Mach numbers (between 7 and 9) more likely. Thus scramjets require acceleration to hypersonic speed via other means. A hybrid ramjet/scramjet would have a lower minimum functional Mach number, and some sources indicate the NASA X-43A research vehicle is a hybrid design. Recent tests of prototypes have used a booster rocket to obtain the necessary velocity. Air breathing engines should have significantly better specific impulse while within the atmosphere than rocket engines.
However, scramjets have weight and complexity issues that must be considered. While very short suborbital scramjet test flights have been successfully performed, perhaps significantly no flown scramjet has ever been successfully designed to survive a flight test. The viability of scramjet vehicles is hotly contested in aerospace and space vehicle circles, in part because many of the parameters which would eventually define the efficiency of such a vehicle remain uncertain. This has led to grandiose claims from both sides, which have been intensified by the large amount of funding involved in any hypersonic testing. Some notable aerospace gurus such as Henry Spencer and Jim Oberg have gone so far as calling orbital scramjets "the hardest way to reach orbit", or even 'scamjets' due to the extreme technical challenges involved. Major, well funded projects, like the X-30 were cancelled before producing any working hardware.

"LOOK AT ME
I'M A PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE"

This live recording is great. Thanks a bunch.

isn't it?
I'm glad some people grabbed it cuz i took me a while to upload this mofo.
kool.

Reminds me of when I saw them live... which was the best show I'd ever been to. I even told Todd Trainer that and he said in a very droney voice, "Thaaaaaaanks, glaaaad you enjoyeeeed the shooooooooow."

idem for me, with Fugazi opening in london.
jeez that was insane.
:eek:

fugazi opening for shellac !!!!
you're lucky dude !!!!!

I think Shellac is way more influential than Big Black.
BB has influenced Ministry and NIN, Young Gods, well not many.
Shellac has influenced almost every band on Touch&Go in the 90's ( it was more cloning than inspiration ), many bands on Amrep, like Guzzard, they almost created a genre ( minus the name ).

You forgot to mention Big Black influenced MARILYN MANSON.