Radio Birdman in their prime kicked ass too.

The Scientists are a great band but totally, totally different from The Birthday Party. Why even compare them, may I ask?

Feedtime are an old Australian band that rocked rectums too, ditto King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat & Slugfuckers.

I love this discription of Slugfuckers' Deaf Disco that my friend wrote after I put it on a mixtape for him
"I love the primitive percussion, fuzzy bass and the loud organ that adds a necessary lyer of noise. The singer sounds like a retarded Mark E Smith, in pain and on untested drugs. By the end of this song it sounds like the band are raping themselves. This might be the most compellingly painful, disgusting piece of music I've ever heard. It's amazing."

I almost put my hands over my ears at the London DDN Sept 1st show during Providence. I was determined not to tho... would've spoilt the whole thing. And I would never be able to live it down... I was on the barrier.

I haven't heard anyone mentioning Lubricated Goat, like, ever! What have you got by them, out of curiosity? The only one I've heard is ''Paddock Of Love'' and it's very good from what my memory allows me to remember.

I've got Plays The Devil's Music

Motorhead
or Wiseblood -
maybe even From Here to Infinity - and all they used were tapes.

I'd have to say Dinosaur Jr by a snot. MBV was real close as well as HUM.

cuz theyre both from australia, the land of shit music.

duh.

Deep.

oss-trail-eah?

I too am gonna have to say Dino Jr. They really were that fucking loud.
Honorable mention goes to Tomahawk and Wolf Eyes.

this is probably the last one you would think of, but volume wise...Death Cab For Cutie is by far the loudest gig I've ever experienced, the bass really hurt

i'd say australia is killing it at the moment:

bands:
castings
the spiders
brothers of the occult sisterhood
xno bbqx
grey daturas
6majik9
htrk
naked on the vague
justice yeldham
hronrir
joel stern

labels:
pulled out
spanish magic
music your mind will love you
dual plover
breakdance the dawn


and the two compilations of Australian post-punk that i've heard have been great too.

Here is J Mascis amp stack from the 1006 reunion show in Houston

Atari Teenage Riot, Mogwai, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Melt Banana and the other usual suspects from me.

I think generally that club speakers tend to be louder than venue speakers. There was a time when I was spending a lot of time in D n'B clubs watching Rush & Optical or Nicky Blackmarket every week it seems, and the bass was always brutal. I've been a few proper dark raves where the sound system has been beyond shredding.

I was absolutely astonished at how loud Mis-Teeq were at Glastonbury. Bass the size of Norwich.

don't forget whitehorse.

and seriously, if you have the chance to see justice yeldham DON'T FUCKING PASS ON IT!

He's right.

I was almost deafened by a drill n' bass night at the Bugs Bar in Brixton years ago. Loud, very loud.

Mogwai in '99.

The first tour of their I saw was, I think, their first proper British tour. '97, if memory serves. It just before Young Team. Which is getting its 10th anniversary release this year. So it was, in fact, '98. Anyway. They were sick loud in a small-ish, sweaty venue. The sort of venue that I'd be very happy to sell out, but much smaller than the sort of places Mogwai play now. The whole room's legs buckled during the loud bit on Like Herod, which was astonishing at the time (given that everyone had only heard Ten Rapid at that point). Ah, rose-tinted nostalgia, excuse me.