classic albums, atsonicpark edition # 50: drive like jehu - yank crime
 

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DRIVE LIKE JEHU "YANK CRIME"
1994, I think, Interscope right? Re-released by Swami in.. oh, I dunno, 2004 or so? That's probably the one I'd get, it has Bullet Train to Vegas and Hand Over Fist on it.

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Okay, two words to get this album: New Math.

Two more words? Rome Plows.

Oh, you still want more of a description of this album? Okay... Two more words.. Super Unison.

This album rules.

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed these classic albums posts, I'm probably not going to do them anymore. There's still a good 1,000 albums for me to post about, but at this point most people don't care or I'm just preaching to the choir who already know about these albums or would hear them at some point anyway. Enjoy!

You could always do classic albums post about albums that are obscure. Like you said, these posts aren't really CLASSIC albums, but they're classic albums to you and some of your favourites.

And in the end, I have still not listened to this band. Yet I've listened to all the bands they're compared to.

I've done some pretty obscure bands and the replies I get range from "Cool" to "never heard 'em" to "is this really a CLASSIC album?" The vibe I get is that if people haven't heard of an album or band, how can it be considered a classic? So, that's the problem with doing super-obscure bands/artists.

If people care about my reccomendations, they can see me post elsewhere outside of these posts. I also feel like I'm throwing my music tastes up in people's faces too much. Fuck it.

If anyone wants a real reccomendation.. and it's not too obscure... but I don't hear him mentioned too much.. I love everything Phil Niblock has done, I'm just now getting everything he's doing... it's amazing. If you like drone.

Well maybe classic album was the wrong phrase to describe these posts. I figured by this point people would know these posts were your personal choices anyway. Led Zeppelin made classic albums and I dislike them a lot, so classic doesn't equal good.

Not to mention that these topics DO make good discussion about the specific album and artist. People don't start threads and make discussion around here enough and these posts help the problem a little bit.

All it could take is not writing the 'classic' prefix before the name of the record, that's all. Personally, I like this record too, maybe I've listened to it 3 times in my entire life.

The thing with certain writing on this board, and with many music geeks in general, is that it seems like often one is genuinely enthusiastic about a band, but they make the mistake of trying to communicate that enthusiasm by writing or talking like an aspiring journalist, something that is bound to get you a lot of stick if you can't pull it off with some interesting points that stimulate debate.

Which I guess is your gripe with batreleaser and folks. I'm a shitty writer who can't write about music at all haha so I guess I don't have that problem.

time for my two cents:

"luau" is SO fucking awesome.

You'd be surprised to find out that I don't have anything personal against that dude, it's just that he often makes a technical mistake in his writing, which is that of jumping to conclusions by making statements that have no veritable proof when you listen to a lot of the people he writes about.

Also, I have to admit that unfortunately his way of describing the music within lacks descriptive imagination, vocabulary-wise.

That's all true yes. But he is a nice dude and he has good taste. He has actually gotten me into quite a few bands.

batreleaser: "yes i love this album, it's obviously lo fi noisy minimal post garage proto extreme mathcore avant garde trashy art punk!"

fucking awesome album. yank crime should be force fed to people on a regular basis!

sorry im late on this one.....

I guess I'll continue doing these, I got 2 pm's telling me to keep doing it. So sure.

I'll just call it something different like asp's favorite albums or something.

The series still lacks a Toby Driver entry though @____@

God, this is an awesome record.

"aloha! aloha, suit up!!!! luau!! au! au! au!"

im also for continuing the CAASPE#....
i havent heard DLJ. will check em out...

haha

yes but i actually prefer this ( a little bit)

I love them both. I love love love the Jehu "sound" and the riffs and the screaming and the rawk

Really? I never thought the S/T record was special at all, definitley a lot of potential there, but they were still trying to break free from the restrictive post hardcore thing. I can never decide what I like more, "Yank Crime" or "Suicide Invoice". Since I heard the Hot Snakes I definitley listen to them just as much as jehu.

Adam,


#1. keep doing it.
#2. keep calling it "classic albums." The thing is, these albums are classic TO YOU. They are important to yr musical background/vocabulary/environment.

When I do the NR Essentials, they're obviously albums I recommend for one reason or another, but the thing is, they're essential TO MY COLLECTION. And hopefully some of the others boarders will discover something awesome in the process of mentioning WHY it's essential to ME.

yeah, these threads are very interesting. no need to stop.

Hmm, I like the s/t just as much as Yank Crime.

hot snakes are great too, no doubt about that.

love the self-tiled an dthe yank crime and they RULE

s/t is amazing, it has their best songs on it ("if it kills you" and "step on chameleon").

This one's a better album though, if that makes sense.

totally agre adam. the first is a good album with some amazing songs but yank crime... its the bomb as they say in some crappy american tv shows.....

i'd agree with adam as well, assuming adam is atsonicpark. both brilliant albums nonetheless.

haha atsonicpark is adam. check the sig.

hey everyneurotic, have you seen this pic of the chick from pre?

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i like PRE even more now
nice tits.
I wish Shannon Wright and Kazu would do the same.
JUST GIMME INDIE ROCK (tits)