obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.

again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.

this is on the fringes of my tastes, and about as heavy as i'd ever get. the thing about stuff like white zombie, ministry, melvins and some of the other stuff from the same time and place (including korn, actually) is that it was never really metal. it was punk musicians trying to be metal musicians that were trying to be punk. or something. i think that subtlety has been lost to history. but it let people that were normally into punk get into it a bit more.

i was actually listening to the remix disc, supersexy swingin' sounds, quite a bit at the time. that remains one of the most outright fucking weird pieces of music ever released. the camp appeal was a big part of this.

but those that are willing to strain their memory this far back will recall that there was a brief moment when the guitarist for white zombie had a column in guitar world. white zombie was never particularly challenging, but the guitar style (regardless of who was playing) has always been pretty creative. the guitar parts on this disc were a lot of fun to play along to. now, i was mostly learning blues at the time, which got me more interested in thayil and corgan (as periphery to the lesson material, which was hendrix, clapton, page, zappa, srv), but i've always had a taste for noise, so i took the time to explore this idea of "skronking" a little and am pretty glad i did. you can hear it from time to time, not just on this old stuff but moving forward....

(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general.)

obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.

again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.

i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing.

this is a much more creative record than nevermind and had a much bigger influence on me. in utero > incesticide > nevermind, but none of the earliest really noisy stuff made it up to youtube, for various reasons. there's some later stuff. it's all at the bandcamp site, at the very bottom.

(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)

obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.

again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.

i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing. the rhythm section is really the best part of the record.

(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)

obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.

again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.

back in '94, when i was 13, this video was pretty much the coolest thing ever.

(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)

obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.

again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with. so i'm going to have some fun with the silliness...

i played my stupid songs and wrote my stupid words in a basement rather than a garage. yet, that's easily glossed over. and this is really a universal teenage anthem, isn't it?

(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)