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WEIRD WAR

 
 
rizla mission
12:35 / 02.06.04
(Crossposted with my blog to a certain extent, but I just thought the Barbelith massive should be informed):


You’d think I’d have used up my year’s worth of Ian Svenonious sycophancy with that post the other day, but..

OH MY GOD! I just listened to the new Weird War album, "If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em" and it's amazing! It sounds like... it sounds like...

Well let us not beat around the bush here:

It sounds like if George Clinton and Jimi Hendrix formed a garage-punk band, pledged allegiance to the Baader Meinhof gang and chewed down a few sheets of blotter acid to get them in the mood.

GO GET IT.

Remind yourself: “If a tiny fly scrapes his
Nose against a metal ball as big as the
World, after a million years of this,
A mark will be discerned.”
Fall in love your yourself.
Demolish the enemy one by one.
Creep toward the nucleus dome.
Watch the hand of the clock go by.
Crush it / Flush it.
Still believe… in AK-47.
They can kill you,
But at least they can’t eat you.
If you can’t beat ‘em, bite ‘em.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:51 / 02.06.04
I want this.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
13:04 / 02.06.04
How does it compare to the first album, Riz? I really liked that for a while - sounded just like you'd expect a meeting of Royal Trux and Make-Up to - but it's not really stuck with me, with the exception of a couple of the tracks.

And is Haggerty still actually part of the group?
 
 
rizla mission
16:05 / 02.06.04
I missed out on the first album, so I can't compare.

Haggerty definitely isn't in the group anymore, but his absence doesn't hinder the quality at all, as the new guitarist (Alex Minoff) is AMAZING. Every track is completely smothered in great psychedelic wah-wah disco guitar freakouts.

The general tone of the thing is way, way more crazed and extreme, both musically and lyrically, that anything The Make-Up did. I'd imagine a lot of people are going to find Weird War a bit obscene and OTT, but I love it. Funkadelic is clearly a huge influence on the sound.
 
 
+#'s, - names
16:25 / 02.06.04
Yeah. Good record.
 
 
pomegranate
18:27 / 02.06.04
i like weird war, but not as much as i like the make-up. of course, back in the day, my adoration of them bordered on obsessive, even following them around on tour. they are nice people. ian in particular is very friendly and if you just want to talk to him if you see him after a show, do it. they tour all the time.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:14 / 29.09.04
I was rather disappointed with this - 'AK-47' and the title track rule, everything else just kinda sits there, on your sofa, smelling of stale smoke.
 
  
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