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The Rock Mixtape

bio k9

19:13 / 13.11.01

OK.

Track One.
Murder City Devils: Bear Away (from the album THELEMA)

It starts off, like all great MCD songs, with that massive organ. Instant fucking Vincent Price. Then the drums kick in

the best is landing/ without a captain/ without a crew/ dead in the hold/ tied to the wheel/ this ship of death/ this ship is filled with rats/ you'd better find your mother/ you'd better look for cover...

we don't need a doctor/ we need a sacrifice/ we need a sacrifice/ you'd better hide your babies/ until morning...

we make a choice/ we make it everyday/ to get up in the morning/ to bear away...

you'd better outlive your mother/ you'd better outlive your mother/ YOU'D BETTER OUTLIVE YOUR MOTHER! ...

way before sundown/ send your children to grandma/ nail a cross to the door...

Indeed.

[ 14-11-2001: Message edited by: Bioluminescent K9 ]

mondo a-go-go

08:30 / 14.11.01

i know it's not very RAWK, but for sheer humour, i'd have to follow that up with my generation by the who.

The Return Of Rothkoid

08:48 / 14.11.01

Not rawk? Why you bad scamp!

Are you forgetting Moon?

grant

12:43 / 14.11.01

Five to One- the Doors

(stomping, heavy bass beat)
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try

The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!

(this last, a hoarse scream....)

As a note, I've always wanted to do a Devo-style cover of this, with a couple lyric reversals to point out that their generation now outnumbers us... but we, on the whole, are much better armed.

rizla mission

13:22 / 14.11.01

(um .. isn't the Murder City Devils album THELEMA, as opposed to THELMA? I mean, the latter's not very metal is it..)

The previous two have been a bit 60s, so let's keep that theme going but simultaneously Kick Out the Jams with..

Husker Du - Eight Miles High
Originally a Byrds tune, or so I'm told.
Swiftly descends into over-powered feedback guitar thrashing, big punk drums and loads of highly emotional sore-throat inducing screaming.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

13:30 / 14.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Kooky is a bad scamp:
i know it's not very RAWK, but for sheer humour, i'd have to follow that up with my generation by the who.

Humour?! Humour?! How dare you! I call you defiler! Get thee away !

They played it last night at the club, much drunken dancing in the spirit of moon was done...

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:40 / 14.11.01

5. The Moves - 'Fucking Charming'

Don't know that much about The Moves - Rosa has raved about them elsewhere - kinda punky but melodic grrl guitar stuff, sounds like it has a bit of a Mod-ish influence to me, or maybe classic early 90s guitar pop... um, hang on, let me listen to it again...

Yeah, anyway, it has a very catchy refrain, very cool, slightly-aloof vocals... actually it reminds me a little bit of, erm, Lush, but much less annoying. I'm not actually sure how 'ROCK' this is, but... whatever. It's good, and stuck in my head at the mo.

And it's a bit of fresh air after all that hairy rock screaming.

[ 14-11-2001: Message edited by: Flyboy ]

grant

13:47 / 14.11.01

Hey Riz: Here's a Real Audio clip of the original, and the same thing as an MPEG file. Streaming. From CDNow.com.
Only to show how weird and wonderful Husker Du are.

Sorry, go on.

Cherry Bomb

22:02 / 14.11.01

Kill me if you must, but I'm going for "Magic Man" by Heart. Cheesy YES but I can never hear that guitar solo in the middle without thinking, "DAMN those girls could rock!"

I will, however, accept "Crazy On You" as a substitute, due to the fine acoustic beginning and the continued guitar greatness of the song.

Basil

08:15 / 15.11.01

Can god fill teeth - LARD
Having recently had stiches in my mouth due to dental apathy, this track has taken on mystical overtones. And it rocks like a bastard.

uncle retrospective

21:33 / 17.11.01

Youth against Fasisim sonic youth. After the drills screaming in can god fill teeth we'll move to screaming distortion and swearing to remove the taint of Heart.

(sorry Cherry but no.)

Cop Killer

18:06 / 18.11.01

"Rama Rama Fa Fa Fa" by the MC5 is fucking Rock 'n' Roll, it's one of the pinacles of the genre. The MC5 ain't nothin' ta fuck wit.

ceridwen

22:56 / 18.11.01

jukebox padlock by the hard feelings.

rock n roll from austin- if you haven't heard the hard feelings, hurry, go find them now.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:42 / 19.11.01

Side Two!

1. Public Enemy - 'She Watch Channel Zero'

Possibly the most ROCK! hip-hop track ever recorded. Also one of Chuck D and co's noticeably less right-on moments: yes, it's a good critique of the media and the way television can rot yr brain, but there's also the implication that this only happens to STUPID, STUPID women, not guys like Chuck - "there's a five letter word to describe here character / cos her brain's been washed by an actor", indeed. Oh, and then Flavour Flav seems to miss the whole point entirely by wanting to watch the football. Still: it is very, very rock.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:13 / 19.11.01

2. Stay Where You Are - Sleater Kinney

From their earlier, funnier, stuff, this is gonna rock, rock, rock with the rock, to quote Jack Chick.

She's dead if you want,
And it's me if you want,
Stuck in the corner,
Little Girl Lost,
And I bite and I scratch and I beg and I scream,
I just need you to save me one last time.

Just trust me. It rocks.

Jimmy Turncoat

12:27 / 19.11.01

What does any of this have to do with the WWF?

rizla mission

14:26 / 19.11.01

um .. nothing, thank god.

For a completely different cultural perspective to the previous track:

3. Black Sabbath - Ironman

I AM .. IRONMAN!

DUR DUR, DURDURDUR, DIDDLEIDDLEIDDLE DUR DUR DUR DUR..

Margin Walker

17:46 / 19.11.01

The Saints: "Demolition Girl/Night In Venice"

I'd have listed just "Night In Venice", but "Demolition Girl" bleeds so effortlessly into "Night In Venice" The best songs The Stooges never wrote, bar-none.

Runner-up: The Heartbreakers: "Chinese Rocks"

Cop Killer

18:47 / 19.11.01

"Raw Power" Iggy and the Stooges, one of the best songs that they did actually write.

ceridwen

02:42 / 20.11.01

let's hear the hives - introduce the metric system

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:05 / 14.01.02

It just has to be...

7. The Strokes - 'Last Nite'

Does anyone really need telling what this sounds like?

[ 14-01-2002: Message edited by: Flyboy ]

Ethan Hawke

13:12 / 14.01.02

8. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.

J. Mascis melodically whining over a simple rock song with 2 incredibly metal-scraping-on-metal sounding solos. My Effect Pedals are Fucking in Heaven.

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