by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - J
Jon Cougar Concentration Camp – Hot Shit – CD (BYO Records) Nasty! Rude! Loads and loads of fun shit! Speed of sound brash face-punching punk. Certainly, they get the ‘best band name of the decade’ award. There’s no bullshit here. Just straight on Punk...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - J
Joshua – A Whole New Theory – CD (Doghouse Records) Toledo! Fuckin’ Toledo? Come on. I grew up in that shitty, rusting ghost town, and when I left (okay it was ten years ago) there wasn’t a goddam thing going on musically or otherwise. But here is this...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - J
Jupiter Down – Jupiter Down – CD (Beluga Records) This is reminiscent of Tonya Donnelly from Belly and Throwing Muses, but with a lot more malice. Heavy, at moments poised on the edge of a groove. A few songs are a tad long, and a bit underdeveloped, with...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - L
Leatherface – Cherry Knowle – CD (BYO Records) Yeah! They sent me more! I love this band. Old School. Socially charged gravelly raw punk rock without mercy fast furious fucking power to the people and fuck you we’re a real god damned punk rock band and...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - M
Murder 1 – American Junkie – CD (Pavement Music) Yuk! There’s enough testosterone here to kill a butch buffalo. Not my cup of tea. I think they’re into Pantera and Rage Against The Machine, but I don’t think they quite achieve anything close to that...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - P
Pavement – “Terror Twilight” – CD (Matador Records) I was being absorbed into an especially puffy couch on Saturday. It was one of those parties after the bars closed -strictly diehards, lots of listless staring at the various ashtrays, cans and...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - A
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead- Madonna – CD (Merge Records) Picture a daredevil wearing a black crash helmet, sitting calmly in a rickety, dining room armchair. He’s surrounded by piles of dynamite–fuses lit and sparking. The crowd is...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - S
Subterra – The Speed of Pain – CD (American Horse Records) Okay, if Weird Al Yankovic has anything to do with this record, then I can accept it. This is supposed to be funny, right? …Guys? …Hello? It’s okay to laugh isn’t it? Sometimes I think they’re...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - B
Jessica Bailiff – “Even in Silence” and “Hour of the Trace” – CD (Kranky) Graceful and quiet, almost ethereal. A lover whispering secrets into your ear; secrets falling like snow, cold and accumulating, a little disconcerting, sometimes chilling, but...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - S
Superchunk – Come Pick Me Up – CD (Merge Records) First off for all of the people who claim that all Superchunk records sound the same (a sacrilege which will not get you on the good side of a guy who calls himself ‘superchunk sTEve), I have just one thing...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - B
Big Angry Fish! – The 13 Electric Turn-Ons – CD (Beluga Records) Let’s talk about Sohio, the fifth and best song on the CD. When I start reviewing I listen to a couple of songs, and then prioritize all the CD’s according to really good and really bad. This...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - S
Supersuckers – The Evil Powers of Rock ‘n’ Roll – CD (Twenty 14 / Koch Entertainment) Just who are these guys referring to? The Supersuckers are the evil powers of rock and roll. Back when rock and roll was still a baby people complained that...
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