listening to the Doom – Police Bastard 7″ at the loudest possible volume.
Doom Kills You!
One of my good friends mentioned listening to The Epoxies in a Facebook post today. Since Maura (not to be confused with The Other Maura) lieks the Epoxies, I thought I would lay down a little Portland Punk Rock history and talk about The Automatics.
The most direct connection between the Automatics and The Epoxies would be FM Static. In a previous life, FM Static was known as Jesse Kimball, bass player extraordinaire for The Automatics, one of the better Pop-Punk acts to come out of the early to mid 90’s.
They seem to be somewhat overlooked, which is a shame as The Automatics turned out a lot of great suburban Punk Rock anthems that deserve to be heard.
To that end, enjoy some prime cuts from The Automatics:
The Automatics – Mommy is a Commie
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Kill Myself
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Be With You
The Automatics – Don’t Come Between Us
The Automatics – Hate Your Generation
The Automatics – Will You Go With Me?
The Automatics – I Don’t Love You
If you can’t play the mp3 filesI have come up with a few ways for you to play the songs:
1. You can download and run an exe file that has all the songs and a small mp3 decoder wrapped together. Just download and click to play.
2. Click play on this:
I was working on my comment queue and came accross what may be the funniest spam ever!
Click for the sage wisdom
Here are some tunes for you to listen to whilst at work. Maybe you will get fired. That would be funny.
Boris the Sprinkler – Drugs and Masturbation - This version is the 7″ version. The Intro sermon by the Reverend Norb is much better than on the Album cut. I wish I had the lyrics handy. An buy handy I mean I wish the 7″ wasn’t all the way in the living room.
High Tension Wires – Gellette Napoleon – Fucking awsome Texas Punk Rock. I could easily leave this song on repeat for a few hours and not get bored.
Mochipet – PolkaElectronicDeathCountry – This song rules, fucking RULES, I tell you!
Mr. Right & Mr. Wrong – Victoria – Essentially, this is NoMeansNo doing a great cover of The Fall song of the same name.
Man is the Bastard – Gourmet Pez – Power Violence legends Man is The Bastard are one of my favorite bands of all time. In My opinion, this is one of the best songs of the entire MitB catalog.
“all your money, will it by you love?
I say fuck your money, give us gourmet pez.
all your money, will it buy you peace?
I say fuck your money, we want gourmet pez.”
Button*Masher – Egomaniac – Inspired by (and partially performed using) video game samples, Button*Masher defy you to classify them into a genre.
SUB|HUM|ANS – Religious Wars – This is a great live track of the resurrected SUB|HUM|ANS from around 2008 (I believe).
Be Your own PET – Stairway to Heaven – with the exception of the bit at the beginning, this is not a cover song of “that which will not be played”.
Artless – Beer is Better Than Girls Are – If you walk away from this song bent out of shape by the sexist lyrics then you have no sense of humor and I don’t like you.
OK, so this is obviously really old but I missed it the first time. I was doing some holistic YouTube-ing when I came across this video from SNL circa 2006. I laughed so hard I actually wept. It actually made me like Natalie Portman. If you have seen it already, I apologize.
