Abe Vigoda - Skeleton - mp3 review
No story, but I will take this time to vent a little. The Brooklyn Social Security Administration office is the worst run office I have ever seen. Whoever came up with queueing system is a fucking idiot and should not be allowed to participate in normal society any longer.
Abe Vigoda is CA based no wave, surf punk, pop, BLAHHHHH band from the Smell scene (No Age, HEALTH). They remind me a bit of what Times New Viking might sound like if their production wasn’t so shitty. But there is still plenty of lo-fi grit on these tracks. The Smell scene gets its name from a dingy club in downtown LA with no liquor license or concessions of any kind, basically just a place to see live bands. Maybe not one of the more accessible groups to come out of that scene, but with a recent 8.3 rating on pitchfork they may be poised to become one of the most successful.
-mark
July 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
” but with a recent 8.3 rating on pitchfork they may be poised to become
one of the most successful.”
Most likely why I hate it. Pitchfork likes to say “Hey, this is great!” to
shitty bands to make everyone else feel like they’re idiots. Label crap
Good and work off the cool factor while maintaining that superiority. Not
buying it..
July 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
who is Pitchfork? is he on this list? is he cool? you think he might want to hang out with me?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Pitchfork’s real name is Manuel C. (that’s all I can say). He’s on the
list under a pseudonym. He is UBER COOL. C’mon man…. All music sucks, if
you like it, well, go take a nap grandpa.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:55 am
The other day in band practice we had a lil’ jam. Lots of single note noodlings with out true major chord resolutions. It started to gain a bit of an afro beat vibe. Now i’m a big fan of afrobeat and have been since 1978. i was thinking, “wow this isn’t bad”. it wasn’t the usual late-90’s diminished third/mush/chunka chunka rerun we often find ourselves in. as soon as I started getting back of the neck/goose bumps sprouts that playing good music gives you, keith, our drummer says, “god, i fucking hate that kind of music”. he got a big laugh from everyone in the room.
abe vigoda reminds me of that jam. disjointed, possibly half put together but also possibly worth while to hunker down and figure it out.
being in bands is always one of two things. people you dont like but are on the same page musically. or people you like who have completely different tastes. tired of it all? start a cover band!