C/D: Q and Not U

I've read good things about their subsequent stuff (Different Damage I think was one?)....and mean to pick one up....What should I get?

I'm wierd maybe in that a Dischord connection is still a good thing to me.

I'm with you on the Dischord-connection being a positive thing, but I grew up in Bethesda in Suburban D.C. and all of that 1990s stuff shaped my whole musical worldview forever.

Last time I saw them in L.A., they covered a Screamers song and then finished the set with this total go-go percussion breakdown that was really cool. I was really blown away and confused as to why they're not getting the same kind of hype as some of the other bands they're often grouped with.

Also search their cover of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" from a benefit comp from a year or so ago.

Current opinion: Good music, annoying man-girl voice.

if you ask me, the new pretty girls make graves or whatever sounds like a total q and not u rip off. that's my $.02.

(i agree with the dischord assessment... definitely some different bits than the stallwarts. it was actually nice to see them put out some youngerish bands... nothing against the dischord pantheon or anything, it's just that... well... it's good to see some encouragement of THOSE CRAZY KIDS AND THEIR WEIRD NEW SOUNDS!)

m.

ps oh ok, shoot me for saying "NEW"...

the new album isn't as good as 'different damage', though. (and the album pre-diff damage sounds like generic dischord to me, not very gripping)

thats awesome about the M.I.A thing.

The live set's pretty Different Damage-heavy: mostly all in that hyper-danceable syncopated insanely good inaudible-vocals keyboard blurps and vocoder! vein.

(I'm insanely tempted to just leg it out of town and go catch them at the brighton date before they go back to the states.)

That good eh? Yay!! Well anyhow, say hello if you make it down here. Have a feeling there won't be that many folks there, it seems a little under-promoted...

I was making some joke to a guitar bro about how there needs to be a song that only uses harmonics. The next day I listened to 'ess oh eff, tee pee why, are eh em, eye dee ess, eee vee eh, pee oh are, eh tee eee, at daylight" and realized it had been done. (For most of the song anyway.)

These guys did kill live and it was the only time I actually saw Kilby Court in DANCE ATTACK mode.

Now I don't find about music like this on account of no longer having a roomie/best pal who bought everything on Dischord and DeSoto.

(Beauty Pill counting as both – dude had like seven Beauty Pill shirts! And he bought me a Dismemberment Plan hoodie with a FLYING BRANE on it so that was nice too.)

their first album had some pretty slick dual-guitar jams. never really heard 'em after that.

That first album was such a fucking great album. Never heard Different Damage. Their third album Power was a letdown, but has some nice songs (LAX comes to mind).

dude had like seven Beauty Pill shirts

o_O

What's that Q & Not U song with the melodica in? It was an album track and a single. I liked that one

that was 'soft pyramids' right?

i'm gonna break that first album out for the morning commute.

Different Damage is so much better than the first one, although it's oddly mixed (or at least my CD version of it is).

no kill no beep beep really clicked with my impressionable indie-fed ears back in the day. the satisfaction i got out of it was somewhat similar to the sense of jubilation i felt hearing the unbridled energy and excitement of the earlier les savy fav records ('cat and the cobra' etc.). different damage was a bit slight. kind of a grower though with restrained, moody tracks and a couple of frenetic faster ones.

D-O-W-N and that's the way we get down!
no scissors in bed
tired of waking up
with a new haircut every morning so it's no scissors in bed

No Kill No Beep Beep sounds like Fugazi actually sort of cutting loose and having a good time.
Different Damage is my personal fave, it's so tense and minimal.
Power isn't great, just a pretty fun pop album.

Managed to see them play one of their final shows before they disbanded--it was a great time, the audience was just one big sweaty dancing grinning mess.

I put on Different Damage at work one night and one of my many dipshit coworkers said, "You're alright and all but you sure listen to some gay-ass shit."

different damage is a masterpiece, the other two albums never quite did it for me apart from a couple of songs.

what was the lineup @ the kilby show, abbott? q and not u/black eyes/antelope? if so, i was at that show too, really fun

C/D: Q and not U
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but WS

not worth discussing past no kill no beep beep, once they lost matt borlique things got ok but relatively lame. will still rock we heart our hive.

their practice house was next to mine in high school, never realized it was them though, just called it "that band house"

so upon revisiting, No Kill is still the JAM. I always wish I played guitar in a band that sounded like that.

Yep 6335. We drove from Boise to get there and ended up running over a fox on the way down. ;_;

It kind of makes me happy that I can say Kilby Court and someone knows wtf I'm talking about. What's the name of that place on 9th & 9th? I saw Sonic Youth there in...'04? '05? Do you know where I'm talking about?

It is a relatively recently new place.

9th and 9th by where the coffee garden, tower theatre and salt city cd's was? i'm sorta confused, i thought sonic youth had only been through here once since the whole REM tour fiasco and they played w/ wolf eyes @ in the venue which is down on 200 s. and 600 w. unless i missed something ;_;

Listening to the debut by Title Tracks, the new project by John Davis since Georgie James fell apart. It starts off pretty decent, but I don't feel like it really holds up over the whole runtime. Kinda like the Springsteen cover, but not sold on the Byrds cover. Obviously no patch on Q and Not U, but thats obviously not the point either.

Ryan Little of the Washington City Paper looks back at the band and the people in the photo on the debut album

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/10/18/catching-up-with-no-kill-no-beep-beep-day-1-exotic-fever/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/10/19/catching-up-with-no-kill-no-beep-beep-day-2-resin-records/#more-32925

Great idea for a feature; thanks for posting it.

dude from this band works at the manhattan branch of the record store. cool & nice guy.

Another dude from the band, Chris Richards, is the Washington Post's music critic.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/10/21/beep-happening-how-q-and-not-u-made-a-classic-album-and-its-cover/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/12/19/john-davis-and-chris-richards-collaboration-not-just-a-one-off/

These 2 playing as a duo tonight

Insect Factory, Alma Tropicália, and Chris Richards and John Davis (formerly of Q & Not U). The latter will be playing some new—yes, new!—songs. 8 p.m. at 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mt. Rainier. $7-$12.