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Imagine Funkadelic, Cyprus Hill, Primus and Melt Banana jamming together.

So good!

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Sunday, 30 January 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had an album by these guys once, it had horrible artwork. Sounded pretty good though.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 30 January 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Jon that mp3 "Blah, Blah, Blah" you sent is rad. I'd like to hear more.
send send send

― bprofane (AaronHz), Sunday, 30 January 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, SJM destroy! Sort of Red Hot Chili Peppers, 10x harder, faster,
and more talented, with hip-hop vocals. There's nothing in the world
better than nerdy-looking japanese girls making macho american bands
look like pussies.
Grab these quick, they'll only be up for a day or two:
http://www.cca.org/s2/super-junky-monkey/
They broke up in 99 following the death of their singer. Their guitarist
currently plays for eX-Girl, who are great, but way more performace-artsy.

― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 30 January 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave, how can you like eX-girl and not love OOIOO?

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like OOIOO! I haven't heard enough to have a stronger opinion
than that.

― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 30 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I am eating chunky monkey. mmmm.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 30 January 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I think the thing is that I'm not much into really "Artsy" or "experimental"
music, unless it also rocks. What impresses me is when a band can use
really weird shit as the basis for pop music. (This is similar to the
point of the 1913 Italian Futurist "The Art of Noises" manifesto.)
That's why I actually prefer new Melt-Banana to their early stuff, and
why I like Lightning Bolt but hate Hella. Super Junky Monkey and Bleach
I love for being fast and agressive, but with an intensely funky groove.
Also, I *worship* Diamanda Galas's "The Singer" and "The Sporting Life",
but can't tolerate most of her other work at all.
The exception to all of this is theatrics. If a band gets so performance-artsy
that you can view their songs as one-act plays, then that's something entirely
different, and does not need to rock.

― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE! Not enough answers here.

OK. How about a S/D?? I've only heard "Screw Up", does somebody, anybody, have a favorite, or an opinion on what is their best work?

Also, it's nice seeing there's somebody out there who likes eX-Girl. Bands like the Boredoms get mentioned here all the time so I find it kind of shocking to see that none of these other great Japanese bands are being mentioned often.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

*crickets chirping*

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 11 September 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Polysics
Bleach
Limited Express (Has Gone?)
Ni-Hao
Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
Yellow Machinegun

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Monday, 11 September 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm..... I think I've only heard like 2 songs by Bleach, but they didn't sound too aggressive to me so maybe I'm missing out on some stuff?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think the amazingly named Coaltar Of The Deepers fit in here somewhere.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Really bizarre but I turned up a stash of photos of them from a show over here at some point in the 90s -- I didn't take them and I have no idea how I got them! But the photographer put his credits on the back so I've sent him an email in case he needed or wanted them. Such a sad end to the band, but the remaining three did do a one-off tribute show in 2009 I gather.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 01:55 (four years ago)

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