Band: Vivian Girls Label: In The Red Records Release: 2009
1. “Walking Alone At Night” – 9.0
2. “I Have No Fun” – 9.3 3. “Can’t Get Over You” – 9.1 4. “The Desert”– 9.6 5. “Tension” – 9.0 6. “Survival” – 9.5 7. “The End” – 9.4 8. “When I’m Gone” – 9.2 9. “Out For The Sun” – 9.5 10. “I’m Not Asleep” – 9.7 11. “Double Vision” – 9.6 12. “You’re My Guy” – 9.3
13. “Before I Start To Cry” – 9.7
Comment: The Vivian Girls are comparable to Jay Reatard, if Jay was female and noisier/punker. Well, kind of. The VG’s simple song structure and composition is something that’s becoming more and more common in garage and noise punk. VGs are more polished than their counterparts Mika Miko, though perhaps not as distinctively catchy. This album will go down as extremely note-worthy in looking back at ’09.
“I Gotta Feeling” translates in proper English to “I Got To Feeling,” which, by the way, makes no fucking sense at all. And oh yeah a fourth grader could probably compose lyrics better than this piece of shit.
K. Peace out for tonight. Thanks to our good ole Radiohead adventure buddy Ray from Cover Me for pointing this out.
I am going to ignore the fact that this is a complete corporate sell out for all the bands involved, but hey, Jay/Black Lips/King Khan are a little older now, they don’t shit and spit (well…) on each other that much more these days, and HEY, it can’t be cheap paying for an apartment that you never live in, but regardless, the best bands in the world will be playing the free Scion Garage Fest, coming to Portland, Oregon on October 17.
The festival will go down at four venues: Satyricon, Berbati’s Pan, Someday Lounge, and Dante’s. Roky Erickson, the former 13th Floor Elevators frontman and general all-around psych-rock O.G., will headline. The bill also includes Black Lips, Jay Reatard, the King Khan and BBQ Show, the Almighty Defenders (the supergroup featuring the Black Lips, King Khan, and Mark Sultan), the Dirtbombs, the Deadly Snakes (reunited!), Simply Saucer, the Dutchess and the Duke, Harlem, Box Elders, the Beets, Fresh & Onlys, the Coathangers, and many others.
May I also say that I wish I lived in Portland, too?
I kinda really wish I lived in California just for this. It’s not often that my top two favorite bands of all time play consecutively at the same venue.
Stage 1: Black Lips: 11:00pm – 11:45pm
No Age: 10:05pm – 10:40pm
Tim & Eric Special Musical Performance: 9:05pm – 9:45pm
F* Up: 8:00pm – 8:40pm
Wavves: 7:05pm – 7:40pm
Times New Viking: 6:15pm – 6:45pm
Dan Deacon: 5:10pm – 5:55pm
Crystal Antlers: 4:15pm – 4:45pm
The Strange Boys: 3:25pm – 3:55pm
Woods: 2:35pm – 3:05pm
Avi Buffalo: 1:45pm – 2:15pm
Cymbals Eat Guitars open along with The Depreciation Guild for The Pains of Being Pure At Heart at the Middle East Downstairs this Saturday, September 5.
Comment: This album is reminiscent of early Animal Collective, except a tad bit noisier and a tad bit more random. If you are noise/electronica/slowcore kind of person, this will please you. The deal with albums like this is that the listening experience is subjective. Unlike with most other albums that came out this year, there are going to be a wide variety of sentiments that come with the listening experience. My 8.5 might be a 10 to one person and a 5 to another.
I can honestly say that I feel for those high-schoolers who right as I am typing this are scrambling to complete their summer assignments. Finishing stuff on the last day before school started was an annual tradition (up until last year when I completed roughly 1/3 of my work in the morning of the first day ) for me. Waiting ’til the last minute wasn’t a particularly bad thing, though. The saying of the words “I’m done” thirty minutes before heading to school is amongst the greatest of adolescent feelings. Completing everything days and weeks in advance of school is a bit anti-climatic, no? This year I don’t have to worry about any of the shit that I had to worry about for four straight summers! It’s truly amazing. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Strangely, though, I wouldn’t necessarily mind going back to high school per se, provided there were no summer assignments to discuss. I have nothing to compare to not going back there. Anyway, as classes soon start, I soon will have to worry. It’s been a top-notch summer in as much as I read purely for self-pleasure, entertainment, and intelligence instead of problem solving and group discussion. Oh yeah and until this summer I hated to read. That’s what honors and AP English classes (with corresponding summer assignments) did to me. And a final general note: fiction sucks. It made me hate reading before I even had to read. God bless the people who actually read assigned fiction for English class.
Band: Vivian Girls
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