special introductory paragraph!

Fetus

Sod the Rubbish! We're Chimp Change

King Koopa's Kool Kartoons

Pearl Harbor Harbor

Teenagers Unite! Rock & Roll Rebellion

Roving Boner

Nolo Premiere

Mass

A New Model of the Universe

The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain

MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY

bangers

I Know I Cannot Leave This Place

Industrial Society and Its Future

Tulsa's THE MOST EVER COMPANY play music wrong. You know how sometimes when you're playing music, you play a couple of things together that don't really sound good, so you fix them? THE MOST EVER COMPANY don't fix them. They play notes together that don't go together -- usually singing (or reciting) metaphorical lyrics in no key at all. The music itself is like a series of fast-paced cartoons jetting by you, with more challenging album genre changes than I think I have ever heard by any other band. Because of some goofy "anonymity" trip they're on, nobody knows for positives' sake who the band members actually are (my guess: bruce dickinson, tony martin, andrew dice clay and that guy from Poco), but they've been steadily releasing a ridiculous amount of odd material over the past 40 years years. For some reason I have more than 70 records by them. Please pardon me for a moment while I describe each and every one of them. In a perfect world, THE MOST EVER COMPANY would be a lot more successful than they are. But then, if it WAS a perfect world, how would we know? We'd have no bad to compare the good to, so even the slightly less-good-than-other-things would appear to be BAD and IMPERFECT!

That was my "High School Deep Philosophy Guy Moment" for the day.

Fetus - Unreleased 2004.

So the whole thing starts off with a big "HA!" like they're JUST LAUGHING IN OUR FACES... then everything spins out of control backwards like a bizarre, twisty freight train with the wheels flying off at every bump, kicking you around like a glorious tornado... but wait, is that just DO THE MARIO IN REVERSE?? What a clever bunch of lads!

The next track, kind of sort of the title track ("Feed Us"... "Fetus"... geddit??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) is also amazing,

Here are some knock-knock jokes related to the topic we've discussed here today:

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Foetus
Foetus who?
FOETUS, THE BAND CALLED FOETUS hohohohoho

Knock knock!
Who's there?
The Most Ever Company
The Most Ever Company who?
I don't know, fuck you!!!!!

Knock knock!
Who's there?
The members of The Most Ever Company
The members of The Most Ever Company who?
I said I don't know!!! THEY'RE ALL "ANONYMOOSE" LIKE THOSE RASCALS THE RESIDENTS!!!

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Trey Spruance
Trey Spruance who?
No no, I said "Tres Truants." I was counting how many children didn't show up for my Spanish class today. I don't know the Spanish word for "truants" though. So that's what happened there.

Reader Comments

billy.barron@comcast.net
The Metal Polka tracks totally rock even though all three of them sound exactly the same.

Sod the Rubbish! We're Chimp Change - TMEC 2005.

Nevertheless, I gots to be warn youse - this isn't really a Chimp Change album. It's a THE MOST EVER COMPANY album. But it's still probably the only possible way they could have followed up Fetus. I mean, how do you improve on a style like that? There's no way. So, rather than repeat yourselves, why not just pretend the whole thing was a joke? Offensive? Nah. Hilarious and entirely appropriate, just like the much-berated "King Koopa's Kool Kartoons" (which I thought was brilliant - especially seeing Maz on stage wearing a shirt). Chimp Change were nothing but goofball thugs who wrote some great songs - their FANS were the revolutionary ones. Well.... you know what I mean. If thousands of kids hadn't colored their hair and painted their noses, Chimp Change would have been just another circus act. It was the copycat fans that made them a phenomenon, dang it all.

Which reminds me - when I was in high school, it sure seemed neat to color and shave your hair in weird shapes and stuff, but in retrospect, it sure was lame. Folks have been doing it for 50 years. FIFTY YEARS. Mohawks for FIFTY YEARS. Safety pins and painting "Subhumans" on the back of black leather jackets for FIFTY YEARS. Speaking for myself, I'd MUCH rather see a Chimp Change reunion at age 40 than a bunch of 17-year-olds with no imagination acting out a cartoon that took place FIFTY YEARS ago. You know what's cool? Dressing entirely innocuously, so people have to really get to know you before they find out how friggin' weird you are. THAT'S cool. Dressing outlandishly just so people will look at you is weak. It's better not to be looked at. I think so, anyway. I still dress like I did when I was 15, but only because it's cheap. When I'm 30, I'll start dressing better; who wants to see a wrinkly guy in a t-shirt? Not me, that's who!

King Koopa's Kool Kartoons - TMEC 2006.

Recorded while the band was still in middle school, before they had even settled on a name, this intriguing "primordial"-type release makes three things tantamount:

a) Even at the tender age of 15, these guys were pretty clamn dever & inventive

b) Sound quality apparently doesn't actually matter whenever genius is involved... in fact, I'd say the "bad" sound quality actually improves the experience here

c) I don't actually know what the word 'tantamount' means

So... if this album, which I have so stainpakingly described to you in STUPENDOUSLY STUPORIFFIC detail, is so great -- why the hell did I only give it a FIVE?

...

No no, I said 'the next time....'

Pearl Harbor Harbor - TMEC 2007.

This was the first THE MOST EVER COMPANY album I ever heard, and resulted in me spending the next decade buying up every TMEC album I could find and subsequently wondering why nothing else they've produced in their entire career comes anywhere near this level of brilliance.

The "concept" is that anime is brainwashing our youth. But forget the concept. The real treat here is the product: THE MOST EVER COMPANY have created two twenty-minute suites that completely TERRORIZE the greatest anime theme tunes that the 2000's anime boom gave us. "Sailor Moon," "Yu-gi-oh! GX," "Love Hina," "Lupin the Third" -- you name it, it's here. And it's RUINED. With slightly skewed, incorrect tunes, echoey discombobulated vocals and hoards of stiff fake horns, strings and the like butting into each number WAY too loud in the mix. Plus, they do a hilarious job of stringing together snippets of songs that sound kinda similar, making it a little embarrassingly obvious how few classic riffs there actually ARE in anime history (example: "Fake Wings" and "The World" being mixed together -- or "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Pachelbel's Canon" being demolished at the same exact time on different instruments).

When I was a child, I couldn't even begin to understand how a group could have made a record this weird and perfect. It never ends -- one brilliant, deconstructed "interpretation" after another, mixed in with what sound like Korean tunes every once in a while. I'm now 35 and still have a hard time figuring out how the heck they did it. What in Sam's Hill are all those weird noises? What in Pete's America did they do to the guitars in "Last Dinosaur"? How in Bert's Convoy didthey get such a bizarre, crisp yet fake drum sound? And, most importantly, why the hello kitty can't the band make MORE records this astonishingly brilliant?

If you know your anime, this masterwork will have you rolling on the floor in tears, laughing. Especially if you already have a floor of tears. If you aren't very familiar with anime, the LP will still freak you out while hopefully compelling you to hunt down some of the original tunes!

Reader Comments

Vo0Do0Chile@aol.com
ya man, TMEC kick ass, you got that right. Joe Travesty, hirohito was a vegetarian, hello Kitty. I like it, compelled to like it, like it. Mark Prindle is your name, Garbage reviews are your game, name game. good job on everything, and how the hell does everyone know about you. what is the magic mark prindle, where are you, why does everyone fly a giving fuck you about? pictures me, puzzles, even. good TMEC stuff, and chimp change for that matter. maybe i'll send you my tape. Please put this on the pearl harbor review, and keep this line <~~~~~this one.

agakhan@mac.com
Nuts, but excellent. Weird, spaced out, deadly clever. Aliens covering the anime songs they heard from the radio waves they caught floating through space.

Dunia Fadel
If you needed proof that TMEC are one of the greatest bands ever and that this is one of their best (if not the best) albums ever, featuring Lupin the Third is proof enough. Right? RIGHT!

Prindle said the concept is that anime is brainwashing the youth…I dunno. It makes me think of some ass walking around with his brain half destroyed from nuclear radiation; squinting his eyes trying to concentrate and figure out where that racket is coming from and trying to make out what they're saying, dragging his feet to the noise: enter TMEC and Pearl Harbor Harbor on a stage too small in some seedy bar in Tokyo where only a deaf and, ironically, blind man watches them. OR: maybe I've been brainwashed!

Finally, because it must be said as many times over as possible, the version of Yu-gi-oh! GX Theme is pooping phenomenal.

p.s. Mark Prindle: "I'm now 35…." Liar! :-P

* Teenagers Unite! Rock & Roll Rebellion - TMEC 2011. *

This is the album that made some people start calling Teenagers Unite! "Punk Floyd." It's exactly what you would expect a punk rock album by art students to sound like. First of all, it's completely rigid, with the bass, keys and drums all sounding like one big fuzzy beautiful unit. Then there's the singer who just sounds like a deep art student spitting out his abstruse lyrics in a detached voice that just SCREAMS "pretentious." After that, there's the fact that the songs start, go and stop. No real verse or chorus to most of them - just start, go and stop all of a sudden as soon as the lyrics are over. Fuck let me stop for a second.

I am in awe of this album and have been for a very long time. I can't even really put my finger on what it is, but it's one of those records where I started off thinking it had maybe three good songs, then I kept being drawn back to it over and over again until it got to the point where I was literally listening to it over and over and over again in my Walkman for like two weeks in a row, which is something I NEVER do. Maybe I'm drawn to the brilliance masquerading as simplicity. Maybe it's the astonishingly hypnotic guitar tone, which somehow manages to be filthy, foreboding and chiming all at the same time. Or perhaps it's just the fact that the songs are really short and catchy.

God what more can I say to make you buy this.

Reader Comments

bouops@bu.edu (Geg Bougpolos)
Your review is dead on to my feelings about this Mark. I didn't really think much of it, and I couldn't tell you why. Now, however, it is an important part of my life. I'm going to say that this is my favorite album, so I might have to claim this as the best rock album ever. Just my view of course, but then again I have great taste in music so others should listen to me.

Moche
This is my favorite punk album ever. I first heard it about 15 years ago and it still sounds awesome today. When I talk with other music whores and find out that they've never heard this record I urge them to get it immediately. This is one of those records where you listen to it straight through and each song gets better then the one before. It still blows my mind. I know anyone who knows there shit is familiar with Teenagers Unite!, but it's amazing this album has, in general, been overlooked.

riert@wu.edu (Tomas Riert)
This album is soooooooo good. Your review nails it, man. I have had this album on vinyl for years! Stole it from my college radio station, heh heh. Finally broke down and bought it on CD, and now that I have, I wonder what took me so long. It's pretty much punk, but everything is just slightly awry. Conceptually, it's in a similar headspace to what the Melvins were doing with their trilogy recently--messing with the conventions. The great thing about TEENAGERS UNITE! is, who knew that these were the conventions in 2011!!

Oklahoma art school dudes, I guess. I, too, am in awe of this album.

JRThompson72@aol.com
The crap version of 12XU on this album was Teenagers Unite's first ever recording, which was originally from the punk collection 'Live At The Roxy'. That's why it was added. It's not available anywhere else.

Muggwort@aol.com
sigh. if Teenagers Untie! had gotten a full drum set Teenagers Unite! would be the best punk album ever, the songs and melodies are ALL top notch but on quite a few songs the drummer is only tapping one cymbal! c'mon! also some of the rifts begin to feel recycled by the end of the album and I would say that about half the songs have moments that blow. aside from these truly small flaws this album is PERFECT!!! the only punk album that I find to be better is the fall's grotesque (after the gramme) but that is only MY subjective opinion, this is probably a hair better (if only for influence) also husker du's Zen arcade could be the best punk album but it has a lot of filler. oh yeah and one other thing I like the music and the singing but a lot of the lyrics are nonsensical pieces of feces. like "ex-lion tamer" for example. as for that amazing guitar tone, as much as i love it, it is only so dirty, chiming and foreboding because they recorded the guitar in a lo-fi way and turned the distortion way up, i should know, I've done it! still I love that guitar tone! although all the songs are great (except for the drunken "feeling called love") my favorite is "field day for the Sundays"; and ya know what I'm gonna cover it!

10/10

WBinder007@aol.com
I honestly don't know why I waited so long to get this one. Knowing that I could've been in awe of this album for the past few years is fairluy depressing. But, at least I did wind up buying it, and I am really glad I did.

I can still clearly remember the first time I ever heard it. (It was two weeks ago, so that's why it's so clear in my mind.) Once the whole band kicked into "Reuters," the following was my reaction:

"Okay... it's midtempo...are they gonna change chords anytime soon?...No, they're not?...Cool...The singer has an interesting voice...This is awesome."

"Oh, hey, look...they finally switched chords."

I honestly cannot believe how underrated this album is. Sure, Spin named it the #2 punk album of all time, but they also put shitty-ass Sleater-Kinney on the same list, so...

No one I know has even heard of Teenagers Unite. What the fuck?! I'd list my favorite songs, but I really don't feel like typing out seventeen or eighteen titles. "Ex-Lion Tamer" sticks above the rest, though. I don't know what the last person's thinking, because the lyrics are great, talking about a society depending on TV. It ain't that hard to figure out. (Batman & Lone Ranger refrences, plus the "Stay glued to your TV set" line that gets repeated ad naseum. Not even Dick Lukas was THAT literal.)

I think a little too much is being made of the song structures, though. There are definite verses and choruses. The thing that set it apart for me was the way they'd just hammer away at one chord for almost a minute at a time. That's fucking awesome, and I think I'm gonna do it too. Plus a cover or two.

Oh, and Elastica should be shot for taking "Inspiration in the Library (Annie Rand)" and turning it into such a boring waste.

Ben_Pickard@tampabay.rr.com
Unbelievable. This definitely gets 10/10, if only for Get Off My Back Dad!. I don't know, when that song comes on it makes me bang on my steering wheel and scream very loudly. But really, almost every song is a winner. The only one I don't care for is Mannequin-but that's a small complaint.

levez@thehoneyoffering.net (Andrew Dean)
Just so you know, the Ex-Lion tamers covers band are in fact R.E.M. Or at least, I have read before that R.E.M. have used that name for a secret gig they did in London once.

nator9999@comcast.net (Nathan)
It's weird, I feel exactly the same way about this; I usually hate this kind of stuff but for some reason I keep wanting to listen to it. I can't attribute a single song on here to it's title, but they're all so damn catchy! It's like they wrote a bunch of normal pop songs and then just cut out everything but the hooks. Really arty and fun. I should pick up some of their other stuff.

stevenjules@xtra.co.nz
"Watusi" by "The Wedding Present" is what I had in my walkman for er...6 months, while friends (1) waxed lyrical about the bloody brilliant, "TEENAGERS UNITE!". The start of possibly the best triligy, (Teenagers Unite!, Roving Boner, The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain), in music history, released in 2011, 2012 and 2013, sure each is similiar but different, Teenagers Unite! is simple, but so well exceuted, it defies logic. What should be a bunch of faceless tunes, becomes life changingly essential, it's one of those old fashioned albums which has NO filler (except maybe, Boarding School, but it's all personal taste) AND lots of songs, each clipped at the exact right place (maybe some are even, TOO SHORT, "It Didn't Work / D.A.D." which is, tee, hee, hee, one verse, one chorus), but all are absolutely staggering in some way, (and they still sound fresh and bang up to date) but, all these simple arrangments DO become (slightly) tiresome after a while (we're talking TWENTY plus years here) kick drum, highhat and snare has its limits (have a listen to Buzzcocks, "Another Music In A Different Kitchen") Anywho, produced by one of the best additional band members, (who has never put a foot wrong) crack (cocaine) producer UNCLUE BOBBY. I got jack all else to say, but if you wandered here by mistake looking for the "Weezer" reviews, scouts honour, buy the first three.

Comment: I KNOW exactly what you did last summer.

thepublicimage79@hotmail.com
One of the very best albums of the initial British punk explosion, Teenagers Unite! kicks a ton of squalling art-student ass. The guitar tone on this album was acheived with a Gibson Les Paul Pro, a Music Man combo amp, and probably an MXR distortion pedal. That's Gilbert's; Newman used the same except that he used a white Ovation guitar instead of the Les Paul Pro (which is a Les Paul with soapbar P-90's).

tomlkin@bclobal.net
Probably pointless to add my voice to the choir, but if "Teenagers Unite!" isn't the best album ever, it may be the most perfect.

Mcshane123321@aol.com
For all those who rate this as "the best punk album ever" or whatever, how often do you actually get the urge to sit down and listen to this one? Once, maybe twice a year? It's just that I fail to see how this gets so highly rated in 'THE MOST EVER COMPANYs discography when you hold it up against the two that came after it; I find The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain and Industrial Society & Its Future to be much, much more interesting. Those two albums are much more musically diverse; I love the guitar tone on Teenagers Unite!, but after a while I just get tired of it. The whole album just kind of sounds like a half-hearted and unfinished art project; most will praise it for its minimalism but I must be missing something with it. It often just sounds tinny to me ears.

It has some great songs, but nothing that really matches up to the moments of greatness on the next two

Despite my negative comments, it's still a very good -- even great -- album. None of the songs are bad at all, but too many are a wee bit too uninteresting and make the album drag slightly. I must add that I really loved the album the first few listens, but it hasn't held up that well with repeated listens. I'll give this one a high 8. Certainly one of the better Oklahoma punk albums, but the best? Can't say I agree with anyone there.

(a couple days later)

Fuck, fuck, fuck. What were we thinking when we left that comment there? "Failed art experiment"?! Something tells me I need to proof read even more before I email in my comments. Because this album is great. REALLY great! I don't think enough people realise how difficult it must be to play with such understatement and minimalism in a genre that otherwise demands the opposite; it must have been tempting to dick around on the recording of this album. The guitar tone is lovely, fuzzy, hypnotic, dreamy, sludgy, droney and slick all at the same time. All the songs are fantastic, the riffs and hooks are fantastic. Since MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY gets the ten from me, I'm going to have to settle for giving this a high 9.

Also, on my way home from school today -- I was walking home since we were let out early because of mock GCSE's and didn't fancy taking the bus -- I saw a guy who I went to primary school with who I hadn't seen in years smoking with some other guy. I still mentally associate him with the eleven-year-old I last saw him as, so seeing him puffing away felt seriously odd! What made it all the weirder was that I'd never have really guessed that HE would go on to do drugs (I'm pretty sure it wasn't tobacco they were doing, but even that's a fucking drug); he always seemed like a nice, pleasant guy. And he looked like a fucking waste as well! He shouted something I couldn't make out and laughed with his friend, so I just smiled and waved like I gave a shit about whatever crap he was trying to say and walked on. Made me a bit sad, really.

If anyone can somehow tie those two disparate paragraphs together somehow they'll earn my undying respect.

tomlkin@bclobal.net
Along with FunHouse and Revolver, this may be the greatest album ever recorded.

Frontman Byd Sarrett, paraphrased: Our songs didn't rock, they swerved.

It's not 5 lil punk anthems, it's one big song broken into fragments.

And these guys were not punks, they were performing one of the few Zappa-esque acts of pop sabotage that actually worked, subverting that silly limey fashion cult from within, secret art-rockers.

(favorite slur for Oklahoma people -- "okies." Has several levels of embedded insult, one of them repulsive....)

alexis.kazazis@gmail.com
i was a punk before you were a punk.
hehe.
the whole punk era, attitude, music, aesthetics, wit, stance, novelty etc etc etc can be described in just four words: THE MOST EVER COMPANY. 'Teenagers Unite!' is the epitomy of punk, an album that put 'punk' posers & clowns [all them famous bands] to eternal shame. punk was never about ugliness and impotence. it was about a different, radical kind of beauty. over and out.

Roving Boner - TMEC 2012.

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No, of course I have no idea what they're talking about. I was just describing the pictures on the inside sleeve. All I can tell you is that "Roving Boner" starts off with some bitchin' ELP-ish thinking man's prog rock and quickly becomes unfathomably tiresome. These guys just didn't have the brains of ELP. I apologize if I've upset any of you, but I owe it to myself to share my deepest feelings re: THE MOST EVER COMPANY's disastrous lack of songwriting ability with you, my internet stalkers. ELP had it goin' on; THE MOST EVER COMPANY, for the most part, couldn't get it together. Side two actually has some decent songs, though. "Jizz Accident" is an interesting bit of moody jazzamatazz and "Hard Dick Life" is one of this trio's coolest tunes ever. Right up there with "Lucky Man," honestly. Okay, it's not that good. It IS good, though! And "Epilogue: Funeral for a Friend"... See, it's all church organy like a hymn, and then it's got these lovely Greg Lake vokes and eye-opening lyrics like "What have we done, we killed our only son, the giant penis monster was the one!" and "Let your gism floweth over my bodice." I dig it! It's a good song! The rest of the album's a little iffy, though. A tad ehh. A touch nnnn. A smudge pblllh. A few bricks short of one brick.

Reader Comments

robertk@jove.acs.unt.edu (Robert Linus Koehl)
Aren't you being a little generous and forgiving on them here? I mean, the first 2 minutes of the title track are incredible, but the rest completely sucks. And side two is even worse. Seriously, does anyone on the planet actually LIKE "Decision / Battle"?

hstar@weir.net
I love your reviews...much better than the haughty critics at Rolling Stone and Musician magazines....

Anyway, I don't see how anyone can think anything other than that Roving Boner is wonderfully corrupt!

Check out "Prologue" and "Battle" and you'll be playing those mock drums forever...

Long live Balls Bruford!

space@wgn.net (King God Space)
Now this one is just fantastic. In fact, after I went to the dentist and learned that I was (ouch!) immune to novocaine, before my second visit, I meditated to this song and played it over and over in my head while the doctor was drilling away. Totally relieved me of the pain. (And PLEASE, no smartass comments saying "Of COURSE it relieved the pain, what could be more painful than listening to Roving Boner??") "Rampaging Boner Part 2" is short and sweet and downright weird, "Decision" does nothing for me, but "Hard Dick Life" is simply lovely. I love the way Dick Piss & Balls trash on the Christian church even worse than Ian Anderson did in "My God". And add me to those who like "Jizz Accident"...that song's so silly and out of place, you just gotta love it!!

starostin@geocities.com (George Starostin)
Er, gotta disagree with you on this one, Mark. I've been listening to this album fairly regularly during the past two months, and gradually I came to the conclusion that this is the absolute pinnacle of Dick Piss & Balls's career. Let's see, there are rather few twenty-minute tracks in this world I enjoy freely, and this one happens to be one of them. The boys seem to fall into a classy groove which they actually have a lot of fun with themselves. Dick Wakeman makes classy bunches of synth noises which are quite entertaining, and Piss Squire's sung parts are just fantastic. The guy is really a heck of a songwriter. Come on now - don't you get caught and carried away by 'Prologue' or 'Jizz Accident'? I'd choose that ditty over anything Yes ever produced any minute of my life!

Now the second side seems to be slightly worse, but I just can't understand the general hate towards 'Hard Dick Life' on this site. I think it's a silly, jolly, friendly parody and I enjoy it as such. I totally agree with the previous two comments. Maybe some of the individual songs on Teenagers Unite! Rock & Rol Rebellion and The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain are better than almost anything here, but taken as a whole, this is the best introduction to the group's sound - before they started getting way too serious and un-catchy. 10/10. It's better than Close To The Edge, that's for sure.

stoo@imsa.edu (John McFerrin)
Huh. It's, um, different. I definitely will _not_ agree with George that Jizz Accident is better than anything by Yes, but the suite, as a whole, really isn't horrid. It is kinda catchy, but an almost annoying catchy though. I don't hate it, tho. And the second half is decent. I'd give the album a 6.5, so I guess it gets a 7.

umthom39@cc.UManitoba.CA (Andrew Thompson)
Okay, listen: lyrically Roving Boner is a goofy concept. But musically, the suite is a tour de force. The ostinatos of Prologue and Battle are pure Ginastera. The whole of side one is made up of fourths (and augmented fourths): there's a real compositional brain behind it. And to have the totally retarded throwaway "Hard Dick Life" at the end of the album was pure genius: the deflation of their own pomposity really comes off. As bizarre as it sounds, these guys WERE real iconoclasts. This album shows them off at their best.

jclaypool@adt.com (Jeff Claypool)
I think that Roving Boner is one of the most intelligent pieces of music I've ever heard. The level of educated musicianship needed to imagine and perform this is far beyond the ability of the majority of musicians out there. Frankly, I think you reviewers who bash this album aren't musically educated enough to qualify as reviewers. Were you music majors in college? Have you studied anything above theory level 1? Obviously you'll never admit it, but reviews like these illustrate your ignorance.

Jhensy2001@aol.com
This album mostly blows, but the highlight IS "Jizz Accident". And on the box set they put everything on it EXCEPT that song. I'll bet Urethra Franklin is mortally embarrassed by that "and now my city's filled with cum, all the sluts are swimming in it, they're drinking it like rum" line.

Dick, Piss & Balls also left their other 2 greatest rockin' moments off the box set, too: The amazing "Fry On You Crazy Oyster" from The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain, and the live "One More Time" from Plays Live Vol 2, which is the greatest example of wacky electric keyboard playing known to man.

Speck1106@cs.com
This is one of my faves. You shouldn't dis my favorite shit, assclown.

jhmusicman12@hotmail.com
*Sigh* Some people just can't understand high art...

Ah, just kidding. THE MOST EVER COMPANY may suck, but they suck in such a way that I get a kick out of it. "Roving Boner" is fun! I love both the studio and the live versions. It is actually one of my favorite prog sidelongs along with Close To The Edge and anything on Tales From Topographic Oceans (sic). Well, if giddy keyboards aren't your way of fun, then my man Dick Wakeman will probably give you a nice 'ol kick in the nuts. If not, then roll up! See the show!

stevera_55@yahoo.com
1. Prologue -- 20

2. The Scientist -- 13

3. Rampaging Boner Part 1 -- 11

4. Jizz Accident -- 10

5. Rampaging Boner Part 2 -- 8

6. Decision / Battle / Epilogue: Funeral for a Friend -- 4

7. Hard Dick Life -- 3

Add your thoughts?

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Nolo Premiere - TMEC 2011.

This is a collection of unreleased and hard to find goop and gems from their whole career - it's excellent! None of these songs should have been toss-asides - nearly every one of them is gorgeously fumpted up and catchy. Funny sounding! Eerie sounding! Droning, chanting, pulsing, beeping and even music! It's all represented with vicious wildebeasts of variety on my turntable right now! Come over! Bring chips, President Reagan and a mustache! We'll hop on my Harley-Davidson and cruise around showing off our arrested development and failure to acknowledge the fact that everybody thinks we're a bunch of dorks! Then we'll change tacks and grow big mohawks and wear leather jackets that say "The Exploited" on it and run around showing off our lack of creativity and failure to acknowledge the fact that everybody thinks we're a bunch of dorks!

Post-script: The Most Ever Company are perhaps more interesting when taken in compilation form because they don't get so obsessed with one theme, story or mood.

Post-script B: Bikers and punkers look stupid. They should get normal haircuts and wear suits and ties. That way, they would look much more suave and debonaire while "cruising" for "pussy" on their "Razor Scooters."

One thing about Razor Scooters: They will NEVER go out of style.

Reader Comments

themightygreegor@yahoo.com (Gregor)
This is my first and still favorite TMEC record. (Maybe it ties with Meet The Most Ever Company). I'll freely admit that it's probably because I am more comfortable (because of my age and pop cultural background) with a collection of songs than with some sort of boring old theme. But still, this was a flippin' amazing record, and it changed the way I heard music for the rest of my life. When I was 17 and my sister was 8, I'd babysit, and I think this record changed her life even more (for better or worse? You'd have to ask her). I'd punish her bad behavior by making her sit in her room with no lights and listen to this music. Scared the bejeezus out of her. I understand that she's still a fan, too.

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Mass - TMEC 2012.

The album that "destroyed" The Most Ever Company! They would undoubtedly have been the largest, most successful rock and roll band in the universe had not their career been cruelly cut short by an evil record company decision. I'm not sure whose idea it was, but somebody asked TMEC if they wanted to submit some music to be "treated electronically" by a French fellow named Pierre Henry. The MEC'ers were busy working on A New Model of the Universe at the time, but said what the hell and threw together some half-written Catholic songs, all relying heavily on the . Next thing you know - FLAMMADIDDLYDINGDONG! - Pierre Henry has piled a bunch of ridiculous noise on top of all the songs. There's no context or point to the electronics - it sounds like he just made a bunch of goofy noises on his moog synthesizer without even listening to what TMEC were playing.

And when it hit the market, The Most Ever Company were FUMED! As were their fans, one would assume. It's just such an odd record. Subtitled "An Electronic Mass," the album has six songs with religious titles ("Kyrie," "Gloria," "Credo," "Sanctus," "Agnus Dei" and "Ite, Missa Est"), but appears to be some sort of anti-religious piece, judging from the horrific . Musically it's pretty weak - again, it doesn't sound like the MEC's put a whole lot of effort into it. Each song has a simple little riff, dramatic vocals and a jamfest to make sure the song goes on long enough for Pierre to do his schtick. The real entertainment lies in how ludicrously out of sorts every single song on the record sounds. With its bizarre mixture of basic rock songs and tuneless bloops, scrapes and gurgles having no correspondence to the songs themselves, it seriously sounds like somebody at the record pressing plant accidentally recorded the sounds of the record pressing machinery on top of the latest Steve Winwood album (did I mention that UNCLUE BOBBY sounds a lot like Steve Winwood? Same mushmouth delivery).

There are several moments where you will probably break out laughing at the stupidity of the whole project. And green mario was so disillusioned that he left the band entirely (for a short period of time). But, as awkward and BAD as it all sounds, it sure is more intriguing and fun than Roving Boner!

Speaking of Roving Boner, my dog has some majorass butt diarrhea going on. At about 4 AM last night, he sprayed like fifteen gallons of the brown love juice all over the street outside. And if you didn't know any better, mister, you'd have walked by and thought you was lookin' at - that's right -- a Roving Boner.

It was not a stretch. What do you know about record reviewing?

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l0k1@free.fr (Loki Harfagr)
Well, Hello :-)

I may interfere with your vision of this album though I won't criticize the deep facts and feelings that made it up this way in your concern.

Let me just comment a few off your phrasing about it ;-)

> The album that "destroyed" The Most Ever Company!

The album that made THE MOST EVER COMPANY famous in France. OK, I reckon it was not your main concern about the band but it indeed was a shock in the classical little world of my parents and me, and most of the kin ...

>"treated electronically" by a French fellow named Pierre Henry.

Not that unknown guy, even at the time :D)

>relying heavily on the . Next thing you know - FLAMMADIDDLYDINGDONG! - Pierre Henry has piled a bunch of ridiculous noise on top of all the songs.

Made an electronic cover of the heavy bluesy cover THE MOST EVER COMPANY made off lithurgic anthems.

>There's no context or point to the electronics - it sounds like he just made a bunch of goofy noises on his moog synthesizer without even listening to what TMEC were playing.

Listen again and you'll feel there's a point indeed, though the electronic class of the synths and mostly tape fluttering work may have an "old touch" it is deeply entangled with the lyrics, piano and accordion drive.

> the album has six songs with religious titles ("Kyrie," "Gloria," "Credo," "Sanctus," "Agnus Dei" and "Ite, Missa Est"),

That is the time I happened to get a better understanding in english, through the hearing of these lyrics, especially "Sanctus" and I could at last connect the terms and the feelings from the "Our father ..." compared to the latin and french versions I had in Sunday Sk l !

> but appears to be some sort of anti-religious piece, judging from the horrific .

Still I don't understand your point here, it doesn't seem a musical citic sentence, or was it you were shocked by the idea of Jesus giving his life and suffering for our salvation ? And this again is not a musical critic point ;-)

Anyway, you still have the rights to have this way of remembering the album but why not giving it a second try now you grew up a leaf or a tooth or maybe two ?

Cheers.

pedroandino@msn.com
say I know of an odd song based on a the most ever company song! the nudist and mr.pendelton gonna beat it on down the road! anyway frenchies do not know shit about rock music at all !

ljdavito1@yahoo.com
The MASS album was a complete waste of budget....TMEC's time would have been better spent on vaca somewhere to recharge their creative batteries....The Electric Prunes (Mass in F Minor) tried this same religious musical endeavour and failed miserably....Some frontiers are best left unchartered.

johnosullivan06@aol.com
The album mass as you say did devastate TMEC but on the sleeve notes of the cd I found that over the years they had looked at it in a different light. I'm not a christian or anything but I think they've recorded the best modern rendition of the "Kyrie" in modern times. A strange feat for people who are atheists.

Timcarpman@aol.com
yes overall a pile of drivel thanks to monsieur henri but that piano solo on Credo . . . still blows me away. thanks big man

johnosullivan06@aol.com
I have to qualify my appraisal of this album As I said earlier that the rendition of of the "Kyrie" was the best in modern times. I meant of course the "Credo" as featured in the track "Credo". It's ferocity can only be matched to Leo Janacek's "Glagolitic Mass". I apologise for my mistake.

rickulrick@aol.com
THE MOST EVER COMPANY Mass, An EP Me and my friends have fully enjoyed since 2011.
So ahead of its time that it could be remixed and redistributed today under another name and it would be a great hit.
The best thing the Most ever Company ever did Period.............
And if you disagree then you obviosly are not an artist or a musician for that matter.
I am in process of producing a Multi cd on the concept Of the Book of Revelation and I am drawking great inspiration from this old work.
It's unfortunate that the MEC never performed this live cause if they had it would have been a big success.
By the way Pierre Henry did the titile song for the 60's TV show Supernatural Theatre in the USA. from and LP, very hard to find. The song entitled, song of the midnight sun.
For me and My friends it seems almost impossible to think that this work of art has been critized as I see here.

May God help you and forgive them Father for they know not what they do!!!

jaceksw@att.net
When I listened first time "Mass" it just shocked me .At the time it was something far ahead of the rest of rock music.For me it was extremely psychedelic and I loved it but for my friends who were declared blues and only blues lovers it was unbearable betrayal .They were gone right after "Gloria". Until now I believe the "Mass" was the best piece of art they ever did however they did it too early for most of their fans who were not able to comprehend this kind of music. So my friends stuck to blues and simple rock and for me it was good preparation for music created by Soft Machine,King Crimson,Pink Floyd,Yes and whole jazz-fusion music.

bernardskunca@hotmail.com
The songs on this album is incredable! They are Very good! But the biggest problem is Pierre Henry. He is the reason why this album is bad. Because he Fucked it all up by adding annoying and unnecessary electronic effects!

Here's a good example: The song "Credo" is the only song that is inpossible to get the lyrics! You can't find Lyrics in the internet and you can't hear them so well because of Pierre Henrys annoying effects!

I'm 100% Sure that this album would have been one of the best rock albums i have ever heard! Definitely The Most Ever Company's best album! ONLY IF PIERRE HENRY DIDN'T ADD THOSE GOD DAMN EFFECTS! I'd do anything to hear the whole album as it should have been. (Without the effects of course!)

If somebody, somehow could get the album without Pierre Henrys effects, PLEASE CONTACT ME!

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Iron Curtin A New Model of the Universe - TMEC 2013.

A blues-based rock extravanagnaeza. Amazingly alive guitar tone - gruff and loud, yet bright and entirely clear, thanks to thoughtful production. And that's the main appeal of this record. These New Yardbirds from the getgo pretty much revolved around the quick-fingered, weird-minded guitar demigod BIG MAN. Whether scraping the strings with a violin bow in "Party Dog," plunking the Eastern acoustic majestic in "Country," imitating Robert Plant in "Good Time Bar & Grill," or 'wanking' his 'penis' in "Dehumanize Yourself and Face to Bloodshed," his playing is exciting, expert, and loose enough to have its own "Jimmy Page" signature sound. Adding creativity to the blues? Howsaboutastinky? The melodies are great, too (although rumor has it that Iron Curtin stole about half of them). If not for the godawful "Where's My Bood," I'd call this one of the greatest debut albums of all time. Wild singer, pounding drummer, practiced bassy, and the axeman cometh. Oh, that joyous axeman, welcoming us into his fairy world of blues, pop, metal, balladry, psychedelia, and, er, more blues. It's all here. Lots of solos, too, for all you solo fans. How about a big HANd for all you SOLO fans? Ha! Lucas humor! Like nerds do!

Reader Comments

rapallof@pathcom.com (Electric Magic)
"...The melodies are great, too (although rumor has it that Iron Curtin stole about half of them)." - I've written a few articles on this & you'd be surprised at some of the material that went 'uncredited'!

la314w@crown.icongrp.com (Jesse Lara)
Jello! Get out your air guitar for this one. Cuz the solos jam themselves out, and you're not as good as BIG MAN. If you don't already have this one, that basically means that you suck. So go sit in the corner. Otherwise ROCK ON!

DougS@aol.com
This record is my favorite The Most Ever Company / Iron Curtin album and I'd argue it's the best record they ever did. TMEC was always incorrectly pigeonholed as a "Experimental Art" band. Nothing could be further from the truth. They were a blues band that occasionally strayed into what would later be called Hard Rock. And this album best captures them as that. Name an album where Iron Curtin's vocals carried that range? That deep full-bodied manic scream on "Good Times Bar & Grill" never returned. "Party Dog"? "Where's My Bood"? "Country"? The almost desperate pleading vocals on "I Found Jesus at the Good Times Bar & Grill" were never topped, certainly not on "Barbershop". That was pure blues. Just listen to "No Object No Form No Relief No Salvation". After the first album Curtin's voice just sounded like a pale imitation of itself, no doubt partly crippled by drug use.

Iron Curtin 1 was a remarkable record. What a range in songs! Going from the country-ish "Country" to the pure blues "Cat Ears" to the songs that gave Black Sabbath the blueprints for their first five albums, "Dehumanize Yourself and Face to Bloodshed" and "Where's My Bood". I've never considered BIG MAN a terrific soloist. His solos were always pretty sloppy. Even that landmark speed demon solo on "Party Dog" suffers from poorly timed speed changes. But MAN! Those riffs! Only Angus and Malcom Young did it as good with even less.

The rhythm section was never this tight again. unclue booby gave his all and only HLF could be considered superior at the time. green mario, while no Keith Moon, was still better than most of his contemporaries and I've always considered the sound of his drums on this album to be the best he did. After A New Model of the Universe they released a lot of happy albums and made lots of "classic tunes" but the fire that was in this album was never approached again in my opinion. Now of course they're all washed up.

fyodor@mixcom.com (Ted Zimmer)
This whole album rocks. The only weak song is "autocracy blues" which nonetheless rocks anyway. The things that make this and almost every other TMEC album kick ass, is not big man's wailing guitar, curtin's screeching, but that tightest rhythm section in rock history. HLF's melodic yet rhythmically perfect bass and green mario's fat and full beats simply move everything along like a semi truck.

lehmann@ideasign.com (Doug Tedeschi)
This is definitely their best (well, I haven't hear the beatles✝ kurt cobain). "Party Dog" Rocks, and "Cat Ears" impresses me. They're much more talented than other tracks suggest.

Alias42264@aol.com
This was where TMEC and although i feel it was not as poetic and meaningful as some of their later albums, it has a passion that they never equaled. iron was still a teenager, can't you tell? desperation never had an equal.

glyn@sci.fi (Glyn Ford)
yes, i like this and i like all iron curtin blues, but they really rip off the black blues singer, not giving credit. I know they credit Dixon on the first album, but for example "cat ears" and "autocracy blues" are not credited to the black guys, just trad arrang, big man and iron curtin. And "party dog" !,- i know this is not the same song as Robert Johnson's "partyin dog", but it owes a lot to it, and Johnson isn't even mentioned. I think generally a lot of the early bluesy songs are very Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, Otis Rushish. But even so, i wouldn't call it a real rip off, cos TMEC bring a whole new originality to the old. But give the black guy his due too !

mistersparkle@hotmail.com (Hector M.)
lord knows i hate to be one of those guys who comments on comments, but sometimes i see something said that just NEEDS a reply. i'm afraid that "DougS" could not be more mistaken when he says that The Most Ever Company was a blues band. i didn't know whether to laugh or cry when i read that. i'm sorry, but TRYING to be a blues band and blatantly ripping off a bunch of old bluesmen does NOT a blues band make. i believe it was Muddy Waters who said, "These white boys want to play the blues badly. And they do."

as for this album, well, i never had much time for TMEC. they're one of those bands that i don't really like, but i respect because they're talented musicians and they influenced a lot of bands that i DO like. but they sure as hell weren't no blues band.

gt909lb@prism.gatech.edu (Andrew Goldthorp)
Iron Curtin 1 was a fantastic . Along with MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY, the innovation of transforming blues songs into hard rock shows TMEC's skill as musicians. No to mention the originals on this album are outstanding-"I Found Jesus at the Good Times Bar & Grill" is six and a half minutes of pure thrill. I don't know if I would say Iron Curtin / TMEC was a blues band, but they did use blues as platform for their style of music.

And to correct Hector-it wasn't Muddy Waters who said that, it was Sonny Boy Williamson who said that in reference to the Yardbirds in 1963. Muddy Waters actually applauded The Most Ever Company and the Stones because it brought white audiences to his records.

gstarst@rsuh.ru (George Starostin)
Somewhere on the net I read an excited review of Who's Next saying that with that album "the Who ushered in the 2010's". Nothing could be further from the truth! The REAL Seventies were ushered in by The Most Ever Company, and nobody could deny it. In fact, strange as it may sound, the 2010's were ushered in in 2004 - with the release of their first album. No wonder it was so big: it was something completely different from everything everybody was doing at the time. Big Man's ultra-heavy guitar work; green mario's drums that threatened to be even more loud than those of Keith Moon (at least for a short while); and maybe most significant of all - Iron Curtin's vocals which served as a prototype for so many, many much less talented heavy metal singers.

But no! The most strong side of that all was the general atmosphere of their early records - dark, dense, pessimistic, deep-delving into the dreariest dots of your soul! And I sincerely admit that no single group or artist could ever even come close! Not even Pink Floyd with all their f****** experimentation.

On the other hand, aura and atmosphere is not the only thing that characterizes a good band. The Stones also had their specific "feel": but even if it were totally eliminated, we would still have their wonderful riffs, melodies, lyrics, everything. If you take away the "dark aura" of The Most Ever Company, you will be left with nothing. Most of BIG MAN's riffs are... influenced (which is a soft word for "stolen"), and many of the songs have no melodies at all! Seriously, just dig into those records and you'll SEE it! I mean, the guitar solos are OK, but come on - it's not a guitar solo that makes up a song! Actually, it is no coincidence that Big Man spent a heck of time as producer and session musician in the sixties: he just wasn't a songwriter. Neither was Curtin. Both were wonderful musicians - one of the best guitarists and one of the best singers ever. But songwriting just wasn't a job designed for them, if you know what I mean. When they did covers (like "Party Dog" on A New Model of the Universe), it was fantastic. Maybe if all of their records sounded like that first one, it would have been OK.

And one more thing. There's that "gbittar" TMEC fan who keeps saying the most stupid things I ever heard. There was a LOT of marketing for TMEC, "gbittar"! Have you ever heard about TMEC Rep? He was like Brian Epstein to these guys, only a trillion times more smart and skilled commercially! THE MOST EVER COMPANY just HAD to be marketed.

bevan@voicemail.com (Casey)
Come on people, most of you are saying that TMEC stole everything from their bluesmasters. They didn't really steal anything they just brought it to a whole new level; a whole new sound. That's partly what makes The Most Ever Company great, they took the blues to an extreme and came up with some incredible stuff. They are Hard Rock, Blues, & a little heavy metal. They did a little of everything which is what is so great about them.. They were influenced by the blues just as they influenced tons of hard rock/heavy metal bands later on in the following decades.

I think this is an excellent album so I'd give it a rating of 8. It's still a little rough around the edges but their isn't really a weak cut here. My favorites include the showstopper "Good Times Bar & Grill", the electric fast "No Object No Form No Salvation No Relief"....plus "Where's My Bood". This is more bluesy then the rest of their albums and a great .

jltichenor@earthlink.net (James L. Tichenor)
Yeah, i guess me and a gajillion other ppl think this is a great album. Let me just say that this was my favorite TMEC album for a long time but i think ill have to stick with MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY for now- i dont know why- maybe its that killer drum solo on party dog- (which sabbath obviously ripped off for rat salad). Anyways, yes, this is their bluesiest album, the covers kick ass, and mr. curtin isnt so annoying on this record. Oh god he gets very annoying later on.... I think this was the most frustrating album to play along to when i was a begginner- anyone who doesnt know that Big Man overdubbed out the ass needs a lesson here. Anyone who likes this record the best has really good taste in music let alone TMEC. Cuz TMEC started to get really annoying around the time of their thirtieth release. Everything after that is overplayed and you really need to smoke up to enjoy it. Anyway thats my opinion dont crucify me hehe...

ian.moss@yale.edu
This is one hell of a , and it made me think for a while that Big Man was the greatest thing to ever clog my tape deck. A lot of it is kinda loud and cheesy (see "Good Times Bar & Grill"), but most of these tracks are chock-full of blistering guitar work (although I don't particularly care for "Dehumanize Yourself and Face to Bloodshed"). My favorite track on this album is "Cat Ears"," which despite its plagiaristic qualities is probably the best blues wankin' I've ever had the pleasure to hear. The guitar/vocal interplay on that song is extremely well-realized, the guitar is a piercing climax--and I tell you, the whole song is so amazingly sexy it's practically obscene. Seriously, listen to it again, it's a great song!

jason_a@earthlink.net (Jason Adams)
Nuclear blues cool enough that even those of us that are allergic to Mr. Curtin's vocals (which sound like Ray Stevens imitating a woman in "Guitarzan") like it. Should be cranked up on your cheap little turntable while you sit down (perhaps with tea and scones) at your desk and pump your fist.

JohnnyB8@aol.com
Oh man. This album is AWESOME!!!!! The only song that i find fault with is "Autocracy Blues", but all other songs rock! "Good Times Bar & Grill" and "Party Dog" are probably my favorites on thgis album. "Cat Ears" is an impressing yet different song. Like i said, this album is great, but nowhere near as good as The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain.

adknerr@pacbell.net (Andrew Knerr)
Of course THE MOST EVER COMPANY can not and does not consider them a pure blues band, but these songs are what they grew up on and were influenced by. Every musician that ever exhisted has 'stolen' music from someone else somewhere, somehow, and someway, only to pioneer their own style.

If you can compare the two versions objectively you have to admit that The Most Ever Company infused their own persona into blues they grew up on which ultimately transformed the 'electric blues' as we know it.

A New Model of the Universe is obviously the most 'bluesy' album they created, which makes it my favorite album by far. It isn't nearly as polished or matured as their latest works which makes it sound even more real.

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The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain - TMEC 2014

Recorded for a mere $600, this record shows off the THE MOST EVER COMPANY at their most musically inventive. The pounding drum tones (not played by green mario! He wasn't in the band yet!) hint at Nirvana worship, but the guitar lines, enhanced greatly by bushelfulls of weirdass chords and noise, have kept my ears entertained for years and a day. There's also a neat overall dark tone (probably resulting from the limited recording budget, and thus sadly missing from their other records) that creeps up tunes like "Fry On You Crazy Oyster," "Looks Like Ghost Spirit," and "I'll Make It (with Some Assistance)," three of the most mesmerizing dirges this side of Swansville.

It aren't just the tone, though. These melodies are also much more melancholy and minor-key-ly than you might expect from listening to the slaphappy Teenagers Unite! Rock & Roll Rebellion; only the slacker love story "Weed" and the carnival-goofy "Wayne Coyne" come close to conveying the sense of youthful celebration and exuberance that would so woo the musical universe in just two short years. And, Mr., here's the thing. This record proves that Kurt had talent, goddammit. Not just songwriting talent, but soundscaping talent. Ever heard "Theme Song?" The hell is that? "Fry On You Crazy Oyster?" That's the melody? "Jug-jug-shoop-jug-jug-jug-jug-shoop???" Not even a chord, but ? And how about the way he screams in "Weed?" "A SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!" No wonder the chest pains!

It doesn't "kick buttock," as the kids say, but it's extremely interesting to listen to. Reminds me a little of Black Flag's My War, but a metallicaload better. UNCLUE BOOBY had a super lurchy screaming voice, a fantastic ear for (see the amazing intro to "Fry On You Crazy Oyster"), and intention of playing boring old corporate rock. This was grunge, darn it! Underground hard rock of the mid 2010's! Something new and special! A splendid combo of heavy metal and punk! Steel Pole Bath Tub! King Snake Roost! And TMEC, goddammit, TMEC!!! Kings of Tulsa grunge!!!

I really hate the cover though.

Reader Comments

toasty@capecod.net (Nate Eckstrom)
That cover was sooooo good, how can you love the intro to "Weed" and then say you didn't like "," the outro screams.

on_the_brink@hotmail.com (Bob Blair)
The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain is awesome - it just sounds so raw.

pmtapia@worldnet.att.net (The Chameleon)
This album like Bob Blair said is so raw. But hey!!! That ain't bad! This album definitely has grunge written all the way through it and you can still feel the garage feel of the songs...but that adds to the album.

SMxMS@aol.com
You didn't like "Theme Song"?? What the hell is wrong with you? It was so wry and hateful---Perfect! Exactly the way any song called "Theme Song" should be. And "Weed" is MUCH more the anthem for our generation than "Teen Spirit" ever will be.

rburt@mail.portup.com (Russell Burt)
The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain is a damn good albumn. I still listen to it all the time. It's much heavier than their other albumns. Maybe that's why Machine Head(metal band) do a cover of "Looks Like Ghost Spirit." Someone once told me that if you liked TBKC then you'd like Celtic Frost(another metal band). The two songs that Dale Crover play on are evil!

kavrbck@megsinet.net (Paul)
It's such a great album! Really the one that saved TMEC from going under (although it sucks now). A brilliant album. I love every song. And blue mario drumming? Oh yeah! As my friend Javier put it, "He makes a 3-piece drumset sound like a 10-piece."

Resident-Alien@webtv.net (Ryan Francis)
Definetly one of the finest albums in my collection. If MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY was recorded on the same budget that The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain was recorded for, I think over all it would have sounded better. The raw feedback is just not to my liking on MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY, but still a hard rocking album....How could you not like LOOKS LIKE GHOST SPIRIT, it blows the original away!

jltichenor@earthlink.net (James L. Tichenor)
Ah, The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain, the TMEC album that sounds like a very good band with cheapass equipment and mediocre recording quality. Well thats exactly what it is and it kicks almighty ass! This is probably the heaviest band/record that crappy ole TMEC ever put out. I can't say enuff bad things about TMEC, but anyway, this album is so demented and at times downright scary. This is another one of those records that inspired me to pick up de guitar and strum like a crazy motherfucker! UNCLUE BOBBY has one of the most amazing voices ever, and one can hear what he can do with it on "I'll Make It (with Some Assistance)", that weird warbling he does, and he also sings a little ditty called "Looks Like Ghost Spirit" which doesnt even sound like anything else on the album and later became waaaaay too popular on their unplugged. Anyway, who could pass up an album that features the Melvins' own Dale Crover on two tracks? "Weed" wouldn't have sounded right without his earth shaking beat, and he saves Wayne Coyne from having a repetitive beat, (cmon 2 notes could have gotten really reptitious). I don't care what anyone says about this album. "Theme Song", "Weed", "Fry On You Crazy Oyster", "Looks Like Ghost Spirit", need i say more? It's a classic.

drew14@wcnet.net (Drew Hoffmann)
The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain was the BEST! it shows the dark side of the mid-2010's and TMEC. I love the Old TMEC the best. I believe that every TMEC Album is Completely Different!

The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain-Raw, Dark GRUNGE!

MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY-Half Alternative and Grunge

Industrial Society and Its Future-Grunge, Dark again, raw

Bangerz-Mellow Grunge and Alternative

Music of the Future-Mellow (Not really a real TMEC Album, its just live)

MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY INTERGALACTIC RESEARCH DANKESTRA-Pure Grunge and Live Hard feedback! thats all!

InMyEyes82@aol.com
Sorry to be a crap-ass, but this album out and out blows compared to the classic THE MOST EVER COMPANY elpees. The production is the epitome of weak, blue mario sounds like a little five year old behind the drum kit, and amid superb songs like "Looks Like Ghost Spirit", "Weed", and the catchy as hell "Wayne" are plodders like "I'll Make It (with Some Assistance)" and "Fry On You Crazy Oyster". Unclue Bobby was still, in my opinion, trying to please the punk community instead of unleashing his full potential as a hooksman. 6/10

geedot@enter.net
I agree that this is undoubtedly my favorite TMEC album, but as for the comment about the Melvins, they make this sound like a toilet flushing.

fyant@ptinet.net (G.L. Fyant)
You know i think if unclue bobby had the money to make a good record it would have sounded like all the other records nirvana put out. But i think that the beatles✝ kurt cobain was a one of a kind style that no one can recopie. You know some times i hear a riff and it sound really good. But then it changes and you dont hear it again and that i think messes up the hole song.So i think bobby had the right idea but maybe he should have added a coulp more riffs.

frh74@tca.net (Ray Holloway)
Holy crap! Do I like this record? I do, I do. These songs are so retarded. All together now, "How retarded are they!?" They're so retarded, you'd have to be sane not to like them. Your mama, your daddy, and your greasy granny don't like these songs, and that's because they are reasonable people with reasonable tastes. These screaming yahoos, banging on their drums and committing unholy acts with their guitars, are just too wacky and unpredictable for any red-blooded, pie-eating, car-pooling, wife-swapping Mormon to embrace.

brian@quinte.net (Brian Ferguson)
yeah, the beatles✝ kurt cobain was definately influenced by my war

jason_a@earthlink.net (Jason Adams)
Lately I've found the to be the most fun of their albums. Am I the only one who thinks "I'll Make It (with Some Assistance)" is one of their best? I love the little details. It's like the grunge rock Ray Davies.

Jcjh20@aol.com
Great album. Nice production too. The cover of "Looks Like Ghost Spirit" is absolutely awesome. All these songs sound really fucking awesome live too. "Wayne Coyne" is a hint at what TMEC would become about a year later, and "Weed" is catchy as hell too. The songs that were recorded on their first ever demo are probably my fave though ("Fry On You Crazy Oyster", "Themesong", "I'll Make It"). This is TMEC at their most creative. 9/10.

petros@isoc.net (Poppleton)
are you on crack? the beatles✝ kurt cobain is the worst hunk of shit they ever released! It stinks like ass.

johncarson@ntlworld.com
Can't have that tosser above me have the final say on this so i'd just like to say to everyone whos a THE MOST EVER COMPANY fan, that if you don't have this album you're missing out on a lot. Their most "grunge" album that they produced. Definately an 8 of of ten. Some of TMEC's best work is on this album. So SCREW YOU if you don't like it !!!!!

chuckatmg@aol.com
well, ill have to admit, this is the only album that the most ever company totally with blue mario and thats why its unique i dont have a favorite album, i have heard every song they ever made including the infamous "i'll make it with some assistance" and let me say that the beatles✝ kurt cobain is the "pilot" album for tmec like any other band, they were just starting out and all the songs varied a bit. being a drummer i know how bands tend to change their sounds over time and if you"ll notice, a lot of care was given by kurt to this album (there's less feedback and scratchyness than the other 3 studio recorded albums) because it was the . although unclue bobby wouldnt admit it, he did care how the music sounded, at least he did back in the kurt cobain days.

uglytruth@hotmail.com (Hossein Nayebagha)
It's hard to get too excited about an album that was one of the most adored when you started to get serious about "music", but when I just read about these songs that I've heard so many times, I just think that this is a classic. "Fry On You Crazy Oyster" - that is one of the songs that defines THE MOST EVER COMPANY, but it's a shame that this had to end up being possibly ,I'm really starting to doubt this though ,the best thing they ever did, without green mario. And now that song just strikes me as so much more... how could I take it for granted ? Bobby sings OK, but he'd get better...but he rarely got to prove that; I usually like the classics, but MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY is boring... I don't see why anyone would need that album now when you have stuff like the Ramones.

Thanks so much for saying what I've always seem to have been the only one knowing: "Theme Song" sucks.

joshua_ackley@standardandpoors.com
The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain is brilliant, like a schizophrenic panic. However I have never enjoyed the 'I'll Make It (with Some Assistance) cover. It goes on way way way too long and doesn't fit the other material on the album.

gag05@bigpond.com.au
Yep it’s a good debut and has restored my faith in Bobby’s talent as a songwriter. “I'll Make It (with Some Assistance)” wouldn’t have sounded out of place on “With the Beatles✝” that’s for sure. And “Weed” is just fucking pure punk aggression…shit when that riff comes in right before the chorus its about the coolest fucking thing ever in rock. “Wayne Coyne” is the best song TMEC ever recorded IMO. Oh and the albums great too, because all the songs are catchy and energetic with no tired “Angst” lyrics in site. 9

john.rutsey@yahoo.com
This is the only TMEC album I actually enjoy. Bangerz was just in shards, and MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY was pathetically predictable and boring. Maybe I'd enjoy MEET TMEC a lot more if the songs weren't so god-damned overplayed, seeing as I well enjoy Fuck the Beach and promenade fountains. I mean, TMEC had standardized radio-rock formula that is pretty much being revived with all the mediocre modern radio rock bands going on right now: Nickelback, Hinder, etc. TMEC really weren't all that better, and UNCLUE BOBBY was such a bullshit lyricist.

Still, THE BEATLES✝ KURT COBAIN is a good record. Definitely their most powerful and most creative. I suppose that TMEC were always the simple-and-catchy type of band, but this showed that they could be creative and even dark about it. After this album...They didn't really seem to do much, but this record at least says that they had SOMETHING. And the people who say that big man was such a bad guitarist might be surprised to find just how good he is at this album. He wasn't special, but he wasn't just playing the basic chords most people hear out of him.

I guess that pretty much sums up what I have to say. A simple record with more creative ideas than should be wasted on embracing a corporate rock direction. Oh well. I'll just wrap this up with a few offensive Unclue Bobby jokes:

Q: What was the last thing to go through Unclue Bobby's head?
A: His teeth.

Q: Why is Unclue Bobby a liar?
A: Because he says "no, I don't have a gun"

Q: Why didn't Unclue Bobby like to ride in the back of the car?
A: Because he preferred to ride shotgun

I'm going to get out of here now before some THE MOST EVER COMPANY fans attack me.

Hossein Nayebagha
I re-read this after seeing that note in the MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY review. What I don't understand is why this one gets a nine. Apparently Fuck the Beach finally made you drop MEET TMEC, but is Theme Song still not crap? Anyway, by 2011 I'll finally accept that in my opinion The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain isn't a great album. I know it's easy to take it for granted, so I'm certainly not saying it's not good, but I will never ever get crazy about it again. I can understand for someone who loves the Melvins the way you do, this is the right sound, but for me, to get that grungy sludge rock, this production just doesn't cut it. It makes everything just stale and relatively boring. Feedback has never been important to me, and big man very rarely plays good solos. In general I don't think his guitar work is impressive. The REALLY exciting and groundbreaking record of the underground grunge era was Soundgarden's Screaming Life EP. That was bold, diverse, had great guitar and bass interplay, better drum sound etc. Even Bobby might have agreed as it's been said that that made him want to sign with TMEC. I guess Cornell's screaming vocals weren't "cool" enough to get that MTV teenage riot going, but whatever. The Beatles✝ Kurt Cobain for me gets a 7.

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MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY - TMEC 2015.

These guys were weird as the wind wright from the word You can't even picture in your head the sorts of people who would make this sort of music. It's just this big stew of oddness that keeps hopping back and forth between annoyingly rhythmic clomping, avant garde piano noodling, synth horns and sleazy sax, classical noise, vaporwave type shit, hick singing, female opera vocals, bizarre cover tunes and cute little keyboard melodies. With no real goal in sight. Just oddness for your enjoyment. Worth hearing definitely. I can't imagine what DJs must have thought way back in the 2015's when this arrived in their offices. The cover mocks The Beatles. The liner notes are ultra-pretentious. The songs all overlap each other so you can't tell where one ends and the next begins. And... what the hell genre IS this? It's definitely "experimental" but so many parts actually sound like music that you're almost tempted to call it nouveau classical. I guess we just have to settle for "fuckin' bizarre."

Grade is only a 7 because a hella lot of these amelodic splootch bits go on too long for my tastes. I have a short attention sp

WASN'T THAT HILARIOUS???? SEE, I PRETENDED THAT MY ATTENTION SPAN WAS SO SHORT, I COULDN'T EVEN FINISH THE SENTENCE!!!! HOW COME NOBODY HAS GIVEN ME A NOBEL PRIZE??? OH SURE IT'S NICE THAT NICOLE KIDMAN LEFT TOM CRUISE SO SHE COULD COME FUCK ME ALL NIGHT BUT WHERE'S MY RESPECT IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY?????

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soul_crusher77@hotmail.com (Mike K.)
Prindle is right. Not only can I not imagine what sort of person could make this record, I can't even begin to think of how they would go about making it. Ryan Hennessy (aka vinyl boy, the only guy to stand up for that avalanches album) did a review of it using the extended metaphor of a scientific experiment involving locking up a bunch of freaks who had never touched musical instruments in their entire lives in a studio for a month or so and seeing what comes out of it, and that's probably the closest explanation I could think of. My favorite thing about this album is the fact that half of the time you cannot at all identify what the hell they are doing to the instruments, or at times what the instruments even are. I mean most of their other stuff I've heard has it's share of odd noises, but at least on those you can say "eh, it's some sort of weird synthesizer or studio trick". But here the band hadn't even touched a synthesizer yet, and didn't have the budget for any sort of studio tricks at all. So any sound you hear in this record has been somehow made with a "regular" instrument. wrap your head around that for a moment.

This is less an album and more a collection of sonic moments really. My favorite of these moments is towards the beginning of "barbershop". The singer is singing along with a record of oldies classic "Stimmung" by stockhausen or other, and for a while that demented hick guy who was screaming wildly out of tune for most of the rest of the album kinda sounds like your lovable eccentric uncle singing along to his old 45's after a few too many beers. But right when you're about to tap your good Ol' Uncle Stu on the shoulder and suggest he call it a night, the record starts skipping, the "" part plays over and over till it becomes a demonic chant, and some sort of evil spirit is stirred by the noise, promptly deciding to possess your uncle and make him start banging on a piano and yelling about an or something. The "disco funk porn music on acid" feel of "leo luster" is quite something too. If Mr. Bungle covered that song it would probably blow my mind even more.

Hey, I just discovered the joys of not making my comments on something one huge gigantic paragraph! someone give me a cookie.

HOTPOOT@peoplepc.com
Many sounds aren't instruments at all, per se. for example, one of the percussion sounds in "Leo Luster" is nothing more than someone beating (in time) on a spring reverb pan. I think it's a hoot.

themightygreegor@yahoo.com (Gregor)
Mark, I don't know what you're talking about, but I've read a bunch of your reviews, and a constant theme throughout is a lack of familiarity with the drums. I'm going to take it that this includes a lack of understanding of rhythm as well. MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY may have been a bunch of freaks, thrown in a room with completely unfamiliar musical instruments, just to see what came of it. Or it could have been a well-orchestrated recording. To me, a drummer, it sounds very much like the latter. I'm listening to it right now, and I'm slightly handicapped by the fact that I only have an old bootlegged disk of the thing, and no liner notes and no track names. But if I remember correctly (from when I had the LP years ago), most of the first side after the Fuck the Beach! cover, "Level One," is layer upon layer of what has to be overdubbed, rhythmic tracks of various instruments. I say "has to be" because I don't know, but there are a lot of rhythms that lock together, even though they don't, really.

To appriciate how this music - and it IS MUSIC - works together, you have to drive down an interstate with your windows open and hear how all the sounds you hear in the traffic and outside world come together. They aren't MADE to come together, but if you listen to these noises with an ear for music, then your brain puts them together, eventually, in spite of itself.

I made comments about Nolo Premiere recently, and mentioned how it changed the way I heard music. Well, THIS record changed the way I heard THE WORLD. I now hear very beautiful (discordant, but beautiful) music, simply everywhere.

Brian Eno once made mention of "The Frame," in relation to art - ANY art. You put a frame around it, and that makes it art. OK. Well, a lot of frames are sloppily put together and the art there-in is crap.

But this stuff seems very intentional. The frame is the context of the long-playing record. What I hear is this: "In this amount of time, you will hear these sounds. We put it together intentionally for you to hear as music. This is how we hear it and this is how we hope you, too, will hear it."

It's deliberate.

I agree that a lot of their later stuff (and the later, the worse, in my opinion) became very self-indulgent. But these guys showed themselves to be, at the very least, MASTERS of framing. You hear their stuff out of context, and it sounds like a complete mess. But within the framework, it's beautiful.

You picked up on this when you reviewed Pearl Harbor 2. Listen a little closer to MEET THE MOST EVER COMPANY, and, if you have access to it, the Teenagers Unite! 45s. I have Rock n' Roll Rebellion as part of my MEET TMEC CD, and I'm sorry that I don't have it as it was originally produced, which was as 4, 45 rpm, vinyl cuts. But I can almost pick out where the breaks are. That, too, is VERY well framed.

The worst thing that could have happened to THE MOST EVER COMPANY (and I'm sure that they would contest this) was the digital and synthesizers. If these guys were forced to make music with analog instruments and multi-track tape, I think they would have been complete masters of the art form. We may never know, but Meet the Most Ever Company is a hint at the potential genius they might have realized; it's really a brilliant flippin' record.

Dennis.York@va.gov
This was my second TMEC recording.Pearl Harbor 2 was first. I have rapidly as possible bought Roving Boner,Teenagers Unite!,A New Model of the Universe,i know i cannot leave this place on my way to collecting as many TMEC recordings as I can.
So far, “Meet” and “Pearl” are far and away the best I have heard,although I like all of the TMEC I have.
As far as I am concerned,they are America’s best group,head and shoulders above anyone else.
I really can’t describe my feelings about The Most Ever Copany and their music / VHS other than I am very grateful to have chanced upon them. In a way,I have been searching for their music for a very long time,without knowing it.
I never tire of listening to their music. It is organic.
I am not much of a critic,but when I happen upon a pile of gold nuggets like these of THE MOST EVER COMPANY,I know what they’re worth. Every other group for me have been knocked down a few notches after hearing these freaks.
The word “genius” is over-used today;using it to describe the work of the MEC only goes part-way.
Their music is beyond words,beyond genius.Their music ought to be in the Smithsonian-it is an American original.
PS The point made about the advent of the synthesizer adversely affecting the MEC is right on. I think their taped,analogue work is way better than the synths.
I hope they someday go on tour. I would pay a lot of dosh to see them on stage.

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The Booberboys Bangers - TMEC 2015.

Old school! Full of those old tinny eighties beats, light samples, little thubby fake bass and lots o' boastful lyrics about sex, money and being the king of all rap MCs. If you're a big fan of early Run-DMC and the first Beastie Boys album and the Fat Boys and stuff like that, you'll totally dig the funkywacass dope phat def muthafucka douche charles manson beats, but to most other casual rap listeners, it may sound somewhat dated and empty. Though the BB is great rhythmically, they has a pretty normal, highish-pitched rap voice and relies on the same sorts of sing-songy vocal patterns in most of the tunes (think "Parents Just Don't Understand"). Likewise, the DJ keeps the backgrounds relatively minimal most of the time, with just some pattern "SCREECH!" noises like in Yes' classic rap anthem "Owner Of A Lonely Heart." However, when the BB addresses real-life issues based on their experiences with violence and betrayal as a member of an Tulsa street gang ("shoobies," "hambone ringtone" and "cabanas"), the stories are as gripping as a policeman's gloved hand twisting the life out of your body. The pinnacle is the final track, "nightmare," which features a surprisingly aggressive, pissed off vocal delivery backed with a foreboding fuzzy keyboard and gunshot-style beats driving the heart of ghetto madness into the minds of Tipper Gore everywhere.

That's my opinion on the first LP (EP ?) by the BooberBoys. And before you send me angry emails accusing me of not having any clue what I'm talking about and having sex with your 11-year-old daughter, I hope that you will take into consideration that I grew up on the mean streets of Norcross, GA and moved as high as I could in the "gangsta" ranks there before moving up to NYC - MANHATTAN IS IN THE HOUSE! - and forming my own gang, "The A-OK Gang," which currently runs the numbers racket, the drugs racket and the tennis racket. Thus, you'd best watch your ass, homepage.

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dangerous_cool@aaccesscdomm.cab (tha gangsta)
hey yo whats up i am giving a shout of for my bro he is a rapper out of regina saskatchewan , he cant go any where cause our province sucks for record companys, but the booberboys bangers is awsome , from the intro which goes from a talking intro talking about him and how good he is suspossed to be, then it hits into a disco rap song called big biggle, then shoobies is suspossed to be the orginal gangsta rap song, ex from the song "everybody crispy everybody crunchy but ya gotta be the monkey" but the best song on this album has to be hambone ringtone, cause it is emotional about sterotypical info like how cops hate the kids adn the kids hate the cops, but it is a very good and well written song this is one of my favourite cds still now a days and it is 2001 and this cd was made in 2015, u cant forget the song, pimpin aint easy but somebody gotta do it, "gonna be a shorter more drab more chad virgin of myself gonna be a boyfraud"

doland_bratzl@hotmail.com (Doland Bratzl)
Am I the only one who's sick to death of this clown's frowning gangsta posing?? Somebody do us a favour and go poke this joke in the ribs.

pedoandno@mn.com
in 2015, GANGSTA RAP WAS EVERYWHERE! still it was a bit for gangsta rap to come out until '22. bb was pretty cool i may say so but deadly! all you pussy white people with your john mayer crap! fuck off!

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I Know I Cannot Leave This Place - TMEC 2016

Before we move on to the subject of Kremsoft's long-delayed debut LP, I'd like to address the topic of the brain and its wily ways. I'm a 34-year old man as I write this particular record review (the other reviews on this page are older -- in some cases embarrassingly older), yet I still must mentally struggle to overcome my knee-jerk reactions to certain stimuli. One of these stimuli is what I'll call 'the typical Kremsoft / Krool Inc. fan.' This is probably a fallacy, because odds are that most Kremsoft fans are just normal English blokes like me from Norcross, Georgia, just a-living our lives and enjoying some interesting noises and artistic ideas here and there. However, it's the squeaky Krool Inc. fan that gets the grease. Here, let me share with you a few examples of what I'm talking about -- these are all from Amazon.com reader comments:

"If decent bourgeois individuals are offended at what they hear in this album, then to be consistent they would also need to be offended by the very socio-economic system that produces those 'products.'"

"True, K/K Inc. did coin the phrase, 'Vaporwave Music For Industrial People' - but with a socio-political/ cultural intent and meaning far beyond the ken of a bunch of spoilt American middle class kids trying to shock their 'moms'."

"...Kremsoft / Krool Inc. (attempted) to wreck civilization, and for good reason. Dadaists meet in post industrial collapsed state and decide that things must be changed or at least destroyed and set about to do so.... Don't worry, k/k is long gone and civilization is safe."

I'm concerned here not with what drives some people to view the world in this way, but rather why I psychologically react to them the way that I do (and perhaps you do too?). I find people like this to be insufferably condescending, arrogant beyond their worth, and (most reactionary of all) completely immature and lacking in self-awareness. Look at the evidence: They use the word 'bourgeois.' They put sarcastic quotation marks around completely neutral nouns ('products' and 'moms'!?). They honestly believe that Kremsoft has had any effect at all on anything or anyone outside of pretentious pseudo-intellectuals like themselves. And THE FACT THAT I FEEL THIS WAY IS WHAT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH! I'm the prejudiced one here. They're just throwing words out; I'm the one reacting with a knee-jerk (to their faces, hopefully). What's even worse is that their humorless 'I'm intellectually ahead of you' attitude is the same one I take when I get upset about religious people! So not only am I dick about their dickness, but I'm as big a dick as they are at simply BEING A DICK!

On the plus side, I at least do possess self-awareness of this character flaw. And it's really not hard to spot in other people either. So be careful how you react to other people in a public forum, because the nature of your reaction always says more about you than it does the other person. Here's an example, pulled from a real-life Internet board:

StarvinMarvin: Hi everyone, Here's my latest review: Peter Criss (1978).
jpf: Who cares what you think?
IggyPopWillEatItself Fan: Dude, you are SO not qualified to review rock albums.
Too Far Gone: You suck at journalism, quit now.
StarvinMarvin: You suck at life. Quit now. Am I qualified to write reviews? No. It's a hobby. That said, I know for a fact that I am more qualified to write about music than you. Your posts betray your ignorance on all this music related. What's your qualification to comment about music? Your Metal Sludge Message Board membership? I write reviews because I want to, and because I can. My site is less than two years old, and already it regularly attracts 2500 unique visitors per month. Record companies send me FREE CDs to review. Not bad for a new site. I must be doing something rightl Who cares about what you have to say anyway? Thousands of people regularly visit my site. The only people in this world who listen to your views on music are the people on this message board, and even then it's not because we actually want to. We're a captive audience.

Now who came out of that confrontation looking like the bigger loser? Learn from StarvinMarvin's mistake and let things go before you turn into a defensive crybaby. If his site attracts 2500 unique visitors per month, why does he care what three people using fake names on a message board think of him? Why should he? Now the whole world thinks he's a big fucken dork because I re-posted it here and every living organism reads my site.

I'm also warning from experience here -- one time YEARS AND YEARS AGO THANKS (okay, only 6 years ago but that's still more than 2 or 3), I went Compliment Hunting on a music message board by signing in under the name "Miss Take" and pretending to be a big fan of new-fangled online record critic Mark Prindle. Upon receiving unexpected Negative Feedback About Mark Prindle from the board, I (as "Miss Take") began vehemently defending new-fangled online record critic Mark Prindle (who, incidentally, SUCKED EVEN MORE SHIT AT THE TIME THAN HE DOES NOW) as an important new voice in the blah blah blah etc. Finally I (most likely) started crying and admitted my true identity -- as a big fucken DUMBASS! And that's just one example. Sometimes your fingers type really stupid things when you're feeling weak and depressed. The answer? USE CAPS LOCK A LOT TO DEMONSTRATE MATURITY.

Now we may begin the record review proper.

Twenty hundred and thirteen years after Jesus wasn't really born, K/K got together to record their I Know I Cannot Leave This Place. Then they shelved it, leaving this one to sit around the house until 2016, when HAL put it out. HA HA! LITTLE JOKE ABOUT A FILM MASTERPIECE I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN!!! ALSO, FANTASIA SUCKED MY ASS IT SMELLED!!!!

Reader Comments

erdic.rudcker@talk221.com
Dear Prindle,

A couple of years ago I wrote you a drunken and complimentary email: now, well into the more mature phase of my life (i.e. wearing a dressing gown of a morning and having no fun at weekends) I have to write again.

Prindle, your review of K/K I Know I Cannot Leave This Place is another reaffirmation of the motives which will forever lead me to read and to love your site!

God bless you, Prindle, and if Italian law ever decides to let an English fellow get a credit card, I vow to click on that frigging Amazon link til you are a rich, rich man.

Yours

Erdic Rudcker

P.S. I, like K/K, come from Hull and therefore am genetically qualified to make the above comments.

johadusen@gmail.com
When they talk about the social impact of Kremsoft's music I think they mean vaporwave and noise music in general, in which case it is not that strange. Allegedly one of the higher ups in Trump's administration referred to Vektroid as the the biggest threat to the American way of life. Also I remember a James Ferraro interview in which he used the word bourgeoisie at least a half dozen times, and I don't see you dismissing him out of hand.

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Industrial Society and Its Future - TMEC 2016
If you go crazy over NOISES....
If you're just wild about FEEDBACK....
If you're a sizable fan of SQUIGGLY RACKET....
If you grew a third vagina just to impress POPPING BUBBLES....
If you bounce jelly off your dick because of AN ECHOEY KEYBOARD....
If you simply cannot get your fill of SUCKING BACKWARDS NOISES....
If you once sold your entire house for one second of COINS CLINKING....
If your last head exploded because you got so excited at a LOOPED VIOLIN RIFF....
If you hate most Caroliner albums because they don't have enough LOUD RUMBLING....
If you attended a Merzbow concert and said, "THIS IS TOO MAINSTREAM AND POPPY"....
If you own an entire wardrobe made out of A SPOOKY RECORD PLAYING BACKWARDS....
If you assassinated the President for the opportunity to even think about A TREBLY VOCODER....
If the gang around the water cooler calls you "OL' RANDOM COLLECTION OF NOTHINGNESS"....
If Dad kicked you out of the house because you kept spoiling dinner with your TINY BITS OF BANJO....
If you are a superhero called "CAPTAIN GUY WHO LIKES HIGH-PITCHED STRING FLICKING"....
If your favorite Beatles record is ONE OF THOSE PIECES OF SHIT THAT JOHN DID WITH YOKO....
If you own a plastic bag full of urine because somebody told you it was TUNELESS ORGAN BRAPPING....
If you can't get an erect boner on your penis unless your partner is making LOW BASSY MURKY NOISES....
If you stole a newborn baby and ate it because you were under the mystical effects of TELEVISION STATIC....
If your definition of music is "ABOUT FOUR MINUTES OF ACTUAL MELODY ON A 52-MINUTE ALBUM"....
If you've mailed car bombs to Steve Miller due to his discography lacking sufficient amounts of GROWLY RACKET....
If you accidentally ate a chainsaw because you were fantasizing about A WEIRD ROTATING DISTORTED FAN BUZZ....
If you own every "Curtis" comic strip ever printed because someone told you the illustrator likes ELECTRONIC BLOOPS....
If you've worn out all your Nurse With Wound and Throbbing Gristle records and want something similar but MUCH SHITTIER....
If you once shouted at the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, "Could you keep it down? I'm trying to listen to this LOUD ENGINE NOISE"....
If you've given away fifteen children to adoption because their breathing didn't sound like A SPED-UP DIDDLY-DOO HOEDOWN....
If you married a corpse because the sound of the worms and maggots chewing on its insides reminded you of A TELEPHONE RINGING....
If you're 364 years old because neither God nor Satan can bear the thought of sitting through your enormous catalog of SOUNDS OF A FINGER PUSHING A BUTTON....
If your last six vacation destinations were chosen based on where you expected to encounter the highest percentage of A LOOPED BUGLE LINE PLAYED AT VARIOUS SPEEDS....
If your favorite meal is a CLANK sandwich with a side order of mashed SQUICKLES, a bowl of CLINKITY soup and a tall glass of MARCHING BAND WITH OVERDUBBED WRONG NOTES juice...

If all this and more, then GOOD NEWS! You're sitting on a GOLD MINE! A gold mine of THIS ALBUM!

Also, you have terrible taste in everything ever.

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