Wall of Mouths

Title: Another from the US!

…via iTunes, in fact. The EP, too. I love iTunes. It makes me happy…

I think Rockstar Bullshit is referring to lip synching. I think.

A lot of street teams are bullshit. I’ve been a member of the Ministry street team for three years and I’ve received exactly three e-mails and nothing else during that time.

Krisken wrote:

And here I thought no one else knew God Lives Underwater. I’ve been listening to them since Empty. I know they were going to release another album, what, before the turn of the century? All of a sudden they dropped off the face of the Earth. One of the other reasons I’m glad T? is still around… seems no one else I listened to in high school is.

I’ve actually been listening to them since the first EP. :p Their last album, Up Off The Floor, went unreleased because their label fell apart. Since then, they’ve been doing side projects. There hasn’t been an official breakup, just a very long hiatus.

The MP3’s of Up Off The Floor (which is a really good album) were available on the band’s website, but the site’s been offline all week. I’ll post about it again when the site’s back up.

Speaking of bands from high school, does anyone else miss Machines Of Loving Grace?

The Radiohead idea is a great one. I think Street Spirit would sound marvellous as interpreted by Therapy?

Failure’s Enjoy The Silence is fantastic. You know who else does good Depeche Mode covers? God Lives Underwater. They’ve done Fly On The Windscreen and Stripped.

Hecubus wrote:

it’s on the japanese import (along with “60 Watt Bulb”). comes right after “The Boy’s Asleep.” works fairly well in that position, i think, and i really like “Church of Noise” as the opener…

It works, but it makes the album a bit longer than it needs to be. By the time I get to Tramline through 60 Watt Bulb, I’m already a little frazzled.

Suing God is one of those songs that’s really too good to be a b-side. So, in that sense, I’m glad I have the Japanese import.

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davefromoverthere wrote:

get them on the conan o’brien show.

Excellent idea. Conan would likely put them on the show. And it would be great for T? because playing Conan carries more cool points than any of the other late night American talk shows.

High Anxiety _(2003)
1. Hey Satan - You Rock
2. If It Kills Me
Shameless _(2001)
1. I Am The Money
2. Stalk & Slash
So Much For The Ten Year Plan _(2000)
1. Bad Karma Follows You Around
2. Little Tongues First
Suicide Pact-You First _(1999)
1. Wall Of Mouths
2. Six Mile Water
Semi-Detached _(1998)
1. Lonely, Cryin’, Only
2. Heaven’s Gate
Infernal Love _(1995)
1. Stories
2. 30 Seconds
Troublegum _(1994)
1. Stop It You’re Killing Me
2. Femtex
Nurse _(1992)
1. Teethgrinder
2. Gone
Pleasure Death _(1992)
1. Potato Junkie
2. Skinning Pit
Babyteeth _(1991)
1. Punishment Kiss
2. Animal Bones

Wildcard
1. God Kicks

Wow, that was hard!

Evil Elvis 2 wrote:

it was. it was a hot day for the time of year in England today, and i just didn’t think about it.

Hehehe… It’s just past 10 p.m. here and it’s 91°F outside. I left a book in my car today and when I came out to get it I found myself with something that could serve as a hotplate. :D

jameson wrote:

…somehow I also think that HA has a big potential to succes in the states!

If promoted correctly, absolutely. It’s not like they can’t write songs with memorable hooks or anything. They just need the right marketing blitz from a record label that’s interested in doing more than putting the record out and letting it sit there.

And Airbag was right about QOTSA fans. Therapy? is a band that’s perfect for them. As a matter of fact, if I were marketing T?, I’d put them on a U.S. opening gig with QOTSA and see how they’d fly.

Let’s just agree to blame Anne Murray, okay? :D

hoochalobster wrote:

I don’t know about the TV issue either, I always thought it was just that PAL TVs have trouble with NTSC (less lines in an image or something), I didn’t realise that went both ways.

Oh, absolutely. And it makes me bitter because you guys get a lot of good stuff on DVD long before we do. You guys rule in the Music and TV show DVD’s department.

Squall wrote:

Semi Detahced pisses all over Suicide Pact and Shameless.

I didn’t know CD’s could do that! :eek:

It’s not really fair to blame Canadians for Avril Lavigne. Blame Hollywood record execs who scouted her and developed her into a pop star. And blame the people who bought into it! The only way we’re going to get rid of manufactured pop stars is to stop supporting them!

God, I feel like an activist…

TAL waves to the Canadians from SoCal. :D

summer_of_hate wrote:

I’m not sure about feasibility of this, because I think there are more lines in a PAL image than in standard NTSC, which might cause problems with US tvs. PCs should be fine though!

Exactly. You hit the nail right on the head. The region coding can be overcome pretty easily, but the PAL vs. NTSC is a TV issue and not one easily overcome. But you are right. Most PC’s can play PAL discs with no problems. That’s how I play my Pulp Hits DVD.

Ooooh! Maybe I should go pick it up, then. I’m always looking for something good to watch! Thanks! :)

As a big Bowie fan, I’d love to see them cover the Thin White Duke. But not anything you’d normally think of a band like Therapy? covering, like Ziggy Stardust or Rebel Rebel. I’d love to see them to an all-out rock cover of Ashes To Ashes!

That looks like a pretty good station. It’s nice to see a station with some variety. Clear Channel Communications owns a ton of the radio stations in America, so most of what we get is very categorized and not at all risky.

White Psycho wrote:

Although I usually consider Babyteeth and Pleasure Death as one album because I have caucasian psychosis from when I was on holiday in florida.

As an American, I pretty much consider the two as one album since Caucasian Psychosis is the way we got them here. It’s quite good to listen to it as a proper “debut” album. I mean, imagine my shock after hearning Nurse first and then getting Hats Off To The Insane and Troublegum later. Therapy? are rock???? I didn’t know any better… :p

Bad Karma wrote:

Cool at least we know there is going to be a new single released.

Yeah, it’s greedy of me, but I love b-sides!

They’ve done some great covers, but I’ve gotta give it to “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight).” I put it on mix CD’s to confuse my friends. :D

I just don’t think they have anything else to run. In addition to running the same shows over and over again, most of them are available here on DVD. I just wish they’d show a bigger variety of things so I could know if I liked some of these other shows.

For example, is Yes Minister any good? It’s out on DVD now, but its BBC America presentation was so short that I never got a chance to watch it!

White Psycho wrote:

Tipping The Velvet don’t expect much from it, my dad claimed he was only watching it to see what happened next after seeing the first episode, hmmmm for some reason I didn’t believe his reason

Tee hee hee! So, that’s who watched Tipping The Velvet! :p Somehow, the show was unavoidable this weekend. They’ve aired the trilogy non-stop since Friday.

Spaced? I don’t recall it ever airing here, or Velvet Soup for that matter. You know, it sounds to me like BBC America is really dropping the ball. I’ve had the channel for three years now and they tend to play the same shows over and over (AbFab, EastEnders, So Graham Norton, etc), with occasional one to two month runs for stuff like So What Now (which I liked, despite it getting bad reviews here).

According to the website, there will be new episodes of Manchild, Murder in Mind, The League of Gentlemen, Homefront in the Garden, Ground Force, What Not to Wear and Changing Rooms this summer (the last three being shows that air CONSTANTLY). The only thing that’s premiering this summer, according to the website, is Tipping The Velvet. From all the shows you guys have thrown around, it sounds like there’s a lot more they could be showing. You’d understand if you got the channel. Last night, they showed the same episode of AbFab four times, the same episode of Coupling three times, and episode one of Tipping The Velvet four times. Some variety would be nice!

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davefromoverthere wrote:

i’ll agree on the first two (evanescense
is ESPECIALLY crappy#!#@!).. but manson’s
new album is actually fairly good, worth
a go.

I gotta agree with you there. Then again, I’ve always loved it when he’s glammed it up a bit. Mechanical Animals is the best Bowie cover album ever!

Infernal Love is a weird one for me. It came out while I was going through a messy high-school breakup, and it actually helped quite a bit with the healing process (as sick as that sounds). I tried listening to it the other night, and I was almost embarassed. It was like trying to listen in on my own past and it just felt weird. Nothing against the album itself, it just struck a chord I wasn’t ready to deal with.

S-D was the first T? album that came out that I didn’t really care for on the first spin. As time has gone on, I’ve come to appreciate it more. Heaven’s Gate and Lonely Cryin’ Only have become two of my all-time faves. I think Shameless might wind up the same way. I wasn’t really fond of it the first time I heard it (especially coming after Suicide Pact - You First), but it’s grown on me a bit since then…

I was checking out the BBC America website, and it turns out that the first episode of The Office is running Thursday night. I’m going to leave notes all over the place, reminding me to tape it! :)

hoochalobster wrote:

- do you get The Good Life? That is an all time classic which you’d probably enjoy. You also need to see The Office (quite recent) if it’s ever aired over there :)

I heard a while ago that they were planning to remake Coupling. Over here it just got dubbed the UK version of Friends so I don’t know how it’ll fare. maybe they’re doing it cause Friends is finishing.

No, we don’t get The Good Life yet. It’s probably coming down the pipeline, though. We do get The Office, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet (it’s on when I’m working and I haven’t overcome my laziness long enough to tape it!).

I’ve heard the whole “Coupling is the UK version of Friends” thing before, but I have to disagree. Friends isn’t half as funny or half as dirty. Friends is a little too clean and happy and whitebread for my tastes.

White Psycho wrote:

sorry to be picky but Father Ted is Channel 4

That’s okay, I wouldn’t know otherwise. Since it’s aired on BBC America here, I just assumed…