cows

[Gregory Torso]

There was a thread over in Gentlemens' Bollocks called cows which inspired me to start a thread here called cows about the Cows.
What a band.
Best shithead dumbrock noise band of the late 80s, early 90s? Maybe.

A glorious mess. Here's a picture of the band from their album "Sexy Pee Story" -



The singer is pissing on a picture of a woodpecker about to enter someone's arsehole (that's actually the front cover of the album).
This picture is all you need to know about the band.

I want to roll in filth.

Why the Cows are great:

The singer Shannon Selberg frequently got both his penis and his bugle out. Lots of farting brass notes mingling with the drunk stew.
Their guitarist was called Thor. The bass cow, Kevin, went on to be in Tommahawk and the Melvins, I think.

They had a song called Joan Baez which was sung to the tune of Kumbaya and goes "I fucked a dog last night, Joan Baez/ No more drinking, Lord, Joan Baez"

Music like a three day hangover. A rolling blackout.

Some favourites follow -

Chow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTN1PW9fZrY check out that sickly bass.

Whitey In The Woodpile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_utI0OPTcbU

Sugar Torch - the first song I ever heard by them = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1BYp9jarM

Peacetika - this is great, the concept was a swastika bent into a peace sign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIIi9oLIWg

Great covers.

Here's Midnight Cowboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceqbtn4kGi0

and here's 39 Lashes (from Jesus Christ Superstar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvEKNSpj0g

Love the Cows.

Feel free to post any bovine or ruminant related music yourselfs.

[Gregory Torso]

Maybe this'll get your milk tank revving, Sexy Pee Story the song, fantastic stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBfxVqL1zU

[Dirty Boy]

That is a great photo.

I love this band to bits and you've reminded me to give a proper listen to the pre-Cunning Stunts albums of which i've only dipped into. Noisy innit?

Their last album is the most eclectic, maybe that's why i think it's the best one. Produced by senoir Buzz Osbourne no less.

A few songs i like

Shitbeard
Contamination
El Shiksa
Cabin Man

Live on a local tv show

I can't remember if i first heard about them through the Melvins or the Jesus Lizard, but they led me to discover loads of great Noise Rock bands like the Cherubs and Hammerhead.

[Gregory Torso]

The Cherubs were fantastic. Heroin Man has one of my favourite album covers.

[Dirty Boy]

Are the Heroine Sheiks any cop?

[Gregory Torso]

I haven't heard much by them, but Hepa-Titus is another Cows related band and they're really good.

[Gregory Torso]

Live on a local tv show

I love this.

[sevendaughters]

only heard Sexy Pee Story, which I quite like, but am more familiar with Selberg through The Heroine Sheiks - as mentioned above - who were pretty good in that way that noise-rock bands confronting the new century were. In my head they're in a bubble with Swing Kids and other GSL bands like VSS.

Warning: incredibly non-PC album title - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEKEXCY83L8

[sevendaughters]

deleted, having a mare

[the ouch cube]

Are the Heroine Sheiks any cop?

I would say yes. Shannon is still Shannon, but the group are tight rather than chaotic, and there are Devo/Fall-like keyboard blurts all over the place.

'Out Of Aferica' (their third album of four) is my favourite

[Dirty Boy]

This deserved more attention.

To broaden it out a bit, what's been the essential Sludge/Noise Rock of the last few years? I've been banging Hey Colossus and Oxbow of late.

[ASFTSN]

This deserved more attention.

To broaden it out a bit, what's been the essential Sludge/Noise Rock of the last few years? I've been banging Hey Colossus and Oxbow of late.

I did some artwork for this Finnish band, THROAT a few years back that might fit the bill.  They're bloody ace, nails-on-a-chalkboard riffs and murderous singing.

Check this out.

And this.

Bandcamp page here.

[bushwick]

This deserved more attention.

To broaden it out a bit, what's been the essential Sludge/Noise Rock of the last few years? I've been banging Hey Colossus and Oxbow of late.

Drunk In Hell S/T, end of conversation.

This thread owns. Cows are awesome, as are Cherubs. Any amrep/Trance Syndicate stuff is good by me. Also like God Bullies and U-Men and all that stuff. Like the mirror image of the grunge scene but with Butthole Surfers as the main influence, perhaps

[sevendaughters]

I have the latest Hey Colossus and it's good but I prefer earlier ones, also the Dethscalator record from a few years ago. One of my absolute favourites is a group from Lyon who just split up called DEBORAH KANT. not sludge but good heavy creative guitar slinging that might find some fans here - https://deborahkant.bandcamp.com/track/acid-rainbows

[ASFTSN]

Any Killdozer fans?  Do they count in this thread?

[hermitical]

YES

[hermitical]

I mentioned this in another thread but I'll try here, did anyone rip the video from youtube of Killdozer's version of I Am I Said to slowed down clips from John Woo's A Better Tomorrow?

[Gregory Torso]

Killdozer were a fine, fine band. I always loved their covers too, particularly this one, of Janet Jackson's "Nasty" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56wJadwXeU

[jobotic]

I've had "Fifty Seven" by Killdozer going through my head all day, since my son said the number 57. I ain't complaining.

I mentioned this in another thread, it might be my favourite by them, although it could also be Live Your Life Like You Don't Exist, or A Man's Gotta Be A Man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk60RTgiFOY

[ASFTSN]

Anyone ever make the fried watermelon balls from the back of Twelve Point Buck?

[Rocket Surgery]

the Cows.

the Melvins or the Jesus Lizard

Oxbow

Drunk In Hell

Butthole Surfers

Killdozer

I'm entirely too sober to get involved in this thread right now, but I'm experiencing multiple nostalgia-gasms just reading through. Once it's legitimately beer-o-clock my neighbours are going to be so fucking cross with you lot.

[Gregory Torso]

Teenage Larvae were a Cows/God Bullies sweetcheek kiss and cuddle-up, Kevin Cow and David Bully, here they are doing some Hank Williams

[Gregory Torso]

And now we are a general noise rock thread, the second thousandth year of us accepting Christ as a clock brought us lots of lovely noise

Coughs Animal Hospital

Hospitals Airplanes There

No Doctors Campaign Special

Landed Dairy 4 Dinner

[Dr Rock]

Any Killdozer fans?  Do they count in this thread?

The Best Band There Ever Was.

I like Cows too.

[Dr Rock]

I mentioned this in another thread but I'll try here, did anyone rip the video from youtube of Killdozer's version of I Am I Said to slowed down clips from John Woo's A Better Tomorrow?

Never saw that. I can offer this, their tribute to the great disaster film director Irwin Allen matched to the relevant clips of the movies being sung about.

[Dr Rock]

Killdozer Mystery! Where is this version of I Am I Said from? It's sung slightly different with added muttering and a spoken bit at the end, and is over 5 minutes not the 4.54 length of the original? I shall have this version now for my own, but wonder of its provenance.

[hermitical]

Killdozer Mystery! Where is this version of I Am I Said from?

Here you go (I think, I only listened to the first 5 seconds): Brian Turner's show on WFMU, 2008

[hermitical]

Any love for the Aussie stuff - King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat?

[Dr Rock]

Here you go (I think, I only listened to the first 5 seconds): Brian Turner's show on WFMU, 2008

Yeah that's it, cheers x

[the ouch cube]

Any love for the Aussie stuff - King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat?

Never got around to properly hearing the latter, but the former's 'Ground Into The Dirt' gets regular spins around here. Charles Tolnay passed away recently, I believe.