In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited - Queen

It's Tuesday morning, I'm catching up on emails that I'm like a few months behind in answering, and I'm checking out the video of the Queen concert that went down this past weekend in Russia somewhere. The band had Adam Lambert, some homo that's apparently only famous for being gay and being on American Idol I think, standing in for Freddie and the bands performance is just terrible. Everything is played too slow, the 2 founding members Brian and Roger who took place in this farce look terrible, and yeah, it just sucks. That dude Adam Lambert can sing, but he sounds more like Tim Finn from Split Enz than the fabulous Mr. Mercury. Ugh. Oh well. Sometimes it's just sad to see a band you adore look so out of place. The smell of Desperation is deep. 14:58 and counting...

My last post included a new video from The Dirty Panties, and today I have a new video from Demon Lung to talk about! :-) I shared that Dirty Panties video on the onethirtyeight.org Facebook page, and was surprised that I got those 2 negative comments about it. Oh well. I dunno how people will react to this video after seeing it, but it should be interesting, because this video is twisted! ha ha ha It's from the just released album called Pareidolia by Demon Lung, and it's for a song called Lament Code. I have no idea what the song is about, but it sounds slow and heavy ala later day Corrosion Of Conformity or even Type O Negative, I dunno. The video for the song is just nightmarish, and a great job of using CGI effects and cool puppetry to create one amazing looking video that I'm almost sure was not too expensive to make, although it sure does look like it. Kudos on a job well done on this one Demon Lung. You've certainly set the bar very high for the next Local band who does a video, that's for sure. :-)

Speaking of videos, the Gashers are going to premier their new video Panic, from their upcoming Squid Hat Records release called Law Is Not Order, next Tuesday @ 11 am on Facebook, and you can click here to go to the Events Page for it and get yourself in the loop. I'm told I won't be disappointed. I doubt that I shall be. ;-)

Hey! Did you see the piece that Jarret Keene did on Battle Born in last weeks Seven magazine? Click here to read it if you haven't already. It's a pretty good piece on a hard working band that definitely deserves it. And like it says at the end of that write up, there is a little bit of a 4th of July shindig going down there on Weds., and you're all invited. BBQ, Beer, Bands, and they're gonna be filming a promo video too, so get your ass down there and have some fun and get drunk and blow stuff up. The view of the strip from there is pretty sweet, so you can watch those fireworks too if you're sober enough to remember to... heh heh heh

hahaha OK, just one last thing from the emails before I go. Apparently, a few weeks ago the L.A. Times posted a fluff piece by some dooshbags about the 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Rock Albums of All Time (click here to read it for yourself), and their choices were more than a bit baffling, to say the least, and just as a point of reference, I jotted down their Top 20 list and then made one of my own, and here's what I came up with. Took me all of 10 minutes to do so. I think my choices are pretty good. Of course, I'm nothing but a Homophobic, Bitter Old Poseur, so take anything I say with a huge grain of salt, because what do I know, right? ;-)

L.A. Times List

1. Black Flag - Damaged
2. X - Los Angeles
3. Germs - G.I.
4. Descendents - Milo Goes To College
5. Bad Religion - Suffer
6. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
7. X - Under The Big Black Sun
8. Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
9. Wasted Youth - Reagan's In
10. The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
11. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
    
12. Vandals - Peace Through Vandalism
13. T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me
14. Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets
15. The Nerves - One Way Ticket
16. NOFX - Punk In Drublic
17. Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
18. Despise You - West Side Horizons
19. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
20. Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa

onethirtyeight.org List

1. Germs - G.I.
2. Black Randy And The Metrosquad - Pass The Dust I Think I'm Bowie
   
3. The Plugz - Electrify Me
   
4. X - Wild Gift
5. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
6. Black Flag - Damaged
7. Descendents - Milo Goes To College
8. Fear - The Record
   
9. Wasted Youth - Reagan's In
10. Bad Religion - How Can Hell Be Any Worse?
    
11. Infest - Slave
12. Flesheaters - No Questions Asked
    
13. CH3 - Fear Of Life
    
14. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
15. The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
    
16. NOFX - Ribbed
17. Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
18. Butt Trumpet - Primitive Enema
    
19. Youth Brigade - Sound & Fury
20. The Mentors - Live At The Cathay De Grande
    

So yeah, if you ignore the fact that the L.A. Times list has bands from Orange County on their list, and a few compilations from bands that were comprised of singles and live tracks, and a couple that weren't even albums, then I guess it's a good list! LOL Honorable mentions go to Slayer - Reign In Blood, Red Kross - Born Innocent, 45 Grave - Sleep In Safety, Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted, Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime, Christian Death - Only Theater Of Pain and everything the Screamers never recorded. :-) I can't wait to do another list for the Top 20 L.A. Punk Rock Singles of All Time - now THAT would be fun!! :-)

Everything is updated - the Peter Murphy gig is happening at the LVCS and not the Beauty Bar as I falsely reported last Friday, all sorts of shit is getting added all the time, so keep coming back. And if I don't post anything tomorrow, I'll wish you all a Happy 4th of July now! Try not to blow any appendages off it at all possible! ;-)