What does /mu/ think of them?Have you seen them perform live, as their original lineup, 2001 tour iteration, or their reformation?What are some other bands that have scratched the itch for you?Did Justin Trosper die an extreme twinkdeath?>Hard mode: discuss any album other than Leaves Turn Inside You
>>131987146Vern passed away, not Justin.
every and any fan of unwound should have this book.........https://unwound.bandcamp.com/merch/unwound-1991-2091
>>131987270Justin's hairline passed away>>131987294https://www.scribd.com/document/802630143/What-Was-Wound-Full-Bookdoesn't include the "Rewound" interview tacked on at the book's conclusion - here it ishttps://www.scribd.com/document/1091399635/Rewound
>>131987334thanks!
>>131987350You're welcome. The interviews they gave after the 2023 tour basically restate what Rewound discusses, anyway. This one by Sara is a retrospective of her entire history, it's delightful and tragic.https://www.olympiamusichistory.org/interview/sara-lund
>>131987146I own 3 out of the 4 Numero Group box sets:>Kid Is Gone>No Energy>EmpireStill looking for Rat Conspiracy. Sold out on Bandcamp. A few up on Discogs but for diabolical prices....
>>131987146leaves was good, the rest was ehh. gave some of it a cursory listen. didn't think it sucked and will probably revisit the older material at some point.
>>131987146I enjoy The Future of What the most.I think Accidents on Purpose is the quintessential unwoundian post-hardcore song.
>>131987459Most people will recommend you start with Fake Train off the strength of Valentine Card/Kantina/Were, Are, and Was or Is, but I actually recommend New Plastic Ideas first. It's the best sequenced and paced album in their discography, and one that reveals its depth to you as it progresses on. The straightforward post-hardcore and ballad numbers are first up, then they space out with Hexenzsene and Abstraktions, slap you back to earth with All Souls Day, then devastate you with Arboretum and Fiction Friction. >>131987517Nice album pick, but for me it's Petals Like Bricks. I got my shit pushed in by the crowd once that song started up. It's what they're playing in the OP gif.>the bridge harmonic thud cutting off the melody>the double snareiconic!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi895Ai1ZgM
>>131987548just to hammer the point home:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7R7FUTlxic&t=344s
>>131987548>Petals Like BricksAlso i good one. I didnt want my post to mean that i think it's the best song. It's simply just what 'after hardcore' sounds like. The jagged riff, the stop go tension, everything they do is a direct relation to hardcore but twisted
>>131987388awesome. bookmark'd for later.
>>131987573I see your point. Vern's bassline on that is perfect as well.
RIP
https://web.archive.org/web/20140516224321/http://accidentsonpurpose.com/
>>131987146cousin got me this for my bday:https://unwound.bandcamp.com/album/7-26-2001
>>131987659Here Come the Dogs, as played here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORVac211mMRest in peace.Artists/albums that scratch the itch:Lync - These Are Not Fall Colorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sporRMgxKdA>the most obvious one, in terms of tone, place and time. Contemporaries from the east side. Pic is of Sam Jayne playing Justin's infamous greenburst pawn shop guitar, while sharing a bill with Indian Summer.ira glasshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1dXlAbtuII&t=513s>If you took the approach of Said Serial and gave it a Chicagoan's intellect. Equal parts post-hardcore noise spazzing and space out dissociation. Sprainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcB_niTKuw>Unwound is an overtly acknowledged influence, and this song is their ultimate tribute and goodbye to the obsessive copying (Alex Kent has stated his vocal technique came about partially by yelling along to Unwound songs in the car). Shearling, the newest iteration, still uses Sunn Concert Lead amps to induce their feedback sections.>>131987686I wonder where the creator of this fansite is nowadays. I hope he lived to see the reunion shows.
>>131987909Hating in D sounds like Built to Spill here. I love that they revisited the s/t and Giant Henry material one time for the day ones.
>>131987925awesome thanks for the recs!
>>131987925>Lynci may get this tape from bandcamp. only 20 bux.project seems inspired by the likes of drive like jehu, fugazi, unwound of course and even the fall.
>>131987978Thanks. More itch scratching:Nuzzle - Junk of Myth '92-'95https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZBltdZpkY>Formed due to Unwound/PNW influence (as found in interviews and the aptly-named Karpal Tunnel). Saw them open for P.E.E. recently.Karphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apIbqJPC-eg>Unwound's "sister band". Jared Warren stepped into Vern's shoes on the reunion tours. Much more indebted to Melvins than Unwound overtly were, but they still carry the "scream into mic as catharsis" attitude while being way more playful and fun about it. Absolutely tragic story threading the line from Karp to The Whip to Jared joining the Melvins, seen here:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSYMqp8svARhododendronhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lV0-EbhkJ0>A bit more Skin Graft/AmRep-styled noise/math rock leaning than strict Unwound worship, but there's no mistaking the Usual Dosage riff tribute at the beginning, and the feedback shot, as nods.Mildredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3lKsli_h_shttps://mildredmildredmildredmildredmildredmildredmildred.bandcamp.com/>Underrated and unknown, based in the outskirts Los Angeles, CA. Pt.1 is a literary masterpiece.Bells on Trikehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCabDMrY1g>Another band birthed from Unwound's influence during their original iteration. This song's outro endlessly fascinates me, the prettiest and most well-written anti-climax I've ever heard.
https://www.unwoundarchive.com/photosfor anyone unaware - this is a goldmine>the past is already gone, the future is not yet here
>>131987925>>131988112Unwound side projects and their highlights:Young Ginns - s/thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGC-jcuTsIY>Justin on bass, Tim Green (of Nation of Ulysses) on guitarWorst Case Scenario - The Complete Works ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aGqYSfPig>Justin and Brandt team up with longtime friend Chris Jordan for some hardcore-styled woodshedding during a down time in OG Unwound's touring and album release schedule. Hungry Ghosthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WSpDVwrHeE>Sara brings her incredible drumming to a more garage-rock oriented band.Survival Knifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXdN0cj7dQ>The most notable project post-Unwound's breakup. Justin and Brandt duel/dual guitars in a more prog-punk oriented direction. Released on Issac Brock's label, Glacial Pace.Replikantshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAwF3s57aA>Experimental woodshedding between Justin and Brandt that saw them dabble in all sorts of genres and noises.Nocturnal Habitshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPn6hii3Ek>....eh. I would never ask for a current-day Unwound album after knowing about this. picrel
>>131988335you left out Witchypoo...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMUqnscz4uk
>>131988557Witchypoo had a lot of rotating members and was Slim Moon's project, but fair point - Sara's on a good bit of it. I haven't explored Irving Klaw Trio or RedRumsey enough to recommend, and Household Gods falls under the same umbrella as Nocturnal Habits to me.I suppose this thread is to release my anxieties about them never touring again.The initial intent was to honor the grief around Vern (hence the flowers tossed out at the end of each show?), then they started playing full album shows (NPI/TFoW) with some hints towards revisiting Challenge/Leaves material, with Sonata for Loudspeakers, Scarlette, Summer Freeze, and Look a Ghost making the rotation at certain shows.Sara seems to be playing one-off shows around the PNW with Ruminants, which includes Sam Coomes from Quasi. Speculation of the cancelled tour comes from her breast cancer diagnosis, but I'm worried something else might be the case. I hope everyone's health is alright. I swear an internet article about Justin getting sarcoidosis while living in LA post-breakup disappeared.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250320032941/https://www.nocturnalhabits.com/I'm not sure what happened to Justin's website, but it's been offline for a year now.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/a-beginners-guide-to-unwounds-otherworldly-post-hardcore
effortposting with sincerity is the easiest way to be ignored universally across the internet. sorry i ever gave anything i cared about my utterly ignorable opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Drytiqsq4
>>131991460Do you not see this board is only used by weird people to shill their pop goon music?I enjoy unwound and was the one who posted >>131987517But this board is beyond dead. Worthless to talk about anything interesting
>>131995150more or less i agree :(
forever in our hearts rest easy
>>131991460I see your effort, even though I think unwound are by and large overrated/
Let's post our favorite side-project-adjacent tracks.For me, it's...>Nocturnal Habits "Good Grief"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocSWy28b5k8>Replikants "Patty's Trip"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAwF3s57aA>Long Hind Legs "Alphabeth Of Unreason"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcCPH4wOeQ>Survival Knife "Fell Runner"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXdN0cj7dQ>Young Ginns "Score"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZpS3M_X-w>Worst Case Scenario "Dry Material"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWxPVZoutG0>Witchypoo "Epistemology"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mIE6gYf8kHow about yours?
>>131991460take a seat in the race of life
Since October is almost all over....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCUcgkRekw
>>131995970also forgot about how Melvins technically being an Unwound-adjacent project. Shared members and and shared region and whatnot.
In the imaginary war of DLJ vs Unwound, I am forever on the former's front. However, as the years pass, I am more intrigued by Unwound's more crooked melancholy harmonies. I think Lifetime Achievement Award is a very cool, creepy song.
>>131995150>>131995820Thanks. I got upset seeing 3 kpop/wpop generals at the top of the catalog, plus whatever detritus like "thoughts about x's body of work?" or lyric spam from frogposters was taking up space. There are so many other boards that serve as space for gooning. Substantive discussion and knowledge-sharing here has taken a nosedive.>>131995743Vern just seemed like a true natural at what he did. Unwound was essentially his first band (Giant Henry is just pre-teen Unwound). Justin liked the weird stuff, Vern was into the classics. Yet his basslines end up absolutely carrying the melody and the rhythm of the majority of their catalog. with complete intuition (childhood piano lessons notwithstanding). When he played for Blonde Redhead on Fake Can Be Just As Good: >“We had some sort of part written, but he just did his own thing,” Kazu Makino remembered about the session. “I remember him saying, ‘God, you guys make the weirdest music, but once you’re in it, it’s the simplest thing. You don’t even need all the strings.’ And I remember he ripped the strings off his bass. Like, oh these are getting in the way – just ripped them.”>>131995970>>131997306...and after all that Vern praise, I forgot Long Hind Legs. I think the Melvins influence can't be overstated enough for both Unwound/Karp, although the doc about Karp in >>131988112 gives it some credence. I got to see Coady drum with Dale last year. They still kill.Justin's bass lines on Young Ginns are so sick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfst-UDerC4pic vaguely related: did Steve Fisk influence TFoW's cover?
I dont like them, their music constantly sounds like its teasing something but nothing happens. real torture to listen to, makes my dick tingle
The Red House demos are a fun listen. Recorded a few months after replacing Brandt with Sara and shelving the self-titled.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnelnrsYd0>Melvins worship? Really funny to hear Justin's amp just shriek anytime he stops playinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wp3mH68Sw>Early version of Totality>>132000019You need to start enjoying their bridges and album closers, that's when all the tension breaks. They want something completely different beneath the skin of the song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJpkZpv9O8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j5JKale2GQ
random memory at soundcheck for them: they were onstage for last minute checks, Sara hitting snare and kick, vocal checks... my friend and I gave thumbs up in the air or whatever (as if the engineer gave a fuck). When it got to Jared's bass, we both started jumping with our index fingers up as high as we could and it got a laugh outta Jared. Couple minutes later some girl screams "We love you Saraaa!" which, after her cancer diagnosis going public, got a huge cheer out of the crowd. Jared quipped "we love her too" before they kicked off into Entirely Different Matters. I miss them, and they've only been away for a year. Can't imagine what missing them for two decades was like.
>>132000043I see Faked Train on their bandcamphttps://unwound.bandcamp.com/album/faked-trainbut in the thumbnail yours says "remixed."where can i get this version and how does it differ from the other version?
too bad this CD is sold out on bandcamp
>>131987294Any scans of this?
>Ep468: Justin Trosper of Unwoundhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaJwb9nWEM>Vern Rumsey interview 2009 unwound karphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfCfmAZcY8>Unwound- Do Something Excitinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gSCvqW7OzIessential documentary home video esque shtuff>Justin Trosper interviewed by Oren Siegelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeneRdpfQQ>Giant Henry interview 1991 pre unwound Justin Trosper Tumwater High Schoolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnJVMpknKI
>other than leaves turnI take it youre not aware that Fake Train was the seminal release mucore wise. Dragnalus was one of those tracks that blew us away on first listen. The entire album is cohesive and almost every track has its own merit, lucky acid to valentine card always stood out and honourosis but pretty much no tracks are skips. The other albums never had the raw noisy sound that got me hooked but I need to give them deeper listens
>>132002781not that i'm aware of. i do own it myself. no idea how i would go about producing any scans of it though.
Sleater Kinney is /unwound/ https://youtu.be/qLd-bi8nRPghttps://youtu.be/op0e_W9qB-Ehttps://youtu.be/0iGm383aVGY
>>132004826hell yeah love S-K>Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl (Non-album take)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOM107PIxV8(the original is very distorted for some reason.)>Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Yr Joey Ramone (live 1997)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34zDU7KxSqI
>>131987925>>131987935>>131988112>>132004826>>131997306! REMINDER TO NOT FALL FOR GENRE PSYOPS LIKE "GRUNGE"Unwound, Nirvana, Wipers, Modest Mouse, Lync, Karp, Sleater-Kinney, Melvins, Mudhoney and Truly belong together. They are first and foremost "Northwestern Punk/Indie". Don't let normies tell you otherwise.
>>132004959grunge was more of a regional scene than a genre
>>132004900you or some other anon talked about the amps they all used. but i don't remember them talking about the bass. does the bass bleed into the guitar in a special way? I think that's another reason why SK, Lync and Unwound sound alike.
Grunge was a marketing term, that's it
>>132005044>>132005016Yes but they stole Nirvana, Mudhoney and Truly from us
>>132005043S-K actually had no bass player.>Sleater-Kinney does not have a dedicated bassist because Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein fill the low-end frequency themselves through their distinct guitar styles and tunings.>Both Tucker and Brownstein downtune their guitars down one and a half steps to D tuning, which deepens the natural pitch of their instruments. and Tucker often plays a Danelectro baritone guitar to carry heavier, lower frequencies that mimic a bass guitar's register. Brownstein also plays sharp, overlapping guitar lines that weave around Tucker's vocals and rhythm instead of leaving a standard mid-range gap for a bass player to fill.Shame what happened to Janet though...
>>131987146>>132005142anon, if you notice an indie album running on a NAM sunn preset gaining traction in exactly one year, know that it's mine and that I used your insights
>>132004959>Grunge
>>132004959>>132005402
>>132005364I'll keep my eyes peeled, thanks.
>>132005402>TrulyBASED
>>131987925Lync was so good. I was playing them so much this year I almost forgot when I started spamming manning fireworks
>>132004959Modest mouse and melvins arent remotely the same sound. Also lel at sleater kinney inclusion
>>132005414Wow I dont know a third of those and im pretty deep into the grunge world
>>132005878retard
Repetition is the best Unwound album.Repetition is the best Unwound album.Repetition is the best Unwound album.Repetition is the best Unwound album.Repetition is the best Unwound album.Repetition is the best Unwound album.
There's a non-/mu/core bot bumping rap, jazz, and other South American coded music in 18 (EIGHTEEN!) separate threads that run for months at a time.So if you're wondering why old /mu/ discussion threads always 404 within a day or less, that's why.The bot threads die once they reach the 150 image limit. I killed 2 threads that way.So if you like those genres help those threads out by posting your favorite albums from them.You don't have to post a link or anything.Pic related is most of the threads still being botted.1. If you create a thread ALWAYS self-bump especially after 6 hours.2. Create as many threads as you can (5) to get rid of this asshole.3. Bump any indie, alternative, post punk, or college rock thread you can find.
Found some of the SVS set here but can't find Unwound's....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beeHXZRYU-Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zF46w2detsOK Hotel, Seattle, Washington 1992
>>132005987hello LOAF spammer
>>132006147Why am I called a spammer and op isn't called an Unwound spammer.
>>132005987how do you know these are all bots?>>132006163they're not spamming, they're posting normally about their interests. do you know the definition of spam? spam doesn't just mean things you don't like.
>>132005916Say what you want but im a fucking historian on modest mouse, melvins, lync, , and to a lesser degree unwound and truly so I know their sound back to front and can go into extent the differences
>>132006342listen to early Sleater-Kinney again
>>132006353>>132006342https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDnV42VmleUi wanna be yr thurston moore
>>132006331>how do you know these are all bots?have you been active here lately? it's been going on for ages. check the filenames. it's supposedly the same tranny responsible for the emily linkin park spam. /mu/'s sole moderator only browses /kpop/ so nothing is being done against it
>>132006381>>132004826
>>132006381this sort-of sounds like early unwound, just more girly
>>132006331Posting normally about your interest is not posting a picture of an album and a link, with no discussion afterwards and several followups only posting album pics and links, with no one else but that poster in the thread for days on end.
It's not hardcore, it's not posthardcore, it's not art punk, it's not indie rock.It's PATRICIAN punk, I found an old chart from years ago.If you like patrician punk bump patrician punk threads, chat with patrician punk posters.
>sunn ampsso that region produced its own amps, incorporated them into their albums and nobody is able to acquire them anymore? seems based
>>132006533Randy Holden used those on Population II
>>132006496kool thanks for the chart
>>132006808I haven't listened to about 12 of the albums on there so I can speak to it's excellence, but the rest are pretty solid.It's a old chart as well, probably 8 years old or more, found it searching old pics.
>>132002198This photoset was always bizarre to me, but it does represent the outskirts of Olympia, kinda.>>132002494It's just some personal remaster someone made. Same person that put together the Seattle 2002 video/sbd audio.>>132002781>>132004754It's a hardcover book with full-sized pages of photos. I'd have no idea how to make scans.>>132004732This is the first time I'm hearing of Fake Train being /mu/core over LTIY. I don't know how you see Ratbite as a non-skip though, that's one of the rare tracks that get carried by their tone.>>132005043>>132005364I remember you! Glad I helped. In Unwound's case, the bass had strong midrange presence due to how Vern picked - essentially next to the bridge, pinky wrapped around it (pic rel). I'd say Justin/Vern are still easy to parse sonically, though - chalk that up to Minutemen influence. Vern used a Dunlop .88 Nylon pick with a Sunn Coliseum 300 amp head up until the last concerts, where he used a Sunn Concert Bass instead. By that time, Justin had started using a JCM 800. Check Vern out using an overdrive (the only pedal!) during Corpse Pose.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPewGj1K_Hk&t=2250sbonus: Vern on feedback duty when Justin borrowed a non-whiny Marshall amphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjJ7XcZ2aG0&t=1621s>>132006533Pretty much. I've seen a couple bands use them - Shearling, lowercase, Rhododendron (from the PDX, it can't count).>>132006163>>132006467I hope I am passing the humanoid test for y'all.
>>132006838Good job!
>>132006838Exception to the rule of Vern's picking - he would, very rarely pick much closer to the neck for a bassier and less-defined feel, as seen herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnn5wNlQqsOctober All Over in prototype form.>>132005878>>132006342I'd argue that Modest Mouse wouldn't exist if it weren't for Melvins trailblazing the path.>>132005142Janet had recovered from a car accident and was drumming for Quasi when I saw them a year ago. I don't know the group dynamics that led to her departure. I should be a fan of S-K in theory, but in practice, it's a lot of fatiguing treble for me that keeps me from listening further, and that's something S-K will never renege on.>>132004959IPU and Yo Yo A Go Go were the platonic ideals of PNW punk/indie. I would love to see a MM/Unwound joint tour in the future, if Issac ever remembers that he signed Survival Knife to his record label.
dunno if they're /unwound/ but i'm enjoying this
>>132007214they are similar yeah they are also great 90's indie punk and come from Oly as well
>>132005926I see this opinion a lot, which has a lot going for it.>Their best album cover>Most well-known single (Corpse Pose)>Highest fidelity (aside from CFaCS)>Lady Elect being beautifully profound and grief-stricken by reiterating the album's theme at its denouement>Most overt nods to other genre influences in Unauthorized Autobiography (post-punk) and Sensible (dub)>Next Exit - For Your Entertainment being one of their strongest runs, and a closing run at thatIt's still NPI for me because it's the best Side B of any album ever, but Repetition presents strong arguments.
>>132007214Great band.Surprised it's not on this chart, alongside Sk and Bk>>132006496Articles of Faith and M.O.T.O. also should be on that chart.
>>132007076>Yo Yohttps://youtu.be/eNRcoUjspkQ 41:25 that's Krist and Dave playing with Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) to commemorate Kurt. also listen to this https://youtu.be/9HPW3jLZUaQ
>>132007399weird performance of valentine card at the end
>>132006496>>132006838I have trivia that the Unwound spammer doesn't even know .Dirty, the dancer for early to mid 90s Rocket From The Crypt featured in that chart, was/still is? the roadie for Unwound.
>>132006496they're playing LA in a week... damn. Missing that one. If they were on KRS in the 90s, it's close enough.>>132007399Thanks so much, haven't heard these before.>YLTMy dad lived in NJ in the 90s and had YLT albums in his collection, but I never got around to a deep dive on them. Always wanted to get to know the noisier side after getting to know the lounge pop side. He preferred YLT to mbv and I always wondered how they were comparable at all.>>132007439Justin was probably pissed that his amp/guitar kept cutting out and just threw. There's a few funny live performances out there where they're outta tune or not in the mood.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZNXy4ihC8&t=1250s>>132005801RIP the Mushroom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4mpDjmMrGM>>132007566Unwound have gone through two booking agents since their reform, I don't think they deal with friends-as-roadies anymore.Here's Jared + Dirty going crazy to Usual Dosage (Jared with the 'fro, Dirty in the tux)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygr2BpVuD4&t=1371s
>>132007612Damn I stand corrected.Knows the dirty lore.Do you fuck with US Maple?This set is comprised of their first album and ep. There is no improv going on.These are exactly how songs from the first album and ep sound.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JarSldMzLfo
>>132007728>>132007612SAMEFAG
>>132000321Anecdote #2: the day after I saw them play Olympia in 2023, I was really out of it from stuffing a bunch of homemade edibles down before the show (made from unknowably strong cannabutter) and drinking at BroHo afterwards (I made an EXTREMELY shaky introduction to Justin and shook his hand). Made my way to New Moon Co-op Cafe to get some sustenance in, could barely see where I was... and then ran into Brandt and David Wilcox (writer of What Was Wound/1991-2091, who introduced himself as Dave) on the street. Bewildered, hungover me had nothing of substance to ask them.>>132007728>Knows the Dirty loreSure do. I almost wanted to visit the "Rumsey compound" but figured it was hidden deep in some offroad part of Tumwater.>US MapleYou posted this a few weeks ago, and it got me to explore US Maple past Long Hair in Three Stages. I've been waxing poetic about Breeze, it's Your High School ever since.
>>132007793die
They're in the running for my favorite band, my band is gonna tour the northwest and we learned December and Envelope for it. The consistency of quality in their discography is super uncommon for a band that stuck together for such a long time, especially since they played with so many styles and influences. I guess the constant live playing and no changes in lineup allowed them to excel at pretty much everything they tried. Justin was so good at writing "hooks" on his guitar that sit well on the rhythm section (corpse pose, usual dosage, chorus in December, the harmonics on kantina). i think the catchiness of the band is often in these parts instead of the vocals, which are mixed quieter and often sound more like they're punctuating the instruments
>>132007799Anecdote #3: photos from when I visited Olympia, shortly after Vern's passing. Let's start with an original Unwound cassette on top of a RedRumsey/Teach Me Equals split I was given for free at Rainy Day Records.
>>132007799Check out every US Maple even purple on time is good with the different drummer.Acre Thrills is my favorite.Yeah oh yeah, Open A Rose.
>>132007858This was inside a backroom of Capitol Theater. Floor to ceiling, covered in posters from that era. Incredibly grateful that Rainy Day's manager made a call to someone with the key to the theater that day.Two years later, these posters were taken down from this room and rearranged to cover much of the interior of Capitol Theater.
You also need to check out the Aadam Jacobs project on archive.Thousands of live performances from bands of this scene, all taped by him in chicago.https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=aadam+jacobs&sort=-publicdate
>>132007935The oft-touted Lucky 7 food store, in front of the Lucky 7 house (remodeled to be a dentist's office). When I asked the cashier about the Lucky 7 house, he said something to the effect of "all that shit's gone now, man". I ended up misidentifying a demolished lot as the Lucky 7 house's remains.
>>132007938There's also a guy who has a Spotify of stuff that was played on college radio throughout the 80s and 90sLots to discover.https://open.spotify.com/user/o1fvr3cd8f47h2fxhckf937es
>>132007968Thekla, across the street from Capitol Theater - the venue where Unwound played their April Fools 2002 show. It changed ownership a few times (not long after that show), and in the 2020s seems to serve as unpurchased, unoccupied space.>>132007899>>132007938Will do. Aadam Jacobs is a total hero. Imagine lugging 80s/90s era recording equipment onto the Chicago metro every evening. Odd that no Unwound tapes have emerged yet, but there's so many to get through - I saw a snapshot someone took of like 5 tape decks running into recorders at one point.>>132007849>the constant live playing and no changes in lineup allowed them to excel at pretty much everything they triedThey were unafraid to test out newly written songs on the road, and even discussed how difficult it was to play with other projects after their breakup, due to the idiosyncratic nature of how they learned to play by playing together. >SL: Yeah. I had a hard time, after Unwound split up, the experiences I had for a number of years trying to play with other people and having it hammered home over and over again how special Unwound was in the way we created together. I was continually shocked how different it was playing with other people. And in a way, when I started playing with Andrew in Hungry Ghost — not that Hungry Ghost is anything like Unwound musically, but he was coming from a position of essentially turning his back on the musician part of his life for 11 years, not playing with anyone at all. So in a way we were relearning our instruments together, which is part of what made Unwound special, the three of us learning our instruments together and developing individual styles based on each other’s styles.>my band is gonna tour the northwest and we learned December and Envelope for itI wish you luck! I agree re: Jusitn's hooks.Small detail about Envelope, but there's a bass part during the pre-verse not even Jared does anymore.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORVac211mM&t=134s
>>132008197*Justin's>click on Aadam Jacobs archive>'92-'93 Codeineincredible.This photo was taken from some dive someone did into MagRecOne's photo section. I wonder if this is the same Jazzmaster he took to Australia, although the orange paint + pickup replacements makes it unlikely.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHRBY7Yv10&t=2344s
>>132004732That's bs revisionism. Repetition has always been their second most discussed album on here. The cover has been parodied many times. I've not really seen much discussion of Fake Train. Even New Plastic Ideas is better known here.Also unrelated but that armchair historian saying MM needed Melvins to exist of whatever. MM has no relation to Melvins, calling yourself a 'historian' and trying to sniff your own farts doesn't make that somehow true. MM being influenced by Lync to a degree is true, not fucking Melvins though.
>>132008697>armchair historianBut I traveled to Olympia multiple times to do my research. I sat in a Tumwater basement while watching Karp discuss how liberating the weirdness of Melvins was for all the teenagers of the PNW.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSYMqp8svA&t=578sIssac also tried out for Lync before creating MM. It's on the liner sheet of the TANFC reissue.You seem like you have Melvins hate as an agenda. I really don't care if you dislike them, I'm not totally into them either, but they were progenitors of much of the punk and indie that emerged from the PNW in the 80s and 90s, for better or worse.
Musty and green. What a beautiful place to sit in my armchair.
Where the hell is the Radio Gra sample from?
>>132009200Cursory search says it's a Polish language learning series called "Mówimy po Polsku", and it did come with accompanying background music. I don't think the actual sample is contained in the selections linked below, but "7: Vowel alternations" under "Polski Samogłoski" contains a song with a similar Polish folk style.The voices under Mowimy po Polsku by W. Bisko and S. Karolak are the same recording quality and tone.https://celt.indiana.edu/portal/Polish/archive/advanced.html Might've been something stumbled upon in the MagRecOne studio.I don't think the original sample is going to be uncovered anytime soon, unless an older Polish national happens to be an Unwound fan. Neither the liner notes of LTIY nor What Was Wound give any hints to the source.Maybe a soulseek search of these might yield results.https://www.discogs.com/label/2229841-Komplet-26-Lekcjihttps://www.discogs.com/artist/2131682-Stanis%C5%82aw-Karolak
>>132009401>https://celt.indiana.edu/portal/Polish/archive/advanced.html1:30 into Lesson 1, she says the exact phrase>A co to gra?>Radio>Radio gra, a Kasia słucha>A państwo także słuchająbut it's not the exact same sample (with the male voice response or the backing Polish folk song). It's definitely from this series.
>>132008197Thanks for the info, I'll pass that on to my bassist. In high school I remember getting stoned with my friends and listening to unwound all the time. We went to Seattle to see their reunion show and it was so good, moshed the whole time. Mostly we moved on from each other and I wouldn't want to see them again. Got psychotic from the weed and cant smoke any more. I'm much happier now but sometimes I miss smoking and listening to music with them. Pretty gay
>>132009660>In high school I remember getting stoned with my friends and listening to unwoundFor me, it was freshman year of college that Unwound clicked. Stormy, miserable afternoon in Florida, depressed, stoned, stuck in a subletted room where the ground floor flooded every time it rained. Can't have been too dissimilar to the conditions that created an album like Leaves.>went to Seattle to see their reunion show and it was so goodAmen. I've seen them four times (2023 twice, NPI 2024, TFoW 2025). Tried to record every time and failed in various ways. My rig fell apart during Petals Like Bricks, so I joined the mosh instead.>Mostly we moved on from each other and I wouldn't want to see them againYeah, I've had a few friendships fracture or become distant that came about via Unwound fandom. Weed psychosis sucks, losing friends sucks, but I'm glad you're in a happier state of mind. Here's a live December take if you haven't seen it yet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPfDeNVE_FY&t=12s
hey unwound guy, you should get into early neurosis. i got a couple of unwound fans into neurosis over the yearshttps://neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/enemy-of-the-sun
>>132009816I'm down.
>>132009772That recording is sick, one of the clearest versions of that song I've heard. Sounds like you got into them in a very fitting environment. Wish I could've caught them on one of those album tours but just glad I got to see them at all. Thanks for the kind words, maybe I'll shill some audio of our covers on the chan if I get a recording.>>132009816Neurosis is awesome, saw them at a festival in 2018 with pig destroyer. Post other recs if you have them, I'd like to get back into them
>>132009816That rocked, hell yeah. >>132007935Tour itinerary on the wall of Capitol Theater. Brutal schedule (NYC to WV in a day?) but look: Rodan, Trumans Water, Drive Like Jehu, Tiger Trap? Vern loved godheadSilo too
>>132007935>>132010617I truly could not fit this all in one frame. Lync with Bastro? Unbelievable
Thrones (Joe Preston solo project) opened, like he did in 2002. That's the dual Sunn, dual cab rig in front of the other amps. And that 8x10 was so beat up, almost rotten looking.
>>131987146I had tickets to see them on Sept 11 2001 never happened and never saw them
Thanks for ruining the nirvana buying unwound beer story
>>132009921>Post other recs if you have them, I'd like to get back into themregarding Neurosis just listen to everything from Souls at Zero to a Sun that never Sets. some of the later albums are okay too but can get too plodding and a bit boring. but heres some more stuff in the similar vein i enjoyhttps://cattlepress.bandcamp.com/album/hordes-to-abolish-the-divinehttps://craw.bandcamp.com/album/bodies-for-strontium-90https://keelhaul.bandcamp.com/album/keelhaul-iialso this, it's been my favorite album for a year now i think you might appreciate ithttps://aerkenbrand.bandcamp.com/album/hedenfarne-ventyrtracks 3 and 7 are decent representations of the sound
>>132010672The show with Arab on Radar at the Middle East? This isn't a joke, I'm pretty sure that was the bill that night.>>132010761Is the alternative (Kurt and co. literally buying booze for Unwound) that much better than what it metaphorically means? >>132010773>Fans of KEELHAUL (with whom CRAW share members), THE JESUS LIZARD, and DAZZLING KILLMEN take note.Awesome. I loved Dazzling Killmen and The Jesus Lizard when they came to my city. I think I had Craw on the backburner and vaguely remember hearing the s/t on YouTube. Skin Graft/AmRep stuff usually hits for me, probably because of the rhythm sections. Some of the stuff out of Mississauga and Ottowa in that time was pretty angular and screamy. I suppose they can be filed under itch relief.https://blueskiesturnblack.bandcamp.com/track/bishophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bROPMxwlPfo
>>132010912be sure to check out cattle press as well, it's like neurosis condensed
>>131988335thanks some good songs here
/unwound/ should listen to this https://youtu.be/SUIgfBXYJdA
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Do any of you anons own this box set?Some of the reviews on Discogs are mixed.As for me, I own 3 out of the 4 Numero Group vinyl box sets:>Kid Is Gone>No Energy >Empiremissing Rat Conspiracy still and the few that are on Discogs marketplace are at diabolical prices.But one thing that the vinyl boxes seem to be missing is the DVD material on this CD box set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts8xWalzkQY
>>132014757I picked up a used copy a while ago. I had trouble ripping one of the discs with EAC, and TFoW is stuck in a cheap all-in-one receiver I tried to play it in.The DVD is just Do Something Exciting, which is up on YouTube.What Was Wound was my favorite part of it, aside from the music.
happy all souls dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6H4hMWu7g
