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Lee Newman said:
I would have given this a 4 or 5 back in the day. I recently gave it a go and found it exhausting to get through. Will try again today.

Seeing them live is fun. I saw them the year they opened lollapalooza in Raleigh. After the first or second song, Billy Joe was like “it sucks that the real music fans are out there in the sun. Y’all should come up here.” So the lawn at Walnut Creek rushed the stage. There were people hanging from the rafters.

Eventually, they cut Green Day’s sound. They played three more songs with no amplification and then security came and escorted them off the stage. Then the venue threatened to shut down the show if the lawn didn’t get back to their area.

That was the last year Lolla was at Walnut Creek.
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I remember their mudfight with the crowd at Woodstock’94 being one of the highlights of that event.
 
Having just listened to the song in question. Who the fuck knows what he says because the guitars swell and there is no discernible word. It sounds very much like “la” and crunchy cord but could just as easily be “ba” and crunchy cord. He could just be saying “when masturbation’s lost its fun you’re fucking meh.”
 
Lee Newman said:
I think Pulling Teeth is where I start to lose my patience. It’s Social Distortion with all the smarts drained out of it. I guess it’s cool they are paying homage but meh.
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Makes sense. As a 12 year old I learned about bands like Social D and Operation Ivy through the lens of Green Day so I feel like this probably gets a lot more mileage from me since Green Day was my introduction to Punk Rock music as a whole.
 
Basket Case is still awesome though.

Also side note. I was figuring there was some brick wall on Spotify on it because until Basket Case everything basically just stayed at about 3/4 on the vu meters until BC and that song is very dynamic. I guess it’s just their attack and not a leveling.
 
I bought my copy (vinyl still in the collection) of Fugazi in 90. I think the Dead Kennedys comp I have I bought in like 88/89. The DK would have been my first exposure to real punk (I knew the poppier side of The Clash but didn’t really know them until sometime in the middle). Fugazi was the first time I really was like whoa, punk is kind of cool. I’ve said elsewhere but some friends had turned me onto Green Day during the Kerplunk! cycle.

Edit: Actually I had a Cramps cassette in early High School. That would have been my first exposure to punk but I didn’t really know that’s what it was. Lol.
 
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Lee Newman said:
I would have given this a 4 or 5 back in the day. I recently gave it a go and found it exhausting to get through. Will try again today.

Seeing them live is fun. I saw them the year they opened lollapalooza in Raleigh. After the first or second song, Billy Joe was like “it sucks that the real music fans are out there in the sun. Y’all should come up here.” So the lawn at Walnut Creek rushed the stage. There were people hanging from the rafters.

Eventually, they cut Green Day’s sound. They played three more songs with no amplification and then security came and escorted them off the stage. Then the venue threatened to shut down the show if the lawn didn’t get back to their area.

That was the last year Lolla was at Walnut Creek.
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I saw Green Day at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA back in 94. It's crazy now looking back at the acts that were there. I went to two Weenie Roasts and two Acoustic Christmas concerts (94 and 95) and these were the the lineups for those shows.

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I saw Green Day at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA back in 94. It's crazy now looking back at the acts that were there. I went to two Weenie Roasts and two Acoustic Christmas concerts (94 and 95) and these were the the lineups for those shows.

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Yeah I looked up the Lollas I went to 93-95 (I edited above cause I was wrong about it being the last time - I used to do a lot of drugs… I don’t remember some of the bands beings at these):

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No recollection of Rage or Dinosaur Jr being there.

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Don’t recall Parliament, Breeders or Nick Cave being there

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I would have sworn Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth were the same show. I don’t recall Beck, Hole, or the Bosstones being at this show. I believe Moby was at this show because I saw Mike Watt instead.
 
Lee Newman said:
Yeah I looked up the Lollas I went to 93-95 (I edited above cause I was wrong about it being the last time - I used to do a lot of drugs… I don’t remember some of the bands beings at these):

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No recollection of Rage or Dinosaur air being there.

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Don’t recall Parliament, Breeders or Nick Cave being there

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I would have sworn Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth were the same show. I don’t recall Beck, Hole, or the Bosstones being at this show. I believe Moby was at this show because I saw Mike Watt instead.
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@Yer Ol' Uncle D did you go to any of these, do they seem accurate to you?
 
dbarila said:
Weird, the website didn't give me an opportunity to rate Grace. It went right from Steve Earle to Green Day. Would have rated 4/5.
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If you go into the history tab under the menu you will have all the old ones that you didn’t rate. It gives and option to rate there. The front page always reverts to the newest one once you’ve rated the last “old” one you did.
 
Lee Newman said:
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I read a little bit about this on Allmusic because I have never heard of the group or the album before. So it's the bloke from Arctic Monkeys and someone else doing stuff like Scott Walker and David Bowie.

I love Scott Walker, and I can almost hear the influence throughout the album, so that's good. It also drops back into the familiar and sounds just like Arctic Monkeys but with an orchestra on occasion. I don't like David Bowie, so I have no idea about his influences.

Decent enough record, was getting a bit bored towards the end.

2.5 / 5 stars.
 
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Weird pick. Never heard of this project before and wasn’t that impressed to be honest. Scott Walker-esque orchestral pop, but without the edge that this genre needs to be interesting. 2 stars.
 
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