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Pretty much everything released by Propagandhi from 1993-2001. This DOES NOT include Potemkin City Limits! Full NFO: Artist: Propagandhi Album: Propagandhi - 1993-2001. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.
Band members: Jordy-Boy - drums Beaver - axe Jesus H. Chris - vox, axe The Rod - vox, bass Web: Propagandhi facebook profile Official Bio: Propagandhi was formed in 1986. Founding members Chris Hannah and Jordan Samolesky are also founding members of the G7 Welcoming Committee, which to date has released over 50 records including seminal recordings by the (International) Noise Conspiracy, warsawpack, Subhumans, I Spy, Submission Hold, Swallowing Shit, Giant Sons, The Rebel Spell and spoken word releases by Noam Chomsky, Ann Hansen and Ward Churchill. In 1997 Propagandhi recruited The Rod from a band called I SPY. Propagandhi and I SPY had previously toured Western Canada, and released a split 10′ record together. The band released 4 records on the American label Fat Wreck Chords until 2005 when its relationship with the label began to sour over its CEO’s highly-publicized campaign to ensure that Democratic Party got a turn to totally rape and plunder the planet in the service of corporate power. Feeling a little too much a part of the scenery, the band pulled a Peter Gabriel and stepped right out of the machinery for much of 2005, focusing band energy on volunteering and fundraising projects for groups such as Sage House, Sisters in Spirit, Middle East Children’s Alliance, the Grassy Narrows Blockade, the Sea Shepherd Society, the Canada-Haiti Action Network and Welcome Place. In 2006, the band became a 4-piece for the first time 20 years, adding David “Beaver” Guillas to the fold, whose previous posts included masterminding the legendary, meditative, experimental instrumental trio, Giant Sons, who Hannah described as “the best band in Winnipeg since I Spy called it a day”. In 2006, the band were nominated for — and actually somehow won — the inaugural ECHO Songwriting Prize for the song “A Speculative Fiction”, from the album Potemkin City Limits. The band responded, “awards are like hemorroids: eventually every asshole gets one” and promptly donated the award money to the Canada-Haiti Action Network (a pro-democracy, anti-imperialist project) and the Welcome Place (a refugee support agency in central Winnipeg). In 2007, Hannah was voted one of the Worst Canadians in History by a journal published by Canada’s National History Society. He actually beat out current Canadian prime-minister/ living jack-ass Stephen Harper and notorious serial-killer Paul Bernardo. Hannah demanded a recount when it was announced he came in 2nd to former Prime Minister (and current dead guy) Pierre Elliot Trudeau. In 2008, Chris went on sabbatical from G7 Welcoming Committee Records, meaning that for the first time in 11 years, Propagandhi would receive the undivided attention and energy the band felt the project deserved. Nine months later the band completed their 5th full-length album entitled “Supporting Caste”, a 50,000 watt no-holds-barred, forward-thinking tip-of-the-hat to the giants — Voivod, Rush, NoMeansNo, SNFU, Sacrifice, Razor, Guilt Parade — that have gone before them. In 2009, stoked beyond reason with their new tunes and line-up, Propagandhi plan to tour more than they have in their entire history with the express purpose of maligning the prevailing order(s). They are currently practicing the art of cannibalism and will soon release a cookbook of finger-licking recipes. Propagandhi's Failed States is the band’s sixth album, and their second as a fourpiece with the addition of Dave “The Beaver” Guillas on guitar. This has lead to a distinctive thickening and fortifying of the band’s sound, to the point where they now achieve maximum heaviness, in a good way. This is most definitely the best Propagandhi album yet, full of loud, fast, indignant songs that stick in your head. Discography: - How To Clean Everything (LP, CD, Fat Wreck Chords, released on on June 1, 1993)
CD has 3 versions, 12' black vinyl. Repressed in 2007 on gold 12' vinyl, limited to 1,028 Tracklist: 01.Anti-Manifesto 02.Head? Chest? Or Foot? 03.Hate, Myth, Muscle, Etiquette 04.Showdown (G.E.P.) 05.Ska Sucks 06.Middle Finger Response 07.Stick The Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch 08.Haillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass 09.Fuck Machine 10.This Might Be Satire 11.Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread 12.I Want U 2 Want Me – How To Clean A Couple O' Things (LP, Fat Wreck Chords, 1993, 7') black, orange vinyl Tracklist: A1.Pigs Will Pay A2.Stick the Fucking Flag Up Your Goddamn Ass, You Skinhead Creep – Propagandhi / I-Spy – I'd Rather Be Flag-Burning (1994, Recess Records 10')
G7 Welcoming Committee Records and A-Hole Records released it on CD under title I'd Rather Be Flag-Burning / Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour Tracklist: A1.Propagandhi – The Overtly-Political-But-Oh-So-Intensely-Personal Song A2.Propagandhi – ...And We Thought Nation-States Were A Bad Idea... A3.Propagandhi – The Woe-Is-Me-I'm-so-Misunderstood Song A4.Propagandhi – (I Want To See) Oka Everywhere A5.Propagandhi – Haillie Does Hebron B1.I-Spy – Remain B2.I-Spy – Just Between Friends B3.I-Spy – No Exchange B4.I-Spy – T.I.Y (Title It Yourself) B5.I-Spy – Falling Down B6.I-Spy – Ever Wonder Why? B7.I-Spy – Appliances And Cars B8.I-Spy – Sixty Billion Serve – Propagandhi / F.Y.P. – Letter Of Resignation / Thank Heaven For Little Boys (1995, Recess Records, 7') black, red, picture Tracklist: A1.Propagandhi - Letter Of Resignation B1.F.Y.P. – Mate Like Porcupines B2.F.Y.P. – Dinky Bossetti B3.F.Y.P. – Glamourettes – Reclaim The Streets (Self released, 7')
Tracklist: A1.Ska Sucks A2.Head, Chest Or Foot A3.Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread? B1.Homophobes Are Just Pissed, Cause They Can't Get Laid B2.True – Where Quality Is Job #1 (1995, 2 X 7' Recess Records) 2 pressing, brown/ clear yellow (limited to 200), opaque yellow, black, grey. Tracklist: 7' #1 Side F 01.Die for the Flag 02.(guitar solo, song unknown) Side U 01.Degrassi Jr. High Dropouts 02.Bent' 03.Greenest Eyes (live) 04.Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread? (live) 7' #2 Side C 01.Kill Bill Harcus 02.Support Gun Control...Kill a Hunter 03.Hidden Curriculum Side K Off 01.Gov't Cartoons (live) 02.Leg-Hold Trap (live) - Less Talk, More Rock (1996, Fat Wreck Chords, CD, tape , vinyl )
12 ' vinyl (1st pressing black vinyl, repressed as part of Fat's Classic Color Vinyl Series on January 2010. Some comes in dark root beer color, light root beer color, and an almost yellow beer color. Some records have a rainbow pattern when put to light. Tracklist: 01.Apparently, I'm A 'P.C. Fascist' (Because I Care About Both Human And...) 02.Nailing Descrates To The Wall/ (Liquid) Meat Is Still Murder 03.Less Talk, More Rock 04.Anchorless 05.Rio De San Atlanta, Manitoba 06.A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell 07....And We Though That Nation-States Were A Bad Idea 08.I Was A Pre-Teen McCarthyist 09.Resisting Tyrannical Government 10.Gifts 11.The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist 12.Refusing To Be A Man 13.The State-Lottery 14.Refusing To Be A Man – Where Quantity Is Job #1 (1998, B.A. Records, G7 Welcoming Committee Records, CD) This is B.A Records version Tracklist: 01.Mutual Friends 02.Intermezzo 03.And We Thought Nation State Were A Bad Idea 04.Utter Crap Song 05.Oka Everywhere 06.Noam Chomsky Speech 07.Haillie Does Hebron 08.Homophobes Are Just Mad Cuz They Can't Get Laid 09.True 10.Todd's Incredible Pro. Station ID For 4zzz Brisbane 11.Contest Song 12.Firestorm, My Ass 13.Refusing To Be A Man 14.Resisting Tyrannical Government 15.Laplante Song (Live) 16.Leg-Hold Trap (Live) 17.Laplante / Smith Song (Live) 18.White, Proud And Stupid 19.Fine Day 20.Stand Up And Be Counted 21.Pigs Will Pay (Live) 22.Government Cartoons (Live) 23.Anti-Manifesto (Live) 24.Less Talk, More Rock (Live) 25.Gamble (Live) 26.Ska Sucks (Live) 27.Bent 28.Degrassi Jr. High Drop-Outs 29.Hidden Curriculum The Van Lament
The music of 2009, in the order it occurs to me:
Screaming Females: Power Move
An excellent review can be found here at Impose. ’70s guitars hearken back to the ’90s, and all your basic dad rock bands are fused into the soul of Ted Nugent, clarified, and injected into the very small guitar-shredding frame of Melissa Paternoster.
Clark: Totems Flare
I wrote about this record during the summer. It’s all Eerily baroque electronics and unaccustomed sounds, a return to form of his previous milestone, Empty the Bones of You, with its impossibly short intervals between changes. It’s a melding of his talent for off-putting tempo changes and sound processing with his more recent slowed-down and dance-friendlier music. It’s good. Kind of reminiscent of the vocal approach of Matthew Dear these days, but so much more complex sonically and musically. Like Aphex Twin in Flatland.
Wheat: White Ink Black Ink
I also trained my googly eyes on this record earlier in the year, praising the high-energy sincerity, cinematic big-affect pop, loud production, and the elastic, earthquaking time signatures that each of the songs’ parts seem to run independently on. Great new record by a good old band.
Metric: Fantasies
Emily Haines and her band come back from the farce of their last album to write a beautifully acerbic, trenchant, and hard pop record critical of those rules of fame, money, capital, and being untrue to oneself taught to all of us from the the first day we enter school. Lesson unlearned.
Subway: Subway II
Fine, fine, FINE krautrock out on Soul Jazz Records. Clean, simple, rhythmic, and electronic with an overt homage to one of my favorite bands of the genre. Naming a song Harmonia and then sounding just like that band on that track counts as homage, right? What an ineffably cool label Soul Jazz is.
Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fall
This week Jay Reatard was discovered dead at 29, well into an already 15-year long music career. He was a prolific artist the frenzy of whose output was never diluted, whose sound only became sharper and more penetrating with time. Watch Me Fall is a furious and fragile work of punk rock and poetry, and when I learned he died I felt the loss of never hearing another new record from such a committed and relentlessly uncompromising musician as a real shock, as a sudden cracked imperfection in the looking glass in which reality is reflected. Everything is wrong and this is sad.
You can listen to one of the last songs he recorded, a cover of Nirvana’s “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” from his website, linked above.
Pissed Jeans: King of Jeans
In addition to coming up with hilariously insouciant record titles and subliminally offensive song titles, these guys are also capable of really, really, really, laying on the loud. If rock were something incendiary, they would not be lasers— they would be a torrent of experimental napalm issuing at torso-bisecting PSI, flame or no. I sort of hesitate to put this record on this list because it’s not great in the sense that I can think of half a dozen lines from songs or any songs that stand out in particular to me, but when it goes on you’re really in a new space. You’re four or five songs in and waiting for more snide banality. They kind of remind me of Fireballs of Freedom, whose sloppy zest for living death, southern shopping mall style, endeared them to the better fuck you angels of my nature. What if Jeff Spicoli had a gun and a PhD in philosophy?
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Yes, this did come out last year, and yes it’s good and a lot of fun. It is good and a lot of fun. I guess that’s all I really want to say about that. Is this a record I really need to bring to anyone’s attention?
I’m really glad these guys have made it. They’ve never done anything but keep their heads down and put out great pop records. United and all the great tracks on that record made me a permanent fan.
Atlas Sound: Logos
Everything Bradford Cox touches turns to mystery, and from mystery comes wonder. This record is the quiet soundtrack to your fears. Rough Trade also released a companion to this record with acoustic and alternate versions of some of the Logos songs that is well worth checking out. The acoustic version of “Kid Klimax” somehow takes that song even further into the heartbreaking banality of rustaway, workaday life, but youse gots to get the record from Rough Trade to check it for yourself.
I would like to see some kind of collaboration in any medium between Bradford Cox and César Aira. In fact, I think that about sums it up: Every song that Cox and his assembled crews write is the musical equivalent of the experience of reading any one of Aira’s novels. Bradford, if you’re out there, please read Ghosts and tell the world what you think.
Mew: No more stories Are told today I’m sorry They washed away
No more stories The world is grey I’m tired Let’s wash away
Mew are from Denmark and put the prog in power pop. Think “what if the Arcade fire were good?” Then play this record and expect an answer.
Capsule: More! More! More!
This came out in 2008, but I don’t care. This record surprised me more than half the things I heard this year, and it still never gets skipped when it comes in the rotation. This is a record that has gone over the top and volunteered to come back around to climb up again.
Air: Love 2
If you had told me 10 years ago I’d advise you to check out an Air record, I’d have punched you in the mouth. Then I’d give you one right in the cake. Figure that one out. I guess if someone has given you as long to get it right as these guys have had, though, you might put out a nice krauty suite of tunes just like Air did. Thank the stars for the sage foresight of record execs and their infinite patience.
Say Hi: Oohs and Ahhs
Say Hi almost solely write songs about vampires. Stripped down, echo-laden vocal tracks with quietly minimal rock riffs about romantic vampires.
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David Bazan: Curse Your Branches
David Bazan thinks a lot about life and God and all that drinking and fucking he did. It’s a wonder he has any time to sing so soulfully about it. The above-mentioned Say Hi opened for him on tour and also played in his backing band. While you’re checking this out, pick up 2002’s Pedro the Lion record, Control. It just may be the best ’90s record that didn’t see release in that decade. “Rapture” will blow the thinking adulteress’s pants off.
Propaghandi: Supporting Caste
The last time I listened to these guys was on a Fat Wreck Chords compilation- Fat Music Volume 2: Survival of the Fattest, it was- and back then they were pretty straight-ahead polemical oi-format punk. Whatever happened in the intervening 14 years has created an entirely different animal, one that swings from the trees of a different set of time signatures but still wants to pull corruption and capitalism limb from limb, like an episode from The Murders in the Rue Morgue played on guitar.
Converge: Axe to Fall
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I don’t know much about Converge. I know they’ve been around for 10 years or so and they hail from Salem, MA. I read somewhere something about this album featuring a lot of interesting collaborations, but when you hear something this incredibly clean and hard, you don’t ask too many questions. I kind of like not knowing anything about a band when they’ve done something that deserves to stand alone without a backstory. The last thing this hard that excited me anywhere nearly as much as this did was the first Genghis Tron EP. One of those guys appears on this record, too, I think. I would say that Torche was “the last thing this hard…etc”, but, yeah, this is way harder than Torche. My good friend and insane drummer Erick had been anticipating this release since this teaser video and is the mensch responsible for turning me on to these guys: CONVERGE New album out soon on Epitaph/Deathwish
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