One Base on an Overthrow: I'm Sorry I Picked At Your Culture

Thursday, February 24, 2011

I'm Sorry I Picked At Your Culture

I first started getting e-mails from Bobby at Kind Turkey back in October, which I never actually deleted like most of the e-mails I get but still didn't get around to reading until about a month ago. Good thing I got wise, though, because he's put out some pretty good shit on his label, including Wheels on Fire (very Cartwright-ish), Wake Up Dead (Lemmy Caution from Black Time), and Black Mamba Beat (Swell Maps/Desperate Bicycles-ish? as if I'd fucking know). Black Mamba Beat and Wake Up Dead share a split cassette; I've got #99/100, so I guess they're pretty much sold out by now. Both sides are very much worth your time, but there's one Black Mamba Beat song, "D.I. and Die" (as in DIY, probably), that got even better once I started sniffing out some of the lyrics:

The headbanging of your mates is just a fucking pose
They know to front, because they know your fucking band sucks
Watch you wearing your new fucking flannel SHIT
D.I. DIE, you fucking insufferable prick

Or something like that-- that's about as close as I'm going to get right now. This tape was #1 in Poland (not really, but some Polish blog with the same top 20 as mine really liked it), so go to kindturkeyrecords.com and see if you can get one, or maybe you'll find something else you'd like to buy, I think they've got t-shirts. Oh, wait, I guess they don't.

Black Mamba Beat -

"D.I. and Die!"

1 comment:

Brushback said...: Cool new Black Mamba Beat track...

http://shabeen-scene.blogspot.com/2011/02/we-not-working.html; February 28, 2011 at 8:51 PM

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This blog was originally intended to be a place for me to write about the records in my collection, regardless of their rarity/collectability-- or, at least, it was when I first started. Lately it's just been an excuse for me to make dumb jokes and spout off about a lot of stupid crap. Sometimes different things will be thrown in along the way just to confuse people and piss them off, which is okay. All screw-ups, wrong dates, and mis-statements will be ignored by me as if they were intentional, except for grammatical errors which will be edited and rewritten at least five or six times if necessary. Facts will often be misrepresented, as a way of mocking those people who think such things are important. Please note: This is just a hobby for me, and bands are written about here either because I own one of their records or because I've seen them play before and like them. Posting press releases for crappy bands that I have no use for is not really how I want to spend my spare time. If you want to know what kind of bands I like, just look at the sidebar to see which bands I've written about already, and you'll notice that your PR firm doesn't represent any of them. Most of the live band photos on this blog are mine, and if there's one of your band that you like then please feel free to use it, I don't care. It's your band anyway. The blog title itself was swiped from Paul Caporino-- "One Base on an Overthrow" was originally going to be the title of a M.O.T.O. record that I was going to release back in the '90s, but that never actually happened. Lucky for you, I guess.