Eierdiebe wrote:i love Wire's first few albums. to death.

The drumming isn't so great, but they are good.

I thought the singing was rather one dimensional, but wasn't that the whole point of Wire? Like being art student types having a go at punk.

NerblyBear wrote:Todd's drumming in general is totally unique. Each of the three instruments sound like they're in different time signatures, and if you concentrate really hard on what Todd is playing, it sounds almost like he's playing another song.

Your description makes Shellac sound like The Shaggs.

Which could be cool.

I listened to Terraform on the way to work today. I don't listen to crap.

i guess it's a given, and perhaps I'm being a suck-up, but I just wanted to say my piece.

I love this band a ton, and there is absolutely nothing like getting home late and turning on 'At Action Park' (or, really, anything else by Shellac). It is sheer fucking BLISS listening to this album right now and I can't think of anything that comes close right at this moment. Perhaps The Minutemen, but honest to god Shellac has them beat by a ton right now. They just sound SO GOOD.

My very first Salut, and it may be an obvious one, by goddamn SALUT Shellac, for making my night and hopefully others'. I've seen you play 4 times now and have loved it every time, and I love your albums more than words can say.

thank you, thank you, thank you...

For my birthday I was given Terraform, At Action Park and Excellent Italian Greyhound on vinyl. This was the best birthday present I'd had in a long time.

Shellac are not crap.

Dylan wrote:Is Don on the phone?

I don't know why we can't come out of a slow fucking record.

A month or so ago, I was playing some records for a few friends of mine at a party. I brought a crate, and there was a few Shellac records mixed into the batch along with the usual party music for my friends' "crew": Buzzcocks, DS-13, Negazione, and a few other randoms.

Needless to say, the party escalated and as I got increasingly more bleary-eyed and unintelligible, I put on Terraform and blasted "Didn't We Deserve a Look at You."

My friend Heather started dancing in this really obscene manner, a whole party of indie-schooled mellow prog/krautheads started a synchronous head bob, and this guy Elliot puked when the climax of the song hit. He was in the middle of a beer bong (I know, I know) and just as he started inhaling a double deuce, 60,000 and one-half volts of Albini broke his concentration and the thudding chugging precision of the rest of the...er, "chorus"...made him choke and vomit into his sink.

A couple of naysayers were quickly silenced by the blast of "This is a Picture," which shattered the mellowness of most of the other folks and caused a few patrons to exit for the balcony where they voiced utter distaste for this "loud shit."

The next day, my Shellac records and an 88 Fingers Louie 45 were gone.

So I'm off to the record store to give Shellac more of my money one of these days.

I prefer At Action Park to anything else I've heard. The more recent records sound dirgy and plodding. The earlier 7"s KICK ASS.

I saw them at a sort of strip club, hag-burlesque bar in Atlanta called The Clermont Lounge. They were pretty good, but the sound was very bad...not quite as rocking as I'd hoped, htough that could also be blamed on the odd venue.

Definitely NOT CRAP.

I played some Shellac for my dad once, while fixing his computer. He told me "I don't really care for rap." He was being completely serious, and I'm not sure he understood the incredulous look on my face.

Shellac, you have been called rap music by my 50+ year old father. Luckily, I do in fact enjoy rap.