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Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:51 am
by the Classical_Archive
English louts playing a sort of thuggy, proto-punk, pub rock hard blues stomp w/ some serious Beefheart damage in the vocals, Peel faves, beard-os.
The live stuff on the recent Bugger Off reissue is great, their vers of "Willie the Pimp" is about a dozen times better then it has any right to be, sounding more like Sabbath-brand sludge, then Zappa-brand clenched butthole trickery.
Not Crap
If in this thread you wish to rank or compare/contrast similar groups, like Third World War, the Groundhogs, Edgar Broughton Band & c that's acceptable
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:03 am
by cjh_Archive
John Peel wrote:'I used to run a record label, catastrophically unsuccessful, called Dandelion, named after a hamster - that's how things were in the late Sixties. We put out about 30 LPs using other people's money. There were one or two I quite like to listen to, and one or two atrocities. Stackwaddy were fantastic. They had an album called Bugger Off , which Annie Nightingale used to play a lot. They were punks before there were punks - these very primitive lads from Manchester who played a rather violent and inaccurate r'n'b. Once we got a person over from the States to see a whole load of Dandelion bands at a college in London. We made the mistake of putting Stackwaddy on first. The singer was a deserter from the army, and wore this improbable wig all the time. They turned the treble up on all their equipment, so it was like listening to a kind of buzzsaw. The singer was very drunk, and the first thing he did at the start of the gig was just walk to the edge of the stage and piss on the students.
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:39 pm
by Ekkssvvppllott
Never heard them, but those descriptions sound good. Will make a note to check this group out.
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:21 pm
by Rog_Archive
Would've thought you'd had enough Stack for one weekend.
Waddy or otherwise.
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:43 pm
by Peripatetic_Archive
I can't vote yet.
After spending somewhere around 2 years trying to find a copy of either of their records (for a decent price...I've seen them sell for as much as $250 on ebay), I finally found a copy of the s/t record for somewhere around $40 (the sleeve is in really tough shape, it's been in mold...but the record is great).
Anyway, I listened to it twice, maybe three times and it doesn't do much for me. Maybe it's a case of me getting myself too excited because it eluded me for so long? Nowhere near the hard rocking stank of Third World War (which is kind of what I was hoping for). Just kind of...well, meh.
But I'm not voting because I have yet to hear Bugger Off and the Classical has just renewed my interest in this band. Maybe I'll give the first one a spin again. (assuming it will be another few years before I find a copy of Bugger Off for less than one month's house payment.)
WTF did I just say hard rocking stank what does that even mean
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:11 am
by themajormiller_Archive
Peripatetic wrote:Maybe it's a case of me getting myself too excited because it eluded me for so long?
No, it's a case of you not willing to accept the fact that you blew $40 on a shitty album, cosmetically in such poor condition that it'll be next to impossible to pawn it off on some other poor schmuck.
But I'm not voting because I have yet to hear Bugger Off and the Classical has just renewed my interest in this band.
And SCENE!!!!!!
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:47 am
by Peripatetic_Archive
themajormiller wrote:Peripatetic wrote:Maybe it's a case of me getting myself too excited because it eluded me for so long?
No, it's a case of you not willing to accept the fact that you blew $40 on a shitty album, cosmetically in such poor condition that it'll be next to impossible to pawn it off on some other poor schmuck.
But I'm not voting because I have yet to hear Bugger Off and the Classical has just renewed my interest in this band.
And SCENE!!!!!!
You're such a fucking prick.
And you just ruined themajormiller's legacy. Now you have 667 posts.
Band: Stack Waddy
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:25 am
by the Classical_Archive
If this were rank I would probably rank Third World War before Stack Waddy. TWW has better tunes and a more varied approach depite occasionally veering into Spinal Tap territory.
Stack Waddy's primitive rock doesn't have much charm, but that's what I think is so great about it, they just go for it. Beefheart cover? Sure. Kinks cover/parody? Why the hell not? Dumb to the point of being brilliant. I really like the first record as well so I don't if the first one didn't float yr boat if Bugger Off! would be any different.