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- - rapeman (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=2903)

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Originally Posted by therealglenstyler

does any one else find that it (two nuns ..) actually plays really really quietly?

yeah the recording is weird

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Originally Posted by king_buzzo

yeah the recording is weird

glad it's not just me. monobrow came on my randomised ipod this morning and it spiritually armoured me on the ride to work. quiet it may be but it still rocks significantly harder than anything else. j

I guess 'Crow' from At Action Park is Albini's strongest song ever.

DOG & PONY SHOW

there is nothing else but DOG & PONY SHOW

And left us naked out here in the sun.

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Originally Posted by therealglenstyler

It's because it's lo-fi (is that the word). It's the same with 'Slanted and Enchanted' by Pavement and Big Blacks 'Songs about fucking' albums.

I just picked up their CD in the clearance bin for 5 dollars. Score.

5 dollars? FANTASTIC!!!

lucky!!! i downloaded it on emule. took aaaaaagggeeesssss

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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower

Interview with Albini:

How about Rapeman?

Rapeman is the title character in a Japanese comic book that I had come across through a friend of mine. The comic book is just a total mind-bender. There's a whole genre of comics in Japan, rape stories where women are raped in really graphic detail for whatever reason, and it's an amazing thing that this is just an accepted part of their sort of normal popular culture. Seeing one of these comic books really blows your mind if you're not familiar with the concept, and if you're looking at it as an American would look at a comic book, as something bery lighthearted, and y'know, sort of children's entertainment. You open up this comic book and there's this superhero who rapes people, as his profession. It's pretty amazing. So Ray Washam and I -- the drummer from Rapeman -- he and I were both sort of obsessed with this comic book for a while, we just thought it was the most amazing thing and kept looking at it, and we just realized that we should call the band that.

http://www.petdance.com/actionpark/b.../rocknames.php

There was an episode of Law & Order on a few hours ago that talked about this comic book.

at least you got it for free on emule so then you can discard it one day when no one thinks it's "cool" anymore & not have any bad feelings

Take it you don't like them, atari?

I'm burned out on them...quick...
I have a couple of albums a couple of bootlegs & demos, etc...

so you see, I liked them at one time more than you even do now

how about that?

Well I don't like them so ner.