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So this whole albums of the week schtick is about as regular as John Goodman’s bowel movements, but I guess y’all are used to that by now. I have a whole sackful of reasons and excuses but I don't wanna bore ya. Read the following, vote, and wait.

This week’s albums are:

1) for the money…

Blank Generation (1977)

Richard Hell & The Voidoids:

Blank Generation
(1977; Sire/Warner )
Blank Generation is the kind of nervous, arty punk that may be the non-movement’s true legacy. Taking Captain Beefheart’s spastic elasticity and reimagining it for the streets of New York, this is confronting more for its chaotic jazzy jitters and poetic nihilism than the expected wall of sound. It’s real catchy, groovy, ‘n’ idiosyncratic too, with Mr Hell slurring and spitting with more bitterness than rage. File next to Patti Smith and Talking Heads in your punk rock satchel.

2) for the show…

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)

Outkast:

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
(2003; Arista)
My forays into hip-hop are brief but generally rewarding. This double album, splitting the talents of Andre 3000 and Big Boi onto individual discs, may be my favourite of all time. But I certainly ain’t no expert. Out of the two CDs, I prefer Dre’s jazzy, George-Clinton-via-Prince, nymphomaniacal soul-love weirdness. But Boi’s old school brittle 808 beats, gangsta shit, and pimpin’ smoothies are just as boundary-smashing to my lily white lobes. Collectively Outkast could conquer the universe.

3) to get ready…

Killer (1971)

Alice Cooper:
Killer
(1971; Warner Bros)
I recently scored three Alice Cooper albums for ten buckeroos. The only one I’ve gotten around to listening to yet, Killer comes after their breakthrough Love It To Death (both released in 1971) and is apparently part of Mr Cooper’s golden age of awesomeness. It’s a dandy carnival of cartoonish theatricality with some tough-ass hard rock and spooky Halloween creepers, dumb and smart in equal proportions, ‘60s garage orchestrated into proto-metal magnitudes, and a whole heap-a-fun.

Now go, cat, go!

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NO ALBUMS THIS WEEK

March 27th 2007 09:40

There ain't gonna be no albums of the week this week. That's cuz the Lobby caught on fire, my stereo blew up, and my CDs rolled out the door. Like Don McLean said, 'that was the day the music died,' or some shit. Listening to Don McLean, that concept doesn't sound like such a bad thing.

Anyways, I've been real busy of late, and have reviews to catch up on, so no albums. If anyone out there gives a damn, please let me know. If you find it annoying that my approach to the blog is too erratic, I'd like to hear about it. I'll do my best to fix it but don't know how much time I can commit at the moment. If you find that my approach to the blog is too erotic, then maybe you should loosen up a bit. I've heard a shoehorn helps.

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

March 20th 2007 10:20

The ol’ Hellvis is gettin’ back into the swing o’ things with this Pablum for the Weak business. It looks like the almighty Boris have won this time round, which rips open my chest and crams a whole heap of joy in my bleeding cavity.

I haven’t had much time to listen to anything this week apart from stuff for Tsunami. I have a dickload of Tsunami reviews that I still have to post up here, but be patient. In the meantime, I’ve cobbled together a few CDs that have enjoyed repeated listens on the lobby ghetto blaster fo' shizzle.

This week’s albums are.

1) for the money…

13-Point Program To Destroy America (1991)

Nation Of Ulysses:
13-Point Program To Destroy America
(1991; Discord)
Taking the revolutionary rhetoric and free jazz spazz of the MC5 and marrying it to the sweaty power of post-hardcore, the Nation of Ulysses were a short-lived but potently influential band. This album is a screaming mess of fractured rhythms, skronking sax, and heartfelt vocals, and while it might have partly-inspired the highly-superficial emo movement, it’s got more soul than a sackful of James Browns. NOU are dressed to impress and this opening manifesto is a blessed mess.

2) for the show…

The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)

Modest Mouse:
The Lonesome Crowded West
(1997; Up)
Modest Mouse’s breakthrough second album is the first thing I heard of theirs. This has a lot to do with why it’s still my favourite release by these north-west American indies, but don’t let my bias mislead you. It’s still a great white-trash howdown where Stephen Malkmus meets Frank Black in an allnight diner and they have a Beefheart burger and a coke that’s been infused with speed-addled trucker’s semen. So wrong yet so, so right.

3) to get ready…

The Third Reich 'N' Roll (1976)

The Residents:
The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
(1976; Ralph)
Rock ‘n’ roll is fascism. Avant-garde Dadaists the Residents prove it on their second album of deconstructed sixties hits as performed by Hitler and his band. It’s a fucked-up journey of pastiche that’s at once brilliantly funny and deeply disturbing. These eyeball-wearing weirdos show up rock ‘n’ roll for the dumbly conformist and gloriously derivative beast it is, reveling in its true trash, tearing it all to pieces, and appropriating it for this grand artistic achievement.

Now go, cat, go!

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

March 13th 2007 11:15

Ahoy all you hipsters, beatnicks, and members of the criminal fringe. It’s that time again. Choose the album you want to see reviewed and give it a big ol’ vote. Nice clear votes where you precisely state you are voting for a specific album will help. Other comments are welcome, but may not be counted as votes if you if you ain’t clear, ya hear?

This week’s albums are

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THE LOBBY: ANOTHER WEAK WEEK FOR ALBUMS

March 6th 2007 09:28

As you may know if you’ve read this, I’m shakin’ up the Earache Hotel by sticking to a shorter word limit. Sorry if this disappoints anyone (yeah, right) but I think it will be better for all of us.

Your comments will help this new direction greatly. If you want me to go into more depth (like asking me which other albums by an artist might be to your liking, as people did on my Tom Waits Orphans review) then just post a comment. I’m open to discussion, and would enjoy some company to take my mind off the fact that the Earache Hotel is just a computer, a desk, and a chair that keeps losing its wheels and dropping me on my ass whenever I move

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

February 27th 2007 11:15

For all of my wonderful readers out there waitin’ for the reviews of Tom Waits’s Orphans and Ween’s Quebec, thank you for your patience. They’re still being prepared and should be hot ‘n’ ready before next week.

Sorry for the disarming silence here in the Lobby last week. The entire Hotel has been pretty quiet, because I’ve managed to wrestle myself away from the reviewing demon inside of me to spend some time warming up my real life. It was feeling pretty unlived in

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THE LOBBY: NO ALBUMS THIS WEAK WEEK

February 20th 2007 10:47

Due to the huge amount of reviews I’ve been doing for Tsunami, the impending doom of third year uni, and the Albums Of The Week I already have to review (Tom Waits’s Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards and Ween’s Quebec), there will be no Albums Of The Week post for this week. Weak? Yes! Week? Maybe~

While I have been listening to heaps of music, it’s pretty much all been stuff I’ve had to review for Tsunami, and even though there were lots of great new releases that I got my grubby little fingers on this month, they don’t accurately reflect what I would normally listen to of my own accord. Besides, I want to use all those reviews on Earache Hotel, and not have any eliminated by the voting process

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

February 13th 2007 12:15

Tom Waits's big-ass Orphans box set won the Earache Hotel Albums Of The Week poll this time, meaning I have to listen to and take notes on three CDs by the grumbly old bugger before I can even begin writing (and I’m already writing like 2000 000 reviews for Tsunami this month—PLEASE KILL ME). For my own health and wellbeing, I’ve been sticking to the single CD albums this time around, and NOT listening to the Laughing Clowns’ or Ed Keupper’s 3CD sets (even though Ed's cool and went to my highschool in the age of the dinosaurs).

I’m not sure if you know the drill, but it’s a Stihl brand cordless with a keyless chuck. It’s name is also Chuck. Say hi to Chuck (but watch out for his revolving, piercing, metal tongue). Chuck wants you to post a comment as to which album you would like to see reviewed. Whichever gets the most votes will be reviewed sometime in the near future. Whichever gets the least votes will be grinded to pieces by Chuck and used as compost. Does plastic make good compost

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

February 6th 2007 12:45

Howdy y’all. If you were around last week, ya may have noticed the new lobby here at the Earache Hotel. If not you can check it out by clicking here. There’s no pictures of it or anything, because like heaven, the lobby is what you want it to be (also, it doesn’t really exist).

The lobby is where I’ve been spinning records while I greet my guests and beat them at parcheesi, and for an extra fee, beat them off (with a stick, there’s just so many of them

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THE LOBBY: ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

January 30th 2007 12:50

There’s been some renovations a-happenin’ here at the Earache Hotel. One is our fully refurbished lobby with several moderately priced velvet paintings of yours truly, as well as a generic-brand, portable CD player which is bolted to the reception desk so you bastards can’t steal it.

Every week here in the lobby, I will be telling y’all which three albums I’ve been spinning the most on said portable CD player. You won’t be able to hear them or anything, but you will know what I’ve been rockin’ out to each week, which will give you some insight into my life. This insight will then bring you enlightenment and untold happiness, or my name isn’t Hellvis Aaaron Presley (the extra A is for asshole

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