| Monoshock / Runnin' Ape-Like From the Back |
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| Album: | Runnin' Ape-Like From the Back | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Monoshock | Added: | Oct 2004 | |
| Label: | Ss Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-12-05 | Pull Date: | 2005-02-06 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Feb 6 | Jan 23 | Jan 16 | Dec 26 | Dec 19 | Dec 12 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 03, 2005: | Baptism of Solitude Nobody Recovery | 4. | Jan 12, 2005: | Brownian Motion Nobody Recovery | |
| 2. | Jan 19, 2005: | Brownian Motion Cabalgando a La Luna | 5. | Dec 21, 2004: | Baptism of Solitude Primitive Zippo | |
| 3. | Jan 13, 2005: | Fiction Romance Nobody Recovery | 6. | Dec 16, 2004: | Fiction Romance Hawkwind Show |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2004-11-23 | ||
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Wow!! Excellent collection of Monoshock’s 7”, comps, demo tape, and unreleased tracks 1989-95. This is some primo balls out wacked psyche noise garage out of Oakland. This is the real deal insane garage, what Estrus strived for, what the Strokes watered down, added milk and sugar to and made millions with. Then theres a huge element of this that is precisely what Comets on Fire are getting blown by the press for these days: full on noise effects almost burying the rock, echoplex feedback and distortion. Almost ridiculous that this band didn’t get more recognition at the time. All these recordings are fittingly low-fi, lending a live feel if they are live already. Awesome! 1) balls out garage rawkin 2) slightly heavier head nod 3) stoney feel to the garage, 12 bar progression 4) slower, swingy, nice noise in there 5) rocking and rolling, buried keys in there 6) poppier feel, melodic vocs and chords, good guitar tone, turns crazy as shit 7) FCCs (too bad) 8) no music but noise under strange spoken word, layers of dialog 9) upbeat rawking garage, man, w/ echoey vocs 10) almost pop flare, melodic rock “saw you at the Hawkwind show” 11) pop sense but still noisy as fuck 12) upbeat driving madness, instrumental, noisy 13) noisy bashout, brief 14) crazy noisy bashout, Lightning Bolt, Comets on Fire 15) spacier, psyche rock jam 16) brief bashout instrumental 17) low fi sludgey rock, long jam | ||
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