Whoops! I was late on this one.
So, uh, last week...
That was an exciting first post weren't it?
Remember my lil' blurb about the radio in the last post? Yeah back then I was pretty insufferable about the radio. I mean, The Offspring's Americana was the first CD I bought with my own money, and they were a radio punk band. I'm not saying that I felt they sucked, I just wanted to hear more music like that and there's only so much that gets played on a big station. I wanted stuff that went deeper. Stuff that didn't have the same sound that was getting pushed on us all.
For this one I'm going to dig back to my musically formitive years and pull out a band that got me away from radio punk.
Back in high school soome kid, I forget his name, gave me a mix tape of a ton of digital hardcore (I'll go into that in an other post or two), and bands like Crass, Chaotix, Melt Banana, and Submission Hold.
This one's about Submission Hold. The songs on the mix tape that I got both came off of "Waiting for another monkey to throw the first brick." Last Surving Crocodile was my first exposure to folk punk and Deadpan was an interesting one to take at the time. I was looking for the fastest, hardest music after all and that song has a long, slow build.
Submission Hold was a band from Vancouver, BC and being from the greater Seattle area that meant I had the pleasure of seeing them a few times when they came South. Loved 'em. However, I regretably never picked up any of their merch or music and now they're not making music any more. Not like I directly had anything to do with that, but I think this is a good spot to say that if you really like a band the best thing you can do is go to their shows, buy their merch and music. Buy it at their shows even. Years later I found Waiting for another monkey to throw the first brick in vinyl in a bargain bin at a record shop in Olympia, WA and it is one of my most prized vinyls.
They had a good run, '93-05. I guess wikipedia says they were another band in the nineties before becoming Submission Hold, but I never got into them until the early aughts.
Maybe there's a little bit of the nostalgia factor on this one for me but they were a formitive band for me. Their sound departed from the traditional three or four person set up that I was used to. They had a fucking flute. I'm not making that up. Going from a sea of bands that were set up with Guitars/Bass/Drums/Vocals that was mindblowing at the time. There's good use of the flute in Last Crocodile.
Waiting for another monkey to throw the first brick runs around 35~36 minutes long. Perfect length for a punk album.
A quick internetting didn't yield a band site, and while there's a wikipedia page for the band that has a link to a site, it is no longer is active. :( Good luck tracking this one down. Maybe it's elsewhere on the web? I'm sorry for not being super helpful. I feel like even for an anarcho-punk band they may still get checks for their music if it's still pressed somewhere so I wouldn't recommend pirating it. [see above: support bands you like.] You're grown ups, you can find it.
I think this is two posts where I slam radio tunes so I think I'll have to find a more commercial group for my next one or just not make jabs at it. I don't want to come off like a beanie cap and scarf in summer wearing, caramel macchiato ordering hipster.
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