Skip to main content

Children Shouldn't Play With Guns

I was recently at Into the Music in Winnipeg par-oozing the punk/hardcore section (a mix of new and used) and I found an interesting looking LP. The cover looked like a christian rock album from the 70's, the band "Christ On A Crutch" and album title "Shit Edge and Other Songs For The Young and Sentimental". Upon closer inspection this turned out to be a double LP with the second album being "Spread Your Filth The Doughnut and Bourbon Years". Since I had never heard of Christ on a Crutch before, I figured it would be a good time to introduce myself to this (assumed) punk? band..after all it was only $12 (score!?). This past weekend the daughter and I were having lunch so I figured I'd throw on some music, and heck, why not make it music that neither of us had ever heard (at least I'm pretty sure she hadn't listened to Christ on a Crutch before..but who knows..right?). I had no real expectations for this album (I avoided researching anything to do with the band) and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be quite alright. The A side of Spread Your Filth opens with a nice Mr. Rogers clip then goes into a groovy bassline finally culminating with a nice 80's hardcore punk ditty (I'd say east coast DC..ish). Throughout this fantastic hardcore album there is an underlying almost grooveish element..this is very much due to the lively bass playing. Lyrics are fantastically posi-angry (that said I haven't read all of them, just a few songs here and there). After listening to side A of Spread Your Filth I did a little googling, turns out they were a mid 80's to early 90's band that began in Washington DC then later reformed with a couple guys from Tri-Cities and moved to Seattle. The bass player went on to be in some fairly notable bands. If you want to know more google it. Check em out, good shit.

A while ago I saw that the Super Thrifty Drugstore in town was starting to carry UK import foods..including chips. This was more than enough reason to make my way there this past summer and snatch up a bunch of Tayto "BIG" (I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or if europeans really don't consume large bags of chips, can someone please clarify this labeling for me?) 37.5g bags of various flavours of chips. In my haul I grabbed a few bags of Wuster Sauce flavour potato crisps. I was quite excited to taste a different brand's take on worcester/worcestershire/etc. (up to this point I had only tried Walkers). Crinkle, peel, peer whiff crunch. Nom. These chips smell like deep fried potato slices with a hint of vinegar. When tongue meets chips it's greeted with a tangy sweet flavour..with a definite sharpness to the tang. These chips deliver on their namesake with a "wurster" sauce tartness. The actual chips are lays-esque if not slightly more dense. My only gripe is with the bag size..I wish it was closer to the 100g mark, typical North American amiright. Tayto's Wurster Sauce flavour potato crisps aren't an overly aggressive chip, just very enjoyable.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dying Every Day

 Yooooo! Old Dutch Pretzel Pieces, All Dressed Flavoured, are bangin'. I wasn't planning on putting up a post tonight, thought maybe I'd just take some notes in my phone, then I popped these in my maw and had to grab the laptop. The pieces are soo piecey, it's like someone had a bad day and took a bat to these pretzels (that would have been 1.5cm+/- diameter. I'm not typically a pretzel man, but these are thick enough that they're not just dried out meh, they have a dense crunch. Mildly bready (but still crunchy) goodness. Now, the flavour is what really knocked my socks off. I'm not sure if they use an agent or if there's moisture from the pretzels but the seasoning is heavily covering these pretzel pieces. It's like when you're at the movie theatre and put butter or margarine on the popcorn, then sprinkle some seasoning on and it's almost like a pasty seasoning in certain parts. There's also some well-toasted pretzel that welcomingly po...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bed Crumbs

My kids getting slightly older means I can now bring them along on my adventures to shows in Winnipeg (at least when it's all ages and ties into a weekend..which is what happened just over a week ago). I was stoked with I saw Quit It! was making their way to/through Manitoba again and it was on a Friday. It was touch and go for a minute if I/we were going to make it but the hockey scheduling gods shone down on me/us and I was able to justify keeping the kids up late on a Friday night. First of all Domohaus is absolutely fantastic, Adrian and Hannah seem to have a scene (tapped into a scene), that's friendly (and more importantly kid friendly, at least IMO). At their 4th Annual Occasional Halloween House Party (with bands playing out of the garage due to mild spitting/rain) started off with Grotoko (full band style for the first time in a minute) killing it in their '66 Batman villain costumes. I love Blue's live stage presence, it fits perfectly with the confluence of d...
Post a Comment
Read more

The End of All Things

 I am not an expert on Nomeansno, but I can tell you this..their music can be quite difficult to get on physical media (LP, CD or otherwise [unless you want to spend somewhat spicy money]) in Canada. Luckily, Alternative Tentacles reissued Wrong. Now, cross border shipping is still muy caliente, but enough distros picked it up in Canada to allow me to put Wrong into my record collection this year. Nomeansno (since 1979) played (ended 2016) chaotic punk rock that I want to say fell into hardcore, but they were far more than a single genre. Wrong is unconventional for a punk band to say the least. The bass is lively as hell, with a tone that's absolutely perfect. The drums know when to get weird and when to kick it into overdrive. I don't know if it's jazz or funk, but there's something in the mix that if Nomeansno wasn't so aggressive it might feel pretentious..instead they're just odd and make me wish I had the opportunity to seem them live. Lyrics are talk sung...
Post a Comment
Read more