I legit got a few goosebumps. Like listening to a long lost album.
Man, it sounded like Fugazi, doing In Utero, and Albini finger prints all over it. Think the drums on scentless apprentice, but boomier.
The whole thing just sounded angry AF. Ian’s vocals sounded really forced tho, and I don’t even know if guy sounded right.
It didn’t sound like a fugazi album at all really, but if they’d cleaned it up a bit, I’d suggest it could be better than the final album, even though it would’ve sounded like some other band that probably exists.
The live stuff is so good though. Im sure this is the same for some other bands…but watching a live set makes a Fugazi album make sense. So you get the ebb and flow and build up on each set. Even though they never play an album as a live set.
I reckon Killtaker sounds thin compared to the rest of the albums. I still love it, Smallpox Champion is one of my favorites, but yeah it’s interesting… listening to it now.
Here’s a poser: what’s your favorite album? I had this discussion with my brother and another friend - huge Fugazi fans. We were pretty close on one and two.
The Saints were quintessential Australian Punk. In a time when ‘punk’ was heavily curated with fashion and try hard angst. The Saints were the real deal. They were the first punk band in the world to release a record. When they arrived in the UK (without suitcases, but garbage bags with clothes), they weren’t welcomed at all. The London punks scene bullied them for the fact they didn’t look the part. Tracksuit pants and long hair didn’t fit the 1976 punk niche. But it solidified Australian Punk from the rest of the world. We do it our own way, and we don’t buy into High brow fashion cliches.
Bailey set the scene for Australian punk and Rock’n Roll…… and how we experience it in pubs today. One of the toughest sounding vocals in music history.
Edit: The Australian punk sound, which we have today, wouldn’t have happened without The Saints.
Cosmic Psychos, Powder Monkeys, Six ft Hick, Peep Temple, Tumbleweed, Front End Loader, GOD, Lime Spiders.
The Saints set the scene for the Australian Punk sound which we love.
You don’t count the Ramones debut? I read how Saints were ■■■■■■ when that came out as they were already doing that sound and thought folk would think they were copying.
I’m pretty sure they released Stranded as a single before the ramones released the self-titled album.
I think they wanted to get to the UK before the Ramones did…… because, as you say they were seriously p*ssed that the Ramones were so similar and they didn’t want to be seen as copying them.
Don Letts always talks about when he was DJing at clubs in the mid 70’s…… there was only 2 punk records. Raw Power by the Stooges & Stranded by The Saints. No other punk bands had released anything yet.
If anyone has Plex media server (I run it through my Apple TV box), I just realised it has a few punky movies for free streaming: Rock’n’Roll High School, The Decline of Western Civilzation, and Suburbia (the 1984 one with Flea and Vandals etc).
