was at a friends house last night and we were bored as hell so we started flipping thru his tivo checking out all the shit he meant to watch but never did... one of those things was the henry rollins show... so we started watching.
eventually we came across this bands performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx-HvPXIuVs
i was amazed!
anyone heard of these guys?
i kinda wanna download everything they've ever done.
gypsy punk! i dig it!
I thought they were pretty big - or at least alternative big (maybe moreso in the UK). They're very joyous. I presume you've come across this beautiful track?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1Ahn0Osjo
The lead singer, Eugene Hutz, plays the tour guide in Everything is Illuminated.
Yeah, these guys are pretty damned huge and have been for a few years now.
For me they lost their appeal when they decided to be Madonna whores
Are you saying that because of Filth and Wisdom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nx6YW3qAI)?
ok, i got it. i guess i should have known these guys were "huge". rk made that clear in his own condescending way.
but what i really wanna know is if i should check out more of their music. are they REALLY good?! or was that performance just a fluke?
help me out xixaxers. don't make me drudge thru a bunch of stolen music to find the gems.
No, that performance is pretty representative - if you like that, you'll probably like them in general. In fact, the main downside of the band is that they're quite samey, so you probably only need to get one album, and that album should probably be Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike.
Quote from: jtm on June 05, 2010, 02:57:14 AM
ok, i got it. i guess i should have known these guys were "huge". rk made that clear in his own condescending way.
Re-reading, I can see how it can come off as condescending, but I was just replying to Children W/Angels.
I wasn't trying to be a dick. I didn't discover the Beatles until I was 29.
no worries.... i'm just psyshed i found a new band to get into.
i took childrens advise and got underdog. i played it during a bbq today and i think i got the band atleast 3 more fans. :yabbse-grin: