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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: mike a on October 02, 2008, 10:01:25 AM
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Tom forgot Perfect Teeth in his Unrest recommendation. Most people underrate it, but it's very nearly Imperial's equal. Come on, "Cath Carroll?" "Make Out Club?" "Angel I'll Walk You Home?" These are some of Unrest's all-time greatest tracks. Granted, there are some filler moments, but Imperial had them too...
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I would never underestimate PERFECT TEETH! I've played stuff from it on the air over the last few months. It's a great album.
But I was trying to take that dude on a tour through the Unrest catalog. And I think the best way to get an idea of the scope and variation of it is to look at IMPERIAL FFRR and KUSTOM KARNAL BLACKXSPLOITATION as the soft and hard. If you can cope with that, then go to MALCOM X PARK, which is the best example in my opinion of their all over the map-ness. If you're still on board, then you can go anywhere, including PERFECT TEETH, which is ultimately an extension of IMPERIAL FFRR in a lot of ways.
At the time I remember being bummed with PERFECT TEETH because it was the first Unrest album where the sound of the band was constant over two releases. But I got on board because it's great and it's Mark Robinson, who is one of the most underrated guys out there.
Tom.
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i had this same discussion with a pal of mine. i mentioned Tom's recommendation of Unrest albums and we discussed what we wouldve done in Tom's shoes. all in all, we agreed with Tom and H2O (who agreed with each other).
ANYWAY, the discussion moved on to radiohead, etc. and we found out that we pretty much stuck to 2-3 albums that would do any beginner justice- not throwing out our favorite albums- and after that, it's their job to dig deeper into the catalog.
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Yeah, I was surprised not hearing Tom mention Perfect Teeth. I do love that the brought up "Yeah she is my skinhead girl"
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Perfect Teeth was the only record I had to try to get into Unrest a year or two ago and I didn't quite catch on. Now I'm going to go down the Tom prescribed path. I guess Tom knows what he's talking about.