I hate hearing anyone attempt to defend Peter Sotos. To me it’s perfectly clear that he didn’t have those materials or interests for purely “artistic purposes”
I am so happy you've made a video about them. It's like the first good review of Brainbombs on UA-cam. Also if you could do a video on Rudimentary Peni it would be fantastic. Very interesting band and music
Love Brainbombs and awesome to see you doing a video of them. I was SHOCKED to find the shop in Seattle by the space needle (think its connected to SubPop somehow?) carried a number of their albums! Never would have thought Seattle's trendiest store would have a band like them on the shelves. And clearly, you have yet to hear GG's track Expose Yourself to Children. Which, by the way, don't do that folks!
The craziest thing about GG was that no one has ever come out and said that he actually SA'd them or anything like that. He was definitely a degenerate , but probably not any more so than many of the so called "rock n roll stars" of the 70s and 80s. Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Axel Rose, David Bowie, the list goes on and on, all on record as having slept with girls as young as 13, which is beyond disgusting and utterly reprehensible, and yet they are still touted as "music legends." GG's girlfriend Liz Mankowski was 17 and he was 35 or 36 when they dated which is absolutely f*cked up, but then again, Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old when he was 38 and yet he's a "comedy legend" and has suffered zero repercussions, it's all very weird. He happened to set out to become the most shocking musician of all time which he achieved, but there is such a massive hypocrisy in so many people calling him "the most degenerate musician of all time"
@@m00k61 Pretty simple question, how? What does "trendy" even mean? Their most watched video has 180,000 views, that is not a whole lot. Hard to read your tone but if you're some 20 something chump trying to pull some elitist card on my old ass, I'm going to laugh!
@@Nantosuelta Good point. The depressing thing is that once you know this stuff, it's like, "Do I just throw out half of my record collection/delete half of my playlist", as my late wife - fair play to her - did, or do you (try to) take the attitude, similar to when you watch a Roman Polanski film, "I'm gonna focus on what's important here, the art, not the artist" half of the time that you press play, forcing yourself to practice all sorts of cognitively dissonant acrobatics? I mean, what decent person now listens to Gary Glitter, let alone The Lost Prophets - well, specifically, Ian Watson(?) - and yeah, he was literally, like, about 'The Worst' - _literally_ literally! I hesitate to spell it out, but for those who don't know, he inflicted sexual GBH on actual 'infince'. But unfortunately, it's not really a case of 'These people are Scum', and _'These_ people are just Lovable Rogues', it's more like a sliding scale... And yeah, like you say, half of the people in 'The Canon', if they were just 'Joe Shmoe', and living in your neighbourhood, you'd clutch your children closer and cross the road to avoid them if you saw them walking down your street! Now, I should say much of what I'm going to say here is, at least for me, hearsay, but I think it's all generally accepted as true even if not really known to the casual punter... It is said that when Stephen Tyler's underage girlfriend refused to get an abortion after he got her pregnant, he (allegedly, ALLEGEDLY!) tied her up, or otherwise incapacitated her and set fire to the house she was in! (She escaped, Thank Christ!) The comedian Bill Hicks, super 'edgy' for his time, but a man I've never heard anyone under 60 say a bad word about, and who is in fact hailed as a genius (imo, he's funny, but he ain't 'laugh~out~loud' funny) would do routines where he would openly talk about sex with his 15 year old girlfriend. Now, even in the '70's, it was clear that this was meant to provoke, and was his way of getting up people's noses... But unless I'm missing something and 'she' was just a device invented for that purpose (highly doubt it!) those hailing him today, who no doubt queued up to throw brickbats (rightly so) at the Catholic Church for the hypocrisy and the cover~ups of _their_ clerics' sex crimes, seem to be more than willing to overlook this inconvenient little detail. Similarly, one of my favourite writers (Yeah! I know!) novelist William S. Burroughs (who'd already shot his wife dead playing William Tell, and had gotten off on _that_ charge), and his acclaimed poet mate Allan Ginsberg didn't just move to Tangiers, Morocco, to escape persecution for their Homosexuality, as the received legend has it... Tangiers in those days fulfilled much the same role for the World's 'creep' set as Thailand does today! Slightly down the scale of reprehensibility, but still displaying a level of misogyny that even though I'm far from being a feminist, I still find dismaying; members of glam metal band Motley Crüe, to amuse themselves on long tours, were running a (probably notional) book amongst themselves to see who could go longest without washing their private parts before a groupie would balk at performing a BJ on them, (or be sick)! It's not just in the field of sexual misdeeds that these people are despicable, either... Both Keith Moon and (I've momentarily forgotten the guy's name, it's on the tip of my tongue, probably on account of my having done too many drugs back in the '90's... All fun'n'games until someone loses a leg. Or a life.) -- but, anyway, the actor who played the legendary Ferris Bueller, [EDIT: Matthew Broderick], just as with Moon, have both gotten away with manslaughter for running people over when pi55ed as newts. Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg got a couple of naïve rural French teenagers - if even that - hooked on smack, 'just because', leaving them in the lurch, and in agonizing withdrawals, when their dad inevitably found out and ran them out of town - at the point of a shotgun, no doubt! On another occasion, when the couple were jaunting around the countryside somewhere in South America, they came upon the scene of a road accident, with somebody lying, bleeding their life out in the road. So they did as any of us would have done, and stopped the car. Not to try and proffer assistance, _God,_ No! In fact what it was, was the opportunity to soak up the blood of a person expiring _right there,_ in a handkerchief for use in some later occult ritual was just _too good_ to pass up! Presumably you'll be aware of plenty other examples of beyond~a~joke behaviour, absolutely sh¡††y parenting and so on and so forth. I suppose the truth is that even right back to the otherwise more uptight times of the Romantic Poets, we've been willing to - mostly - cut (famous) artistic types a bit of slack for their moral outrages, on account of their genius and their 'demons', and their highly strung natures... Didn't work out so well for Oscar Wilde of course, but certainly the case could be made here that it was his own hubris that put him in chokey! I'm gonna go out on a limb here (hate posts to the usual place!) but I suspect we've seen something of an _over_ correction in recent years, where sexually tawdry - but consensual - behaviour is frequently classified as 7ape, or at the least, sexual assault. It is good though, that artistic genius is no longer seen as an excuse for criminal acts, sexual or otherwise. Of course, the attendant fame can still work wonders, as can those perennial trump cards, wealth, power, 'pull', and an army of slick handlers and mouthpieces. Tbh, I don't know what to say by way of concluding. Depressingly, like the poor, I guess, human smegma will always be with us! Matter of fact, with hot & cold running 'gonzo' and super~dark, twisted, fetish and kink, porn available at the touch of a fingertip we are probably cultivating _hordes_ of such 'squirming brain' people. As against that, the modern intolerance of Toxic Masculinity and generally more sympathetic and understanding police forces may mean that more victims can receive justice, even if the scars will always be there, and it may be that more monsters are caught earlier in their offending career (notwithstanding that too many perceive 'Toxic Masculinity' as being the norm and not the exception, and too often, Police today can be overly credulous when it comes to allegations of sexual assault; "Listen and Believe" is absolutely appropriate for counselling agencies; unfortunately though, police have to be more willing to employ a degree of scepticism, or at least, reservation, in relation to allegations... 7ape victims do not lie about 7ape. _Liars,_ on the other hand will, and do, lie about 7ape, and anything else under the sun!) Anyway, good comment on your part (if you've managed to persevere this far!) Sorry for ending on a bit of a discordant note there, and sorry about the length of this... essay. If not out~and~out dissertation! 🙄
@@richiehoyt8487 I did read your entire comment and am thoroughly in agreement. Its a good thing that people are being held accountable these days, even if perhaps some have taken it too far and cancelled celebrities on here-say alone. It still boggles my mind that so many musicians and artists who are still alive have somehow completely avoided ridicule, even with very well documented evidence against them. I was recently discussing the topic with a group at a dinner party and at least two people said "well it was a different time." and that absolutely baffled me. This isn't the dark ages we're talking about where most died at the age of 30. This is a few decades ago ,well within a lifetime. I still don't understand it, and I really struggle with it myself. Bowie and Zeppelin were two of my original inspirations and knowing the truth is hard to deal with. I don't really have a conclusion, but to be honest I don't really listen to a lot of that music anymore because its seem ruined for me.
One of my favorite bands since forever and probably the og edgelords. Unhinged Noise Rock is underrated af and got some of the best riffs out there. Rectal Hygienics is another gnarly band that’s similar to Brainbombs
Yeah I’m pretty sure that albini was a major influence on Whitehouse aswell. Both are absolute degenerates but you have to give credit where it’s due 😂
You the man Wyatt, hope all is good. Have you done a top albums I/you know in the sludge/doom genre? Been jamming a ton of Conan, Primitive Man, Eyehategod etc. Always appreciate your insight
"the way he pronounces his words has more of like thus groaty, rugged filter attached" Don't think I've ever heard someone describe the Swedish accent like that
What's really insane about GG is that he could/would have been massive had he written, how can I say, less controversial lyrics, 'cause his music is catchy af, one second in and you're already pogoing and singalonging yourself to death. Also, Wyatt, kudos for your Understanding Burzum vid, I'm complimenting you here because rn that video has 666 comments and I'm not gonna ruin it! Stay hydrated too .
Man, I remember when my mate showed me Brain Bombs back in highschool, I think we were 16 at the time & this really opened up my world to different styles of Punk that wasn't Pop or Hardcore. That all important feedback changed my life
Yea, many of the characters that grew out of the n.y. no wave scene were tuned in to lots of low brow art from people like sotos...lydia lunch, richard kern, nick zedd and so on...
In 2011 I did a small tour with a Texas Punk/Noise Rock band “Cop Warmth”. Up the east coast & back down the Midwest. Somehow “Brainbombs - Obey” was the only tape we brought with us in the van. We listened to it nonstop for two weeks straight. We played Ohio & slept on the floor of this nice couple we met at the show. While drinking & listening to records in their living room we saw it… OBEY on vinyl! We all laughed & told our hosts it was all we had listened to since Texas & their response was just “seriously… how the fuck are you all still alive?? How have you not killed each other?!” Sigh, better times.
Beyond a certain point, this kind of art is just the sonic equivalent to that kid in school who thought it's fun to show other kids the food he's chewing just to see them recoil in disgust.
Can you make a video that Explain Minatory and it's subgenre. One of the deepest known (if not the actual) genre Since like barely people actually talks about this genre and trust me you'll be interested on how it sounds like
One of the members of Brainbombs (Lanchy Orre) is actually the guitarist of Totalitär, who are one of the most badass D-Beat/Crust bands to ever come out of Sweden. Good shit…
You should do a video on yabujin/dj gryrotta zao maonly the latter as his music is apart of this liminal space sounds mixed woth what a dxm oe dph trp feels like particuarly the album 5454
Wyattxhim is the only metal youtuber anyone needs,,,,you actually get good recomendations,,,and not some roided out 40 year old just calling everybody posers like,,i wont say any names but his name rymes with J dawg😂😂
But Ed Gein on the cover screams family album? And obey is something you tell your kids. Not sure your review can be true. I will have to check it out. Thanks!
If you think what GG Allin does is insane, you should check out Edwin Borsheim from Kettle Cadaver. There's a documentary about him called "Dead Hands Dig Deep" and he's done some of the most disturbing things I've ever seen a musician do on stage.
OBEY is unironically a masterpiece. Everything about it works, somehow. “Slayer,” the opening track on their album URGE TO KlLL, may be my favorite Brainbombs song.
Can music become too perverse as to cross a line into being immoral, or void of any true value. A lot of art deals with horrific themes but those themes are related with a higher meaning which contains a lesson or helps to understand the world in a deeper way. I feel brain bombs is just perverse. Unfortunately I really like their sound. The most recent brain bombs albums are way less explicit. Two tracks I recommend from their newest stuff is Shadows, which actually has lyrics dealing with spirituality if you can fucking believe that coming from this band, and They All Deserve To Die. Which is a top track for me from everything they've done. I can't help but blast it as loud as possible. There are subtle variations in the distortion which gives the constantly repeating groove a sense of aliveness and an addictive head nodding catharsis. But I do not listen to the band anymore. I feel like they crossed a line as I mentioned before. I guess I'm becoming a bit of a prude as I get a little older. But I feel guilt if I listen to that. Still. Instrumentally they fucking rock. I dig the entire sound. The dead pan vox, the crushing asphalt distortion, the braindead groove. As loud as possible.
I always come back to Nietzsche on these questions, with morality being something that has shifted drastically from the 20th century till now, an inversion/trans valuations. As such, I find that actual bad things, bad behavior, exploitative things, are generally allowed and not truly critiqued; usually held under the banner of “art,” and expression. Just pure degenerate liberal values manifesting. What I do find funny, is the several topics which are currently no go’s, and yet are not utter filth or degeneracy, but instead a critique of those behaviors. We live in an interesting time as far as morality, and the Overton window has shifted dramatically since I was a kid in the 90’s. Take your porno or gore grind associated bands, and then realize that’s all totally fine and dandy, and yet Varg or the certain elements of the black metal scene are automatically blasphemous and transgress against the dogmatic humanist order. There’s “safe transgression” in art and film, things that are pure exploitation and exist to allow escapism into something ultimately nihilistic and lacking any eternal or transcendent value associated with or beyond it. The moment you get into anything with substance, then it’s automatically real deal transgression, as it represents power. Reminds me of the old Conan the Barbarian film, those eternal values manifest are what makes anything value; art, culture, literature, etc. They can be transgressive, but are never transgression for transgressions sake, which is where I think the issue is. Modernist or postmodern art puts the individual and the ego first, in an attempt to “shock,” a la Damian hirst, and yet the joke is no longer funny in essence. It’s manufactured shock, as there’s no substance behind it. True art should have truth behind it, even ugly and dirty and dangerous truth. As an example, I researched bad lieutenant the other night, just added to the criterion streaming service, all time favorite film, but it is utter transgression, but transgression in the service of ultimately an attempt at redemption. It is the best representation of Catholicism in film, and yet was an nc-17 film. It has such a power, especially near the end, that I usually start to tear up a bit. That film has such fundamental power because dragging itself through the muck and the filth is ultimately in service to a much higher God, or a value or principle that Carrie’s absolute power. That is true art, and I would say in my humble opinion it is, but I think it’s an objective fact. High art deals with values expressed though various means, but always in service of something greater. Never a Crowley-esque dive to the bottom. My two cents anyways on the art questions, cheers brother.
May I recommend a video on French performance artist/musical terrorist Jean-Louis Costes? (If you've seen the movie "Irreversible," he's in the Rectum Club scene.) I think hes right up your alley.
Fun story about Irreversible. I was in university after it had hit home video and our cable provider just started doing On Demand movies. I had only heard "it's unforgettable" somewhere online so I purchased a digital rental. One of my roommates/good friend and his girlfriend came into the TV room, asked what I was going to watch and decided to join me after I said, "It's French and supposed to be really good!" They loved Amelie afterall as did I so what could go wrong? They made it through the club scene with one or two "Oh fuck..."s but about 3 minutes into THAT alley scene, my roommate's girlfriend ran out of the room tears streaming down her face while yelling at me, "Why would you watch something like this?!" My roommate grimaced at me as he followed her out. He wasn't mad at me but I bought him a six pack the next night anyways because I did feel a bit bad I inadvertently exposed his very, very, very sweet, bright, cheery girlfriend to that flick. Had I known about Gaspar Noe back then, I would have picked something else lol.
I wish someone would be up to do a real deep-dive on Costes. His recordings, and especially his live performances (many with Lisa Suckdog) should be more legendary than they are. And then throw in his novels and film work, and you have a very twisted body of work. Unfortunately, i don't speak French so I can only fully appreciate a small amount of his work (around 10% of his music is in English. And one of his novels was translated.)
Do you like K.F.R? It’s a French Black Metal band. Or have you ever heard them or talked about them? Maxime Taccardi started it and is also an artist. He paints with blood and it’s actually amazing art! I have his books, music and art and some is signed in blood. He paints other Black Metal artists like Dead from Mayhem and even GG Allin.
@@gordongray3102 yes he is. It’s bad ass.. Maxime Taccardi is great, I have some of his original artwork! He’s a really cool guy. I bought a cd from him and only like 50 were made and he drew some art for it. I have his books to. They are fuckin badass!
i am so in love with brainbombs. i found them about 3 years ago and i was so intrigued by their awful disgusting music. ive burned CDs, done art, the "cult following" thing is so true. on reddit people say their fanbase is strangely mostly female. it definitely rings true to me. its almost like coping, sexual violence is a horrific thing, and consuming media that covers such awful and brutal topica in such an unforgiving qay is almost cathartic. i hate them, i hate what they write, what they sing, how psychotic the music is. but their single riff songs are just so alluring. it brings me comfort that other women listen to brainbombs for the same reasons i do. its inexplicable...but this band has changed my life
Obey is a good starting point for Brainbombs but they really come into their own with the later albums Fucking Mess, Disposal Of A Dead Body and Cold Case...
I used to say mean things to you on your channel for no reason. i just wanted to say im extremely sorry and I'm working on bettering myself. Your knowledge is amazingly impressive
tbf by todays standards I hear more offensive themes in meme rap and horrorcore than anything else. But relative to punk I still say its El Duce and The Mentors.
You should check out Rectal Hygienics! Very Brainbombs inspired but heavier with more of an emphasis on feedback worship (imo check out Ultimate Purity, ppl tend to gravitate to Even The Flies Won't Touch You but honestly it's pretty overrated and the nuances of their formula aren't as developed yet) Just as perverse but they feel a bit more poignant than Brainbombs, to me they kind of operate as the opposite side of the coin of punk's typical sloganeering, whereas a typical punk band takes the political approach of "i hate our enemy, im on your side, we're in this together" Rectal Hygienics is more like "We are a portrayal of everything you should hate and we don't really care if you don't see the separation there between the portrayal and the person, the seed to be a complete degenerate is in every one of us, we are men and this is what men are and you should be disgusted" (the clearest example of this to me is the track When I'm Alone)
am i surprised that the clean cut, dare i say handsome, young man i saw a video of years ago describing a slight affinity for nsbm has descended into neckbeardom? unfortunately not.
It's a bit confusing if or when Lanchy is part of Brainbombs/Totalitär, its seems to be on and off. I highly recommend to check out Exploatör which just recently released a pretty good album "Blind Elit". In addition to playing guitar, he also designed the brilliant album cover.
@@HallgeirBakken Lanchy is on all Brainbombs releases, he is a key member. He is playing guitar on everything, except the album "Fking Mess", where he is on bass. The band was inactive from 2003 to 2008, which is where the rumor he left the band stems from. It's also interesting to know that up until the mid-00s, people discovered Brainbombs through the Totalitar connection, and not the other way round. BB became well-known after the internet's rise.
@@ncl.a.2168 cool, thanks for the info :) Do you know if he is always part of the live lineup as well? I saw BB in Oslo last fall, but none of the guitarist reminded of the ones I've seen live footage of with Totalitär/Exploatör. Must say this Lanchy figure is a bit of a mystery for me...
@@HallgeirBakken He likes to stay in the shadows I guess. But yeah, he is on all BB shows, except the ones in the US I think. You can see him play guitar in this Totalitar gig: ua-cam.com/video/k5F3ZH-02Kc/v-deo.html
I think the 'Out Of Vogue" single from 1979 by Middle Class is much faster. I always thought the song 'Brain Bomb' sounds like a dirty, dusty cross of Motorhead and Venom.
Also this band is so appealing to me because their music is SO effective. They strike the perfect balance, not just the fucked up lyrics but, the vocal delivery with that accent, the repetition (they really drill those riffs into your skull), the shitty lo-fi recordings, the creepy sax, the overall atmosphere & feeling I get from listening to this gets under my skin. It’s perverse, disgusting, UGLY music, it’s perfect. That’s how music like this should be. It feels so real, I can’t see how people see it as “edgelord” or whatever. If you’re gonna go for broke then crank it to 11 like the volume knob in Spinal Tap! Don’t set out to make the most hideously, perverse, cacophonous, music ever then puss out halfway through. Make me feel uncomfortable afterwards. I don’t listen to Brainbombs & want to become a necrophiliac, just like my love for horror movies & violent video games doesn’t…. well, you get the idea. Great video, great band. Subbed.
The neighbors USED to talk to me before I started creating playlist based off of your album recommendations.
😂😂😂
ever since I started taking notes from this guy, the noise complaints have just been steadily increasing. wonder why that is.
“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
I can’t stop pissing all over the place from drinking all this water on Wyatt’s command
They're like Flipper if Flipper were Swedish serial killer fanatics
I hate hearing anyone attempt to defend Peter Sotos. To me it’s perfectly clear that he didn’t have those materials or interests for purely “artistic purposes”
I mean, credit where credit is due, at least he was authentic given his first hand experience of being a disgusting pedo
yeah, people having different opinions is an interest concept, eh?
true, true...
You’ll have to elaborate.
@@georgemaranville3305 he had them CPs and got arrested for it
I am so happy you've made a video about them. It's like the first good review of Brainbombs on UA-cam. Also if you could do a video on Rudimentary Peni it would be fantastic. Very interesting band and music
Its so much fun to drive around
You could say that without my car's AC it's a burning hell
ngl the vocalist of brainbombs sounds like ren from ren and stimpy
(i havent watched the video yet i just wanted to say that)
Love Brainbombs and awesome to see you doing a video of them. I was SHOCKED to find the shop in Seattle by the space needle (think its connected to SubPop somehow?) carried a number of their albums! Never would have thought Seattle's trendiest store would have a band like them on the shelves.
And clearly, you have yet to hear GG's track Expose Yourself to Children. Which, by the way, don't do that folks!
Because they're trendier than you think.
The craziest thing about GG was that no one has ever come out and said that he actually SA'd them or anything like that. He was definitely a degenerate , but probably not any more so than many of the so called "rock n roll stars" of the 70s and 80s. Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Axel Rose, David Bowie, the list goes on and on, all on record as having slept with girls as young as 13, which is beyond disgusting and utterly reprehensible, and yet they are still touted as "music legends." GG's girlfriend Liz Mankowski was 17 and he was 35 or 36 when they dated which is absolutely f*cked up, but then again, Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old when he was 38 and yet he's a "comedy legend" and has suffered zero repercussions, it's all very weird. He happened to set out to become the most shocking musician of all time which he achieved, but there is such a massive hypocrisy in so many people calling him "the most degenerate musician of all time"
@@m00k61 Pretty simple question, how? What does "trendy" even mean? Their most watched video has 180,000 views, that is not a whole lot.
Hard to read your tone but if you're some 20 something chump trying to pull some elitist card on my old ass, I'm going to laugh!
@@Nantosuelta Good point. The depressing thing is that once you know this stuff, it's like, "Do I just throw out half of my record collection/delete half of my playlist", as my late wife - fair play to her - did, or do you (try to) take the attitude, similar to when you watch a Roman Polanski film, "I'm gonna focus on what's important here, the art, not the artist" half of the time that you press play, forcing yourself to practice all sorts of cognitively dissonant acrobatics? I mean, what decent person now listens to Gary Glitter, let alone The Lost Prophets - well, specifically, Ian Watson(?) - and yeah, he was literally, like, about 'The Worst' - _literally_ literally! I hesitate to spell it out, but for those who don't know, he inflicted sexual GBH on actual 'infince'. But unfortunately, it's not really a case of 'These people are Scum', and _'These_ people are just Lovable Rogues', it's more like a sliding scale... And yeah, like you say, half of the people in 'The Canon', if they were just 'Joe Shmoe', and living in your neighbourhood, you'd clutch your children closer and cross the road to avoid them if you saw them walking down your street! Now, I should say much of what I'm going to say here is, at least for me, hearsay, but I think it's all generally accepted as true even if not really known to the casual punter... It is said that when Stephen Tyler's underage girlfriend refused to get an abortion after he got her pregnant, he (allegedly, ALLEGEDLY!) tied her up, or otherwise incapacitated her and set fire to the house she was in! (She escaped, Thank Christ!) The comedian Bill Hicks, super 'edgy' for his time, but a man I've never heard anyone under 60 say a bad word about, and who is in fact hailed as a genius (imo, he's funny, but he ain't 'laugh~out~loud' funny) would do routines where he would openly talk about sex with his 15 year old girlfriend. Now, even in the '70's, it was clear that this was meant to provoke, and was his way of getting up people's noses... But unless I'm missing something and 'she' was just a device invented for that purpose (highly doubt it!) those hailing him today, who no doubt queued up to throw brickbats (rightly so) at the Catholic Church for the hypocrisy and the cover~ups of _their_ clerics' sex crimes, seem to be more than willing to overlook this inconvenient little detail. Similarly, one of my favourite writers (Yeah! I know!) novelist William S. Burroughs (who'd already shot his wife dead playing William Tell, and had gotten off on _that_ charge), and his acclaimed poet mate Allan Ginsberg didn't just move to Tangiers, Morocco, to escape persecution for their Homosexuality, as the received legend has it... Tangiers in those days fulfilled much the same role for the World's 'creep' set as Thailand does today!
Slightly down the scale of reprehensibility, but still displaying a level of misogyny that even though I'm far from being a feminist, I still find dismaying; members of glam metal band Motley Crüe, to amuse themselves on long tours, were running a (probably notional) book amongst themselves to see who could go longest without washing their private parts before a groupie would balk at performing a BJ on them, (or be sick)! It's not just in the field of sexual misdeeds that these people are despicable, either... Both Keith Moon and (I've momentarily forgotten the guy's name, it's on the tip of my tongue, probably on account of my having done too many drugs back in the '90's... All fun'n'games until someone loses a leg. Or a life.) -- but, anyway, the actor who played the legendary Ferris Bueller, [EDIT: Matthew Broderick], just as with Moon, have both gotten away with manslaughter for running people over when pi55ed as newts.
Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg got a couple of naïve rural French teenagers - if even that - hooked on smack, 'just because', leaving them in the lurch, and in agonizing withdrawals, when their dad inevitably found out and ran them out of town - at the point of a shotgun, no doubt! On another occasion, when the couple were jaunting around the countryside somewhere in South America, they came upon the scene of a road accident, with somebody lying, bleeding their life out in the road. So they did as any of us would have done, and stopped the car. Not to try and proffer assistance, _God,_ No! In fact what it was, was the opportunity to soak up the blood of a person expiring _right there,_ in a handkerchief for use in some later occult ritual was just _too good_ to pass up!
Presumably you'll be aware of plenty other examples of beyond~a~joke behaviour, absolutely sh¡††y parenting and so on and so forth. I suppose the truth is that even right back to the otherwise more uptight times of the Romantic Poets, we've been willing to - mostly - cut (famous) artistic types a bit of slack for their moral outrages, on account of their genius and their 'demons', and their highly strung natures... Didn't work out so well for Oscar Wilde of course, but certainly the case could be made here that it was his own hubris that put him in chokey!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here (hate posts to the usual place!) but I suspect we've seen something of an _over_ correction in recent years, where sexually tawdry - but consensual - behaviour is frequently classified as 7ape, or at the least, sexual assault. It is good though, that artistic genius is no longer seen as an excuse for criminal acts, sexual or otherwise. Of course, the attendant fame can still work wonders, as can those perennial trump cards, wealth, power, 'pull', and an army of slick handlers and mouthpieces.
Tbh, I don't know what to say by way of concluding. Depressingly, like the poor, I guess, human smegma will always be with us! Matter of fact, with hot & cold running 'gonzo' and super~dark, twisted, fetish and kink, porn available at the touch of a fingertip we are probably cultivating _hordes_ of such 'squirming brain' people. As against that, the modern intolerance of Toxic Masculinity and generally more sympathetic and understanding police forces may mean that more victims can receive justice, even if the scars will always be there, and it may be that more monsters are caught earlier in their offending career (notwithstanding that too many perceive 'Toxic Masculinity' as being the norm and not the exception, and too often, Police today can be overly credulous when it comes to allegations of sexual assault; "Listen and Believe" is absolutely appropriate for counselling agencies; unfortunately though, police have to be more willing to employ a degree of scepticism, or at least, reservation, in relation to allegations... 7ape victims do not lie about 7ape. _Liars,_ on the other hand will, and do, lie about 7ape, and anything else under the sun!)
Anyway, good comment on your part (if you've managed to persevere this far!) Sorry for ending on a bit of a discordant note there, and sorry about the length of this... essay. If not out~and~out dissertation! 🙄
@@richiehoyt8487 I did read your entire comment and am thoroughly in agreement. Its a good thing that people are being held accountable these days, even if perhaps some have taken it too far and cancelled celebrities on here-say alone. It still boggles my mind that so many musicians and artists who are still alive have somehow completely avoided ridicule, even with very well documented evidence against them. I was recently discussing the topic with a group at a dinner party and at least two people said "well it was a different time." and that absolutely baffled me. This isn't the dark ages we're talking about where most died at the age of 30. This is a few decades ago ,well within a lifetime. I still don't understand it, and I really struggle with it myself. Bowie and Zeppelin were two of my original inspirations and knowing the truth is hard to deal with. I don't really have a conclusion, but to be honest I don't really listen to a lot of that music anymore because its seem ruined for me.
Just subbed bc you had the balls to have a well thought discourse about Brainbombs, I love these guys
One of my favorite bands since forever and probably the og edgelords. Unhinged Noise Rock is underrated af and got some of the best riffs out there. Rectal Hygienics is another gnarly band that’s similar to Brainbombs
Dude, thank you for turning me on to these guys. I am digging some of these tunes. Very much like Flipper.
Fun fact...Peter Sotos and Steve Albini are good buddies.
Yeah I’m pretty sure that albini was a major influence on Whitehouse aswell.
Both are absolute degenerates but you have to give credit where it’s due 😂
Oh yeah Albini even produced an album for Whitehouse, thank your lucky stars
albini produced buyers market also@@popeurbainii7807
and buyer's market@@popeurbainii7807
almost as if real recognizes real
You the man Wyatt, hope all is good. Have you done a top albums I/you know in the sludge/doom genre? Been jamming a ton of Conan, Primitive Man, Eyehategod etc. Always appreciate your insight
"the way he pronounces his words has more of like thus groaty, rugged filter attached"
Don't think I've ever heard someone describe the Swedish accent like that
Good album pick, my favourite indeed ❤
ok before I start the video, kudos for NIN's The Downward Spiral on ur shelf.
What's really insane about GG is that he could/would have been massive had he written, how can I say, less controversial lyrics, 'cause his music is catchy af, one second in and you're already pogoing and singalonging yourself to death. Also, Wyatt, kudos for your Understanding Burzum vid, I'm complimenting you here because rn that video has 666 comments and I'm not gonna ruin it! Stay hydrated too .
Sorry, if that maniac didn't fling his shit around and attack the audience, he would have been a nobody and a complete failure.
yea the sound is dope but his lyrics r so fucked sometimes i can’t play him unfortunately lol
Man, I remember when my mate showed me Brain Bombs back in highschool, I think we were 16 at the time & this really opened up my world to different styles of Punk that wasn't Pop or Hardcore. That all important feedback changed my life
Peter was also a influence on Michael Gira of Swans
Yea, many of the characters that grew out of the n.y. no wave scene were tuned in to lots of low brow art from people like sotos...lydia lunch, richard kern, nick zedd and so on...
Great video, loved this band since 86, check out Drunk with guns, similar musically if not lyrically.
I'm gonna check em out.
In 2011 I did a small tour with a Texas Punk/Noise Rock band “Cop Warmth”. Up the east coast & back down the Midwest. Somehow “Brainbombs - Obey” was the only tape we brought with us in the van. We listened to it nonstop for two weeks straight.
We played Ohio & slept on the floor of this nice couple we met at the show. While drinking & listening to records in their living room we saw it… OBEY on vinyl! We all laughed & told our hosts it was all we had listened to since Texas & their response was just “seriously… how the fuck are you all still alive?? How have you not killed each other?!”
Sigh, better times.
Beyond a certain point, this kind of art is just the sonic equivalent to that kid in school who thought it's fun to show other kids the food he's chewing just to see them recoil in disgust.
Truly artists of the highest order
If you've never heard GG Allen ep "No Rules", do yourself a favor and go listen to it. Its legitimately some of the best punk rock ever recorded.
GG and the band made some great songs and awesome riffs
I wanna make noise I hate to be quiet
I won’t take no shit from you!
CAUSE I WILL NEVER EVER LOSE
Can you make a video that Explain Minatory and it's subgenre. One of the deepest known (if not the actual) genre
Since like barely people actually talks about this genre and trust me you'll be interested on how it sounds like
Digging the Salvador
Dali t-shirt
One of the members of Brainbombs (Lanchy Orre) is actually the guitarist of Totalitär, who are one of the most badass D-Beat/Crust bands to ever come out of Sweden. Good shit…
You should do a video on yabujin/dj gryrotta zao maonly the latter as his music is apart of this liminal space sounds mixed woth what a dxm oe dph trp feels like particuarly the album 5454
“It’s fun to drive around. Looking for some action”. I saw the Brainbombs last summer in NYC. I was not disappointed.
great band
Hey, try listening to Grim, a Jun Konegawa project. Albuns folk music and amaterasu.
Think its like a noise folk project
Great project!!!!!
I’m sold must listen to brainbombs
Wyattxhim is the only metal youtuber anyone needs,,,,you actually get good recomendations,,,and not some roided out 40 year old just calling everybody posers like,,i wont say any names but his name rymes with J dawg😂😂
But Ed Gein on the cover screams family album? And obey is something you tell your kids. Not sure your review can be true. I will have to check it out. Thanks!
Brainbombs is one of my favorite bands of all time, theyre absolutely phenomenal and weird. I love it
IF YOU HAVE THE POWER
That NIN- The Downward Spiral LP behind you though....
brainbombs are one of my favorite bands instrumentally, wonder if any actual serial killers out there have gave their records a spin
Big Riff Band
I have one of their albums, I always thought they were influenced by Flipper (one of my absolute favorite HC bands).
I see that comment made a lot and it makes sense to me. Have yet to get as much into Flipper but they seem cool.
If you think what GG Allin does is insane, you should check out Edwin Borsheim from Kettle Cadaver. There's a documentary about him called "Dead Hands Dig Deep" and he's done some of the most disturbing things I've ever seen a musician do on stage.
That doc is profoundly disturbing
I discovered brainbombs by accident. They always seem to creep back into my made for me Spotify playlists
OBEY is unironically a masterpiece. Everything about it works, somehow. “Slayer,” the opening track on their album URGE TO KlLL, may be my favorite Brainbombs song.
Can music become too perverse as to cross a line into being immoral, or void of any true value. A lot of art deals with horrific themes but those themes are related with a higher meaning which contains a lesson or helps to understand the world in a deeper way. I feel brain bombs is just perverse. Unfortunately I really like their sound. The most recent brain bombs albums are way less explicit. Two tracks I recommend from their newest stuff is Shadows, which actually has lyrics dealing with spirituality if you can fucking believe that coming from this band, and They All Deserve To Die. Which is a top track for me from everything they've done. I can't help but blast it as loud as possible. There are subtle variations in the distortion which gives the constantly repeating groove a sense of aliveness and an addictive head nodding catharsis. But I do not listen to the band anymore. I feel like they crossed a line as I mentioned before. I guess I'm becoming a bit of a prude as I get a little older. But I feel guilt if I listen to that. Still. Instrumentally they fucking rock. I dig the entire sound. The dead pan vox, the crushing asphalt distortion, the braindead groove.
As loud as possible.
I always come back to Nietzsche on these questions, with morality being something that has shifted drastically from the 20th century till now, an inversion/trans valuations. As such, I find that actual bad things, bad behavior, exploitative things, are generally allowed and not truly critiqued; usually held under the banner of “art,” and expression. Just pure degenerate liberal values manifesting. What I do find funny, is the several topics which are currently no go’s, and yet are not utter filth or degeneracy, but instead a critique of those behaviors. We live in an interesting time as far as morality, and the Overton window has shifted dramatically since I was a kid in the 90’s. Take your porno or gore grind associated bands, and then realize that’s all totally fine and dandy, and yet Varg or the certain elements of the black metal scene are automatically blasphemous and transgress against the dogmatic humanist order. There’s “safe transgression” in art and film, things that are pure exploitation and exist to allow escapism into something ultimately nihilistic and lacking any eternal or transcendent value associated with or beyond it. The moment you get into anything with substance, then it’s automatically real deal transgression, as it represents power. Reminds me of the old Conan the Barbarian film, those eternal values manifest are what makes anything value; art, culture, literature, etc. They can be transgressive, but are never transgression for transgressions sake, which is where I think the issue is.
Modernist or postmodern art puts the individual and the ego first, in an attempt to “shock,” a la Damian hirst, and yet the joke is no longer funny in essence. It’s manufactured shock, as there’s no substance behind it. True art should have truth behind it, even ugly and dirty and dangerous truth.
As an example, I researched bad lieutenant the other night, just added to the criterion streaming service, all time favorite film, but it is utter transgression, but transgression in the service of ultimately an attempt at redemption. It is the best representation of Catholicism in film, and yet was an nc-17 film. It has such a power, especially near the end, that I usually start to tear up a bit. That film has such fundamental power because dragging itself through the muck and the filth is ultimately in service to a much higher God, or a value or principle that Carrie’s absolute power. That is true art, and I would say in my humble opinion it is, but I think it’s an objective fact. High art deals with values expressed though various means, but always in service of something greater. Never a Crowley-esque dive to the bottom.
My two cents anyways on the art questions, cheers brother.
Check out the now defunk Norwegian art rock band Munch. Has a lot in common musically with Brainboms
May I recommend a video on French performance artist/musical terrorist Jean-Louis Costes? (If you've seen the movie "Irreversible," he's in the Rectum Club scene.) I think hes right up your alley.
you had me the moment you referenced "Irreversible"
Fun story about Irreversible. I was in university after it had hit home video and our cable provider just started doing On Demand movies. I had only heard "it's unforgettable" somewhere online so I purchased a digital rental. One of my roommates/good friend and his girlfriend came into the TV room, asked what I was going to watch and decided to join me after I said, "It's French and supposed to be really good!" They loved Amelie afterall as did I so what could go wrong? They made it through the club scene with one or two "Oh fuck..."s but about 3 minutes into THAT alley scene, my roommate's girlfriend ran out of the room tears streaming down her face while yelling at me, "Why would you watch something like this?!" My roommate grimaced at me as he followed her out. He wasn't mad at me but I bought him a six pack the next night anyways because I did feel a bit bad I inadvertently exposed his very, very, very sweet, bright, cheery girlfriend to that flick. Had I known about Gaspar Noe back then, I would have picked something else lol.
his book The Last Crusade is incredible. Amphetamine Sulphate Press only puts out bangers.
I wish someone would be up to do a real deep-dive on Costes. His recordings, and especially his live performances (many with Lisa Suckdog) should be more legendary than they are. And then throw in his novels and film work, and you have a very twisted body of work. Unfortunately, i don't speak French so I can only fully appreciate a small amount of his work (around 10% of his music is in English. And one of his novels was translated.)
Damn. Here's one I forgot to mention on another video.
Do you like K.F.R? It’s a French Black Metal band. Or have you ever heard them or talked about them? Maxime Taccardi started it and is also an artist. He paints with blood and it’s actually amazing art! I have his books, music and art and some is signed in blood. He paints other Black Metal artists like Dead from Mayhem and even GG Allin.
Wait whatttttt maxime teccardi is in KFR?
@@gordongray3102 yes he is. It’s bad ass.. Maxime Taccardi is great, I have some of his original artwork! He’s a really cool guy. I bought a cd from him and only like 50 were made and he drew some art for it. I have his books to. They are fuckin badass!
Yeah I heard Buyer's Market, and I heard some pretty gnarly, but that takes the cake as most disturbing thing I've heard.
i am so in love with brainbombs. i found them about 3 years ago and i was so intrigued by their awful disgusting music. ive burned CDs, done art, the "cult following" thing is so true. on reddit people say their fanbase is strangely mostly female. it definitely rings true to me. its almost like coping, sexual violence is a horrific thing, and consuming media that covers such awful and brutal topica in such an unforgiving qay is almost cathartic. i hate them, i hate what they write, what they sing, how psychotic the music is. but their single riff songs are just so alluring. it brings me comfort that other women listen to brainbombs for the same reasons i do. its inexplicable...but this band has changed my life
I have that Totalitär single.
11:08 ever hear the Velvet Underground? Lungfish? Wire? PiL? Killing Joke? It's kind of a thing, the repetition. An amazing, beautiful thing.
Obey is a good starting point for Brainbombs but they really come into their own with the later albums Fucking Mess, Disposal Of A Dead Body and Cold Case...
Pretty random but can you show us your workout routine? Pretty obvious you lift
I used to say mean things to you on your channel for no reason. i just wanted to say im extremely sorry and I'm working on bettering myself. Your knowledge is amazingly impressive
Punks gettin' dunked, that's a bump in the trunk
GG...
Men's Recovery Project
Have you checked No Balls, too?
EYE PEEST ORL OVUR HUR
The most accurate comment I have read about the group is "Brainbombs are the best band in the history of best bands".
I love brainbombs BUT I would have gone with lubricated goat for that title.
Die You Fuck is so catchy
Thanks to a random person on Discord who joined my server and showed me Obey.
Noise is always misanthropic as hell, whether it be power electronics, noise rock or hnw
more love to Load Records bands please.
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Ok... now i'm curious.
Celine!!
"WTF REMAINS TO BE SEEN?!?'
Look for "The Mentally Ill" especially a song named Gacys Place.
tbf by todays standards I hear more offensive themes in meme rap and horrorcore than anything else. But relative to punk I still say its El Duce and The Mentors.
Peter Sodas
You should check out Rectal Hygienics! Very Brainbombs inspired but heavier with more of an emphasis on feedback worship (imo check out Ultimate Purity, ppl tend to gravitate to Even The Flies Won't Touch You but honestly it's pretty overrated and the nuances of their formula aren't as developed yet) Just as perverse but they feel a bit more poignant than Brainbombs, to me they kind of operate as the opposite side of the coin of punk's typical sloganeering, whereas a typical punk band takes the political approach of "i hate our enemy, im on your side, we're in this together" Rectal Hygienics is more like "We are a portrayal of everything you should hate and we don't really care if you don't see the separation there between the portrayal and the person, the seed to be a complete degenerate is in every one of us, we are men and this is what men are and you should be disgusted" (the clearest example of this to me is the track When I'm Alone)
Would also recommend Burmese (similar perversion but waaaaaay noisier) Rusted Shut, Drunks With Guns and Total Abuse
albert?
Libera me domine
am i surprised that the clean cut, dare i say handsome, young man i saw a video of years ago describing a slight affinity for nsbm has descended into neckbeardom? unfortunately not.
For long enough, people have all the definitions and categories
Negawatt
so whats funny is right as this video was loading i thought to myself "lemme google perverse just to make sure i know"
brainbombs is one of the few musicians i refuse to listen to without headphones
i didnt like gg allin's music but his spoke word/poetry recordings are really good, although obviously fairly disturbing
The singers tone, shakiness, slight accent and anger kinda makes him sound like Ren from Ren and Stimpy.
Well I never knew of the Brainbombs - Totalitar connection. Who'd have thought
It's a bit confusing if or when Lanchy is part of Brainbombs/Totalitär, its seems to be on and off. I highly recommend to check out Exploatör which just recently released a pretty good album "Blind Elit". In addition to playing guitar, he also designed the brilliant album cover.
@@HallgeirBakken Lanchy is on all Brainbombs releases, he is a key member. He is playing guitar on everything, except the album "Fking Mess", where he is on bass. The band was inactive from 2003 to 2008, which is where the rumor he left the band stems from.
It's also interesting to know that up until the mid-00s, people discovered Brainbombs through the Totalitar connection, and not the other way round. BB became well-known after the internet's rise.
@@ncl.a.2168 cool, thanks for the info :) Do you know if he is always part of the live lineup as well? I saw BB in Oslo last fall, but none of the guitarist reminded of the ones I've seen live footage of with Totalitär/Exploatör. Must say this Lanchy figure is a bit of a mystery for me...
@@HallgeirBakken He likes to stay in the shadows I guess. But yeah, he is on all BB shows, except the ones in the US I think. You can see him play guitar in this Totalitar gig: ua-cam.com/video/k5F3ZH-02Kc/v-deo.html
@@ncl.a.2168 Jävlar! He played guitar in Oslo for sure. Grey hair and beard, but that was him :)
Brainbombs played New York last year.
That beard is perverse
punk rock iceberg?:()
Sounds like cacophony is the word you're looking for.
I think the 'Out Of Vogue" single from 1979 by Middle Class is much faster. I always thought the song 'Brain Bomb' sounds like a dirty, dusty cross of Motorhead and Venom.
Rudimentary Peni
0:23 the no disrespect was personal if he was still slive. LOL
Love em - one of the last real punk bands imo. The only band I'm embarrassed to admit I like in public by wearing their shirts.
Also this band is so appealing to me because their music is SO effective. They strike the perfect balance, not just the fucked up lyrics but, the vocal delivery with that accent, the repetition (they really drill those riffs into your skull), the shitty lo-fi recordings, the creepy sax, the overall atmosphere & feeling I get from listening to this gets under my skin. It’s perverse, disgusting, UGLY music, it’s perfect. That’s how music like this should be. It feels so real, I can’t see how people see it as “edgelord” or whatever.
If you’re gonna go for broke then crank it to 11 like the volume knob in Spinal Tap! Don’t set out to make the most hideously, perverse, cacophonous, music ever then puss out halfway through. Make me feel uncomfortable afterwards.
I don’t listen to Brainbombs & want to become a necrophiliac, just like my love for horror movies & violent video games doesn’t…. well, you get the idea.
Great video, great band. Subbed.
It's a trumpet not a sax.
GG ALLIN was a schoolboy compared to SATAN PANONSKI
Tetsuo shirt?
Dalí
@@liberatoreZ ah ok
He's my daddy
cool T.
reminds me of early misfits, just worse in every way