Welcome to the newest installment of SubSub. No exploration of 1990's Christian alternative music would be complete without throwing on the waders and navigating the ten million tons of crap that's out there. This is also an effort for the four of us to post more often; long-form explorations of such novelties as Christian hardcore and the like are fun, but we're all busy family guys without a lot of extra time. This page will hopefully allow us to get in and get out with little commentary. After all, a terrible video is worth a thousand blog posts.
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02.10.2013//The O.C. Supertones/Adonai
It would be easy to look back on the O.C. Supertones (who are apparently still a band, or a band again, or something) with something of a forgiving air, and say, well, what do you expect? They were a nineties skapunk band after all. The thing is, I listened to a lot of skapunk and third wave ska in the nineties, and while much of it was terrible, none of it was this bad, not even by a long shot. And so, I get to end on a positive note: while much of what gets sent up in the Sunday Stinkers feature is music I actually owned and enjoyed at one point, I can happily report that I never went in for this, not even a little bit. -DL p.s. According to Wikipedia (link above), the band is funding a new record via Kickstarter. Maybe I'm too cruel, but I find that to be absolutely depressing.
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02.03.2013//Dig Hay Zoose/Think About It
Some kind of Primus slap-bass and weird falsetto vocals going on here. And their band was called Dig Hay Zoose, which seems worth pointing out. Also noteworthy is that this album art looks very similar to that of Slint's Spiderland, which came out the same year. -DL
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01.27.2013//Dakoda Motor Co//Everything
I usually have a lot of respect for the good people at Allmusic.com, but in this case, they describe Dakoda Motor Co. thusly: "Thrashing guitars meet pop vocals and lyrics straight out of the early Jesus Music songbook, for this most enjoyable debut." I just can't go there with them. The fifteen-year-old version of myself could, however. I was a much less cynical lad in those days. I remember we all had crushes on Dakoda's singer, Davia, because we were all idiots and didn't realize that she couldn't sing and that their lyrics were completely vapid and that "Into the Son" was a really, really stupid name for an album. Really, we're setting quite a precedent for the Sunday Stinkers with the punny album titles so far. So, this is bad "surf rock," except that it's probably not surf rock in the traditional Dick Dale sense. The surf connection comes via Peter King, professional surfer, principal songwriter and guitarist, and host of some MTV show. We felt this lent the band legitimacy. We were so, so wrong. -DL ***
01.20.2013//One Bad Pig//I Scream Sunday and Hey Punk
Indeed, the band was called One Bad Pig, and presumably, that's him on the cover of the album, breaking through the stained glass, wearing shades, spiked hair, a black leather motorcycle jacket, and looking for all the world like something the good people at Rude Dog came up with. Please note that the album and song are called "I Scream Sunday."
While we're at it, here's this:
SKATEBOARDS ON STAGE??!!! Maaaan. That's edgy. -DL
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