#dragnalus

[guerrilla-operator]

Unwound // Dragnalus

This song That song Love song Hate song - you're so bored with My life Your life This life Our lives - you're so bored with Everything Anything Anywhere Nowhere You're bored

[nwz-b183f]

bandcamp

[killermchann]

HELLO @monkeytrick tagged me. thank you my Friend............put your on repeat/favorites playlist on shuffle & post the first 10 songs u get except i am INDECISIVE & doing both.

💿:

melvins - boris

alice in chains - frogs

primus - my name is mud

meat puppets - lake of fire

primus again - harold of the rocks

ween - zoloft

WEEN AGAIN - waving my dick in the wind

black pus - 1000 years

at the drive in - one armed scissor

unwound - message recieved

on repeat:

the jesus lizard - nub

nine inch nails - the hand that feeds

unwound - dragnalus

brainiac - strung

kyuss - catamaran

the jesus lizard. Again - then comes dudley

brainiac again. - mr fingers

BRAINIAC AGAIN - fresh new eyes

slug - ex-chest

JESUD LIZARD AGAIN - good riddance

i tag @songsforthedeaf2002 @weirdness-is-good @hannahcheeks @failureinfourbrokenframes do it or dont lol

[newplaces2drown]

i was tagged by @imalicja much love!

here are my 10 songs shuffled on my on repeat playlist

1. Daft Punk - Da Funk

2. Angel Du$t - Toxic Boombox

3. MIKE - 100 Gecs

4. Fucked Up - Cops

5. Drug Church - Gummy

6. CAN - Vitamin C

7. Frail Body - Critique Programme

8. The Dirtbombs - Sharivari

9. Mount Kimbie - You Took Your Time (feat. King Krule)

10. Unwound - Dragnalus

I'll tag @defjux for tagging me in the last one they did, and anyone else that's interested. Love to see what y'all are listening to!

[maquina-semiotica]

“ Dragnalus”, Unwound

[rabbitechoes]

wanted to post more over here and had the idea to do lil reviews for albums from years past. i'm gonna try to post a review for this series, as the name suggests, every thursday!! this week we're taking a look at the phenomenal debut album from one of Washington's greatest bands: Fake Train by Unwound!!! also feel free to follow me on rate your music and twitter <3

Fake Train - Unwound

◇ release year: 1993 ◇ genres: post-hardcore, noise rock, emo

My experience with getting into Unwound's catalog is weird, but probably not that uncommon in this day and age. The first album of theirs I listened to was 2001's Leaves Turn Inside You, a sprawling, genre-bending double album which unbeknownst to me at the time was a big shift in the band's sound. I decided after a few months of revisiting and falling in love with that album to go back through their whole catalog. I went back to the start, their debut studio album Fake Train. Hearing this album for the first time was a wild experience. It was vastly different from Leaves, but you could already tell some of the pieces were being placed that would eventually form that record. However, the magnitude of their final album in no way undercuts how brilliant their work throughout the 90's is. Especially, Fake Train. Unwound would lean into the noise rock aspect of their sound throughout the decade, but they never sound as scrappy and lo-fi as they do on this record ever again. Everything here has an edge to it. It's such an exhilarating from the start with the opener "Dragnalus." Justin Trosper's dark plodding guitar builds up to make way for the other band members to form this noisy and raw, yet surprisingly rhythmic opener. I feel like the band's ear for really good rhythms is overlooked. It's even present here despite the lo-fi nature of everything. The song's subject matter is pretty standard for noise rock/emo, general apathy for one's surroundings. It's like a less violent version of "Kerosene" by Big Black. Trosper's vocals really add to it, his delivery hammering home the disinterest one can feel with life itself. It's a very strong way to start the album.

"Lucky Acid" has a lot more fire and opens with some screeching guitar feedback and features a likewise more fiery vocal performance. The song seems to be about going on a bad acid trip as well as suicidal ideations. Heavy stuff and the band reflect that musically. Sara Lund's drumming here is amazing, one of her strongest performances on the whole album. "Nervous Energy" has the band shifting into a bit of a post-punk sound intermittent between their big blasts of noise. I have to shout out Vern Rumsey's bass on this song, it's so good. Trosper's "YEAH's" on the track are a highlight of the whole album, it's as if he's throwing himself at the microphone. The centerpiece of the album is the three-track run of "Valentine Card," "Kantina," and "Were, Are and Was or Is." On my first listen to the album, this was where it all clicked. "Valentine Card" is one of the sharpest moments in the band's catalog. Every band member is firing on all cylinders. "Kantina" might be my favorite on the whole record. It sounds so overwhelming in the best way possible. One of those songs that makes you feel like everything around you is crumbling down. You get a small moment of levity as Trosper's muted, spoken-word vocals come in as the band starts ramping up into one of the most explosive moments in their discography. Trosper's strained delivery of the "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT DON'T GOOOOOOO" lives in my head rent-free. The way he's almost battling with the other instruments to even be heard is almost heartbreaking, it really hits hard. This track flows seamlessly into "Were, Are and Was or Is," the only instrumental track on the record. It is perfectly placed on the album, providing a bit of a break from the intensity of the tracks before. The band would do more instrumental tracks in the future like "Abstraktions" on New Plastic Ideas and "Go to Dallas and Take a Left" on Repetition, but this still stands as one of the strongest. It also shows just how incredible the band sounds. "Honourosis" kinda flew under my radar after those three songs, but its greatness has been revealed to me over time. It's one of the softer moments on the record all things considered, but it's one of the strongest songs here lyrically. "Pure Pain Sugar" and "Gravity Slips," while good, are probably the weakest moments here. There's nothing wrong with either of them, but I just think the ideas in them were better executed in other places on the record. 

The album ends on a high note with the last three tracks. "Star Spangled Hell" sounds like how walking on hot pavement feels, but ... in a good way. I love how the guitar sounds here. "Ratbite" has the same scrappy energy as a lot of early punk songs. You could've told me it was from some random early 80's punk band's 12-minute EP and I would've believed you. "Feeling$ Real" is one of the more experimental tracks here and it ends the album on a blistering note. Ending with Trosper singing "THE WORLD STARTS COMING DOOOOWN" as the band's instrumentation matches that sentiment. Fake Train ranks among the strongest debut albums of all time. A great start for one of the most influential bands of the decade and one of the pillars of the post-hardcore scene. They would go on to make stronger records in the years following, but Fake Train remains an important listen.

listen here: Apple Music Spotify Bandcamp SoundCloud YouTube ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ thanks for reading <3

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

batman hits the griddy on riddler

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/X2xSDfj

by dragnalus

a tale of horrible defeat

Words: 182, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Edward Nygma, Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Crack

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/X2xSDfj

[dealgemeneverwarring]

De Algemene Verwarring #30 - 17 August 2020

The thirtieth episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday Augst 17, 2020 and you can listen to it by clicking on the Mixcloud widget below. And if that does not work, here’s the direct link to the Mixcloud page:

https://www.mixcloud.com/MedialabKortrijk/de-algemene-verwarring-30-17-augustus-2020/

Pictured below is mister Vern Rumsey, bass player of US “post hardcore or whatever”, but essential and unique band Unwound. Vern Rumsey passed away on August 6, he was younger than I am and when I first read that terrible news it felt like someone hit me with a brick. I was genuinely shocked and sad. I’ve seen Unwound live several times, including in home base The PIt’s, I have interviewed them for my long gone zine Aye Carumba (after their amazing show at La Gare in Lauwe). I sat in their tour van with the three of them, they seemed a little distant, maybe even a little arrogant, but that was Unwound. They knew what they wanted and they did what they wanted, and that is what made them one of the best bands around in the nineties. And there I was, asking them stupid questions like why they suddenly made songs that were longer than the noisy eruptions of the first albums, completely forgetting that there is already a 13 minute song on their debut “Fake Train”. 

Anyway, I dedicate this episode of De Algemene Verwarring to Vern Rumsey and his band Unwound. I’ve played my favorite song out of each of their six studio albums. And there’s more music from the likes of The Gories, Compulsive Gamblers, NOTS, Crystal Stilts, Blonde Redhead. I end this episode with another tribute to one of my noise heroes: Dan Johansson a.k.a. Sewer Election with a track from the brand new tape that was released by Ghent based label B.A.A.D.M. And below the photo you can find the playlist for this show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Unwound: Dragnalus (CD “Fake Train” on Kill Rock Stars, 1993)

Gino & The Goons: She Was Crushed (7” “She Was Crushed” on Black Gladiator Records & Slovenly Records, 2018)

Black Randy & Metrosquad: Loner With A Boner (7” Trouble At The Cup” on Dangerous Records, 2015, originally released in 1977 on the same label)

Tyvek: Underwater To (LP “Nothing Fits” on In The Red Recordings, 2010)

The Shitty Limits: Speculate/Accumulate (12” “Speculate/Accumulate” on La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, 2011)

Unwound: All Souls Day (CD “New Plastic Ideas” on Kill Rock Stars, 1994)

The Gories: I Got Eyes For You (LP “Outta Here” on Crypt Records, 1992)

Compulsive Gamblers: The Way I Feel About You (LP “Crystal Gazing, Luck Amazing” on Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000)

Crystal Stilts: Departure (LP “Alight Of Night” on Slumberlad Records, 2008)

The Velvet Underground: There She Goes Again (LP/picture disc “The Velvet Underground & Nico” on Polydor, 2010, originally released in 1967)

Unwound: Descension (CD “The Future Of What” on Kill Rock Stars, 1995)

Unwound: Lifetime Achievement Award (CD “Challenge For A Civilized Society” on Kill Rock Stars, 1998)

Holograms: Monolith (LP “Holograms” on Captured Tracks, 2012)

NOTS: Violence (7” “Cruel Friend/Violence” on Goner Records, 2017)

Amtrak: Wüsten (7” “Amtrak” on Narshardaa Records, 2004)

Unwound: For Your Entertainment (CD “Repetition” on Kill Rock Stars, 1996)

The Sound: Counting The Days (12” “Shock Of Daylight” on Polydor (originally on Statik Records, 1984)

Blonde Redhead: Bipolar (CD “Fake Can Be Just As Good” on Touch & Go, 1997)

Fugazi: Furniture (7” “Furniture” on Discord Records, 2001)

Unwound: Radio Gra (CD “Leaves Turn Inside You” on Kill Rock Stars, 2001)

Sewer Election: A Journey To Avebury (CS “Night Of The Experimental Film II” on B.A.A.D.M., 2020)

[lolacshepard]

Blocking the Scene.

Installations and paintings by Ryan Wallace.

Wallace is represented by Mark Moore Fine Art.

[thedyke]

every multiple of 7 for the 3 songs thing

7. three songs you didn’t expect to like but eventually loved

moral kiosk by REM, dragnalus by unwound, and new way of life by the sound

14. three songs you want at your wedding

this must be the place by talking heads, shut up kiss me by angel olsen, and idk, reckoner by radiohead (the last two are bad and i wouldn’t actually play at a wedding but they’re the closest i’m getting to love songs i can find in my library)

21. three songs of your childhood

clocks by coldplay, pyramid song by radiohead, and psycho killer by talking heads

28. three best songs to get drunk or high to

hmm idk. us and them by pink floyd, not gonna kill you by angel olsen, and quiche lorraine by the b-52s

[maquina-semiotica]

“ Dragnalus”, Unwound

[misspentlife]

Unwound - Dragnalus ---

My town Your town This town The town you're so bored with

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

batman hits the griddy on riddler

by dragnalus

a tale of horrible defeat

Words: 182, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Edward Nygma, Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Crack

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/40098444

[warmestknives]

I need to let you know I will never get tired of this album.