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Hate Your Friends No. 13

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It’s back!

Every week Apple Music makes a Friends Mix. I will make off the cuff “reviews” of the songs in this list. As Apple Music likes to put the same bands on the list often, so I will skip some of the tracks.

Fugazi “Latin Roots” As funky as Fugazi is going to get. This is an average song of theirs. Listened to all of it.

Wax “California” Haven’t heard Wax in a long time. Way better than I remember, Powerpop with a bit of punk, catchy. Must reinvestigate. Listened to all of it.

Jawbreaker “Tour Song” Not a fan, The foghorn vocals not my thing. Very east bay punk. Listened to 45 seconds.

Dag Nasty “Values Here” Another Hate My Friends where it should be I Love My Friends.essential melodic hardcore. Listened to all of it.

Rocket from the Crypt “Drop Out” There’s two essential RFTC this one – Scream Dracula Scream – and Circa: Now! Just listen to them I feel bad if you never got to witness them live. Listened to all of it.

The Vendictives “Assembly Line” It’s bad enough I like Screeching Weasel well two albums but a tangent band from them. Nope Listened until the vocals started.

Slayer “Dissident aggressor” From my favorite Slayer album, South of Heaven. Slayer were good at picking covers and making them sound like Slayer songs Listened to all of it.

Megadeth “The Blackest Crow” Fucking a banjo! Just stick with “Rust in Peace” and before and you’ll be ok. Fuck country Megadeth this really sucks. Listened t60 seconds.

Black Sabbath “Wishing Well” Even a lesser song from “Heaven and Hell” is great. The combo of Dio and Sabbath made magic on the album,s they did together, now I need to listen to this full album Listened to all of it.

Pot Valient “Nuggest Killer” Fianlly somethsing I don’t know,. starts nice 90’s style fuszzy distorted loud quiet indie rock, wait when is it from? 1994. Not sure how this escaped my radar back then. Not great but nice. Listened to all of it.

Nothing “July the Fourth” I have two Nothing albums this isn’t on either. I like this, I mean the hey we listen to Hum aspect is really obvious. Listened to all of it.

Sunny Day Realestate “Song About an Angel” Still trying to figure out how this is emo besides that bands that were influenced by them were called emo. It’s alternative arena rock. Listened to all of it.

Moonshake “Blister” New to me. Very 90’s but a lot of ideas usually you don’t find, squanky sax weird guitar sounds. Need more exploration. Listened to all of it.

Soccer Team “Nose to Chin” Fuck this band name. Fuck the album cover. The music is fine, it almost does something for me. Somethings missing though, can’t put my finger on it. Listened to all of it.

Helium “Lucky Charm” Quirky, angular 90s indie rock. A nice amount of catchy and weird. Listened to all of it.

Government Issue “Written Word” DC hardcore that doesn’t sound DC. It’s all good. Listened to all of it.

Gray Matter “Chutes and Ladders” DC hardcore that sounds like DC. It’s all good. Listened to all of it.

The Dismemberment Plan “A Life of Possibilities” I like one of their songs, this isn’t it. Listened to 30 seconds.

Pixies “Hang Wire” Depending on when you ask this is my favorite Pixies album, I’d love to say listen to all of it but the reunion stuff isn’t up to snuff, then there’s stuff without Kim . Listened to all of it.

Dark Throne “Sjakk Matt Jesu Krist” Umpa beat black metal, with some dude croaking over it, pass. Listened to 1:45.

Sonic Youth “My Friend Goo” Do I bag on Day Dream Nation again, nah. Listened to all of it.

The Who “Water” It’s fine, The Who is like Deep Purple for me way too inconsistent. Lots of hits, lots of half ass albums. Listened to all of it.

The Wonder Stuff “Red Berry Joy Town” Part of that group of UK bands that love Minneapolis / Midwest US indie rock of the 80s. Good stuff. Listened to all of it.

Madness “The Prince” I fucking hate ska. Pick that up. Listened to ten seconds.

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Hate Your Friends No. 13

Hate Your Friends No. 8

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Spurred to do this again. We’ll give it a try.

Every week Apple Music makes a Friends Mix. Each week I will make off the cuff “reviews” of the songs in this list. As Apple Music likes to put the same bands on the list often, so I will skip some of the tracks.

Les Savy Fav “Void Moon” I try liking this band every once in a while. Nothing once again. Like a pop-punk version of Fugazi. 40 seconds.

Alan Sparhawk “Can U Hear” All the bullshit vocoder electronic stuff that was on the recent Low albums. Sounds like a hip-hop backing track. 40 seconds.

Polvo “The Purple Bear” North Carolina’s Sonic Youth? Even more atonal. This is a wobbly one. Love it. Listened to it all.

Drive Like Jehu “Super Unison” You should own both Drive Like Jehu albums. Angular and powerful 90s DC like post-hardcore. Listened to it all.

Lungfish “Seek Sound Shelter” See previous Hate My Friends post. Skipped.

Soul Side “Pocket Hurts” Influenced slightly by Fugazi. They’ve got their own spin on it, so more than a clone. They turned into Girls Against Boys, well some of the members. Listened to it all.

Arcwelder “The Carpal Tunnel Song” I listened to them a ton in the 90s, still great. What if you took Husker Du “Flip Your Wig” and mixed in some Big Black, you get Arcwelder. Listened to it all.

Sebadoh “Mystery Man” Bakesale is the best Sebadoh record by a mile. Fully realized and nothing that seems like a joke song. Not the best song on the record. Listened to all of it.

The Breeders “Forced to Drive” As I just told someone all you need from The Breeders is “Safari” ep, “Pod”, and “Last Splash”. It’s fine. Listened to a a minute fourth-eight.

Husker Du “Don’t Want to Know if You’re Lonely” One of the greatest songs ever recorded. A Grant Hart jam. Listened to all of it.

Wipers “Someplace Else” Not familiar with later Wipers. Not as urgent but still sounds like the Wipers. Will have to investigate. Not as good as the early stuff, a little too alt-rock. Listened to it all.

Hum “Why I Like Robins” My Bloody Valentine playing Slayer? The other way around? Regardless, fucking great. How to be heavy without being heavy metal. Listened to all of it.

Unwound “Kantina” I try and I try. Nothing that makes it stick for me. They fit in that Fugazi / Drive Like Jehu sound. Listened to it all.

Crooked Fingers “Big Darkness” Archers of Loaf are one of my favorite bands. This is what Eric Bachman did after the band originally spit. I dig the first two albums but this ventures into Springsteen territory. Listened to it all.

Portastatic “Sour Shores” Mac from Superchunk. I’d rather listen to Superchunk. Listened to 59 seconds.

Voxtrot “Fast Asleep” Always thought this was post punk. guess not, jangly indie rock. Listened to a minute and five seconds.

Built to Spill “Hindsight” You don’t need any Built to Spill after “Ancient Melodies of the Future”. This is from after that. 30 seconds.

Versing “By Design” Decent 90s Sonic Youth worship. Listened to it all.

David Nance “Negative Boogie” New to me. I kind of like it and hate it at the same time. It wore out it’s welcome. Definitely unique. 1:25.

Guided by Voices “Romeo Surgen” Not sure who’s still buying GBV, but it sure seems to have run it course. 53 seconds.

Cocteau Twins “Garlands” One of the parents of shoegaze. Kind of like the dreamy Cure stuff but with a drum machine, Listened to it all.

Metallica “The Wait” From the last great thing Metallica did. A great cover of the Killing Joke song. Listened to it all.

7 Seconds “It All Makes Less Sense Now” When they decided to be U2. Kevin isn’t much of a singer, better as a shouter. 1:15.

Rolling Stones “Midnight Rambler” I’m a “greatest hits” Stones fan, This is a “greatest hit”. Listened to it all.

Hate Your Friends No. 8

Hate Your Friends no.4

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ImageEvery week Apple Music makes a Friends Mix. Each week I will make off the cuff “reviews” of the songs in this list.

Again giving me a bunch of stuff I like. Maybe I need to listen to more metal on Apple Music?

Sparklehorse “Someday I Will Treat You Good” Was ready to hate the hell out of this. I think I like it. Listened to it all.

Replacements “Valentine” Week 4 with Replacements. “Please to Meet” me is equal to Cheap Trick’s “Lap of Luxury”. Totally limp. I tried, lasted to 1:59.

Seaweed “Start With” Hey, we talked about this album last week, it still rips and it’s still better than the city Spanaway . Listened to all of it.

Echo & The Bunnymen “Do It Clean” I like Ghost’s cover of their song “Noturnal Me”. This song isn’t as good as “Nocturnal Me”, either version. Listened to all of it.

Mission of Burma “Progress” A lesser Burma song is better than most.. Listened to all of it.

Superchunk “Mower” From the “classic period”. I like the faster songs better. Listened to all of it.

Guide By Voices “Drag Days” Prefer the super rock production on “Isolation Drills” and “Do the Collapse.” At least this is a whole song. Listened to all of it.

Moving Targers “Less than Gravity” Sounds like Hüsker Dü filtered through Boston (the city). Big fan. Listened to all of it.

Nervebreakers “Hijack the Radio Down to the Hospital” Don’t know this. Shrug. Listened to 2:26.

Seam “Dust and Turpentine” Another one I listened to last week and it shows up here. Of course I like it, I listened to it last week. Listened to all of it.

Reigning Sound “Drowning” Sloppy vaguely 60s sounding, I’ll just listen to something from the 60’s. Made it to :53.

Big Black “Bazooka Joe” A novelty band. Listened to all of it.

Half Japanese “Firecracker” Nope, I hope someone got stuck listening to Primus as I listened to a bunch of that last week. :22 as I was across the room and it took a little bit to skip this.

Oblivions “Bad Man” Overly distorted generic garage rock. Tried but only got to 1:27.

X “Johny Hit and Run Pauline” Any Cow Punk is too much Cow Punk, save X and The Gun Club. Listened to all of it.

Wire “Two People in a Room” I would have hated this when it came out, time cures some things. Listened to all of it.

Crass “General Bacardi” Somebody was listening to a ton of Crass last week so I expected this. It’s fine. Listened to all of it.

The Spitfire Boys “British Refuge” For all that is holy use distortion on both guitars. Listened to all of it.

Fugazi “Repeater” Ahhhh the Fugazi album that everyone pisses themselves over. Whatever. I particularly don’t like this song. :15 then skip.

Black Flag “Black Coffee” I listen to “Everything went Black” for all my Black Flag needs. Listened to all of it.

Bikini Kill “Alien She” I don’t think I ever listened to Bikini Kill. Don’t think I missed much. Listened to all of it.

Pansy Division “Pee Shy” This is a really dumb song. 1:59 as I was doing something.

Texas is the Reason “The Magic Bullet Theory” Does anyone else in a band think, “people are going to find out I listen to my own band?” I do but don’t care if everyone knows. Listened to all of it.

The Cure “Fight” Robert Smith could go toe to toe with any thrash metal band’s white high tops. Listened to all of it.

Beck “Side of the Road” The only Beck album I like all of, I like Nick Drake too. Listened to all of it.

Hate Your Friends no.4