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Tape Journal July 3rd to around the 14th?

Back log over the last couple of weeks and working from home

Moxy Früvous - Moxy Früvous

Another insane curve ball. The kind of alt folk that borders on a genuine comedy album. I had to go see if this was an old name for Da Vinci's Notebook or if someone worked on it. It sounds so similar but is from 1988. Overall fine, it's apparently a repurposed demo tape which makes sense. It's apparently also hard to find, probably going to set it aside to rip and upload..

Inner Lining - Offering

The first tape I've found in the collection that may actually be from the artists directly. Seriously, the phone numbers of every band member are written in it and the whole thing is done with sharpie. And it's really good! It's fairly standard rock with a little spice to it, but it has a very garage like quality that compliments it well. Might be another candidate for a rip and upload, but not sure anyone would even be looking for it.

Kumara - Kumara-1

If I could speak Spanish I would probably have more to say about this tape, but it's still pretty good! Sounds like Durango but based on a track called Condor Pasa, might be Peruvian? Went down a whole rabbit hole there, my boyfriend really likes the song El Condor Pasa by Simon and Garfunkel so I was curious about the relation. Turns out they are both coming from the same source material, an old Peruvian musical. Neat.

Adam Ant - Wonderful

I have had some exposure to Adam Ant before, and listening to this made me realize I grabbed all the off standard ones. This tape is fine, just a little bland near the start. Very radio safe, crowd pleaser 90's rock which has not been what I've seen from Adam Ant. Gets better at the end but honestly couldn't point you to a specific track worth hearing.

Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm

I am going to try and describe a regional feeling. It's the middle of summer, it's so insanely hot and humid the air is like syrup. You've just finished some sort of outdoor manual labor that you didn't want to do and some old dude you were working with offered to buy you lunch. You are now sitting at a plastic picnic table with a Styrofoam cup under an awning covered in sweat and dirt, making polite conversation and waiting for the most mediocre fried food you have ever eaten. You want to just go home and shower but you know you are not getting that any time soon. This tape is what's blaring out of the speakers here. A boring mix of boomer rock, taking just enough from blues or zydeco to fuck both of those genres up. And it all runs together, like a beige river full of fish telling you "how easy you kids have it these days". Is that too specific? This tape made me feel like I'm 15 working a yard crew again. It got moved to the donate pile.

#tape Journal #Moxy Fruvous #ry cooder #Adam Ant #kumara #inner Lining #I wonder if I'm the first person to post about this tape online?#cassettes #music

themysteriousmurasamecastle

#board goes crunch

marsdemo

#death grips #fuck yes #art

riggo-draws

Deadlock characters I like.

#deadlock #I like the way the draw mo #also yeah unbind parry #art

prokopetz

I feel like folks who are only familiar with Christian Baby from the baseball meme are missing out on account of being unaware that there are a whole bunch of these hypothetical scenarios in which it's established that Christian Baby can talk and puts itself in these situations on purpose.

luuckywarlockk

I think a lot of people who are not raised in a very Evangelical Christian environment would be shocked to learn how often people pass around "Christian baby" style questions as genuine gotchas to atheist talking points. Like you will regularly have lessons at Sunday school that are "here are questions you can use to stump atheists"

Honestly the first time I read the Christian baby post I thought it was genuine. I still think it might be.

sharigax

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

rukafais

luuckywarlockk

Ironically, if there is anyone we should be taking words from like they are god sent, it's the god of telling fans to shut up

#just noticed these are days apart

prokopetz

Squinting grumpily at the latest "system-neutral fantasy sourcebook" trying to puzzle out which specific version of Dungeons & Dragons the author is picturing when they imagine a perfectly generic RPG.

rollingforstew

@crackerjackalope exactly my immediate thought as well that I went to the tags first just to see is someone else was on the same page. Why did the do That.

#remembering trying to write generic system trrpg adventures and coming to the conclusion that it is literally impossible.#you either pick a system or fuck off

Been going through my tapes recently, figured I'd keep a journal

6/19/26

Listened to these three while working on some leather

Death Grips - Ex Military

Got this tape at a music store, it's a bootleg. Wasn't going to buy but my boyfriend offered to buy it for me (💚💜💚) . I've really enjoyed other Death Grips albums I've heard but I had never gone out of my way to find ex military after it got removed from a bunch of places. Listening to this makes me understand why people talk about them so much. Not that the other albums don't have their own merits, but this is an insane thing to have come out in 2011. You can hear the stuff other people would catch up to later way before they were thinking about it. And it fucking slams.

Eat - Sell me a God

Oddball tape. Pulled it out of a collection that a friend's dad was getting rid of (the rest of which is still gathering dust by my front door waiting for it to find a good donation spot). The collection has been a fun dig, lots of bootleg stuff too, but I'm saving that for a time I feel especially patient. A quick test listen told me some of the recordings are real rough. This is one I pulled purely on cover and name. North London band, 1989. It's got that 90's jam band sort of thing going, where you can tell they aren't taking it seriously and a level of quality to match lol. It was alright, I'll see if I can remember anything about it after tomorrow tho.

Pure Filth - Pure Filth

This one was almost too exactly what I expected. Bought this in a weird little corner store after I got a tattoo downtown, the kind of place that also has a rack of someone's custom altered thrift store clothing and a noticeably large variety of Arizona ice teas. This tape is exactly what it sounds like, intentionally disgusting punk. The music itself is good, I bet if I were 3 lone stars deep at a bar I would love it even more. But man, the lyrics. On the track "Str8 2 Insane" you get "fuck is my favorite word, this whole place is absurd, a big ol bowl full of turds and I'm about to flush". Or just all of the opening track "Piss Bottle". Thankfully there's a lyric sheet so I can confirm what I hear lol. It's doodled up to look like a middle school notebook so might be intentional, but there is this weird political undercurrent to it that feels genuine. feels like one of these people who will be very weirdly neutral anti government sentiment, like they tell you they hate the government and all sides because they're all corrupt, but when you try to drill in on specifics you find someone who has a lot of anger but no real convictions? Very Modern Catcher in the Rye feeling. This tape called me a phony. Looks like the band dropped this and another album close together in 2023 and then I stop seeing anything from them. Oh, and this is apparently tape 42/100 according to the Sharpie on the back.