{"id":109,"date":"2007-09-26T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-07-25T23:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T06:01:47","slug":"gxp12l-q-r5-hyper-mega-ultra-world-destroyer-cannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"GXP12L-Q-R5 Hyper Mega Ultra World-Destroyer Cannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current mood: Filled with musical notes<\/em><\/p>\n

For the past week I have been enjoying the new Sex Club Reject<\/a> album. My friend Josh<\/a> is the mastermind behind SCR, and he asked me to do the spoken-word vocals on track 07 “Pow Boom No!”<\/strong> It strikes me as fascinating that so many of my favorite musicians are actually people I actually know, and even count as friends. For the past few decades, the world of music has been about big stars, and I see that big-star-world crumbling. The big stars can’t realistically compete with the myrmidon tiny stars anymore. Not for my ear anyway.<\/p>\n

Sex Club Reject<\/a><\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

SCR’s music covers a wide range of styles. It exhibits more versatility than what I see out of most other bands, as it touches upon rock, and metal, and emo, and dance, and techno, and love-ballads, and desert-rock, and beatles-esque rock and punk and industrial and many points in-between, while managing to be good on all fronts, and getting steadily better every time I hear more of it. I am obviously not an impartial source here since I have known the band’s lead since we were both in grade-school, and my voice is featured on the new album, but still, with all the impartiality I can muster, I insist that this album is several different kinds of awesome, and if Josh’s music keeps steadily increasing in awesomeness at the same rate that it has increased over the past ten years, then by 2012 he will reach a level of widespread acclaim that is the post-RIAA-apocalypse year-2012-equivalent of superstardom*, and by 2017, Sex Club Reject music will cure blindness, eradicate cancer, and cause military dictatorships to crumble.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thanks to the magic of the interwub, you don’t need to take my only-mildly-hyperbolic word for it, you can simply listen for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*After the ashes of the RIAA-Apocalypse settle, I expect that the leather-clad spike-covered vigilantes and mutants who survive will enjoy a landscape of music appreciation similar to the one described by John Titor<\/a> where the lines between making music and listening to it are blurred. Where even the greatest talents in the world still have to work a day job, yet even the modest beginners get a chance to jam along with everyone else, and music merges with daily life in an integral way that will almost become spiritual… So basically kinda like Jazz, except for *all* music.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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