Birth Is A Sexually Transmitted Disease

Oh hell I might as well-Before Royal Noble, Justin(main Royal Noble dude) played drums in Arabella which in my opinion was the most promising hardcore band out of Reno from '03-'05. Killer live show, brutal-as-fuck female vocals, creepy male falsetto vocals, angular guitars, muscular bass. Really can you ask for more from a hardcore band? What made them better was at the time everyone was either doing Trustkill style bro-mosh, or wimpy Ebullition rip-off shit. That's a terrible generalization, but I am trying to make the case for my dudes! Anyways super short lived, a seven inch and a split, yadda yadda yadda. The good ones always go first....oh and there is a Born Against cover to boot!



Discography

1 A Radium Dial
2 As Leaves Are To Limbs
3 A Drone In D
4 Curse
5 Duvet
6 Goodlife
7 Interred
8 Room To Forget
9 PDX
10 Mary And Child

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Boil, Boil, Royal and Noble

Hailing from my home burg of Reno, Nv. Royal Noble is a sometimes three-piece that is sometimes active. As is the case with the majority of bands from Reno, shit always kind of fizzles out before they can get a foot hold nationally, or even regionally for that matter. But you better believe this band kept the basements warm for a good while. This is one of a few demos, I believe it's the first. But don't quote me, it is nine concise power-pop ditties revolving around themes of love and, well mostly just love. People might classify this as lo-fi, but that's just because it's recorded on minimal equipment with minimal polish. This isn't that aesthetic lo-fi, which mostly just means they buried a sub-par song under fuzz and white-noise, it's really just lo-fi out of necessity; no big studios or big money in the Biggest Little City. If you needed to compare them to something I would say somewhere between The Replacements and Daniel Johnston, but that's a pretty lazy description.



Demo

1 Cars
2 Don't You Change
3 In Your Bed
4 Watch The Road
5 Travellin'
6 Achey Bones
7 With Bells On
8 Pulse
9 Im Gonna Kill You

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Stompin' N Da Rompa Room

Just finished this book on Federal Prisons. The Hot House is a doozy for sure, the journalism is a little jaundiced, but that doesn't mean none of this stuff has not happened. Anyways it got me thinking about Mac Dre who spent some time incarcerated in the early 90's. While in jail he recorded raps over the phone and released an album.
A lot of people will talk shit on The Furl but I will save my arguments on his lyrical supremacy for a later post. Right now I just want people to hear some of the shit he was spitting in jail.

Cop It



1 Back N Da Hood
2 '93
3 Love Dat Donkey
4 My Chevy
5 It Don't Stop
6 Im N Motion
7 Young Mac Dre




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Hands Up If You Feel You're The Only One

The Only Ones fall into that weird gap between over-done arena rock, and stipped down power-pop. A pleasant oddity in the evolution of rock during the 70's. This is the best of both worlds; you have professionalism, and great songwriting coupled with the grittiness and urgency that were missing from bands like Blue Oyster Cult or Kansas. I am a fan of the guitar solo and they deliver the goods, but it isn't always segued by some dramatic synth/acoustic guitar bridge or whatever. Plus the lead singer has one of those voices that immediately strikes a chord, kinda like Johnathan Richman or Daniel Johnston. It's just a very individual voice, he can't hit all the notes, but he can convey emotion. They are one of those bands that could have only happened during the 70's, a band at a musical, and stylistic cross-roads.

Git It

Originally found on this blog.