Props to my brother for finding this and putting me up on this. It's almost 30 minutes but I swear it's time well-spent. If only EVERY band was more like this. These guys have literally sent me back to the drawing board.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...
"Complete" - Monsters of Rock
Monday, February 04, 2008
Some things are great for all the wrong reasons...
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Thank you Mr. Palumbo. That made my day a bit brighter.
Hoogie-Boogie Land - where we have no war, and we have no hate.
All the props in the world to Dave for bringing the unbelievable joy of Complete to the rest of the world, but after the introduction he really didn't need to pop in with commentary. We understand that Complete is a new brand of terrible available only with a prescription; we don't need play-by-play. Towards the end the guy comes off like a douche bag, but that's probably not evident to people who get most of their music exposure from mainstream sources and aren't aware that there are many, many bands who are very, very bad and they play in public completely oblivious to how bad they are. Jake and I once saw a terrible Pantera-knockoff at the Office in Johnson City whose only redeeming quality was the rhythm section. And I don't mean the guys playing the bass and drums; I mean the six-string bass was pretty sweet and the drum kit was this monstrous super rig mounted on a tour rack.
That said, and I don't feel like I can find the right way to say this, but aside from Complete lacking cohesiveness in a way that suggests that they never practiced, either together as a band or individually on their respective instruments, they almost sound interesting in an art-rock sort of way. With apologies to Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffey, Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover, Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Dan Peters, David Yow, Duane Denison, and a number of bassists too numerous to count, they sound kind of like early-Butthole Surfers/Melvin/Green River-Mudhoney/Jesus Lizard stuff (except without the talent or creativity or ability). It's a 99.9% certainty that any resemblance of Complete to the fantastic and groundbreaking bands I just mentioned is completely coincidental and unintentional and the similarities are a result of being off-key and off-time, but at least they're a new brand of terrible and not just a run-of-the-mill metal/southern rock band.
Wow. Holy wow. "In, to the night" gets my vote. "From ... tha ... ci-ty ... light ... Icanseethedarknessofthenight." (And you can't imagine how hard it actually was to type that last part without adding the spaces.)
This was just beautimous. I didn't so much mind the dude popping in with commentary, as there was an almost "Mr. Rogers" quality to it. "Did you hear that? They made the band up from the members' initials." And his singalong to In, To The Night is stuck in my head, probably for the rest of my life.
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