You Should Never Have Opened That Door: February 2015

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of January 2015. Afterwards are lists of the movies I watched, things I read, bands I saw live, and my notes regarding all.

MUSIC
1/1/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
The Gravitys - "Unplugged at The Dial" EP
Veil Of Maya - "Phoenix" digital single
Colombian Necktie - "Twilight Upon Us"
KIP - "Colored Fan" EP
Success! - "Optimist Operations" EP
Bad Rabbits - "Stick Up Kids" EP
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Creepin' On Ah Come Up" EP
Dow Jones & The Industrials/The Gizmos - "Hoosier Hysteria" split LP
Papa Murf - S/T EP
Grieves & Budo - "Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez" remix EP
Avenue Rockers - "Damaged & Dangerous"
The Amazing Snakeheads - "Amphetamine Ballads"

1/2/15
Primus - "Pork Soda"
Anubis Gate - "Horizons"
The Coltranes - "It Ain't Gravy" EP
Fist Benders - "Quare Cunamor" EP
Fall Out Boy - "From Under The Cork Tree"
Get Dead - "Bygones" EP
Foxy Shazam - "Gonzo"

1/3/15
Twerps - S/T EP
The Faction - "Collection 1982-1985"
Timbre Barons - S/T EP
Smashing Pumpkins - "Adore"
Ryan Mudd & Stuff - S/T CD
Pizza Time - "U Wanna Pizza Me?" EP
Crossfaith - "The Dream, The Space"
Empire Of The Sun - "Ice on the Dune"
CJ Boyd - "precariat"
Pears - "Go To Jail"
Madina Lake - "From Them, Through Us, To You"
Happyness - "Everything I Do Is All Right"
The Heats/Heaters - "Live & Live Again"

1/4/15
Faith No More - "Motherfucker" digital single
Beaulieu Porch - "The Carmelite Divine (Original Soundtrack)"
Manic Hispanic - "Mijo Goes To Jr. College"
Big Takeover - Demo
Fit For A King - "Slave To Nothing"
Odesza - "Summer's Gone"

1/5/15
Funeral Oration - "Shadowland" EP
Indigesti - "Osservati Dall'inganno"
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
Happy Diving - "Big World"

1/6/15
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"
Waterdown - "Never Kill A Boy On The First Date"

1/7/14
Imagine Dragons - "Night Visions"
Bed Bugs - S/T 7"
Grimple - "Remember" CD
Sniper 66 - "Caput Lupinum"
The Dance Party - "Friction! Friction! Friction!"
Witch - S/T
Jah My - "Le Bon Combat" EP
AC/DC - "Back in Black"

1/8/14
Foxmoulder/Coma Regalia - split 5"
blessthefall - "Awakening"
STRFKR - "Midnight Mile"
Funeral Oration - "Discography" Disc 2

1/9/15
YG - "My Krazy Life"
The Avett Brothers - "I And Love And You"
AC/DC - "The Razor's Edge"
Desert Center - "6/30/14 @ Chillanova House" single/EP
The Mahones - "Draggin' the Days"

1/10/15
It Boys! - "Burning Up" EP
Gang Of Four - "Content"
Call The Cops - "Never Underestimate The Kids" demo
Lapsley - "Understudy"
Between The Buried And Me - "The Silent Circus"

1/11/15
Plastic City Pariah - "A Rambling Of Somewhat & Some Sort"
Handguns - "Life Lessons"
Maceo Plex - "Conjure One" EP
Arch Enemy - "War Eternal"
Snoop Dogg - "R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece"
Tame Impala - S/T EP
Causers - "Luna" digital single
The Muffs - "Whoop Dee Doo"
The Bots - S/T
Roky Erickson - "Demon Angel: A Day And Night With Roky Erickson" live album
After The Burial - "Forging A Future Self"

1/12/15
Infected Mushroom - "Friends On Mushrooms" Deluxe Edition
Les Thomas - "Guantanamo Blues" digital single
Icon For Hire - "Scripted"
Tensnake - "Glow"

1/13/15
Schoolboy Q - "Oxymoron"
Prettiest Eyes - "PEEP" EP
Capital Cities - S/T EP
Azealia Banks - "1991" EP
Absurd Tones - "Demo Sesh!" demo
The Business - "No Mercy For You"
GDP - "Collectibles"

1/14/15
Dan Mangan & BlackSmith - "Club Meds"
The Lovely Bad Things - "The Late Great Whatever"
The Coltranes - "Ugly Aldous"
D.K. Slider - "Do Demos Have Names" demo
Three Man Cannon/Lee Corey Oswald - split LP

1/15/15
J.Phlip - "Say My Name" 12"
Portugal. The Man - "Endangered Song" single-sided 7"
Todd Terje - "It's Album Time"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"

1/16/15
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Earth - "Primitive and Deadly"
Diminish In Eternity - "The Resolution" digital single
Bombshell Rocks - "Scars and Tattoos" b/w "Looking For A Hero" 7"
Keyser Soze - "The Remedy"
Silverstein - "Discovering The Waterfront"

1/18/15
Big White - "I Can't Tell" digital single
Uniform Choice - "Screaming For Change"
Wax Children - "Angst"
Neck Deep - "Wishful Thinking"
Jamie Jones - "Amazon" EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"

1/19/15
Neneh Cherry - "The Blank Project"
Trampled By Turtles - "Wild Animals"
Gorgon City - "Sirens"
Cult Of Luna - "The Beyond"
Excel - "The Joke's On You"

1/20/15
Idaho Green - "Do The Nelz" EP
A Wilhelm Scream - "Ruiner"
Mike Pinto - "Little District"
Wyatt Blair - "I've Never Been More Alive" digital single
Goatwhore - "The Eclipse Of Ages Into Black"
DivaCup - 2014 Demo
Midlife Crisis Winery - S/T Demo
Head Creeps - 2014 Demo

1/22/15
end of the summer - "Second" EP

1/23/15
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"

1/25/15
UB40 - "Greatest Hits"
Pond - "Man It Feels Like Space Again"
Left Astray - "Don't Look For Me" EP
Our Last Night - "Oak Island" EP
Breakbot - "By Your Side"
Goo Goo Dolls - "A Boy Named Goo"
Gudon - "Zanin Seiji" EP
Helmet - "Betty"

1/26/15
Husker Du - "Candy Apple Grey"
Hospitality - "Trouble"

1/28/15
Foster The People - "Torches" Best Buy exclusive version

1/30/15
Pete Tong & John Monkman - "The Bumps" EP
Blondie - "Parallel Lines"

1/31/15
Bedemon - "Child Of Darkness"
Rotting Out - "Vandalized" EP
Robert Hood - "Nighttime World Vol. 1"

MUSIC NOTES
- 3 \_/ releases in a row to start off the new year? Talk about foreboding
- Favorite 'new finds' of the month: KIP, The Gizmos, CJ Boyd, Beaulieu Porch, Happy Diving, The Muffs, Tensnake, GDP, Dan Mangan, BlackSmith, Three Man Cannon, Lee Corey Oswald, Todd Terje, Earth. Neneh Cherry, Wyatt Bryan, Pond, Breakbot, Hospitality, Bedemon, Robert Hood
- The first time I listened to that Anubis Gate album its like it didn't strike me at all but this time around, its pretty damn good
- I didn't even realize Foxy Shazam was still a band but here they are with a middle-of-the road new album
- "The Kids, They Are The Future."
- "Adore" is hella underrated still..."Behold! The Nitemare" is amongst the Pumpkins' best songs in my opinion
- That live Heats CD is goddamn AWESOME
- Damn I shouldn't have slept on Happy Diving for so long they really kick ass...Good call Kasey
- "Your Shadow" by Waterdown is so sweet-sounding but so creepy at the same time..."You cannot wipe me off of your shoulder"
- Worst of the month: Jah My, It Boys!, Causers, Icon For Hire, Absurd Tones, Diminish In Eternity,
- Goddamn that Avett Brothers album I listened to is SO much more boring than whatever I had heard before
- It's crazy how AC/DC can churn out literally the same album every couple years and somehow make it work
- Handguns are alright for fans of Set Your Goals, similar bands, etc. but there's nothing to them to set them apart
- I like that chick from The Agonist and its cool shes carrying on the name of Arch Enemy but she is no Angela Gossow. Not by a long shot.
- It should have gone without saying but that early-2000s Snoop Dogg album fuckin sucks
- I had never even heard of Dan Mangan before but his newest album (a collaboration with the band BlackSmith) is one of my favorites from last year
- What was I thinking listening to a Mike Pinto album? Just asking for mental anguish?
- I've listened to "I Get Wet" like a zillion times since I first heard it but this is the first time that "Girls Own Love" was the song that got stuck in my head...Similarly with "Parallel Lines," for some reason it was "I Know But I Don't Know" and "Sunday Girl" that got stuck today
- I wouldn't suggest listening to the entire UB40 Greatest Hits CD if you already find their 2 big hits somewhat annoying...it's just like an hour and a half of the same bullshit, over and over and over

MOVIES
1/1/15 - "Austin Powers: Goldmember"
1/2/15 - "Cartoon Classics Disc 1: Popeye The Sailor Man and Betty Boop"
1/3/15 - "Die Another Day"
1/7/15 - "Land Of The Dead"
1/8/15 - "Guardians Of The Galaxy"
1/9/15 - "Spun"
              "Bad Brains Live at CBGB's 1984"
              "SNL: The First 5 Years"
1/10/15 - "King Kong"
                "The Interview"
                "Dumb and Dumber To"
1/12/15 - "Planet Terror"
               "Aliens"
1/13/15 - "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie"
1/17/15 - "Click"
                "V For Vendetta"
1/19/15 - "The Transporter 3"
1/20/15 - "The Other Guys"
               "Neighbors"
1/23/14 - "Kettle Cadaver: A Taste Of Blood"
1/24/14 - "American Pie 2"
1/30/15 - "Battle: Los Angeles"

MOVIE NOTES
- Between "Goldmember" and "Dumb and Dumber To" I feel like I saw the worst mainstream comedies every made this month...But I'm sure there are movies out there that could easily prove me wrong.
- That goddamn Cartoon Classics DVD is so goddamn long its like the longest single DVD we own...I think I watched nearly 2 hours of Popeye and then like an hour+ of Betty Boop and if you haven't rewatched or ever watched those old cartoons, many of them repeat themselves and it gets kinda annoying (especially the Betty Boop ones) but goddammit if Popeye The Sailor Man isn't an American hero...His nephews are fuckin brats tho
- I actually really enjoyed "Guardians Of The Galaxy" a lot, and in an unprecedented turn for almost any work of cinema, I kinda wanna watch it again soon. I Am Groot.
- Bad Brains really, really kicked ass live in their heyday.
- WOW. "King Kong" is so long but its like the ENTIRE TIME I was captivated...I always put off watching it because I knew in advance how ridiculously long it was but damn was it a payoff.
- I was really disappointed with "The Interview"...I mean there were some funny parts but goddamn James Franco was grating
- Believe it or not that was the first time I'd ever seen "Aliens"
- There's a lot of sexual tension going on between April O'Neil and Casey Jones in that old 90s TMNT movie that I didn't pick up on when I was a kid...Also Shredder get smashed in a goddamn trash compactor at the end that's pretty gnarly
- When "V For Vendetta" came out in high school I remember a bunch of people told me I'd probably really like it, and honestly high school me very well may have because I was so idealistic, but nowadays all I can see is a series of Aimed Wrenches...so many Wrenches....
- "Battle: Los Angeles" was by far the most boring-ass movie I watched all month and it's a goddamn action movie with explosions and aliens and shit...Troy and Miller and I ended up talking through most of the movie because it just couldn't hold our attention

ZINES
finished 1/6/15 - Juxtapoz Magazine #138 July 2012 - Special Adult Swim Issue

LIVE MUSIC
1/15/15 - The Coltranes/New Gods/Half Goon/Recluse @ French Valley house show (Dial-sponsored/"Cat Of Nine Tails" 7" release show)

You Should Never Have Opened That Door

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Top 25 Best EPs & 7"s Of 2014 That I Listened To (Alphabetical Order)

Top 10 Best Demos Of 2014 That I Listened To

Monday, February 2, 2015

Playlist for January 2015