[kj] My post-Y2K Top 10

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

This one was/is hard for me. I like a lot of bands that started before 
2000 but are still going, so here they are w/ URL links for more info:


1. _TRAGEDY_ -- Dark hardcore, you could say gloomcore, haa inspired 
sub-sub-sub genre called "Tragi-core" coined by MRR writer Al Quint and 
some other writers (http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/849)


2. _PESD_ - This is industrial punk that mixes Killing Joke with 
Siekkiera and even Lard or Ministry but still retains a gritty hardcore 
feel. From Poland. Just excellent stuff, can't recommend it enough to 
Jokesters:  
http://www.strangereaction.com/2006/11/14/pesd-politikarepoizonekurvae/   
(There are 3 mp3 samples there)


3. _OPERATION S_ -- There's just something about this Paris, France 
lo-fi garage new wave band w/ fem vox that kicks SO much ass: 
http://www.myspace.com/sexesubversionsuicide


4. _LOST SOUNDS_ -- This Memphis, TN, band began in 1999, is that okay? 
Ambitious attempt by US garage punks to mix 45 Grave-like L.A. deathrock 
w/ creepy 60s Farfisa organs swirling around, mixed with black metal 
like Emperor, a little goth, and later w/ Devo & Wire influences. The 
1st LP, _Memphis is Dead_ is seminal. If you like early LA deathrock 
like TSOL, 45 Grave, Superheroines, Eva O, and dark psychedelic 60s 
garage, I think you will like this! (Only official Lost Sounds video, of 
"Memphis is Dead," is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-otr2DIBE  
<-- not representative of entire oeuvre, but a good video.)


5. _CAREER SUICIDE_ -- (http://www.careersuicide.net/)


6.  _JAY REATARD_ -- Great solo stuff 
(http://www.myspace.com/jayreatard  <-- his best songs are not on this 
MySpace page)


7. _WORLD BURNS TO DEATH_  --  Our decade's answer to the legacy of 
Poison Idea, GISM, Negative Approach, and Minor Threat. From Austin, TX. 
Just played reunion show with The Dicks in Austin last week. 
(http://www.aversionline.com/reviews/1325/)


8. _SUBURBAN DEATH MACHINE_ - Fear meets The Pist meets 
black-as-your-soul, filthy, early Black Flag angst:  
http://www.myspace.com/suburbandeathmachine 


9.  _THE COMPLICATIONS_ - mid-tempo Killing Joke-meets-Motorhead post 
punk from Quebec, named after a KJ song: http://www.complications.ca/

10.  _MISS ALEX WHITE & the RED ORCESTRA_ - only one s/t LP under this 
name and that's the one to get. One song is like early Pretenders, 
another like UXA, another like early Siouxsie -- all updated and with a 
garagey feel. Great voice: 
(http://www.myspace.com/missalexwhitetheredorchestra  <-- "In a Hole" in 
the song to check out there -- total Prtenders vibe to me.)



Anyway my Top 10 post-2000 picks for now,

-Oliver