pre-for respect...

[fvgazi]

anyone else miss the music from these days? lately i have not been able to get over songs like lucky father brown, shoe shine, puddin' in my eye, etc.

definitely not as challenging as their later albums, but its all so precise and just fucking heavy. if you look back at how they started and where they ended up musically, i wondered what happened to make these guys want to get away from the more traditional rock sound they grew from.

[Rocco]

I don't know about pre-For Respect, I've never really heard any of that, but For Respect, definitely. I was listening to it the other day and remembered that some folks here said they've never heard it. Damn shame.

As far as their progression goes, it seems very logical and well-laid out to me, looking back. It sucks when a band just releases the same thing over and over for a decade +. See RATM for a good example of that. Smart/creative types get bored re-hashing the same ground, also, generally.

[fvgazi]

i didn't really mean that i wish they would have kept the same sound, i just think its pretty mind boggling how their sound changed so much in ten years. so i guess i'd have disagree with you about their progression, at least between for respect and 2. i just get the feeling that they made a real effort to change their sound in that time period.

[CAK]

I never heard For Respect (other than a couple songs) or the singles that came before it. What I have heard sounds more immediately engaging than the later stuff, that's for sure. From what I've read it seems like the first two albums were the most influential, though I personally feel that What Burns was by far the most important record they ever did. So I am infintely glad they progressed.

[Bungle]

Lately i've been listening to, and i always do seem to keep coming back to parts of Singles. I think some of the songs on it are as powerfully charged & important as anything off of wb.
Well mostly Lucky Father Brown & Unresolved Kharma.... These songs will always be timeless classics in my opinion, i'll never ever tire of them.

[MotorMax]

for respect and the 7 inches before that are all great stuff.they sounded more punk in a way.in the same way you could hear the slint influence a lot more in there too...to me this stuff is as good as their more resent stuff.unresolved kharma and lucky father brown are really good song with a more straight forward approche to it well built road is still one of my favorite don cab songs.belted sweater is fucking awsome too.trey dog acid was a good tip of things to come after.... for respect is the album that got them noticed and from that they went on and became the mighty don caballero....back then they were a 3 piece band and then ian willams came in and they forged the sound that became their own.banfield was doing a great job,but when willams got in they really took off.

[skatingbasser]

Dr. Adder is amazing.