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MyluckyhandMyluckyhand Auckland New Zealand Posts: 103
edited January 2011 in Other Music
Hiya All,

I just picked up a second hand "Exit the Dragon" on vinyl for $18.00 nz dollars mint condition!!
I had this CD many many years ago and had forgotten how good it is, interested to see if any of the family have enjoyed Urge over the years?
Any way it will tie me over until LOTL arrives. (anyone in OZ or NZ got there's yet?)

Peace out :mrgreen:
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  • PC171296PC171296 Posts: 3
    Bit of a fan from back in the day. Postive Bleeding, Night and Day. The only time anyone really cottoned on with how good they were was when Pulp Fiction was released with Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
    Are they still together dishing out tunes?
  • High Fidelity 2000High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    Saturation is one of my favorite albums of the 90s... every song is perfect (except that stupid bonus track crap with 20 minutes of silence to fast forward through!). I never quite got into Exit the Dragon other than just a few songs. I saw them in a pretty small club in early '94, they were just hitting it big with their videos and stuff... I thought they were awesome and went and bought every other album of theirs after that... none of which were as good, and sound like they were recorded in a garage. They are like a total indie band (Touch and Go) that seemed happy to hit it big and put UO logos on everything they could!
    It's true, Pulp Fiction is when they were their biggest (even though the song was off an old EP, pre-Saturation). Good cover!
    They broke up after Exit the Dragon, but then I thought they were back and touring a few years ago (well the main 2 guys, different drummer if I remember). No idea if they are still doing stuff. Nash Kato did at least one solo album, thought Stone helped produce it? In Santa Fe? Something like that?
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  • PC171296PC171296 Posts: 3
    That was the one, Saturation. Im sure i had it at one point but alas, has since disappeared in the roundabout of mates borrowing etc over the years!! Have to agree, at that point in the early 90's they were right up there for mine, and completely indie. And of course, the UO all over the place, classic!!
  • MyluckyhandMyluckyhand Auckland New Zealand Posts: 103
    I just checked the web and they are recording a new Album as we speak.

    Strange how stuff like that works out.........here's hoping it will be good.

    I really liked how they seemed to do whatever they wanted, Saturation and Exit could be from different bands
  • albert83albert83 Saskatoon, SK Posts: 109
    They played a small bar in town here about 5 or 6 years ago, They sounded great they didn't have Onassis with them though, I think the guy from the opening band was playing bass with them, regardless they were awesome and I'd love to here some new material from them.
  • rcsrcs Posts: 711
    Cool! Love Urge Overkill and love Exit the Dragon! I was nuts about that album when it first came out in '95. I was in Bay Area last summer and I found it on vinyl for only $8! Score!

    Think I'll listen to it right now. Thanks!
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    Agreed with the earlier comments - Saturation was a great great album.
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    First band I ever saw live! They opened for Pearl Jam at my first concert in 1993.

    Sister Havana has a great fucking riff.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    i really enjoyed some of their hits when they got going. Mainly "Positive Bleeding". But being more a fan of the engineer Steve Albini, these comments made me a bit sour.

    “WHO WERE THE WORST MUSICIANS? ANY GUYS THAT COULD BARELY PLAY THEIR INSTRUMENTS?”
    . answer: Urge Overkill.

    Quote:
    there have been many a time i hear an album the band sounds so good, and then you see them live, and you're like, wtf is going on? which band have you made the biggest improvement on their sound, in this manner?


    Well, sometimes a band sets out to make a record that doesn't really sound like they do. To these bands the record is the public face of the band, and the live shows are more of an obligation than an art form, and so they are generally pretty disappointing live.

    Other bands enjoy touring and express themselves onstage more than in the studio. These bands see their records as a kind of still photo of their live existence, and you can expect those bands' records to sound pretty much like their live sets. My favorite bands were always like this: the Minutemen, Wipers, Birthday Party, and my own band thinks this way, pretty much.

    There are also the rare cases of bands who change from the first type to the second, and they have an obvious cutoff date after which they went from awesome to awful. Aerosmith and ZZ Top are the most obvious examples.

    To answer your immediate question, Urge Overkill.

    Quote:
    who was the biggest pain in the ass to work with?


    That would be Urge Overkill.

    if you enjoyed these quotes and dig Albini you can read the whole Q&A thread here. pretty funny and informative actually
    http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showfla ... t=all&vc=1
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • pjfan021pjfan021 Posts: 684
    my buddy's girlfriend works at this low key mexican restaurant and they'd have a couple guys with acoustics playing by the bar during the summer. Well this past summer the lead singer of urge overkill was there one night and played "girl, you'll be a woman." It was random as shit but he sounded pretty decent for almost 20 years later.
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    Gardenparty wrote:
    i really enjoyed some of their hits when they got going. Mainly "Positive Bleeding". But being more a fan of the engineer Steve Albini, these comments made me a bit sour.

    “WHO WERE THE WORST MUSICIANS? ANY GUYS THAT COULD BARELY PLAY THEIR INSTRUMENTS?”
    . answer: Urge Overkill.

    Quote:
    there have been many a time i hear an album the band sounds so good, and then you see them live, and you're like, wtf is going on? which band have you made the biggest improvement on their sound, in this manner?


    Well, sometimes a band sets out to make a record that doesn't really sound like they do. To these bands the record is the public face of the band, and the live shows are more of an obligation than an art form, and so they are generally pretty disappointing live.

    Other bands enjoy touring and express themselves onstage more than in the studio. These bands see their records as a kind of still photo of their live existence, and you can expect those bands' records to sound pretty much like their live sets. My favorite bands were always like this: the Minutemen, Wipers, Birthday Party, and my own band thinks this way, pretty much.

    There are also the rare cases of bands who change from the first type to the second, and they have an obvious cutoff date after which they went from awesome to awful. Aerosmith and ZZ Top are the most obvious examples.

    To answer your immediate question, Urge Overkill.

    Quote:
    who was the biggest pain in the ass to work with?


    That would be Urge Overkill.

    if you enjoyed these quotes and dig Albini you can read the whole Q&A thread here. pretty funny and informative actually
    http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showfla ... t=all&vc=1

    WHen I saw them open for PJ they could definitely play their instruments.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
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