What smells of "jeans"?

Recalling the glorious OCCUPY COLTA initiative , the Modern Music section turned to the command of the prominent punk block Sadwave.com with the proposal to make material about his favorite moment group-and received the text of the text about the American Pised Jeans group, which released the Honeys album in 2013 . Author's vocabulary and stylistics (if possible) are preserved.

“They sound like Black Sabbath of the early 1980s, looking for whom to rape. They are kings one hundred percent of the dead genre Noise rock. They are lonely and sexually unsatisfied. They learned to make dirty music, which sounds as if it was performed by strapels, who only learned yesterday what poetry is. This record can generally be called a listening, but in general it is horror and hack. ”

Brace Belden, Fenzin Mean Punk , review of the second album of Pissed Jeans " Hope for Men"

It is not surprising that at a certain moment, the underground representatives began to relate to the once “their” group of Pised Jeans with admiration mixed with disgust. Maximum RockNroll magazine, the main trender in the world of punk rock and other independent guitar music, has long ceased to review their notes- the Pissed Jeans and the latitudes that have risen on the yeast today live in the latitudes, which the ethics does not allow the pancakes.

At the same time, it is surprising that in recent years, the heavy, viscous and desperate sound of the songs Pised Jeans , which seemed to be broken by all the bones, hardly became at least a fraction more friendly than before. This is the same predatory grinning fat rock, whose roar can accelerate almost to hardcore or on purpose, with a mockery, slow down, while remaining a poisonous spit in the face of everyone who was unlucky to be in his way. Pissed Jeans music is made not so much from guitar chords and drums, but from sweat, saliva and animal instruments and vocalist.

The fact that such a group (some must have squeezed their nose, barely reading the name), managed not only to get out of the basement, but to start speaking on the same scene with Kraftwerk , - This, generally speaking, is quite strange. You can guess about the reasons for the take-off for a long time-perhaps the pendulum of the Western Musical Industry finally swayed in the right direction and today, to become famous, you can do something not like everyone else. At least within the framework of the mainstream. And perhaps Pissed Jeans were simply able to catch the notorious spirit of time better than others. Judge for yourself-a fat man, a dead man, a guy with the face of an excellent student-sad, and another dude who does not look at all, play in the group. Isn't that the quintessence of modern society?

Be that as it may, the importance of the role of Pissed Jeans today is that this is such a Trojan horse, which is taken to the camp of lovers of Metallica , see which festivals they play. Moreover, unlike Hatfield with his comrades, the motto “Kill'em All” for Pissed Jeans did not lose his relevance . They behave like a real rock band, which always exists more likely contrary to. After each concert, the musicians go to the dressing room in wet pants - from sweat, not from urine. The same can be said about their public. Even such an omnivorous portal as Allmusic.com showed an unprecedented expressiveness, writing that hipsters who accidentally looked at the “Jeans” concert looked as if they had to go to the mast of the drowning ship .

Brace Belden , one of the most interesting MRR authors, is right: Pised Jeans -Kings Neuz Rok, if only because they were able to feed the masses with their nails. However, the Purists who want to lay out the “jeans” on the pissed rags will say that this, of course, is not noise-rock. P Issed Jeans are not similar to sometimes overly technical friends Kurt Kobein from Melvins ; nor more on monumental Swans ; neither on Japanese noise -mowers from BoreDoms , in which there is noise, but there is practically no rock; No, fortunately, on the toothless Jesus Lizard . On the other hand, if P Issed Jeans with an exact copy of one of them, would we talk about them now? After all, as Balzac wrote: "In the genius, it is wonderful that he looks like everyone, and no one on him." Well, a genius is not a genius, but to call P Issed Jeans to the bearers of the spirit and the bloodthirsty aesthetics of Noise Rock, of course, is possible. They open a breadth window into this eerie and ridiculous world, having penetrated into which, we will try to steal as many silver dining rooms from there as we will get into our pissed jeans.

Music of public toilets

In one of the interviews, Parts of P Issed Jeans said that by their sound they want to portray the musical equivalent of washing water in the toilet. If you know what the restrooms and the technique in the homeland of musicians look like there, this playful metaphor immediately becomes capacious and eloquent. In America, the toilets are similar to aquariums - and this is normal, such a sociocultural difference from Russia. That is why, if the state faience beast that caught your eye will not be too obscure, when the descent button is pressed, you can see how the liquid with an elegant poisonous-blue psychedelic whirlpool will be hidden in the pipe. Like the most experimental compositions P Issed Jeans , this sight can hypnotize. Do not believe? Ask the authors of the Simpsons - they devoted a whole series to the rotation of the toilet vortices.

Pissed Jeans - "Don'T NEED To SMOKE to MAKE MySELF DISAPPEAR"

You will recognize him from a thousand

The days passed when the young and the persistent chose such names that could not pass by without catching his gaze. “ Sexy pistols”, “Tampax”, “buzzing members”, “Dead Kennedy ” - having heard of the fate of these groups, Captain Vrungel with his song about a yacht would have whined like a husky shipyard. Be that as it may, boats in punk rock today are back in fashion. That is why, if you meet a group of groups with a name in a music store with which you would be ashamed to christen not only a vocal-instrumental ensemble, but even a drunken neighbor in a wagon, is a guarantee of success. The group, which was later renamed Pissed Jeans , was originally called the “Unrequited Risher” (Unrequited Hard-ON) , and in the first rounds of our heroes, the groups “Air Air Air conditioners” and “Paid toilets” accompanied. Well, I must say, in this regard, Pissed Jeans had good teachers. Pay attention to the teams with such beautiful names as “cows” (cows) , “table” (Table) , “Shorty” (Shorty) , Harry Pussy (unequivocal play of words) and ClockCleaner (the first L in its name loves to lower) ... Yes, even there, even botanist Steve Albini, ruined the “rapist” team ( Rapeman) , to establish the Big Black group and record the successful album “Songs about E*Li” (“ Songs ABOUT FUCKING”) . It is also a note that not only the name of the Pissed Jeans itself, but also the course that the group at that time will move, vocalist Matt Korvett chose, inspired by the single of The Whittingtons team, “I am young, stupid and crowded with sperm” published by the Italian label “Farewell, Beer”. This Matt, of course, did not listen.

Pissed Jeans - "Ashamed of My Cum"

Shalun already froze a finger

On the only one name, the features of Nois-rock groups do not end. Quite good teams “Religious as ** Your mother” or, excuse me, “syphilitic vaginas” have nothing to do with noise or mood or mood. In Pissed Jeans, the name serves as a kind of aperitiv in front of acute and sinking mucous membranes. There were grounds for this. As Terston Moore from Sonic Youth said in an interview, which took shape as a genre by the beginning of the 1980s, Neuz Rock turned into a new process of punk rock, which had become a more bold and uncompromising continuation. Unlike many other guys with electri-players, Noiz Rackers tried to hit the listener even before he puts the plate on Verak. That is why the Americans of the Unsane design of albums look like a photo report about visiting the morgue in half with shots from the “road patrol”, and the covers of the Butthole Surfer plates could be illustrations for Oleg Grigoryev’s sadistic ditties.

The image of a child with a gun is probably the most harmless and clicked that you can find on the envelopes of the records made by the key to the genre of the amphetamine reptile label. PitchFork authors are usually placed in the list of the worst, and correctly where they understand. At the same time, unlike some black metal, the exploitation of violence in Noise Rock is not just a cloudy continuation of the swastika of Sid Vishes, they say, “Boo! A scared! ” Everything is thinner here. If we assume that the quintessence of teenage fun and sewed in the ass is a pop-punk with all the inherent stamps: in the summer, sneakers, first love and jokes in the spirit of the “American pie”, then the noise is a pop-punk, on the contrary: torn butterfly wings, footsteps and dumps from high school students, a feeling of powerless malice from what you are no one It does not give and you cannot give back. Vector Pissed Jeans , perhaps the most straightforward and verified among most colleagues in the genre. They attack themselves and their peers, mercilessly mocking the image of a modern representative of the middle class with all his fears, dreams, complexes and aspirations. Take, for example, the caustic ballad of the baldness of “ Goodbye Hair” , in which the problem of the formation of the lake on the top is served with no less tragedy than the sudden detection of a cancerous disease. Or the cold -blooded and ruthless sentence to the class of managers and self -confident Bricers “ Cafeteria Food” , where the news of the death of each representatives of these professions gives the lyrical hero Matt, comparable to the high from the won football match. Or two different hymns with escapism - “ Dream Smother” (on the escape from the house to work) and “ Fantasy World” (on the contrary, about room blockade with embrasures from books, soda and pizza). It seems that in each of these compositions, Pissed Jeans participants see themselves and beat themselves in the face. They have no pity for anyone. This is especially clearly visible in the video for the song “ Bathroom Laughter” , whose text, oddly enough, is completely devoid of high -grade images characteristic of a group. Watch how the television show shown in the video for the Touching Housewives turns into a bloody bath in two minutes, It will not even be easy to see the views of black comedies.

Pissed Jeans - " Bathroom Laughter"

He hurts and funny

Two whales, on which, according to the musicians of Pissed Jeans , are their music with both legs - these are the Flipper and Stick Men with Ray Guns groups. For Noise Rock, these groups play an approximately the same important role as MC5 and The Stoogen for a classic punk. These are fathers, teachers and our everything. Each of these untidy mammoths deliberately played slowly when it was customary to play quickly; Each of them combined toxic irony and prohibitive despair in his music; Each sounded so that after listening I would like to take a shower; Everyone went on stage as a battle. Moreover, if Flipper , in order to take on fire, it was often enough just starting to play, then the vocalist Stick Men with Ray Guns Bobby Soks liked to spit on the public not only metaphorically. These people were doomed from the very beginning. Part of the Flipper composition did not live steadily until each of the next album was released, but the funny bespectacled to Bobby, who, in addition to spewing out curses to Christians and adults, more than anything in the world loved to cook pizza, under the onslaught of the rock and rolling lifestyle burned out in a few years, turning into a swearing alcoholic with a criminal record. In one of these groups, Charles Bukovsky could play if he wanted to express himself in the sound.

The group is played by a fat man, a dohlyak, a guy with the face of an excellent student-seni and another dude who does not look at all. Isn't that the quintessence of modern society?

In addition to the deliberate neglect of the reality, Flipper and Stick Men with Ray Guns broadcast the despair of a small person living in the province (which, at the slightest approximation, grows from American to Ecumenical). True, they never fell to the manner of manneric decadence, rather, saying on behalf of the workers in the middle of the refueling in the middle, it was not clear than visitors to underground salons. The heroes of the songs Pissed Jeans are more modern in this regard (not refueling, but office clerks) and, as appropriately, is appropriate for an embroidered office plankton, they know how to hide their emotions (for example, the deadly calm song “ Spent” , in which the lyrical hero calmly admits nothing-no shopping, nor the purchase of a new car). Nevertheless, the scenery, against which the action of stories told by the musicians unfolds, remain the same-about what a hole in their native allentown, Pennsylvania, was sung by Billy Joel in the early 1980s . And this definitely leaves its mark on what and with what intonation they sing, or rather, yell Pised Jeans .

Matt Korvetta, who works as a complaint consultant and therefore familiar with the office culture firsthand, is often asked how his group manages to be ridiculous and terrible simultaneously. “What is it? - Matt is surprised. “Why can't we be different?” Indeed, if in the aforementioned “ Spent” nevertheless peeps out of a fig, satire, then in some songs, such as, for example, in “ Closet Marine” , the Pissed Jeans , it seems, already cease to joke. This composition about the internal marine infantryman, something that echoes the Letovsky “I want to be a Fuhrer”, would perfectly suit the drama about the Vietnamese Syndrome “War in the House”, taken by Charlie's brother, Shin Emilio Esteez. Her hero, trying to adapt to a normal life after horror experienced in the war, was also registered in a small American city. And he also knew how to be different.

Pissed Jeans - " Closet Marine"

Let it go into the house

Another feature of Pissed Jeans is the ability to observe all of the above canons of Noise Rock not only on stage and in the studio, but also in the so-called ordinary life. One rather mystical story is connected with this. Five years ago, still knowing anything about Pissed Jeans , Sadwave. COM published a note about the ancient American punk group Teenage Depression that had hooked us with his nihilism. One of the most poisonous songs on their only plate " Skank or Die!" , published in 1984, was dedicated to Henry Rollinza and was called " False Jessi, Part 1" . I won’t be surprised if we were the only site in the world who remembered this group in the 21st century.

Imagine what was our surprise when two years later we stumbled upon a struggle clip of Pissed Jeans , taken to a song called ... " False Jessi, Part 2" ! There are no such coincidences, we thought and were right. Soon, Matt Corvette confirmed that this composition is really the sequel to the same song Teenage Depression , however, it has nothing to do with Henry Rollinza. Rejoiced at the suddenly acquired mental kinship with the vocalist Pised Jeans , we began to fall asleep with enthusiastic letters, but Matt Korvett, suddenly turning on the consultant on complaints, answered everything at the interrogation: “yes”, “no”, “everything is pleased”, “please, not a word about my Russian surname” (UPS).

Later, having looked at other interviews with Matt, we realized that carrying an nonsense with a stone face is his corporate identity. Noise rock as it is. However, our colleagues Katya Shcherbaty and Katya Vasina, the ostentatious misanthropy of the leader Pisseed Jeans did not stop. Having talked with various musicians at the Belgian Groezrock festival , they went to the Polish Fest Off to find out if the “jeans” are so inely, as they seem at first glance. The musicians could not refuse pretty girls in the audience, but Matt shy at first glance and then quickly took the initiative into their own hands.

From the first frames it becomes unclear who takes the interview from whom. Upon learning that Katya arrived from Russia, Matt began to ask them about samovars and nesting dolls (that is, about Pussy Riot and the Crocodile drug), confusing them with vodka and bears ( Pussy Riot was Pussy Patrol - well, about the war). We must pay tribute to the Katy, they did not lag behind Matt, attacking him with questions about Anthony Kidis and Kurt Vile with Bob Dylan. Obviously, I never heard anything about these guys Punk Matt, but he pretended intensely. As a result, having decided, apparently, to rehabilitate in front of Katya, the Pissed Jeans vocalist took this time a completely serious interview for the legendary SPIN music magazine , in which the Matt leads a column for ... fashion. Mr. Hang jeans and then spent everyone.

However, with all due respect to Katya, their interviews with Matt on the Nois-Rock scale pulls at best on the lame three. Who managed to lift the bar of such a difficult genre at an unattainable height is the employee of the Helsinki rock club Kuudes Linja .

Chain chips from the huge bowl, with which the musicians Pissed Jeans are trying to shut up her mouth all the way, a sweet girl is assimilated with such charming stupid things that you don’t even know how to react: either laughing, as the Pissed Jeans drummer is doing in the center, or red, like the guitarist of the group, whom Matt in Ugara named The main character of the song " Ashamed of my cum" . The interviewer, by the way, is also called Katya. It seems that Katya is really the best Nois Rock-Journalists of all time. Perhaps this will be our next material.

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