Suicidal Tendencies appreciation thread

buck65

Dug out some S.T at the weekend, jeez their first 4 or 5 records were really good.
Actually some of their music still sounds fresher than their thrash counterparts but S.T for me transcended the whole metal sphere with their punk/skater thing (even before Avril Lavigne)
Saw them live once in Prague 95.

Some classic trax

Join the Army
Trip at the brain, You Can't bring me down, Institutionalized, Pledge your allegience,
Your thoughts guys....?

billsteersnose

I remember hearing 'Bring Me Down' on the metal show on Horizon Radio years ago. (Anyone remember that show?) That one tune got me hooked on the band! I still throw on 'the Art of Rebellion' every once in a while and really enjoy it.

And the Infectious Grooves stuff is deadly aswell...

jellikit

How will I laugh tomorrow... is definitely one of the best metal albums of the 80's. They played Dublin promoting this album and I definitely saw them but I'm ****ed if I can remember where. Can any body enlighten me?

Ph3n0m

So I take it no one beside a few were at the gig in the Temple Bar Music Centre a few years ago then?

and jellikit - it was in Top Hat I think

Doctor J

They played McGonagles touring How Will I Laugh... they played the Top Hat after Feel Like **** came out. Missed the McGonagles one but saw the Top Hat gig with M.O.D.

Saw em in TBMC a few years back... they started with You Can't Bring Me Down and what a ****ing tune to kick a gig off with

Shiminay

Jaysus, I remember years ago I had the only ST album I own (the first one) on my bed and my mother said "what's that you're listening to? Suicidal Tendencies? What sort of music is that to be listening to"
My reply:
"Don't you think after 22 years of my existence, it's a bit late to be asking me that?!"


Great band and that one in particular is a great album.

Ph3n0m

Doctor J wrote:

Saw em in TBMC a few years back... they started with You Can't Bring Me Down and what a ****ing tune to kick a gig off with

Yeah but for me that gig was ruined by the tosser who got on stage and claimed he could sing in irish - always cringe remembering that

jellikit

Ph3n0m wrote:

and jellikit - it was in Top Hat I think

Yeah, you could be right, I saw some great gigs there between '88 and '90 I think. Whatever happened to that place, is it still going? I haven't heard it mentioned in years

jellikit

Doctor J wrote:

They played McGonagles touring How Will i laugh

Doctor J , are you sure about this? I asked a mate who used to travel to gigs with me around this time and he wasnt sure. For some weird reason the memory of my later teenage years seems to be a bit hazy

Oral Slang

Ph3n0m wrote:

Yeah but for me that gig was ruined by the tosser who got on stage and claimed he could sing in irish - always cringe remembering that

Haha, had forgotten all about that - thought it was so pathetic at the time, but can laugh about it now..

Doctor J

jellikit wrote:

Doctor J , are you sure about this? I asked a mate who used to travel to gigs with me around this time and he wasnt sure. For some weird reason the memory of my later teenage years seems to be a bit hazy

Yep, 100%. I couldn't make it myself but a couple of my mates went, returning with tales of insane crowd surfing during Surf And Slam. They also appeared on Jo Maxi that evening, miming to Trip At The Brain if memory serves me well.

buck65

yeah I remeber the JO Maxi thing....I was just watching it at tea time when they came on I was WTF???

Ph3n0m

buck65 wrote:

yeah I remeber the JO Maxi thing....I was just watching it at tea time when they came on I was WTF???

yeah wouldnt it be nice if that was on youtube....let me check


no, nothing

Doctor J

I don't think anyone in their right mind was expecting to see it and would have had a tape ready. It was... well, it was a slight departure for that show to put it mildly

Shank

yeah I remember being pissed that tickets sold out so quickly for the McGonagles gig, although it was a blast seeing them in the TBMC. I gotta say I thought that guy who got up on stage was great, he was such a tool it was hilarious.

Speaking of McGonagles, anyone else have tickets to see Nirvana there, I was gutted when they cancelled for a venue change.

Tar.Aldarion

Kharn wrote:

Jaysus, I remember years ago I had the only ST album I own (the first one) on my bed and my mother said "what's that you're listening to? Suicidal Tendencies? What sort of music is that to be listening to"
My reply:
"Don't you think after 22 years of my existence, it's a bit late to be asking me that?!"


Great band and that one in particular is a great album.

The she said, KHARN, you're on drugs... and kharn said, no I'm not mom, all I want is a pepsi, just one pepsi.


I love ST, unfortunatley have never seen them, unlike my mates who saw them in dublin.

Seth Brundle

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

The she said, KHARN, you're on drugs... and kharn said, no I'm not mom, all I want is a pepsi, just one pepsi.

excellent!


"Still Cyco After All These Years" is IMO even better than their self titled debut which was an excellent album.

Original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXGFEazA174

SCAATY Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rhkDqgGbg

Nea

Yesterday as I went out of the house
I saw a body lying down quiet as a mouse
Lying face down in the sewer
I got up closer and realized that I knew her
All her organs coming from her inside
Slashed up skin, sliced-up hide
Turned her over and saw the tire tracks on her head
That's when I realized she was dead

He he Best lyrics ever.

Great band, I only got to see them a few years ago in TBMC but by then it was really only Mike Muir. Good gig tho apart from yer man singing oro se do bheatha abhaile .

Art of Rebellion was one of my favourites tho. Monopoly on Sorrow was a great tune not a typical Suicidal track.

Ph3n0m

on a side note, I do have to recommend the first two Infectious Grooves albums

billius

"All I wanted was a Pepsi!"

toffo

Ph3n0m wrote:

on a side note, I do have to recommend the first two Infectious Grooves albums

Deffo, Mas Boriacho(sp) is damn good too.
Anyone goin to the Download should check suicidal out, one of the best bands I've seen live.

jellikit

Doctor J wrote:

Yep, 100%. I couldn't make it myself but a couple of my mates went, returning with tales of insane crowd surfing during Surf And Slam. They also appeared on Jo Maxi that evening, miming to Trip At The Brain if memory serves me well.

HaHA! Its all coming back to me now, it was the mention of Jo Maxi that did it. My brother taped this for me as he knew I was going to see them that night. They played "the feelings back" if Im not mistaken . In fact Im sure Ive
still got the video somewhere. Ill see can I dig it out

Doctor J

Dig, man, dig!!!

jellikit

I didnt find the Suicidal Tendencies video yet, but I just found a video of Headbangers Ball, Death, Doom and thrash metal special from 29th March 1992. Its got Megadeth, Pantera, Cathedral, Carcass, COC, Entombed etc. Looks like Ill be giving my weekly half shandy down the local a miss tonight! Im just off to look for my rose coloured spectacles now

getthegarglein

jellikit wrote:

Whatever happened to that place, is it still going? I haven't heard it mentioned in years

Its gone... there's a block of apartments there now

alonmias

the first infectious album was great, the other ones not so much...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLetfd4oLSE

faceman

ST's were always a bit of fun. those were the days. skateboards and headbands!

slavetothegrind

Think the SFX is gone now too.

I remember my first gig there, Accept supported by Anthrax, 1986 methinks?

Twas funny, Anthrax arrived in a mini bus to the front door, there was a good few lads and lassies outside to give them a cheer as they got off the bus.

I'll never forget the culchie who roared at the top of his voice as they passed
"Jaaaysus lads! They're ****in' tiny!!!"

Welcome to dublin Anthrax!

Accept were class.

Wasp played there twice, Manowar blew the cobwebs off the place...

Can't talk any more ..... drowning in nostalgia:o

Ph3n0m

sadly the SFX is gone - completely demolished

faceman

^ no way! Never knew that! last band i saw there were megadeth

Rattlehead_ie

Last band I saw there was Megadeth too, "The World needs a Hero Tour" i think, yeah the Art of rebellion was for me one of the best albums Ive heard, had a discussion there with my bro earlier, I think if that album was re released now i think it would do really REALLY well

Diarmuid

Saw them at the TBMC a few years back too. I was coming in on a flight that night and went straight form the airport to the gig. Missed the start but managed to get myself right up the front facing Mike Clarke. It kicked ass. What a great band. Would love to see them again.

Seth Brundle

They are playing in the UK on Fri & Sat - pity they felt it wasn't worth coming here.