Stream: The Amazements “Time Anus”
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(from Sticky Rubies out now on Peter’s Pool Boys)
This album is abrasive and full of noisy incongruent riffs and phrases, and though it is definitely not for everyone, there are moments where it seems true genius is lurking behind the hiss and noise. Mixing elements of garage and noise rock with hip-hop, grunts, growls, and even free jazz, Sticky Rubies is a unique and seemingly un-self-conscious addition to the recent wave of lo-fi underground albums to surface in the last few years. There are moments that bring to mind some of my favorite “Go fuck yourself!” indulgences of Royal Trux and Pussy Galore. These dudes definitely love Neil Haggerty, as they take elements from the early careless noise of Pussy Galore all the way to his flirtation with rap near the end of Royal Trux. The James Brown cover—“Get It Together”—is as far removed from James Brown as it possibly could be while still carrying some of Brown’s funky elements, though drowned under dollops of noise. While songs like “Time Anus” and “Head on a Stick” are repetitive to the point of monotony—with tin-can recording that makes the pain so much more intense!—others like “Tutti Fruit” and “Show Money” are pleasant noisy surprises, which gives the album an overall feel of accomplishment. This is a band I definitely need to catch live—if they’re anything like this album, I’ll be in for a treat.
1 Fred Mckimens // May 31, 2009 at 11:32 am
Jeezus, what the fuck’s this all about? Just was fuckin’ checkin’ shit out, low and behold that song Time Anus is on here and shit, it’s the best fuckin’ shit I’ve heard in a long time….
Man, this album is a must to get and I’m gonna’ order it like pronto. Thanks mucho for giving me the ups on a super cool ass band.
The Amazements.
Fuckin’ awesome…..
2 Dana Morgan // May 31, 2009 at 1:50 pm
cool, I’ll have to check it out.
3 orangehairboy // May 31, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Whoa, pretty awesome and descriptive review! I feel like I just walked out of a listening booth. The art is pretty radddd, too.
4 Mr. Y2K // May 31, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Bravo Mr. Clodfelter!
5 D.C. // Jun 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the positive words on the review!!!
6 Athena Kargeui // Jun 3, 2009 at 2:05 pm
THIS BAND gnikcufucking RULES! They’re really really really amazing/great/wow live, really, check them out on myspace, they’ll fuck your brains out:
http://www.myspace.com/theamazements
7 don williams // Jun 4, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I’ll keep an eye out for this.
8 peterspoolboys // Jun 9, 2009 at 9:10 pm
FUCK YEAH!
9 errrrr // Jul 7, 2009 at 8:44 am
this is just some typical smell stuff shit sean carnage hypes up.
they all sound the same, no?
all 12 million of these noise bands should just get together and form a “Polyphonic Spree” thing and get it over with…
the even lamer hipster/silverlake bands should do the same, tho that would be wayy more scarier.
originality’s an interesting concept,
it would be nice to hear some every now and then.
just saying.
10 errrrr // Jul 12, 2009 at 12:16 pm
i’m the real errrrr. the previous one is an imposter.
the amazements are not a noise band at all.
and the noise guys doing a poliphonic spree thing has been happening for years. Where have you been?
11 Stacy // Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 pm
.I have a feeling “imposter” errrrrr’s Jello or a jealous beeotch, and is a real hateful loser, cuz if it was just another Smell band than why distribute hate and lies to prove your point, if you right, than just sit back and watch the train fall of the tracks right?
Plus I’ve been seeing these guys do their thing for years, and they are definitely not just some band Sean hyped up, and they play many different styles of music, so “imposter” eeeeer, go an kill yo’self cause your facts are dead wrong, and your existence is even wronger cause you is probably some unoriginal loser doin’ jack shit with your stupid ass life…….
The Amazements #1 for life
Any who say different need to stop it!!!
The Amazements #1
all day everyday
Ima go an go to every single one of their shows and keep showing my boys love and support and be their to protect them from any evil and harm that might come their way, and stupid asses saying the wrong hateful things. Much love to the boys in The Amazements…keep doing your thing, keep it real and don’t let no haters make you lose your momentum….
peace out
12 uhhhhh // Jul 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Errr ummmmm hell yeah!
13 ron // Jul 12, 2009 at 8:05 pm
The Amazements are pretty awesome. Gotta check em’ out live.
14 Erin // Jul 12, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Wow!
This is really cool!
15 Erin // Aug 4, 2009 at 11:14 am
Definitely going to check these dudes out….great fucking recording quality to. Wonder who produces them.
16 Karla // Aug 30, 2009 at 10:49 am
The Amazements make me kinda horny. Last time I saw them live I wanted to fuck all of them and their music is sexy.
17 Taylor // Aug 30, 2009 at 10:55 am
Hey did anyone else hear that rad song of the amazements that Sean carnage put on his mixtape. It’s the second dong I think and it sounds great. Definitely am gonna order sticky rubies. Seen em live a couple of times and they fuckin killed it.
18 Cunt // Dec 12, 2009 at 10:48 pm
What the fuck is up? When can I see em’ live? They’re a great fucking band.
19 eeeeeeeek // Dec 13, 2009 at 8:10 am
are they still a band?
20 refermadness // Dec 14, 2009 at 1:14 am
they kinda broke up as far as I know
21 Mark // Dec 23, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Pretty cool band but what a weak ass drummer.
22 eeeeeeeek // Dec 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I think the drummer’s actually pretty awesome. Best female drummer I ever seen. Fuck you Mark. Mark my words, you suck!
23 Pat // Jan 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Refermadness sucks nuts I should no cuz I lick dick
24 Rey // Jan 3, 2010 at 11:51 pm
There’s way to much guitar can’t hear the vocals.
25 Marv // Jan 3, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Don’t wanna lick weeny.
26 frank // Jan 12, 2010 at 11:24 am
need to see em’ live as soon as fuckin’ possible.
27 Carl // Feb 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Heard their guitarist got fired.
28 cat // Feb 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm
…don’t think that it’d be too hard for the others to carry on though….
29 cat // Feb 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm
…I don’t think that it’d be too hard for the others to carry on though…
30 sean moran // Feb 17, 2010 at 4:58 pm
once had anal sex at an Amazements show.
31 Nelly // Feb 25, 2010 at 5:37 am
What the fuck?! Been wanting to see these guys, people don’t know if they’ll play live together again. Damn, heard Sticky Rubies and that shit was so bomb that I was really looking forward to seeing there live show. I heard that there live show is the best in Los Angeles,, some said even in the world. But I heard that the band was surrounded by sycophants and evil witches and bitches that fucked them up….same ol’ rock n’ roll story, eh? Let’s see if they pull through.
32 Nika // Mar 24, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I’m a spineless, two faced, cocksucking, empty, , sexually unsatisfied, uninteresting, phony, with no identity and my BF can’t fuck me right to top it off, that’s why I tried to fuck his friend that he and his friend’s hates at a random house one morning
33 Leisure World // Mar 24, 2010 at 9:03 pm
give it up these guys are done
34 Nellynelly // Mar 26, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Let’s keep conversations about the music and focus on how awesome The AMazements are please. I know that none of The AMazements dig this kind of bullshit, Nika.
I wanna suck dick.
35 Nellynelly // Mar 26, 2010 at 2:58 pm
and Hey Leisure World, go an’ suck a big fat dick cuz your done, and even if they never get back together than they’ll still never be done in our hearts you fuckin’ loser. Gee, an’ why do I have a feeling that your a mediocre wanna be musician in real life who probably does shitty rap as well……mmm hmmm……
36 Justin // Mar 26, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Hey guys let’s cool it, we’re all fans and we love The Amazements no matter what they do. But let’s not say that there done for or go bad mouthing people who said that, or as Nika has done put up an irrelevant story. Let’s show some love and positivity on behalf of these guys, huh? Just like how Jesus Christ sacrificed himself for mankind The Amazements gave us there blood and sweat to redeem us all of our sins, and I for one am taking my hat off, in respect to these wonderful musicians and singers who have given us so much, and in return, we nail there ass to the cross with worldy problems. Let’s approach them as we would approach Jesus Christ or Moses or Martin Luther King, men who have paved the way for us mortals, men with vision, who turn our water inside into sparkling wine that leaves us all fuzzy and nice feeling. Okay?!Let’s cut out the shit and pay respect.
37 f // Mar 28, 2010 at 6:55 pm
enuf guys…They’re good…leave it at that, these comments are insane!
38 f // Mar 28, 2010 at 6:55 pm
enuf guys…They’re good…leave it at that, these comments are insane!hjkb
39 Hal // Apr 1, 2010 at 11:59 am
If we leave it at that than we leave the angels wings susceptible to being torn by this cruel world, I’m kinda’ down with Justin and am really feeling what he’s saying and want to do all to protect those who pave the way for us. I love the singing, guitar drums, and they put tears in my eyes. Fuck the opposition! Those words and music saved my fucking life and I’m down to serve genius at any fucking time! And to top it I bought Sticky Rubies. Dude are you kidding me? Steel Mill, I Am God, Tutti Fruit. Fuck me…Classics my friends..Thank you Elon, brendan and Liam. 1 love
40 Sarah // Apr 1, 2010 at 12:02 pm
They are good and make me horny, but shut the fuck up with this self-righteous bullshit….Guys, fuckin’ relax, it’s just a band!
41 george // Apr 1, 2010 at 12:12 pm
What the fuck? All I hear is some high pitch, wanking off typical bullshit. the only thing that amazes me is that some fucking losers are willing to spend there time arguing about this menial junk, at least this song on this page….Oh wait, I actually went to a show at The Smell, and it was just some metal, noisy wanking shit and I walked out…..Bull shit fucking band, with that boring high pitched guitar bullshit, that sounds like a million other stupid things. I kinda’ liked the drums, though.
42 sean // Apr 3, 2010 at 8:16 am
cute penis! awesome guys!
43 Mel // Apr 5, 2010 at 8:32 pm
“When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?”
50 Cent
44 Mort // Apr 5, 2010 at 8:39 pm
After I destroy him, I’ll rebuild him,” says The General, “Because he never was strong enough to individually go against me. He needs the support of everyone else to try to attempt that. And they should have been smart enough to tell him not to directly go against me.”
45 ;lkl;lk // Apr 14, 2010 at 11:47 pm
hey i liked this band…wonder what’s up
46 eeehhh // Jun 4, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Sticky the Rubies up your ass
47 Wayne // Jun 24, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Shitty people
48 peter // Jul 2, 2010 at 3:45 pm
The follow up to this album is coming out later this summer/fall. The Amazement changed their name to the Real Noriegas. Same line-up, but without Elon.
49 Elon // Jul 4, 2010 at 10:36 am
I’m gonna get that!
50 Fred // Jul 4, 2010 at 10:57 am
Actually Peter, I believe that the Real Noriegas and The Amazements are different entities and to call the Real Noriegas album a followup to Sticky Rubies is misleading, and more damaging than helping to either band’s credibility, plus, you are just raising more speculation about why “Elon” is not there, or making an attempt to act as if him not being there will not hurt the ‘followup’, either way both efforts come off as seeming like a weak attempt to keep The Amazements going in some form or another. This is not a comment on either band’s musical abilities either, just a comment on presentation through advertising.
51 Sam // Jul 4, 2010 at 11:00 am
Buddy Holly and the Cricket’s continued as The Crickets with the same lineup, but without Buddy…….in fact I’ve got a few albums of there’s on my shelf…..
52 peter // Jul 4, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Hi Fred,
I appreciate your thought out, more serious comment but I think we’ll disagree on this one : ) Feel free to email me if you’d like.
Happy Fourth in the meantime!
53 FRed // Jul 4, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Dear Peter,
I like the Amazements, , I like the Pool Boy label… I like it all….. I don’t have a disagreement, I just really like all of this good stuff…..
54 fool // Sep 3, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I appreciate getting it up the ass
55 vagina // Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm
why do I queef?
56 Alex // Sep 29, 2010 at 10:41 am
friends=enemies with secret identities….
57 Y2k // Oct 5, 2010 at 4:40 am
that album was a very weak presentation of that band’s abilities…hope there’s something else…..the band’s great, they just had an idiot recording and producing them…wonder who that idiot was, I’ll sock them
58 Matt // Nov 11, 2010 at 12:54 pm
awww, this band sucks and always have sucked….Pathetic….
59 Frank // Nov 25, 2010 at 6:06 pm
get it up the ass…have a nice day in the meantime
60 Nathan // Jan 23, 2011 at 2:43 am
“I once received a blowjob in the parkinglot while them and some other band played…that night sucked
61 S L // Feb 5, 2011 at 12:19 am
I’m a little bitch
62 N // Feb 5, 2011 at 12:30 am
the lousy guitarist, yeah i think he farted, at least that’s what somebody in the room was saying, the drummer took a whiff while he was wailing on his riff, and the room started to smell as bad as what they were playing…
63 mystery // Aug 22, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Elon and B-Dawg need to make up, make out, and shoot grey porn, wearing grey paint, grey hair, grey sportscoats and socks. Nothing but love for the Amazers. That was an rubber band.
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