Friday, November 13, 2009
Cream / Creamtastic Mysterious Dispatches From Diarrhea Planet [Fresh Tracks From Their EP, Aloha!]
Posted by D Patrick Rodgers on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM
A band by the name of Diarrhea Planet played Wednesday night at The End. While I was personally unable to attend, Intern Lance was present, and he came back with three things: a positive report, a bunch of photographs and a CD containing five Diarrhea Planet songs. The tracks were on a burned disc labeled Aloha!, which was given to Intern Lance in the CD case of another artist--a Christian rock artist, at that. Now, I've mentioned DP before simply due to my fascination and bafflement over their name. I figure it's only fair that I point you in the direction of their music. But here's the thing: They've had no MySpace and, until recently, virtually no Internet presence to speak of. It was almost as if (gasp!) we'd have to go down to our local rock club, check out this new band, talk to them and get the music from the artists themselves if we liked it. What is this, the '70s, when people cared about music because it mattered to them personally, and it took more to discover new art than hitting "refresh" on your web browser? Fuck that. I've got some links for you after the jump.
Today I discovered this link to download Diarrhea Planet's EP Aloha! via We Own This Town. You can get the whole thing as a zip there. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Aloha! is a collection of brief, furious, up-tempo punk-rock tunes with absurd party lyrics and gratifyingly infectious melodies. As Intern Lance pointed out, these guys would probably fit in relatively well with the Infinity Cat crowd. And as Intern Lance also mused, we've had to spell and say "Diarrhea" an unsettling amount in the past couple of days. Allegedly, these dudes set out to be in a good band with an awful name (check), to record some songs to give away to their friends and anyone else interested (double check) and to maintain a low 'Net profile--which, in turn, made them more intriguing to me than most of the bands that email me with countless links, PDFs, invites, tracks and bios. Anyhow, you can listen to "Ghost With a Boner!!!," ripped straight from the mysterious Aloha! EP, below. And thank you, Diarrhea Planet, for reminding us that sometimes new jams are worth seeking out. And also, thank you for being far, far cooler than I anticipated.
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You guys have stepped on your collective Cream d*cks with this one. This is far cooler than you anticipated? You have low freakin' standards, D. patrick. the kings of leon suck, but this is good?? Are you guys friends with these guys or something?
As a friend recently said, the Cream is about propping up the Nashville Scene (and it's buds) and not the Nashville scene.
I'll be glad when this current crop of scene music writers moves on to other things. you guys just can't be taken seriously at all. geez...
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I do not care how good it is, I will never, ever, EVER put anything called Diarrhea Planet in my ears. It's fucking stupid is what it is. I hate to agree with somebody hating on the Cream writers, but...I (mostly) agree with wow. I hope that DP is some kind of gauche, lame, prepubescent joke (and even then, it's inexcusable). But I have a feeling the whole thing is every bit as low-rent and tasteless as it sounds.
Congratulations, Andrew J. You responded to this post in precisely the same manner my mother would have. Yeah, the name is "tasteless." Good call. The songs are fun and surprisingly more compelling than I anticipated.
So do you always avoid listening to bands with icky words in their titles? I like a band called Holy Fuck. I'm personally not a fan of Psychedelic Horse Shit, but that's only because I think their songs suck...not because their name offends my delicate sensibilities. You're shutting the door on a band before ever giving them a shot, but I'm going to assume you think they shut the door on themselves by performing under a patently disgusting name.
Kinda hard to argue the signifigant merit of having such an outlandish name. These kids have been written about multiple times before they even played a club AT ALL, and got covered merely based on the idea that the name made it necessary to check out. I think it's smart. And they were actually good...although some of the hooks were shot-for-shot from some infinity cat stuff, im gonna go on a limb and say that wasn't on purpose. Honestly if you're the type of person who derives pride and personal standard by setting a bar on stupid band names you probably haven't heard a whole lot of really good music.
i'm diggin' it. the boombox-in-a-basement quality makes it a little tough to latch onto at first, but i can't deny it's got zazz.
jessebaker, isn't everything that the Infitity Cat collective does pretty much a ripoff of old punk (a mostly shitty one at that)? I don't think its Infinity Cat that DP is attempting to copy "shot-for-shot." Just saying.
wowzers! they keep their tunes away from the internet, which gives them a neato 70s vibe. awesome dude. BULLSHIT. this band doesn't deserve to be spewed on the cream. let me know when the songs get better.
Hey everyone, we're a new band from covington, ky. How do we go about getting some free premenstrual pulp promotion here on the Cream? Thanks, Paul
Anyone pick up the SpiderFriends E.P.? on vinyl for free was pretty rad, and Diarrhea Planet is probably worth all this fuss
I picked up that Spider-Friends EP but haven't listened to it much yet. I appreciated the effort that went into that release though, especially having unique covers for every copy (and giving it away for free was cool too). I do like that "Doin' The Twister" song though.
Its true IC bands are not the root of said style, that specific comparison was linked to a couple of hooks that are actually present (exactly as they were portrayed by DP) in songs in the meemaw, kintaro, and daniel pujol catalogs, respectively. I have to say however that the show was entertaining, fun, and for what they play it sounded good. Im actually a fan of the name too, to be honest
it is great. i have seen it live. i wish people would just be open to shit before making themselves out to sound like a closed minded cunt bashing shit because of a bad name. fuckin cunts....
I'll admit that after seeing this band was playing, I absolutely had to check out what they sounded like. Since living in Nashville, I've been bombarded w/ local bands (who will not be named) that sound so pristine and commercial that at times...I've wanted to vomit. I really like this raw straight to the point garage rock stuff, it's unpretentious, carefree, and fun; exactly what rock should be. I think it's cool that labels like infinity cat are putting this sound out and establishing Nashville for something other than boring, dreadful "indie" folk garbage.
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