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Clutch is loving incredible but I haven’t been able to get into any of their post 2009 or so stuff. See, the thing is their style went and evolved. Hard metal, stoner rock, jam band, regular metal with some weird poo poo, blues-jam band stuff, then blues metal. The … it stopped. They just started making excellent blues metal but I wasn’t listening to them for their straight up technical ability, but because it was always different. Anyway post about Clutch because even though they’ve been letting me down I still love em.
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I stopped paying attention to them around the time Electric Worry came out (good song tho), but anything off of Elephant Riders or Blast Tyrant is really loving good. https://youtu.be/E2cLEykjKJs Green Buckets https://youtu.be/zPjkQKfmVI8 The Mob Goes Wild https://youtu.be/WGE7GAjlV3k The Regulator
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Jul 3, 2021 16:28
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I really like Robot Hive/Exodus.
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Jul 3, 2021 20:54
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I really like Robot Hive/Exodus. Hell yeah
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Jul 4, 2021 02:21
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Percy Teatwillow posted:I stopped paying attention to them around the time Electric Worry came out (good song tho), but anything off of Elephant Riders or Blast Tyrant is really loving good. Elephant Riders is a really good album, it has that perfect balance of “weird” and “super listenable”. The Soapmakers is amazing. Beale Street (the one with Electric Worry on it) is kind of where I fell off too. Strange Cousins from the west is the 2009 album that really was it, but I’ve listened to that a couple dozen times in 12 years, compared with everything before it where it’s easily hundreds. Robot Hive/Exodus was my intro to them. So good. 10001110101 is a fantastic song and the chorus is memorable enough I can type the title from memory every time.
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Jul 4, 2021 03:28
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I actually like Clutch the bluesier they get. However I do notice for almost every Clutch album that comes out, the first time I listen to it I'm not impressed and a bit "meh" about the whole thing. A few listens later and it digs its hooks in and I'll find at least 3 or 4 absolutely killer songs.
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Jul 4, 2021 04:06
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Earth Rocker was good. Had some filler but the good songs are pretty good. Psychic Warfare I think I’ve listened to once all the way through. Just kind of boring. Maybe I’ll listen to it again today.
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Jul 4, 2021 11:46
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Self titled is the best one, I feel. Reminds me of high on acid or whatever listening to it.
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Jul 5, 2021 05:53
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I started making a new driving playlist and listened to their latest couple albums and yeah, kind of sounds samey. Not bad, but I can just listen to the songs I have nostalgia for.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:10
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Clutch was the first band I ever saw live, at a tiny club in Providence, RI when they were touring on the self-titled.
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Aug 6, 2021 23:47
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Clutch was the first band I ever saw live, at a tiny club in Providence, RI when they were touring on the self-titled. I get why they don’t but I wish they still just toured 265 days a year.
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Aug 9, 2021 00:07
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Clutch was the first band I ever saw live, at a tiny club in Providence, RI when they were touring on the self-titled. Which club? Smaller than the living room? Met Cafe?
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Aug 9, 2021 00:54
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BigFactory posted:Which club? Smaller than the living room? Met Cafe? Club Babyhead. I’m pretty sure it’s something else now. E: GOOD LORD that was 27 years ago 
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Aug 9, 2021 01:23
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Club Babyhead. I’m pretty sure it’s something else now. Yeah I don’t think that exists anymore. Not sure what’s there now. Yeah it’s just a disco now. Looking back at the shows there are crazy. Nirvana/melvins split bill in 91. Pearl Jam played there lol. Providence had good rooms back in the day. Living room was always great and the old Lupos was good. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 02:31
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I’m seeing them for the first time 10/1.
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Aug 9, 2021 02:52
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I've seen them probably 4 times at Pop's here in (east) St. Louis. My buddies and I were into our college radio station way back when so we scored free tickets and two of them interviewed Tim. Apparently The Devil and Me is about Sauget and they wrote it after a show out here. I don't know how true that is, but i think he got it right.
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Aug 15, 2021 04:29
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I'm not really a big fan of going to see live music, but I've seen Clutch multiple times and it's always been great.
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Aug 17, 2021 00:52
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I saw Coheed and Cambria with Fall of Troy and Clutch supporting in 2007 in Norfolk, VA. Clutch played first and their fans were all miserable-seeming 30+ bald guys who left after Clutch's set. At one point their singer said what their next song was called and, being met with very scattered cheers, bitterly said "yeah, we're playin' all the hits!". To this day this comprises my opinion of the band Clutch.
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Aug 17, 2021 06:58
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I saw Clutch live in Nottingham in 2019 and that might have been the last gig I went to before the pandemic. It ruled! I remember being wasted and hollering the lyrics of Electric Worry along with my equally drunk brother. I like X-Ray Visions as a song but I don't think I have strong opinions of anything they've made after Blast Tyrant. I also have a soft spot for Behold the Colossus and Cyborg Bette because they are very cheesy.
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Aug 17, 2021 10:03
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I’m seeing them live in Albany this October, PMs are welcome if you want to join I loving love Impetus. Back when I was running all the time I had a hill I would have to run up at the end. I always had it come on to the chorus- I will not relent I will not relent I AM DRIVEN https://youtu.be/3z1XxDE0iRw
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Aug 17, 2021 11:14
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I lost my glasses in the mosh pit at a clutch show when I was a kid and some big dude told everyone to hold up, and I found my glasses, and everyone started moshing again. Good vibes.
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Aug 17, 2021 11:16
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BigFactory posted:Psychic Warfare I think I’ve listened to once all the way through. When it came out, it seemed to be the album that "broke" Clutch for a lot of people. I'd been raving about them for years, then Psychic Warfare comes out and everybody around me was like: "Dude have you heard Clutch?!"
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Aug 17, 2021 15:19
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H13 posted:When it came out, it seemed to be the album that "broke" Clutch for a lot of people. I'd been raving about them for years, then Psychic Warfare comes out and everybody around me was like: "Dude have you heard Clutch?!" I think it’s just kinda boring, and I like the newer Clutch that sounds like they’re morphing into ZZ Top
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BigFactory posted:I think it’s just kinda boring, and I like the newer Clutch that sounds like they’re morphing into ZZ Top  , it was kind of the turning point for me on their new stuff. I think it’s because after that they started having a more standard sound from album to album and nothing weird or out there like Elephant Riders or Blast Tyrant.E:wait no, I have it confused with Earth Rocker. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 05:15
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Earth rocker’s a much better album imo
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I’m gonna necro the gently caress out of this thread because Clutch rules. They were the first band I became a rabid fan over, and to this day, probably are still the only one. Got into them between Pure Rock Fury and Blast Tyrant, back then I still bought CDs lol, had listened to Elephant Riders even after Tyrant came out. Riders was def the weirdest way to get to know that band. Didn’t like it at first, Blast Tyrant eventually came to my attention, blew me away, then I went digging through the whole back catalog, dug up and pirated every live set I could find, so on and so forth. Not bootleg as such, but Flint Michigan is the best one, even though Neil’s voice sounds like poo poo. The spoken word bit in Oregon gives me the goddamn chills on that recording. Robot Hive/Exodus will always be the peak for me. Neil’s most free-flowing vocal patterns and rhythms, Mick nailing the hammond, just perfect album front to back. But you can’t go wrong with any of their poo poo all the way back from Transnational up to Hive. Hated Beale Street at first, came around on it later, didn’t mind Earth Rocker, though it was trying real hard to retread the Blast Tyrant days, right down to them snagging the same producer. Just waxing a little nostalgic in a thread nobody’s probs gonna read, but I’m glad y’all are around and that people still remember/love this fuckin band. Think I’ve only seen ‘em four times, but every time, from Louisville, KY to Collumbus, OH, they got the crowd moving no matter where they were on the bill, sometimes moreso than the legit metal dudes they played alongside. They used to tour with fuckin anyone man.
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BurningBeard posted:
 Also couldn’t tell robot hive was your favorite at any point before I read your post, because your username is not the second best song on that album. When I first found clutch it was 2007 I was 18 and it was my Dad and I listening to metal albums while cutting down dying cedar trees and lighting them on fire. And by that I mean, he had two metal albums at hand because my mom had just separated from him for the second but not final time. The two albums? Elephant Riders and Robot Hive/Exodus. I still have whatever the word is for weird nostalgia for an incredibly unpleasant event is for those two albums. I loved Beale street from the first time I heard it, the self-titled and earlier is where I had some adjustment. Self titled did give me a phrase I use all the time now, though. When I’m working hard at a futile task and someone asks me how I’m doing I say “rockin’ it like Sisyphus”
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Clutch rules
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no I am the biggest Clutch fan here Clutch, Elephant Riders, Jam Room, and PRF are peak Clutch for me. I discovered them in high school and spent a lot of time thinking their lyrics were absolutely genius in their weirdness. Now I know they're just silly poo poo that mostly Neil thought up because he's a big dork and that makes it even greater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-KSYfUC6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60u10gsEIc Blast Tyrant, Robot Hive - Exodus, and Beale Street to Oblivion are all grouped together for me. I think Blast Tyrant is one of their best albums ever in technical proficiency. Something happened after Pure Rock Fury with JP's drumming. It got really consistent, dude just turned into a metronome. And his groove really developed. I think that was when I learned the term "pocket drummer" from someone heaping praise on his style. Beale Street to Oblivion was great and I think Neil said there was very little overdubbing, it was almost entirely recorded in single takes. You Can't Stop Progress into Power Player is one of the best album openers in rock music and it's carried by JP in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynhDzF3I-A I only liked a couple tracks each off of Strange Cousins, Earth Rocker, and Psychic Warfare. Book of Bad Decisions sounded more coherent to me, more rehearsed, I dunno. Something about that album just works for me better then the three previous ones. I could give or take the bluesier stuff. Some of em work (Gravel Road), some of em don't (Electric Worry). What I really like though, are the weird one-offs and covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgeau0xN_qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiZrie5JXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBXfYEwBVQ Speaking of JP's crazy tight grooves and deep pockets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQa7TdTzflI Oh and the day I got Beale Street to Oblivion, I heard the song Rapture of Riddley Walker, figured out what it was about, and went and checked out the book at the library. It's one of my favorite books ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_m5o4TOzkk
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:
Heard about that book through Clutch too and holy gently caress it’s hard to read but it’s so good.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Heard about that book through Clutch too and holy gently caress it’s hard to read but it’s so good. There’s a website with translations and explanations of some of the more arcane stuff. 100% necessary for me.
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Clutch is incredibly loud live.
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Hello Clutch thread, REJOICE! For there is new Clutch to be heard! Posted yesterday on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snEKE4abHk
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They have become a parody of themselves at this point and I’m mostly here for it.
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If they released anything that sounded even a little bit like Elephant Riders I would lose my poo poo so hard and never get it back.
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I think the days of weird funky muddy poo poo are long gone and I mourn that. I want to see them this tour, they’ve been playing a lot of old stuff.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I think the days of weird funky muddy poo poo are long gone and I mourn that. I want to see them this tour, they’ve been playing a lot of old stuff. I’ve seen the set lists and it’s like 30 percent stuff I want to see and would lose my poo poo for, and 70 percent new stuff that would bore me.
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So I’ve been catching up with Clutch and have up to Elephant Riders currently. Should I stop there?
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IUG posted:So I’ve been catching up with Clutch and have up to Elephant Riders currently. Should I stop there? No way I mean unless you don’t like them so far
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Listen to all Clutch, but the stuff between Jam Room and Pure Rock Fury inclusive is best. Blast Tyrant and Beale St to Oblivion are pretty good but not the same.
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