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A Poor Excuse for a Messiah

David Wessner | Los Feliz, CA United States | 09/11/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Blah blah blah. Rock music. Wall of noise. Desperation. Mystique. Poetry. Obliteration. Yadda yadda yadda.Hag Seed is quite possibly the single greatest rock record of the 20th century to be utterly ignored by the masses. People should be mentioning Thirty Ought Six alongside Jane's Addiction, Fugazi, Depeche Mode, Tool, and Tom Waits. Instead, a grubby minority of enlightened wannabe geniuses sprints about trying to make as many pirated copies of Hag Seed for their poor, ignorant friends as time will allow.The marriage of fury and vulnerability almost never lasts beyond the penny-pinching honeymoon. But Thirty Ought Six managed to throw the two together in a way that has hypnotized a few lost souls into believing love actually exists. Who would've guessed that playing an Elliot Smith record and a Napalm Death record at the same time would not only work, but would yield a sound too powerful and aching for petty English adjectives to sufficiently describe?The fact that Thirty Ought Six are not disturbingly rich is yet another shred of proof that there is no god."

Velvet hammer, drenched in blood and melancholy

08/19/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Nothing could prepare you for the aural onslaught that Thirty-Ought Six have placed on this disc. A manic tear through anger, passion, loss and redemption where every breathy low drips with the same emotional wrench as every distortion-soaked wall of noise scream. If you thought the Pixies were holding back something, or Polvo was too abstract, you, of all people, need to feel this music.30-06 have a previous disc, Bosozoku, which is equally dense and affecting.Sadly, 30-06 is no more. Sean Roberts has gone on to form Umberhulk."

Dept. of Corrections

A. Seth Young | 07/09/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Thirty Ought Six was not a "Seattle band." The three of them lived in Portland, Oregon, and, if memory serves, they were east coast transplants."