We used to sit around and listen to the radio and not hear anything like the stuff we like, so we decided to play it ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.
So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.