#Cave World

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Viagra Boys - It Ain't Enough (Live on KEXP)

(Studio version)

I've got a thousand reasons for to be content

I ain't content

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Where’s he off to?

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Artista: Viagra Boys Álbum: Cave World Ano: 2022 Faixas/Tempo: 12/40min Estilo: Indie/Post-Punk Revival Data de Execução: 02/10/2023 Nota: 6,8 Melhor Música: Punk Rock Loser

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Viagra Boys: Troglodyte (Official Video)

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Gallery: Viagra Boys @ Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC Date: March 2, 2023 Photographed by: Ray Maichin

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Motivational Music in the Morning ... #ViagraBoys featuring #JasonWilliamson, #BigBoy ... from the album #CaveWorld [Official Music Video] (2022) #MMitM1

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Viagra Boys Live Show Review: 2/24, The Salt Shed, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Growing up in California, people told Sebastian Murphy he was too much of a freak. When he moved to Sweden, there they told him he was too normal. That’s how the Viagra Boys frontman introduced “Punk Rock Loser”, a self-aware standout from the band’s third album Cave World (YEAR0001), Friday night at The Salt Shed. The song showcases a drug-addicted, reckless, overconfident man, one that Murphy admits he perhaps used to be, not even five years ago. It’s this mixture of self-hatred and idealization where Murphy, and Viagra Boys as a whole, lies, a presence truly reflected in their live show.

The very makeup of Viagra Boys is a microcosm for the contrasts they demonstrate. As a frontman, Murphy exaggeratedly emulates the toxic males Viagra Boys chide. Swilling beer, sunglasses on, his words barked, Murphy shouted and slurred his way through “Big Boy”, the very sight of a heavily tattooed, beer bellied man gravel-throating the words, “Well I’m a big boy, baby,” seemingly designed to send shudders down the spine of a normie. On the flipside, there’s saxophonist Oscar Carls, the only member of the band to match Murphy’s level of sheer performance. Also donning Matrix-era sunglasses, equally drunk (on wine he kept filling up), the short-shorted, slender player vogued his way through “Ain’t Nice” and “Big Boy” when he wasn’t impressively skronking on his instrument. On the instrumental ‘Cold Play”, his swirling solo dabbled in free jazz improvisation, the type of artistic headiness that’s on the opposite end of the spectrum of Murphy’s hilarious blathering.

The funniest thing about Viagra Boys, though, is how good of a live band they are. From Elias Jungqvist’s scratchy keyboard breakdown on “Big Boy” to Tor Sjödén‘s crashing drums on “Sports”, they’re simultaneously tight and adventurous. They’re also surprising. Sjödén sang in beautiful falsetto harmony with Murphy’s slow drawl on “The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis”. Jungqvist added a wavering synth line to “Sports”. Murphy picked up a guitar on freakout jam “Shrimp Shack”. The band established a stage presence and immediately supplanted it.

Viagra Boys are satirists, their very name referencing a sense of false virility that pervades the hyper-aggressive men and conspiracy theorists they make fun of. In a sense, it’s a genius formula: As long as there are idiots, there will be Viagra Boys songs, like “Creepy Crawlers”, which saw Murphy writhing on the floor, imitating the desperation of a particularly brainwashed anti-vaxxer: “They're putting little creepy crawlers in the vaccine!” Yet, part of Murphy’s imitation is putting himself in the shoes of his subject, as he’s fascinated by them without thinking of himself as above them. On stage, he contrasted an early song like “Liquids” with Cave World’s anti-gun diatribe “Troglodyte”, stating he, “Now writes about political turmoil and the state of the world.” But the next song the band played in the set was “Sports”, their breakout single, the very song that makes fun of men who unnecessarily wear sunglasses. You know, like the Viagra Boys themselves.

And then there’s “Worms”. It’s a stylistic outlier in Viagra Boys’ catalog, a little bit country, featuring a subdued bassline, Murphy adopting a twang. “The same worms that eat me will someday eat you, too,” is like a John Prine punchline turned into a whole song, but one that’s an appropriate reminder that whether you’re right or wrong, an asshole or a nice person, death is the great equalizer.

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Goodness! What a labyrinth! Why not wander deeper? Someone must have been here before?

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Jahresrückblick 2022

Finally: 10 mal Dancefloor. 30 Alben. 10 mal Radio. 1 mal alles andere (15.01.2023)

BEST TRACKS (DANCEFLOOR)

1. hudson mohawke – dance forever 2. beyonce – break my soul 3. donna savage – crush 4. romare – priestess 5. paula jets – jazzfest 6. marcel dettmann – suffice to predict 7. keke – thick8. kungs & boys noize – fashion 9. asther the producer & el completo rd – blim blim blam blam 10. nickodemus & qvln – werere (congafist percussao mix)

BEST ALBUMS

1. viagra boys – cave world 2. fontaines d.c. – skinty fia 3. meat wave – malgin hex 4. kamp & fid mella - 2urück 0hne 2ukunft 5. hudson mohawke – cry sugar 6. kode9 – escapology 7. hieroglyphic being – there is no acid in this house 8. cypress hill – back in black 9. preoccupations – arrangements 10. beach house - Once Twice Melody

11. suff daddy – basically sober 12. b.visible – pleasant clutter 13. leon vynehall - fabric presents Leon Vynehall 14. tsha – fabric presents tsha (dj mix) 15. theo parrish – dj-kicks (detroit forward) 16. romare – fantasy 17. loop – sonancy 18. danger mouse & black thought – cheat codes 19. beyoncé – renaissance 20. guerilla toss – famously alive

21. dälek – precipice 22. dead cross – dead cross II 22. santigold – spirituals 23. !!! – let it be blue 24. moderat - more d4ta 25. napalm death – resentment is always seismic - a final throw of throes [EP] 26. rosalia – motomami 27. ebow – canê 28. black midi – hellfire 29. die sterne – hallo euphoria 30. tv priest – my other people

BEST SONGS (INDIE, POP & RADIO) (zufällige reihenfolge) dead cross – love without love die sterne – gleich hinter krefeld m.i.a. – popular diana ross & tame impala – turn up the sunshine meat wave – complaint viagra boys – ain't no thief fontaines d.c. – i love you cari cari – zdarlight 1992 rosalia – chicken teriyaki cypress hill – the ride

AND ALSO …   DJ/ELECTRONIC SET – CONCERT – protomatyr, rote fabrik, zürich FESTIVAL – keines, to be honest CLUB – gasthaus dopler TV – star trek lower decks, dope sick, we own this city RADIO – fm4 unlimited MOVIE – night mare alley MUSIC-VIDEO – MAGAZINE – trasher MUSIC-MAGAZINE – ox BOOK – wu-tang ist forever NOT BAD – sich ein jahr auf eine sache konzentrieren NOT GOOD – war 2022 – weniger arbeiten, mehr blog einträge

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Viagra Boys - Worms (Live @KINK, Down The Rabbit Hole)

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"Milk Farm" by Viagra Boys - From "Cave World" (2022)

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Viagra Boys - "Cave World" (2022)

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Oh, and as you may imagine, they’re incredible live. 

#Top10 #Viagraboys #aintnothief #caveworld