Nuisance (the Lookout band)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:53 pm
I think the most underrated band in the entire Lookout Records family was Nuisance.
I'm not even 100% sure where they were from, but I'm thinking the San Francisco/Bay Area, but I can't swear to it.
I was introduced to them back in the early 90s when I took a roadtrip with Garden Variety to a basement show in Montclair, NJ. The G.V. guys were raving about playing with them, but I had never heard of them.
Three piece band who wrote uniquely catchy songs that had complexity and subtlety that most of the pop-punk Lookout bands didn't have.
They had a couple of 7"'s on other labels (Kirbdog and Very Small) and two absolutely excellent full-lengths on Lookout - Confusion Hill and Sunny Side Down. I think they were touring Sunny Side Down when I saw them. I was blown away by the band just from the live show and ended up finding all their records afterward.
Haven't listened to them in awhile, but for some reason, they popped back into my head.
Never heard much from them again after that....I don't think they ever toured or came around again after that.....and since then, have just sort of drifted into the mists of time. But I think it's a band that a lot of folks around here would really dig.
YouTube only has a few songs from the first album....here's a good one (although by no means their best song or anything).
http://youtu.be/GHB2_HpMvKo
I'm not even 100% sure where they were from, but I'm thinking the San Francisco/Bay Area, but I can't swear to it.
I was introduced to them back in the early 90s when I took a roadtrip with Garden Variety to a basement show in Montclair, NJ. The G.V. guys were raving about playing with them, but I had never heard of them.
Three piece band who wrote uniquely catchy songs that had complexity and subtlety that most of the pop-punk Lookout bands didn't have.
They had a couple of 7"'s on other labels (Kirbdog and Very Small) and two absolutely excellent full-lengths on Lookout - Confusion Hill and Sunny Side Down. I think they were touring Sunny Side Down when I saw them. I was blown away by the band just from the live show and ended up finding all their records afterward.
Haven't listened to them in awhile, but for some reason, they popped back into my head.
Never heard much from them again after that....I don't think they ever toured or came around again after that.....and since then, have just sort of drifted into the mists of time. But I think it's a band that a lot of folks around here would really dig.
YouTube only has a few songs from the first album....here's a good one (although by no means their best song or anything).
http://youtu.be/GHB2_HpMvKo