Check out Zbat's version of "I wanna be your dog"
Would love to hear your thoughts – especially from anyone who loves that classic riff!

I'm posting this here because I definitely went for a noise / shoegaze vibe, it's dirty and all over the place. I've seen a lot of covers of this song but really wanted a new spin on it :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80T-dG8G5JY

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About the track:

This riff is legendary. One of the best ever written, timeless, raw, and still hits hard as ever. I felt called to cover it for a few reasons, one of them a bit petty, to be honest...

A while back, I watched a band cover this track… and let’s just say, it had zero attitude. It fell flat, like they’d somehow managed to bury Ron Asheton’s legacy a second time. It got under my skin, and I couldn’t shake it until I decided to make my own version. One that feels real and unapologetic.

I’m not claiming it’s perfect, but it’s honest, with all the intention this song deserves. If you don’t like it, show me a better one and kick my ass.

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I have a passion for noise rock, and I hope this does the genre justice. RIP Steve Albini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK0a3zXtSsk&ab_channel=LIQUIDMERCURY

Kristen Pfaff was Hole's bassist from 1993 through the Live Through This sessions all the way up through her death. She was very cool, too, very principled and dedicated anti-rape work, excellent taste, a college radio queen, and honestly, hot as hell, for whatever that's worth. Plus she was hardcore Catholic school girl, and as someone who also found his own way out of that shit through post-punk and noise rock, a truly inspiring figure.

There's lots of resources on this, including a pretty interesting Facebook group, which I'll link later if the admins over there are cool with it. In the meantime, I'm going to put in some highlights from a piece initially published in 2019 and reproduced on this random blog (I can't find the original right now, for whatever reason):

While living in Minneapolis, Kristen formed her first band, Janitor Joe, in 1992. The band released their debut single the same year, and their debut album Big Metal Birds one year later in 1993. Janitor Joe was formed alongside guitarist/vocalist Joachim Breuer and drummer Matt Entsminger.

During a Janitor Joe performance in California, Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson found Kristen Pfaff, and her life was changed forever. The duo's band Hole were scouting out a female bassist, as they had just lost theirs, Jill Emery. Love asked Pfaff to join Hole, but she refused and returned to Minnesota. However, Love and Erlandson were persistent that she fill Emery's space in Hole. Eventually, Pfaff agreed and moved to Seattle, Washington in order to join Hole. In early 1993, Pfaff began rehearsing with Hole in preparation of their second studio album, Live Through This.

During her time in Seattle, Kristen began using heroin, most likely due to her inner circle of friends all being users. It is reported that Pfaff hated Seattle, and eagerly longed to return to Minneapolis. Pfaff told a reporter with the University of Minnesota newspaper what she allegedly told her Hole bandmates, "Look, if you want me to be happy and sane, I just need to get back home." Home was not the New York suburb where she was raised, rather it was Minneapolis, where she attended college and was heavily involved in the city's music scene. After nearly a year in Seattle, she left to return to Minnesota in March of 1994. In April, she returned for friend Kurt Cobain's funeral, and in June she returned one final time to collect the remainder of her belongings. Kristen never returned from that June trip to Seattle.

*In an interview with the Buffalo News following Kristen's death, her mother Janet recalls an incident in February of 1994 where she rushed to Seattle following her daughter had what she called an "incident" that led to her hospitalization. "In this brief time in her life, for the first time, Kristen had a fling with drugs," Janet Pfaff told the Buffalo News. "*I think it was peer pressure. I think it was part of a music scene in Seattle where drug use is glamorized and emphasized.". Janet said her daughter was not a regular drug user or addict by any means. Following the death of Cobain, Janet said her and her daughter talked regularly, and states that her daughter struggled with the passing of somebody so close to her. It is reported that following Cobain's passing, Pfaff entered a depression.

Gonna skip some paragraphs here, as the circumstances of her death make me extremely upset and sad because she reminds me so much of several women I'm close with IRL.

Courtney Love is the main suspect in the death of Kristen Pfaff. With holes in her story, a turbulent past between the two, and Love's intense paranoia, she certainly fits the profile. According to reports, Courntey was obsessed with the idea that Kurt Cobain was cheating on her. On April 1st, 1994, shortly before his death, Cobain had bought two round-trip airline tickets for him and another female besides Love. Apparently, Love thought this "mystery woman" of Kurt's was possibly Kristen Pfaff. Multiple reports say Courtney thought Kurt was having an affair with Kristen, though the pairing claimed they were only good friends. Kurt has been quoted as saying "She's a fucking talented musician, she's also a beautiful soul. I think she's so beautiful, but if I ever told her that, and Courtney found out, it would be hell." about Kristen.

According to multiple sources, including Pfaff's own brother, Jason, Kristen feared Courtney greatly*. At the time of her death, Kristen was in the process of leaving Hole. She had rekindled her relationship with her Janitor Joe bandmates, and was excited about returning to Minneanapolis to possibly start their career again****. Overall, Kristen's attitude of returning to the city she called home was positive. She seemed excited. However, Courtney Love was most likely not as thrilled.*** It was reported that Kristen was just "taking a break" from Hole, but why would she abandon the city of her bandmates, take a Uhaul full of her stuff back to Minneapolis, and restart a relationship with her old bandmates if it was just a "break"? It is important to note that like the death of Kurt Cobain, Kristen Pfaff died while she was separating herself from Courtney Love.

In December 1994, Courtney Love gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine, which was just all the more confusing and did not make much sense. She stated "I had to go over there and get Eric away from the body. Kristen had been his lover for a really long time. He'd already broken down the bathroom door after bathroom door for her." Although, if you remember, it wasn't Eric Erlandson that found Kristen; it was friend Paul Erickson. Additionally, the initial police report from the scene does not mention Courtney's presence at all.

When Janet Pfaff, Kristen's mother, received her daughter's belongings post mortem, she noticed something quite odd. Every day, Kristen journaled before falling asleep. Her journal contained truly the deepest parts of herself. When Kristen's diary was returned to her mother, multiple pages were torn from it. These missing entries were the ones during the week of time when Kurt Cobain was missing before his body was found. Rather Kristen, Courtney, or somebody else tore these pages out will forever remain a mystery.

Sad shit. Again, I really think the evidence for Love being involved in Cobain's death, while certainly compelling, doesn't really add up beyond a reasonable doubt. However, she really looks sus in regards to the Pfaff thing. Eric Erlandson too. Just lost a ton a of respect for Erlandson in just reading up on all of this, too. I don't want to hear any manipulatve, Chris Moltisanti-style "I'm the REAL victim here" rationalizations from that asshole. As it stands right now, sounds like Love ordered a hit on her cooler, prettier, more talented and nicer bandmate and Erlandson followed orders to the letter. Real Nuremberg shit, if you ask me.

Update #1: You know as I’m looking further into all of this I’m starting to think I had the Love/Erlandson arrangement backwards initially. Right now it looks like Erlandson acted alone in killing Pfaff and Cobain both and manipulated Love into helping him cover it up or otherwise roping her into being an accomplice. Think of the Beltway Snipers or the Tsarnaev brothers if that helps. (10/30/24, 5:15 PM)

personally I love this one: https://undernoise.com/ if you have cool channels to listen
to share it , I've been listening to them for a few months, i discover a lot of bands
old and new from the planet, it's various stuff related to noise rock , sometimes
electro or even metal, i heard a few cool rap stuff too that i don't usualy listen to ,
ok maybe one band that was new to me was that:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkBwvEx1uM&ab_channel=LIFEBAND