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Don Giovanni to release Skynet debut, posts track from Ergs! album

Posted by aubin on Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 4:15 PM (EDT)

Don Giovanni Records has announced plans to release the debut from New Jersey-based outfit Skynet. The quartet plays three-chord pop-punk in the vein of the Ramones and Teenage Bottlerocket.

Titled Revenge For Hire, you can check out two songs from the record here: "Leeloo" and "Blackout Blue."

In related news, the label is also taking pre-orders for the new disc from the Ergs! titled Jersey's Best Prancers. You can check out a track from that album here: "Kind of Like Smitten."

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kindofalongwaydown (April 29, 2006)

Sucks.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

shut up

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kindofalongwaydown (April 29, 2006)

No.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

yes, Skynet and The Ergs are infinitely better than whatever your lame ass is listening to.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

Yeah dood, you just keep thinking that.

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kindofalongwaydown (April 29, 2006)

How the fuck do you know what i'm listening to. Typical eliteist attitude. Your music is better than everyone elses. Fuck off.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

Nope, I know you listen to crap because I looked up your username and saw it was an I Hate Myself song.

Get off of punknews clown

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kindofalongwaydown (April 29, 2006)

So you insult people based on their musical preference? You even looked up my name? Thats pretty goddamn laughable. It also shows that you are a pathetic human being..kill yourself now.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

wait wait wait, did I insult you based on your taste in music?

No, I just said you got shitty taste in music, nothing about your character was brought into question.

Why did I bother saying you got shitty taste in music?

Because you said these bands suck but at the same time you're advertising yourself off as a fan of a band that's critically acclaimed by a bunch of gender confused losers in tight pants.

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kindofalongwaydown (April 29, 2006)

You are a confused young man.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

confused for you lovin'!

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

your making enemies!

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

ahahahahah

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

yea it takes a lot of work to stick your name in that google toolbar up there....

i hate yourself too!

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Someone (April 30, 2006)

wait, a dude loves I Hate Myself, but thinks the Ergs suck? That's absurd. I must have had too much whiskey.

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kindofalongwaydown (April 30, 2006)

Umm, did I say the Ergs suck? No I did not. Stop making assumptions.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

Don Giovanni? Who's that dude?

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

Rancid wrote a song about him. Apparently he's making enemies.

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TheOneTrueBill (April 29, 2006)

BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!

it's sad what's happened to Norm McDonald.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

what happened?

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miniblindbandit (April 30, 2006)

Yeah I gotta go...lift some weights...what?

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Someone (April 30, 2006)

"Hey are those prostitutes? I mean hey, who are those people?"

-kliph

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Someone (April 30, 2006)

Note to self: Making love to blow up doll not as good as advertised.

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

you're making enemies! like don giovanni!

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

Skynet has become self-aware!

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danielsan (April 30, 2006)

hahaha I was going to say that!

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

The quartet plays three-chord pop-punk in the vein of the Ramones and < b> Teenage Bottlerock t.

wow. i guess one of the benefits that comes from blatantly ripping off the ramones is you get.....fuck it. you know what i mean.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

you get what?

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

i couldn't think of how to phrase it. its just weird to see a sentance that says they sound like the ramones and teenage bottlerocket. like teenage bottlerocket is even in the same league as the ramones. they shoulda just said ramones since teenage bottlerocket sounds just like them.

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

Not exactly, I mean, in a sense, YEAH, all of those 3 chord poppy punk bands sound just like The Ramons, but at the same time most of them usually put their own spin on things.

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

uhh....have you listened to TB? they're basically a ramones cover band.

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branden (April 29, 2006)

nothin wrong with that

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 29, 2006)

basically teenage bottlerocket sounds like the ramones. next they'll be saying bands sound like the ramones and skynet.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

basically teenage bottlerocket sounds like the ramones. next they'll be saying bands sound like the ramones and teh revolt.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

Ergs are great.

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dev (April 29, 2006)

Does the title "Jersey's Best Prancers" piss off Lifetime fans? I wouldn't know as I don't consider myself much of a fan.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

it seems it would
they seem to be the kind of fans who like grudges and can't take a joke
but again
i can't say really
i'm not a fan

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

Nope, I love both bands.

There was some band from Chicago called The Rushmores that released a record called Hello, Dummies

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

as well as a record called giggadagiggadagiggada with a picture of quagmire on the front instead of the weasel

i dont think many lifetime fans should care, plus the ergs asked their blessing anyway

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

The Ergs do indeed rock. This is fact.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

the ergs are amazing

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SalsaShark (April 29, 2006)

I have an Ergs! shirt that I wear proudly all the time. In fact, I had it on when my friends and I found a comic book/porn store downtown yesterday.

Quality band.

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kingofpain (April 29, 2006)

I think I've seen that store before. haha

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Scruffy (April 29, 2006)

In Columbus. Isn't it something like Discount Paperbacks?
If so, that's where I went to buy my comics when I went to CCAD for that semester.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

God, this stuff is boring.

You hear one of these bands, you've heard them all. Although that Teenage Bottlerocket album was particulary bad.

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TheOneTrueBill (April 29, 2006)

I don't think you could possibly be more wrong.

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

I dunno, i could've said it was good.....

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

I love pop punk, have for years, but I have to agree about Teenage Bottlerocket. That record bored the shit outta me.

Ergs! are one of the only exciting bands in the genre currently.

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JKyle (April 29, 2006)

I loved Teenage Bottlerocket's album. That and Chixdiggit!'s Pink Razors are two of the best pop-punk albums I've heard in a while.

I liked most of The Ergs' Dorkrockcorkrod, but I thought it was a little hit-or-miss. ::Shrug::

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

the opera was a good 3 hour nap.

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Scruffy (April 29, 2006)

Is that a play off Kind Of Like Spitting?

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BizzleBrizzle (April 29, 2006)

probably

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Someone (April 29, 2006)

i would say definetely

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branden (April 29, 2006)

these bands are cool as shit

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Someone (April 30, 2006)

For the best book on the Ramones read,
"On The Road With The Ramones"
http://www.ontheroadwiththeramones.com

This is a MUST-HAVE book for all Ramones fans. It's an inside look from the people who were actually there witnessing and experiencing all the extreme highs and lows of one of rock's greatest bands. The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from their early New York club days at CBGB's in the '70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as "baby-sitter to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver." It's such a fascinating read, you'll have a hard time putting it down. Buy it, read it, and then revisit their albums. You'll never look at the Ramones in the same

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