I Got A Brand New Egg Layin´ Machine
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(Suicide Squeeze 2005)
Produziert von Goon Moon
Goon Moon ist: Zach Hill / Twiggy Ramirez / Chris Goss
Special guests: Dimitri, David Catching, Whitey, Scooter Pie, Jonesy The Skin Popper, Frater I.A., Peppy Sevenson, Thin Crust.
Recorded at Rancho de la Luna ,Prescription and Regime studios. Recorded by James Book, Jarred at Regime, Tony Mason.
Chris Goss: There’s a record coming out in June that’s called Goon Moon, which is me, Chris Goss [from Masters of Reality], Twiggy Ramirez [Marilyn Manson] and Whitey Curse [Iggy Pop], that sounds like free jazz mixed with psych records. I’m also working with the guys from Anticon on a record.
Zach Hill sagt über Goon Moon : You are both in a number of side projects or sit-ins with other groups. Have you done anything recently that’s the complete opposite of Hella?
Review von Thomas Hornbruch mastersofreality.de:
Angefangen mit doomigen Intro Track 1 “The Wired Wood Shed”, singt CHRIS GOSS singt im 2. Track “Mud Puppies” so, dass sich meine Nackenhaare sträuben, einfach genial schön, Jazzschlagzeug von HILL uaaaaaaa, Elektroschocks, Altbekanntes und Experimente und das von vorne bis hinten. Mal singt GOSS dann wieder RAMIREZ, dann mal wieder viel instumentales. Wer für alle Art von Musik offen ist, und mehrere Durchläufe tätigt, für den könnte dieses abgefahrene Material spannend, sogar schön sein.
Doch aufgepasst für einen alten MASTERS OF REALITY Hasen könnte dieses Werk einen Schock fürs Leben sein. 4 von 5 Sternen
Review: Alternative Press von Jason Pettigrew
Goon Moon - I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine
4/5 Members of Masters of Reality, NIN and Hella, just for the hell of it
A unit comprising Masters of Reality founder Chris Goss, Zach Hill (Hella, Team Sleep) and Jeordie White (former Marilyn Manson/current Nine Inch Nails bassist) seems as weird as the thought of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley actually consumating their brief marriage. The 10 tracks on the 25 minute I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine range from psychedelic/stoner rock to freakout jams peppered with electronics and feedback, all recorded with a shifting regard toward fidelity. If your iPod is crammed with tracks by Ruins, Soft Machine, High Rise and Daft Punk, well, your new favorite supergroup have arrived. Check your preconceived notions at the door and pass the Jesus juice.
Review: Aversion.com (April 2005) von Matt Schild
REVIEW OF "I GOT A BRAND NEW EGG LAYIN' MACHINE"
It’s spring again and changes are in the air. The Catholic Church unveiled a new Pope (well, relatively new. The dude’s 78 years old). The Department of Agriculture is showing off its new food pyramid. Twiggy Ramirez, former guitarist for Mr. Spookypants himself (Marilyn Manson) has a new band.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. We have another elderly white European dude spending his twilight years in a silly hat in Rome. The revered food pyramid is simply chopped into segments to help shiftless video game addicts find a caloric intake small enough to match their low energy expenditures. Ramirez (and Hella skins-beater Zach Hill, too), however, embrace change in Goon Moon.
Goon Moon’s weird-assed instrumentals aren’t too big of a change for Hill; they’re actually a large step toward normalcy from Hella’s nutso arrangements. Ramirez, a man best known for warmed over, mouth-breathing metal riffs, takes a step away from his former life as Manson satellite on Goon Moon. This time out, the trio, which rounds out with bassist Chris Goss, pitches sludgy, stoner-inspired post-rock noise. Most similar to Hella’s aural S&M, Goon Moon opts for weird, heavy and sort of progressive for its debut. A noisy, convoluted monster that can best be described as a poor man’s Hella – think less twists and turns and more metal – Goon Moon is a tug-of-war between the noises made by Hill and Ramirez’s paycheck-generating bands.
Whether or not Goon Moon was created as a way for Hill to dumb-down his manic drum arrangements or Ramirez to shed the scarlet letter of Manson involvement for a respectable artistic reputation, it sure seems that way. Not nearly as challenging as Hella, Goon Moon approaches listeners with a friendlier, accessible nature. That’s not to mean it’s Joe Satriani guitar jams Goon Moon is filled with turbulent and shifting arrangements that check post-rock’s obsession with nonlinear rhythms and curveball dynamics. Manson fans, you’d better run back to the protective and utterly complacent arms of your Antichrist
Review: Betterpropaganda.com
Goon Moon
Goon Moon is the spooky and dirgy alignment of a sorted and celebrated bunch.
The band features Twiggy Ramirez of Marlilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, Zach Hill of HELLA, and Chris Gross from Masters of Reality, and concocts a startling bitches brew of outsider prog experimentalism and thrown back and twisted stoner jams in the tradition of no one.
The full Goon Moon package highlights different sides of each contributor's talents and ideas otherwise hidden, skipped, or vetoed with their full-time bands.
Fans of supergroup's other efforts are sure to be challenged by the record's scope, but easily won over by the music's dark charm.
Review: CMJ von Kory Grow
Goon Moon - I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine
File Under: Hella bad
Recommended if you like: Desert Sessions, Sunburned, Hand Of The Man, Hella
Much like Twiggy Ramirez's previous band, his new skronk-rock troupe, Goon Moon, is weird for weird's sake. Ramirez teams with Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss and Hella drummer Zach Hill for 10 brief bursts of cacophonous static and punkjazz jamming. For the first half, Hill plays his trademark array of confused drum bursts, which often break for moments of noise and lo-fi pitter-patter. There’s even a song that makes no bones about hammering the band's mission into heads: 'Rock Weird (Weird Rock)'. Next comes the mashed potatoes song. No, seriously… 'Mashed' is a two-minute-plus ode to turkey's best friend. Had Goon Moon sat down and discussed what they were supposed to be (other than "weird rock", of course), this album might have amounted to more than the baffling hodgepodge of improvisation that it most certainly is. After all, improvisation is supposed to amount to something; just ask any of the skilled jazz drummers Hill tries to emulate. The only songs worth a damn sound like the Desert Session throwaways: 'No Umbrellas' reeks of Josh Homme's cutesy melodies and handclaps, and 'Apartment 31' is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Beach Boys harmonies.
Review: Indieworkshop.com von Jake Haselmann Juni 2005
Goon Moon
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The term “supergroup” is pretty stupid. Even if it was the highest regarded musicians at their respective instruments, there is no reason to tag them as a supergroup. How about, it’s a bunch of dudes that are in other bands, but this time they are playing together in this new band? It just seems more appropriate to think of an album as being done by a regular band than a super band. Oh… wait… let me ease off my soapbox here… ok, there we go.
The collaborative efforts of Zach Hill, Twiggy Ramirez, and Chris Goss make up Goon Moon. Now, Goon Moon, as you might imagine, doesn’t sound like your typical band. Instead of focusing on a direction or ‘style’, these three guys let loose with whatever creative juice that was flowing that day. Part stoner rock, part free jazz jams, another part experimental noise, and maybe even a little ‘stoned-late-at-night-and-I-need-some-Cheetos-but-first-I’ll-record-this-riff’ syndrome.
It’s certainly a hodge-podge of musical genres, but the flow of the album is never compromised because of it. One lucid jam flows effortlessly into the next, making an ever changing tripped out 25 minute record. There is nothing to directly compare these songs to and that should speak volumes for these three as a creative force. I’d put this up against any haze-filled prog album released in the last few years.
Some moments are perfect for window-down, stereo-blasting summer drives. Other parts seem like they are coming from some smoke filled, black light lit room. But it’s the glue that keeps everything together that is the most impressive part of I Got A Brand New Egg Layin’ Machine. These three guys got together and whipped out a complete thought… that doesn’t happen too often with collaborative albums.
So let the thick grooves and the vivid colors mess with your mind. You might be knocked a little off kilter on first listen, but the subtle hooks of Goon Moon will soon be calling out to you again…. and again, and again.
Review: Live 4 Metal von Natasha Padilla 30. Mai 2005
Goon Moon is Chris Goss (Masters of Reality, rock producer extraordinaire), Twiggy Ramirez (a.k.a. Jeordie White, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, ex-Marilyn Manson), and Zach Hill (Hella, Team Sleep), a side project that "highlights different sides of each contributor's talents and ideas otherwise hidden, skipped, or vetoed with their full-time bands," according to the trio's bio. Hill handles drum duties while Goss and Ramirez go to town on synths, guitars, bass, and vocals. The result is an experimental collaboration that ranges from prog rock to stoner fuzz to campfire space jams, synth dementia, and horror/sci-fi noise. In a sense it’s a new spin on Josh Homme’s Desert Sessions. A twenty-five minute twisted circus sideshow traveling across ten tracks, Goon Moon seamlessly arranges its musical bag of tricks without ever sounding contrived. Classic rock sensibility and Hill's outstanding free form drumming root the effort's outlandish first half from "The Wired Wood Shed" through "The Smoking Man Returns". "Mud Puppies'" spooky sing-along ghost wails are the only vocals amidst the extraterrestrial synth washes, blips, blasts, and psychedelic progressions during this stretch. "The Smoking Man Returns" is an intergalactic warfare homage to Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", followed by the warm-up-style interlude "At the Kit Kat Klub", complete with sound collage crowd murmur. "Rock Weird (Weird Rock)" ushers in the disc's more structured second half with robotic vocals reminiscent of Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express", and spooky carousel calliope alongside How the Grinch Stole Christmas Who carol-sing. An acoustic summer love jam that borrows the classic "Hey Joe" turnaround, "Mashed", Goon Moon's catchiest number, features freaky flanged vox repeating a "mashed potatoes and cream" mantra. Beginning with metallic cries from outer space, "No Umbrellas" then descends into a Queens of the Stone Age-esque rocker, save for Hill's frenzied bashing. This man could very well be the human embodiment of Animal from The Muppet Show band. Lazy, warm, indie ballad "Apartment 31" unexpectedly closes the EP with yelped backing croons, no doubt an ironic stab at emo-inducing, Pinkerton-era Weezer. With a full-length release slated for later this year, what else Goon Moon has lurking behind its neon masks and ultraviolet minds is anyone's guess. For now, I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine is the most listenable, enticing experimental record these ears have heard.
Review von MetalReview.com
Twiggy Ramirez, Zach Hella form Goon Moon
Aaron Mandel reports:
No doubt you recently thought to yourself, "I don't mind if prog-rock comes back, but please, God, not supergroups." Sadly, your impotent prayers will bring you no divine aid here, as the members of Goon Moon will be the first to inform you.
Yes, it's Goon Moon, a band that finally brings together the disparate talents of Hella's Zach Hill, Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson, and Chris Goss of proto-stonercore band Masters of Reality. This unholy trinity will release their debut album, I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine, on May 10. The album supposedly captures ideas "hidden, skipped, or vetoed with [the members'] full-time bands," though that's just a quote from the press release, because we're scared to call these guys on the phone. Hill handles nothing but the drums on Machine, while Ramirez and Goss trade off on vocals, guitar, and bass duties. We'll go out on a limb and guess Zach "We Was Just Boys, Living in a Dead Ass German Shepard" Hill had something to do with the title, though. Tracklist:
01 The Wired Wood Shed
02 Mud Puppies
03 Inner Child Abuse
04 The Smoking Man Returns
05 At the Kit Kat Klub
06 Rock Weird (Weird Rock)
07 Mashed
08 I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine
09 No Umbrellas
10 Apartment 31
(Pitchfork Daily News)
Reviewer: Dave Pirtle
Rating Scale: 1-6
Production 4.0
Songwriting 3.0
Musicianship 3.0
With a name and title like that, how could I pass this album up? Maybe I should have thought twice. Alas, I was lured in with the promise of something wacky that included the semilegendary Chris Goss, he of Masters of Reality (and surely others that I’m unaware of) fame and producer of many a classic stoner rock albums. Also playing here is Twiggy Ramirez (ex-Marilyn Manson), adding more intrigue to the equation, but the more telling player here is Zach Hill from Hella, as his band is the closest basis for comparison to the debut album from Goon Moon: very out there, sometimes enjoyable, but most often uninteresting.
I Got a Brand New Egg Layin’ Machine is largely instrumental noodling – imagine the noise that a band creates at the end of their live set: scattered riffs and noise, random drum beating, and a complete release of control that gives fans and band alike a few moments to come down from the euphoria of the show. Tracks like “Inner Child Abuse”, “Mud Puppies”, and the title track that go nowhere slow and leave you wondering when the real part of the track is going to kick in. Oddly, album opener “The Wired Wood Shed” shows some promise as a solid little ditty that sounds somewhat like early Rollins Band crossed with stoner rock. Somewhere down the line, the band must have decided to try to jam out a couple of actual SONGS here (complete with vocals), delivering the 70’s-tinged “Rock Weird (Weird Rock)”, the Butthole Surfers-esque “Mashed”, and the proto-punk of “No Umbrellas” before closing the album with the indie rock stylings of “Apartment 21”.
I know there’s a market out there for this kind of "out there" stuff but I’m not a part of it. I prefer my weirdness to be quirky and amusing a la Bad Acid Trip and Fantomas, not something that sounds like a bunch of guys in a studio recording their jam sessions. If you’re a fan of Hella you might as well check this out, but otherwise I can’t think of any one to recommend this album to – or even one good reason to try.
Review: Pitchforkmedia.com (Juni 2005 von Jason Crock
Why does the world need a side project from Zach Hill, Twiggy Ramirez, and Chris Goss (from Masters of Reality)? I don't think the band themselves could answer that, but that's also not the point: For as odd or predictable as this LP could have turned out, Goon Moon happily split the difference between experimentation and accessibility by not spending much time on either. One minute someone's whispering "meow, kitty" over abrasive squalls of guitar; the next, they sound like Queens of the Stone Age. None of these guises are ever fully explored, but I've Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine dips its toes in several styles while maintaining a campy Halloween vibe, and keeps things light through its most extreme moments.
Along with its diversity, it's the album's brevity that makes it so palatable-- it's attack one idea, get out, and go on to the next. "Mud Puppies" swings its stoner-rock riff like a mace behind ghostly chorus singers before dropping into industrial drones halfway through. If you're not watching, you'll probably miss the noise bleeding into "Inner Child Abuse", led by Hill's tight improvised pummeling on drums, which then railroad the transition into the ghoulish organ and corrosive guitar squeals of "The Smoking Man Returns". "Rock Weird (Weird Rock)", runs through scales over a stilted zombie march while a robotic voice chants "weird rock, weird rock, weird rock, weird rock, rock weird, rock weird..." (and I know, because they were thorough enough to transcribe those lyrics in the booklet. Thanks a shitload, guys.) The manipulated vocals continue through the perky folk strumming of "Mashed", then a announcer with a southern accent introduces the gothic surf rock of the title track. "No Umbrellas", one of only two songs with normal, unmolested vocals, moves through supercharged proto-punk guitar riffs with one-finger piano and handclaps, recalling the playful best of QOTSA. After all that, the traditional lift-yr-lighter closing ballad "Apartment 31" is somehow the strangest of the bunch.
The musicians of Goon Moon have made listenable record, while clearly unconcerned who listens to it. For fans of both indie and psychedelic rock, there's some reward, but the straddling of that line seems purely incidental. It's a short, strange trip, but it sounds like it was fun as hell to make and doesn't aim for anything more. Consider it the lighter side of indulgence from three talented and bizarre musicians
Review: Punknews.org Juni 2005 von Jesse
The side project of Zach Hill from Hella and Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson! And some other guy from Masters of Reality that no one cares about! And some other guest musicians! This mostly instrumental album plays on prog-rock, Sabbath riffs, bitch-ass drumming, noises, chants, and other stuff. While "Mud Puppies" is the best damn Sabbath I've heard in a while, "Inner Child Abuse" sounds like Alice Coltrane being raped by space aliens. In a good way. "The Smoking Man Returns" continues on in the aforementioned inappropriate reference to Alice Coltrane style. "Weird Rock" stands out as if Afrika Bambataa was influenced by metal instead of Kraftwerk. "Mashed" could very well be Neil Young on speed, but the title track, "I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine," makes poor Alice bend over one more time. After a long intro, "No Umbrellas" turns into a straight ahead rocker. The album is rounded out with "Apartment 31," a ballad-esque slow jam like the Black Crows on drugs, er, wait. Like the Black Crows playing straight ahead and digging on space rock. That's better.
Though playing the comparison game was fun, I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine is actually very unique when heard. The eclectic combination of song types expands the band's potential to work with whatever they want instead of being pigeonholed into any one type of genre. Though, as a side project by three people who come from very different musical backgrounds, the album seems a little bi-polar at times. Songs here are mostly rejected ideas from their full-time projects. It seems the thing that makes Goon Moon unique also can be seen as a drawback.
Regardless, Goon Moon's I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine is referred to as a mini-album, and seems to be merely an introduction to the talent and possibilities that lie deeply hidden in these three musicians.
(Rating: 4 Stars form 5)
Review: Sayra.net von Devin
Goon Moon “I Got a Brand New Egg Layin’ Machine”
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7.1/10
This band is the side project of Zach Hill from Hella and Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. Pretty impressive, I mean it’s Twiggy Ramirez. He used to freak the shit out of me while I watched the Marilyn Manson videos. I guess he stopped trying to scare little kids and is now focusing on creating some prog-rock. While not really sounding like Rush or anything, Goon Moon still manages to pack in an aggressive record that is full of a combination of stoner rock and experimentation.
Review: Slugmag.com von Erik Lopez
Goon Moon
I Got a Brand New Egg Layin’ Machine
Daft Punk + Don Cherry + 3rd Eye Blind
Street: Out now!
Here’s yet another Hella offshoot by the drummer and writer extraordinaire Zach Hill (seriously, does this guy ever quit?), with members of Marilyn Manson and Masters of Reality. It’s not only a smorgasbord of people but also a melting pot of styles. Each track on this “mini-album” is completely different stylistically from the track preceding and after it. Each track also is a track previously rejected from each member’s current band affiliation. If I were a music journalist blurb writer, I would say this: “A dancey stew of electronic mish-mash and jubilant drumming with a smattering of crowded house bravado!” or I would say something like this: “Not quite a tour de force, but certainly a ‘Ships Ahoy!’” This album comes off as a delightfully spooky supergroup effort that is still just a little bit disjointed (if not eclectically weird) to be excellent but definitely unique for a purchase and some late-night brooding party.
Review: The Stranger.com Seattle von Dave Segal
GOON MOON
I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine
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Marilyn Manson guitarist Twiggy Ramirez, Hella drummer Zach Hill, and Masters of Reality bassist Chris Goss form Goon Moon, a quasi-vanity project that likely won't please any of the members' main bands' fans. That's not to say I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine is devoid of merit, but it is hard to imagine anyone getting excited about this 25-minute mini album. The disc's overarching style is a kind of amorphous, chaotic psychedelic rock, exemplified by "Inner Child Abuse" and "The Smoking Man Returns." Both songs feature Hill's mad drum fills and disorienting, manic dynamics that recall the peaks of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. Similarly, the title track mirrors the fuzzed-up freakout intro to Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride," but with hyperactive drumming. On the down side, "Rock Weird (Weird Rock)" sounds like an outtake from Daft Punk's Human After All with its robotic vocals and monotonous automaton funk; the "romantic" ballad "Apartment 31" strives in vain for the arch-eyebrowed sincerity of Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets; and "No Umbrellas" resembles the hokey new-wave goth often heard at clubs in the early '80s. Goon Moon obviously have some talent (and plenty of effects boxes), but they could benefit from more focus and time in the studio before rushing to release their conceptions.
Review: Tinimixtabe.com von Tamec
I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine
Suicide Squeeze, 2005
rating: 2/5
reviewer: tamec
This is strange. Goon Moon is comprised of Twiggy Ramirez (bassist for Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails), Zach Hill (drummer from Hella), and Chris Goss (singer/guitarist of Masters of Reality). If you're familiar with any of these bands or even all three, you still probably don't know what Goon Moon sounds like, though if you catch Hella on their current tour in support of Chirpin Hard/Church Gone Wild you might get some inkling. There are ten tracks here, which go by in 25 minutes, but in that time the band do a great job of completely confusing the listener. Is this serious? Is it some sort of in-joke piss take? Who knows? The number of people who even care is so ridiculously small that I'll just assume that these three gentlemen are attempting something at least marginally artistic, but the aims of this project are unclear, to say the least.
I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine starts with a few noise-fuck collages with some typically skittering and sweet drumming from Hill, albeit at a much lower volume than usual. There are horror-movie ghost moans, "futuristic" laser sounds (is that a theremin I hear?), but not really much to latch on to. We've got the minimalist "At the Kit Kat Klub," "Rock Weird (Weird Rock)," which is aptly titled and sounds like a mid-tempo psych-rock number run through a "robot" filter, and "Mashed," which could be Ween at their weirdest, which basically means that it could be anything. By the time the record ends with the straight-ahead (and really repetitive) "No Umbrellas" and ridiculously normal torch song "Apartment 31," I had absolutely no clue what was going on. Suffice it to say that this is some sillyass shit. I can't imagine this particularly appealing to fans of any of the bands of those involved, but, well, kudos, dudes. Goon Moon.
