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The Judge record nobody wants?

By mcs | Published 12/11/2011

I don’t think I have ever met or even heard of anyone who actually likes this record. Mike Judge & Old Smoke ‘Sights’ LP. I remember buying this when it came out & thinking that it somehow seemed quite fitting. I dunno, it just didn’t seem that out of place. But somehow now that many years have passed, it now does seem like a weird release. I guess when I was younger I just saw Mike Judge as an older dude, and this seemed like older dude music. I don’t know how old he is, but I’m guessing that he probably was under 30 when this came out is what makes it seem a little odd. How anyone under the age of 50 could make this record is beyond me.

Kinda funny how seller xxxevilxxx666 drops into the description ‘ORIGINAL PRESSING ON REVELATION RECORDS!! ALREADY OUT OF PRINT’. Already? Like 18 years could be seen as fast for a record to sell out. Ha!

I have never listened to Old Smoke

By Tre | Published 08/30/2011

…and I don’t plan on starting now. But Emil said I should give this record “some love” here on VN. So I am obliging him. “Come on man, you should check it out, it’s actually pretty good, it’s like, Mike Judge doing Neil Young, but like… good.” Look, I got nothing against Neil Young, I don’t think I do at least. And truth be told, I do listen to plenty of chilled out folky stuff these days. But I have to defer back to the judgement of the 21 year old me here, and just say no. Hey, maybe you dig on this, or maybe you are a Rev completist. If you feel it, you feel it. Apparently handsomephantom felt it at one point.

Old Smoke.

By morgado | Published 08/10/2010

One last one from mazzo29 for today…

Not Judge, but Mike Judge and Old Smoke. You know right off the bat it’s going to be something entirely different than Judge. And boy is it. Neil Young style folk rock going on here. Kind of cool, but definitely an acquired taste. I’m sure this bummed a lot of people out the way that Fastbreak record bummed me out when it came out, but I think this was much more obviously going in a different direction.