{"id":1757,"date":"2016-04-10T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:08:22","slug":"quicksand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/quicksand\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicksand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What, you&#8217;ve never heard of Quicksand? Post-hardcore band out of New York, early nineties?<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Here&#8217;s the best song of 1993, and why some of us didn&#8217;t care about Nirvana and grunge.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-161h9KLh4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I couldn&#8217;t get enough of that song when I first heard it. PolyGram sent my store a promo copy, which one of the other drones played on the overhead stereo as I checked in product. I briefly stopped pretending to be an assistant manager, and mistook it for Primus. Hard, good Primus, like Sausage without the silly.<\/p>\n<p>The second track on Quicksand&#8217;s debut album,\u00a0<em>Slip<\/em>, is nearly as spectacular as the opener. That is Sergio Vega on bass, and Walter Schreifels on vocals and guitar, formerly of the legendary Gorilla Biscuits, and Youth Of Today.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pmq6i9GTEBk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As much as I love\u00a0<em>Slip<\/em>, I have a feeling it would have sold better as a double album, or even cut into two, and released a short time apart. &#8220;Dine Alone&#8221;, the third track, is the one the label picked to sell as a single. It&#8217;s alright, but it pales compared to the first two tracks. The band&#8217;s energy is so intense it&#8217;s hard to take twelve songs at a single sitting. I was sold by the end of the first track.<\/p>\n<p>Quicksand&#8217;s next and final album to date, 1995&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Manic Compression<\/em>, is widely considered to be even better than\u00a0<em>Slip<\/em>; I just don&#8217;t have a copy. Otherwise, I&#8217;d be posting songs from it here. I think my friend George has it, if you want to track him down and listen to it. I recommend it (the album, not pestering George).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1760\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1760\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/quicksand\/quicksand-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"quicksand\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"quicksand\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quicksand.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Quicksand twittered a photo suggesting that they were back in the studio. It has been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, you&#8217;ve never heard of Quicksand? Post-hardcore band out of New York, early nineties? Okay. Here&#8217;s the best song of 1993, and why some of us didn&#8217;t care about Nirvana and grunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,72,10,46],"tags":[45,805,1450,170,551,1452,1453,1168,1451,1454,1449,1448],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faint-signals","category-late-to-the-party","category-nostalgic-obsessions","category-thousand-listen-club","tag-45","tag-805","tag-gorilla-biscuits","tag-hardcore","tag-nirvana","tag-polygram","tag-post-hardcore","tag-primus","tag-quicksand","tag-sausage","tag-sergio-vega","tag-walter-schriefels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1439,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/sailing-the-seas-of-cheese\/","url_meta":{"origin":1757,"position":0},"title":"Sailing The Seas Of Cheese","author":"MattyBoy","date":"02\/05\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In 1991, I used to hang out with these chicks. 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