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idolator's 2007 top 40 list of awesomeness

No. 35: Big Business Deliver A Very Loud Wake Up Call

bigbiznass.jpgBecause the song at No. 35 is a heavy part of a balanced breakfast.



"Just As The Day Was Dawning" will have you starting your morning right, whether you're planning on spending it pillaging while doing a one-legged jig, chasing down pedestrians in a gated community on a riding mower, getting fucked up on mead-based cocktails, laying waste to your high school with a potato cannon, or just playing Tetris for the next eight hours. (Or perhaps, as this astute Paper Thin Walls review of another track off BB's Here Come The Waterworks put it, "riding a bear while fighting a dragon.") Big Business are one Murder City Devil and one Karp (who should be revered til after the apocalypse for their side of that split Troubleman 12-inch alone), lurking in Los Angeles after an apprenticeship in Seattle and already tuff enuff to be asked to help watch over the low-end for chief DNA strand the Melvins, and the booming sludge the duo makes is all brute force and belly laughs, one pretty much indivisible from the other. For reference, check out the way drummer Coady Willis brings the ruckus on the live YouTube clip above, but be sure to audition the studio version on the band's MySpace to fully appreciate BB's robust ass-kicking.

Big Business [MySpace]
Big Business w. Dale Crover - "Just As The Day Was Dawning" [YouTube]
Idolator's 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness

3:00 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By jharv
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  • I've seen this band twice with the Melvins and once on their own now.

    Fucking INCREDIBLE. Psyched you are giving these guys some exposure.

  • My cock is bigger than your cock!

  • Thank you for mentioning a real band in this sea of pussy bullshit. I had the pleasure of opening for them about 3 years ago, it was a big highlight in my life, and they blew the place apart. KARP is one of my favorite bands ever, and I got to see the Whip once, they were right under that. BB is the perfect follow up, couldn't be better, and they couldn't be more down to earth nice guys. Everyone needs to check them out.

  • i had no idea they had a mcd guy...but, yeah; these guys are the shit. there are even a few killing joke sounding moments on it and i can definitely hear a melvins influence. good job giving attention to someone besides feist.

  • And there was an even better version of this song on the Invaders comp from 2005 or early 2006, believe it or not; seek it

  • Who are the dudes playing guitar in that clip. I wish they wouldn't. The Big business album is really one of my favorites this year, and "I'll give you something to cry about" might be the best song I heard all year.

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