we're gonna fight gods and we're gonna win

August 14, 2020 5:43 PM

The Seattle Garages are an anarcho-syndicalist collective, blunge band, and (perhaps least notably) Blaseball team. And while Blaseball (your new favorite simulated sports league) is on extended siesta, the Garages have been producing new music at an incinerating rate. Today they dropped their second album of the month, "the garages kill the gods" with banging lead track 'fight gods.' The album explores the themes initially developed in the zine 'blaseball GODS = blaseball FRAUDS.' This follows closely on the heels of their debut album, 'we are the garages,' best known for 'Mike Townsend is a Disappointment,' perhaps the most Seattle Splorts song ever written.

I would be remiss if I didn't link to mefi's own Blaseball bard! 'Workman 9 to 5' is an ode to Workman Gloom of the Charleston Shoe Thieves, and 'A Grand Unslam' recounts the day Morrow Doyle hit the ball so hard it broke time.

posted by kaibutsu (15 comments total)

For those of you interested in how A—>B, where A = an internet ball sports league and B = bangin’ tunes, I recommend this Polygon article.

Blaseball is turning into the best creative prompt of 2020. This album is so, so much better than it has any reason to be and it is the gift of the month.
posted by q*ben at 6:12 PM on August 14, 2020 [2 favorites]

TIL Blunge Music is a thing

also is it Blaseball or Blasé-ball amirite? am i talking blollocks? maybe I blam, son, maybe i Blam.
posted by lalochezia at 8:27 PM on August 14, 2020 [1 favorite]

no thoughts, only blaseball
posted by cortex at 8:28 PM on August 14, 2020 [6 favorites]

The Commissioner is doing a good job.
posted by nubs at 10:46 PM on August 14, 2020 [3 favorites]

The Commissioner is doing a good job.
posted by andreaazure at 5:23 AM on August 15, 2020 [1 favorite]

we are all love blaseball
posted by daniel striped tiger at 6:47 AM on August 15, 2020

SPRAY IT, DON'T SAY IT!
posted by snwod at 7:37 AM on August 15, 2020

I have no idea what is going on and it feels so real!
posted by srboisvert at 8:52 AM on August 15, 2020 [1 favorite]

You seeing all these birds??
posted by mollweide at 8:57 AM on August 15, 2020 [1 favorite]

Blaseball feels like one of those shared jokes where we all improvise a discussion about a fictional video game and people not in on the joke are completely confused, except in this case it is also actually a real video game.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:06 AM on August 15, 2020 [4 favorites]

The songs by Rain remind me very much of the 1995 Saturday Morning Cartoons album that still feels like it comes from an alternate history.
posted by q*ben at 12:05 PM on August 15, 2020 [1 favorite]

I can't wait for the inevitable Jon Bois postmortem of blaseball

then I will finally understand it somewhat

(I support the Garages entirely out of geographical convenience, and not because I know anything about their record)
posted by WizardOfDocs at 3:49 PM on August 15, 2020 [2 favorites]

Bring it, bitches.

I am the God of All You Obey.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 4:19 PM on August 15, 2020

i think we all remember that classic stadium sing-along, "Let Me Into The Blaseball"
posted by cortex at 1:26 PM on August 16, 2020 [2 favorites]

(I support the Garages entirely out of geographical convenience, and not because I know anything about their record)

The gods of blaseball are capricious; picking a team based on geography is a good a method as any, I suspose...i personally used the entrails of a peanut to divine my support for the Moist Talkers
posted by nubs at 4:39 PM on August 16, 2020