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Pink Grease

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:14 / 20.04.04

I've been holding off on starting this thread seeing as how the first time I heard/saw this band (supporting Bobby Conn a few weeks back) I was utterly shitfaced, and haven't been able to tell whether I thought they were great because they actually were, or because my critical faculties had disappeared down the Gary.

Having seen them again and heard their "Fever" single, I am almost ashamed to admit that I think they fucking rule.

They're very, very silly. The lead singer looks like he should be in Virginia Plain-era Roxy Music (complete with white scarf) but is reminiscent of nothing so much as "Velvet Goldmine"'s Ewan MacGregor Iggy-a-like, the rest of the band all look like perfect glam stereotypes, and they play the most wonderfully basic sleaze-rock with lots of cool analogue synth noises. The single reminds me of Sonovac's cover of "Human Fly" crossed with the Wildhearts or someone...

They've all got their posing totally down pat... a friend of mine who saw them with me the other night said "I love this band already" as soon as they came on (she wasn't so enamoured once they'd finished, but she likes different music from me).

I think they're ace. I'm also sure that I shouldn't. Which makes it even better.

08:29 / 21.04.04

saw them suppor the fall and must admit i would give them 9/10 for effort but 2/10 for content, and that was only due to the keybaord solo which was hilarious

i thought they were more banana splits than the stooges. it was interesting to see a band work hard at having distinc personas on stage as opposed to dreary anonymity of a lot of music these days but they just didn't seem to have the tunes or, i dunno cool, gravitas, talent, to pull it off

i suspect that they will do very well in hoxton however as they fit into that new rock n roll, electroclash, glam sleaze look

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:09 / 21.04.04

Hey, don't say the H word. I can't stand all that H****n shite. (I swear, the mullet is king. The H****n Fin should be outlawed.)

Yeah, far more style than content. (But I'd say more Hair Bear Bunch than Banana Splits.) I spend far too long on my internal monologues deconstructing the bands I'm already into. Right now, just some fun glam with some good squelchy analogue stuff will do me. But only if they pose, cos otherwise it doesn't work.

Ah well, never mind me...

I spent large proportions of my teenage years convinced that Sigue Sigue Sputnik were indeed the future of rock and roll.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:45 / 22.06.04

Well, the album's out now- "This Is For Real".

Very silly, very ballsy and VERY, VERY ROCKING. In the sense of a "snow leopard's ass".

Summink tells me Jack the Bodiless will like this.

It's glamtastic. It's shiny. It's pink. And it's somewhat greasy.

All The Young Dudes will love it.

15:26 / 22.06.04

must admit that single p.i.n.k g.r.ease sounds much better than they did live

sig sig sputnik, think you hit the nail on the head there though

in their favour live they had the best keyboard solo i've ever heard, so fucked up and stoopid you had to laugh with joy, i think i like them a little more knowing they are from sheffield rather than hoxton, maybe more sweet than early roxy then?

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Regrettable Juvenilia

21:06 / 26.06.04

What does it matter where they're from? I mean, it's easy for me to imagine that I can hear something of the North in their sound now that I know, but the idea that there's be any reason to like them less if they came from a certain part of London is just... Weird.

'The Pink G.R.Ease' rocks my world. It's just all the best types of crazy drunken Saturday night music rolled into one, isn't it? Glam, disco, funk... YES.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:06 / 27.06.04

I don't think it's so much where they're from as where they're NOT from... I'm sure there are lots of really great bands from H****n, it's just that (irrational and unfair, I know) the very idea of the place makes my teeth curl, and always makes me think that any music done there is done with a smug arrogance which can put a totally different gloss on stuff...
Hideously unfair (and WRONG) of me, I know, but hey! I'm barely rational at the best of times. When it comes to music, less so. Basically, I like to think that PG AREN'T having a huge smug laugh at my expense.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:47 / 09.07.04

The album is a real mixed bag. Oddly and unusually, the first track 'Remember Forever' is easily the worst song on there: I've tried to shelve my prejudices and enjoy the "shadooby!" bits but let's be frank, it's rubbish retro rock with a half-arsed tune and it sounds like Jet.

Fortunately 'Fever' and 'The Pink G.R.EASE' are superb and I don't regret buying the album. I'm also really feeling 'Superfool' despite the Confessions Of... noises it ends with. That one has enough awesome moments in it to justify my love: the increasingly impassioned falsetto, "drums, drums... synthesiser!", the "yeah, I wanna go crazy" coda.

'Party Live', however, opens up a whole new can of worms. "Hard sippin' niggers wanna party live..." Um, excuse me? The members of Pink Grease are all white, aren't they? I know they play around with different types of slang, and maybe my attitude is inconsistent, but I'm not entirely comfortable with it... It just seems like a knowing, 'playful' transgression too far.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:27 / 09.07.04

To be honest, Fly, I've not paid too much attention to the lyrics other than the "c'mon"s and "YAYUH"s. I'll get back to this thread after listening to that track again.