I want to see a general LOOSENING UP. There's too much cool, and too much attitude/attitood at the moment. Too much good taste. This must stop!
Specifically, I want:
1. Out of tune bits*
More dischords! I want both grating and beautiful types, be they deliberate or not. I mostly want dissonant POP (ie there's a tune there holding it together) but chaotic wankery is good too as long as it's beautiful ugly, if you get me.
* I would've said 'atonality' but the last time I used that phrase I got a ton of stick from some muso - apparently it specifically refers to a rigid system of notation or summat as used by yer early modernist composers
2. Ham-Fisted drumming
In small amounts, in the right places, it's the best thing in the world. Check out the Amps album for good example of this.
3. Lazy drumming
I don't know how they do it, but some people manage to sound like they're playing the drums while lying down. Perfect example was the Cramps' drummer (Nik Nox?), who even looked like he was lying down when he was sat up at the drum kit. Works best with the old stripper's drum beat (d'm, d'm-d'-d'm, d'm-d' D'M, d'm-d'-d'm...) Mix in the ham-fisted thing, in the form of some just-off-the-beat crashy cymbals, tossed off in a "how'dya like THAT?" stylee, and you're talking my language. There's a perfect example of that in the intro to that film whose name I can't remember but which starred Donald Pleasance as a police inspector who discovers victorian cannibals living in a bricked-up London tube station.
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