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Regrettable Juvenilia
22:59 / 13.05.02
In a couple of threads Flux has been lamenting that there's been a lot of "this sucks, and that sucks, and the other sucks as well!" threads in the Music recently, and fair play to him. I have no problem with the theory that in order to passionately love good music, you have to hate what you perceive as bad music also, but when it's just the same old critiques you can get 100 other places - boy/girl pop bands are shallow and mass-produced, 'mainstream' hip-hop and r'n'b are shallow and sexist, really popular bands don't deserve to be so big, nu-metal sucks unbelievably, yada yada yada - it's not really adding much to the general spirit of what (IMHO) Barbelith should be about, namely celebrating all that is weird and wonderful and, for want of a better term, revolutionary in the world.

So! What have you been listening to recently - discovered, or rediscovered, or just never got tired of - that rocks your world? Don't just give us your playlist, tell us what you like about it and why.

Myself, I just finally got Missy Elliot's latest album, Miss E... So Addictive, hopelessly overdue (but maybe that's because it took me a year to get at all tired of hearing 'Get Ur Freak On' alone, over and over again), and a bit of a treat since I'm stony broke all of a sudden, can't download music at present, but had a £10 WHSmith voucher to spend.

Anyway, this is the kind of album I find it hard to understand how anyone could not like it, not even just a little. It's got wicked funk basslines that you feel somewhere between your groin and the pit of your stomach, it's got sticky sci-fi sex tunes, it's got stuff I have no idea how you could stop your feet from moving to, it's got Jay-Z daring to take the piss out of himself wickedly and claiming he only lasts a minute in bed... and it's got Missy herself, like Madonna and Notorious B.I.G. rolled into one. Oh, and she has the good sense to stick the sickly-sweet stuff about Jesus at the end, after half an hour of silence, which is a relief.

Meanwhile, I've been falling in love with Cat Power all over again, digging out Moon Pix and The Covers Record to help get me through nights spent staring at my CV and unfinished music articles, pieces of fiction and overdue e-mails on the computer... Maybe I've been wallowing in it a little, but if you're going to wallow, you may as well wallow in Cat Power. It's the way her voice manages to be simultaneously sexy and heart-rendingly painful that always gets me. Makes me wish I wasn't single, and that doesn't really happen that often...


Your turn. Break me off. Show me whatcha got...
 
 
uncle retrospective
23:12 / 13.05.02

Well after all the NERD gushing going on in these parts I downloaded a lot of their tracks for some great driving tunes. Lapdance is the obvious fav.

I've just got the astral projection's first 2 albums for some great psy trance dancing action.

And that's about it for me at the mo. I'm just not hearing stuff that's setting me on fire at the mo.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:33 / 13.05.02
Actually, a Neptunes (aka NERD) track is one of the songs that I'm really into right now. The new Nelly single "Hot In Here" could very well be the ULTIMATE Neptunes track - it's got that beat, that sleazy stripclub vibe, it sounds like it was designed specifically for strippers to give lapdances to hip hop stars in expensive private lounges. This song is hot, and it's going to be HUGE.
 
 
Jackie Susann
01:18 / 14.05.02
Neptune-love moment...

My favourite Neptunes tune is 'Southern Hospitality' from Ludacris's first album - it is just so big, it's like being hit over the head with a strip club over and over again. Works so well with prolly Ludy's shoutiest moment...
 
 
YNH
05:13 / 14.05.02
I finally got around to listening to Nelly's Country Grammar all the way through and it is that sweet soul music. The cadence, while pretty much always the same, always kicks ass. "I am Number One" gets in yr head and swings it round. I heard "Hot in Here" for the first time, and even that inspires despite [edited to remain "in the love"].

Seeing the video for "Up in Here" changed my mind about that entire album and guided me thru several listens. Not as good as The Great Depression, but still a damn fine album. "Who We Be" rocks my world. Thank-you, DMX.

Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antartica has been at least a weekly staple since, oh, I don't know, like October? It never gets old, the themes never get tired, even the kinda whiny vocals fail to grate on the listener over time. Serious contender for Desert Island lists.

Same goes for Weezer's green album. I put off buying this disc for so many reasons: friends, coworkers, and the hipsters on Barbelith all said 1)it was too short at less than forty minutes 2)therefore not worth the cash and 3)wasn't as good as Pinkerton or even their first album. Finally, some enlightened soul brought a copy to my home. Friends, this album is phenomenal; exactly what it should have been. It's louder, crunchier, and more distorted than either of the others but manages to retain the mass appeal that made them famous and the musicianship that got them forgotten. I was actually kind of angry at the naysayers, and also myself for believing them. In the end, I shouldn't be surprised. After all, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was less than forty minutes, too.

Oh, and Hive's Devious Methods is growing on me... after, like, years. It still seems half-inspired with it's cartoon future cyber-grr-animals spinning helix cover art. But it's chunky, loud, and bass heavy. At this point it's working as great background music, but maybe that's all it needs to be.

Geez, as I ramble. Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's may be the most densely psychedelic album one could ever own. Let's talk Zeitgeist over edible flowers and electric Kool-aid sometime.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
06:09 / 14.05.02
i've been listening to a band called sparking toys a lot recently. they're kind of glammy/'77 type punky/electro.... one of my best mates plays guitar, there's another woman on bass and live, the dynamic of having two really good female musicians, really upfront, does a lot for me. really like the songs, too! and i think they have a good chance of making it.

i'm fairly obsessed by smog, too. got two albums and they're always playing at home. and coil - am writing a lot while listening to coil.

the anti thread was quite funny, in it's way - if you feel passionately about music, then you'll passionately hate stuff as much as you love other stuff. but no one's gonna stop me listening to rem!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:22 / 14.05.02
I've been listening a lot to "Don't Fuck With Us", a new Digital Hardcore compilation of American bands. It's angry, it's noisy, and it stops me falling asleep on the night shift. Ditto with "Intelligence and Sacrifice", the new Alec Empire album.
Also (and I hate to say this) Monster Magnet, largely cause there's a great line about Jack Kirby, and I piss myself laughing every time I hear Dave Wyndorf exclaim "It's time you sucked the cock of the Fire God!!!"
And Dead Can Dance's track "The Host Of Seraphim"... it's like an itch, I know I'll get sick of it and thence ruin it for ever for myself if I don't stop listening to it repeatedly, but I just can't help myself...
 
 
suds
08:21 / 14.05.02
can i just say that the title of this thread is a song by hanson and now it's stuck in my head. ahh, the days when hanson were so cute!
but anyway.

sfd, i'm so glad yr digging smog! bill callahan is my ideal man.
my favourite pop song in the charts right now is girlfriend by nelly and n-sync, it's just very cool and not like anything else around at the moment.
all i listen to when i'm studying is ben kweller's album 'sha sha'. he was in radish, and now he is going solo and his stuff is really cute and angry and one time he wrote 'pave' on one allstar and 'ment' on the other. yeah.
and i really want to recommend the all girl summer fun band album. it's twee, it's sorta like 60s bubblegum pop and it works for some reason and it's amazing. that album is like my best friend right now. i wasn't too keen at first, but it rocks.
oh yeah and feminist sweepstakes by le tigre but i'm sure you all know why that rocks.
 
 
suds
08:21 / 14.05.02
can i just say that the title of this thread is a song by hanson and now it's stuck in my head. ahh, the days when hanson were so cute!
but anyway.

sfd, i'm so glad yr digging smog! bill callahan is my ideal man.
my favourite pop song in the charts right now is girlfriend by nelly and n-sync, it's just very cool and not like anything else around at the moment.
all i listen to when i'm studying is ben kweller's album 'sha sha'. he was in radish, and now he is going solo and his stuff is really cute and angry and one time he wrote 'pave' on one allstar and 'ment' on the other. yeah.
and i really want to recommend the all girl summer fun band album. it's twee, it's sorta like 60s bubblegum pop and it works for some reason and it's amazing. that album is like my best friend right now. i wasn't too keen at first, but it rocks.
oh yeah and feminist sweepstakes by le tigre but i'm sure you all know why that rocks.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:14 / 14.05.02
At the moment I'm in lurv w/ the tune that Eminem sampled for "My name is..." (or whatever it was called). What the fuck is it? I've got it on minidisc and it rocks my world, but what the fuck is it called? Help me someone! Lyra?

Been listening to a lot of reggae and dub, too. In particular, "Two Sevens Clash" (Culture), "Uptown Top Ranking" (Althea & Donna) and "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown" (Augustus Pablo). There's a lot of anti-reggae sentiment on the Barb at the moment and I'm just here to say: "Piss off!" and smile lovingly at Brian May's mullet. In Bexhill. This isn't exactly a positive, constructive or helpful thing to say, but that's alright. Anyway, I don't pretend to really know anything about reggae, dub or dancehall - it just makes me hard. I love it when you can make out the tiny little strains in it that'll later be expanded; unfolding into hardcore, jungle....fuck, even Renegade Soundwave. All the layers, the timing...people forget just how bloody funky reggae (etc.) can be. And so soulful. Forget the twats at school pulling bongs and playing "Who is Larry Lightweight?" and listening to "Bob" (who, sadly, became a bit of a swear word around these here parts) - this is the real thing. And get the "best of" Jackie Mitto album that came out last year.

Iggy Pop's "Neighbourhood Threat" 's scaring away all the competition for stereo space, at the mo'.

Modern stuff? Well, Anthony Rother's "Welcome to Psicity" compilation is rocking it hard. A truly diverse techno album. Only 12 quid for 2 CD's! A bargain! It's got some right old gorgeous numbers on it, too: Aaah, you thought I'd've inserted their names here, but no! I can't remember any of them. But buy it anyway for hard, spare techno workouts, spooky downbeat numbers, glacial electro sadness (a cliche, but hey!), Green Velvet-cum-big german cock-style sexbeat and a bloody monster of a tune entitled "God of Gods". This is the real thing. Trance, hard house...all that shit's for girls.

All this wicked techno(clash)'s inspired me to dig out my old Electroids album. Made in the mid nineties and released on Warp, "Electro World" probably isn't the best intro to the world of the bleep, but, if you like that kind of thing, and have had yr interest piqued by this years glut of electropop, it might be worth yr while checking this'n out. Reduced, minimal but atmospheric and at times irrepressibley funky - it rules. In a similar vein, check The Other People Place's "Running From Love" and "Moonlight Rendezvous". Indeed.

Crossover still get loads of airtime, since I've learned to love the whole album. Flux and I keep on recommending them and you lot continue to ignore us because yr a bunch of hogsexers. Pretentious, infectious and wonderful. forget Miss Kitten (but not forever) and embrace that Crossover gal's sexy voice. Her little "Yo!" on "Phostographt" is worth the price of admission alone.

So...I'm loving so much shit at the moment! Happy, Fly?

Great now I can get back to hating.

I said "May!" I said "Mullet!" I said "Bexhill!"
 
 
mondo a-go-go
10:19 / 14.05.02
hahahaha! wow, flyboy, and i can remember you dismissing my love of the missy album with a "she can't do consistent albums, she's much better at singles" :]

i'm currently playing a lot of love, actually. arthur lee & love's 'forever changes'. wanting to get the new version of 'da capo' with the extra tracks, and wondering whether their upcoming tour will be worth a look, or hideously embarrassing....
 
 
Ethan Hawke
11:45 / 14.05.02
Arthur Lee is out of jail? I thought he was imprisoned for life under 3 strikes and you're out.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
11:53 / 14.05.02
[YNH] - what's the problem with short records? A huge chunk of my favorite LPs are under 40 minutes! I think there's a lot to be said for records which are brief and avoid filler... all of this "oh, all records must be 70+ minutes" is a cd thing, I think the old vinyl capacities made for better track sequencings...

Suds - I love that Nelly/N'Sync/Neptunes track too - I talked about that on my blog a couple weeks ago, I think that song is the kind of sound that a lot of people will be slaving in the studio to create twenty years from now, trying to get a retro 'early 2000's' sound.

I finally got into the Clash recently. For the longest time, I was always ambivalent about them, but then I saw an old live performance of "Train in Vain" on the television, and it finally all clicked for me. Now I wonder why it ever took so long...
 
 
No star here laces
12:31 / 14.05.02
Runce, I believe it's Labi Siffre, but can't remember the name of the track. Good ole Labi.

I'm in love with all the wrong things at the moment.

Andrew WK
Orlando Voorn
Akufen

"I get wet" is a thing of absolute beauty. The way it builds off the intro using every metal cliche possible, but doing them all so perfectly that it doesn't matter. YOu know Plato's forms? Where the form of something is it's essential whatever-ness that makes it what it is? This song is the form of lust expressed through guitars and shouting. It's perfect for me now because I don't need to bother buying any other records like this! I have the one that says it all. It's just so satisfying.

Orlando Voorn is a dutch techno producer who's been around for donkey's years. In the early 90s he made a tune called "Flash" under the name Fix. It is not the same as Green Velvet's more famous "Flash" of the same name ("...but this is no laughing matter") but is equally genius. I can't get enough of this song just now - it's got me on a complete minimalism kick (probably explains the AWK too) because nothing on it is wasted. It's elegant, damn it's athletic in it's beautiful efficiency. Boingy, elastic but aggressive. I know it off by heart and it still takes me by surprise and makes me wanna dance. Especially the bit near the end when he takes the simple riff that's been repeating all through the track and completely warps it all over the shop. Techno. Why do I suddenly like techno?

Akufen I need say nothing about. This shit is going to be like the next Boards of Canada or something. Except it's actually good. I got the 'Whore House' record. 'My Way' will be bigger, but I like Whore House. 's funkier.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
13:13 / 14.05.02
Shite, music is amazing. Trying to discover The Fall, my lack of budget is attempting to stop me, but... dammit, they're amazing. I've downloaded all I can (which is surprisingly difficult), and thus have been sitting at my computer to listen to music far too much (in fact, I seem to sit at my computer to listen to music moreso than anywhere else, oh for the luxury of a cd writer...) but I'm planning to steal "This Nation's Saving Grace" off my friend because he's had it for ages and only listened to it for the first time the other day. That record whore.

Also, discovering The Breeders more completely after being an avid Cannonball listener for too long. Fell in love with a couple of the yeah yeah yeah's tracks (how can any song which features the lyrics "As a fuck son, you sucked" not be good?!) and a bunch of other tracks which I discovered on a tape I found in my room, for which I do not even know the bands names - but songs like "Echo Beach" "Teenage Kicks" "Pretty in Pink" - a few Buzzcocks, Blondie tracks, all on one tape.

AND a bunch of Sonic Youth's new tracks, and - as has been for the probably the last 4 months, far too much Smiths.
 
 
The Natural Way
13:29 / 14.05.02
Lyra: "Techno. Why do I suddenly like techno?"

Because everyone does. It's just in the air.
 
 
tSuibhne
13:48 / 14.05.02
I've been listening to a lot of Rush, esspecially Different Stages, ever since the thread on here. What was grant's description that called them cyber punk something or other?

Also been realizing that it's been way to damn long since I've seen Lake Trout Esspecially now that I hear their love of Dismemberment Plan is starting to show. The great thing about Trout is they never seem to stand still. Constantly mutating and changing. They started out as a acid jazz combo (bass, drums, 2 guitars, keys/sax/flute), then they decided they didn't like that and suddenly switched to live drum and bass. Then the post rock influences came into the sound. Then things just got evil and dark and kinda scary. Lately they've been moving in some areas that I can't quite describe. Seemed to be more subtle stuff. But, crazy shit as well. Esspecially since their singer got a hold of a Chaos Pad. (which you can use to sample your voice and then completly fuck with it) Now reports of a DP influence starting to show (the two bands played together last winter) And it all means I need to get some cash and go see these guys.

Oh, yeah, to fully paint the picture above a couple of facts should be known. Thier drummer plays a normal kit, but is capable of playing faster and more precise then some drum machines. Though he doesn't do this as much as he used to. Now it's only when it's needed. They also do a lot of improvisation, but refuse to solo in any way. Instead the focus is on playing as a unit. Which gives them a more atmospheric feel, and forces the focus onto the groove that's created by all five members playing together.
 
 
Ierne
14:06 / 14.05.02
Late to the party, but still bringing some love...

I think I already mentioned this dude Herbert in another music thread, but we listen to his music quite a bit over here at Job #1. Even though he makes his music using some unconvential methods, it's all rather soulful and warm. We have Bodily Functions as well as a double CD set of various remixes he's done.

A co-worker brought the new Cee-lo album in last week and it completely kicked my ass into gear. It was totally swampy and funky and full of fierce groove. I intend to buy it when payday comes around!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:26 / 14.05.02
hahahaha! wow, flyboy, and i can remember you dismissing my love of the missy album with a "she can't do consistent albums, she's much better at singles" :]

I remember saying this too. I was wrong, about this one anyway...
 
 
rizla mission
15:40 / 14.05.02
Alec Empire - Intelligence & Sacrifice

It is impossible to even describe how good this album is. He could shit a million Andrew Wks and not even notice. Marilyn Manson would cut off his own legs to get one tune half as good as one of these.
Contrary to some reports, it doesn't compromise the Digi. Hardcore noise levels at all, it just combines them with simple but effective shouty, angry pop songs to create a certain kind of .. absolute perfection. And they all have bits that go:
"GET THE FUCK UP!" BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG! etc.
I'm amazed the neighbours haven't complained yet. And - (continues with sales pitch) - if that all leaves you tired out (which it will), the second CD has nigh on an hour of fascinating Sun Ra-inspired avant garde electro experiments and scary breakdancing kinda grooves.
WHAT MORE, Ladies and Gentlemen, COULD YOU POSSIBLY ASK FROM ONE ALBUM?

Also, I'm still blasting the Mclusky album, my favourite punk record for a long, long time. It was because of them that I left the house today humming "All your friends are cunts, your mother is a ballpoint pen thief, desperation follows you, like beatings follow rain".

And I'm also discovering the greatness of the Young Marble Giants, who have the power to make certain human beings, such as myself, melt into puddles using nothing but a new wave bass line and some off-key singing about trees.

And I saw The Rock of Travolta play the other day and, while I don't own any of their records, they were very fine indeed. Combining the pounding guitar assault of Mogwai with the propulsive organ-driven momentum of Electrelane .. and very good it is too! They also have: a theremin, a cello, a completely unnecessary second bass player, bits where they all line up and punch the air in time with the music and T-shirts that say "When I Wank on my Guitar, The Whole World Wanks With Me." ROCK!

That's probably enough for today.
 
 
Not Here Still
17:30 / 14.05.02
I'm currently getting into a couple of things you could argue are at each end of a British musical spectrum.

I'm really enjoying both Skitz's Countryman, which I finally got round to getting after having had Fingerprints of The Gods for some time. It's blinding; I especially like the way that weird counds, like crows caw's, are mixed in with the beats. And I still haven't stopped playing The Streets' Original Pirate Material, which I find something new in every day. The mockney "Oi, oi, stop trying to shag the birds and fight the geezers" tone grated a little at first, but now I just love it - and Mike Skinner's one of the best British lyricists I've heard in some time.

And on the other hand, I'm getting into a lot of pastoral folky type music; I just got a couple of Nick Drake CDs Bryter Later and Five Leaves Left for my birthday, and I bought myself the Wicker Man soundtrack as well.
Christ, if I'm not careful, it'll be the Alfie album next...

Runce: The Labi Siffre song is "I Got The..." I like the way you can put it on and people suddenly turn round about two and a half minutes in and go "is this....?"
 
 
Locust No longer
17:54 / 14.05.02
I've been listening to PETER BROTZMANN'S Octet and Tentet 3 cd set on Okka Disk, an improv and free jazz label out of Chicago. It's a formidable task to listen to one Brotzmann disk and three seems impossible, but the music on here really must be heard by anyone at all interested in modern jazz. Brotzmann takes the stage with ten improvisers, mostly from chicago, who all have released amazing and difficult records themselves, and blows through 3 cds of powerful free jazz. This is no mere skronk fest, however, instead each song has actual melodies for the players to generate from. Every song sounds varied and different; it's tremendous fire music. Every time Brotzmann plays it's as though he wants to create an apocalypse of sound and fury. I can't recommend him enough.

I've also been listening to Q AND NOT U's "No Kill No Beep Beep" from Dischord records. It reminds me of so called math rock with its disjointed rhythms and beats over guitars that sound like photo copiers and machinery. It took me a few listens to really catch on but I think it's really well done, and has a lot to offer anyone into indy rock that has a little imagination. Good lyrics, too.
 
 
YNH
17:56 / 14.05.02
YNH] - what's the problem with short records? A huge chunk of my favorite LPs are under 40 minutes!

That's pretty much what I'm saying, but it was listed as a disappointing characteristic of the album by most of its detractors.
 
 
Margin Walker
03:32 / 15.05.02
Flux=Rad! wrote: I finally got into the Clash recently. For the longest time, I was always ambivalent about them, but then I saw an old live performance of "Train in Vain" on the television, and it finally all clicked for me. Now I wonder why it ever took so long...

You and me both Hey, I've got 2 CD's worth of Clash live MP3's I can rip for ya. If you're interested, PM your snail mail & I'll clone them for you.

Also, Don Lett's Clash documentary "Westway ToThe World" is finally released in the US. The Director's Edition DVD is available @ Amazon for only $16
 
 
Cop Killer
06:40 / 15.05.02
Suedehead: "Teenage Kicks" is by the Undertones, that's all I know of the songs you listed, though.

For the past couple of weeks my cd player has had "Ozma" by the Melvins in it. Someong on Barbelith, a long while back in a forgotten Music thread said that "Heavy things move slow." And the Melvins are the prime example of this. I never liked them when I was sixteen because I thought they were too slow, like a build-up that never paid off. Then about a year or so ago, I picked up the "Give Me Indie Rock" compilation put out by K-Tel, and there was this Melvins song on there called "Creepy Smell" and it all just clicked for me, I finally got that what they were doing was the point of it all. It took me a while to get the cd, because I'd always forget about them when I went to record shops. But lately I've wanted more and more slow, heavy, metal type stuff; which brings me to what's been on my record player for a while now: "Apogee" by Bongzilla (who may soon become the champions of stoner metal as a whole if they can somehow defeat the truly awesome Electric Wizard). The album isn't that long (something like thirty or so minutes) and there's only three tracks that average a little over ten minutes each. No guitar solos, just constant riffing, in what I think to be drop C tuning (it's really fucking bassy and fucking loud). And they put on a kick ass show; when I saw them at this local punk bowling alley club thing, everytime the bass player hit a note, at all, even without the rest of the band, the floor shook. The only record outside of that one, that I put on, is "Yahwey or the Highway" by Arab On Radar, which is also a great record. Two guitars playing different things (one playing a rhythem, almost, and they other playing really high up on the neck) with strangulated beats that just sound like they had been hit really fucking hard (when I saw these guys the drummer was moving the drumset back and forth with the force that he hit his drums with) and a singer who has a high pitched voice screaming about how sometimes he just has to jerk off. Not to mention "Yahwey or the Highway" is the best titled album since Pussy Galore's "Dial M for Motherfucker" -- and with songs called "Father, Son, and the Goalie Post," how can you go wrong?
 
 
suds
11:00 / 15.05.02
rizla, you have totally sold that alec empire album to me. i thought atr were so cool and i always had a dorky crush on mr. empire. ace.
oh yeah and i have to second whoever big-upped the nelly album. it is so cool.
can any of the hip hop loving barbe-rs tell me whether or not to get the ja rule album? see, i think he has a really sexy voice and ok, ok, i fancy him. i like the duets he's done but is his album as good as those? or is it not so poppy and kinda sexist? i have had mixed reviews from chums, see.
thanks!
 
 
No star here laces
11:35 / 15.05.02
Ja Rule's last album is utterly abysmal. The new one? Dunno, doubt it's all that. The duets have it...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
11:56 / 15.05.02
You know what my favorite Ja Rule song is? The bootleg version of "I'm Real" with J-Lo, the one with the music of Jimi Hendrix' "Crosstown Traffic". Wow!

I've heard the Ja Rule LP too, and it didn't really faze me, I don't think it's abysmal, but it certainly isn't as good as his two collaborations with J-Lo, and that other one.
 
 
A
12:41 / 15.05.02
Dillinger 4 are everything good about the last 25 years of punk rock condensed into one band. Or, to put it another way, they do anything any other punk rock band does well, but better.

Oh, and "Pretty in Pink" is by the Psychedlic Furs, and I'm pretty sure that "Echo Beach" is by Martha & the Muffins, or something similar.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
15:22 / 15.05.02
suedehead: i think this is what you might be talking about. tracklisting-a-go-go! :]

dilletantism: yeah, arthur lee was imprisoned under the 3 strikes rule, but not for life, and apparently it wasn't him but a tourist from new zealand, and his lawyer got him off. he did 6 years out of a 12 year sentence. and he's touring next month, and there's an interview with him in this month's 'uncut' magazine. (i never buy music mags, someone left this at our flat, but there's some good stuff in it....)
 
 
Seth
15:49 / 15.05.02
You know, I was waiting for "Mr MIA," Jack the Bodiless to minidisc Alec Empire for me, but it's just moved above Blazing Arrow on my list of priorities...

And for my brother: hurry up, get a new flat, plug in your PC!
 
 
rizla mission
08:59 / 16.05.02
Getting out of bed today, I stuck on another recent purchase, Under Sided by The Heads. It's quite incredible. I also think it has a maximum possible audience of 16 drug addicts, 3 hardened Bardo Pond fans, John Peel and me.
It is just the ultimate expression of brain-churning stoner/acid freakout rock. It takes about half a dozen heaving great Sabbath/Stooges guitar riffs and spins them out into over 70 minutes of absolutely hideous, aimless sonic skronk with more feedback, over-dubbing, squelching noises, stampeding herds of cattle and weird backwards recording techniques than can possibly be legal. It also has samples from William Burroughs, David Cronenberg films and god only knows what else, and the singer (in so much as there is one) sounds like Alan Moore and keeping shouting things like "frigid ashtray, you're my piece of clay!" Makes "Yerself is Steam" sound like the Archies..

So not everyone's cup of tea, obviously. But I enjoyed putting it on at 8:30 in the morning.
 
  
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