KCBC wrote:my fave critics love 'em, Sleater-Kinney loved 'em, but I tried, and they didn't do much for me. One of those bands that I'll 'prolly try to listen to again couple of years from now...
seppukudkurosawa wrote:Back on topic: I saw John Cooper Clarke in a pub in London (he's a friend of my mum's- they used to busk together in Covent Garden back in the day), and, apart from still looking like an anorexic Bob Dylan circa '66, he is a downright working class hero. Back in the late 70s/early 80s he came up with the kind of poetry that would make Charles Bukowski proud, and eventually started "signifying" (as Bo Diddley called the process of not singing/but not simply talking) to a slightly off musical background, that, nevertheless, still somehow worked with the poetry. He couldn't stay at the pub for long, but I'm just glad he's still alive. He's pretty much been under a rock for 10 years from what I hear.
Here are the lyrics to I Married a Monster From Outter Space which was on his '78 album, Disguise in Love.
I fell in love with an alien being
whose skin was jelly - whose teeth were green
she had the big bug eyes and the death-ray glare
feet like water wings - purple hair
I was over the moon - I asked her back to my place
then I married the monster - from outer space
The days were numbered - the nights were spent
in a rent free furnished oxygen tent
when a cyborg chef served up moon beams
done super rapid on a laser beam
I needed nutrition to keep up the pace
when I married the monster from outer space
We walked out - tentacle in hand
you could sense that the earthlings would not understand
they'd go.. nudge nudge ...when we got off the bus
saying it's extra-terrestial - not like us
and it's bad enough with another race
but fuck me... a monster ...from outer space
In a cybernetic fit of rage
she pissed off to another age
she lives in 1999
with her new boyfriend - a blob of slime
each time I see her translucent face
I remember the monster from outer space
seppukudkurosawa wrote:HE is starting to look a bit like an alien from outer space.
seppukudkurosawa wrote:There is one pic, but it's on my mum's cam, so I'll see if I can get it off her and upload it. He looks like the English Joey Ramone- someone who you can't help but stare at out of horrified fascination, but who's still cool as a polar bear's toenails.
Y by Pop Group
seppukudkurosawa wrote:I've been given about an hour on the radio to wax about my favourite music genre, so I figured I might as well put down a list of the songs I'm gonna end up playing. Maybe they'd make a good starting point for some bands that you might not have heard and want to get into. I've not really gone at selecting the songs with any particular methodology (I know I've probably chosen less American post-punk bands than I should have. There are a few on there, but so many of my favourites couldn't make the cut that I'll have to ask the station to give me another hour so I can get them on there).
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna. Way back before he found his falsetto and became the white Michael Jackson (erm, wait...), Green Gartside was a cockney rebel with vaguely Communist leanings- Scritti Politti would always put down the cost of pressings, labels and recording in their sleeve-notes, so that the public could know how much they were being gypped. For my money, these are probably Post Punk's best five minutes. I've got no idea what he's singing, but it's all so loose and weird...and that bass riff is so dreamy!! Can be found on the album Early.
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing. Taken from their abandoned first album, this is just a great pop song from a great pop band, who wrote the most hummable nihilist anthems you can imagine.
The Pop Group - Snow Girl. According to TPG, if every musician in the band just does their thing, the mere fact that they're in the room together will be enough to turn it into music. Based on this song, and the album Y from which it's taken, they may be on to something.
Oh shit, just got a call saying I've got to meet my friend in some bar in about fifteen minutes. Seeing as how I kind of blew my wad on Scritti Politti (I wouldn't be the first one, so I hear...), I'm gonna just write down the names of the other songs I've got on there. All recommended. You can stream the show on http://www.radioreverb.com. Not sure when it'll be playing, but I'll let you know.
Suicide - Shadazz
This Heat - Horizontal Hold
Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady (based on a letter written by a doctor who worked in a burn ward)
The Associates - Message Oblique Speech
Young Marble Giants - Choci Loni
Au Pairs - You
Magazine - Definitive Gaze
The Flummages At No. 5 wrote:
"...forget bloomin' boilin' Bovril, Great Grannie Moragg, we'll call Docter Dinkleworth fuh Morris n' budgerigar after supper - our Seppukkudkurasawa's startin' oop on't wireless!"
PF Moon Deux wrote:
Through the fragments of Bauhaus, emerged LOVE AND ROCKETS. No, not the Los Bros Hernandez book, but rather a Beatles-esque, abstract-pop ensemble that traded Peter Murphy's over the top persona for a more colourful palette and thus created some wonderfully exuberant (even upbeat) 'choons. A huge departure from the 'Xmal Deutschland/Marc Bolan' tableau they once reached for.
EXPRESS (1986) and EARTH, SUN, MOON (1987) are the only records really worth a damn, though.
Your old guitarist, Cure frontman Robert Smith, is set to do a duet with Ashlee Simpson. Do you think he should be killed for treason?
Who is Ashlee Simpson?
I love that you said that!
No, really, who is he?
It's a she. A bland, lip-syncing American pop singer. Sister of Jessica Simpson.
Hmm, Jessica Simpson.
You don't know her, either, do you?
I really don't know. One of the benefits of living in France. I'm totally out of touch. As far as Robert Smith, I mean, darling, really, do you own a mirror?
Jahbulon wrote:This Heat...To show that they're still as big an influence (probably bigger) as they were in their heyday, try listening to some of Liars'
seppukudkurosawa wrote:For downstealers, their two LPs proper might be quite a bitch to get a hold of, but if you can I'd certainly recommend giving Swell Maps' A Trip to Marineville and Jane From Occupied Europe a whirl. Jane especially.
Like some of the best post-punk music- Josef K, Fire Engines- much of the fun of listening to Swell Maps is the knowledge that the music is constantly teetered on the brink of falling apart. Still, I don't know any other post-punk band, even This Heat, who've managed to capture that psychic interplay evident in Krautrock bands like Neu and Can better than Swell Maps on songs like Big Maz in the Desert. Sure, they're ramshackle devotees of found noise, but unlike songs like Pere Ubu's Sentimental Journey (or the whole of New Picnic Time), the wall of sound never shows any gaps in its urgency and drive.
Marineville's worth picking up, but the fact that it starts out with three or four fairly basic (but still very enjoyable) punk songs, before delving into something new gives Jane the edge.
Thurston Moore said this of the band, "The Swell Maps had a lot to do with my upbringing... I wish I saw them."
Blur were also originally named Seymour after the band's landmark first single, Read About Seymour.
Midget Submarines from Marineville (sounds like a long-lost Fall song)
Let's Build a Car- Single from around the Jane period. (Warning: it's very fucking loud!)
I'm not surprised that some of their more hypnotic tracks are absent from You Tube, but both those songs are minor classics. Also, maybe give Jane From Occupied Europe's Helicopter Spies a play- just close your eyes and ignore the Alftarded "video" attached to it.
seppukudkurosawa wrote:stereosforgee ks wrote:Awesome write up on a great band!
Thanks man!I'm just amazed somebody else has heard of them.
Teh Zone rawks.
influences from teutonic technotronicers Kraftwerk, powered by Wire and holding court in George Clinton's Funkadelic house of Parliament...
machine-gun scratch guitar funk
TonyWilson wrote:Anyone heard of The Feelies? Lots of clean guitar lines (achieved by plugging the guitar straight into the mixing desk apparently) and polyrhythms reminiscent of Talking Heads.
TonyWilson wrote:Heh!
Sepp probably mentioned them in some thread somewhere and it's been rattling around in my subconscious until I saw the album for sale yesterday.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I've tried Suicide as well recently (?!)...creators of the first (FIRST!) synth-pop album, like ever, but that's a strange descriptor, 'cuz it ain't too poppy. Liked it, and it was a nice little history lesson, but it's one of those terribly arty albums that'll take a bunch of listens to really sink in.
Code Name wrote:Oh, man.. I'm gonna looove this forum. Looooove.
Gonna read it all, let it soak in.. then maybe post something. Long live post-punk and new wave!
-Code Name
tapehead wrote:What? no 3D's, Straijacket Fits or The Clean?
Since you're on the subject, The Dunedin Sound
flying nun, it's a bit like 4ad or, as you say, Postcard for 80's/90's indie kids in this part of the world.
I'm a big fan of the Headless Chickens too, who are from the neck of the woods and era, although they are also the antithesis of the abovementioned 'sound', but perhaps maybe maybe a little new wave.
The Vicar wrote:Managed to shake out a few minutes of non busy and slide over to Code Name's aforementioned page.
This weekend I'll have to return and listen deeper. I see David Bowie listed amongst your influences,
and this is good, as Magua would say. On City of David, though, I kept hearing Bryan Ferry which,
once again, is good. Like to borrow the vocalist one fine day.
You guys were getting after it. Other than sex with a multi-orgasmic lady,
making music is as good as it gets. Nice work.
Seppuku wrote:If anyone out there dug This Heat, I've found a band even more intense: Art Bears. Their second LP, Winter Songs, is a new Top 10 album, for sure. Listening to Winter Songs for the first time was one of those rare experiences where the floor dropped out from under me and I realised this was a strand of music barely explored since (except for possibly Sleepytime Gorilla Museum pretty recently), and utterly unique at the time. And fuck me, singer Dagmar Krause's double-tracked vocals here make Nico sound warm and inviting. Art Bears - The Winter Wheel (not the best cut on the album, but that's all I could find).
magicmonkey wrote:Seppuku wrote:If anyone out there dug This Heat, I've found a band even more intense: Art Bears. Their second LP, Winter Songs, is a new Top 10 album, for sure. Listening to Winter Songs for the first time was one of those rare experiences where the floor dropped out from under me and I realised this was a strand of music barely explored since (except for possibly Sleepytime Gorilla Museum pretty recently), and utterly unique at the time. And fuck me, singer Dagmar Krause's double-tracked vocals here make Nico sound warm and inviting. Art Bears - The Winter Wheel (not the best cut on the album, but that's all I could find).
Only just saw this, yay, I love This Heat. Gonna have to check it out. I also tried to get the Jarmusch band too, but I cannae access megaupload, for shame!
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