tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42687485918316904142024-03-05T23:04:47.870-08:00Vinyl Reckoningadam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-66279463455081331622018-02-06T13:33:00.002-08:002018-02-06T13:44:34.817-08:00No. 39 The Bitter Springs - Its Business<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Over the years, few people have had a greater influence on my musical tastes than my friend Mark, or as he's known to the Twitter masses <a href="https://twitter.com/pomfob">@pomfob</a>. Since the late 1980s we've been applauding, informing or deriding each others musical acquisitions almost constantly. An important part of this process was the mix-tape. I still have every one of the C90s that Mark carefully curated for me back in the day, and I'll wager he still has mine. Some of the music he exposed me to had had a huge impact on my listening; I never really 'got' Wire until he recorded Mercy for me, from the peerless Chairs Missing. Other songs proved less significant but still provided some small joys.</div>
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The next single is definitely in the latter category. This is the only product I've every owned by Teddington's The Bitter Springs, though they have an extensive back catalogue stretching back to 1995. For those who don't know their work, think I, Ludicrous, Animals That Swim or Half Man Half Biscuit. <a href="https://youtu.be/gV18L9yAPz4">Its Business</a> is a fabulous little indie tune, with deeply cynical lyrics and a wry sense of humour. I particularly like the final couplet;</div>
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I'm pleased to see that The Bitter Springs are still going concern; they seem to have become Vic Goddard's backing band and played that bastion of long-in-the-tooth indie bands The Lexington last year with the likes of the Monochrome Set and The Band of Holy Joy.</div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-34620135701772479752018-01-13T04:26:00.000-08:002018-01-13T04:27:03.541-08:00No. 38 The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">OK, so it's been far too long since I've done one of these. It's EARLY January, the weather is foul and the kids are deeply involved in their iPads, so this is seems like a good opportunity to add another post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And what a single to return on. I picked this up as a teenager in Plymouth, I knew of the Birthday Party but didn't know any of their music, so this was a bit of a gamble. If memory serves it was, even in 1985, a fairly collectable single, seeing as it was a fairly early 4AD release (AD 12), but because the sleeve was pretty battered, it was a fairly cheap buy. Thirty five years later it still <a href="https://youtu.be/GpHGyHqhjRg">sounds remarkable</a>; the song opens with a 30 second blast of howling feedback, which reappears throughout the song and returns as it fades into blackness. It also contains one of the finest guitar riffs of any Birthday Party song, or indeed any goth track. Cave is also on fine form, delivering a typically theatrical performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You also get not one but two decent b-sides, the Roland S. Howard penned <a href="https://youtu.be/rK7IlATxRcs">Waving My Arms</a> and a cover of Gene Vincent's <a href="https://youtu.be/J8RDTk_AdbI">Catman</a>; here's <a href="https://youtu.be/p3OmCZf-7oA">the original</a> for a compare/contrast moment.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-60238540540996174822017-05-26T13:34:00.001-07:002017-05-26T13:35:43.754-07:00No. 37 Billy Mahonie - Nightmare City<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My third and final offering from Billy Mahonie is their Nightmare City/Scary Village single. It gathers together a pair of tracks from 2002/3. According to the Rough Trade sticker on the front, both tracks were originally available as mp3s from the band's website, but were subsequently released as a single on the French label Euprate in 2007. I think this was the band's final single, though there was a fourth and final LP release in 2009. Both tracks were subsequently included on the Exhale on Mare Street compilation, which can be found in its entirety at <a href="https://billymahonie.bandcamp.com/">https://billymahonie.bandcamp.com</a>. Both tracks are relatively long (the single plays at 33rpm as a result); Nightmare City offers some excellent loud-quiet-loud-quiet-loud-louder dynamics, whilst Scary Village briefly resembles Bela Lugosi's Dead (in a good way).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The single is a rather lovingly put together - clear vinyl is always a winner and the sleeve in printed on semi-transparent paper, with a suitably nightmarish city scape. I do own a further seven inches featuring the instrumental joys of Billy Mahonie, but it's a split single, so won't feature until we reach the letter V (for various, obviously), which at the current rate will be around 2049. If memory serves this particular single was a gift from fellow-indie traveller Mark (<a href="https://twitter.com/pomfob">@pomfob</a>) currently pursuing all things indie in the greater Europe as I write this) - many thanks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-10200309936417484602017-04-09T07:20:00.000-07:002017-04-09T15:10:20.013-07:00No. 36 Billy Mahonie - One Thousand Years Of Billy Mahonie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Firstly a confession, I'm not certain that this is strictly a Billy Mahonie release. I'm slightly anxious that it should be filed under various artists and thus blogged about in (at this rate) about 37 years time. All will be explained...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is also a landmark for two reasons - it's the first double-pack single (though there are plenty more to come) and it's the first where one side of the vinyl is, in fact, an etched image. The single was put together to celebrate the fact that it was (first-rate indie label) Too Pure's one hundredth release.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, that leaves three sides of music. The first is provided by Billy Mahonie; a reworking of Flagiolettes (this, along with the other two tracks are taken from their debut album, The Big Dig) called Less Flagiolettes and with added trumpet from Ian Watson (who I think also worked with fellow Too Purists, Gallon Drunk - more of them later). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, it's the other two tracks that are problematical, only because they're clearly not really performed by Billy Mahonie. On the flip of disc 1 is a reworking of We Accept American Dollars, remade by Luke Sutherland, of the fantastic Long Fin Killie (more of them later, too) and Bows. The final track is redone by Hefner (featuring Darren Hayman, later of The French, Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern etc - much more of them/him later). Both the re-workings, sound fairly different from the originals - for a start they both have vocals. The former could easily be a Bows track and the latter sounds like a Hefner demo (no great surprises there).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The whole thing is nicely packaged in a smart gatefold sleeve; all-in-all a rather lovely object (but I still think it might be a various artists release).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You can listen to <a href="https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/track/less-flagiolettes">Less Flagiolettes</a> at Gavin John Baker's excellent Bandcamp site, alternatively there's a fine (if incomplete) version of the band forming <a href="https://youtu.be/_IcGZrIK7wA">Flagiolettes</a> on a boat in Poole Harbour. You get a good sense of what an impressive live outfit they were (even on a moving boat).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-44714407175042612382017-03-25T00:30:00.003-07:002017-03-25T04:57:23.822-07:00No. 35 Billy Mahonie - Whistling Sam<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Billy Mahonie were a London based all-instrumental band; the brain child of Gavin John Baker. At the time of this single, their line up consisted of two bassists, a guitarist and a drummer. Their music was always labelled post-rock, I guess partly because of the lack of a singer and because they were contemporaries of bands like Tortoise and Mogwai. I'm not sure that either comparison is that helpful; whilst they could certainly play it loud, they were never quite as bombastic as Mogwai can get and unlike Tortoise, there's no black-polo-neck-and-goatee-beard-jazz thing going on. What you do get is rather lovely interplay between then guitar and basses, fairly sparse drumming and a sound that shifts effortlessly from quiet and intricate to loud (and still intricate). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was their first single proper; they'd previously release a split-single with fellow bass guitar over-users Rothko on Fierce Panda; this came out on Fierce Panda offshoot Livid Meerkat, in 1998. You can hear both tracks from the single, On The Brinck and Whistling Sam, at Gavin John Baker's excellent and exhaustive <a href="https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/found">Bandcamp page</a>, on the very fine Found compilations.</span><br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-85798310933456070272017-03-19T08:10:00.000-07:002017-03-19T08:12:22.869-07:00No. 34 Big Black - He's A Whore<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big Black's final single included two cover versions. The first was Cheap Trick's He's A Whore, from their 1977 debut album, whilst the b-side includes their cover of Kraftwerk's The Model, which had already been included on their final album, Songs About Fucking.</span><br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-45244104404832276812016-01-16T11:26:00.002-08:002016-03-21T04:44:52.753-07:00No. 32 Big Black - Il DuceBig Black were without doubt, one of the most important bands in forming my musical tastes. Their slim discography (two studio albums, a handful of singles and EPs as well as two live albums and a pair of compilations) helped shift the focus on my listening from the UK goth scene to the US noise-rock scene in the late 1980s.<br />
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My first encounter with them was via a compilation tape (how else, this was the late 1980s) that a friend of a friend made. In amongst all of the usual goth stuff that we traded in those days (I think I'd been particularly keen to get hold of some early Sisters of Mercy singles) was a handful of tracks from Atomizer, the debut album by a a band I'd never heard of, Big Black. These included Kerosene and Jordan, Minnesota. My mind was blown. Within a year, the main focus of my musical purchasing would be U.S. noise rockers like Butthole Surfers, Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth, along with British bands influenced by their sound, such as A.C. Temple and Head of David - basically anything on Blast First.<br />
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I think this 7" was acquired some while later. It slightly pre-dates the aforementioned Atomizer and the a-side, <a href="https://youtu.be/ABmNjnNR9aM">Il Duce</a>, claims to be a 'tribute' to Benito Mussolini, "whose life has been an inspiration to us all", according to the sleeve notes. On the b-side is a version of <a href="https://youtu.be/A7FZg0lj0LQ">Big Money</a>, that sounds pretty much the same as the version that would appear on Atomizer the following year. This was the last Big Black release to feature Jeff Pezzati, before he left to concentrate on Naked Raygun. It was also the record that split Big Black from Homestead; apparently Albini caught the label selling copies of the radio only 12" version of this single, after he'd expressly forbidden it, and subsequently moved the band to Touch & Go.<br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-38340197480311531742015-12-28T13:14:00.000-08:002015-12-28T13:14:18.030-08:00No. 31 Bettie Serveert - Brain-Tag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A second entry for Dutch post-grungers, Bettie Serveert, this was originally given away as a freebie with initial copies of their 1992 album, Palomine, when it was released on short-lived 4AD spin-off label Guernica. The A-side, <a href="https://youtu.be/105cziEpfhc">Brain-Tag</a>, is a bit of a slow burner. and has album out-take written all over it. On the reverse you get two tracks; <a href="https://youtu.be/h-1br3rnCcw">Smile</a> has already featured on this blog, as it was the b-side of Tom Boy. The other track, <a href="https://youtu.be/x9ylxOVcjOA">Get The Bird</a> was also a b-side of the single version of Palomine. </div>
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I was always rather fond of the bonus single given away with albums - it certainly seemed to be a better way of rewarding the loyal fan that the modern phenomenon of reissuing the album six months after its initial release with a slew of extra tracks (often of questionable worth, as the b-side seems to be a bit of a dying art) and forcing the same loyal fan to re-buy an album they already own at an inflated price. </div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-29307299416372437842015-12-05T02:46:00.002-08:002015-12-05T06:46:11.168-08:00No. 30 Bettie Serveert - Tom Boy<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">OK, so this whole blog project is (partly) an exercise in nostalgia, despite my fairly frequently expressed distaste for the whole 'heritage' music scene. It's fair to say though, that if I were to look all wistful about a particular year, 1992 would be a strong contender. It has always seemed to me that this was a good time for music, with lots of good bands releasing their best work. However, on reflection I'm not convinced this is actually the case - my suspicion is that I have particular fondness for 1992, because it was a time of plentiful gigs, frequent festivals and a degree of underemployment that left me with enough money to buy music and enough time to peruse shops, both new and secondhand, and actually acquire the stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So this was part of the rush of great music that, for me at least, made 1992 a vintage year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bettie Serveert were/are the most well known Dutch post-grunge rockers from this period. They toured with the likes of Buffalo Tom and Dinosaur Jr, produced a cracking debut album, Palomine, which came out in the UK, on Guernica, the short-lived 4AD off-shoot, then switched to (the also ill-fated) Beggars Banquet and are, it would seem, still active. <a href="https://youtu.be/PaAXkwQBzYU">Tom Boy</a> was their first single, backed by a decent b-side, <a href="https://youtu.be/h-1br3rnCcw">Smile</a>. Well worth a listen if you don't know their stuff, well worth wallowing in the nostalgia for 4 minutes and 21 seconds if you do.</span><br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-29378770007867507592015-11-16T15:22:00.000-08:002015-11-19T13:30:22.584-08:00No. 29 Beachbuggy - Ya Just A Little Punk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-62371984862812910942015-11-09T14:03:00.003-08:002015-11-09T14:23:32.436-08:00No. 28 Bauhaus - Spirit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've been away too long! Halloween and Bonfire Night have been and gone, Autumn is finally feeling a little more autumnal, so it's high time I cracked on a bit. Here at last, is my final Bauhaus single. Released in 1982, Spirit was another attempt to crack the all important Top 40 - it failed (again - see post no. 27), only reaching number 42 and was subsequently re-recorded before appearing on their third album, The Sky's Gone Out. It was also accompanied by a fairly high-budget <a href="https://youtu.be/fx_Gv3mN1BU">video</a> - be warned, it hasn't dated well. The b-side (or black side as its called) is a rough and ready live take of the Baader-Meinhof inspired Terror Couple Kills Colonel. The sleeve art is a lovely thing, only slightly marred by the inclusion of the band name and song title in a rather ugly font.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-82374452012234975332015-09-08T14:24:00.001-07:002015-09-08T14:25:25.142-07:00No. 27 Bauhaus - Searching For Satori E.P.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet more goth, in fact, pretty much the same goth. For those in the know or who've been paying attention will note that this is the 1982 reissue of 1981's <a href="https://youtu.be/rb-6ka1y-K8">Kick In The Eye</a>. I assume the reissue was a strategy to gain Bauhaus the top 40 hit that had, to this point, eluded them. It didn't work; this peaked at number 45. The band would have to wait until later in the year to finally make an impact on the (in those days) all important UK top 40, when their cover of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust reached number 15. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You do get two new b-sides for your money with the reissue. <a href="https://youtu.be/n0_qEtCVDs4">Harry</a> is a good example of Bauhaus' dabbling in reggae, whilst <a href="https://youtu.be/NovMy2GamcU">Earwax</a> heads off in an altogether more dubby direction. Reggae and dub was an obvious influence on the punk and new wave scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but as far as I know Bauhaus were the only goth band who demonstrated their interest so overtly - as both these tracks demonstrate, they clearly had an ear for the genre. Earwax in particular, manages to be both goth and dub simultaneously. Both are well worth a listen.</span></div>
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adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-3320466595245523432015-08-11T01:23:00.001-07:002017-03-19T14:02:40.751-07:00No. 26 Bauhaus - Satori in Paris<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">This
single originally came as a free bonus with the initial copies of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_the_Eject_and_Give_Me_the_Tape">Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape</a></span>. It includes live takes of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LntOIaQz7h8">Double Dare</a></span>
and <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://youtu.be/eJtkdvfvHmI">Hair of the Dog</a></span>. Both tracks were recorded live at Le Rose Bon Bon, Paris
at the end of 1981. I think I'm correct in saying that this is the first
single that I've written about that was given away as a freebie with
another record. There will be plenty more of these, as I always found them hard
to resist. I still remember the thrill of checking inside record sleeves
in second hand vinyl shops and discovering that the bonus single was still
lurking inside (especially if said record shop owner hadn't noticed it and
marked up the price).</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This must rank as one of my favourite Bauhaus
releases. I love the spoken word piece that runs across the start of Double
Dare (presumably the intro before the first song), which goes something
like this...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span lang="EN-US">...and
I discovered this very evening was actually written by a young <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore">Alan Moore</a> (of
Watchman, V for Vendetta etc) under the pseudonym Brilburn Logue - presumably
there is some kind of Northampton connection here? I love that at the start
Murphy announces that Double Dare is dedicated to French dramatist, poet, actor
and director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud">Antonin Artaud</a> (something I'm fairly certain Oasis never did); I
suspect the lyrics refer to Artaud's "The Theatre and its Double",
the core themes of which seem to be echoed in the lyrics. Finally, I love that
both recordings are really rough and ready, but capture a ferocity that
makes me wish I'd had the chance to see Bauhaus in their pomp (sadly I was 12
when this was recorded).</span><!--EndFragment--> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was a teenage goth. Some would see this as a badge of shame, but listening to Kick In The Eye (as well as a number of other singles that will eventually make it into this project) and I think it was a pretty sound position. The early and mid-1980s were pretty dark times (no pun intended) musically. Punk was well and truly dead, post-punk was also, in most cases, running on empty and we were still years away from the C86 and ecstasy-fuelled dance culture of the later 1980s. In that landscape goth offered some of the most interesting music made during the period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bauhaus are often credited with being the first goth band; this may or may not be the case, but they were certainly on of the <i>most </i>goth bands. <a href="https://youtu.be/rb-6ka1y-K8?list=RDrb-6ka1y-K8">Kick In The Eye</a> must also be one of their career highs; the elastic bass-line the skittery, synthetic drums, the slightly feral backing vocals and a really fine performance from Murphy. It certainly challenges the notion that goth was always doom and gloom; I defy you not to want to dance to this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My own introduction to Bauhaus was, alas, shortly after they'd called it a day. I recall my good friend Rob putting together a compilation of various goth tracks that included at least one Bauhaus tune (I <i>think </i>it was Lagartija Nick) and then picking up the excellent 1979-1983 compilation; a lovely double vinyl set, which I subsequently re-bought so as to have a numbered copy with the photo insert (no. 4978 in case you're wondering).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never paid the b-side, <a href="https://youtu.be/ySMWNWUtQ3E">Satori</a>, much attention at the time, but its actually a neat instrumental, combining eerie post-punk guitar and a hefty dose of dub. Quality stuff throughout.</span><br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-87846888733460504012015-06-22T15:04:00.000-07:002015-06-22T15:05:33.517-07:00No. 24 Bailter Space - Splat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mention New Zealand and most people think of egg-chasing, hobbits and butter that doesn't have the seal of approval of any punk icons (as far as I'm aware). What far too few folk will wax lyrical about is the fabulous music that New Zealand has produced over the last three decades. In my attempt to demonstrate that this is, in fact, the case, I present Exhibit A, <a href="https://youtu.be/aO5yH3CiSBc">Splat</a>, a slice of gorgeous guitar-driven loveliness from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailter_Space">Bailter Space</a>, dating from 1997. The band was already a decade old when this was released, and in turn emerged from the legendary Gordons. Bailter Space have produced a string of great noisy guitar albums, often associated with the equally legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun_Records">Flying Nun Records</a>, which has released material by pretty much every significant New Zealand band at one time or another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you're interested in hearing more like this, you could do far worse than starting with the excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tally-Flying-Nuns-Greatest-Bits/dp/B006BVJYUO/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1435010546&sr=1-3&keywords=tally+ho">Tally Ho!: Flying Nun's Greatest Bits</a> compilation from 2011.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-19784659158641144892015-06-06T12:36:00.000-07:002015-06-06T12:36:51.070-07:00No. 23 Jessica Bailiff and Alan Sparhawk<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I'm back. May is always a bit hellish work-wise, so time has been in short supply. Yes I know there's a week's holiday in there somewhere but we were camping in moderately wild Devon, in the land beyond Wi-Fi and 3G.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Firstly, there will be those that challenge whether this is in the correct place alphabetically (hello, Mark). By my reckoning it goes under B for Bailiff, rather than S for Sparhawk, V for various artists or (definitely not) J for Jessica. There are those misguided folk who might be tempted to file it under L for Low, but that would clearly be deeply wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having said that, the reason this is in the collection is because of the Low connection. Sparhawk is one third of Low and has been something of a champion of Bailiff's slow-core influenced music. It was he who first alerted Kranky, Bailiff's regular label, of her earliest demos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know relatively little of this single, released on Ypsilanti Records in 2001. Crush, Version 2 is a reworking of a track from her second album, 1999's Hour Of The Trace, whilst the B-side, Highwire, is a Marc Bolan composition. Sound-wise this is fairly typical of her shoe-gaze-y, slow-core sound; slightly buried vocals, drone synths and a glacial pace. It's not surprising that she's collaborated with the likes of His Name Is Alive and Flying Saucer Attack - they're working with a similar sonic palette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't find a copy of the single version anywhere, but <a href="https://youtu.be/aTs9Fk0Wwqk">here's the original</a>; a lovely thing it is too!</span><br />
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adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-48709855413281344022015-04-21T15:07:00.000-07:002015-04-21T15:07:39.669-07:00No. 22 Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was reminded of Badly Drawn Boy twice this week. Once by the campaign surrounding the 15 year anniversary reissue of The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, the album that followed (and included) this single. Then it was announced Damien Gough would be touring this album to mark the occasion, as has become the fashion in these times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When this was released, I was pretty impressed by Badly Drawn Boy. Peel had been enthusiastically playing his early releases, which I'd grown to like, and so I snapped up this, his breakthrough single (it reached number 46 in the UK national chart). My enthusiasm waned pretty quickly after I saw what I still count to this day as the possibly the worst gig I have ever witnessed. He was touring the above mentioned (pretty solid) album and played Sheffield University's Foundry. The gig was an utter shambles - Gough had already consumed much of a bottle of Jack Daniels by the time he took to the stage and he'd finished it long before the gig ended. I honestly don't think he performed a single song that didn't disappoint. My mood wasn't improved when, just before the gig began, a huge crusty with the most enormous hair imaginable, decided to stand right in front of me. It quickly became apparent that he was also much the worse for wear and I spent the gig wondering when he might collapse on me, though on refection this might have at least put me out of my misery. It remains one of the very few times I've walked out (or at least retreated to the bar next door) during a headline set. A sad end to my enthusiasm really, as this remains a <a href="https://youtu.be/RPVAipmV7jY">lovely tune</a>, one of his best.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-21938843785760641202015-04-10T16:25:00.000-07:002015-04-10T23:56:43.372-07:00No. 21 Babes In Toyland - Bruise Violet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) It's a grunge classic. Babes In Toyland were as good live as any of the bands of that era, and <a href="https://youtu.be/tWZ9ihZ_TUw">this</a>, from their second album, Fontanelle, must surely rate as one of their finest songs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) There are two b-sides, Gone and <a href="https://youtu.be/ElZLBpmVb40">Magick Flute</a>. The latter is one of drummer, Lori Barbero's excellent and all too infrequent contributions to their output.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4) A Babes in Toyland gig was the first date for my wife and I, way back in 1993 - Bradford Queens Hall to be precise, supported by Truman's Water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm genuinely saddened that I don't own more of Babes In Toyland's 7" singles - I missed out at the time and they seem to fetch pretty crazy prices these days. They were an important and perhaps under-rated part of the grunge scene; even Mark Yarm's brilliant if scathing <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Loves-Our-Town-History/dp/0571249868">Everybody Loves Our Town</a>, doesn't manage to diminish their contribution too much.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-62657175981013593122015-03-28T10:38:00.001-07:002015-03-28T10:44:00.220-07:00No. 20 Arcwelder - Captain Allen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The final single from the letter A and its also the final Arcwelder single, which was released in 1995 and subsequently turned up on Entropy, their fifth album. It's another solid tune and it's backed with a decent cover of Volcano Suns' <a href="https://youtu.be/OLPS8ldoKc0">White Elephant</a>. I can't find a video for this tune, so here's a link to a (badly synced) clip from <a href="https://youtu.be/tezvluXbLr8">Touch & Go's 25th anniversary celebrations</a>, which suggests that Arcwelder are lovely people too and includes an excellent cameo from Shellac's Todd Trainer. Sadly despite owning most of their back catalogue, I've never seen Arcwelder live - I should have seen them at All Tomorrow's Parties back in 2002, but I managed to miss them, I think because of a clash - whoever it was I saw instead had better have been damned good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fact fans will be delighted to learn that Bob Weston IV (now of Shellac) who engineered and produced this was in Volcano Suns (but not when they wrote White Elephant).</span></div>
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adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-14691941362535201802015-03-24T16:19:00.000-07:002015-03-28T10:39:33.236-07:00No. 19 Arcwelder - Raleigh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">March has become a most challenging month professionally in recent years, thus the lack of activity on the blogging front. However the ocean of marking is now behind me and normal service can hopefully be resumed. Anyhow, next up its another fine offering from Arcwelder, the stop-start alt. pop of <a href="https://youtu.be/tC2VR9f91BE">Raleigh</a>, the band's first single on Touch & Go, which would eventually feature on their third album Pull. Two b-sides feature (Walls and Rosa), which is always good value, even if they're a little forgettable (which they are).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chicago's Touch & Go Records was consistently putting out great records at this time; the was the era of Girls Against Boys, The Jesus Lizard, Slint, Man or Astroman and plenty more fine bands. This certainly won't be the last Touch & Go release to feature as I work through the alphabet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sadly, I've concluded that this song (probably) refers to Raleigh, the city in North Carolina, rather than the Elizabethan sailor, son of the West Country and populariser of tobacco, Sir Walter Raleigh. An opportunity missed I think.</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-51622119578110465342015-02-22T15:40:00.000-08:002015-03-28T10:39:33.240-07:00No. 18 Arcwelder - I Am The Walrus/Sign Of The Times<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cover version; so often a feature of the seven inch single, often as a b-side offering. They can be great, as we shall no doubt see as this project unfolds. But they can also be terrible (there's certain to be some of those in the mix too). I have spent many hours, often in the company of my good friend and fellow anorak <a href="https://twitter.com/pomfob">@pomfob</a>, trying to shortlist favourite cover versions and I wonder if there aren't certain ingredients for a good cover; don't sound too much like the original, don't think playing it faster is in itself entertaining, (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_U6UfKVeM">though it might be</a>) etc. It's probably also a good idea to avoid taking on songs that are broadly agreed to be classics, and therefore pretty hard to improve upon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On that note, the next single is Arcwelder's brave double cover of The Beatles' I Am The Walrus and Prince's Sign Of The Times (I believe its actually Sign O' The Times, which always makes me think it's sung by pirates). Sadly, neither tune seems to exist on the interweb, so you'll have to take my word that the version of Beatles' tune is better than the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9DnjNfxg_A">Oasis one</a> and that the version of Sign O' The Times (arrrr) is vastly preferable to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqiVKr5dnJA">Muse one</a> (but then, so is sticking rusty needles in your soft, fleshy parts).</span><br />
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-7306938753274264252015-02-12T15:22:00.001-08:002015-03-28T10:39:33.246-07:00No. 17 Arcwelder - Favor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It hasn't been particularly apparent from the first sixteen selections, but I have an abiding fondness for US alternative rock. Basically, if it featured in Michael Azerrad's brilliant, essential Our Band Could Save Your Life, then I'll probably be willing to champion it. So don't be too surprised if there's a fair amount of tunes like this one in the posts that follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Arcwelder may need an introduction; they emerged from Minneapolis at the tail end of the 1980s (they were originally called Tilt-a-whirl until the company that makes the tilt-a-whirl sued them). They released a half-dozen albums between 1990 and 1999 (I have all but the hard-to-find first) and its fair to say they never achieved massive commercial success (though they never really sought it either).</span></div>
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<br />adam0407http://www.blogger.com/profile/14641353571221375498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268748591831690414.post-32694660762293360372015-02-09T15:00:00.001-08:002015-02-09T15:00:56.673-08:00No. 16 Arctic Monkeys - Matador/Da Frame 2R<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My final Arctic Monkeys 7" single was a limited run (1,000 copies no less) white vinyl, with 2 tracks originally released in Japan but not in the UK, at around the time of Favourite Worst Nightmare. Neither track is exactly a classic; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmIZZv9EEvA">Da Frame 2R</a> sounds like it may be an older song that wouldn't have made it on to Whatever People Say... and Matador is a largely forgettable, largely instrumental offering. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Still, Domino did throw in a couple of stickers, which was nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never warmed to the Arctic Monkeys later offerings to be honest. There seems to have been a law of diminishing returns, that set in pretty rapidly. Perhaps it's hard to write authentically gritty songs about everyday life in South Yorkshire when your living in a Manhattan apartment with your model girlfriend. I'm aware that there is the case made that AM, the most recent album, is a return to form of sorts. but the whole tax avoidance thing has left me feeling distinctly unbothered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little known fact; the drummer's dad is a regular at my local Parkrun - I only worked this out because he wears an Arctic Monkeys hat in the colder months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another cracking tune from the Monkeys. This one is more pleasing because it didn't feature on either the first LP or the second. There's always something a little bit special about the one-off single I think. It was also promoted with a decent Sheffield-filmed <a href="http://youtu.be/SEukS2YN9B8">video</a>, featuring Paddy Considine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The b-side is a bit of an oddity though; a one off collaboration between the Monkeys and the 747s (nope, me neither). It's a sixties cover, that hints at the territory Alex Turner would explore with The Last Shadow Puppets.</span></div>
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