we should blast this song out into space because if some "alien" hears this then they'll take pity on our poor behavior and maybe even want to party with us. this song is what got me inspired to delve deeper into the sounds of NZ during Mike Slumberland's 45th birthday party because I'd never heard this before. Worth mentioning that Shayne's next group Straitjacket Fits were the first band from NZ that I ever heard and thus loved.
YES YES YES!! if the billions who buy their neatly packaged meat products saw this video how many would think twice? i love bands who have this kind of audacity and aren't afraid to touch on the ugliness in the world. (sorry if you think mass slaughter of animals is beautiful)
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. ~Lord Byron
I made a Chameleons mix for friend who wasn't familiar with their music. Found the artwork I designed for it tonight by chance and I have to admit I think they look pretty sharp! I'm posting the designs for whomever wants to use them and make their own mix (if you already have the songs, and you should, right??). On a similar note, I should make one for The Sound and put it up because I think they're sorely overlooked and just as good as The Chameleons.
I knew Momus offered fans the opportunity to have a song written about them for $1,000 and included on his Stars Forever album, but I couldn't remember why he needed the money. Turns out it was because he wrote a song about Wendy Carlos, a tribute no doubt, that Ms. Carlos obviously took offense to. All was settled out of court and he had to pay $30,000 as well as removing the offending song from an album.
One father had Momus write a song about his kid. I love his reaction when asked about the song...
"Noah's father, Michael Brill, a longtime Momus fan, says the decision to get involved with the project was a no-brainer. "It's pretty cool to have a song written about your son," he says of the track, which highlights his kid's love for sushi and tarantulas. "Noah sings it all the time." When asked about his inclusion on "Stars Forever," however, Noah jumps up and down and runs away yelling, "No, no, no! Aaaaaah!"
"Sentencing someone to a year in a labor camp, without trial, for simply repeating another person's clearly satirical observation on Twitter demonstrates the level of China's repression of online expression," Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director Sam Zarifi said in a statement. more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/18/international/i172301S79.DTL#ixzz15iayoP3I
fuck Twitter and all, but this is relevant. Censorship is rotting away our freedoms and cultures. Prisoners of conscious are my heroes.
There's another group from San Francisco that makes me happy to live in the area. That group is the TERRY MALTS and they only have a cassette tape out so far on LOGLADY. They're so damn infectious and bubblegum in that glorious 1980s guitar pop way.
listen to their song "Tumble Down" on the LOGLADY website and you can buy their tape titled "DISTRACTED" if you're as smitten as me.
Download Part 1 / Part 2 1. Sex Gang Children - Cannibal Queen 2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Belladonna 3. Modern English - Gathering Dust 4. Clan of Xymox - Back Door 5. Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People 6. Clock DVA - Sensorium (Single Version) 7. 45 Grave - Black Cross 8. Christian Death - Figurative Theatre 9. Current 93 - Looney Runes 10. Dead Can Dance - Threshold (Radio version) 11. Factrix - Ballad Of The Grim Rider 12. Coil - Who By Fire 13. Savage Republic - Film Noir 14. And Also The Trees - Slow Pulse Boy 15. Skinny Puppy - Stairs and Flowers 16. White Noise - The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell 17. Lydia Lunch - Done Dun (with Rowland S. Howard & Nick Cave) 18. Red Temple Spirits - Moonlight 19. Modern Eon - Second Still 20. The Dream Syndicate - Halloween
1. The Sound - Skeletons 2. Ministry - Same Old Madness 3. Fad Gadget - Lady Shave 4. SPK - Israel 5. Cindytalk - Everybody is Christ 6. Coil - The Wheel 7. Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song) 8. Dead Can Dance - The Fatal Impact 9. The Cure - A Short Term Effect 10. Current 93/HÖH - Crowleymass 11. Chrome - Eyes On Mars 12. Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope 13. Theatre of Hate - Eastworld 14. Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon 15. Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye 16. D.A.F. - Ich und die Wirklichkeit 17. Dave Ball - Man In The Man 18. Bobb Trimble - Night At The Asylum 19. Modern Eon - Waiting For The Cavalry 20. Savage Republic - Next To Nothing 21. Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe Version) 22. Legendary Pink Dots - The More It Changes 23. Pink Industry - Creaking Doors 24. Death In June - Behind The Rose (Fields Of Rape)
Never thought I'd be saying this, but there is in fact a new album by Cleaners From Venus. Martin Newell has resurrected the name and I hope it's as good as before! I've not heard anything from it as I write this, but not for long since you can download the album here!
Never knew this had a video! Thanks to Josh Alper of The Art Museums for mentioning it in an interview (read here). What're you saying Pat Fish?? For those of you who only listen to the first couple of TVP albums do yourself a huge favor and pick up their album "Privilege" (1990) sometime. It's up there with "The Painted Word" and "And Don't The Kids Just Love It" as their best albums.
A1 Different Phrases B1 You Would Be Amazed B2 Dancing
Bron Area: A Biography
To start at the beginning: Bron Area started life as a duo in March 1979, emerging from an embryo of musicians in Nuneaton. Martin Packwood and Steven Parker had been involved in a number of these before meeting a wider and more competent group of musicians. Notably among these was Peter Becker who supported and encouraged them in the early stages of Bron Area. With the reorganization of The Reluctant Stereotypes, resulting in the departure of Martyn Bates and Chris Dunne (later to drum on all later Bron Area records) the former arrived at a Bron gig to be introduced to Peter and thus Eyeless In Gaza came into being. Ambivalent Scale Recordings was later established and saw the release of Bron Area’s One Year cassette album and Fragile Sentences Ep as well as Eyeless In Gaza’s Kodak Ghosts Run Amok Ep and Kevin Harrison’s On Earth 2 cassette (later released as a Cherry Red album [remixed]). As Eyeless moved on to greater glory via their deal with Cherry Red Records, the momentum of Nuneaton’s music scene diminished, Bron Area subdued their efforts somewhat until David Barker of Glass Records, having heard 2 songs from the Alternative Sounds fanzines compilation tape Facet 1 asked them to appear on his Wonderful World of Glass Vol. 1 Lp at the end of 1981. So impressed was Mr. Barker that on the strength of a recent demo tape Bron Area were signed to Glass at the beginning of 1982. The first vinyl was a 12” Ep entitled ‘Different Phrases’ released in March ’82 and later released as a 7” on Posh Boy Records in the USA. Now, after the best part of 1982 being spent in the recording studio Bron Area’s first album is ready. The album is The Trees and the Villages – a title which suggests the sentiments of their present music. Although not quite as described in Stringent Measures fanzine “a modern day country music … with a little organic additive” it does through different means seek to fulfill the same role as that music. Martin Packwood: “The album doesn’t take risks, but I really don’t see how any music could claim to do so. The only thing you risk in being avant garde is that no one is going to buy the record and listen to what you have to offer. People take risks in their lives – in their decisions, their lifestyles and so on – not when they listen to a record.”
Look, now there's all these Shop Assistants videos up on youtube. I think I prefer their softer numbers sans drums, that trademark pummeling percussion gets a tad tiresome. Soft numbers...
Fucking brilliant cover of an Alternative TV song. When I saw them play this in 2001 Mark jumped off the stage and sang surrounded by the audience and I gave him a hug resulting in my being covered in his sweat. Doubt I'll ever see a more transcendent show as that one.
Songs that reflect my current listening as opposed to the backwards gazing of previous entries. Included are two recent exposures I made last Saturday at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland CA.
Carter Tutti - The Sun Shone That Day Bron Area - You Would Be Amazed Trembling Blue Stars - Helen Reddy The Sound - Winter The Sound - Counting the Days Two Daughters - Ladder of Souls David Sylvian - The Healing Place Bill Nelson - Soon September (Another Enchantment) Cindytalk - Guts of London Bron Area - Different Phrases Kevin Harrison - People In Space Kevin Harrison and Steven Parker - Distant Truth of English Dreams Eyeless in Gaza / Lol Coxhill - November The Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair Alain Goraguer - Générique (Fantastic Planet score) Aztec Camera - Bad Education (Blue Orchids cover) The Clientele - Since K Got Over Me Fly - Lamborghini Mary Margaret O'Hara - To Cry About Spiritualized - Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies) Be Bop Deluxe - Crystal Gazing
1. Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated 2. The Cure - Plainsong 3. Soul Whirling Somewhere - Everyone Will Eventually Leave You 4. Cindytalk - Janey's Love 5. And Also the Trees - Gone...Like the Swallows 6. Trembling Blue Stars - Cecilia in Black and White 7. Cocteau Twins - Crushed 8. Nature and Organisation - Bloodstreamruns 9. Swallow - Lacuna 10. Xymox - Imagination 11. Mesh - I Don't Think They Know 12. Depeche Mode - Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix) 13. Chandeen -Ginger (Acoustic) 14. Death in June - Little Black Angel 15. Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Suddenly I 16. Halou - Feeling This is Like to Fall Awake 17. Dif Juz - Soarn 18. The Wolfgang Press - I Am The Crime
As I mentioned a couple posts back (Apoptygma Berzerk--who more recently covered House of Love's "Shine On" with VILE results. Do yourself a favor and avoid this unless you want to puke all over yourself) my discovery of an old playlist dating back to the year 2000 for a friend. This led to the fruition to recreate a similar mix broadened to include other old favorites and similar themed songs in dreamy, ethereal, gothy? tone. I was surprised to find that most of the songs I still enjoyed, except for the odd track that proves that your tastes sometimes do change (ie. Trance to the Sun). I'm also including old images that I photographed around the same time. Here's the first in a trilogy on the theme of nostalgia.
1. The Tear Garden - You and Me and Rainbows (edit) 2. Cranes - Beautiful Friend 3. An April March - Mandarin 4. Love Spirals Downwards - Through Sky Blue Rooms 5. Mellonta Tauta - Pull the Charriot 6. Kitchens of Distinction - Quick as Rainbows 7. Clan of Xymox - Theme I 8. A.R. Kane - Up 9. Current 93 - The Inmost Light 10. Coil - Windowpane 11. Lush - I Have the Moon 12. For Against - Don't Do Me Any Favors 13. Slowdive - Shine 14. Martin L. Gore - Compulsion 15. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence 16. Secret Shine - Deep Thinker 17. Edward Ka-Spel - Hotel X
promise the double "rainbows" wasn't intentional. pop music quiz: how many songs here are covers?
Here's one for the kids who like to dance. Kevin Harrison is a recent discovery of mine who was first brought to my attention by way of the Cherry Red compilation Perspectives and Distortion. His song "People in Space" was so full of intriguing sounds and atmosphere. Crazy dub rhythms. He's also collaborated with Steven Parker of Bron Area on an album called "Against the Light."
I believe this is him - http://www.youtube.com/user/spectro52 (looks like he's uploaded an interview for the interested) http://isotope23.vox.com/
...which brings me to the Glass Records Story, an interview with owner Dave Barker brought to us by Iain McNay of Cherry Red. There's even some discussion of In Embrace so obviously this comes highly recommended!
Personally I don't see why Glass isn't as revered as a labels like Creation or Sarah. Scrolling through their list of releases and you'll see what i mean, mighty impressive!
Throwing a major curveball straight into the glove of NOSTALGIA. Bought Apoptygma's "Welcome to Earth" ten years ago (the year it was released) and used to play this song to death. Not too sure how I feel about it these days but set to this Twin Peaks edit I figured it was worth a post because I've not seen Twin Peaks in a while. This is mostly a product of my discovering an old tracklist that I made for a friend around 2000 that has me WISTFULLY listening again to these tragic and grossly ethereal songs. I gotta admit, I still really like almost all of it. You'll see what I mean in the next few days when I put together a mix for the blog, hopefully raising a few eyebrows along the way! Wasn't Legend my favorite movie back then afterall?
as a bonus here's the original debut single from Strawberry Switchblade, "Trees and Flowers" note: this is very different from the album version and features Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) on guitar and I believe that there's also someone from Madness playing on it.
1. Writing Pictures 2. Your Heaven Scent 3. Emotional Punchbags 4. Trying Too Hard 5. Sun Brings Smiles 6. Play In Light 7. Tears Turn Fresh 8. Fluid 9. Love Among the Crumbs 10. The Living Daylights 11. Shadow and Substance 12. Under the Skin 13. Pine Needles
Gary Knight sings on all tracks, plays keyboards on 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 and bass on 9, 10, 11. Richard Formby plays guitar on 1, 2, 3, 8, 12 and keyboards on 4, 5, 13. Joby Palmer drums on 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9. Cameron Lindo plays guitar on 5, keyboards on 6 and piano on 7. Claire Johnson sings on 6 and 7 and talks on 13. Stephen Rees plays bass guitar on 1, 2 and 8. Sindy Star sings on 1. John A. Rivers plays keyboards on 1 and recording studio on all tracks. These songs are in Gary's own words of course except for 6, in Cameron's. 2, 5, 6, 8, 10 were on singles, 5, 7 were on the Passionfruit Pastels album of 1982. 3, 4, 9, 12, 13 were on the Too album of 1983 and 11 was on the Glass compilation album of the same name. 1 was previously unavailable. The photograph of Gary is by Mitch Jenkins. The Photograph of Claire is by Gary.
1. Citrus - A Speeding Wheel, Speedway Wheels 2. Dunes - Armor 3. The Telescopes - All A Dreams 4. Bron Area - Sometimes in Water... 5. Swans - The Other Side of the World 6. The Langley Schools Music Project - Venus and Mars/Rock Show 7. Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me 8. The Stars of Heaven - Telescope 9. The Wedding Present - Carolyn 10. Salon Music - O Boy 11. Bridge - Change 12. Cornelius - Lazy 13. Citrus - Ripple in Still Water 14. Future Bible Heroes - Lonely Days 15. Saint Etienne - Everything Flows 16. Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee 17. His Name Is Alive - The Dirt Eaters 18. Straitjacket Fits - She Speeds 19. Swans - The Sound of Freedom 20. Felt - Apple Boutique 21. John Cale - Chinese Envoy 22. Broadcast - Poem of Dead Song 23. Bridge - Slow Strawberry Bicycle 24. Citrus - Every Song Landed Near By His Fireplace
First Installment Part 1 / Part 2 1. Blätter aus dem Buch der Kühnheit 2. Segnung 3. Aguirre I (L'acrime di rei) 4. Morgengruss II 5. Through Pain to Heaven 6. Du Sohn Davids II 7. Kleiner Krieger 8. Kyrie 9. Morning Sun 10. Engel der Gegenwart 11. Singet, denn der Gesang vertreibt die Wölfe 12. In den Nächten auf den Gassen I 13. In den Nächten auf den Gassen II 14. Auf dem Weg 15. Selig sind die, die da hungern. Selig sind die, die da dürsten nach Gerechtigkeit. Ja, sie sollen satt werden 16. Zusammenkunft 17. Listen He Who Ventures 18. Maria (Ave Maria) 19. We Know About the Need 20. Spirit Of Peace (Part 2)
Second Installment Part 1 / Part 2 1. Der Tod Des Cobra Verde 2. Wo Bist Do, der Du überwunden Hast? 3. Auf Dem Weg (On The Way) 4. Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte 5. Angel Of The Air, Part Two 6. Ah! 7. On the Way 8. In den Gärten Pharaos (edit) 9. Tanz Der Chassidim 10. Kyrie (Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte version) 11. King Minos II 12. In Deine Hände 13. Oh Wie Nah Ist Der Weg Hinab 14. Abschied 15. Mantra 2 16. Der Grosse Krieger 17. Haram Dei Raram Dei Haram Dei Ra 18. Mitten In Garten (alternative piano version) 19. Brothers Of Darkness - Sons Of Light
1. Jonas Reinhardt - Powers of Audition 2. Ashra - Deep Distance 3. Cindytalk - Troubled Aria 4. Blue Orchids - Release 5. The Aislers Set - Attraction Action Reaction 6. Wipers - Mystery 7. Bad Brains - Sailin' On 8. The Sea Urchins - Summershine 9. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Ultimate Stars 10. Beat Happening - Noise 11. Dislocation Dance - Narrow Laughs 12. The Creatures - Dancing On Glass 13. Section 25 - Reflection 14. Blue Orchids - Dumb Magician 15. Savage Republic - Andelusia 16. Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless This House 17. Cluster - Flutful 18. Section 25 - The Process 19. Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar 20. Roy Montgomery - Ill at Home
1. Mauve Decade - Come On Get Happy (intro) 2. Stockholm Monsters - Terror 3. The Deddingtons - The Last Day 4. Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened 5. Cluster - Heiße Lippen 6. Scrotum Poles - Pick the Cats Eyes Out 7. Shoes - Fatal 8. Loop - Head On 9. Dome - Rolling Upon My Day 10. SPK - Internal Bleeding 11. Big in Japan - Suicide A Go Go 12. Big Flame - Sargasso 13. The Associates - Logan Time 14. Modern Eon - Child's Play 15. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Into the Night 16. Mellonta Tauta - Chucao 17. Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Delta Rain Dream 18. Stockholm Monsters - Life's Two Faces 19. The Chesterf!elds - Let it Go 20. Severed Heads - 4WD 21. Tuxedomoon - What Use 22. Television Personalities - Privilege 23. Pearl Harbor - Sunburn 24. Vic Godard - No Love (Now) 25. Scrotum Poles - Helicopter Honeymoon
1. High Rise - Cycle Goddess 2. Theatre of Hate - The Hop 3. Clock DVA - 4 Hours 4. The Comsat Angels - Eye of the Lens 5. D.A.F. - Nacht Arbeit 6. Yazoo - In My Room 7. Family Fodder - The Big Dig 8. Taxi Girl - Aussi belle qu'une balle (long version) 9. Les Calamités - Vélomoteur 10. Rosemary's Children - W.W.1 11. Desperate Bicycles - (I Make The) Product 12. Blueboy - Meet Johnny Rave 13. The Shapiros - Cry For A Shadow 14. In Embrace - Emotional Punchbags 15. The Cat's Miaow - I Hate Myself More Than You Do 16. The Stems - At First Sight 17. A Riot of Colour - Put To Sleep 18. The Chamber Strings - I Can't Lose 19. Dislocation Dance - Tyrannies of Fun 20. The Bevis Frond - Hurt Goes On 21. Shop Assistants - After Dark 22. Rosemary's Children - Southern Fields 23. Last Exit - Sand Dancer 24. The Church - It's No Reason