― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Mark - everyone knows about F Mac's encounter-group on wheels (fuck that, private jets),but their weird dynamics were already at high-tension levels way before the Buckingham/Nicks era - it was drugs and mental illness that featured in the Green/Spencer era, and perhaps a couple of Californian flower children were a cakewalk in comparison. I think a more interesting band to put to this kind of scrutiny would be Husker Du - I don't think the full story has ever come out. Also, do you think W. Marsalis imagines himself Completing the Arc of ALL OF JAZZ?
Tracer - there are quite a few examples from the 60s of attempts to forge new band models - think Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead (bohemian/preppie/academic/lowlife - later to contain both a married couple and a drummer who quit due to his manager/father embezzling from his own son's band),MC5, Sly & the Family Stone, etc. (In light of the 'Dictator' category, the prevalence of army brats (Buffalo Springfield, Doors)in the peace-n- love era is interesting. Steven Stills and Jim Morrison were both notorious for maintaining control through unpredictability, violence, and limitless capacities for mental and physical cruelty, and an Alpha Male sense of supremacy, qualities definitely not fashionable in the pre-Altamont daze - odd that their music remains among the most 'of its time' of these bands[I don't want to use the 'dated' epithet] - and like every bully, they both had weedy, introspective nerds as sidekicks/mascots. (Morrison always struck me as the school bully who would pants the classroom poet in front of all the girls when there were crowds around, but would corner the guy alone later with "I...um...wrote a song...it's about my feelings and stuff...". Stills, the jock who made your life a misery, until you see him 20 years later and he's a fat guy with a nowhere job and a wife who cheats on him and you have a beer with him, gloating inside at his endless complaints about the manager of the furniture retailer that employs him.)
Another 'power behind the throne' band? How about the Byrds? -- tarden (scrape100@hotma....), June 16th, 2001.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 20 April 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
I liked that Tom Hanks one -- dave q (scrape10...), April 18th, 2003. (later)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Sunday, 20 April 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dunno, I'd be suspicious if a train conductor insisted I didn't need any baggage. Like, where are we going, Belsen? -- dave q (scrape10...), July 24th, 2001.
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 19 June 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
Devo, for updating that N'awlins groove. (Don't believe me? Where d'ya think 'Working in a Coal Mine' came from?) For being the missing link between the Ventures and Slipknot. For being known as an electro- synth-whatevah noowave unit but still having an incredibly great drummer. For "Uncontrollable Urge", "Gut Feeling", "Smart Patrol", "Snowball", "Girl U Want", "Through Being Cool", "Beautiful World", "Speed Racer", "Peek-a-Boo", "Be Stiff", "Turnaround", and every cover version they ever did. For being a noisier, trashier, funnier and more American version of Roxy Music.
Kraftwerk = hippies. I can see them driving their VW van through Morocco, everything. Their beautiful tunes ("Radioactivity") were beautiful but they didn't have any kick-ass tunes and are thus responsible for trance music and all those besieged chrome-domes screaming about how there's still NOIZE assaulting their poor calibrated eardrums, get rid of it now, it's all the fault of the rockist conspiracy etc etc etc. Actually, fuck Kraftwerk and everybody who followed them. (I still like "Radioactivity" though, but I think somebody should do a really shitty version of it)
-- dave q (scrape10...), January 21st, 2002 8:00 PM.
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
PRIMAL SCREAM - Give Up But Don't Give Out *****
What's it called when you 'sample' stuff, except actually 'play' it? Let's invent a new word! 'Recordcollected'! By nature of what they 'recordcollect' here 'Give Up' is the crucible of TRUE FANS who may be admitted into the inner sanctum of the mystery of the PS constellation of reference points. By exposing it to the light and thus risking evaporation they instead justify their way of making records by making it seem like the LISTENER is a conundrum, ie if somebody doesn't 'like' them then that means they don't like their 'record collection'. But who but a really sad person would dislike somebody on that basis? That's the question PS are asking and they drop the first and last hint with the genius intro to "Jailbait" (y'know, the two drum intros), although burying the stellar "Struttin'" near the end is also a nice touch, if a bit cruel and malicious, but since when has that ever bothered me? A masterpiece. -- dave q (scrape10...), July 16th, 2003.
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link
'vocals should be louder' = 'i should stick to acoustic singer-songwriters'!! They are THE STROKES. See the 'S' on the end? Like it's a band, there's five of them and the voice in a band is another 'instrument'. The great thing about studios is you can mix them anyway you want! It's 'The Strokes', not 'Julian Casablancas Recites Poems in Tribute to Elliot Smith'!! I've spent so much time defending this record that I'm almost dreading actually hearing it, but these criticisms are just WEIRD! Like yer grandmother saying "b-b-but [asthmatic whine] I can't make out what he's s-s-saying!!!" -- dave q (scrape10...), October 30th, 2003.
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See, they were 'tight' w/ the producer, so I assume they had some say in how it sounded. So to say 'I like the Strokes but not the production' makes no sense whatever! The production IS the band! Like saying, "Honey you're beautiful but you really need a fuckin' facelift!" -- dave q (scrape10...), October 30th, 2003.
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― Clarke B., Thursday, 11 December 2003 06:42 (twenty years ago) link
Shit, I didn't actually answer the question did I. Sorry -- dave q (scrape10...), July 25th, 2002 9:00 PM.
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
If something is owned by the type of person who goes mental about fingerprints on a jewel case then it is usually coffee-table. Vinyl is one thing, that's 'collectors', but jewel-cases, there's something seriously anal going on. dave q, December 14th, 2003.
― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:04 (twenty years ago) link
(I would like to take this opportunity to recommend that 'back slapping' henceforth always be replaced by 'back assessment'.)
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I don't smoke alone by choice, I just wake up earlier than most people
-- dave q (scrape10...), January 31st, 2005. (listerine)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Fucking brilliance.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc (esskay), Monday, 18 September 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
You're all right, that AM review quite simply shone (and had me in minor hysterics). I wish the dude posted more; I haven't really seen him about. :(
Shall now return to the infamous Absolution review with an open mind...
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
dave q to be interviewed by ME and MARK S on the radio!!!
broadcasting this Tuesday on Resonance 104.4 FM at 10pm GMT
podcast to be available here --> http://freakytrigger.co.uk/slugoftime
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
this is GO
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
revive!!!!!
― geeta, Sunday, 12 June 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link