Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions

Loving Von Südenfed right now, this stuff slays. Particularly the track "That Sound Wiped", take a second listen if you didn't get into it right away. Marky Smith is godhead.

That song is very extremely good.

You don't look like no goddamned singer-songwriter to me

i've got this playing on repeat all night

I had to ... modify the chicken

Can't MES forget about his squad rotation system and draft the MoM boys as the latest version of The Fall for a few more albums-uh?

That or have MES join MoM. Or forget both and go under the Von Sudenfed banner forever. Because it's FUCKING WUNDERBAR.

No laptop wankers overground
With Fall sound

Taking sides - this vs the new Happy Mondays LP.

howsit?

southall, even without having heard either i can confidently describe that as one of the most potentially one-sided TSs in the history of ILX

yeah, just check th monday's promo, and it sounds like crap beer ad music

Both are aged Mancunians babbling over 'dance' 'music'.

I propose we add Section 25's new album to this Mancunian 2007 game. Whereas I just can't quite get really interested in the new Happy Mondays, the new Section 25 is pretty damn good.

But Von Sudenfed trumps all, I think.

Although...maybe Grimly Fiendish will get on me for this. Section 25 are actually from Blackpool. Sorry.

In any case "I am the DJ tonight".

Not a bad candidate for album of the year. I salute Mr. M.E.S.

It is really nice but has a bit of filler. For this decade's output from MES I've been dropping about half the tracks from each album to wind up with a much stronger set of songs. From VS I chose:
Fledermaus
Rhinohead
Family Fued
Duckrog
Chicken Yaiamas
That Sound Wiped
Dearest Friends

Am going to see them at Heaven tonight! With ledge. Can't wait. Anyone else going to be there? Just got an email from EYOE trying to offload cheap tickets, so it clearly hasn't sold out.

JEALOUS

Yes.

This sucker has been sitting underneath a pile of my CD's and I only recently uncovered it.

Who are XX Teens (they're supporting)? I'm semi-tempted to go to this, I could get there in 45 mins...

XX Teens were awful. And Von Sudenfed were a shambles! Maybe they jsut hadn't rehearsed at all. MoM were playing very different, remixed verions of most of the tracks, which unfortunately seemed to result in MES never being sure which song he was meant to be singing! He spent the first chunk of the show with his back to us, shuffling through (and regularly dropping) a huge pile of lyric sheets, and mumbling and/or shouting various lines from various songs. About halfway through he muttered something about not being able to stand being on stage, and wandered off into the wings, where he stayed for a song and a half (although he still sang occasional lines from there). Then the track (whichever it was, I couldn't keep up either) ended and he said the only really intelligible thing he said all night: "no trumpinnnnnnnng....no fartinnnnnnnng....it's london!".

And things just got weirder from there on. He carried on wandering on and off stage. He'd occasionally go around behind MoM's dask and reach over to petulantly twiddle a knob or two. He gave his mic to a guy on the front row (who admirably carried on ranting into it for the next few minutes) while he did another vanishing act. It was all round one of the strangest shows I've ever seen. And I said to Tom as we were leaving that if I'd never seen The Fall before, I'd probably just assume that's what he was always like. But I have, many times, and he's always been great before!

I guess he was still great though, in a way. I'm definitely glad I was there to see it.

(Oh, and the other support band were FANTASTIC! Chrome Hoof. My new favourites).

MoM themselves were pretty awesome. V loud - almost too loud. V hardcore - almost too hardcore. Verging on noise at some points. Maybe I'm gettin old.

I went in the end. Agree with above - MoM were awesome, MES was all over the place. Seemed to have microphone problems as well as the not knowing which song he was supposed to be mumbling over.

I thought the XX Teens were OK, assuming they were the band that was playing when I arrived. And the DJ between them and Von Sudenfed was playing cool stuff.

Is it just the two MoM guys, or do they have someone drumming? I think I'd really like seeing just the two of them on tour, MES or not.

Great gig report, JimD!

I really recognise the "he sucks, but he's great!" from trying to explain MES to other people who never heard of him.

Mouse on Mars. Like Tromatic Reflexxions but no MES... Still fucking great!

SWEEEEEET REVIVE!

god this album rules

this is dope

yeah!!!! REVIVE THIS THREAD! Lovely! LJ, I don't care about the haterz, you are a cool dude, and I'll back you up til the end.

being up at 3.30 am is not the zenith of cool tbh but this music is kinda keeping me awake...amazing it's taken this long for it to click

Yeah, dude. I'm with you. No doubt about it. Just gotta rip it to my iTunes and I'm set. Hold on...

The Rhinohead is, like, SO SO SO good.

I FLOODED THE CLUB!

that song is also very very very good

most of this, in fact, rules

yeah it's definitely official

fwiw I am discovering The Fall in a big, big way atm...this is very much the developing thing in my musical taste

just get The Right Albums : )

they are awesome

Somewhere on ILX I once said something along the lines of "I don't get The Fall". Those days are over. My hitherto tiny mind has been expanded. And this is only the start. Although, weirdly, the stuff I'm REALLY getting into is the late 80's/90's material. This is mostly because it's the only stuff I've really laid hands on so far. The Marshall Suite is a completely brilliant record, The Light User Syndrome not far behind, This Nation's Saving Grace is awesome awesome awesome (holy shit Paint Work), and the A Past Gone Mad compilation is pretty much flawless. Birmingham School Of Business School! The day I finally acquire Hex Enduction Hour will be a joyful one. I reckon I'm stepping in the right direction tho'. Actually the two records I'd really like to hear next are Levitate and The Unutterable. Hope that isn't sacrilegious. But my favourite Fall song so far might well be The Crying Marshall and the garage-electro sound really suits MES' style imo. Not that I don't rate the earlier stuff. I have Perverted By Language as well. That record seems to be mostly all about the Garden - Hotel Bloedel one-two punch. It's really nice, if a bit sparser than the later material. Gosh, I need to stop typing.

Glad you're getting into the Fall! I think it's funny that you said you're stepping in the right direction because there's a song on Hex Enduction Hour called "Just Step 'Sways". Maybe you knew that, though. And for what it's worth, I didn't "get" The Fall at first, either.

I went through the same thing. I compare the Fall to one of those "Magic Eye" pictures, like they tend to look like nothing for a long time and then suddenly this image pops out at you... I was almost the same w/the Fall. They suddenly just made sense.

Hex is great.

Honestly I think The Real New Fall LP (Formerly County on the Click) is up there with anything they've done too, if you want a 00s record.

I'm currently going through this with Zappa (sort of, because there's still a lot about him I hate, but at least the orig. Mothers 60s records I'm digging now)

Levitate is amazing.

Don't go too fast...you are in for years of discovery!

"He said, - YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE NO GODDAMNED SINGER SONGWRITER TO ME-UH!"

^^^that song, I listened to it again today on the way to work, made me swagger

man i love this

"He said, - YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE NO GODDAMNED SINGER SONGWRITER TO ME-UH!"

haha i mumble this to myself all the time

Name aside, this record is great to listen to when you're sick. I had a bastard of a cold around this time last year and it was just what I needed.

I been in mah gar-den
I just kept sing-ing

Fuck, why haven't they made another one of these?

because the first one's perfect! why ruin a great legacy?

MoM are incredibly good live. Von Sud live would be great, did they tour this?

I've been waiting for Mouse on Mars to come back to the states again for, like, 7 years. At this point they are the band I most want to see live right now. Well, "at this point" has pretty much been the past 7 years.

Von Sud live would be great, did they tour this?

I saw them perform with it twice, the first at.. Fabric was it? which was good (v good Fledermaus Can't Get It). And Heaven, which was absolutely fantastic. Extremely memorable. Even the security stewards were grinning at one point. There are recordings I believe.

Was that the one were he kept on distractedly wandering off the stage? And it was also insanely loud? It was an experience, certainly.

Hmmm, he did go off stage a bit, but I guess I'm used to that (he often likes to sing behind the amps I think). We're probably talking about the same one, as the Fabric one was rather less chaotic iirc.

I saw them perform with it twice

Not sure we should refer to Mark as "it". ;-)

Mark E Smith, yesterday

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/images/cinema/sammy.jpg

'...I ended up in the 1860s. I been there for 125 years.'

-ah."

Iiii was in mah gaaaaaarden, iii just kept siiiiiiiiiiinginnnnng

yamayamayamayamayamayama

Iiii was in mah gaaaaaarden, iii just kept siiiiiiiiiiinginnnnng

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such an anthem

i was the DJ tonight, the other DJ pissed the bed.