Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Pick Up Thee Camera...
Film School - Activated
Sooo...Film School, I know next to nothing about them and their site is bare bones... try Googling anything with 'Film School' in it and you'll find out about every academic institution offering cinema courses out there but no band named after this phenomenon.
Soooo... I'll just say they're from San Francisco and this is a really good song. It's kinda dreamy, sleepy in the vein of Earlimart. Also, Nyles Lannon from this band is a glitchy 'folktronica' artist in his own right and is definitely worth checking out.
*Rude interuption courtesy of Spoilt Victorian Dad*
There will be more on N.Lannon from me in the not too distant future...
As you were...
Buy - Film School - Alwaysnever
Visit - Film School
Visit - N.Lannon
Billy Childish - Girl From '62
And now to switch gears in a really un-smooth way, I was reminded of this amazing Billy Childish song tonight, importing some cds onto my laptop.
Billy at his garage-iest, sings about a girl from, uh, 1962 and he makes you want to join his urgent, lo-fi dancefest.
Word has it he has a residency at a North London club and I can't wait to find it and
see him play as often as I can when I move there.
His Buff Medways show I caught a few years ago was as incredible as it was dense with songs from his different bands as well as some great covers. He seemed like a really sweet guy. He talked alot and you kinda felt like you knew him by the end of the show.
Buy - Billy Childish - 25 Years of Being Childish
Visit - Thee Billy Childish
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
SVC Records label launched....
It's taken a while, and a lot of work, but I'm so incredibly happy and proud to announce that we've started a record label...
So go along and visit the brand spanking shiny new site, download some tracks... and Hell, even buy something from us if you like what you hear.
At the moment there are two releases...
The first is a great album from Mike Seed compiling tracks from the last four of his albums, along with a quite frankly bonkers version of the Leadbelly classic 'Goodnight Irene' onto the 'Songs For The Wintering Show Troupe' release.
And secondly we have an album from electro freak The Palace Lido with his release 'There's Not Enough Kindness'.
Later on in September we have two more releases lined up, one by The Harvey Girls and the other by Marek. We're also currently discussing release details with a couple of other great artists and we'll keep you informed of what's going on so keep on checking back.
The Albums are currently available as high-quality MP3 downloads (256kbps) complete with full jewel-case artwork and soon we'll be releasing our first SVC Compilation on CD so keep your eyes peeled!!
If you are an artist or in a band and don't really have much of an outlet then we'll be glad to hear from you... no matter what style of music you make, the only reservation being that we love it.
Visit - SVC Records
Happy Listening.....
And buying of course.
Simon
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"Music is well said to be the speech of Engel"
Scott Walker - Blink
Scott Walker - Light
Bonjour. Mike's (Scott) Walker Brothers post got me ruminating so I dug out Pola X from semi-retirement...
Since the dawn of SVC I have been meaning to write a half-decent post on a few artists/albums that really mean something to me and have either been ambushed by something less boring instead or just simply forgotten. Anyway one of 'those' albums is Scott Walker's 'Pola X' soundtrack.
Great mate and funny little man Quinton used to immerse himself in it, bound up in his headphone world, and on more than one occasion he would play it 'at' me. Intrigued I dipped my toe in but was not able to get over the first track 'The Time Is Out Of Joint', I was more into the safer Sun Ain't Gonna Shine sort of thing at the time. He'd laugh at my upturned nose as if i'd just smelt a bad smell and say I should really persevere. Dear, dear, I can't see what fuss I made now. This album is splendid. I say again, this album is splendid. Fred Elliot in the house...
The movie, released Sep 2000 is based on the novel by Herman Melville entitled, Pierre ou Les Ambiguities. The first part of the movie title, 'Pola' is an abbreviation of the French title of Melville's book and the X stands for the number of times the film was edited down. Here's a quick synopsis:
A successful, carefree young writer, Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu), lives in an enormous, pristine chateau in Normandy with his adoring mother, who he calls Sister (Catherine Deneuve). He is engaged to be married to a lovely young woman who adores him, and he has just reunited with his cousin, whom he loves deeply. But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways. When she suddenly appears, stumbling out of the woods and claiming that she is his long-lost sister, Isabelle (Katerina Golubeva), he falls blindly, madly in love with her. Tearing out of Normandy and heading for Paris, Pierre discredits everything in his life including his family, his friends, and his money. He takes Isabelle to an abandoned warehouse run by a cult, where they live together in deranged passionate misery.
Anyway today isn't going to be that day when I write as much as i'd like on this album, typical, but instead here are a couple of tracks to whet your appetite. First up 'Blink' sung by Kim Gordon. Droney, plucky, finger-tappy, speaky-singy. Lush. Secondly the totally beautiful 'Light' which features the Paris Philharmonic as orchestrated by longtime Walker keyboardist arranger Brian Gascoigne.
Next week in our continuing series of difficult masterpieces, Tilt
Visit - Scott Walker Wikipedia
Buy - Scott Walker - Pola X Soundtrack (if you have a spare 60 quid!)
Monday, August 29, 2005
Facing The Night...
The Walker Brothers - After The Lights Go Out
Half cut on cheap whiskey, I've just hit on the realisation that there are really only two musical inevitables in my little corner of the universe. One is The Velvet Underground and the other, The Walker Brothers. For years these two bands and the solo work of Scott Walker, John Cale and Nico have provided me with all the templates, starting points, signposts and destinations that I need, whether it be bubblegum pop, folk, avant noise, free improvisation, vast arrangements, cavernous echo, drones, heartbreak, mystery, European ballads, Country, R'n'B riffs, deep, dark words, flippant jokes - sorry, got to break off now and cycle down to the Co-op for more alcohol. See you in a bit.
It's pay day, so I'm back with a bottle of Jameson to help the night along. Thanks for waiting.
I've heard 'After The Lights Go Out' a thousand times and only recently made the "Stand By Me" connection. Whether intentional or otherwise, there it is, right from the start. Bass, echoed percussion, opening lyrics about the approach of the darkness. But while Ben sings a song of optimism and undying devotion, Scott comes in with despair, loss, and a sense of grandiose, unreasonable and downright ridiculous wallowing in self pity which some one with a lesser voice - which is everybody - would be completely unable to carry off. But we're talking Scott here.
So what do we have? A fantastic arrangement full of harpsichords, strings and tympanis that is so great you wonder what was the point of the last few decades, and a lyric that winds up savage and lost - just check out that final verse.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the nights are drawing in. Charge your glasses with autumn and drink deep, drink deep.
Buy - The Walker Brothers - After the Lights Go Out: Best of 1965-1967
This is THE really great Walkers compilation - total bargain!! Buy it for everyone you know!! Buy it to give away to complete strangers!!
Visit - Montague Terrace (A Scott Fansite)
Mike.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Bedtime For Toys.... Vote For Your Favourite Mix.
We've conveniently compiled and archived all the Bedtime for Toys mixes into what can only be described as the BfT microsite.Visit - SVC's Bedtime for Toys Microsite
Simon
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Friday, August 26, 2005
Coming soon...
The Palace Lido - Vous Envoyant Cette Forme
Without wanting to let the cat completely out of the bag, but as Simon said in the last post:
"Oh and if you wondered why the posting frequency has slowed down here the last few weeks all will be revealed soon."
There is going to be some very exciting news....
Watch this space!
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
The Mmmmmmmm's
The M's - Break Our Bones
The M's - Eyes On The Prize
Picture if you would the scene...
It's 1968, Marc Bolan, The Kinks and Steve Marriott along with the rest of The Small Faces have just finished recording their latest collaborative album, and are celebrating their genius creation by having a nice cream scone and a lovely cup of earl grey with sugar lumps laced with acid in the cafe conveniently positioned next door to the studio...
Cut to 1992 where...
The Flaming Lips have just finished recording their magnificent "Hit To Death In The Future Head..." album, and are celebrating their genius creation by having a nice cream scone and a lovely cup of earl grey with sugar lumps laced with acid in the cafe conveniently positioned next door to the studio... when all of a sudden there's a rip in space and time and the Lips are transported back to 1968 outside the studio, where upon seeing the afore mentioned Bolan, Davies, Marriott and gang sneak past them while they're distracted making each other daisy chains, and into the studio they go to lay down some of their own brand of messed up licks on the master tapes...
Sadly the resulting album was never released at the time as there was a fire and everyone was too spaced out and loved up to do anything about it, so the master tapes were thought to have been lost....
Cut to the present day (well April 6th 2004 to be precise)...
The M's release their debut album cunningly titled The M's, a wonderful collection of songs richly influenced by Marc Bolan, The Small Faces, The Kinks, mid period Flaming Lips and a smattering of John Lennon....
Whatever their influences may be, the resulting album is an absolute cracker and I haven't been able to tear it out of my stereo since getting it last week. It's chocka full with tunes that combine swaggering riffs, lazy hazy melodies and pop sensibilities perfectly, the likes of which are very rarely heard nowadays... apart from possibly by the Supergrass boys.
The M's hail from Chicago and have been together since 2000 (via 1968 and 1992 obviously) and released an e.p. themselves before being picked up by Brilliante Records who re-released it with bonus tracks and then released what was going to be another couple of e.p's but instead compiling all three of them into this great album entitled The M's.
Directly ripped from Brilliant Records...
" The M's write the kind of songs that become the soundtrack to fun in all its different forms... Equally suited for listening while drinking gin on your porch on a hot summer night, blasting around town looking for that party in the woods that you heard about, or getting down and dirty with that special someone on your couch where the only good excuse to stop pawing each other is to turn the music up...Mmmmmmmm."
Indeed.
Buy - The M's - The M's from Brilliante Records
Visit - The M's
Visit - The M's @ My Space
Visit - Brilliante Records
Simon
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
A Giant Bottle of Liquid Mercury...
The Universal Mutant Repertory Company - Heavenly Blue Pt. 4 & 5
This would be one of the outfits involving the great Angus MacLise. He was the original drummer of The Velvet Underground but it wasn't his thing. Too structured for his liking.
I picked up all of his albums over the last couple of years and although I listened to them incessantly for months, even falling asleep to them to see what kinds of dream they would allow, it took me a long time to grasp what they were really about.
Angus had an unashamedly Cosmic agenda. The man was a Pure Land Buddhist who left America and wound up in Kathmandu. But his concept of Cosmic music is rarely ethereal or pretty. Ira Cohen takes up the story:
"I looked over a rare Dreamweapon publication Angus made of a Tibetan musical score for the short Mahakala Puja wherein he describes Mahakala as once being an implacable enemy of all chaos, turned staunch defender of the Dharma. "He holds a the skull cup filled with blood. He is barefoot and stands with legs spread, and is surrounded with the flames of wisdom... No pallid rites here, no insipid music." "
No pallid rites... what else is in this district? Brian Jones, recording the Master Magicians of Jajouka and upping the heaviosity by slapping effects on everything. Genius move, trying to invoke/evoke the ritual. "Durga Puja Slaughter" on the new Sublime Frequencies release, "Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal", a bunch of field recording collages from Robert Millis of Climax Golden Twins. "I realised the stone stairs were sticky with running blood... bull after bull was sacrificed, each time the sword fell, chopping a head clean off, guns were fired and a crazed orchestra wailed." Or it could be the Velvets, ripping through "I Heard Her Call My Name".
Angus took in huge church organ drones, ritual drumming, ecstatic poetry, analogue electronic music, collaborating with the likes of Tony Conrad, John Cale, and the whole damn Universe, basically. I bought a dulcimer recently and I soon realised I was knocking it around just like he would, tuning it to a drone chord and just hammering for twenty minutes at a time. Maybe that's me trying to collaborate with him, or trying to let him play through me...or maybe the music is playing through us...
Buy - Angus Maclise - The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Buy - Harmika Yab Yum - Folk Sounds From Nepal
Buy - Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
Visit - Angus Maclise's Virtual Shrine (Which tells the story better than I can)
Mike
Thursday, August 18, 2005
This is the sound of...
Monday, August 15, 2005
I'll make you warm.
Bronze Age Fox - Benidorm
Just a quick post for anyone in Bristol this Tuesday or London on Wednesday and fancies seeing...
"possibly our classiest leftfield pop band, a British answer to Phoenix" (NME)
...as Bronze Age Fox will be playing at Bristol Fleece & Firkin on August 16, closely followed by a set at Islington Bar Academy in London on August 17.
And as a sweaty treat here's a song that today seems quite fitting. Taken off one of their extremely limited singles from last year and now compiled on the excellent 'Bronze Age Fox Compilation' it's the delightful Benidorm.
Oh and pop along to their website where you can preiew 5 tracks from their forthcoming LP 'Impossible!'
Buy - Bronze Age Fox Compilation
Visit - Bronze Age Fox
Visit - Compilation review Review
Friday, August 12, 2005
How To Play Saxophone.
Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink - For Donaueshingen Ever
Where did it all begin? Ray's Jazz Shop, London, coming up to ten years ago. Ooh, I thought, there's a copy of "Machine Gun" by The Peter Brotzmann Octet. That's got a reputation for being a bit fierce...
I've spent the last decade happily inflicting it upon my friends, who, to their credit, never complained. Even when I started cackling along to the mayhem. I do that. It's a bad habit.
You've got to watch out for this stuff, it's tricky. Somewhere along the way between Coltrane, Ayler, Brotzmann and the great Charles Gayle, I realised I had completely detuned my brain and there was no way back. And now ten years have passed. Still no desire to learn how to play the saxophone properly. Hurrah.
Anyways, this goody comes from "FMP 130", which is beautifully recorded in comparison to the aforementioned "Machine Gun" which could be marketed as paint stripper. Van Hove is tickling, Bennink crashes about on anything he can find and Brotzmann holds off for a minute and a half before wading in. Then it's Thwack!! Bang!! and off we go.
I'd like to end with a hearty "Hurrah!!" for the Unheard Music people who are re-issuing a lot of FMP material from the early seventies, tracking down great photos and taking care with the artwork. And my flippant tone is merely a disguise to cover the total awe I have for the greats of European free improvisation, people who've been out there since the mid-sixties and damn well refuse to stop. This is my life changing stuff, my punk rock, my licence to do whatever the hell I want. Thank you.
Oh, and I don't expect you all to like this or even to listen to it all the way through. I have the same problem with most of the things I hear on the radio. Takes all sorts...
Buy - The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun
Buy - Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink - FMP 130
Buy - Lots of Records From Atavistic's Unheard Music Series
Visit - Brotzmann Interview
Mike.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Glasgow, City Of Culture 1990....?
Stretchheads - Housewife Up Yer Fuckin' Arse Music (Disco Mix)
This aint Disco...
This is the sound of Glasgow in the late 80's and early 90's, well as far as i'm concerned anyway.
Stretchheads were a strange bunch, often lumped in with Silverfish and the like, but the truth is they were a lot weirder than anyone they were compared to.
They started their career with their LP "Five Fingers Four Thingers A Thumb And A New Identity" released on Moksha Moksha in 1988, and it starts with the following track and just never let's up... It's relentless in it's mission to give you the biggest headache ever...
Stretchheads - Fans
And succeeds.
You've probably guessed by now that for the duration of the 80's and early 90's my neighbours hated me... and quite right too, anti-social noisy little bugger that I was.
For their follow up album in 1991 they had been picked up by the excellent Blast First and released "Pish In Your Sleazebag" which the track Housewife is taken from...
The record seems to be a bit of a concept album with lines and riffs turning up in several songs, well It's either a concept album, or they were really lazy.
The thing is though that it's put together really well with all sorts of musical interludes including a looped version of the Rhoda theme tune.
Nice.
As far as I know Pish was their last release, the trail doesn't quite go cold though as Richie ended up playing in a band called The Yummy Fur which any Franz Ferdinand fan should have heard of as Paul and Alex of the aforementioned Franzie's used to play in them, although not at the same time as Richie.
And seeing as how Stretchheads and Dandelion Adventure (see previous post) used to do a lot of touring together it seems as no surprise to find out that Dandelion Adventure's Ajay and Stretchheads Stevie ended up working together.... For the mighty Sebadoh, Ajay as their European tour manager and sound engineer and Stevie as their driver and merch guy.
But apart from that I have no idea what any of them have been up to, any info would be greatly recieved.
Buy - Stretchheads - Pish In Your Sleazebag
Visit - Sebadoh's European Tour Diary from 1999
Visit - Glasgow, European City Of Culture 1990...
Simon
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
We Fly In The Face Of Fashion...
The Olivia Tremor Control - Love Athena
The Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated
90's poppy/experiemental/psych dreamers The Olivia Tremor Control played a couple shows here in NY last week, which I was eagerly awaiting for months. They recently re-formed after being asked to play London's All Tomorrow's Parties last year.
In the late 80's, OTC core members Bill Doss and Will Hart Cullen played in Synthetic Flying Machine with Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. Jeff left to focus on Neutral Milk Hotel and the other two moved to Athens, Georgia and added some more members and a lot more instruments. They made sunny, noisey music with Beach Boys-style harmonies over 2 sprawling albums inspired by leaves and scores to imaginary films. If this sounds epic and dense, it is.
After OTC broke up in 1999, Bill Doss formed The Sunshine Fix and Will Cullen Hart formed Circulatory System with other members of OTC.
Both bands carry on in the poppier/experimental side of OTC, (I'm dying to say
"they carry on in the same vein" but it seems a bit much) with less of the noise
that peppered OTC's songs and interludes. To me, this is perfection.
There's a lot more going on here I won't get into like the Elephant Six Collective, Robert Schneider, Jeff Mangum being a frequent contributor to these bands, Elf Power, The Gerbils and a bunch more bands that eat sunshine and organs for breakfast.
Buy - The Olivia Tremor Control - Singles and Beyond
Buy - The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music
Visit - The Olivia Tremor Control
Visit - The Olivia Tremor Control, A collection of great live mp3's
Visit - The Sunshine Fix
Tall Dwarfs - Rapist
Ok the other cool thing about this show was that Tall Dwarfs from New Zealand opened. I was only familiar with Chris Knox's solo stuff but Tall Dwarf's was surprisingly similar, only with one more member, Alex Bathgate.
Together they make really sweet quirky music and they kinda invented the lo-fi aesthetic in the 80s (maybe not invented but, like, used it a lot so that it became associated with their sound).
Chris Knox was the visual core of the two, with his sleeveless hawaiin shirt, jams, flip-flops and janet-jackson headset. He makes weird faces and acts like a 10 year old in the sweetest possible way.
He's very endearing and genuine and like the kid in front of me said, "you just want to take them home with you".
Buy - Tall Dwarfs - The Sky Above The Mud Below
Visit - Tall Dwarfs
Visit - Chris Knox
Monday, August 08, 2005
Heeeeyyy... Speed Trials!
Dandelion Adventure - Speed Trials
Dandelion Adventure - Chickenfeed
The Fall posting last week got me thinking of all the bands that have been influenced by The Mighty Fall, there have been many including early Pavement and their ilk, but I've decided to go with one of my old favourites Dandelion Adventure, the self proclaimed "Greatest Fall Tribute Band..... in Preston".
I loved pretty much everything about this band from their shambolic recordings featuring razor sharp guitars that could take the top of your head clean off from 50 yards and that fuzzed to buggery and back bass sound, to their cheeky interpretation of the classic Sonic Youth photo they used on their Puppy Shrine record, which these first two tracks are taken from.
Speed trials is possibly the easiest to listen to track of theirs, and how bloody catchy is it... I guarantee that after listening to this track you'll be using the phrase "Heeeeyyy... Speed Trials!" at every given opportunity... much to the bemusement of everyone around you....
Chickenfeed is a whole different kettle of fish.... It's bloody noisy, but bloody gorgeous, not in a beautifully sung and orchestrated Scott Walker kind of way, more of a jesus... what a bloody gorgeous racket... I want to be in this band kind of way.
Sounds like :- The Fall as played by The Jesus And Mary Chain on a shitload of speed.
Yeeesss!
Dandelion Adventure - Jinxs Truck
And to finish up with here's a track from their second and last release Jinxs Truck, which has a great drawing of an armadillo on the cover...
I think more bands should incorporate the armadillo into their artwork...
I like armadillos.
Their recorded output was very sadly a bit thin on the ground... a grand total of 13 tracks in all split between their two releases Puppy Shrine ('89) and Jinxs Truck ('90), but what a couple of corking records. They also recorded a Peel session in 1990, and there were plans to release the whole lot on one CD, which would be great as I've never heard the Peel session.... so fingers crossed from me for this in the future.
Dandelion Adventure were signed to Action Records, a great little shop/label that started as a record stall in Blackpool in 1979 before shortly moving camp to Preston, they also released some Fall records and the early Boo Radleys stuff... bonus.
As to what the members of Dandelion Adventure have all been up to since the bands demise...
Well, It's a little difficult to trace them as they kept using different aliases on their records...
But David Chambers went on to play drums for Cornershop for the first four or five years (that being my favourite period of theirs too.... possibly a coincidence, but I think not).
Ajay moved to Holland and put a band called Donkey together and released a couple of records before forming another band called Bent Moustache...
And here's the twist... Marcus Parnell (aka J.Frank Parnell or Fat Mark, Dandelion Adventures singer) went on to design some Fall sleeves including the great Country on the Click.... you couldn't script this better if you tried.
Anymore info on what any of them are up to nowadays would be very greatly received.
Their records sadly aren't generally available anymore, but Action Records usually have a few copies lying round, so you might want to give them a try.
Visit - Action Records
Simon
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
477 CC Res O Code 13
The Fall - I'm into CB
Hands up who has just spent a very happy hour or two listening to Hex Enduction Hour?.... Just me? Oh well.
This was the fourth Fall album and a pivotal part of The Fall's history. Released in 1982 it's a spartan and consuming listen requiring your complete attention. "You at the back! What is the name of the Hotel in The Classical?" Can't remember eh?..."
SVC have rattled on about MES here on a few occasions and i'm sure we'll do the same again. For today however just the facts. 'I'm into C.B.' was originally the b-side to the 'Look, Know' (7") from April '82 but appeared in this form on the re-release of Hex (which re-release? the 1996, 1999 or 2002 version) from Castle last year or so. It's ace.
I pinched this next bit off of a website somewhere and it includes the word pabulum...
"Hex Enduction Hour is true art rock. There is blatant creativity throughout the album. Musically and lyrically intense it comes from the diary and sketchbook of Smith's experiences and discoveries. Critical success, a fan base that allowed him to create, Smith was hitting a creative stride that would rarely, if ever, slow down. There is absolutely no regard for viability. It is evolution and creation. Hex's position in punk/rock history is still a fresh battle cry against the stale pabulum that is spewed out by fake bands looking to be the next big thing "eating the past" and repackaging the same old for resale to an unknowing public. This album is a reprinting of a classic, under read novel. The lesson here is just as important today as when it was first brought to bear, be true to your vision, shun technology and Just Step S'ways from the traps of society and the track of perceived success and promised future of a "shining city on the hill".
So there you go. Use the links below to go to the extremely thorough Fall website and then pop along to Amazon and treat yourself to a copy if you haven't already got one.
Buy - The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour [Deluxe Edition]
Visit - The Fall
Visit - Retrocom CB Museum
A1 - Hotel Amnesia.
A2 - pab·u·lum 'A substance that gives nourishment; food.'
Ok, I'll Try Not To Spit...
Blondie - Cautious Lip (Live Soundcheck, San Francisco, 21.09.77)
I loved Blondie back in the day, by that I mean Blondie the band, although like almost every other adolecsent boy I had a bit of a first love thing going on with Debbie, although I'm pretty sure it wasn't reciprocated, me being about 10 and all that, but anyway, I still drag their albums out quite frequently and reminisce about lost love... or something like that.
I could have posted pretty much anything from the first 4 albums, there is seriously not a bad track amongst them, but I thought I'd go with this little curiosity.
It was recorded at the soundcheck for a show at The Old Waldorf in San Fransisco in 1977, and shows them blitzing through a song that would appear on their faultless Plastic Letters album the following year.
Which just happened to be the first Blondie album I bought... it took me bloody ages to save up for with my pocket money, well worth it though.
The sound levels are a bit squiggly, but I reckon it captures a band with a pretty full on live sound having a blast...
And I left in all the noodling at the begining of this track for no other reason other than I really like it...
But for those that don't like noodling here's the Plastic Letters version...
Blondie - Cautious Lip
Now I know that this Isn't the best Blondie song by a long way, It's not even anywhere near my favourite, but I have a real soft spot for it as it was probably the first track that I heard that really wigged out at the end in a garage psyche punk kind of way...
At the time I had no real idea that 60's garage psyche punk existed, let alone knew what it sounded like, bearing in mind I was a nipper and had been raised on a diet of Wombles albums and The Jungle Book soundtrack (I still love both by the way, especially The Jungle Book... brilliant) before moving on to some dodgy rock band called The Sex Pistols and the like (only joking, Bollocks was and still is a pretty stunning album) so this track kinda whetted my appetite for some more wigging out and set me off on a journey that I'm still on, and probably always will be.
So for that I'm eternally grateful.
Buy - Blondie - Plastic Letters
Visit - Blondie
Simon
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