viernes, 3 de julio de 2009
jueves, 2 de julio de 2009
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Warner, 1978
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Richard Hell - Spurts: The Richard Hell Story
Rhino/Wea, 2005
Hell is one of punk's most literate innovators; like Patti Smith, his work is as influenced by Rimbaud or Ginsberg as it is by the New York Dolls. He was one of the originators of the whole "punk" attitude, as Malcolm McLaren came back to London in the mid 70's with all kinds of ideas for clothes to sell at Sex and ways to dress up his young hangers-on after going downtown and seeing Hell and Smith. And Hell is also a classicist who understands the importance of having a brilliant guitarist at his side...this collection includes Johnny Thunders, Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, Thurston Moore and the incredible, underrated, lamented Robert Quine.
miércoles, 1 de julio de 2009
The Smiths
Rough Trade/Sire, 1986
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I'm really ready to be burned at the stake in total defence of that record. It means so much to me that I could never explain, however long you gave me. It becomes almost difficult and one is just simply swamped in emotion about the whole thing. It's getting to the point where I almost can't even talk about it, which many people will see as an absolute blessing. It just seems absolutely perfect to me. From my own personal standpoint, it seems to convey exactly what I wanted it to.
{ Morrissey, Melody Maker, March 3, 1984 }
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Los Saicos - Wild Teen-Punk From Peru 1965
ElectroHarmonix, 2000
About Los Saicos
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About Los Saicos
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martes, 30 de junio de 2009
lunes, 29 de junio de 2009
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Cotillion Records, 1970
About Loaded...
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About Loaded...
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domingo, 28 de junio de 2009
Duet Emmo - Or So It Seems
Mute, 1983Duet Emmo was a one off collaboration between Daniel Miller, Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert spawning an album and single, both titled ‘Or So it Seems’ in 1983. Lewis and Gilbert were both members of Wire until 1979 when the band split up. All three had been friends for a long time. They had all been using the same studio, Blackwing, and the same engineer, Eric Radcliffe. An initial project had been suggested in 1980 but the success of Depeche Mode and Yazoo had kept Miller busy until the end of 1982. Lewis and Gilbert had both been releasing their own material under the name Dome. Duet Emmo was an anagram of Mute and Dome.
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Pulp - Goes to the Disco
Fire Records, 1998
This album is a compilation of various tracks taken from albums and singles Pulp released on the Fire label
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viernes, 26 de junio de 2009
Y Pants
Periodic Document, 1998
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Y Pants were three women artists - Barbara Ess, Virgina Piersol and Gail Vachon. They mainly played at art spaces and had their own unique sound derived from the their unusual instrumentation. They based their sound around an amplified toy piano and toy drum set and a ukelele played through a distortion unit. Later they would add an electric bass and a synth. Barbara was well known for her fanzine 'Just Another Asshole' and as well as being Glenn Branca's girlfriend had played with him in The Static and The Theoretical Girls. He produced this debut ep. The lead track from the ep - 'Off The Hook' is a cover of The Rolling Stones song and despite the unusual instrumentation fits in very well with the ESG / Bush Tetras sound. It has a very primitive rhythm but sounds like a blueprint for what would today be called punk funk. Branca did a great production job on it and it has some lovely touches such as the addition of a faked phone conversation. The other songs are more No Wavesque but all the Y Pants songs have a certain unique naive charm to them. They only existed for a couple of years and went on to release an album called 'Beat It Down' on Branca's Neutral label which was produced by another New York legend, Wharton Tiers. After that, they returned to their art pursuits which is what they continue to do to this day. Apparently they still keep in touch and all meet up every year on each other's birthdays.
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Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Parlophone, 2009
Riceboy Sleeps is a collaboration between Jón Þór Birgisson (singer of post-rock band Sigur Rós) and his boyfriend Alex Somers (from Parachutes).
The music tends to be more ethereal and experimental than that of Sigur Rós and "played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii".
The first duo's album will feature only acoustic instrumental music and the collaboration of the string quartet Amiina (who are Sigur Rós' official string quartet), and the Kópavogsdætur Choir.
Alex said about the name of the project, "When I met Jonsi, I was really, really poor and I was just living off of rice mostly and I was sleeping too much so Jonsi was writing a song while I was asleep one day and he named it Riceboy Sleeps."
DownloadThe music tends to be more ethereal and experimental than that of Sigur Rós and "played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii".
The first duo's album will feature only acoustic instrumental music and the collaboration of the string quartet Amiina (who are Sigur Rós' official string quartet), and the Kópavogsdætur Choir.
Alex said about the name of the project, "When I met Jonsi, I was really, really poor and I was just living off of rice mostly and I was sleeping too much so Jonsi was writing a song while I was asleep one day and he named it Riceboy Sleeps."
