Monganaut
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives 15/02/04
Feb 17, 2004, 16:19
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Yeah, B H 'Rembrant' is a great release. It was the first album i bought of theirs. I was a bout 17 at the time, and other than American Woman, it went totally over my head. It also spooked the fuck out of me. It was years before i could listen to Creep in The Cellar without turning it off half way through.
It's grown on me big time over the years, and for me stands up better than Psychic Powerless, or a few of the other releases, though they all have their moments. Perry is probably my fav' track on the album (who's it about ?...would be apt obsevation for Perry Farrel me thinks...."Perry, you're awful fucking skinny").
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Lugia
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Re: Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Feb 17, 2004, 16:30
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Yep...it and "Locust Abortion Technician" are the twin pinnacles of their work, far as I'm concerned. Two different directions...where "Locust..." is overdriven, psychotic, and freaked-out, "Rembrandt Pussyhorse" is more introspective and haunted, like the result of contemplating inner nightmares. More bad-trippy for the most of it. Neither is better than the other; both are better by far than so many tons and tons of stuff out there.
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Lugia
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Gospel
Feb 17, 2004, 16:50
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Being a Pure Land Buddhist, you'd not expect me to know a helluva lot about this one. But nooo...for I also grew up in the Southern US, my maternal grandparents were 'foot-warshin'' Baptists, and until the 1970s they would have white gospel on Nashville TV at noon each day on Channel 5.
You've got two directions here...black and white. Remember, the divergent directions stem from the cultural segregation in the South, so each developed from different sources and spawned off different styles from it.
BLACK GOSPEL: This is where the more amazing stuff lies, IMHO. From this, one gets threads that run off into jazz, R&B, rock and roll, blues, and so on. Artists worth your attention: The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rev. James Cleveland, The Winans, Mahalia Jackson, Pops Staples, early Aretha Franklin (yep!), and on and on...a real wealth of American roots music. As long as you steer clear of the few artists (and I do mean few) that tried to assimilate into the whole "Christian Music" slop-bin, you'll hardly go wrong.
WHITE GOSPEL: A lot of this stuff gets really treacly, especially when it turns into "Christian" music. But there's still standouts. The Louvin Bros.'s "Satan Is Real" is an amazing, scarifying, moonshine-steeped Jesus-trip. Elvis's gospel records...yep...they're actually really impressive. The Stamps Quartet and early Oak Ridge Boys (before they went secular and more commercial) do some nifty country-gospel harmonies. And then there's a lot of White Gospel music that is shot thru other 'secular' artists' music that requires a good bit of looking. But if you stick with the real, classic country music, you find gems like Roy Acuff's "Great Speckled Bird", etc.
Remember, each of these approaches religion just as differently as they emerge from their sources. Black gospel is intense, celebratory stuff. White gospel operates more from the 'fear, trembling and wonderment' direction. So that's another thing to keep in mind when/if you start hunting some of this work down in terms of which is darker, which is more 'up', and so forth.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Gospel
Feb 17, 2004, 16:56
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Thank you. More than enough to be getting on with there.
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Gnomon
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives 15/02/04
Feb 17, 2004, 18:53
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I have a mate in Bristol who sometimes sends me discs without any listings. It can be quite fun... No preconceptions...
You've had a couple of Tanya discs from me (Radio shows and the Josie & the Pussycats compilation) but, as yet, nothing else!
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Gnomon
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'Lonesome Tonight'
Feb 17, 2004, 20:43
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The chiming guitar song with pedestrian bass that puts me in mind of 'Why Can't I Touch It' by Buzzcocks is the b side of 'Thieves Like Us'. It's called 'Lonesome Tonight'. One of their finest moments, IMHO. I've just looked it up on Google.
:o)
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Stevo
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Re: Freeheat
Feb 17, 2004, 20:54
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Re-tox - Freeheat (ep from ex JAMC Jim Reid. More of the same I suppose, but if you like the Mary Chain...)
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I've been meaning to check these out for yonlks since trhe rhythm section is Romi MOri and Nick Sanderson of Gun Club fame. So this is really JAMC ish then?
Not a change in direction at all?
Stevo
Np Ac Marias One of Our GIrls Has Gone missing
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Lawrence
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Re: 'Lonesome Tonight'
Feb 17, 2004, 21:02
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The only thing I didn't like about "Lonesome Tonight" was that disgusting spitting sound near the end.
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Lawrence
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Re: Freeheat
Feb 17, 2004, 21:03
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Nick Sanderson -- also from Clock DVA right?
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Lawrence
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Re: Gospel
Feb 17, 2004, 21:06
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I hate the way Black gospel has gotten now though... Super-slick, like they wanna have a hit record or something...
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