June 18, 2005
Unsane - This Town
This is a great amount of unholy noise - I like this. Maybe I'm turning Finnish - they like to listen to a lot of noise rock / noise metal.
Unsane, from NYC, made a bunch of albums from 1991 onwards and have a new album in 2005. I'm gonna be searching out some records, I suspect the earlier stuff is the better...
/3 (this is a rating from one to three gauging whether I'd replace this record on cd)
I'm going to hear a lot more of this - starting with the Singles 89-92.
Godfathers - I'm Unsatisfied
We used to go and watch the Godfathers at the Hummingbird in Birmingham - well, at least once we did, and they were very cool performers, real 'foot on the monitor' rock'n'roll, complete with windmills.
It was at a Godfathers gig that we saw an older bloke wearing a suit. As 17/18 year olds we wondered if we would still be going to gigs when we were 30 yrs old. I guess we know now. I go to very few gigs in London, as they all seem to be over priced to me. I'd love to see more gigs, but once you've bought the ticket for £20 plus £2.50 service charge plus £4.95 processing fee plus £5 travel and 3 beers you've spent over £40, and that'll buy a few cds.
Anyway, the Godfathers don't appear to be going any longer, and their final albums were, um, shite. This track, however, rocks.
The Godfathers - I'm Unsatisfied mp3
/3 (this is a rating from one to three gauging whether I'd replace this record on cd)
I enjoyed it at the time, but probably couldn't be bothered to listen to it anymore.
June 15, 2005
The Blue Aeroplanes - Yr Own World
They're from Bristol and were student favourites. I know nothing much else about the Blue Aeroplanes. I had this one album, Beat Songs, and this is the stand out track on the record.
They're still going apparantly - www.blueaeroplanes.com
The Blue Aeroplanes - Yr Own World mp3
/3
oh, they were alright, but that was then...
June 06, 2005
Rubher - Johnny Peel is Dead
Maybe a bit to close to last years tragic news, but this is posted with upmost respect for the great DJ.
I found this track on the end of a Voodoo Queens album, taped from John Peels Radio One show. Its got a great preamble by Mr Peel and it was very strange to come across this in my big box of tapes. No doubt John Peel would approve of its revival now seeing as he is dead, I guess this tracks time has come...
I don't know anything about Rubher except they are Australian, possibly from Queensland.
Rubher - Johnny Peel is Dead mp3
/3
If anything could be found by Rubher, it probably wouldn't be worth it.
Compulsion - Little Marks
Around the time of Nirvana were Compulsion, and that is exactly what this track and album remind me of. Its not half bad, quite rousing.
Amazingly, Compulsion seem to still be going - or at least by that I mean that they released a record in this century, to my surprise.
They're from Dublin, Ireland and their singer is called Josephmary so they've got to be worth a listen.
Allmusic.com's list of similar artists is, as usual, kinda questionable - Midway Still, for gods sake?
/3
I probably can't be bothered, I'm sorry to say.
June 05, 2005
Maria McKee - Am I The Only One
Maria McKee's voice is absolutely penetrating on this song and I love it. Formerly of Lone Justice, but with much better work on her own, McKee is coming from the country stable. Indeed Allmusic.com states similar artists as Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and the Jayhawks.... hmmm, not exactly but I get what they mean.
So, if you like your country, give this a listen. If you don't, then still give it a listen cos its very good indeed. Once you like this, try on some Lucinda Williams for (a very different) size.
This track is from her first self titled album and her second album - You've gotta sin to get saved - is also worth a listen.
Maria McKee - Am I The Only One mp3
/3
I will most definitely be getting at least two Maria McKee albums and checking out her Live in Hamburg album too!
American Music Club - Ex-girlfriend
I'd forgotten how powerful Mark Eitzels' vocal is, and in fact how good the songs of American Music Club can be. A band with a rocky on/off past which saw seven albums released, they disbanded in 1996 and have since reformed and released a new album which I haven't heard.
American Music Club are a band where the word 'tormented' often appeared in reviews, Ex-girlfriend seems to be a similarly distraught song with a fantastic sound scape of noise. This track is from the album 'Everclear', apparantly named after a 180 proof spirit as Mark Eitzel was known to be fond of a drink.
American Music Club on Allmusic.com
American Music Club - Ex-girlfriend mp3
The C90 rating:
/ 3
This album was suprisingly good, I think I'll add to the wish list for future purchasing.