October 2009
54 posts
The Auteurs - How Could I Be Wrong
There’s...
Eugenius - Butter Milk →
“Butter Milk,” also originally released on the Flame On EP, was selected as the US single from Oomalama, and this promotional video received limited airplay on MTV’s “120 Minutes” in 1993. The video, like Oomalama’s cover, featured plentiful bovine imagery, mixed with shots of the band performing before an energetic crowd which contrasted neatly with Eugene...
Captain America [aka Eugenius] - Flame On
While...
Bailter Space - Get Lost →
“Get Lost” is the other kind of song that can be found on Robot World; a lengthy, repetitive blast of noise that is driven by unremitting rhythm section pounding, even as it is fueled by a nearly unbearable level of distorted noise. Where “Morning” was a pleasant country drive, with the sun shining through the leaves of trees that line the highway, “Get Lost” is...
Bailter Space - Morning
The songs on Robot World...
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The Wedding Present - Why Are You...
“So full of hope that he can’t sit still, even in the presence of...”
– Lyrics to “Breathing Fear,” another song from The Death Of Cool. Even when Kitchens Of Distinction did write about homosexuality in a politically-informed way, they made it an extension of the personal stories that they wrote about in the rest of their songs. I’ve always found this...
Kitchens Of Distinction - 4 Men
The Death Of Cool...
The Pale Saints - Henry →
Slow Buildings was at least a multi-dimensional album for the Pale Saints, in much the same way previous albums had been. If it had songs that were poppier than anything they’d done before, that didn’t mean it wouldn’t also contain its fair share of experimentation. Almost as if to prove that point, the album begins with a four minute noise collage called “King Fade,”...
The Pale Saints - Angel (Will You Be My)
The fact...
Hazel - Day Glo
Hazel is the sort of band I...
“The house sat empty fourteen years
a waste of crystal chandeliers
the lungs...”
– My best guess at the lyrics to “Agatha” by Pond. I have a good bit more confidence in this version than I do in the version on the Pond website I linked during my last post. I’m guessing on a few of these lines, and a few of them are still somewhat nonsensical, but I definitely...
Pond - Agatha
On their debut album, Pond had a...
I had a deadline today and took a day off from posting here. This blog’s tumbularity dropped 74 points while I was gone. Haha.
Anyway, I will be back tomorrow. Upcoming featured groups: Pond, Hazel, Kitchens Of Distinction, Monsterland. Keep an eye out.
Revolver - Red All Over
Shoegaze, to me, was...
The Darling Buds - Sure Thing
I’ve picked...
The Boo Radleys - At The Sound Of Speed
Released...
The Posies - Solar Sister
The 90s-era hardcore...
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Madder...
Madder Rose - Beautiful John
I first heard this...
The Charlatans [UK] - Can’t Even Be...