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Dismiss them as another electro-rock band at your peril; with each listen, this release becomes more
and more necessary. Tracks like ‘Amazing’ actually…are. ‘Election Singer’ has already been a single; I’m sure there will be others to follow, and if there is any justice, hits.
This was a track that became remixed the follwoing year under the name ‘Move Any Mountain’ and gave the Shamen several years as a Smash Hits and Top Of the Pops freindly act.
I know little about the Flaming Stars, but they sound great still. The BBC site erroneously credits these tracks as being done by the Flaming Lips, who John Peel also championed, rightly, IMHO, but are a completely different band.
hope you had a good New Year’s Eve – I had a good one, but even though I don’t drink anymore I still feel exhausted. Ah well…
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As for what the blog offers, expect the usual mix of the painfully obscure and the wildly obvious, bizarre covers, videos, interviews, tips on up and coming bands, occasional updates on the progress of 17 Seconds Records and much more. Including my attempts to try and get to grips with the music that’s out there and succeeding to a limited extent.
I nearly meant it when I was going to call it a day back in December, fed up with the DMCA and their taking down of posts. However, I eventually came round to it, and will be moving this blog elsewhere very soon. Keep it tuned to 17 Seconds!
17 Seconds Records is in discussion with a couple of other bands we are trying to sign, we are also hoping to do another single with Aberfeldy, and will be issuing a download only single by the second act to sign to our label, Ex Lion Tamer called ‘Neon Hearts.’ If you haven’t downloaded the free ‘Christmas’ single ‘Life Support Machine’ here is another chance:
Meanwhile, speaking of great electronic stuff…Ladyhawke‘s self-titled debut will almost certainly dominate in 2009…or I give up. This lady, Pip Brown, is set to become one of New Zealand’s biggest pop acts ever.
AS EVER, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTISTS. BUY THE MUSIC – ALL THESE TRACKS CAN BE FOUND ON EMUSIC AND ITUNES IF YOUR LOCAL RECORD SHOP DOES NOT HAVE THEM. THESE TRACKS ARE NOT HERE IN PLACE OF YOU BUYING THE MUSIC, THEY ARE HERE TO PROMOTE THE ARTISTS.
Damon and Naomi -‘More Sad Hits’ (Re-issue) (20-20-20)
A year after Galaxie 500 dissolved, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang returned to producer their producer Kramer’s studio and recorded this album chock-full of what have been described as psychedelic break-up songs.
When Galaxie 500 had disbanded, they weren’t even sure about continuing, and according to the sleevenotes to this re-issue, seemed to have enetered a stage of almost hibernation where they listened to Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom over and over again. Comrade Wyatt – and I use that phrase as warmly as possible – described this album on release as being “Like real water in a world of soda pop.” It’s so real, so pure…so different. Yes, of course you can hear aspects of Galaxie 500 in here, but if you’ve never heard
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But don’t simply pigeonhole this as hardcore indie or slowcore or whatever. This is an album that has widely, and rightly, become regarded as an underground classic. now
The Old Romantic Killer Band -‘The Swan With Two Necks (Bad Sneakers)
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there is no messing around. The…well, not exactly bad news as such, but reality is that as with their single ‘You Don’t Know How To Love’ (not included here) I am still left with the feeling that there’s an awful lot of potential here which isn’t being realised. On the plus side, the tunes, drumming and guitars are great. However, whilst I wouldn’t want to encourage smoking, the sing
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I still think that one day TORKB are going to release an arse-kicker of a record. They need to work on things a bit more to do so, however.
of his own. Including guest appearances from Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, talking of bands who we are due another album from) and Regina Spektor. So far, so good…
backing band are South, who have well and truly jumped the shark. Added to which, most of the songs feel like badly recorded Strokes songs and Fraiture’s voice is completely lacking in charisma. The best track ‘Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’ is of course, a Leonard Cohen cover. At least he didn’t opt to do ‘Hallelujah.’
It’s not an awful album, but it’s just utterly dull and boring.
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The Time Of The Assassins is released on January 26 o
They may have receievd a lot of flack over the years (a fair bit of which is almost certainly tall poppy syndrome), but I think it’s time for people to embrace the music of early Simple Minds. Rather like with Roxy Music, the early stuff was genuinely pioneering, and has dated much better than some of the later stuff. And controversial though this may be for some, I think they were far more pioneering in their early days than U2, with whom they were alw
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Take the two early tracks ‘I Travel’ and ‘Theme For Great Cities.’ To me they still sound utterly fresh now.
Simple Minds -‘I Travel.’
Simple Minds -‘Theme For Great Cities.’
This track hints at what was to come later…but also shows that several albums in, they hadn’t compromised.
Simple Minds -‘The American.’
In 1982, they broke through commercially with the album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and attendant hits like ‘Promised you A Miracle.’ There were celebrity marriages for singer Jim Kerr (to both Chrissie Hynde and Patsy Kensit), a US no.1 single, and huge, massive gigs. An increasing bombasticness alientated old fans, but there were some utter gems later too:
This was the first time I ever saw Simple Minds’ music on TV, this made it into the UK charts in late 1986. Their manager of the time, Bruce Findlay, has said that this is a re-write of ‘I Travel.’
Simple Minds -‘Ghostdancing.’
Please do yourselves a favour: listen to the early albums: Life In A Day, Reel To Reel Cacophony, Empires And Dance, Sons and Fascination, Sisters Feeling Call. You can almost certainly pick these up very cheaply. Simple Minds are still recording and touring. Their manager of the eighties, Bruce Findlay now manages Aberfeldy and reads
Hello folks…hope you had a good Christmas break. Had a fantastic, quiet christmas, just me, Mrs. 17 Seconds, and our two cats. I have receieved new albums (including the new Sigur Ros and Kaiser Chiefs and very first Stones LP, all on vinyl, like obviously), some Fall comps from the in-laws and lots of Alfred Hitchcock on DVD. (One day I am going to do a post related to Alfred Hitchcock on this blog).
The only sadness (other than parents and bother and sister-in-law being in other countries) was the loss over Christmas of two absolute legends in my eyes: Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter.
I am eternally grateful that my Mum and Dad had a much more singularly original approach to what
music they played my brother and I as kids. Eartha Kitt was my Mum’s favourite singer, who had absolutely appalled her parents as they didn’t get that Eartha Kitt was sending herself and other people up. I’ve written about Eartha Kitt here before, posting stuff for my Mum’s birthday. I’m convinced that artists as diverse
as Diana Ross, Madonna and Amy Winehouse, amongst many, many others owe her a huge debt. (Listen to Kitt’s ‘Just An Old Fashioned Girl, then Madonna’s ‘Material Girl.’
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The other loss is Harold Pinter. I’m not an authority on Pinter, but the work of his I have read was amazing. At sixteen, in the no man’s land between GCSEs and A-Levels, a very clued up english teacher got us to watch Death In Ve
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I have been very disappointed by some of the idiots over at the BBC’s webpages who have failed to realise Pinter’s genius and slagging his politics. However, I do know that there are many people to whom Pinter was deeply important, politically and in terms of what he wrote, and if some folk are too ignorant to get that, then more fool
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Both Pinter and Kitt got treated appallingly at times; Kitt was blacklisted for speaking out against the Vietnam War and couldn’t work in the US for over a decade (and this was well after McCarthy!), and Pinter was often outspoken against both British and american Foreign Policy, his acceptance speech for the Nobel prize forli
terature offended many when the BBC did not show it in its’ entirety.
Rest in peace, both of you.
Eartha Kitt -‘I want To Be Evil.’
Eartha Kitt -‘Just An old Fashioned Millionaire.’
For Pinter’s sheer genius watch this clip from The Birthday Party, the interrogation scene. In which Josef K’s arrest seems like a mild understanding, and Harry Palmer was just having a joke played on him…
…and I wouldn’t trust Lenny as far as I could throw him…(from the Homecoming)
* I wasn’t very cool, then as now, in fact, I loved Polanski’s version of Macbeth as well.
** I am aware that this has been disputed and may also be to do with Cave misreading Dostoevsky.
*** Rock music definitely had an effect on what I read and my cons
equently ending up studying philosophy: The Cure and the Fall lead to me reading Camus and Sartre, for example. And reading The Naked Lunch was kind of an obvious next step. (Still haven’t finished the Catcher In The Rye, though)
…phew. Christmas is nearly here, the school term is over…and I’m feeling absolutely exhusted and still quite some way off goodwill to all men, especially if they have anything to do with the RIAA or the DMCA.
7SEC1 is already available as a download, Aberfeldy’s first single for two years ‘Claire.’ The 7″ is now supposed to be with us in January, not that I’m getting annoyed about this or anything…It was a proud moment hearing R
pop along to their myspace, where you can make friends if you haven;t already and hear their version of a Christmas classic. They were supported on Tuesday night in Edinburgh by the rather fabulous Gi
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17SEC2 is Ex Lion Tamer’s fantastic ‘Life Support Machine.’ Thank you to the
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It’s taken from this page whixh has lots of wonderful and not a little terrifying stuff from the likes of Om, Sunn o)), Burning Witch…and Boris collaborating with Merzbow. Two Japanese gods of noise collaborating together. Oh yes…
