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Friday, September 03, 2004
  "Stop......LISTEN!"

Better late than never, I always say....

So Dark made a Mes Eclipse mix about 2 months ago and I am just now getting to the freakin review. My bad dark. I appreciate your dedication and hard work, but you see this cd was harder to review than most. The reason being, there was no sort of description whatsoever on the CD itself. No title, no label, no song list. I was pretty excited by this and I think I understood Dark's reasoning behind not informing us on anything. No preconceived notions.
Which seems to be a underlying theme of this blog.

So don't have any:

1) The Mae Shi - "You Can't Do That To An Axe" - Brilliant way to start the cd. It sets the tone, which will shred your ears if you have it up too loud. "STOP....LISTEN" -the song starts off with a warbly pre-pubescent scream and tears ass from there on. Disjointed guitars, brash bass and no real comparison to other types of music. The Mae Shi thrashes its way into your head and stays there. You will think of this song a hundred times that day after you hear it. Very slippery, very sweaty and a massive amount of smart and uncaring rock.

2) Blue Oyster Cult - "Hot Rails To Hell" - Classic early BOC song. Hadn't heard it before this cd, but Dark had always told me how much I would like early BOC stuff. I am a big fan of them and how cheeseball they are, but this song has only a little bit of that. They groove in on this track which is cool. A late 70's punky main riff sets it off and keeps the rhythm going. This song gives you a sneak peak at their massive riffs down the road. You can pretty much never go wrong with a single BOC song! Best band from the 70's?

3) Need New Body - "Titty Pop" - From everything I have heard (a few songs) and read about this band, it seems as if this might be one of their tamer songs. These guys are know for their free noise element and deliver with this song. The organ that the song is bassed around has an incredible slow vibrato sound and pulses its way throughout the entirety. Brief freak outs accompany the minimal instruments, but leave you with a sense of wanting more. The end is really neat - all the members start chanting nonsensical phrases and words that don't exist.

4) The Fall - "Ludd Gang" - I love this song-ah. The Fall is of course a very hard band to invest in-ah. I tried and got swamped early on (after their 80th + release) so I only picked up the highlights, which I know is the puss way out-ah. Dark on the other hand, has held fast-ah. He owns more Fall records than anyone I know, including the guy who introduced me to the Fall back in High School-ah. Anyways this song dark tells me is from the early 80's era when they still had the all-star lineup-ah. The rhythm of this track is what gets you-ah. The snare pops in almost a drumline fashion and the bass (what most fall songs are famous for) hammers away with neat intricacies-ah. Mark E. Smith's British scowl is like none you will ever hear and hypnotizes you into loving this band-ah. Good choice and it keeps the up tempo theme going-ah.

5) Deep Purple - "Space Truckin (Live)" - This is the best song on the mix. Fuckin' 24 minute version of their seminal beast of a song. Probably the greatest lyrics for a song of all time - "We had a lot of luck on Venus / We always had a ball on mars / Meeting all the groovy people /We've rocked the milky way so far" and "The fireball that we rode was moving / But now we've got a new machine / Yeah yeah yeah yeah the freak said / Man those cats can really swing". Fuckin awesome. I live for bands who can change and adapt their songs live so each time its different and more mind blowing, Deep Purple does that shit. They whip the crowd into a frenzy and never let go. If I would have seen this live, I probably would have "blowed my bone" - in space of course.

6) Comets On Fire - "ESP" - Currently one of my top bands putting out music. Imagine the most bad ass cosmic bass riff with about 400 more guitars and drums thrown on top - then throw it through a deep space echo and a Big Muff. Now you catchin' the wave. There is so much going on in every Comets song that it blows my mind ever time. I'll be damned if I can understand a single lyric, but I know they are singing about the most awesome topics. These guys probably would have toured with Deep Purple back in the day and slayed them off the stage each night. Total chaos, but in the most focused way imaginable. The ending pounds you into oblivion. Counting the days until I can see them live.

7) The Bruces - "I Wish I Were A Mole In the Ground" - Very pretty song. Sounds like it was a traditional folk song that this guy may have redone. If not, he is a great songwriter. Dark decided to bring the listener back down to earth with this one. He had to get the hippies outta the stratosphere. I also wonder if this song blead in from another one because there is a huge noisy swell that starts with the first lick of the acousic. Very Flying Saucer Attack if not. Phil Spector wall of sound beginning.

8) The Sightings - "Infinity Of Stops" - Right back to the insanity. These guys are a better and cooler version of Ministry. Plus they don't have the major label worries to deal with. Meaning = they can fuck with your mind as much as they want. This is abusive music that will rape your brain. Really good, but I imagine its hard to get all the way through one of their full lengths.

9) Brazil & The Gallo Brothers - "Song For the Roof" - I think dark said these guys were from the land of Poland. This is a very interesting song. Soundscape-ish. I wonder if on a track of this song they took a recorder and sit it out in nature. Their also is an acoustic guitar that I believe tunes up in the first half of the song, then gets around to playing it. Pretty great, I would like to hear more by them.

10) Hunches - "Lisa Told Me" - From a late 70's Punk Mojo comp. This was a lost gem apparently. This has all the formulas of being a huge fucking early punk hit. Great hooks, great singing, a melodic bass line that seems like you've heard before and that is different from the guitar. Kinda sounds like Lou Reed singing. Good backbeat and really cool chord progression. These guys should have been huge.

11) Mclusky - "Day of the Deadringers" - I didn't like this song very much, at all. They did have one good lyric - "If it weren't for the decepticons, they'd rule our fucking world!" Seemed like a bad Pixies rip with the huge bass sound and teensy distorted guitar lick. Even the yelling the singer does sounds like "Debaser". He is overly animated and comes off sounding chessy as fuck. Really hated this song.

12) ELO - "Sweet Is the Night" - How can you go wrong? I really think it is impossible not to love ELO. Seriously. Tell me one person that doesn't like them, and I will show you a music cripple. Their songs come off sounding so simple, but in reality they are truly complex as hell. The instrumentation is immaculate and so warm sounding. This mid-tempo waltz will have you dreaming of dreams in the sky before long and you are gone man, gone to the temple of awesome sound.

13) The Unicorns - "Les Os" - The new hot shit band from 3-4 months ago. A lot of people are into this band and this song showed me why. Great 4 track sound gives this song a feel like they recorded it in one night. Insanely quick pace and killer keyboard sound. Not insanely crazy about the singer's voice but he "get's her done" and gets a sound that goes from fun and bouncy pop to quick REM 80's to the feel good song of late last year. Did anyone else catch the wimpiest METAL RIFF in this song? Probably meant to do it that way, which makes it that much better. One awesome lyric, but maybe I heard it wrong: "I want to die today / Make love with you Mark HARMON!" Double Dare LOVERS!

14) Six Organs of Admittance - "Only The Sun Knows" - I was really excited when Dark put this band on the cd, because I have wanted to hear them for so long. Drag City brags and brags about them and finally I get to hear the hype. Let me tell you, they live up to the shit. Three mountain people to change the world. This song has a roots feel to it that makes you think this group came up with this jam sitting on the edge of a cliff or something. Very nature jammy feel. They get the groove going and keep it solid, trudging along very concerned about flow. No electric instruments that I can tell...until DOOM comes down from the mountain in the form of monster feedback and rips your face off. It actually works its way into the song nicely - non abrasively at about 7 minutes in. Then the instruments eventually fade out and - feedback col' rockin for about 4 minutes...then the song comes back in for a little bit. Amazing musicians. I really hope this is what all their stuff sounds like.


So there you have it...fine job Mr. Darkness. Grade A. You got me fired up to the point of explosion, then calmed it down, then got me right back in the game with a killer buzz from the kind tunes.

Groovy Trip.

 

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