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rockaction said:
I’m sure the queen is relieved that John Lydon no longer hates her.
Love it. Thanks for checking some of these bands out. That's all I could ask of anybody reading the exercise, and really what I hoped to achieve. So thanks for letting me know that you did that. Chairs Missing is the ultimate post-punk, slow build album that doesn't have true pop songs, but songs that are beautiful. Wire is clearly one of my favorite acts. Have you listened to Pink Flag, and if so, what did you think? I'd be interested in hearing that.
not yet. The backlog of bands is too long to zero in on just one. Plus I want to give each album a few listens before deciding. it's slow.
Cool. I think it's pretty cool that you decided to give an act a listen. Also, noticed your Stooges comment in the other thread about picking three consecutive songs from an album to introduce someone to an artist. That's a fine place to start. Fun House is such a great album. They didn't care anything about The Stooges so they just turned tape and let it roll. And those guys rolled all right. Whoa.
Of the other 2, I prefer "Another Music". They also have a good singles collection that includes some non album songs.
I'm not an expert on what makes the Heartbreakers sound like they sound. I'd always dismissed them as one-offs, too, up until Sebowski on this board told me I had to listen to them. I guess they were too slow, too raunchy for me -- or the recordings I'd heard were ####.
I can see it. I thought I was listening to a karaoke recording of the Dils. Probably going to be more "wtf is this" just based on the names of some of these bands.
it's been a couple weeks since I found a band that really clicked so I doubled back to wire. The songs are quick it was tough to get hooked. It took a few listens but it's starting to sink in, frustrating when a song gets going and than ends. There will be many more listens. Too early to compare it to Chairs, I love chairs.
I like Chairs a lot. I love Pink Flag. A lot of times I wonder if what we favor depends on what we experience first. I think I've posted this before, but this version of the song Pink Flag absolutely slays me. It's from an EP recorded when Wire reformed in 1999 and started rehearsing old material - it builds and builds and builds and it's all I can do not to throw something through a window by the end.
IIRC he left because their rhythms had become so mechanical that he felt he was nothing more than a drum machine, so he told them they should just use a drum machine.
One of the things that amazed me recently was Steve Jones's copping a Thunders riff style in the diss track "New York." At one point, Jones starts completely aping Thunders's guitar work, and it makes the song all the more mocking and savage.
Very Pistols-y.... and, of course, every good diss deserves a retort -
You mess with me? I'm from New York City ...
Maybe indeed. But the song sounds like it's stuffed with Pistols motifs that I think it's a reverse homage both lyrically and musically. And I think Jones was so self-taught that he couldn't mimic anybody, much less the inimitable Thunders.... or was Jonesy just always very Thunders-y?
Alas poor Buckethead! I knew him, Pip: a man of infinite fried chicken and most excellent shredding.
The man's obviously a masochist. Similarly, Dizzy Reed is the 2nd-longest serving member of the band after Axl. They should collaborate for a podcast on how to stay in Axl's good graces.
I think it's the first time I heard "Ain't It Fun" (great song) and "Down On The Farm," which made the Punk Hundred here in this very thread.
