Wednesday, 26 September 2007Joey Ramone and Holly Beth Vincent - I got you babe on Ramo recordsI got you babe / One more danceRamo records released 9/11/07  I really thought the name of this band was 'Joey Ramone and Holly Beth Vincent'... but no... it turns out this is a serious piece of punk rock history appropriately released on 7" vinyl by Ramo records. Holly and the Italians were in the middle of the CBGB's NY punk scene alongside the Ramones, and after relocating briefly to England, opened for Blondie and the Clash. The original seven inch of this duet was a thing of practically legend, impossible to locate and well deserving of a repress. Of course this song was just the nail in the coffin for popular culture. The seventies and everything along with it were decidedly dead and this was kicking it while it was down. Plus it's perfect to cover, duets are inherently ridiculous and they aren't taking themselves or the song too seriously. Holly and the Italians were sadly overlooked when talking about this era, she stood alongside the Pretenders and Joan Jett, and Holly and the Italians 'The Right to be Italian' is legendary as a punk/new wave signpost of things to come. It's so close to early ramones releases, the same delivery. On an early single 'Tell that Girl to Shut Up' the b-side was a cover of the Dixie Cups 'Going to the Chapel' which was a cheesy Ronnie Specter song the 50's generation reworked in the same vein as those Ramones covers that actually made those songs good. Ramo records says: Recorded in 1982 in England, this 45 features legendary singer of the Ramones Joey Ramone along side Holly and the Italians for a duet of Sonny and Chers hit, "I Got You Babe." It also features a pre-blinded by science Thomas Dolby on Keyboards. Joey was so excited after the sesssion he asked Holly to join the Ramones!! Holly did not join but she did appear on the legendary cable tv program The Uncle Floyd Show to perform the song with Joey. The flip side is a great rippin' calssic sounding Holly and the Italians tune clocking in at 1:47!! Labels: covers, dixie cups, holly and the Italians, holly beth vincent, joey ramome, ramones, ronnie specter
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Monday, 24 September 2007
Les Savy Fav - what would wolves do on Wichita records
Les Savy Fav
What would wolves do? / The year before the year 2000
Wichita
9/24/07
Limited to 500 copies
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Les Savy Fav is one of those bands you have to get to know, if you haven't already. If you know them, you like them, you will be waiting for the local record store to open, or call and reserve a copy. For those of you that might be debating about this single or the new album Let's be Friends for that matter...I am urging you to pick it up, especially if you're on the fence about this band.
I know how it is with certain music...maybe a friend liked them a little too much, maybe you missed any number of their amazing live shows they have put on in their last 10 years of touring. They have been around forever so you have had plenty of chances, well this is a perfect time to pretend they are that new hot flavor of the month band. Pronounce their name a little differently, 'oh lessavy favre, that's a different band'...wasabi 5, whatever you need to do, not that this is a new sound, not at all. They aren't 'happy to cash in' as their website proclaims. This still has the same focused build a song around a crazy sound or canned distorted beat, and somehow come out great on the other side, really testing themselves, without alienating the audience.
They can easily be at home playing a punk rock basement or an uptown museum. The crossover comes from not inventing themselves around a sound, but existing right through it.
I keep hearing about 'They're back from a 6 year hiatus...' You know what they were doing for 6 years? Releasing 9 seven inches! We know...the seven inch followers know les savy fav, we already had the inches album before it was all digitized and repackaged. They didn't stop there either, tour singles keep popping up, and now this? Of course What would wolves do? is a strong contender for best track, but the B-side won't be available anywhere else, and it won't be better off left off the album. This is all quality.
The new album/single is a perfect example of where a good producer can help capture those moments of magic of when everything kicks in with Tim Harrington really laying into you, he's not yelling, just loudly going to convince the hell out of you. Like it's just his thing to really be scarily convincing singing right into your ears, but it's not all business, you will yell along and rush the stage to grab a piece of his garbage bag dress.
Jason Dean
Labels: Les Savy Fav, what would wolves do?, Wichita records
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Friday, 21 September 2007
Rosie Taylor Project - Black and white films on Bad sneakers records
Rosie Taylor Project
Black and White Films / Maps for lost lovers
Bad Sneakers records
Released Sept. 3, 2007
Black and White films take work just to watch. They aren't made with a vocabulary we are used to, sometimes they are silent or subtitled. I'm not used to this and have to really try to forget everything I'm used to and fight not to change the channel.
The Rosie Taylor Project's new single 'Black and White Films' however, is easy to understand.
Sometimes you don't want to work for your music, I understand, you're getting older, I don't need to be challenged everyday with louder and faster. Just give me something to listen to while I fold some socks.
Seriously, we all have socks...I'm not trying to be sarcastic.
It won't take long for shops to file this alongside the apparent resurgence of C-86, twee, indiepop, call it what you will but this may outlast a lot of albums in your collection because it isn't really a part of any of this. They could be coming from more of an alt-country place, melodic meandering acoustic and electric soft picking. The vocals from both Johhny and Sophie, work together to nicely lull you to sleep, in a good way, and then a muted trumpet ends every song like closing the book and that's it lights out.
This reminds me of feeling sorry for myself with hours and hours of masochistic morrissey and the sundays, or later, the softies. Such beautiful memories.
There's no percussion beat to dance to, so this will be for couples only, nice and slo-core, swaying back and forth in the audience.
That isn't to say you won't be crying while drifting off to songs about missing the party and just staying in, while it's raining on your bedroom window. Everyone else is doing something better than you. (Don't forget a Belle and Sebastian reference.)
Shake it off...this single is still available from Bad Sneakers and hopefully that will cheer your sad bastard self up.
Available to pre-order now from HMV or Norman Records or Pure Groove Records or Record Store.co.uk
Labels: bad sneakers records, belle and sebastian, C-86, indiepop, rosie taylor project, twee
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Tiger Force - Hey Yo square eyes on Marquis Cha Cha records
Hey Yo Square Eyes / Darth Bruckheimer
500 copies - handmade sleeve
Marquis Cha Cha
Hey Yo Square Eyes has all the elements of possibility... there's over modulated toy drum machines, static beeps, and the attitude. I have trouble believing this is just two people Andy Force and Helen Tiger. They are interrupting each other fighting for the mic like the next test icicles. In other tracks they combine this garage radio shack electronics kit experiment gone wrong, (or right depending on what side of the speakers you're on) with a kind of world music aesthetic grabbing whatever passes their fancy and strangling it with a 1/4" cable choke chain. I can't be sure but there could even be other languages involved.
There's only 500, and handmade at that, I'm a sucker for that personal touch, you can almost picture them sitting on the livingroom floor cutting out polaroids.
This is music by lunatic Saturday morning cartoon committee. I actually thought the equalizer on myspace might be accurately reflecting these frequencies for once. Tiger force tracks are going to be remixed everywhere, taking the dirt and distortion out of the grooves and replacing it with bass heavy dance boredom. Don't do it, put on this frantic 2 minute freak out and watch the dance floor clear out.
The label says:
Hey Yo Square Eyes is the second single to be taken from the debut mini album 'A Wasp In A Jar' by Tiger Force. A band that have devotees in rock, dance and indie circles brings this quick, candid and energetic follow-up single to you. Recently the band have had two of their songs featured on the latest 'Bugs In The Attic' Compilation as well as the new compilation 'Neon Nights' dedicated to dance-rock out on DMC.
Labels: Marquis Cha Cha, Tiger Force
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Tenebrous Liar - approaching happy on Fire records
Tenebrous Liar -
Approaching Happy / Nude As The News
Released July 23rd 2007
Tenebrous Liar softly bashes you over the head like a melodic shellac, and like Steve Albini, rock and roll wasn't his first successful undertaking. Steve Gullick is a professional photographer who, among other things shot Chan Marshall's Greatest cover. Maybe that's the connection to the B-side, a cover of Nude as the News where the track really benefits from this open low-fi room sound, it's a nice contrast to the hushed intimacy of the Chan version.
If you can get past this inside joke name, there's elements of dead meadow and Smog: that almost 60's distortion groan, deep purposeful singing, and plenty of room noise and bleeding sounds thrown in for good measure. These are Albini sounding drums, deep, garage, undampened hits with Gullick sounding more like a Lou Reed, bringing some sexy back to this stripped down, nicely low-fi stuff.
It's on Fire records.
Labels: cat power, chan marshall, cover, fire records, steve albini, tenebrous liar
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