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shermaramaFive favourite songs of the moment, on account of hollowpoint.
It's all got a bit funny because I spent this weekend in London recording with me girl band. Tonight I have listened to a song called 'Struggle' about a half million times, in the process of learning how to mix. Since it's not going to leave my head any time soon let's call that no. 1.
I had to hire a car to get the drumkit and all the recording gear to New Cross, and it had a cassette player so I took the opportunity to have a nostalgia-fest and dig out me old tapes to drive to, which dictates some of the others. No. 2 would be 'Choice' by Cable, a song I had to keep rewinding and I'm sure I'd have got done had any police seen me drumming on the steering wheel like that. Cable were an excellent 90s band from Derby, with an angular shouty indie front end backed up by explosions of cracking racket from a very sharp drummer. 'Choice' is from the first album 'Downlift the Uptrodden' which had the most aggressively odd stuff on it, and I have it on tape because a mate thought I should hear it and brought round the vinyl for me to copy. It's got the Descendents on the other side, from the same day.
Good grief. That website says the first drummer, the one on Downlift, was Neil Cooper. You know, the bloke I've got rabid about somewhere in here in his current incarnation as drummer for Therapy. That explains a hell of a lot. Nice one.
I dunno, I've not been listening to music much this week, mainly in the cause of winding myself up to this mixing. It's fair to say everything getting me this week is heavy on the drumming. Whilst in the kitchen late last night I was struck by a sudden urge to listen to Bloc Party as Jodie reckoned they were ace at Reading and I haven't in ages, so no. 3 would be their 'Positive Tension'. Normally I reckon She's Hearing Voices to be the best on the album, it builds and goes somewhere in a way the others don't, but with drumming head on it's one of the more boring ones. Whereas Positive Tension is packed with detail, I'm going to have to take that into the loft sometime soon. Mem to self, put practice skins back on drumkit and put it all back in the loft before trying that or you'll look a bit daft.
No. 4 should be The Wildhearts, 'Suckerpunch'. Another nostalgia car tape, from the days when I lived in Durham and my boyfriend lived in Hastings and we spent a lot of time driving through the night between the two, listening to Prong and Soundgarden and Therapy and Sepultura and the Wildhearts. Suckerpunch was always a favourite for the decently kickarse snap-tastic speed but it's been a long time and I'd forgotten about it so it all came as a pleasant surprise somewhere near the A2. Struck me again how they do these almost non-stop harmonies, like a sort of dissipated male voice choir.
There's a big gig later this month at Scarborough Castle with the 'original' line-up of the Wildhearts, along with Terrorvision and Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster and the like and I can't work out if I want to go or not. It'd be expensive and tedious to get to, tickets are 29 quid, and I've learned from experience that going to see bands that used to have something good but have nothing new to do with it are more than not worth it, they're worth actively avoiding so you don't lose the illusion. I'd have to get on the case if I was going. Hmmm.
Number 5. Oh, I dunno, nothing that definite. Lots of fragments I need to go and listen to again but haven't yet. Drunk Horse or Disarray, maybe, they keep popping up but not clearly enough to get properly stuck. Brain still full of recording. Probably Punch Judy's 'Learning Curve', then, a song we have got three entire projects of recorded attempts for but not one we're happy with which is a shame as it's a blinder. Bah.
It's all got a bit funny because I spent this weekend in London recording with me girl band. Tonight I have listened to a song called 'Struggle' about a half million times, in the process of learning how to mix. Since it's not going to leave my head any time soon let's call that no. 1.
I had to hire a car to get the drumkit and all the recording gear to New Cross, and it had a cassette player so I took the opportunity to have a nostalgia-fest and dig out me old tapes to drive to, which dictates some of the others. No. 2 would be 'Choice' by Cable, a song I had to keep rewinding and I'm sure I'd have got done had any police seen me drumming on the steering wheel like that. Cable were an excellent 90s band from Derby, with an angular shouty indie front end backed up by explosions of cracking racket from a very sharp drummer. 'Choice' is from the first album 'Downlift the Uptrodden' which had the most aggressively odd stuff on it, and I have it on tape because a mate thought I should hear it and brought round the vinyl for me to copy. It's got the Descendents on the other side, from the same day.
Good grief. That website says the first drummer, the one on Downlift, was Neil Cooper. You know, the bloke I've got rabid about somewhere in here in his current incarnation as drummer for Therapy. That explains a hell of a lot. Nice one.
I dunno, I've not been listening to music much this week, mainly in the cause of winding myself up to this mixing. It's fair to say everything getting me this week is heavy on the drumming. Whilst in the kitchen late last night I was struck by a sudden urge to listen to Bloc Party as Jodie reckoned they were ace at Reading and I haven't in ages, so no. 3 would be their 'Positive Tension'. Normally I reckon She's Hearing Voices to be the best on the album, it builds and goes somewhere in a way the others don't, but with drumming head on it's one of the more boring ones. Whereas Positive Tension is packed with detail, I'm going to have to take that into the loft sometime soon. Mem to self, put practice skins back on drumkit and put it all back in the loft before trying that or you'll look a bit daft.
No. 4 should be The Wildhearts, 'Suckerpunch'. Another nostalgia car tape, from the days when I lived in Durham and my boyfriend lived in Hastings and we spent a lot of time driving through the night between the two, listening to Prong and Soundgarden and Therapy and Sepultura and the Wildhearts. Suckerpunch was always a favourite for the decently kickarse snap-tastic speed but it's been a long time and I'd forgotten about it so it all came as a pleasant surprise somewhere near the A2. Struck me again how they do these almost non-stop harmonies, like a sort of dissipated male voice choir.
There's a big gig later this month at Scarborough Castle with the 'original' line-up of the Wildhearts, along with Terrorvision and Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster and the like and I can't work out if I want to go or not. It'd be expensive and tedious to get to, tickets are 29 quid, and I've learned from experience that going to see bands that used to have something good but have nothing new to do with it are more than not worth it, they're worth actively avoiding so you don't lose the illusion. I'd have to get on the case if I was going. Hmmm.
Number 5. Oh, I dunno, nothing that definite. Lots of fragments I need to go and listen to again but haven't yet. Drunk Horse or Disarray, maybe, they keep popping up but not clearly enough to get properly stuck. Brain still full of recording. Probably Punch Judy's 'Learning Curve', then, a song we have got three entire projects of recorded attempts for but not one we're happy with which is a shame as it's a blinder. Bah.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:53 pm (UTC)I'm not really sure of your taste, I have you down as more interested in the guitar bits? I'm very rhythm section, I just don't notice guitar so that could be rubbish on Downlift and I wouldn't know.
But the biggest problem with Cable is working out how the hell to get hold of any. They were shat on from a great height by a manager, they no longer have the right to perform together under any name nor to sell records under the name of Cable, which makes getting hold of the back catalogue a bit of a bugger. You have to be quite careful not to get a bad US nu-metal act called Cable foisted on you instead, as this is the only one some places recognise. If they're on Hydrahead Records, that's the wrong one.
*does quick trawl on Amazon*
Ha! yes, Downlift can only be had from Amazon as old stock from a few places and at prices varying from a fiver to twenty quid. And it's only a sort of mini-album, about 30 minutes. You might want to go for When Animals Attack, which is also ace, and probably both more consistent and easily available.
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Date: 2005-09-09 04:02 pm (UTC)It's true that I do gravitate towards the guitar parts a bit, but I've been playing bass for several years now - I've been writing the basslines as well as guitar lines for songs since the band before my last band - and these days I'm trying very hard to listen to drums too as I'm going to have to program them in my forthcoming solo project (errk!). Also, the guitar stuff I like is often rhythmically rather than melodically or harmonically interesting.
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Date: 2005-09-11 03:45 pm (UTC)Time for Soulseek, methinks.