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Such an incredible album. Better, possibly, than Eureka. Who would have imagined Jim O'Rourke's best work would be his crispest and poppiest. |
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Time to go home and listen to some more JAMC. Maybe Honey's Dead?
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No, turned out to be Automatic.
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Call me crazy but these latter day JAMC platters have this vibe that to me is like 60s mod in a way. I can't quite put my finger on it. Not mod precisely like London mod but just a blissy 60s mod California vibe.
Do you know what I mean? Almost groovy. |
Am I crazy? Am I elevating this band too much? God, I think they're great.
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Answer me, somebody.
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I blame it on the rock and roll.
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Morphine ~ Cure for Pain
Almost a little too beautiful hipster/loser bar fly-ish, if you know what I mean, for my taste, but it's growing on me. |
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Okay back to AUTOMATIC by the Jesus Chain Gang
From Pitchfork. Yeah, I hate Pitchfork. Fuckers rate Auto and Honey's Dead pretty low. Fuck them. But the reviews are interesting anyway: Automatic (1989): Conventional wisdom wrongly calls this the dud. With the band reduced to the brothers only, things go artificial: The drum machine is foregrounded, the bass is played on keyboards, the feedback’s on vacation. In that space, the Reids take their biggest shot at doing full-on pop, something that-- on a global alternative classic like the Pixies-covered “Head On”-- feels like a career peak. The rockier album cuts get pretty turgid, and both Reids start to feel like parodies of themselves, but at points they fall into a synthetic rock grind that’s almost industrial-- fascinating, in a time-capsule kind of way. [ME: At times?! Fuck you. All through this album, fuckwads. Just because these guys got the balls to rock and you don't... . I mean, does your wife ever let you get to play the stereo LOUD!? Fuck you, you pathetic pitchfork loser.] Honey’s Dead (1992): Conventional wisdom wrongly calls this the return to form, mostly because they got a drummer and wrote some lively tunes. The problem is that the well-recorded feedback and effortful Jagger yowling here sound like two guys straining to be cool, the exact thing that Psychocandy evaded. It’s also their first fully contemporary grunge-era record, so if you wanted to hear a rock band try, you could just buy something current. [ME: Again, a big fuck you. Did you LISTEN to this record? Do you have BLOOD in your veins? Are you a zombie? Do you know how to fuck, you fuckwad?] |
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I think this is one of the most under-appreciated bands of the late 80s/early 90s. I got hooked through Automatic, one of the first CDs I bought, having finally joined the digital revolution around Christmas of 1989. I still have that CD, although I recently purchased the Plain Recordings LP reissue (which I highly recommend). This album thrills me as much today as when I first put it on that chilly winter evening back in suburban Hampton, VA, in 1989. Nothing I'd heard in a long time made me feel so good and so restless at the same time. I'm on to Darklands now. Forgot just how good this one is. |
Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady
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^ Nice choice.
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