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Loads of New Albums a Day #12

 

Jello Biafra & The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See

 

If the Dead Kennedys were still going, this probably isn't far off what they'd sound like. It definitely doesn't sound much like the Melvins, until the last song. Adam Jones of TOOL plays guitar on some of the tracks too, though I can't really tell where. Jello Biafra himself is probably an acquired taste, and it's a very vocal-heavy record, so you probably need to like Jello Biafra, or you'd be wise to give this one a miss. In his old age, his voice has lost a bit of bite, and he sounds a bit like Fred Schneider sometimes. S'alright. 2 and a half outta 5.

 

 

As Many New Albums I Want A Day #13

 

Jello Biafra & NoMeansNo - The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy

 

If the Dead Kennedys were still going in 1991, this probably isn't far off what they'd sound like. Though, this one sounds a lot more like the backing band than The Melvins album does. This was released just a couple of years after NoMeansNo released Wrong, which is an excellent record, so NMN were still at their peak, and Jello doesn't sound like an old man at this point. This album is a bit more frantic, and downright sillier. A solid rocker. 3 outta 5.

Have you heard "Last Scream of the Missing Neighbours", the album he did with DOA around the same era as the NoMeansNo one? It's great. "Full Metal Jackoff" is still a favourite, good live version on YooToobe

http://youtu.be/oXALSRxazZA

New Shellac album arrived yesterday. Yus.

The Raid 2

The guy from the first film goes undercover in jail to earn the trust of a gang boss' son and infiltrate the gang on the outside. Overlong at 2.5 hours but pleasingly mental, fight scenes are amazingly choreographed. Best hammer based fight scene since Old Boy.

9/10

And folk who can only involve themselves in charity when there is an attention seeking bandwagon to jump on.

People who try and dictate what is or isn't ok for folk to post on their own social networking pages.

Rock 'n' Roll Part 2 turned out to be a conflicting choice

I actually put St Anger on in the car the other week, some awful lyrics and tin can snare aside it didn't seem as bad as it once did *grabs coat*

Not really a U turn but The Fall. I was aware pf them through the 80's on the back of some of their more accessible songs that saw them hover around the charts - Mr Pharmacist, Hit the North, Victoria, Theres a Ghost in My House- but at that time their general reputation as a 'difficult' band and the combination of their large back catalogue and limited funds at that stage in life meant I never investigated further. It wasnt till the early 2000's that I plumped for buying a copy of Hex Enduction Hour in an HMV sale that I became quite hooked, bought all the most highly regarded points in their career and have slowly ended up adding missing items when i've seen them going cheap. Think I have all the studio albums now. My younger self wouldn't have got it at all but by the time I dived in I was already a big Krautrock and Beefheart fan so The Fall made perfect sense.

This is the song that had me instantly hooked

I've been tinkering with 'Last Rays of the Old Dead Sun' and added an ambient intro, will probably revisit again when I have some time and add a third section at the end, here's where it is the now....

http://godzillablues.bandcamp.com/

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

Inspiral Carpets - Life

Van Morrison - Moondance

Neil Young - Dead Man

The Cramps - Smell of Female

Boris - Noise

Dont know who the guy was and I cant recall the exact wording but just generally very cruel about the girl in the accompanying photos looks, totally uncalled for.

Regardless of the pictured girl's involvement, those comments were horrendous and uncalled for.

I saw it a couple times with much being made about them slagging the Aberdeen scene, which I don't think they really do. But they are definitely fannies based on the general tone of the bantz.

Death Grips have another free album, "Niggas on the Moon", up for download, pretty decent -

http://thirdworlds.net

and if like me you missed the last free one, "Government Plates", it's also available on the same site.

Rewatching 'The Lakes' yet again.

Locke (2013)

One of those films that you watch and think "why didn't I have this idea?"

Basically, it's Tom Hardy in a car making and taking phonecalls for an hour and a half. As the film goes on, we learn all about his character, as you'd hope to, and find out where he's going and why.

It flew by, was intriguing and weirdly gripping (for a film about a man in a car making and taking phonecalls for an hour and a half). The ending seemed a bit rushed, but I find myself thinking that a lot about books and films these days. Also I'm not sure I would have enjoyed Tom Hardy in a car making and taking phonecalls for three hours.

I always seem to find films of 2 hour plus running time could do with a bit trimmed off. 1.75 hrs is optimal. Unless its The Godfather or Apocalypse Now.

Some might say (arf) that your opening paragraph in this thread displayed plenty of that lad attitude though. I always preferred Liam's vocals personally. With hindsight its quite staggering how much success Oasis achieved while essentially blatantly ripping off other folks music.

I suspected Oasis would figure somewhere. I liked Oasis but the whole 90's Loaded magazine LAD attitudes was shite and tiresome then and even more so now, I would lose that if I was you.

What sort of bands represent the "mod/rock/swagger/tunes vibe"?

Booking tickets from Aberdeen Box Office, the most backward arsed system ever. Trying to get tickets for the Music Hall for the wife yesterday, standing show, instead of the standard drop-down and choose number of tickets required option used by pretty much any other site, you have to choose little circles showing the spaces for standing places! I understand this method for seats but this is just stupid. Choose a spot, go through 2 further clicks to secure that spot, choose the other spots same again, and of course by then the spots have gone so start again...or phone the permanently engaged phoneline.

For a city that is supposed to be so technologically forward due the oil industry, in many ways its like some quaint little town. It was easier buying tickets to take the bairns on Thomas the Tank Engine in fucking Brechin.

Drokk is amazing, I would love to see them do it as a live piece. Did you get the metal tin edition - http://invadarecords.bigcartel.com/product/geoff-barrow-ben-salisbury-drokk-music-inspired-by-mega-city-one-mega-edition-deluxe-box-set ?

No just CD, it was an album I meant to buy when it came out but I forgot all about. I did get a download code for extra tracks, was quite surprised to find it still worked!

I really liked the first couple of albums but kind of lost interest after that, still liked the odd song I have heard but have zero interest in the new album.

Been to see them a couple times because the wife is a fan, same stage banter all the time, kind of bugs me that Grohl turned into Mr Stadium Rock from his background but hey ho.

Is that studio documentary thing he did any good, been meaning to see it?