What Are you Listening to Right Now?
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Forces have been looting
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Marvellous stuff. Fits in well with Swans' more nuanced, non-punishing White Light and Love of Life albums. This is the kind of shit that I can play four or five times in a row and just soak it in.
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Yeah. It's definitely that kind of album. It reminds me a lot of Tabula Rasa-era Neubaten as well.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 1:25pm
Marvellous stuff. Fits in well with Swans' more nuanced, non-punishing White Light and Love of Life albums. This is the kind of shit that I can play four or five times in a row and just soak it in.
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Johnny Thunders - 'Live In Japan 1991' (2 CDs +DVD of the show; 2017)
One of Johnny's last shows, very together, with a very tight pro band - the Oodballs, excellent sound. Very R&B oriented, shows what John had in mind when he made his fateful and fatal move to New Orleans a few months later.
One of Johnny's last shows, very together, with a very tight pro band - the Oodballs, excellent sound. Very R&B oriented, shows what John had in mind when he made his fateful and fatal move to New Orleans a few months later.
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Starfuckers, Metallic Diseases. Sonic Youth is the obvious comparison, tho it leans a bit more in the direction of 70s hard rock.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Where might one find this particular selection?
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The Attrix Collection - The Piranhas
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"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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I've never fully cottoned to this album of Love of Life. They're good, don't get me wrong, but I have a hard time finding a hand hold. It's not the brutal minimalism of earlier albums and not the aggressive post rock they'd eventually become. It ain't commercial by any means, yet weirdly pretty. They're the most atypical Swans records, yet they're a sensible place to start, too.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Yeah, I love all their stuff up to Chim Chim, but this one is particularly great.
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I've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft