Tuesday 15 July 2008

long lost cousin in a trash can records





what's the grossest thing you can think of? no really, just out of interest. what's the grossest thing you can think of. i think the grossest thing i can think of is a baby covered in pus and shit looking up at you after you just threw it out of a 3 storey window, and it's your baby and it's screaming out 'help me? help me?' even though it's only 2.

maybe that's just terrible. maybe it's erotic. one thing that is definitely terrible, erotic and gross is the liner notes for the Pixies' 'Trompe Le Monde' which look like Cindy Sherman spat out a just-given-up-smoking load of phlegm on a taxidermist's unwashed hands, which were then washed by the spit. but it's a great, and often forgotten album when compared to Doolittle and Surfer Rosa. REMEMBER IT.

speaking of Pixies, I would shag Kim Deal, even now. even though she looks like she has given birth out of her face for the last 2 decades and has mild stage 2 gonorreah. someone i wouldnt shag is Elizabeth Sharp (above) from Ill Ease who looks okay playing drums with her hair in her face, but has hairy arms and looks like someone Carol Ann Duffy would go for. but she makes frickin boom ting music mate, and thats what counts. i'd definitely go on a date with her if she paid for everything. her lost gem is her debut album 'The Exorcist'. the cool thing about Elizabeth Sharp is, well actually theres 3 things -- No1. she is more known for her photography than her music (which i dont have to tell you is very punk) No2. she can't play drums deliberately (punk-0!) No3. she does that thing when she plays live (because she's a 1 woman band, oh yes) where you loop different riffs on each instrument and you look like a magic maker weaving the different bits of the songs like some techno octopus of sheer insanity. anyway, the Exorcist -- REMEMBER IT.

and finally, another lost gem, and another lady-based band (because i'm a feminist, all yous bitches) is Broadcast, who's 2005 deal Tender Buttons (click this one def) are one for all you 8-bit maniacs that think in pixels, and have your homepage set to Warp records (although you definitely wouldve heard of them). if you got a bit too overexcited in the whole 8bitpeoples madness, pressing 2 gameboys up to each ear, praying for satisfaction, they are the perfect comedown band, blending nice girl over the road indie songwriting with bitcrushed gooseing about. REMEMBER IT.


HAppy weekend!
xAndre3000

1 comment:

George Pringle said...

Oooh. Tender Buttons. That album was my soundtrack to 2006 in the summer in a car in your earphones and under your student loan but burnt and free. Pretty pretty stuff.

xx