Betty Davis wants that light shut off.
NOT turned off.
SHUT OFF!!
NOW!!!!
DON’T ASK, JUST DO IT!!!!
Matt Johnson, accompanied by Johnny Marr, sets out in a taxi following the maxim that, if you seek something, you should seek it where the light is strongest… in his case, what he’s seeking can be found standing under the streetlights of his city.. one of his ambiguous, flawed and fractured portraits of a man in search of his sodium light baby..
The Gordons need a new bulb for their hat, so that they can shine it in your eyes, and the beam of their 15 000 watts will wipe away the lies.. you get like that if you spend too long down a coalmine, I guess..
And just because it fits, Betchadupa – Spill the light..
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1. i find funky bass like that a similar prop to when one consumes cheap fizzy drinks that makes one’s teeth feel all weird. 2. inxs?3. bloody amazing riffage – love it!
check out the Betchadupa track.. and try to cut down on the cheap fizzy drinks, Blimpy, dental care ain’t getting any cheaper..
& where are your festive 'Spill picks Mr. Nilpferd? We need some jazz or antipodian indie.
I have been thinking about it, although like Steenbeck and a few others I’ve had a pretty retro year and haven’t bought much new music, so I’ll have to cheat a bit.. I’ll send you my picks this weekend, though.
..oh and Blimpy, I don’t think Matt Johnson would be very happy about that INXS remark above..
i like INXS
Too much radioplay down under for me to like them, I’m afraid- bands like INXS had their singles on every hour on commercial stations in NZ.Also, the fans of bands like INXS were not the sort of people you wanted to bump into on a Friday night in an antipodean city if you happened to be or look like a weedy indie freak, or, even worse, a student.I didn’t really think that The The track sounded much like INXS, not really the same white soul/funk feeling, and surely Johnny Marr’s guitar is a notch above the Aussie axes ??!I admit though to being damaged goods as far as chart topping down-under bands go, I also can’t stand Crowded House for similar reasons.
my initial comment fell at the back end of a very boozy dinner. soz.
Ah yes, those fizzy drinks have a lot to answer for…
i also went a bit mad with the internet shopping. god only knows what’s gonna turn up in the post in the next coupla weeks!
know that feeling.. I ordered about 20 cds last new year’s eve in a bit of a frenzy, the last of them dribbled in sometime around Easter..
The Gordens were new to me. Found the Marr/The The period a bit of a let down (liked The Beaten Generation though).
Probably a fair comment about Marr era The The, at the time I was probably seeing the band through rose coloured specs as a previously unthought of collaboration between two musicians whose work I loved, whereas viewed through the cold lens of retrospection they didn’t really deliver on their promise. Still, I do really like about half of Dusk and Mind Bomb, and I haven’t liked much else Marr has done post-Smiths either besides Electronic and the odd guest spot with Kirsty Maccoll or Billy Bragg.The Gordons were an early eighties Kiwi band whose members went on to form Bailter Space, much loved on the US college circuit apparently.