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Tuesday 27 March 2012

The Cropdusters - Home Grown Agent Orange


The Cropdusters were from Lymington, Hampshire.. Its near Southampton for those who are wondering! 

They formed around the mid 80's and were really good live and so popular they were headlining the second stage at Reading Festival long before you had to be NME cover stars to do so, the band had a fiddle player which always seems to end up lumping them in with bands such as Levellers and the like, I guess its a fair comparison  one that stood them in good company.

Done For You
Lucked Out
Get Busy
Lady Next Door
Chicken Train
Shimmy Sideways
Luddites
Song For You
John Henry
The Test
Sheltered Life


Sunday 25 March 2012

The Death of SIX.by Seven - EP



More genius from one of the country's greatest ever songwriters.... 










Saturday 24 March 2012

Eat - Sell Me A God


Eat were bonkers, lead singer Ange Doolittle was bonkers...never a bad thing actually

Sell Me a God was released in 1989 and mixed blues, rock and funk to make a decent racket, the band didn't last much longer as drugs, drugs and well really drugs pretty much made them hate the sight of each other... 

1993's Epicure album had a different band line up with singer Ange still present, but pretty soon after that they fell apart again, ange went onto front we Know where you Live who were the Wonder Stuff minus Miles Hunt and the band formed Vent 414..... with Miles Hunt as front man ... a tangled web they do weave !!

Tombstone
Electric City
Fatman
Stories
Walking Man
Skin
Red Moon
Insect Head
Body Bag
Things I Need
Judgement Train
Gyrate
Summer In The City
Mr and Mrs Smack

Friday 23 March 2012

Laugh - Sensation Number One


Laugh formed in Manchester in 1985..... made an album, released a few singles.... had some airplay on John Peel and the Indie charts then promptly disappeared for a few years..nothing that special it seems unless you give this a  few listens and you can here the shoots of madchester and the dance explosion...  Id really never heard of Laugh until they reappeared around 1990 and Lazarus like a transformation had taken place.... 

Welcome to Interstella !  

Sensation Number One as i said is a pretty decent stab at indie dance rock and roll etc etc, its kinda like climbing a mountain but without ever getting to the summit, it never reached the highs! having said that its not the worst hour of your life you'd ever spend so its not all bad, i like it but once they had recruited Stella Grundy to sing they became loads better


Sunday 18 March 2012

Beam Engines - Maverick Hour EP

The return of David Auton.... get in there! in and around the Portsmouth music scene for over 20 years, The Spinner Dolphins, Screeper (who were fantastic by the way) Reinhardt and then The Autons, David is back....

No work , no prizes!!



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The Chesterfields - Westward Ho!


The Chesterf!elds as we shall correctly call them were mainstays of the mid 80's jangle pop scene, i first came to notice them as they were often incuded on early compilations of the Indie top 20 series, a pretty cool series of compilations actually

But onto this, and The Chesterfields, they cam from rock and roll central...er Yeovil actually, that didn't stop them releasing 3 albums and an early collection of singles, Westward Ho! was the first album released in 1987

Sweet Revenge
Whats Your Perversion
Love Mountain
Best Of Friends
Untitled
Completely and Utterly
Girl On A Boat
Ask Johnny Dee
Pop Anarchy

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Done Lying Down - John Austin Rutlegde


New Wave Of New Wave... Or new wave of lets invent another pigeon hole to enable the NME to sell papers !
Done Lying Down were everything you needed for a decent night out mind, An american singer with a kind of laconic drawl and a rhythm section that was straight outta punk made for a cool noise indeed, they got them selves onto one of those best of indie compilations with a a tune called "chronic offender" which was ace but you'll have to go looking for that as it's not on this album... nearly everything they ever recorded before 1995 is though ! 

Choose
(Or Something)
If I Had Only Listened
Too Fast
(I Thought)
Pasadina
Just A Misdemeanor
Christmas Shoplifting
Penny Head
Student Ill
Music Habit
Before She Changed
Fun
Dissent
Heroes Let Themselves Be Killed
That Makes One Of Us
Trenchmouth
Purple Seeds

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Dissent
Nobody Loves Me
Fun
Septic
Quit Smacking The Baby
Preservatives
Bolus
Throughout
Punkture
Mom
Cheat On Me
Kenny's Toolshed
Fictional Woman
Do What You Sell
Factory

Monday 12 March 2012

Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself


No the blog hasn't turned into a public service announcement !! although im sure dogs actually do die in hot cars they probably die in lots of other places too but no one makes a fuss about that do they....

This is tight, up tempo and a just a little bit quirky... not a bad thing on a sunny day i can tell you, i dont think it was ever going to change the world but if you like indie pop with a little bit of a twist then give this a go !

Godhopping
Lounger
I love You Cause I Have To
Celebrity Sanctum
Somewhat Off The Way
Apples And Oranges
Modern Woman
Paul Newman's Eyes
Pastimes And Lifestyles
Glimse At The Good Life

Friday 9 March 2012

Menswear - Nuisance


Time and probably history hasn't been kind to Menswear, They took the brunt of the britpop backlash and fairly or unfairly the band were doomed pretty much from the moment they burst from the Good Mixer and onto the front cover of Melody Maker

This has got a few good singles on it but in an attempt to stretch it out the songs into an album it fails to hit the high marks of say I'll Manage Somehow, The gigs they played at the time were however fantastic... shambolic might sum them up too, the band rattled through there set in about 25 minutes and fucked off.... at least they played every song they knew and not many bands can claim to have done that !!

125 West Third Street
Ill Manage Somehow
Sleeping In
Little Miss Pinpoint Eyes
Daydreamer
Hollywood Girl
Being Brave
Around You Again
The One
Stardust
Piece Of Me
Ghosttrack

Saturday 3 March 2012

Hundred Reasons - Quick The Word, Sharp The Action


You spend the best part of two years writing, demoing and recording a new record.... then bang... it finally hits the shops... or the internet of course and you sit back relax and watch the record slip into the nations collective heart.... unless you are Hundred Reasons of course and the record label you released said album on gets bought 2 weeks after release date..... 

So no record in the shops, no record on the internet and no way for the fans to buy it at all in fact! and the best part.. the band don't own it and cant actually do anything about it... brilliant !!

That changed a few years later when the band finally managed to get it out there, and i'm glad they did, as you should be... Hundred Reasons burst onto the British rock scene, sold tons of there first album then spent the intervening years trying to live up to the hype, its a shame they seem to be on permanent hiatus now.

Quick The Word, Sharp The Action rocks like the proverbial mutts nuts, not as immediate or as catchy as some of there work it still  has an uncanny knack of lodging a chorus or a key change into your head,  much to like here! 

Break The Glass
No Way Back
Sick Little Masquerade
Boy
Slipping Away
Pernavas Iela
The Shredder
Il Never Know
She Is Poison
Opera
Lost For Words
Out Of Time