Dom - Maybe I should remove the Miles Davis CD and put on an old Ramones LP
I have somewhere. ("Blitzkrieg Bop", yeah!). Or Neil Young and Crazy Horse,
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes - also on LP somewhere. The other alternative
is to drag out the Fugs CD sent to me by Candice Ward. Haven't listened to
that for over a year and, when I first got it from Candice, it was something
like 30 years since I had last heard the Fugs. Well worth a return "listen"
isn't it, Candice!?
Cheers,
Viv
----- Original Message -----
From: "domfox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:30 AM
Subject: th'power of cheap music
> Sometimes you badly need to hear again something you listened to for a
while
> a long time ago, and haven't heard for ages since.
>
> At uni, as everyone my age who went to university calls it, I listened a
lot
> to Come's "Eleven Eleven" album, which I bought on CD. I don't remember
> buying it, or why I thought I might like it - probably a review in the NME
> or something - but it was an amazing experience listening to it the first
> few times, aged eighteen or so, really raw and secretly rather terribly
> afraid of the world my educational ambitions had pitched me into. Along
with
> American Music Club's "Mercury", that album was one of the places I lived
> when I wasn't at home in my own skin.
>
> There was a solo track by Thalia Zedek, Come's singer, on the cover CD for
> the UK music mag "Uncut" the other month, and when I listened to it I
> remembered what an amazing thing her voice was. Infinite dyke-sadness is a
> powerful affect, and it made perfect sense for me to identify totally with
> it when I was a lot younger and hadn't a clue about anything.
>
> Now I have all those songs from that CD in my head every five minutes or
so,
> I pick up a guitar and I start trying to figure out one of the guitar
parts,
> I try singing like that and of course I can't and it's ridiculous, and I
> suddenly want to get hold of all the other Come CDs and listen to them
too,
> all the time.
>
> Gonna scratch you a letter
> just like you did to me
>
> was on one of them I got out of the library once;
>
> I don't remember being born -
> I'm not from where my mother's from
>
> is from "Fast Piss Blues" on Eleven Eleven. Or there's
>
> It's just a
> power failure.
> and it's a matter of time -
> why don't you hold me
> and find the switch? Why don't you
> hold me
> and feel the switch?
>
> from "Power Failure". So the lyrics could be pretty good, too. But you
have
> to hear them in the right voice. I couldn't sing that stuff, which really
> annoys me but there you go.
>
> - Dom
>
