Nail Soup

I don’t understand the problem with so called zombie threads - anyone care to explain?

Many of you may know of the Shaggs - a band from the 60's with a famously very poor grip on rhythm and harmony. Very hard to reproduce something like that -you'd think, but people have tried. Here is there best known song (My Pal Foot Foot)... and two groups who tried to recreate the sound.. One in concert , one in rehearsal.

Somebody scored and played a live cover of Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music... all one hour of it, including the locked groove at the end (well for a while anyway!)

Took a listen to this. Can't believe she has four musicians, and one of them isn't a drummer to replace that awful drum machine. Her vocal is OK, but I'd like to hear her with different accompaniment.

Ouch..... could be an idea for a thread though - best music to listen to while, ahem, 'spaced out'.

La Luz - Floating Features album from 2018. Here's the single "Cicada":

Bruce Foxton cancelled some gigs a couple of years ago due to injury sustained doing one of these trademark jumps in his later years: (good on him IMO...... don't grow old too gracefully!)

Saw this in the TV schedule this week - one of those gross-out medical shows on channel 5

Although as today stands he may not get away with this celebration of hetero-normality:

I saw them support the Raincoats as an acoustic version a couple of years ago. Electric bass, acoustic guitar, drums sripped back to two drums (I think that only entails removing one or two bits of kit!). All sitting down. Short but fantastic set. The singer of BJ said she got talking to the drummer in the first place because she was wearing a Raincoats badge. And that's how BJ got formed.

I reckon this is pretty post punk, from 1978. The Prefects.

Keep coming back to Amyl and The Sniffers. This is the slowest but maybe most powerful track on the album:

Same here. If only there was some system that just told us what fret/string to press down.

Billy Childish?

Back to music, some might remember a band John Peel used to play regularly called “You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breathe”. On one occasion Peel claimed to occasionally wake up at night and think “why do they have to have to be called that”

Can I add Beak (Portishead offshoot) for Bristol…. Oops I mean Brizzle😃.

Reminds of an observation by (black) comedian Reginald D Hunter: Black people cannot reclaim the N-word…. we didn’t invent it in the first place.

I know… The Pop Group are a post-punk group. Maybe I didn’t word it well.

Tricky, the Pop Group are Bristol I think.

Can't remember which one, but one of Chemical Brothers best known songs is based on an old song by 23 Skidoo. I thought the CB track was great and went back to check the 23S original figuring that it would be even better. Not so, much prefer the CB song, they made much more of a good bassline than 23 Skidoo did. I think of CB as musicians who work with samples creatively. But even that is going back a few years!

Although this guy/band may have a better claim:

I thought Steve Albini was a right pillock for calling one of his bands Rapeman (after a Japanese 'superhero' comic apparently) I wouldn't buy or otherwise endorse a band with that name.

Wet Leg are brilliant, really looking forward to the album. good that IOW are still working on compensating for Level 42 😉

Luton: Paul Young (he of Pino Palladino fame 😉) UK Decay - Punk band, sometimes credited with initiating goth.

Another thing with players such as Harris. What we think of as the Harris style, he may think of as just the Maiden style.. and play differently in a different context. These players may actively want to get away from their ‘day job’ style.