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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 3, 2024 15:20:20 GMT
This is absolutely fucking incredible!
What's their story?
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Post by adamcoan on Jan 3, 2024 15:55:05 GMT
Occasionally wowed you, mostly meh. They do have a lot of folks who love them.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 3, 2024 16:19:45 GMT
Yeah, that's really good. I find them very hit-or-miss, and more often than not I fail to grasp their appeal. I've got one of their albums (not Fire of Love, but I forget its title), and am considering going through my records this year and digging out the most neglected ones for reappraisal, so I'm sure I'll be giving it a spin at some point.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 3, 2024 16:25:06 GMT
The video in the OP is "unavailable." What was/is it?
Despite some deliberately discomforting racial epithets and references to sexual violence, their first album Fire Of Love is a thrilling slab of blues-punk. Follow-ups Miami and The Las Vegas Story are also strong, if not quite as strong.
Beyond that it's slim pickin's, although I've thought from time to time that I should revisit Mother Juno (produced by a Cocteau Twin!) - I thought it was intriguing upon release, but haven't heard it since.
The double CD Early Warning has some thrilling live and radio studio recordings from the Fire Of Love/Miami lineup. Other live albums I've heard are best avoided.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 3, 2024 16:27:54 GMT
Beyond that it's slim pickin's, although I've thought from time to time that I should revisit Mother Juno (produced by a Cocteau Twin!) - I thought it was intriguing upon release, but haven't heard it since.
That's the one I have. Thank you, Charlie.
The video is for 'Jack on Fire'.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jan 3, 2024 17:06:23 GMT
The video in the OP is "unavailable." What was/is it? Despite some deliberately discomforting racial epithets and references to sexual violence, their first album Fire Of Love is a thrilling slab of blues-punk. Follow-ups Miami and The Las Vegas Story are also strong, if not quite as strong. Beyond that it's slim pickin's, although I've thought from time to time that I should revisit Mother Juno (produced by a Cocteau Twin!) - I thought it was intriguing upon release, but haven't heard it since. The double CD Early Warning has some thrilling live and radio studio recordings from the Fire Of Love/Miami lineup. Other live albums I've heard are best avoided. Ditto. Some of JLP's post Gun Club stuff is good too. I like Wildweed.
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Post by loveless on Jan 3, 2024 18:03:21 GMT
Fire of Love made such an impression on me when I discovered it. Such a unique musical character and sound.
I've had a lot of acts who wowed me with some especially striking or definitive work and I mostly struggled unsuccessfully to make a connection with the rest of their catalog. Assuredly, my failing. This album may be the uber example of that.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 3, 2024 18:23:16 GMT
I've had a lot of acts who wowed me with some especially striking or definitive work and I mostly struggled unsuccessfully to make a connection with the rest of their catalog. Assuredly, my failing. Not so assuredly. As with so many bands, the inspiration did falter a bit after the debut.
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Post by rayge on Jan 3, 2024 18:52:04 GMT
The video in the OP is "unavailable." What was/is it? Jack on Fire
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jan 4, 2024 0:39:45 GMT
Heard their debut at the time, I didn't think it was anything special. Like JAMC, it felt like they were posing as something more dangerously rock n' roll than they actually were.
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Post by fange on Jan 4, 2024 1:47:32 GMT
I love the first 2 LPs very much. They had such a great sound.
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Post by DayoRemix on Jan 4, 2024 8:18:15 GMT
The Psychobilly/Punk Blues worked amazingly on the first two albums. The sound changes when Kid Congo Powers joins up on the third and fourth albums (The Las Vegas Story and Mother Juno). Less chaos, more swampy pacing. After that, it's diminished returns, with none of the albums reaching the same heights. Every album has great songs dotting them, though and are worth checking out.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 4, 2024 11:31:52 GMT
Here's Kid CP covering the song recently. Lovely fella, not much of a voice.
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Post by riggers on Jan 6, 2024 12:04:33 GMT
This was a bit of an eye opener, one Friday evening in 1984. I'd heard of them, but not heard them at that point-
I loved Kid Congo's fuzzed up slide and Jeff's ridiculous vibrato. I ended up borrowing the first three albums from the library soon after and felt that 'The Las Vegas Story' was the weakest and 'Miami' the strongest.
The highlight of which was this-
As others have mentioned, it's unfortunate that there are racial slurs on the first two. Use of the 'N-word' if I'm not mistaken on the debut (which still has remarkable songs like 'Sex Beat' and 'She's Like Heroin To Me' on it.) Then you've got 'Watermelon Man' on 'Miami', which is a shame, as musically it's great.
I was fully on board when they came back in '87 with 'Mother Juno'. I remember Peel playing 'Yellow Eyes' and 'The Breaking Hands' a lot. I got the album for Xmas that year, and this is still a big favourite. Jeff's warbling is off the scale, which adds to the sense of drama-
I saw them in '89 at Manchester Polytechnic and they were really disappointing. A couple of mates had seen them at the Hacienda on '84 and had said it was one of the best things they'd ever seen, but by '89 they were either having a bad night or had just lost it.
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