tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105016782024-03-12T16:40:28.678-07:00Spoilt Victorian ChildAn MP3 blog of quality and distinction... or something!Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-60575332063093042662015-12-04T04:40:00.000-08:002015-12-04T04:40:24.747-08:009 to 3 to 3 to 1...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/The_Stranglers__Genetix.mp3" target="_blank">The Stranglers - Genetix</a>
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/The_Stranglers__Bear_Cage.mp3" target="_blank">The Stranglers - Bear Cage (12" Version)</a>
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/The_Stranglers__Shah_Shah_a_Go_Go.mp3" target="_blank">The Stranglers - Shah Shah a Go Go (12" Version)</a>
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At the time this was released, I bought it, but it kinda passed me by. By this stage (1979) No More Heroes and the Black & White albums had left me a little bit cold, and didn't excite me at all. I guess I was looking a bit more towards the post-punk side of things at the time, Adam and The Ants, Siouxsie, PiL and so on. So this was the last Stranglers album I bought upon it's release, for a few years anyway.<br />
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But as the years passed I found myself being drawn back to this album time and time again, until it not only became my favourite Stranglers album, but one of my favourite ever albums.<br />
It's one of those, that no matter what mood I'm in, if I put it on I get lost in it and generally have to listen to it a couple of times before moving on to something else.<br />
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The Stranglers had always played with strange time signatures, but by The Raven they'd perfected it, and not to mention the strange angular guitar playing of Hugh Cornwell, on this album he'd surpassed himself. And obviously in J J Burnel on the bloody bass, they had an absolute legend, and one of the main reasons I started playing bass, although I ended up sounding like another bass legend (or at least trying to), Peter Hook. Then there's the rock solid drumming of Jet Black and the menacing figure behind the keyboards, Dave Greenfield.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1GzmD1VlsBwGCGjQPB-C_Qt7yZOnu318yJx5j2CaUrsIbYjGeRshmqpHz1MkJyesykkeTfeboABSbj12jfJZ2QEJa6KFoIX5SViIKAjslJMMENGQPF1sWTOWExoa4N1_XNxHzpA/s1600/The_Stranglers__Bear_Cage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1GzmD1VlsBwGCGjQPB-C_Qt7yZOnu318yJx5j2CaUrsIbYjGeRshmqpHz1MkJyesykkeTfeboABSbj12jfJZ2QEJa6KFoIX5SViIKAjslJMMENGQPF1sWTOWExoa4N1_XNxHzpA/s320/The_Stranglers__Bear_Cage.jpg" width="320" /></a>There's not many people that can get away with a bass solo, and generally I scorn upon them, but Burnel's playing on this album is sublime, especially on Genetix... from the 2:45 mark where he starts his solo... well. Wonderful. And after that the rhythm changes, vocoded chorused voices come in and another solo ensues... wonderful again.<br />
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So, The Raven has ended up one of my favourite albums, which leads me nicely onto one of my favourite 12" singles, which just happens to also be by The Stranglers, and was released a few months after The Raven.<br />
It was a double A side affair featuring an extended version of Bear Cage, which didn't appear on the album, and an extended version of Shah Shah a Go Go, a shorter version of which did appear on The Raven.<br />
Perfection.<br />
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Buy - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00005MAGD/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00005MAGD&linkCode=as2&tag=spoiltvictori-21" rel="nofollow">The Stranglers - The Raven</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=spoiltvictori-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00005MAGD" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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Buy - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BP9Y3Q2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00BP9Y3Q2&linkCode=as2&tag=spoiltvictori-21">The Stranglers - The Old Testament (UA Studio Recs 77-82)(5 Discs)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=spoiltvictori-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00BP9Y3Q2" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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Visit - <a href="http://www.thestranglers.net/" target="_blank">The Stranglers</a><br />
Follow - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thestranglers" target="_blank">The Stranglers</a> on Facebook<br />
Follow - <a href="https://twitter.com/StranglersSite" target="_blank">The Stranglers</a> on Twitter<br />
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Simon<br />
xSpoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-42426946769851686012015-09-03T08:27:00.002-07:002015-09-03T08:40:42.989-07:00Northern Stories...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/Manicured_Noise__Metronome.mp3" target="_blank">Manicured Noise - Metronome</a>
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I'll start with a little back story about how I came to love this band...<br />
Sometime in the early 80's I stumbled across an interesting looking 7" single in a local(ish) record shop in Stockport, the very sadly missed BG Records. It was by a band I don't think I'd ever heard about, but it looked interesting in it's all black sleeve, plus I liked the name, Manicured Noise, and it also came with a postcard.<br />
So I spent my not very hard earned pocket money on it and got the bus home in eager anticipation of hearing what the hell it sounded like. (Do you remember those days you used to buy records without having heard them?)<br />
Anyway, it was Metronome by Manicured Noise, and it was wonderful.<br />
Unfortunately I didn't know anything else about the band and tried for a while to find out more, but never really found anything out.<br />
Skip forward about a quarter of a century and the dawn of the internet...<br />
It turns out that the band were actually from Stockport, bearing in mind I was 12 or 13 when I bought it and wasn't well up with local scenes or bands, bar the ones I was reading about in Sounds, NME and so on. So this came as quite a shock, but a very pleasant one, but also quite sad that for all those years I'd never known anything about this cracking band that came from a few miles down the road.<br />
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It turns out that they shared a rehearsal space with some band called Joy Division, and featured Steve Walsh on guitar and vocals. Steve was in the seminal 'Flowers of Romance', but to be fair, it'd be harder to name people who weren't in the 'Flowers of Romance'.<br />
Anyway I digress... Here's the rest of the line-up at various times over the two years they were together:<br />
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Steve Walsh - Vox, Guitar<br />
Jodie Taylor - Bass<br />
Stephanie Nuttall - Drums<br />
Peter Bannister - Clarinet, Saxophone<br />
Jeff Noon - Guitar<br />
Owen Gavin - Vox<br />
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A couple of notes, yes it's 'that' Jeff Noon, the renowned sci-fi writer, and Stephanie Nuttall ended up living in Argentina and in the band Sumo, who were by all accounts huge in Argentina.<br />
How I didn't know about any of this at the time escapes me.<br />
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I later found out that Caroline True Records were releasing a CD compilation (2006) of the two singles that were released along with a David 'Kid' Jensen session for the BBC, a couple of live tracks and some unreleased tracks from a couple of studio sessions.... I bought it, I loved it.<br />
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Shoot forward to yesterday morning when the postie turned up with my latest Manicured Noise purchase, a stripped down version of the 2006 CD release, but with brand new artwork by Andrea Floris.<br />
Plus, this is the first time most of these tracks have ever been available on vinyl, so for me, buying it was an absolute no-brainer.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0z7MWSFEKftBF73N04suJTFeMK9_NhNCaxfqlDGIMD4KXW2_K49H6eJsEHIpBsDDkXrACOsHKqPkqT8iKS5mwuyUuH-W_itjZKSTUSFBhEz4r02MWbVq9NUKFCHv0W1dj8POO5g/s1600/CTRUE11_SNIP_PROMO.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0z7MWSFEKftBF73N04suJTFeMK9_NhNCaxfqlDGIMD4KXW2_K49H6eJsEHIpBsDDkXrACOsHKqPkqT8iKS5mwuyUuH-W_itjZKSTUSFBhEz4r02MWbVq9NUKFCHv0W1dj8POO5g/s200/CTRUE11_SNIP_PROMO.JPG" width="198" /></a>The album kicks of with the track that started it all off for me all those years ago, Metronome.<br />
To this day it still sounds edgy, sharp, angular... you know, all the words that are generally used to describe post punk. Sometimes there's reasons why the same words are used all the time, it's because they're spot on.<br />
The vocals are upfront in the mix and sound great with that tight reverb on them, the sax is perfect and adds a vaguely latin feel to the track, the guitar is rhythmic and punchy, but for me it's the bass and drums are killer.<br />
All in all it's a post-punk-funk classic, and I'm so happy that I now have it on non crackly vinyl again... at least for now, as I'm sure it'll get played to death.<br />
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Basically, if you like your post-punk in a funky style similar to Talking Heads, Rip Rig and Panic, Gang of Four, The Pop Group and so on, you're going to love this, I'm sure of it.<br />
But you're going to have to move quickly as this is a very limited release of only 300 copies, and will not be re-pressed. Oh, and it also comes with instructions for an MP3 copy of the album. Bargain, so get on it.<br />
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Why weren't this band huge???<br />
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Buy - <a href="http://www.carolinetruerecords.com/products/manicured-noise-northern-stories-1978-80-vinyl-edition" target="_blank">Manicured Noise - Northern Stories 1978-80</a> Limited to 300 copies only.<br />
Buy - <a href="http://www.carolinetruerecords.com/products/manicured-noise-northern-stories-1978-80-ctrue3" target="_blank">Manicured Noise - Northern Stories 1978-80</a> On CD.<br />
Visit - <a href="http://www.carolinetruerecords.com/" target="_blank">Caroline True Records</a><br />
Follow - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroline-True-Records-CTR/141740519216779?" target="_blank">Caroline True Records</a> on Facebook<br />
Follow - <a href="https://twitter.com/CarolineTrueRec" target="_blank">Caroline True Records</a> on Twitter<br />
Buy - <a href="https://society6.com/flirst" target="_blank">Prints by Andrea Floris</a><br />
Visit - <a href="https://www.behance.net/flirst" target="_blank">Andrea Floris</a><br />
Follow - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/flirstcollage" target="_blank">Andrea Floris</a> on Facebook<br />
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Simon<br />
xSpoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-7752756221975638632015-08-11T04:13:00.003-07:002015-08-11T04:37:18.885-07:00Driving Rock...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/LSO__Paint_it_Black.mp3" target="_blank">The London Symphony Orchestra - Paint it Black</a>
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The other day I was re-arranging some vinyl, nothing as organised as finally putting it back in alphabetical order, just moving it from one place to another.<br />
Anyway, I spotted a long forgotten album, the original London Symphony Orchestra soundtrack to Star Wars (complete with the insert and poster) that my Dad bought me back in 1977.
As is usual with rooting through vinyl it brought back loads of memories of that time, and one that I hadn't thought of in probably 30 years was another London Symphony Orchestra release, the first Classic Rock compilation...<br />
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Now, I was nine years old and had discovered punk rock, so my vinyl collection was a bit erratic to say the least. ABBA, Sex Pistols, The Wombles, Buzzcocks, various Disney soundtracks, my Dad's Status Quo records I'd, erm, aquired, Blondie etc.<br />
My Dad bought me the majority, but insisted that any punk records I wanted had to come from my pocket money, and being the 70's in the North West of England, it took quite a long time to save up for anything. Anyway, moving a little off topic here...<br />
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So that was my listening habits at home, in the car it was a different matter as it was purely lead by what tapes my Dad had bought, along with a few compilations he'd made. So it was a combination of Jazz, the Mighty Quo, The Jungle Book soundtrack, The Shadows, a bit of James Last, Sky, and what turned out to be a favourite of ours, Classic Rock (the first one released in 1977).<br />
This was the soundtrack to a thousand car journeys on the road to Main Road to watch our beloved City play, or to away games that weren't too far to drive, on weekly visits to see family, or shopping trips to New Mills and so on.<br />
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The album had some real belters on it, Bohemian Rhapsody (cue me and my Dad doing the Wayne's World scene, decades before Wayne and his mates), Life on Mars, Whole Lotta Love, Nights in White Satin, Without You and so on. But my all time favourite from the album at the time (and to this day listening back for the first time in thirty years) was this, a truly wonderful, dark, brooding, slightly sinister, subtle then explosive version of Paint it Black.<br />
It features instruments and sounds I'd never heard at the time, discordant, low rumbling, scratches, massive lush Henryk Gorecki(esque) swathes of strings, huge choral and brass sections... it still blows my socks off. <br>
Play very loud.
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Buy - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008YGTDZA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B008YGTDZA&linkCode=as2&tag=spoiltvictori-21">The London Symphony Orchestra - Classic Rock [3 CD Compilation]</a><img src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=spoiltvictori-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B008YGTDZA" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br>
Visit - <a href="http://lso.co.uk/" target="_blank">The London Symphony Orchestra</a><br />
Visit - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Rock_(album)" target="_blank">The London Symphony Orchestra - Classic Rock</a> (on Wiki)<br />
Follow - <a href="https://twitter.com/londonsymphony" target="_blank">The London Symphony Orchestra - on Twitter</a><br />
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Simon<br />
xSpoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-20263646834420984672015-08-03T04:37:00.000-07:002015-08-03T04:53:20.939-07:00Videa Gam...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/Videa_Gam__Get_to_Know_Me.mp3" target="_blank">Videa Gam - Get to Know Me</a>
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Once in a while I do a bit of mastering for artists, mostly just to help friends or acquaintances out as it's something I love doing. Anyway in January I was sent a couple of tracks to master by a chap who runs <b>LXXII</b>, a wonderful new record label. (already a favourite label by <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/17150-lxxii-label-launches-videa-gam-deflection-pulley-wiicca" target="_blank">The Quietus</a>, <a href="http://louderthanwar.com/lxxii-best-new-label-of-2015/" target="_blank">Louder Than War</a> and <a href="http://www.dandelionradio.com/" target="_blank">Dandelion Radio</a>)<br />
The tracks in question were for the debut release by the label, and was from <b>Videa Gam </b>(David Shane Smith from the USofA)... and I was blown away by the beautiful sounds I was hearing.<br />
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'Get to Know Me' is one of those mysterious tracks you swear you've heard before, but obviously haven't, but you can't really put your finger on what's making you feel that way, it just sounds like an old friend.<br />
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The single sadly didn't set the world on fire in the blogging or review world, but it did get a very good review on the aforementioned Louder Than War, "<i>Videa Gam generates sound collages that offer far more than the collisions of interesting but ultimately doomed noises the term often denotes: the collage in his hands is home to an intoxicating and woozy framework of melody.</i>"<br />
And I couldn't agree more.<br />
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A month or two back I received two very long tracks that were going to become the follow up release, I can't post them here as it's still unsure if they will be getting released or not, which is a massive shame as they are both, quite frankly, the best examples of electronic music I've heard in years. They're just staggering. And I'm not over exaggerating.<br />
Hopefully they will see the light of day at some stage, either on LXXII or another label. They really do deserve to be heard by as many people as possible.<br />
If not I may be forced to do a follow up post.<br />
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But in the meantime, listen to Get to Know Me, then head on over to iTunes or your favourite digital vendor and buy it... and while you're there check out the other releases on LXXII. You won't be disappointed.<br />
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Buy - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-to-know-me-single/id958719910" target="_blank">Videa Gam - Get to Know Me (iTunes)</a><br />
Visit - <a href="https://soundcloud.com/videagam" target="_blank">Videa Gam on Soundcloud</a><br />
Visit - <a href="http://lxxii.co/post/123992984967/videa-gam-get-to-know-me-lxxii02" target="_blank">Videa Gam at LXXII (with an interview)</a><br />
Visit - <a href="http://lxxii.co/" target="_blank">LXXII</a><br />
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Simon<br />
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Cardiacs - Is This the Life
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Cardiacs - Dirty Boy
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Cardiacs - There's Good Cud
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I resuscitated this long dead blog for a number of reasons, and one of them was to post about bands that have been important to me in my life, but for one reason or another I never got around to writing about.<br />
Cardiacs are one of those bands.<br />
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I, like the majority of people who weren't lucky enough to be aware of them earlier, first knowingly heard my first Cardiacs song in 1988 when their track '<b>Is This the Life</b>' was released on 7" and the video was being shown quite a lot on the usual shows. It sounded wonderful, so I purchased it from my favourite record shop, running home in eagerness to play it, which I duly did, at full volume, several times in a row.<br />
This must be my new favourite band I thought, until I flipped it over and played the b-side, 'I'm Eating In Bed'.... what the fuck is this??? demented circus prog??? Nope, this isn't for me at all.<br />
I really didn't like it, so I flipped it over again to revel in the majesty of 'Is This the Life' again, and again, and again.<br />
Several days later I was intrigued by the b-side, was it really as weird and unlikable as I remembered? I found myself remembering the changes and mad melodies, and feeling a bit of a rush as it all of a sudden fell into place, I played it again, and again. Thus I discovered one of my favourite bands.<br />
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Monstrous albums, killer singles, wonderful side projects and live they were untouchable.<br />
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In 1995, Cardiacs released what to many fans (Pondies) is considered to be their crowning glory, 'Sing to God'.<br />
There aren't really the words to describe how utterly wonderful this album is. It's a double album full of some of the most beautiful, if yet demented, music you could ever wish to hear.<br />
Out of an album with so many killer tracks, it's hard to focus on just the one, but for me '<b>Dirty Boy</b>' is the one I tend to play <b>at</b> people given half a chance.<br />
It's nearly nine minutes of complete perfection, culminating in what I consider to be probably the finest two and a half minutes that have ever been committed to vinyl... It's simply breathtaking.<br />
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Their last release (to date) was 1999's album, '<b>Guns</b>'. It's a beauty of an album, filled with more of the same wonderful mix of rock, prog, demented circus music and majesty that us Pondies came to expect, no, we demanded from each and every release.<br />
I listen to this album slightly differently to the previous albums as it's a pointer to what could have been... I say could have been, but what I really mean is I hope for.....<br />
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This is the bit I really wasn't looking forward to writing, so I'm not going to dwell on it too much.....<br />
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In June 2008 after seeing My Bloody Valentine, on his way home <b>Tim Smith</b> collapsed from a heart attack followed by a major stroke.<br />
There wasn't much news for about a year until on the <b>Alphabet Business Concern</b> (puppet masters and shady controlists, all hail the Consultant) website they posted this...<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">"Tim Smith's mind had returned to full functionality and that "no part of </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">your</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> favourite pop star’s intellect or personality has been found to be absent </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">whatsoever</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">."</span></i><br />
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For a lot more information on Tim's condition, the very best place to go is the Alphabet Business Concern website and have a read of the <a href="http://www.cardiacs.net/news/news-archive/" target="_blank">News Archives</a>.<br />
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The following video was shot during rehearsals for the 2007 secret Bull & Gate shows, the results of which were released as "<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>The Special Garage Concerts: Volumes I and II". </b></span><br />
<b>Warning:</b> It features Jim Smith (Tim's brother) in his under crackers.<br />
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Several more tracks were filmed, and it's my hope that one day they'll be available on DVD...<br />
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So, it's 2015 and things have been incredibly busy over at the Alphabet Business Concern website for the last year or so, there is a whole host of new merchandise to buy, and they've been very busy in making the albums available again, either on CD or top quality 180g vinyl.<br />
So far they've re-released 'Sing to God' and 'Guns' on vinyl, with more to follow I'm sure.<br />
Keep an eye open on their website or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Consultants-Memorabilia-Collection/544132462359462?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> for news and info, it's happening all the time.<br />
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<b>Buy - <a href="http://abc-mary.myshopify.com/" target="_blank">Everything... Your loyalty demands</a></b><br />
<b>Visit - <a href="http://www.cardiacs.net/" target="_blank">Cardiacs (Alphabet Business Concern)</a></b><br />
<b>Further Reading - <a href="http://louderthanwar.com/the-cardiacs-an-epic-overview-by-mr-spencer-with-help-from-damon-albarn-graeme-coxon-and-captain-sensible/" target="_blank">Cardiacs, an Epic Overview by Mr. Spencer </a></b><br />
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Simon<br />
xSpoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-23989744026537501492015-07-23T11:33:00.000-07:002015-07-23T12:29:20.664-07:00I Went to the Shops...Um, I popped down the shops seven and a half years ago for a Curly Wurly, and promptly got lost.<br />
Just doing a bit of cleaning around SVC Towers at the moment, but will be back shortly.<br />
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In the meantime, here's a track for you.<br />
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<a href="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/music/The_Fall__Spoilt_Victorian_Child_Peel.mp3" target="_blank"><b>The Fall - Spoilt Victorian Child [John Peel Session Version - 03-06-1985]</b></a><br />
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It had to be really, eh?<br><br>
Buy - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0001WPSI6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0001WPSI6&linkCode=as2&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkId=PQGSXVIE3CFXS5HV" target ="_blank">The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats</a><img src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=spoiltvictori-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B0001WPSI6" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br>
Visit - <a href="http://thefall.org" target="_blank">The Fall</a>
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Simon<br />
xSpoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-73804751246167052092008-02-01T15:47:00.000-08:002015-07-23T01:31:37.827-07:00So It Goes...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mary Lou Williams - Praise The Lord <br />The Associates - Party Fears Two (Extended Version) <br />Greg Weeks - Made <br />Espers - Voices <br />Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch (12" Version) <br />Adam and the Ants - Ant Rap<br />The Neckbones - Crack Whore Blues<br />R.L. Burnside (& Mr. J.Spencer) - Snake Drive<br />Matt Sharp And Damon Albarn - We Have A Technical<br />Girls On Top (Richard X) - We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends<br />Gary Numan - M.E.<br />Empire State Human - Galang-A-Porn <br />Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band - All Night Flight,<br />Live 1968 S.U.N.Y. Buffalo NY 10pm-6am v.1<br />Purple Modal Strobe Ecstacy with the Daughters of Destruction<br />Elliott Smith - Hooray For Tuesday (Live, Brooklyn, June 6th 2003)<br />The Minders - Right As Rain<br />The Minders - Big Machine<br />Dion - Born To Be With You<br />The Wedding Present - Brassneck<br />The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress<br />The Wedding Present - Interstate 5<br />Amon Duul II - Eye Shaking King<br />The The - I Can't Get You Off My Mind<br />The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians<br />Buddy Holly - Well... All Right<br />Bronze Age Fox - Dinosaur<br />John Cale - The Endless Plain Of Fortune<br />Hank - God Slick<br />Hank - The Stomp Of Sloth<br />Compute - Dance With Me<br />The Capricorns - The New Sound<br />Olive - You're Not Alone<br />World Domination Enterprises - Can't Live Without My Radio<br />World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos<br />World Domination Enterprises - Message For You People<br />Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky<br />Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture<br />Hood - Houses Tilting Towards The Sea<br />Two Gallants - The Train That Stole My Man<br />The Kinks - Autumn Almanac<br />Cud - You Sexy Thing (Peel Session)<br />Cud - Lola<br />Cud - Bohemian Rhapsody<br />Cud - Now!<br />Cud - Hey Boots<br />Cud - Only (A Prawn In Whitby)<br />Sukilove - Start A Life<br />Sukilove - Secrets<br />Dillinja - Acid Trak<br />Young People - The Lord<br />Young People - Ask The Dust<br />Young People - Night Of The Hunter<br />Big Star - Take Care<br />Autechre - Drane<br />Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling<br />The Black Dog - Psycosyin<br />Plaid - Scoobs<br />Mira Calix - Only<br />Autechre - Gelk<br />Squarepusher - A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)<br />Shellac - Radio Song<br />King Tubby & Augustus Pablo - King Tubby's Borderline Dub<br />The Aggrovators - A Rougher Version<br />Horace Andy & The Aggrovators - A Better Version<br />Rufus Wainwright - California<br />Rufus Wainwright - Matinee Idol<br />Pretty Flowers - Sheisse Movie<br />Pretty Flowers - Slut<br />The Magic Numbers - Hymn For Her<br />The John Coltrane Quartet - Sun Ship<br />Brendan Benson - Feel Like Myself Again<br />Brendan Benson - Spit It Out<br />Stina Nordenstam - Proposal<br />Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park<br />Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango<br />Barnes And Barnes - Fish Heads<br />Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care<br />Visage - Fade To Grey<br />Maxi Geil & Playcolt - A Message To My Audience<br />Maxi Geil & Playcolt - Strange Sensation<br />Genesis - The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging<br />Ways of Stephen - Captain Quayle<br />Ways of Stephen - Bartlett Green<br />Ways of Stephen - Saloon Car No.9<br />Magnetic Fields - If I Were A Rich Man<br />Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups<br />The Congos - Congoman<br />The Congos - Fisherman<br />Boy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart<br />Low - Transmission<br />Bis - Love Will Tear Us Apart<br />The United States Of America - Coming Down<br />Vashti Bunyan - Swallow Song<br />The Gucci Soundsystem - Gucci Mix 01.03.05<br />Primal Scream - shine like stars (empire state human mix)<br />Primal Scream - slip inside this house (soundhog mix featuring ex-rental)<br />The Carpenters - Goodbye To Love<br />Platinum Pop - This Year's Blonde<br />Edan - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme<br />Edan - Smile<br />James Mercer - Harvest (Live)<br />Lee Hazlewood - We All Make The Flowers Grow<br />The Monkees - Porpoise Song (Single Version)<br />Billy Harvey - Stupid Daniel<br />Billy Harvey - Dope Wings<br />Happy Mondays - Little Matchstick Owen's Rap<br />Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Forget To Breathe<br />Charle Parker & Miles Davis - A Night In Tunisia<br />New Order - Temptation (New York 18.10.81)<br />New Order - Isolation (Reading Fest 30.08.98)<br />New Order - Murder<br />Johnny Trunk V Kipper - Scooby Don't<br />The Dirtbombs - Ha ha ha<br />The Yachts - Yachting Type<br />George Jones - Good Year For The Roses<br />Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Wide Awake (Only Dreaming) Version 2.<br />Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Chance<br />Singapore Sling - Summer Garden<br />Earlimart - Susan's Husband's Gunshop<br />The Golden Cups - Hey Joe<br />Puffy AmiYumi - Can-Nana Fever<br />Lightning Bolt - Planet Of The Wolves<br />Guitar Wolf - Summertime Blues<br />Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation<br />Tim Buckley - Morning Glory<br />Red Rat - Shelley Ann<br />Jacques Dutronc - On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien<br />Jacques Dutronc - Et moi, et moi, et moi<br />The Carter Family - John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man<br />Outrageous Cherry - Song From The Bottom Of A Well<br />Outrageous Cherry - Boy Child<br />Bullette - Little Bird<br />Bullette - Your Eyes Have It<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Ambition<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Stool Pigeon (Peel Session 04.12.78)<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Stop That Girl<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Common Thief<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Watching The Devil (Peel Session 04.12.78)<br />Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Don't Split It<br />Echo And The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love<br />The Gothic Archies - In A Cave<br />The Gothic Archies - City Of The Damned<br />The Gothic Archies - The Dead Only Quickly Decay<br />Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Jule Lost His Jewels<br />Earl Brutus - Male Milk<br />Earl Brutus - Your Majesty... We Are Here<br />Earl Brutus - The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It (Empire State Human Mix)<br />The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental Version)<br />Dunproofin' - Dance To The Velvet Underground<br />O.V. Wright - A Nickel And A Nail<br />Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It?<br />The Fleshtones - Roman Gods<br />Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78)<br />The Harvey Girls - Don't Answer Me<br />The Harvey Girls - Hazy Heat<br />The Harvey Girls - Your Evil Man<br />David Dondero - Rosary<br />David Dondero - Ashes On The Highway<br />David Dondero - Transient<br />The Showstoppers - Ain't Nothing But A House Party<br />Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene<br />Dinosaur Jr. - 'Reak Scene (Live 1988 in NYC, taken from "Jayloumurph")<br />J Mascis - Freak Scene (Peel Session 20.11.02)<br />Sugarcubes - Birthday (Jim & William Reid Christmas Eve Mix)<br />Louis Armstrong - Basin Street Blues<br />Tres Ferocious - International Guide To Shouting<br />Eric Landmark & Nate Denver - Dark Calvary<br />OCS - Harmony & Bells<br />Marek - Run With Me<br />Marek - White Flag<br />Marek - Get Me Some Loving<br />Marek - Get Out Of Your Stretch Jeans Honey<br />David Sylvian - September<br />Safetyword - Foreskin Of The Heart<br />Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn<br />Caustic Window - Popcorn<br />Baxter Dury - Oscar Brown<br />Eno - In Dark Trees<br />Eno - I'll Come Running<br />Fruit Bats - When You Love Somebody<br />Sparrow - The Early Years<br />Paul McCartney - Check My Machine<br />The 1-2-3-4 - Surge<br />The 1-2-3-4 - Kinda Flipped Out For A Second<br />Thee More Shallows - 2am<br />Bill Brandon - Rainbow Road<br />Laurel Aitken - Baba Kill Me Goat<br />Laurel Aitken - Never You Hurt<br />Laurel Aitken - Shake<br />Animal Collective - 3<br />The Workhouse - Aberdeen<br />Infomatik - Parasol<br />Starflyer 59 - Old<br />Pavement - Harness Your Hopes<br />The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (7" Version)<br />The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (S.F. Sorrow Longer Mix)<br />The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (BBC Sessions Version)<br />The Pretty Things - Mr.Evasion<br />Happy Mondays - Do It Better<br />Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun<br />Blondie - Cautious Lip<br />Blondie - Cautious Lip (Live Soundcheck, San Francisco, 21.09.77)<br />The Fall - I'm into CB<br />Dandelion Adventure - Jinxs Truck<br />Dandelion Adventure - Speed Trials<br />Dandelion Adventure - Chickenfeed<br />Tall Dwarfs - Rapist<br />The Olivia Tremor Control - Love Athena<br />The Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated<br />Stretchheads - Fans<br />Stretchheads - Housewife Up Yer Fuckin' Arse Music (Disco Mix)<br />Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink - For Donaueshingen Ever<br />Bronze Age Fox - Benidorm<br />Altern 8 - Infiltrate 202<br />Altern 8 - Move My Body<br />Altern 8 - Brutal8e<br />Altern 8 - Everybody<br />Altern 8 - Evapor8<br />Altern 8 - Real Time Status<br />The Universal Mutant Repertory Company - Heavenly Blue Pt. 4 & 5<br />The M's - Break Our Bones<br />The M's - Eyes On The Prize<br />The Palace Lido - Vous Envoyant Cette Forme<br />The Walker Brothers - After The Lights Go Out<br />Scott Walker - Blink<br />Scott Walker - Light<br />Billy Childish - Girl From '62<br />Film School - Activated<br />Finest Dearest - Idaho<br />James William Hindle - Silence<br />PP Roy - In At The Beep End<br />Sam Hawkins - Hold On Baby<br />Big Black - Kerosene (Live Ignition From A Hometown Gig From '86 Maaann!)<br />Butthole Surfers - Jimi (Massive Live Version Recorded @ The Mean Fiddler)<br />Guy Clark - Let Him Roll<br />Townes Van Zandt - St. John The Gambler<br />Mary Wells - Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do To Me)<br />Mary Wells - Honey Boy<br />Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby<br />The Harvey Girls - Practicing<br />Run DMC - King of Rock (Charlie Chan Megamix)<br />Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger<br />Kate Bush - One Last Look Around The House Before We Go . . .<br />Gogol Bordello - The Last Wish of The Bride (J.U.F.)<br />Gogol Bordello - When The Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy)<br />Richard Hawley - The Nights Are Cold (live acoustic version)<br />Uberwensch - Please Don't Touch<br />Motorhead & Girlschool - Please Don't Touch<br />The Birthday Party - Release The Bats (Peel Session 28.04.81)<br />Nico - Frozen Warnings<br />Medicine - Aruca<br />The Fall - Blindness (Peel Session)<br />Shellac - End of Radio<br />Nina Nastasia - Beautiful Day<br />Pixies - Bone Machine<br />OMD - Of All The Things We've Made<br />New Order - Turn The Heater On<br />The Essex Green - Playground<br />The Essex Green - Mrs. Bean<br />Procol Harum - A Salty Dog<br />Bill Colgate - Waiting For Simon<br />Jessamine - It's Cold In Space<br />The Palace Lido - Ronaldsway<br />Def Leppard - Animal<br />Albert Ayler - Our Prayer<br />Kimono vs Ghostigital - Codomatopoeia<br />White Confection - The King Of France<br />22-20s - Baby Brings Bad News<br />22-20s - Shoot Your Gun<br />Joey Beltram - Voyager<br />Jeff Mills - The Hacker<br />Pan Sonic - -25<br />Maurice Delage - Quatre Poemes Hindous<br />Grinning Ape - Beige Mainframe<br />Grinning Ape - Sex Pal<br />Grinning Ape - Judith Chalmers<br />Marvin Gaye - Sunny<br />Skip James - Devil Got My Woman<br />B12 - Hall Of Mirrors<br />Bill Fay - Garden Song<br />Kiss - I Was Made For Loving You (Disco Version)<br />Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington - Ram On<br />Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos<br />Dan Sartain - Walk Among The Cobras, Pt. 1<br />The Palace Lido - IEC1/TYPE1-TDK Part Two<br />Safetyword - Daily Bread<br />Wisp - Candlegrove<br />Wisp - I'm A Cube In A Cube<br />Old Man Gloom - Hot Salvation<br />Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Staircase (Mystery)<br />The Beat - Stand Down Margaret<br />Autechre - Crystel<br />Victor Scott - Gotta Go<br />Victor Scott - Mareel<br />Masquerade - (Solution To) The Problem<br />Hockey Night - For Guys Eyes Only<br />Hockey Night - Saturday Night Gallop<br />Black Sabbath - Iron Man<br />Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!<br />Me & Bobby - Capsized<br />David Sylvian - The Good Son<br />bravecaptain - Oh You<br />bravecaptain - Jerusalem (Featuring Akira The Don)<br />Hunting Lodge - Silver Prince<br />Feedle - Wooden Hill<br />Feedle - Man Vs The Hallucinations<br />Feedle - Song For Dogs<br />Feedle - Home<br />Ray - Mountain Song<br />Voxtrot - The Start Of Something<br />Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives<br />Coil - The Auto-Asphyxiating Hierophant<br />The Hypnotist - Pioneers Of The Warped Groove<br />Popol Vuh - Aguirre I<br />Certainly, Sir - How You Been<br />Certainly, Sir - Happy<br />Mr_Hopkinson's Computer - Fake Plastic Trees<br />Trans-X - Living On Video<br />Ultravox - When You Walk Through Me<br />Swell Maps - Blenheim Shots/Raining In My Room<br />Lil' Louis - Blackout (Revelation Edit)<br />Cable - Freeze The Atlantic<br />Cable - God Gave Me Gravity<br />Grinning Ape - Richmond Avenal<br />Grinning Ape - A.P.E.<br />Soft Machine - Kings And Queens<br />The Pale Fountains - Jean's Not Happening<br />Maryanne Amacher - Living Sound, Patent Pending<br />Maps - So Low So High (Demo)<br />Maps - Lost My Soul (Demo)<br />King Biscuit Time - Paperhead<br />Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over<br />Irma Thomas - Long After Tonight Is All Over<br />Traffic - 40,000 Headmen<br />EPMD - Get Off The Bandwagon<br />Mike Seed - Lee Harwood<br />Medium - Fade (!)<br />Benjamin Britten - Lyke-Wake Dirge<br />Bronnt Industries Kapital - Maggots In The Rice<br />Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Mable<br />Tube Jerk - Eight<br />Brotzmann/Bennink - Track 1<br />Scala - Slide (Richard Fearless Remix)<br />Zero B - Lock Up (Edit)<br />Bongwater - Homer<br />The General and Duchess Collins - Molecular Love<br />The General and Duchess Collins - Kate's Song<br />Si Schroeder - Lavendermist<br />Blur - Popscene<br />Fleeting Joys - Lovely Crawl<br />Robin Allender - You Versus Them<br />Fluorescent Grey - I am a photograph of my old driveway, the edges of the photograph are made of cartoon cow's teeth, as the cow's mouth closes i explode into a firework cloud of red and green dog biscuits<br />These New Puritans - I Want To Be Tracey Emin<br />The Indelicates - We Hate The Kids<br />My Drug Hell - It's Good, But...<br />Hard-Fi vs. Madness vs. team9 - Better Do Better Girl<br />Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (team9 remix)<br />Vitalic - Warm Leatherette (Live)<br />Tiga - Louder Than A Bomb<br />Garnet Mimms - As Long As I Have You<br />Cursor Miner - Hair Of The Dog<br />The Dirtbombs - Don't Bogue My High<br />Beaumont Hannant - Sc931<br />Red Setter - Concord<br />Ride - Nowhere<br />Ride - Nowhere (Live at Brixton Academy)<br />Slowdive - She Calls<br />Muse - Supermassive Black Hole (team9 remix)<br />Future Sound of London - Answerfones<br />Like A Tim - Legs<br />The Charlatans - One To Another<br />The Charlatans - Sproston Green (U.S. Version)<br />MissOddKidd - Weed, Wine and Wankers<br />Dub Pistols - Unique Freak (Dub)<br />Hardknox - Coz I Can<br />Fatboy Slim - Give the Po' Man a Break<br />Slab - Rampant Prankster<br />Bomb the Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Dust Brothers Remix)<br />Casino Versus Japan - Bound By Your Smile<br />Mental Cube - Q<br />PHVKKAGE - Shadow Master 2004<br />PHVKKAGE - Electronic Sausages<br />Akira the Don ft. Bashy - Clones (Feedle Remix)<br />L'Altra, Phil Ranelin and Slicker - Hefty Naked Ninja (Eliot Lipp Remix)<br />Spanova - Absentminded<br />The Human League - Once Upon A Time In The West<br />Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Brugada<br />The Dukes of Stratosphear - What In The World??...<br />Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again (Dinosaur Mix)<br />The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going To Hell<br />The Bastard Fairies - Guns And Dolls<br />popup - Chinese Burn<br />Harry Nilsson & Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me (Demo)<br />Harry Nilsson & Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me<br />Schuman The Human - Oh How Happy<br />The City & Horses - Little Finland<br />Cinerama - You Turn Me On<br />Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves<br />Half Man Half Biscuit - Song To The Siren / Vatican Broadside (Peel Session 03.08.2002)<br />The Yummy Fur - Shoot The Ridiculant<br />The Crusaders & Randy Crawford - Street Life (full 11 min + version)<br />Comet Gain - Daydream Scars<br />Comet Gain - Transmission Lost<br />Ringo Deathstarr - Some Kind of Sad<br />Lou Barlow - The Ballad of Daykitty<br />The Third Eye Foundation - Corpses as Bedmates<br />Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards<br />Magazine - I Love You, You Big Dummy<br />The Broken Family Band - Honest Mans Blues<br />The Broken Family Band - You're Like a Woman<br />The Broken Family Band - Alone in the Make-Out Room<br />Moe Tucker - Last Night (Live @ Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, Feb.15, 2002)<br />The Velvet Underground - I'm Sticking With You<br />The Velvet Underground - After Hours (Closet Mix)<br />The Oblivians - You Fucked Me Up, You Put Me Down<br />The Oblivians - I Don't Wanna Live Alone<br />The Oblivians - What's The Matter Now<br />LCD Soundsystem Remixed - North American Scum (Dunproofin's Not From England Either Mix)<br />LCD Soundsystem Remixed - London, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (Hearing Double & JCB Soundsystem)<br />The Slits - Typical Girls<br />Tullycraft - Twee<br />The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me<br />dEUS - Suds & Soda (Very Live in Paris 1999)<br />dEUS - Roses<br />dEUS - Suds & Soda<br />The Moonies - So Good<br />Colon - About Four<br />Colon - Seven Days<br />Colon - Cherokee Buffalo<br />Colon - Smizzle<br />The Wedding Present - Him Or Me (What's It Gonna Be)(Peel Session)<br />The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress (Peel Session)<br />The Wedding Present - Come Play With Me (Peel Session)<br />Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Early Riser<br />Soft Cell - Martin<br />Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf<br />Joy Division - The Eternal (Martin Hannett Alt.Mix)<br />Joy Division - Passover (Martin Hannett Alt.Mix)<br />The Brilliant Corners - Shangri La<br />The Brilliant Corners - Meet Me on Tuesdays<br />The Brilliant Corners - Brian Rix<br />Colin Clary And The Magogs - The Shape of This Town<br />The Smittens - Doomed, Lo-Fi And In Love<br />The Three Johns - Brainbox (He's a Brainbox)<br />The Three Johns - Like a Virgin (McDonna) (Live)<br />Magoo - Expansion Ride<br />Magoo - We're Not Superhuman<br />Magoo - The Starter's Gun<br />The Harvey Girls - Goodbye Horses<br />The Harvey Girls - Lazlo Buddy<br />John Weinland - The Loaded Gun<br />John Weinland - Young And Smart<br />MJ Hibbett & The Validators - The Lesson of The Smiths<br />MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Post-Subsonic Bass<br />Elmore James - Done Somebody Wrong<br />Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel<br />Bauhaus - The Man With X-Ray Eyes<br />Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Beggin' (Pilooski Edit)<br />Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage<br />Hot Butter - Popcorn<br />Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn<br />Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Popcorn<br />Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren<br />The Man From Delmonte - My Love Is Like A Gift You Can't Return<br />The Man From Delmonte - Drive Drive Drive<br />The Man From Delmonte - Big Noise<br />The Phantom Carriage - I Bury It With Feathers Fallen From Treetops<br />The Phantom Carriage - Hawthorn Tree<br />The Phantom Carriage - Skull Exposed To March Rain<br />M. Craft - She Sells Sanctuary<br />The Dandy Warhols - She Sells Sanctuary<br />The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Long Version)<br />Line Dancers on Acid - I'm Back Baby<br />Age of Chance - Kiss<br />Age of Chance - Crash Conscious<br />Athletico Spizz '80 - Airships<br />Primal Scream - Shoot Speed Kill Light<br />Irma Thomas - While the City Sleeps<br />Sexbeat - Sexbeat<br />Kiiiiiii - Brown Girl In The Ring<br />Kiiiiiii - 4 Little Joeys<br />Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)<br />Bodies of Water - Here Comes My Hand<br />Bodies of Water - These Are The Eyes<br />Public Image Ltd. - Theme<br />Public Image Ltd. - Careering<br />Public Image Ltd. - Poptones<br />Public Image Ltd. - Banging The Door<br />Public Image Ltd. - Blue Water<br />Battant - Kevin (1989)<br />Ringo Deathstarr - Sweet Girl<br />Scarce - All Sideways<br />Space Needle - Never Lonely Alone<br />Space Needle - Bladewash<br />Nyack - Savage Smile<br />Nyack - Love Is A Stranger<br />Novice - Has He Seen Me<br />Novice - Cinnamon People<br />Ringo Deathstarr - Swirly (edit)<br />END----------<br /><br />I think the time has come to admit to myself that I'm not going to be writing anything here again for some time.<br />I've had a blast doing this thing over the last few years (nearly 4... bloody hell!), and I couldn't have done it without the initial encouragement of my good good friend GS. <br />When I had just moved somewhere horrible and had no way of getting to see my friends he had the very bright idea that I should start up an mp3 blog and write about my record collection... I didn't even know what a bloody mp3 blog was, but after a bit of fumbling we managed to stumble on a feel that has stuck ever since, never taking ourselves too seriously and having a bit of a laugh along the way.<br /><br />There have been a number of friends who have chipped in and given up their time to write for SVC...<br />Rowche, Mike S (Medium Asleep), Rachel Littlepants, Dominic J, Bobby W, Leon (from supplies), Joe C, Dan (The Greatest Ape) and Elizabeth.<br />I want to thank every single one of them, without them this place would never have been the same.<br />And also not forgetting to thank all the bands who either didn't mind that we had written about them or have sent us stuff to write about.<br /><br />In the list above there is over 800 tracks we've lovingly written about, and that's not counting a number of posts that have vanished into the aether never to be seen or heard from again (and I can't remember what they were...), there was also countless other tracks we posted in the comments or cunningly stealthed (well, sometimes anyway) in the posts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /><br />Well, that's it I guess... the end of a chapter in my life, and one that never seemed like a chore, but always a pleasure. <br />I do have some different plans for Spoilt Victorian Child though, so keep an eye (or ear) open. And who knows, I might start writing here again some time in the future, but at the moment the record label and other projects are taking up my time, which is a nice position to be in.<br /><br />Take good care.<br />And thanks for reading.<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-39531484115112142902007-10-29T10:50:00.000-07:002015-07-23T07:50:44.198-07:00Ringo Masters Breakout...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfR2vMHblzp_37jwvYn3obAOpfO9EgjuXzFwauYF8EKvexmqcgKRXLOKQoieawnPOdmgi4faGlkA-XhnSp1r57NJizJznbAWdDwOAcmPWgGGEKI0pr9quO0MEQYpTJEOq_ktJzyQ/s1600/Ringo_Deathstarr_mix.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfR2vMHblzp_37jwvYn3obAOpfO9EgjuXzFwauYF8EKvexmqcgKRXLOKQoieawnPOdmgi4faGlkA-XhnSp1r57NJizJznbAWdDwOAcmPWgGGEKI0pr9quO0MEQYpTJEOq_ktJzyQ/s640/Ringo_Deathstarr_mix.jpg" width="640" /></a>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Ringo Deathstarr - Swirly (edit)</b><br /><br />Once in a while I stumble upon some great music. I then go out and buy their CD's or records and play them to death.<br />Sadly though, Ringo Deathstarr didn't have any records out, so I asked if I could put one out for them.<br />They said yes. Woo Hoo!!!<br />And this is the result.<br /><br />The debut release by Ringo Deathstarr, which also happens to be the debut CD release on Spoilt Victorian Child Records.<br /><br />It's a stunning collection of 5 tracks that just ooze fuzzy noise-pop quality.<br />I could go on and on about how utterly brilliant this EP is, and that it's a debut record as good as I've ever heard and so on and so on...<br />But I reckon you might think I'm a little biased.<br />Luckily though there are lots of other lovely people who have said some very very good things about it too...<br /><br /><em>"You can never have too much of a good thing. Especially when that good thing is screamingly loud blitzkrieg pop and laser-guided shoegazery melodies"</em><br /> @ <a href="http://swisstoni.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-that-kind-of-thing-that-you-think.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Swiss Toni's Place">Swiss Toni's Place</a><br /> <br /><em>"It is noise-pop at it’s finest, and is one of my favorite Texas releases this year. $6 gets you a brilliant 5 track CD, that you won’t be able to take out of your player."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.bocatinta.com/bt/?p=501" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Boca Tinta">Boca Tinta</a><br /> <br /><em>"Tutte e 5 le tracce sarebbero un potenziale singolo in heavy rotation nella testa di un fan di musica indie."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.indieforbunnies.com/2007/11/16/ringo-deathstarr-st/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Indie For Bunnies">Indie For Bunnies</a><br /> <br /><em>"Tracks like ‘Down On You’ boast a mesmerising tumble drier of molten guitars and a balmy sirocco of dreamy vocals. This is music to lose yourself in"</em><br /> @ <a href="http://mp3hugger.com/2007/11/ringo-deathstarr-down-on-you.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="MP3 Hugger">MP3 Hugger</a><br /> <br /><em>"Ringo Deathstarr's superb debut EP is instant gratification for early-Nineties noise pop. Right from the gummy guitar of opener "Swirly" – its gorgeous, looped midsection could be a lost track from MBV's Loveless"</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A551929" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Austin Chronicle">The Austin Chronicle</a><br /> <br /><em>"Excuse me for being a bit late on the best shoegaze record of the year, but frankly I've been far too busy enjoying the crap out of every second of Ringo Deathstarr's debut self-titled EP"<br /><br /> "SUPER AMAZING RECOMMENDED PLUS!"</em><br /> @ <a href="http://skatterbrain.org/2007/10/ringo-deathstarr-sweet-girl.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Skatterbrain">Skatterbrain</a><br /> <br /><em>"a corking four-piece from Texas who recall the glory years of Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Drop FNineteens. I absolutely love them, and listening to this EP made me feel 17 all over again; the distorted mess of gorgeous, fuzzy guitars and buried vocals replicating the confusion that reigned in my nascent, addled mind at that time."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.thewhitenoiserevisited.co.uk/2007/10/me-and-mcgee-rockabilly-shoegaze.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The White Noise Revisited">The White Noise Revisited</a><br /> <br /><em>"Ringo Deathstarr = Psychocandy + Loveless. And that's a huge compliment. Honestly, name another band that has lived up to either of those, well, genres really. Nobody. Ringo Deathstarr pull it off. I've always said "do something familiar amazingly or do something totally new". The Deathstarr pull off the former without even the slightest hesitation."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.acertainromance.com/2007/10/ringo-deathstarr.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="A Certain Romance">A Certain Romance</a><br /> <br /><em>"great billowing space rock that comes on like a starblown JAMC spilt across the bone dry toil of the Texas Plains..."</em> <br />@ <a href="http://www.mountain7.co.uk/m_blog/index.php?/archives/537-Ringo-Deathstarr.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mountain*7">Mountain*7</a><br /> <br /><em>"this takes the beautiful noise of prime period Sonic Youth and early Jesus and Mary Chain and marries it to the sounds of My Bloody Valentine and early Ride, and creates something wonderfully new in the process."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/2007/10/review-ringo-death-starr.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="17 Seconds">17 Seconds</a><br /> <br /><em>"the use of feedback, fuzzed up layers, and lazy stoned vocals all combine in a harmony filled rush of a few minutes to provide the best pop high imaginable."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/?p=708" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Really Love Music">I Really Love Music</a><br /> <br /><em>"Ringo Deathstarr are one of the most exciting new discoveries in years and, should the nu-gaze scene come to fruition as it keeps on threatening to do, they'll be heading it up."</em><br />@ <a href="http://www.culturedeluxe.com/news_item.asp?id=2011" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Culture Deluxe">Culture Deluxe</a> <b>Single of the Week</b>.<br /> <br /><em>"ihr schön krachiger Klang, verbunden mit dunklem Gesang und feinen Melodien"</em><br /> @ <a href="http://coast-is-clear.blogspot.com/2007/10/ringo-deathstarr-shoegaze-meets-bit-of.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Coast is Clear">Coast is Clear</a><br /> <br /><em>"Their feedback inspired chainsaw like guitars produce a tonic for ones ears."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/2007/09/ringo-deathstarr-ep.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Indie MP3">Indie MP3</a><br /> <br /><em>"It’s music to be played loud - really, really fucking loud, so that it all just shakes its way through your skeleton as you stand there trembling slightly and wondering if music this loud is actually physically safe. Ah, fuck the neighbours."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://songbytoad.com/2007/09/28/ringo-deathstarr-very-cool-bananas-indeed/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Song, by Toad">Song, by Toad</a><br /> <br /><em>"At first listen, the songs come across as a massive wall of sound. However, the music is deceptive, because you realize that tucked into the immensity of the sound is a vulnerability, only it's all wrapped up inside huge guitar chords, powerful drumming, and vocals that are hiding in a haze just beneath the surface."</em><br />@ <a href="http://lostinyourinbox.blog-city.com/ringo_deathstarr_best_band_name_ive_heard_in_a_while.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Lost In Your Inbox">Lost In Your Inbox</a><br /> <br /><em>"This EP can only be described as a critical buy"</em><br /><em>"easily has the breadth of vision and sheer beauty that Shields et al possessed at their once dizzy heights."<br /> "It is five stars all the way, and then some."</em><br />@ <a href="http://andbeforethefirstkiss.blogspot.com/2007/09/they-feature-lot-of-guitars-feedback.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="And Before The First Kiss">And Before The First Kiss</a><br /> <br /><em>"Their pulsing layers of feedback and those droll, deadpan vocals are ripped straight from Psychocandy, but the galloping, amphetamine rhythms are harder charging than even the most amped up track on that album."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/41853-ringo-deathstarr-some-kind-of-sad-mp3" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Pitchfork review by Rebecca Raber">Pitchfork</a><br /> <br /><em>"everybody basically just plays two chords"</em><br /> interview @ <a href="http://austinist.com/2007/07/23/austinist_inter_3.php" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Austinist interview with Ringo Deathstarr">Austinist</a><br /> <br /><em>"Every once in a while we advise you to drop everything and check something out. This is one of those times. Check out one of the latest signings to Spoilt Victorian Child Records, Ringo Deathstarr. Do it. Do it."</em><br /> @ <a href="http://jbreitling.blogspot.com/2007/02/todays-hotness-armalite-music-videos.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Clicky Clicky Music Blog">Clicky Clicky Music Blog</a><br /> <br /><em>"Fucking brilliant."</em><br />Budgie.<br /> <br />If you're in Texas this week, then you could be lucky enough to catch Ringo Deathstarr supporting The Dandy Warhols....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Novice - Has He Seen Me</b><br /><b>Novice - Cinnamon People</b><br /><br />Forget Funky Friday, this is Scuzzy Sunday!<br />Sometimes all you want to hear is a big slab of scuzzzz...<br />And Novice push all the right buttons, Sabbath, Butties, early Flaming Lips, they're all in there. What a lovely retro rock racket.<br />After growing up on Punk, Post-Punk, Electronica, ABBA and Psychedelia the Butthole Surfers hit my ears in the early to mid Eighties and battered their way in like a jack hammer, that was it for me. They changed my listening habits for a good decade.<br />Novice write songs that hark back to those days, all solid riffs and messed up tunes with Butties style weirdness, albeit not as full on and in your face, but it's still there. And it comes as no surprise at all to find that Novice hail from the very same hot bed of messed up rock, Austin, Texas.<br />I guess they might get a little fed up of the comparisons, but to me it would be a massive compliment, and I hope they take it that way. Like I said, sometimes you just can't beat a big slab of scuzzy rock.<br /><br />Love it.<br /><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/novicenovice" target="_blank">Novice</a> @ MySpace<br /><br />*EDIT*<br />It appears that Novice have now split up... <br />Damn shame.<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-9930320153957326772007-10-25T05:41:00.000-07:002015-07-21T03:25:55.138-07:00George Best...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-J9BwAkB7WNgbvWWG7puxkJOEUjTj_7hNIQnUbMQCmyErecEkuX2Cu4_Pojcoy780n78w2HzMOdRmO6RUTXGRUXVcoqQF5XHzY1r-eEs3IOzrzpHwEjon2J4pvX1XTS_BOUceYA/s1600/George_Best.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-J9BwAkB7WNgbvWWG7puxkJOEUjTj_7hNIQnUbMQCmyErecEkuX2Cu4_Pojcoy780n78w2HzMOdRmO6RUTXGRUXVcoqQF5XHzY1r-eEs3IOzrzpHwEjon2J4pvX1XTS_BOUceYA/s1600/George_Best.jpg" /></a></div>
Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-71571862488284948392007-10-09T16:12:00.000-07:002017-02-20T04:00:54.826-08:00A Welcome Stranger...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPp8_zRvGOYJ6fLdPwh-fRkm7uqej0egigeBO_MiwDBNstoMDzeekeTuHaUUowRQ_inRhQ4oLr4jkoKoQW3siGkuDn6EaggOJcQt85M12k-RdyAsYGEvt15yWy_5WB7oVMbEetaw/s1600/Nyack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPp8_zRvGOYJ6fLdPwh-fRkm7uqej0egigeBO_MiwDBNstoMDzeekeTuHaUUowRQ_inRhQ4oLr4jkoKoQW3siGkuDn6EaggOJcQt85M12k-RdyAsYGEvt15yWy_5WB7oVMbEetaw/s1600/Nyack.jpg" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Nyack - Savage Smile</b><br /><b>Nyack - Love Is A Stranger</b><br /><br />I have absolutely no idea how I first heard Nyack back in 1994. None of my mates had heard of them or had their records that I remember, nor can I really remember hearing them on the radio anywhere.<br />They just seem to be one of those bands that appear in your record collection, thankfully though.<br />Savage Smile was the debut release from Nyack in 1994, they originated from Nyack in New York, but re-located to London and got signed to Echo Records. They released two singles, 'Savage Smile' & I'm Your Star' and an album, '11 Track Player', before parting company with Echo Records and re-surfacing a year or so later as Fork. <br />I only know all of this (apart from the releases) as I've just payed a trip to their MySpace page as I thought I should at least know something about the band and tracks that I've listened to on and off for over a decade.<br />I don't honestly know why more people hadn't heard of them at the time, I guess the fact that I don't really remember reading much about them at the time either might have something to do with it.<br />Musically they're on the gentler side of Shoegaze. More indie-pop than ball blistering squalling feedback. But I really like their music, and their version of Eurythmics 'Love Is A Stranger' would normally pass me by due to the gentle style, but it's just wonderful, and to this day one of my favourite covers...<br />Mind you, it was a cracking song in the first place.<br /><br />Here's to all those bands that you have no idea how you got into, but love them all the same.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000024CIL?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000024CIL" target="_balnk">Nyack - 11 Track Player</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nyackband" target="_blank">Nyack</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thenuevos" target="_blank">The Nuevos</a> @ MySpace<br /><br />Kim and Kreg from Nyack can now be found in indie quartet The Nuevos. <br />Now there's something else I've just found out on t'internet.<br />It's not bad in here sometimes eh?<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-16607475552100442532007-09-26T17:00:00.000-07:002017-02-20T04:04:10.976-08:00Space Needle....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnAec2Te4rGub2TUUKjWNlF718MaNBgsZoqJjnQFEsAag-i0e6CeIRUqZP25DsZHtzNlpghD-KfSYh1DeeENZ2gZ7cVxjsgFmre__wYXEANH6kq0IDrMKTHiLU4pUUyWHqYFtyQ/s1600/space_needle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnAec2Te4rGub2TUUKjWNlF718MaNBgsZoqJjnQFEsAag-i0e6CeIRUqZP25DsZHtzNlpghD-KfSYh1DeeENZ2gZ7cVxjsgFmre__wYXEANH6kq0IDrMKTHiLU4pUUyWHqYFtyQ/s1600/space_needle.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b>Space Needle - Bladewash</b><br /><br />Some of you might have noticed a little red, black and yellow square over in the left hand sidebar under SVC Recommends. Clicking this could lead you to a joyful place if you were so inclined. I'm of course talking about Space Needle's 'Recordings 1994-1997' released by Eenie Meenie records earlier this year. <br /><br />Space Needle were formed in 1994 by former Scarce drummer Jud Ehrbar and his co-conspirator in sound manipulation, Jeff Gatland. They released an album called 'Voyager' as a two piece.<br />Shortly after the release, fellow space noisenik Dan Efram joined to make a trio of like minded trip merchants. <br />Now, I love 'Voyager', but it wasn't until they released their follow up album in 1997 that things just got very very <span style="font-weight: bold;">very</span> good indeed. <br />'The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle' is such an incredible album, it sounds like so many other things, but at the same time like nothing else on earth, well, at least back in 1997. The Animal Collective and the like have been having a cracking stab at it since and doing a bloody good job of it.<br /><br />On one hand you have a reverb drenched slow picked drone like the beautiful 'Bladewash', and at the same time you have the bonkers freeform space jazz noise of 'Where The Fuck's My Wallet' with stunningly gorgeous tracks like 'Never Lonely Alone', 'One Kind of Lullaby' and 'Love Left Us Strangers' spread throughout the album. I honestly think it's one of the most underrated albums I've heard. I can see why it didn't gel with some people, mainly for the reasons why I love it. The diversity of styles on the album could put some people off. Nutso Jazz tinged noise-outs followed by blissed out hangover music, but this is why I love it so much.<br /><br />Anyway, back to the 'Recordings 1994-1997'<br />It basically does what it says on the tin in that it's a compilation culled from all of their releases, which sadly only amounts to the two albums and a couple of singles. It's a corker of a compilation and every aspect of the bands output is covered (although 'Bladewash' isn't on it), and you should own it.... <br />Then pay a visit to eBay or something and try and find the other four records.<br /><br />And here as a little treat is my favourite track by Scarce, in all it's lo-fi jump about post grunge indie disco glory, and it is glorious.<br />I used to play this out a hell of a lot.<br /><br /><b>Scarce - All Sideways</b><br /><br />This was released as a single in 1994 just before Jud left for outer space.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.eeniemeenie.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=EMR&Product_Code=em-023-2&Category_Code=C" target="_blank">Space Needle - Recordings 1994-1997</a> from Eenie Meenie<br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000002G3L?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000002G3L" target="_blank">Scarce - Deadsexy</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.spaceneedlemusic.com/" target="_blank">Space Needle</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/spaceneedlemusic" target="_blank">Space Needle</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.netspace.org/~leigh/scarce/Scarce.html" target="_blank">Scarce</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/scarcetheband" target="_blank">Scarce</a> @ MySpace<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-43241082611513482752007-09-17T01:25:00.000-07:002017-02-20T04:02:18.939-08:00Shoegaze, Texas Style = Starrgaze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqo8rvPz6kWbCSWMMpxNhCAb_RrkARxZKSyWcRFyQu1q78djFGmLuaY0TD5mIsQtM4RNYHQMcboumZoh_H4-RVbel8kPElsiE9HFQav6RntQvh8KyspzRUKMNcpuIVFSZwqge_A/s1600/Ringo_Deathstarr_EP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqo8rvPz6kWbCSWMMpxNhCAb_RrkARxZKSyWcRFyQu1q78djFGmLuaY0TD5mIsQtM4RNYHQMcboumZoh_H4-RVbel8kPElsiE9HFQav6RntQvh8KyspzRUKMNcpuIVFSZwqge_A/s1600/Ringo_Deathstarr_EP.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Ringo Deathstarr - Sweet Girl</b><br />
<br />This is a track taken from Ringo Deathstarr's debut release that's out today on SVC Records as download only. It's an EP and it's called 'Ringo Deathstarr'... natch!<br />And it will be delivered directly to your hard drive for the measly sum of two of your pounds. Cheap at twice the price!<br /> <br />The EP will also be released on October 29th on CD and iTunes and all the other digital download sites, this will coincide with Ringo Deathstarr's support slots for the very lovely Dandy Warhols.<br /><br />Ringo Deathstarr hail from Austin, Texas, and have been around for a couple of years. After having several line-up changes they have settled on the noisesome foursome of...<br />Elliott Frazier - guitar and vocals<br />Alex Gehring - bass and vocals<br />Dustin Gaudet - drums<br />Renan McFarland - guitar <br /><br />They have been likened to My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Telescopes, The Lilys and Drop Nineteens amongst others, so I guess you might have a little idea what they sound like... Shoegaze, Texas style. <br />The Austin Chronicle coined the phrase 'Starrgaze' for them.<br /><br />Spot on.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.svcrecords.co.uk/artist_ringo_deathstarr.html" target="_blank">Ringo Deathstarr - Ringo Deathstarr</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ringodeathstarr" target="_blank">Ringo Deathstarr</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.svcrecords.co.uk/" target="_blank">SVC Records</a><br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-10744057991089528892007-09-09T10:41:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:24:49.609-07:00Don't Give My Love to Kevin...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Battant - Kevin (1989)</b><br /><br />Battant have been around for a while now and have released a couple of very collectible singles. But their next release sees them taking their rudimentary (but perfecly formed) electronic sound to newer heights with the single 'Kevin (1989)' that's being released next month on Kill The DJ records. The B-Side also features an Andrew Weatherall remix.<br />They now sound like a fully formed band, all punchy guitars, catchy vocals and jump around and shake your fringe* rhythms, but still retaining elements of their earlier electro-pop-isms. <br /><br />The song was written by Battant singer Chloe based on the diary entries of a bloke called Kevin. <br />6 or 7 years ago Chloe's friend was helping refurbish a North London pub. Down in the basement there's a door, padlocked shut. They pry it open to find a room littered with betting slips, with a small folding cot bed and a blue Langham Diary from 1989. Inside the book is Kevin's provisional driver's license. Her friend tries to work out who this Kevin is, but never gets anywhere with it. A few years later the diary is passed on to Chloe.<br /><br />This Kevin bloke sounds like a right tosser, and not someone I'd ever like to know. But his misogynistic meanderings from the late Eighties have led to this song being recorded... <br />But I wouldn't go playing it round your Mum's house or your great Aunty Edie's as you'll probably get a bloody good clip round the ear.<br /><br />Great song though.<br /><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.battant.co.uk/" target="_blank">Battant</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/battantdemos" target="_blank">Battant</a> demos on MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.killthedj.com/" target="_blank">Kill The DJ</a><br /><b>Read - </b>Kevin's diary entries <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45984259&blogID=240299381&Mytoken=6E1FE98F-7438-417F-8C79F479C4A52C6317966563" target="_blank">here</a> & <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45984259&blogID=257911969&Mytoken=6E1FE98F-7438-417F-8C79F479C4A52C6317966563" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />* Not that I have a fringe anymore, but if I did it would be a shakin'<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-46390193559282345312007-08-25T09:00:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:25:01.211-07:00Trigger Machinery...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Public Image Ltd. - Theme</b><br /><b>Public Image Ltd. - Careering</b><br /><b>Public Image Ltd. - Poptones</b><br /><b>Public Image Ltd. - Banging The Door</b><br /><b>Public Image Ltd. - Blue Water</b><br /><br />I can't believe I've been doing this blog for so long without mentioning the mighty Public Image Ltd. So here's a few of my favourite tracks.<br /><br />I guess I'll start with PiL's debut album 'First Edition' which was home to their signature track 'Public Image'.<br />For those Sex Pistols fans that had heard the debut single 'Public Image' by Lydon's new band PiL, and thought that the first album would be following the same lines as the single probably came in for a real real shock. <br />And if they were in any doubt that it was going to be a continuation of The Sex Pistols then the follow up single 'Death Disco' and 'First Issue's' opening track 'Theme' would have blown any such ideas right out of the water... Gloriously.<br /><br />Not only is 'First Issue' as scathing and angry like the Pistols, although even more so, but it's also full of angular rhythms, repetition, scratching guitars and gut exploding lo end bass supplied by Jah Wobble.<br />This experimentation and sound was taken to even higher heights on their follow up album 'Metal Box'.<br />Possibly one of the greatest and most important albums of the post punk era, or any era for that matter.<br />I can't stress how utterly stunning this album is.<br />Everything about it just screams out quality, from the songs to the packaging to the incredible sound quality. Part of the reason it was released in a metal tin was to house the three 12" discs that played at 45rpm so as to get the best quality sound from the pressing. Well, that and the fact that it looks bloody ace.<br />Many albums that a couple of decades later are transfered to CD get an overhaul in the form of re-mastering and the like, but this was recorded so bloody well that it didn't need it, and I doubt that any amount of knob twiddling could make it sound any better. 'Careering' and 'Poptones' proving my point pretty well I think. <br />If you don't own this yet then you should run out to your local music emporium and purchase a copy right now...<br /><br />But obviously not until you've listened to my fourth PiL offering taken from their third album 'Flowers of Romance'.<br />This album is a different kettle of fish from the previous PiL albums. It's as biting and as irreverent, and still sounds like nothing else on earth, but musically on the whole it's stripped down to it's percussive elements and drones, perfectly executed on the track 'Banging The Door'.<br />This album also spawned the surprise hit in the single 'Flowers of Romance'. How weird was it seeing this on Top of The Pops when you were a kid... It left me scarred for life.<br /><br />Finally I'm going to pick another of my favourite tracks and possibly the last truly great thing they released, 'Blue Water'.<br />This was released in 1983 as the b-side of the smash hit 'This is Not a Love Song'. Again, never one to play it safe, think of all the pop kids who thought that 'Love Song' was good little tune and saved their pocket money to buy the single, get it home and play the flipside only to be confronted by a song with a strange rhythm, whale like noises and a song about guts being chewed... nice.<br /><br />And so ends my little journey into one of the most innovative bands to feature someone called Wobble in them.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00000733Q?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00000733Q" target="_blank">Public Image Ltd. - First Issue</a> <br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000007UDQ?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000007UDQ" target="_blank">Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box</a> (for a paltry amount)<br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00000AQQQ?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00000AQQQ" target="_blank">Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance</a> <br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.fodderstompf.com/fodhome.html" target="_blank">Fodderstompf</a> - PiL fansite<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-36862601830262158112007-08-13T14:08:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:25:12.874-07:00Blinking 'eck...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Bodies of Water - Here Comes My Hand</b><br /><b>Bodies of Water - These Are The Eyes</b><br /><br />I first heard Bodies of Water in 2005 when I got their self titled ep and instantly fell in love with it, especially the lead track 'Here Comes My Hand' which just blew me away with it's catchy woo wooo's and pounding chorus with super high pitched vocals. As I said, I loved it, I added it to my recommended sidebar thing and it stayed there for some time, but regrettably I never wrote about it for one reason or another, I think possibly it was during one of my moves.<br /><br />Anyway, that was then...<br />Today I was very happy to find their new album 'Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink' on my doorstep....<br />Bloody hell it's good, I'm only a couple of listens in but I have a feeling this is going to be one of my favourite albums of 2007, if not THE favourite... It's that good.<br />It's a cracking album, ranging from the slow burning and broody to the completely uplifting in your face up-ness. This is the sort of album you could listen to loads and still find something new in it, and it has more melodies than you can shake a stick at.<br /><br />I have a feeling that by tomorrow I'll have another two favourite tracks from the album, but for the moment my favourite track from that single in 2005 has been given a work over here and what then was a stunning track sounds even better now, crisper, punchier and improved all round.<br />And a close second to 'Here Comes My Hand' is the wonderful 'These Are The Eyes'...<br />With it's bombastic intro going into a melodramatic sounding bit and leading into a speedy-up bit towards the end... perfect.<br /><br />But don't take my word for it, have a listen to these tracks then buy it.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.bodiesofwater.net/store.htm" target="_blank">Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.bodiesofwater.net/" target="_blank">Bodies of Water</a><br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-10950517386465328772007-08-11T04:15:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:25:26.141-07:00Anthony Howard Wilson.<center><img src="http://spoiltvictorianchild.com/images/Tony_Wilson.jpg" height="650" width="440" /><br /></center><br /><br /><br>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-41318546539792512822007-08-04T11:14:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:25:41.933-07:00Avin' it Essex Stylee...<center>
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Many of you from the UK will recognise this old soft proggy rock track from 'World in Action' <span style="font-style: italic;">**(EDIT: thanks to dickvandyke for pointing out that my memory is shit, and that it's actually the theme tune from 'Weekend World', cheers dvd.)**</span>, the weekly news program, as the end of the track was used for its titles.<br /><br />For many many years I hadn't even considered that the theme had been knicked and that it was just recorded specially for the show, but having stumbled upon it by accident a good few years ago I instantly fell in love with the lumpen stodgyness of it all, I really don't know why, it's just a cracking, cracking track.<br /><br />After having heard the track for a few years I still really didn't know what the hell it was all about until I read a book about the whaling ship 'The Essex' that the story of 'Moby Dick' was based on, and in the story of the Essex there was a cabin hand named Owen Coffin.<br /><br />The Essex was hit by a huge Sperm whale and wrecked leaving a few lifeboats of people awash. One of these boats drifted for months, stopping off on desert islands whenever they found one, but ultimately they were starving to death, and ended up drawing a lot to see who would sacrifice them self for the good of the rest of the crew... erm! basically, who was to be eaten! <br />And Owen Coffin was the 'winner'. The captain tried to talk him out of it and take his place but Owen was having none of it...<br />He was killed and eaten and kept the remaining survivors left for several days until they were finally rescued... (end of history lesson)<br /><br />Anyway, this song is dedicated to him, the silly bugger.<br /><br />When I first heard this track I went out and bought a couple of albums by Mountain, to be honest I wish I hadn't, they're not very good, but I do love this track.<br /><br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0006LY0T0?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0006LY0T0" target="_blank">Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride</a><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0006531202?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0006531202" target="_blank">Nathaniel Philbrick - In the Heart of the Sea</a> (highly recommended)<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaleship_Essex" target="_blank">The Essex</a> @ Wikipedia<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-11362287543241468022007-07-28T12:07:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:25:54.898-07:00Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Kiiiiiii - 4 Little Joeys</b><br /><br />I really don't know what to say about this little bit of wonderfully mad Japanese shoutabout experimental art pop, apart from it's wonderfully shouty, experimentaly, arty and poppy and Kiiiiiii hail from Japan.<br />To get the full effect though you have to go and watch the video on YouTube (linky below), looks and sounds like they have a lot of fun.<br />The video's taken from their new DVD 'Gold and Silver'.<br /><br />Melissa and Hiram from the lovely <a href="http://www.theharveygirls.com/" target="_blank">Harvey Girls</a> sent me a link to the video and I instantly fell in love with it, thanks guys.<br />So after several plays I thought I'd try and find a web page, success, and double double good, this track is available to download.<br /><br />'4 Little Joeys' appeared on a 7" only limited release from 2005.<br />I guess I'm going to be trawling eBay.<br />And as another lovely little downloadable treat from their website is this cracking minimal but cute version of 'Brown Girl In The Ring' taken from their latest album "Al & Bum" which was released earlier this month, sadly I can't find anywhere to buy the bloody thing either, apart from on Japanese Amazon...<br /><br /><b>Kiiiiiii - Brown Girl In The Ring</b><br /><br />That'll ding dang do for Simon.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.kiiiiiii.com/dvd/dvdenglishhtml.html" target="_blank">Kiiiiiii - Gold and Silver</a> DVD<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.kiiiiiii.com/" target="_blank">Kiiiiiii</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://2007.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/38780.html" target="_blank">Kiiiiiii history</a> @ the SXSW site<br /><b>Watch - </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPP8waT5ta8" target="_blank">Kiiiiiii - 4 Little Joeys</a> on YouTube<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-7668993780507559202007-07-16T15:27:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:26:15.316-07:00Sexbeat, Sexbeat, Sexbeat, Sexbeat, Sexbeat, Sexbeat...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Sexbeat - Sexbeat</b><br /><br />What a bloody great track...<br />This has been floating around my brain for about a quarter of a century now.<br />It's time to release it and set it free.<br /><br />Back in the day I was a bit of a teeny Gothic Punk with hair all over the place and decked out in nothing but black, I look at the few remaining pictures of me from back then and just laugh...<br />What a tit.<br /><br />But a hell of a lot of the music I was listening to in my post punk years like Bauhaus, Specimen, The Birthday Party, UK Decay, Alien Sex Fiend, Early Sisters of Mercy and a host of others has just stuck with me, although I think some of it is quite silly nowadays, but in a good way.<br /><br />Bauhaus and The Birthday Party had been around for a few years by the time 1982 hit and I'd grown accustomed to the abuse of hairspray when it brought us The Batcave, it was basically a nightclub that a whole movement had attached itself to. I never went, distance and age (or lack of) being the main reasons, but when the album "Batcave: Young Limbs And Numb Hymns" was released in 1983 I was there in spirit.<br />It was the opening two tracks that really stood out for me, the first being "Dead Man's Autochop" by Specimen (more on them sometime soon) followed by this little beauty.<br /><br />Sexbeat started their life as the brainchild of The Batcave resident DJ Hamish joined by most boy goths wet dreams Sophie (see pic) and Linzi.<br />They only ever recorded three tracks, Sexbeat, Sweat and Pump (I see a bit of theme here...).<br />On the back of the Sexbeat track they recorded for the Young Limbs album they were signed by ABC Records in the US and recorded the other two tracks for them, but alas were never released (although Sweat turned up on one of those Gothic Rock CD's a few years back)<br /><br />Anyway, dig out your Insette, back-comb your hair and flail around the room like it's the end of the world...<br />Bloody Goths.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Mick-Mercer-Gothic-Punk" target="_blank">Gothic Punk photos</a> from Mick Mercer<br /><b>Watch - </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3UKqdWCKS0" target="_blank">The Batcave Documentary</a> on YouTube<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.scathe.demon.co.uk/batcave.htm" target="_blank">The Batcave</a><br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-81697902396633301262007-07-03T09:54:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:26:26.325-07:00Sleeps?<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Irma Thomas - While the City Sleeps</b><br /><br />I couldn't let the first (sunny?) week of July start with that zombie pic so for Casper and co. here's Irma Thomas with one of my most favourite tracks. I have nothing more to say on the subject other than I was just eating a delicious Sunday roast dinner and this came on and I thought by crikey this is good. Dinner and song you know! <br /><br />And as a snap well what could go better than a pic of the 'Chasms' in the south of the Island... yep nothing? So zombies be gone and Summer 'hello'. Fingers crossed.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Straight-Soul-Irma-Thomas/dp/B000216VL4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6/203-1932839-4542363?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1183319017&sr=8-6" target="_blank">Irma Thomas - Straight from the Soul</a> only £6!! from Amazon. Bargain!<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.irmathomas.com/" target="_blank">Irma Thomas</a> official site<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.iomguide.com/cregneash/chasms.php" target="_blank">The Chasms</a><br /><br /></span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-18433198294048237082007-06-21T06:31:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:26:36.574-07:00Smash!<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Primal Scream - Shoot Speed Kill Light</b><br /><br />Bernard Sumner + Primal Scream (with Kevin Shields) = Zombie Wedding!<br /><br />Erm well not really... I'm making a couple of CDs to play at Simon and Liz's wedding knees-up on Sat and I stumbled upon this old chestnut. It's been ages since I listened to XTRMNTR but by crikey this song, this song, what a steamroller!<br /><br />When Bernard's guitar slices through the end with Shieldsy's racket clattering away it's enough to make a institutionalised old lag such as I to get the invisible drumsticks out. I loves it Brynn.<br /><br />So I was going to give you the tale about being ever so slightly inebriated on a bus in Kentish Town listening to the album when it had just come out and how as a great finale Shoot Speed Kill Light nearly burst my eardrums and made me jump out of my socks but another time, another place perhaps. For now I need to dig out me suit, polish off a very dusty pair of shoes that live under the bed and prepare myself for the impending bumpy flight to Manxland.<br /><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.primalscream.net/www/" target="_blank">Primal Scream</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.neworderonline.com/" target="_blank">New Order</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://mybloodyvalentine2.tripod.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Shields</a><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xtrmntr-Primal-Scream/dp/B00003W7ZP/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5/203-1932839-4542363?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182432942&sr=8-5" target="_blank"> XTRMNTR </a></span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-86233035481030199332007-06-18T11:12:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:26:47.982-07:00Doing a Runner...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Athletico Spizz '80 - Airships</b><br /><br />There were many incarnations of groups fronted by Kenneth Spiers (aka Spizz) including Spizzoil, Spizzenergi and Spizzles amongst a few others, but here we have a track from Spizz's (?) debut album from 1980 and was recorded under the moniker Athletico Spizz '80.<br />Spizz bands had been around for a few years by this point and had already had their most commercial success with 'Where's Captain Kirk' the previous year, but I'm opting for the closing track on Athletico's album 'Do a Runner'.<br />It's a glorious eight and a half minutes of one of my favourite riffs ever and includes virtually no words and some of the best bits of very hi howling ever put down on vinyl. Talking of which, I apologise for the crackles and slightly wobbly sound, it's from my old LP, I did nearly have a bit of luck while looking on t'internet wherupon I stumbled across the official Spizz website and they have the whole album available to download, but alas all the links are dead. <br />Anyway, as for the rest of the 'Do a Runner' album... well to be honest it's not that great. There are a couple of tracks that are ok, but basically it's a bit of a dud, which is a real shame as by this stage they'd built up a really good strong following. But the album received very damp reviews, and add to that there wasn't anything really close to being a catchy single in the vein of 'Where's Captain Kirk' on it, but it did bring us this track, an absolute corker I hope you'll agree.<br />Spizz is still going strong nowadays though and is still gigging up and down the country.<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000666BL?ie=UTF8&tag=spoiltvictori-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0000666BL" target="_blank">Spizz - The Very Best of</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.spizzenergi.com/spizz/index.html" target="_blank">Spizz</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.spizzenergi.com/" target="_blank">Spizz</a><br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-44507143521875455852007-06-12T13:33:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:27:05.758-07:00Sing It Kids...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Age of Chance - Kiss</b><br /><br /><b>Age of Chance - Crash Conscious</b><br /><br />You know when you first see a band you might have a rough idea of what they'll sound like... Sonic Youth... yep, Mudhoney... certainly, Steps... yep, Michael Bolton... erm!<br />Well Age of Chance were a little different. I'd read about them in the inky music press for a while along with seeing pictures of them, but not heard them until The Whistle Test (they'd dropped the old and grey by this stage I think).<br />The cycling outfits, the attitude, the beats, the guitars, the guitars, the guitars.<br />Bloody ace.<br />And after that I just had to own their records, and what records they were, not only the great music, but you also got those stunning stunning sleeves designed by The Designers Republic. Catch a glimpse of one of them in the corner of your eye in a record shop left you with no doubt who it was by.<br /><br />Age of Chance formed in Leeds in the early eighties, but didn't really make an impact until 1986 when they were featured on the now legendary C86 tape given away free with the NME.<br />This appearance and a session for Sir John Peel led to them signing for Sheffield's FON (Fuck Off Nazi) label whereupon they recorded their now infamous version of Prince's 'Kiss', included here for your listening pleasure along with the b-side 'Crash Conscious'. Together creating one of my favourite ever 7" singles. <br />Cracking.<br /><br />As far as I know there's only one member of AoC still involved in music actively and that's their bass player Geoff T.....<br /><br /><b>Line Dancers on Acid - I'm Back Baby</b><br /><br />Geoff has been working under a couple of different monikers. <br />Firstly there is Sonic Avenger putting together mixtapes of the very highest quality, while Miss Kubelik is the downtempo cousin, and Line Dancers on Acid is the old school beats and fat analogue squelchy wing of Geoff's persona.<br /><br />It's the fat squelchy anologisms that get me every time, and bloody hell he's good at it.<br />At the moment there are only a couple of tracks out there, but I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot lot more from LDOA in the very near future, and there are also rumours that Sonic Avenger will be recording again in a similar vein to Age of Chance...<br />I can't bloody wait.<br /><br />Sing it kids....<br /><br /><b>Buy - </b><a href="http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=age+of+chance" target="_blank">Age of Chance</a> records on eBay<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.ageofchanceinfo.co.uk/" target="_blank">Age of Chance</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ageofchance" target="_blank">Age of Chance</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.sonicavenger.com/" target="_blank">Sonic Avenger</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/linedancersonacid" target="_blank">Line Dancers on Acid</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/misskubelik" target="_blank">Miss Kubelic</a> @ MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/" target="_blank">The Designers Republic</a><br /><br />I'd like to say a hearty great big thanks to <a href="http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/" target="_blank">mark e</a> for bringing my attention to the works of Geoff T and reminding me how great Age of Chance were.<br /><br />Simon<br />x</span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501678.post-76818484849850445132007-05-31T05:07:00.000-07:002015-07-23T01:27:22.526-07:00Charnel...<center>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>The Phantom Carriage - I Bury It With Feathers Fallen From Treetops</b><br /><br /><b>UPDATE:<br />The new Phantom Carriage album is out. It's released as a free download on the always generous and extremely distinguished SVC Records.</b><br /><br />SVC-014 - June 2007 <br />'Skull Exposed To March Rain'<br /><br />01. Folly<br />02. Gorse Fire<br />03. Three Wishes<br />04. Skull Exposed To March Rain<br />05. Prepare The Way<br />06. Lie Forsaken<br />07. Hawthorn Tree<br />08. Edward Kelley<br />09. Blood<br />10. A Brackish Spirit<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.svcrecords.co.uk/artist_phantom.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> to go to the Phantom Carriage page on SVC Records and download 'Skull Exposed To March Rain' in glorious 256kbps completely free, including full artwork.<br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br /><br />The tracks have been composed by two of the reprobates from the previous release 'Late Comers', namely Mike Seed and The Palace Lido (dissolved). Co-writing credit on the last track (and album highlight) 'A Brackish Spirit' is shared with The Grinning Ape. Yes he of the famous 'The Greatest Ape' SVC007 release.<br /><br />The track posted here today is simply to whet the appetite and in fact didn't make it onto the final album. It's one of those skull rattling clarian calls. You know the effect, Braaid hall eisteddfod, huge vat of questionable hot-pot, ACDC/Maiden on the record player. Head-banging to keep up with your peers, vomiting all the way home with a headache from Hell. This is the essence of the song.<br /><br />'Skull exposed to March rain' is now available to download completely free along with 'Late Comers' on SVC Records...<br /><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.svcrecords.co.uk/artist_phantom.html" target="_blank">The Phantom Carriage</a> on SVC Records<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.thephantomcarriage.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Phantom Carriage</a><br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.anticlock.net/phantomcarriage.htm" target="_blank">The Phantom Carriage</a> at Anti Clock<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thephantomcarriage" target="_blank">The Phantom Carriage</a> at MySpace<br /><b>Visit - </b><a href="http://www.grinningape.com/" target="_blank">The Grinning Ape</a><br /></span>Spoilt Victorian Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107579196533694852noreply@blogger.com0