5 posts tagged “these animal men”
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The structure I wanted to keep this: 1. The origin and definition of what Britpop was. 2. It's ultimate demise, our theories on why it went away. 3. Survivors of Britpop, bands that are still around today, including Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, etc. We ended with what song would best sum up what Britpop was. While we had a two-to-one Blur vote, I do think that Kristen's suggestion of "Common People" made a lot of sense.
While I would admit that based on repeated playing of this song, that I've gotten sick of it, it's hard to ignore that the song is a really great song. It's about meeting a rich student, and in typical Jarvis Cocker-reality/vengeful lyrics, tells the student that basically she would never understand what's it is like to be living in poverty like himself, like common people.
The song was king at the time of its release in 1995, and remain to be the band's most popular song. I'm pretty sure the song's been covered a few times, these are two popular ones: William Shatner and Libitina.
The actual show length is about 30 minutes, but I liked all the random topics, that I kept some of them in the first portion. If you like that randomness, stay after the "Common People" and you will be treated to some These Animal Men, Powder, Lush, and Salad. I'm sure none of these bands will be played at Sydney's Britpop Night, as I'm not sure enough people like them.
I'm hoping to have another Britpopcast in a month or so, let me know if you would like to join in on the discussion.
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Also, I received a 'bootleg' of S*M*A*S*H singer, Ed Borrie doing an acoustic solo appearance at the 100 Club (in London?). The audio is pretty good, it sounds like it's from the soundboard. The whole show is pretty low-key, as expected with an acoustic set. What makes this show kind of cool is the violins by Amber Ross, which you can clearly hear on "15 Years". And, gosh, it's so good to hear Borrie singing his word-plays "All I wanted was to be you, all I wanted was to be used."
Borrie did a few old S*M*A*S*H songs ("Lady Love Your C***", "Revisited #3" and "Drugs Again"), and right before "Drugs Again", he introduced it by saying "Ordinary, I'm in a punk band, so I'll just play a couple of those songs".
It looks the Orphans will make another appearance in October 24th in Germany, of all places at KOZ, Goethe University in Hessen.
The Orphans have been enjoying a sold-out first pressing of their album (Muff? I have no idea since I haven't correspond with these guys before), so they're going back printing more.
In the meantime, you can pick up Icon from S*M*A*S*H at amazon.co.uk. What made this album so important is because their last/debut album, Self Abused, was released in 1994. That's thirteen years ago! So be sure to pick up Icon when you see them.
04/19/2009 19:01:50 ♥ vu ()
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Jay Marriott sent this in:
Evening all, Hope you are all ok.
Right i need your help, there are rumours of an official TAM DVD, so i need to get my hands on every bit of video footage so i can put it onto DVD and forward it to on to Julian. If you have any interviews, Top of The Tops footage etc, (in fact anything) please get in touch ASAP.
Of course i will transfer your footage onto DVD for you for free, and send it back to you.The more better quaility footage we get, the better it will be, and it would be nice to see something on the shop shelfs at last.
Dig deep chaps, and see what you have.
Please feel free to e-mail me at jaymarriott[at]gmail.comThe more better quaility footage we get, the better it will be, and it would be nice to see something on the shop shelfs at last.
Cheers, Jay Marriott
Compulsion were originally called Thee Amazing Colossal Men (formed in 1990 in Ireland). They moved to London in 1992, and signed with One Little Indian Records (home of such acts as the Sugarcubes, Black Box Recorder, and Sneaker Pimps) and became known as Compulsion.
They've released two albums (Comforter and The Future is Medium), and broke up the same year their second album was released (1996).
Being in the States, it's hard for me to track down their records, I think I'm missing their second LP and Question Time for the Proles and I Like Compulsion and Compulsion Likes Me (which all looks like they were released post-Mall Monarky). Which is about right, because by that time, I kind of lost interest in the direction the band was taking. However, if I ever see a Compulsion CD that I don't have, I will always pick it up.
So, we have here the first song that I've heard from Compulsion: "Why do we care?" It pretty much sums up their (punk) attitude and there is an UNBELIEVABLE catchy "a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" bit! I love it.
If you like TAM or S*M*A*S*H, you'd probably really like Compulsion as they came from that same era and were clasified as "New Wave of New Wave". Check them out, I miss bands like this!
Random Trivia: US and UK editions of Comforter are different. Some limited editions of Comforter (UK) came with a second disc which collected their first two EPs. So if you're trying to pick up this album, make sure it has the second CD!
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Check out 3/9/07 Show - Britpop, it offers 20 tracks of Britpop stuff (nothing you don't already have, of course).
While the UK cover to Society actually depicts and tells the story of the "High Society", the US cover is Hooligan (yes, that's the singer's name) with an American Flag boxing glove. No idea who's brilliant idea that was, but I thought it was a poor move.
These Animal Men (or TAM) are one of the few bands riding on the New Wave of New Wave, er, wave. NWONW also applied to S*M*A*S*H and Compulsion, and early Elastica and Sleeper.
Elastica and Sleeper eventually graduated to Britpop, but TAM never really seem to have made that transition :/
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