Re: Various ‎– S*x Sweat & Blood (The New Dancability) (1982)

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:37 pm

Arhh, look at those little puppays!

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:38 pm

Nightjar wrote:I honestly don't know how many more of these 4 minute long slap bass-driven jazzy off-key funk run-outs I can manage any more.

No slap on this one.

Yet.

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:39 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Talking of X-Ray Spec, it's Laura!

"founding member of X-Ray Spex in 1976 but was fired in 1977".

Way to go.

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:40 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Arhh, look at those little puppays!

Aren't they kittens? Sly

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:40 pm

23 Skidoo.

Good grief!

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:40 pm

Wasn't 'Essential Logic' album a bit of a 'demanding' listen, it's been a while.

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:41 pm

Nightjar wrote:
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Arhh, look at those little puppays!

Aren't they kittens?

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by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:41 pm

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:41 pm

That's it.

I'm done.

Worn down to a nub I am.

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:42 pm

23 Skiddo.

Waiting for the tune.

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:42 pm

Otters?

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:44 pm

That was.. err.. what do they normally sound like? That appeared to be a B side that wasn't quite good enough.

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:45 pm

Anyway it is over.

I quite enjoyed that. ~~But I am groovemeister.~~ But you can understand why none of them are household names. sad yes

by Nightjar Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:00 pm

I'll give it ★★★ simply because track 1 was really quite good and because it represented a brief, perhaps confused but interesting transitional period in British alternative music history.

It was done in superior style and in earnest by A Certain Ratio and I guess that bands like Spandau Ballet and Duranx2 grew from it - although it's extremely debatable whether that's a good thing thing.

Especially SB, who I detest.

Also, the influence of Go-Go on a few tracks (strident, gruffly delivered call-and-response 'rapping' etc) was interesting.

Go-Go - like Miami Bass - is a lesser known sub-genre of Rap and Hip-Hop but it was influential for a while (in London at least).

by Guest Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:41 pm

I gave it a ★★★★, as it if I'd picked it up back in the day I'd have probably gone out to check out a couple of the bands, Fashiøn, Ministry, possibly The Dance, and Maybe Maximum joy

And it all hung together, kinda.

dunno

How about this confection:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-It-Wasnt-My-Idea-To-Dance/release/3943376

Amorphous Androgynous is Future Sound Of London, gasp