"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
Avviso per gli utenti italiani di misha4music: vi invito a dare un'occhiata ad un blog amico di misha, ovvero shockadelica, questo interamente in italiano. Ultimo post sui bootlegs di Bob Dylan.
Tra i precedenti vi segnalo gli articoli sulle nuove band della scena rock veronese (menziono qui, tanto per dirne alcune, Carnera e Younger Son). Accorrete!
Glenn Mercer's band is a little miracle of the eighties. One of these cult bands that helped people remember what rock music could be (among the horror vacui of 80's stadium rock bands or synth pop music criminals), much like what Big Star did in the 70's. Both Big Star and The Feelies were outsiders: Alex Chilton & co. were in love with british bands of the sixties and califonian rock (of the same decade), pretty much like The Feelies sounded as sons of late period Velvet Underground or Modern Lovers's devotés: go and listen to the album's first song, "The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness" and see if it doesn't sound like a track from Modern Lovers' debut. Moreover the Rolling Stones' Paint it black and the Beatles' Everybody's got something to hide are two not-so-far-from-the-original but yet very good cover versions. Waht else? Of course Loveless love's, whose initial harmonics could be considered worth, per sé, the listen of the entire album. The fact that the rest of the song is a joyous electric ride like a double speed Velvet Underground number makes it just perfect. Raised eyebrows then kind of reminds me of the the first stuff (in particular the last part, the sung one) Brian Eno did, his first LPs. But I could easily go on and on. What matters is that The Feelies were a hell of a band and that, still to this day, didn't get enough credit. And they do deserve it.
I don't have much time on my hands these days, so I'll just post a few videos from youtube of the Go-betweens that I have just discovered (and a big thank you to Zelig 666)
The wrong road, live in Brisbane, probably 1987
Bye bye pride, live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987
The Clarke sisters live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987
Bow down, live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987
Spring rain, live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987
In the core of a flame, live on the ABC's Blah Blah Bla...
Part company, live on the ABC's Blah Blah Bla...
The Clarke sisters, live on the ABC's Blah Blah Bla...
Bye bye pride, live on the ABC's Blah Blah Bla...
Right here, live on the ABC's Blah Blah Bla...
Spirit of a vampyre, live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1986
