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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
GOOD, BAD, NOT EVIL
BAD KIDS
COLD HANDS
The Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil
Vice : 2007
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From: Matthew Specktor
Subject: Veni Vedi Vici
To: Alex Abramovich
Date: August 12, 2008
Damn, this Black Lips is kicking my ass just now! It's fucking great. Yet...why? I have all the Chocolate Watchband shit, the Remains, Nuggets & Pebbles comps out the wazoo. I never had much patience for, say, the Lyres (OK, the first record's great), the Chesterfield Kings, the Cynics etc.
So why, why, why is this record so good?
STRYCHNINE
The Sonics
Here Are The Sonics
Etiquette : 1965
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MONK TIME
The Monks
Black Monk Time
Polydor : 1966
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I GIVE YOU AN INCH (AND YOU TAKE A MILE)
The Mods
Peck : 1966
Available on: Teenage Shutdown vol. 10
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HELP YOU ANN
The Lyres
On Fyre
Ace of Hearts : 1984
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STORMY WEATHER
The Reigning Sound
Time Bomb High School
In The Red : 2002
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I'LL CRY
The Reigning Sound
Too Much Guitar
In The Red : 2004
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From: Alex Abramovich
Subject: Vedi Vici Veni
To: Alex Abramovich
Date: August 12, 2008
Let me just preface this by saying, I saw a fifty-something guy, in a Range Rover, on 6th Avenue the other day, blasting the Sonics....
I don't mind the Lyres. I love the Monks. (ie, the first white band to turn their entire white band into a rhythm instrument - please watch this video and write me back an actual letter explaining that the Monks are not actually doing Sonic Youth shit while Sonic Youth are still in short pants?) I'll put my Reigning Sound up against your Grizzly Bear/whatevers, anytime. So I think can answer this:
TBL came up in the post-industry-collapse world, where bands have to prove themselves live - stayed on their grind night after night for years and years - and got tight enough to play loose as fuck.
They're smart, and they're funny ("Bad kids/Product of no dad kids"?!?). Their songs are better than we have any right to expect them to be. They're from Atlanta, which is not Boston (which is not LA). They're not fetishists, like the Lyres, and they seem young enough to not have the anxiety of influence thing which makes curator bands like the White Stripe so annoying. I've seen them live, twice - unlike, say, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, they're fucking great - and they've got the whole Beatles-head-shake down. Their original lead singer was killed in some sad-as-fuck drunk driving accident, so they're not untouched by life & other, ensuing tragedies.
They would never link to something they wrote for Slate....Labels: alex, garage rock, Matthew
posted by Alex
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