Shallow electropop and electroclash

martin

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On Berwick St...you had Daddy Kool and Selectadisc (and a ropey MVE) at the bottom, just past the fruit market. But then if you walked towards Tottenham Ct Rd, past Agent Provocateur, there was a massive record shop on the right...what was it called? Can't remember, but I walked in one day and they were blasting this, and I bought it. Seem to remember people hating their guts for being some sort of NYC hipsters, but IMO there aren't enough Suicide copycats

 

IdleRich

IdleRich
That Metal Dance compilation was put together by Trevor Jackson which reminds me of this song, another one I fucking LOVED and absolutely played to death after hearing Weatherall finish a night at Haywire Sessions with it (pretty sure the twelve inch version is longer though)

 

martin

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Don't know or maybe remember these at all. I think Bull in the Heather is a Sonic Youth song (right?) but I only know the name.
Yeah, I think so. I had it on some cruddy None Night Of Flexipop CD-R and actually thought it was a trailblazing early '80s obscurity...obviously not!
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
On Berwick St...you had Daddy Kool and Selectadisc (and a ropey MVE) at the bottom, just past the fruit market. But then if you walked towards Tottenham Ct Rd, past Agent Provocateur, there was a massive record shop on the right...what was it called? Can't remember, but I walked in one day and they were blasting this, and I bought it. Seem to remember people hating their guts for being some sort of NYC hipsters, but IMO there aren't enough Suicide copycats

Maybe Sounds of The Universe the Soul Jazz shop?

I often think that when you hear a band that rips off Suicide or something people are down on it, but there are 10 million bands that copy the Stones and so when someone else does it it doesn't even get criticised somehow. I guess the relative rarity of Suicide copy-ists means that everyone notices straight away.

Not electroclash obviously but I love this tune cos it sounds sorta like proto-Suicide to me

 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Was gonna say that Selectadisc had black and orange bags, Sounds of the Universe was not on Berwick St, it was (maybe still is I dunno) round the corner and I misunderstood what you were saying to think you were describing a nearby street.
 

Leo

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On Berwick St...you had Daddy Kool and Selectadisc (and a ropey MVE) at the bottom, just past the fruit market. But then if you walked towards Tottenham Ct Rd, past Agent Provocateur, there was a massive record shop on the right...what was it called? Can't remember, but I walked in one day and they were blasting this, and I bought it. Seem to remember people hating their guts for being some sort of NYC hipsters, but IMO there aren't enough Suicide copycats


the hipster connection was mostly due to Paul Sevigny (brother of downtown darling Chloe), who played in and managed them. originally also included Thomas Bulllock, aka Tom of England.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
He's playing in Portugal soon I noticed, someone messaged me about it but I'm busy.
Weren't they something to do with Rub n Tug too?
 

Leo

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yeah, he was one of the two guys. some to the Tom of England stuff is ok. he put out an ep on LIES a few years ago that had some interesting tracks, including (surprise!) a very "Dream Baby Dream"-esque one.

 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
Yeah Liza's got the album, I actually never thought of that one as particularly similar to Suicide but I know what you mean now you say it.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
It's actually tonight that Tom of England is playing in Caparica, a lot of people I know are going but I have a prior commitment. It got me to thinking though, Tom of England albums etc should have a specific illustrative style. I'm thinking loads of pics of chaps clad in leather and so on, but instead of them all being unfeasibly muscled Nordic supermen, he should have balding football hoolie types... rather than the leather straining to contain bulging biceps and baseball bat sized dongs, it should be stretched by heavy dangling beer bellies - equally impressive in their own way and requiring the same dedication over years and years to achieve. Those suggestively fascist caps no longer on top of aryan blond police or gestapo or whatever they are supposed to be, but instead placed on top of balding and shapeless potato heads while sculpted moustaches are replaced by manky stubble and wanker beards.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich

That guy but in this gear

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And I guess he should be restrained in a sexy dungeon by some kind of bondage harness, just for completeness sake like. And this guy below and a few of his mates who look as though they are his twin brothers are preparing to savagely - and sensually - whip him to within an inch of his life and then force him to surrender to sodomy.

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I guess I should probably apologise to anyone who became powerfully and uncontrollably aroused by this post. In the future I think I will need to warn people that I' m about to unleash the brutal beauty of my pen and that when the mood takes me I simply cannot be responsible for the untrammelled eroticism that pours forth
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Er, anyway, back to electroclash. This song (which I have mentioned on at least one other thread, something for which I make no apology as, on on each occasion it has fit perfectly, and cos I fucking love it) is one that could be seen as proto-electroclash in a way. I believe that it was knocked up in half an hour by non-musicians on their lunch break so it's as cheap and nasty as you could like, plus it has the stupid sexy lyrics. The only thing is, if it were a genuine electoclash number then the lyrics would be delivered deadpan but without any irony, the singer truly believing that doing so would make him or her into a genuine sex symbol.

Can anyone explain this line for me though, I'm obviously far too innocent to grasp it "Burn my hair I like that action, make me look like Michael Jackson"

 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Oh really, I never knew that. Ha ha that's pretty funny. Nice one, did you know that from the top of your head or did you have to retrieve it from some archive?
 
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