Word: jimi
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...noise in book stores. Rhino Records has issued The Spike Jones Anthology, a handsome, 40- song dose of the band's top tunes, including the chirping, barking, cackling Love in Bloom and the magnificent Hawaiian War Chant, which climaxes with a wail of electric-guitar dissonance that predates Jimi Hendrix by 20 years. A quirkier collection -- Spiked!, on Catalyst -- has some prime oddities, notably a suave, six-part ribbing of The Nutcracker Suite (1945), which must count as one of the earliest "concept albums...
Like most young Americans, Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band." Yet, both Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix were rock gods who succumbed early to tragic drug overdoses. So wouldn't chance departure form this life be a pathetic cliche...
Much as Oliver Stone would have you believe otherwise, Jim Morrison died from one drink too many. Guitar great Jimi Hendrix simply took more Quaaludes than were necessary. John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, should have been lying on his stomach after all those shots of vodka. But Kurt Cobain overdosed on buck shot...
...music on this disc, like ancient Gaul, is easily divided into three separate parts, although they have been craftily interwoven by those folks at Island Records. First, and beyond criticism, are four great songs roughly from the period when the movie is set: "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix, "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion" by the Kinks, "Is This Love" by Bob Marley, and "Whiskey In A Jar" by Thin Lizzy. These songs are just fantastic, though you probably don't need this disc to listen to them, and it doesn't particularly add to their brilliance to hear them together...
...they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send f2 to Nick Saloman, Woronzow Records, 75 Melville Rd., Walthamstow, London...