Word: lp
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...involved tuning the guitar in straight fourths and tapping the fretboard with two hands to produce pianistic-type lines. The story goes that he eventually took this novel act on to the streets of New York, 48th Street to be precise, playing and selling copies of his self-produced LP Touch Sensitive. He even had a weightlifter friend act as bodyguard, fending off hustlers...
...been planning to use this week's space for the new Pavement LP, since it's already on the tip of everyone's tongue here in the Rock Music Underground, and since I also happen to like it a lot. FM, however, has told me that I should not do that, because a member of Betty Please is already writing, or has already written, at length on Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain for next week's magazine, and there's no reason for this here "underground music column" to duplicate his work before it even appears. Which I took as meaning...
...backbeat" record--that's actually exciting and challenging to listen to. aMINIATURE have clearly heard a lot of Big Black and a lot of Replacements--there's one song, "Featurist," on this disc that wouldn't sound out of place on the 'Placemats' LET IT BE LP. But the best analogy for aMINIATURE's sound is a defunct Richmond, VA band called Honor Role, who combined continually off-balance, polyrhythmic bass and drum work with very simple guitar attacks and half-spoken, half-sung, half-muttered grumblings about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds...
...personified by Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Strummer et al, then the spirit of 1979 was all about experimentation: building new kinds of musical structures in the postapocalyptic terrain of post-punk, post-boom, post-rock and roll England. Nobody did it better than the London-based Raincoats, whose 1979 first LP has reappeared in America as a DGC CD (apparently at the request of some guy from Seattle named Cobain, who's been a big Raincoats fan for years). If they're famous for anything, the Raincoats are famous for their feminism. Ana da silva, Gina Birch, Vicki Aspinall, Shirley...
...Raincoats' self-consciousness about their sound-their sense of playing music that was about rock and roll. rather than playing rock and roll music--went hand in hand with a pure belief in the do-it-yourself, amateur ethic. The ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed...