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...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...
...there a horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label, the evil corporate geniuses who did the signing persuaded them to add trumpets, backing vocals, and other extraneous gauzy trappings: if some songs on You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (the first released Orange Juice LP) could properly revel in the resulting luxury, others sank into bombast...
...known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album Bat Out of Hell (1977), Meat Loaf gave clarion clout to rock's first decadent period. The Bat LP sold oodles; one cut (Two Out of Three Ain't Bad) was a hit single; another (Paradise by the Dashboard Light) became an influential proto-video. And for a moment or two, Meat Loaf was a movie star...