From Peter Hollo Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 04:06
Just to dissent, I think that "This Film's Crap, Let's Slash The Seats" is 1000% better than "Let's Get Killed". I bought the latter album and sold it after about a week - those vocal interludes recorded on the street in between the tracks really annoy the hell out of me (I mean, after hearing them once, or perhaps twice, would you REALLY like to hear them again and again?) and many of them are part of the next track so you can't damn well program them out. And the music is just a bit big-beaty for me... pretty good in a lot of parts, but not enough to outweigh the drawbacks to me. On the other hand "This Films Crap" (yeah, the actual album title has no apostrophes, naughty!) is just a totally legendary album. The first track, "No Mans Land", and the last, "Coming Home To The Sun", share musical material, and the album's worth it for these tracks alone - epic sountrack-like stuff. Much of the album is co-produced by Kooner/Burns of Sabres of Paradise; there are cameos from Jah Wobble on bass and Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne, and indeed Keith Tenniswood (the "other" Lone Swordsman) plays on one track too. Don't believe the nay-sayers, this is an excellent album and deserves at least a good listen in a shop somewhere. I'm sure you can find it second-hand somewhere too. Peter. -- Peter Hollo xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.