Re: (idm) david holmes

From laerm
Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 16:45

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Peter Hollo wrote:

> 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?)

on one hand, i liked the "street samples" bit. the only part of the entire
album i thought was original.

> 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.

however, this sounds more like my speed. and jah wobble is the shit as far
as i'm concerned.

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