Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
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Features Disc of the day
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Acme – Plus
(Mute, 1998)
Tired post-modern joke accidentally produces great album.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are the worst kind of journalist band, a smug trio of urban frowners who make music for grumpy music fans and scribes just waiting for the opportunity to explain the inherent humour of a band called The Blues Explosion who don’t, ahem, play blues but merely, ahem, repeat and recycle the clichés of rock’n’roll at great volume. Tee hee. The album you’re always urged to buy (sometimes by MOJO, damn us) is 1994’s Orange in which Spencer and co.’s reductio ad absurdum model strips out all rock’n’roll colour leaving nothing but the jerking skeleton. But, like Les Dawson at the piano or Jack Benny on the violin you have to be clever to sound that bad and on this collection of off-cuts from 1998’s Acme you hear what JSBX can do when they’re not being an art band. Featuring remixes (an on-form David Holmes adds grits and grime to T.A.T.B.), Hollywood soundtrack gigs and tracks that didn’t fit their arid blueprint, including a super-frenzied, hair-on-fire assault on Get Down Lover, Acme-Plus is a dumb and joyous pop rock party. And, yes, all of those words where chosen to cause the most distress to Mr Spencer and his cohorts. Tee hee.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 02/02/2008
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R. L. Burnside – A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey (Matador, 1996)
Various Artists – Sunday Nights: The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum 2005)
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Not sure what a "journalist band" is, but I'm suspecting the "worst kind" would be the kind most worth hearing. I don't know where you get the idea that they are frowners making music for grumps. I haven't kept in touch with their last couple of albums, but they seemed to be one of the few high-profile nineties bands invested in fun rather than nihilism, and even a cursory listen to their recorded output and a live show or two would easily tell you that. If they didn't feel like answering a couple of stupid questions from a rock journalist, that hardly makes them dour cretins.
Posted by Josh at 4:19 AM GMT 03/02/2008 Report Abuse
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Yeah but they do suck.
Posted by Saltz at 10:44 AM GMT 03/02/2008 Report Abuse
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Early Blues Explosion albums such as Crypt Style and Extra Width feature some of most cliche-free rock n roll ever recorded. None of their albums sound tired to me..
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