Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Happy Mondays
Bummed
(Factory, 1988)
Deviants touched by genius make all-time Factory classic. Skin up, etc.
When Bernard Sumner produced Happy Mondays’ single Freaky Dancin’ in 1986, he remarked upon the band’s six ordinary Salford Joes eating a fag-ash sprinkled Chinese takeaway they’d found in a bin. It’s stories like this, not to mention some of the group’s fondness for powerful chemicals, that gave the band the estate-oik frisson that’s sometimes detracted from the true splendour of their music. Thrilling and sordid, Bummed is their brain-scrambling best; it’s funk with the funk extracted, and it oozes out like sap while a unique self-taught guitarist scratches and scrapes as Ryder smirks and foghorns his psycho-logorrhoea like a Lancastrian Captain Beefheart. It’s a claustrophobic world of schizophrenia, intoxication and grimy sex, but however queasily self-evident songs called Fat Lady Wrestlers, Performance and Brain Dead seem, it’s more than just car thieves off their nuts, as when Mad Cyril samples Edward Fox from the film Performance declaring, “I need a bohemian atmosphere” (with perfect druggie logic, Brain Dead’s intro of “You’re rendering that scaffolding dangerous!” is off Gimme Shelter, another film with Mick Jagger in it). As for the album’s oppressive sound, rumour has it that Martin Hannett, the former Joy Division studio visionary whose bad habits were leading him to his own Golgotha of smack and Guinness, was too out of it to properly produce, and instead pushed all the mixing desk faders up to ten with his commodious ale-gut. But Bummed remains double double good. Just beware of the possibly not-safe-for-work inner sleeve image, which succeeded in offending Genesis P Orridge.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 19/05/2008
Further Listening
Happy Mondays – Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches (Factory, 1990)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound, 1971)
King Of The Slums – Blowzy Weirdos (Cherry Red, 1991)
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