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
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Prison
(Sub Pop, 1992)
Posthumous, sole album from Seattle gutter beatnik.
Of all the suicides in rock, Steven Jesse Bernstein’s might be the grisliest; on October 22 1991, the street junkie/performance poet who’d opened for the likes of Nirvana and Soundgarden stabbed himself in the throat three times. Associates were, it’s said, shocked but not surprised. Listen to powerful emotional purgative Prison and odds are you won’t be, either. Inside are gravelly, rapid monologues of degeneracy, doom and filth, recounted with a certain grisly relish by a writer who called himself a spokesman for society’s “expendable people”, but whose words can make anyone, however well-adjusted, feel like they’re in a coffin being covered with soil (gulp at This Clouded Heart, which commands, “You feel that everything you do is pornography!” I do?). Musically it’s a junkyard mélange of metal and hip hop that was mostly pieced together by Pigeonhed’s Steve Fisk after Bernstein did himself in, though the two, jazz-in-hell parts of No No Man were completed beforehand and cast a warped noir shadow on the rest. And despite everything, our man does have a sense of humour; on the metallic hip hopper Party Balloon, for example, he nerdishly observes, “I don’t like parties… but they’re fun I guess.”
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:37 AM GMT 07/07/2008
Further Listening
Tom Waits – Bone Machine (Island, 1992)
William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain – The “Priest” They Called Him (Tim/Kerr, 1993)
Barry Adamson – Stranger On The Sofa (Central Control, 2006)
You have been enjoying Sub Pop week on the MOJO site. Tune in tomorrow where normal service (of sorts) will resume with a Buff Medways album.
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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