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
Ten Benson
Satan Kidney Pie
(Must Destroy, 2002)
Album two from much-missed/feared London swamp-riff monsters.
Where are Ten Benson? Their website (last updated in 2007) has few clues, merely a catalogue of personnel changes and internecine conflicts that simultaneously map their transformation from motley McJobbers, dressing up stolen metal riffs in all manner of ironic livery - vocoders, butchers' smocks, funny voices, the lot - to tattooed long-haired hillbillies trawling through the Hoxton abyss. There's Youtube footage of them playing a poorly-attended gig at London's Shunt Lounge in June of last year (538 views) which suggests they're at least not dead and that the on-off conflict between permanent member, vocalist/guitarist Chris Teckkam and drummer Karl Hussey is back off again. *SKP found them at their peak, serving up a bloody chum-bucket of in-bred metal and croaking crack-pipe vocals, singing of tits, heartbreak and war. This was no place for subtlety, unless it was a subtlety so slight as to be obscured by maggoty filth. Highpoints included the degenerate Buttholes racket of Come Home To Me and misguided single, One Way Ticket - ZZ Top's Legs, severed from the torso, dumped in a wood-chipper, spraying fat and noise. At this point it all sounded like a game they were playing with signifiers of American rock and the complex iconography of the greasy trucker's cap as it became co-opted by the Shoreditch twat and his ilk; tongue-in cheek even if it was someone else's tongue. More recently, they seem to have immersed themselves in the method of their madness. We only hope they're eating regularly.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 08/05/2009
Further Listening
Ten Benson - Hiss (Must Destroy, 2000)
Earl Brutus– Tonight You Are The Special One (Island, 1998)
Fat Truckers – The First Fat Truckers Album Is For Sale (Roadtrain, 2003)
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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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