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
Dillinger
CB200
(Island, 1976)
The former Alcapone Junior revs up the mic deejay style.
Dillinger's signature tune Cokane In My Brain has been covered by such disparate musical forces as Ian Brown, The Mars Volta and Die Toten Hosen - proof if it was needed that the man christened Lester Bullocks was worth his shout-out on The Clash's White Man In Hammersmith Palais. Given the name of the famous American bankrobber by Lee Perry, who was producing him at the time, Dillinger effortlessly re-voices songs recorded at Channel One studios by Gregory Isaacs, The Mighty Diamonds and others with humour and seriousness where necessary. In the former category, the dubbed-up, brass-scything Race Day jocularly imagines a day betting on horses at the Caymanas Park track in St Catherine, while, in Buckingham Palace, the singer airs anti-establishment credentials by blazing up his "chalice" in the queen's gaff and burning down the Vatican. Somewhere in the middle is the aforementioned and very grooving anti-drug tune Cokane In My Brain - what heights of schizoid psychosis must the narrator be roving in, to free-associate a two-way conversation with himself about how "a knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork, that's the way we spell New York"? Elsewhere, Natty Kick Like Lightning is a martial arts/football mash-up that aims to (what else) make Babylon fall and set Dread free, and Crankface sees pal Trinity stop by on a version of The Spinners' It's A Shame, wherein Dillinger sympathises with an attractive woman who cannot cook. The CB200, meanwhile, was the Honda motorbike that was useful for circumventing traffic jams in Kingston. Now, who's dancing? This guy.
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:25 AM GMT 23/03/2010
Further Listening
Dillinger - Bionic Dread (Island, 1976)
Big Youth - Screaming Target (Trojan, 1973)
U-Roy - Natty Rebel (Virgin, 1976)
Previous Disc of the day
-
-
Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
-
Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
-
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
-
-
Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
end of body content back to top
Footer
Join us on:
© Copyright Bauer - all
rights reserved.
Reproduction of this
website, in whole or in
part, in any form or
medium without express
written permission from
Bauer is prohibited. All
use is subject to our
Terms of Use
|
|
Comments
Comment on this post
Great album!
Posted by Filthy McNasty at 12:41 PM GMT 23/03/2010 Report Abuse
Reply to this post
Comment on this post