From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #152 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, June 8 2006 Volume 09 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Googoo ga joob [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] Republic-News (Vancouver) ["Cornelio Ud Ad (Ally in exile)" <] Re: [idealcopy] Republic-News (Vancouver) ["David McKenzie" Subject: [idealcopy] Googoo ga joob Keith A said: A Day In The Life wins. Not even sure what mine would be... ((( My all time favourite Beatles song would have to be I Am The Walrus. So ahead of it's time. Other favourites would be I Want You (she's so heavy), and Come Together, amongst many others... Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:41:59 +0200 From: "Cornelio Ud Ad (Ally in exile)" Subject: [idealcopy] Republic-News (Vancouver) A short article about Wire from 26th March in a Canadian Newspaper. Maybe I am not the first that posts it here. Most interesting, the relationship between Wire and one of my favourite books, Sterne's Tristram Shandy... http://www.republic-news.org/archive/139-repub/139_matt_goody.htm Vancouver Wire: Pink Flag (Pink Flag 11/ Revolver); Chairs Missing (Pink Flag 12/Revolver); 154 (Pink Flag 13/Revolver) by Matt Goody ?In a hilarious scene from Michael Winterbottom's recent film A Cock and Bull Story, actor Steve Coogan states that Laurence Stern's novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, was post-modern "before there was anything to be post about." The same can be said about British "post-punk" band Wire. With Pink Flag, and their two follow up LPs, Wire was moving beyond punk just as punk was hitting big in 1977. Now, after years without a CD release, we finally have all three recordings re-mastered and repackaged, giving them the proper consideration they have deserved. Few debut records had been more ambitious and powerful as Pink Flag was when it was released in December 1977, just months after the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks and the Clash's first self-titled release. The album's concise songs, with machine-like precision in percussion and intense driving guitars, signalled that the art school quartet wanted to both challenge traditional rock sounds and distance themselves from the supposed anti-pop principle of punk. Wire clearly saw that beneath the supposed rebellious anti-commercial veneer of the Pistols lay a band that was assembled to sell records, yet they also were willing to show that they weren't afraid to infuse pop into their music. With songs like "The Commercial," the band coyly hints at the conspicuous consumption dominant in late-'70s culture by creating a 40-second snippet of a song. However, throughout the record, there is also a willingness to provide catchy hooks and danceable rhythms. With Chairs Missing and 154, Wire branches off in several directions instead of sticking to what brought them success on their first record. As Sam Bloch of Stylus recently noted, Wire "have to move to stay alive," infusing Brian Eno synths and vocal loops to break out of the one-minute punk song mode, while keeping the lyrical cynicism and mockery that dominated Pink Flag. The end of the '70s was hard for some; some bands didn't change and couldn't survive. While Johnny Rotten was getting the feeling he'd been cheated, Wire already knew that's how things work, strapping their guitars on their backs and surging forward in brave new directions. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:11:23 -0500 From: "David McKenzie" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Republic-News (Vancouver) and I always thought it was Mike Thorne > ... infusing Brian Eno synths and vocal loops ... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:27:46 +0000 From: dpbailey@att.net Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Republic-News (Vancouver) i'm assuming he meant *in the style of* eno ... dan - -------------- Original message from "David McKenzie" : -------------- > and I always thought it was Mike Thorne > > > > > ... infusing Brian Eno synths and vocal loops ... ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #152 *******************************