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What are you listening to? Part XXX - Sexxxy tunes for sexxxy folks

Bleaney said:
I didn't know that. The lyrics are quite open to interpretaion.

Great song, from a great album though.

I love their last 2 albums.

It was only afterwards that I was informed that the band started off as a punk band.

For some reason I've found it difficult to go back and start from the start and listen to their earlier albums.

I hope to find the right time and mood at some point to do so. But even the band themselves admit that 'they were confused about what they were' at that stage, so maybe that doesn't bode especially well for their earliest material.

They're certainly not known as one of the great punk or hardcore bands. AFAIK. at least.

But as their later work is so strong, I think it'd be interesting to follow their discography. And I kind of feel that I owe it to them, if that doesn't sound too mental. :roll eyes:
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Here's an early one about Johnny Thunders.

 
Did you hear the new boxed ser LAMF album by johnny and the heartbreakers? Tremendous stuff. Good video they made too:

 
I think it's up there with Never mind the bullocks - Johnny's guitar and those two mixes - there's one killer mix of Chinese Rocks - Jerry Nolans drumming is frightening. And I think it's the essex studios version of "Born to lose".

"I'm livin on Chinese cocks" - Sid Vicious
 
Heard this track used on some random u tube video & loved it from the 1st play.
Great sound, & turns out they are from round my way too.

 
Perkins : Reborn said:
Here's an early one about Johnny Thunders.

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I like that, it's great.

The main baseline and even some of the drum rhythms and fills and parts of the guitar solo seem to borrow very heavily from Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, but I guess in music, everything is going to sound a bit, or quite a lot, like something else, after a certain point, but everything on top of that is uniquely theirs. I do like Westerberg's vocals.

It's really not what I'd call "punk" by any means though. But if the rest of their first album contains tracks as good as that, I'm encouraged to give it a try.

Have you ever heard much of The Only Ones? Peter Peret was a major smack head for decades, but more importantly he wrote great songs.

Apart from Another Girl Another Planet, which is by far their best known song, I think they had many much better songs, but it's so hard to chose one single best or most impressive song. There's at least a dozen brilliant tracks in contention.

This one has been doing it for me lately though. The ferocity and energy of the track is something else, and the take down and rebuild back up again is so well done, and the guitar solo is amazing.

Superb band, with way too little recognition.

 
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