Saturated Fats
This is water
Re-listening to it for the first time in yeeeeears, I got a big Primus vibe off of the first track. But I can definitely sense what Maynard would've picked up from the bulk of it.
Music: Best Albums of the Year Series: 1981
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Roo Returns
Skjeikspeare No More
Thank you to whoever put Japan in this poll. As a bass player I love Mick Karn.
That band is criminally underrated in the US. I think the only way people would even know them is from The Deftones cover of Ghosts.
The reason I became a fan was sheer luck and randomness. Bass Player Magazine did a feature on Mick Karn in 2007 as a fretless player, and the same month a gentleman at my job who was in a goth band and about 17 years my senior started telling me all these late 70s/early 80s Post Punk and New Romantic bands he was into and when he mentioned Japan "oh that's the band with that fretless bass dude" and he wrote down some tracks on a Post It for me.
That band is criminally underrated in the US. I think the only way people would even know them is from The Deftones cover of Ghosts.
The reason I became a fan was sheer luck and randomness. Bass Player Magazine did a feature on Mick Karn in 2007 as a fretless player, and the same month a gentleman at my job who was in a goth band and about 17 years my senior started telling me all these late 70s/early 80s Post Punk and New Romantic bands he was into and when he mentioned Japan "oh that's the band with that fretless bass dude" and he wrote down some tracks on a Post It for me.
Saturated Fats
This is water
Whoever could it be...!?
Completely agree, and love this album. It's in my top-5 of the year, and is a late-night weekend-buzz favourite.
ChiTownPhilly
Not Too Soft
Blink and you missed 'em. Lucky me- I didn't blink.
Back before Social Media, when not ALL music commentary was "with USURA" (made to sell and sell quickly), we would get occasional, comet-like flashes of insight from the likes of the intermittently incomparable Paul Morley. Reviewing Altered Images, he said:
"Having the desire to lecture feverishly about the Images' dynamic suggestion of new meanings and new relations, but knowing most people don't want to think twice, I force myself to be brief. Brief, bold, secret but coherent, joyous and inexpressibly apprehensive... just like an Altered Images song, which trembles and then tumbles somewhere between knowing the facts of life and discovering one of the meanings of life."
Roo Returns
Skjeikspeare No More
I love their earlier stuff to like Adolescent and Obscure Alternative. Someone once asked me how to describe it "if Red Hot Chili Peppers and the NY Dolls had a baby."
