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Brave Captain Go With Yourself CD Witchita. by Keith Mclachlan. January 16, 2001. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
![]() But O once! Once! Once! O the booming songs of old Filled this sir with joyful love Now old and boring. Here Captain! dull mother! I kept my ten Quid! Thank god for listening stations, Go with Yourself, no really. Brave Captain, how can I explain, total disappointment, My father wouldn't like this either, and he likes Tony Bennet. The record is a lead balloon, crashing on my ears ouch, A fearful mess but at least I didn't buy it. Let's celebrate the feeling! Of not buying this record! Walk the plank Brave Captain, Where is my Eggman cd? | |
Brave Captain The Fingertip Saint Sessions Volume 1 CD Wichita. webb03. by Keith McLachlan. September 2, 2000. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
![]() I think I would have preferred the name Brave Shadow over Brave Captain though, if only for the comic book hero appeal of anything shadow. Alec Baldwin could have played Martin in the movie about the making of the upcoming Brave Shadow errr...Captain record and Tyra Banks could play Gorwell Owen the wizard with the fancy knobs. Oh but the name is not the real problem I sorta have with this record though, for it is the clear opinion that it does not really thrill me that underlies my slight disappointment. Martin sings and that is definitely not a problem as he is nearly indistinguishable from a real singer, but rather the tunes he croons are all meandering and pastoral but without any shards of beautiful cacophony that used to catch up on your ears and make a beautifully tangled mess of everything. He recorded this mini-lp mostly with the aid of the previously mentioned Gorwell Owen who does all the recording for Gorky's and Super Furries but as where due to overt familiarity and similarity of daftness he has a common wavelength established with those bands, here he might be employed simply to institute a new direction for Martin and it is not been a completely successful enterprise. Maybe the best tunes have been saved for the album, maybe the dopey politics have been exorcised, maybe his stint as acoustic balladeer will last just for the one song (the truly dreadful 'starfish') and just maybe if he had chosen Brave Shadow then he could have become the summer's second victim of irony (see all the Baxendale non-love) for soon every rock critic and supposed serious music fan with a miner's helmet will be crawling up every crevice of Thom 'with the redundant pretentious h' Yorke's rectum searching for the meaning of his truly banal self flatulating lyricism and leave Martin alone with his William Blake quotes and paintball goggles. The mere thought makes my skin itch. | |
Bressa Creeting Cake Bressa Creeting Cake CD Flying Nun. fncd-385. by Keith McLachlan. May 26, 1997. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
![]() The first song on the LP is a calypso sounding number indi cating these boys are on a different track than the rest of us. Throughout its span, the record encompasses bouncy, spongy pop forms like "Palm Singing" and "An Early Microscope" and eerily bizarre ballads like "A Chip That Sells Millions" which seems to be about telling everyone in school about a brilliant new flavour of potato chips. The vocals are highly stylized, and varied, from high pitched dawdling to swinging pop mode. Their wit is undeniable, and it is matched by a dazzling inventiveness of musical textures and well spun patchwork of ideas. Acoustic songs blend into more electric ones, that sometimes are augmented by electronic percussion and eclectic keyboard shunts. Also, a recent package from Flying Nun included a postcard from Ed Cake (singer/guitarist) and he recounted the remarkable similarities between the story told in the fabulous tune "Rocketship" and the Heaven's Gate cult--he modestly admitted to his stunning soothsayer abilities, and you will be cheerfully surprised by his supernatural abilities as well. So here it is, Flying Nun can either use these guys as a springboard back into meaningfulness or this record can serve only as a reminder of what once was and may never be again. | |
Brian And The Teenagers Digital Vasectomy Martial Arts 7" vinyl C.U. Next Tuesday. tu01. by Crayola Summer. October 12, 1997. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
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the Brian Jonestown Massacre Give It Back! CD Bomp. BCD 4068. by Keith McLachlan. November 15, 1997. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
![]() This record really was telepathically transported from 1967 to 1997 by some strange means of Soviet mind control, as the sitar is turned up high, the vibes are brought down low and man the groove is smoking as BJM delivers a nice set of blues inflected pop gems that sound either like T. Rex or the Stones, take your pick as I have had disagreements over both comparisons mostly cause truly I am not that familiar with either of those bands works outside of the hits. But well when you take aim at the much lauded and very empty-headed Dandy Warhols with a track like "Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth" even with the sole intention of creating some contrived pseudo-controversial rivalry that doesn't really exist well that is almost what most would call rokk'n'roll baby. | |
Brideshead Some People Have All The Fun CD Marsh-Marigold. Mari 15. by Keith McLachlan. March 3, 1999. See more about this title. Out of Stock. |
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