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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: SOTT 19 - Feelgood By Numbers |
| Date | Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:46:49 -0500 |
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From: "Mark Smith" <markmsmith@gmail.com>
> 3 The Jam - Shopping
> (from the Direction, Reaction, Creation box and b-side to final
> single Beat Surrender)
> I've been rediscovering my love for The Jam recently, a band who
> were
> really important to me when I was in my late teens. This helps show
> why they were never truly just a punk band. Its jazzy tune, brass
> arrangement and Rick Buckler on brushes show Weller heading further
> away from the style of music that had typified The Jam.
Hugely underrated song, and one of my favorite things from the Jam's
final era. (Although, as I've written before, I always find it ironic
that Paul Weller supposedly broke up the Jam to explore more varied
and different styles of music, and yet the Style Council's records
were basically late-period Jam plus a full-time keyboardist and a
better drummer.)
> 11 Motorpsycho - BS
> (from Phanerothyme)
> You can keep the overrated Soundtrack Of Our Lives who seem to
> plough
> the same furrow over and over, I'll take these guys for my
> Scandinavian psychedelic rock specifically the albums It's A Love
> Cult
> and Phanerothyme. Stunning stuff. This is the second of their tracks
> I've compiled having added Neverland to a previous SOTT.
> The release after those two was a collaboration with a Norwegian
> jazz
> outfit 'The Jaga Jazzist Horns'
That EP with the Jaga Jazzist Horns is really quite good, by the way:
reminds me of the longer, more atmospheric songs from IT'S A LOVE
CULT, but enhanced with a great free-improv horn section that really
enlivens the proceedings.
S
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