Well, kind of. Just four religous and irreligous slabs of beauty.
THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS - MAY BE THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN
This song is from the Texan Psychedelicists' final album, Bull In The Woods. I'm not even sure if Roky Erickson sings this. The way the jewel falls together is sublime, it's in a world of its own. I think it's dated so much better than a lot of sixties psychedelia, so intoxicated in its own sound it doesn't want to do anything, and here that works. Millions of bands now living would die to sound like this. Me included.
SPACEMEN 3 - LORD, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
I've never really been a fan of Spiritualised, and this song you might've initially heard by them. This was the original from Jason Pierce's previous band, and i think it works better. Low made me tearful when they covered this song live.
LINK WRAY - LA DE DA
Link Wray made a beautiful self-titled roots rock album in 1971. This is the opening track. If you've only ever heard Rumble, you'll be in for a shock. I guess this was the sort of thing the Stones had aimed for with Beggar's Banquet, and fair play to them, came pretty close. But Link here is totally sincere and i get carried away with the sentiment every time. Pretty amazing vocal performance from a a man with one lung.
SUICIDE - DREAM BABY DREAM
One of my favourite songs ever, from their second self titled album. It's an anthem. Suicide are a wonderful mix of the harrowing, uneasy and uplifiting. This mainly falls in the latter category. And like The Elevator's track - their music(BUY THE FIRST ALBUM IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT IT!) creates an entire world of its own. I would like to live there, but i'd be a bit on edge. Again, it's a sound that's much imitated. This song kills me - I watched the video for three seconds to see if it worked and a tear fell out just like that. If you've never seen Suicide, go to see them. It might sound more 80s eurotrash than 70s NYC but Alan Vega is still one of the most compelling performers i've ever seen. He hobbles around now as he's had trouble with his hip, which is another reason to go pay see them as there's no NHS in America, remember. Bruce Springsteen's live version of "Dream Baby Dream" is also worth checking out and at odds with the bombast that he's mainly known for.
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Your choice reminds of something a Mexican once said to me about the haunting "beauty in the singing of the cicadas."
ReplyDeleteWhile we were sipping London dry gin in the early madrugada hours, I became enchanted by this enormous omnipresent bowl of sound that was emitting from these tiny insects bordering our encampment, out in the stark lunar desert of Spain. It moved our bones and carried our sails.
And Cherie Cherie, what a song. Something repeatable about it, that subtle windup child´s toy, casio cassanova!
Here is one of my personal ever favourites I wanted to share with you. It´s close to the Electric Prunes 'To Much To Dream Last Night´, and alas made a B-Side to an equally devastating signature tune "Flight Reaction" (a proto 60s "Airbag" transport paranoia theme). I bring you the Calico Wall´s seminal I´m A Living Sickness. So groove them if you want!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBHDp6jfm18