Fok! Muziek Trivia deel DLXXIV

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's cancer-stricken mother asked her son to write a song for her. Her son's band responded with “:X” (also known as “Swan Lake,”), and she found it to be funny. The U.K. liked the song enough to place it in their top 20. Hardly a laff riot, the song features at his most desperate and stark, which says a great deal about a song on the only album fit for being stored in a metal canister – needless to say, 's mother had a dark sense of humor. The song is built on a dense groove informed equally by dub and disco – bassist and drummer lock into place on a 4/4 rhythm, and the bass throbs and bobs with a simple hypnotic pattern. The guitarist scrawls and screeches on top, dishing out shards of guitar that complement the rhythm one moment and then shift into horrific riffing the next. Despite the ugliness of the guitar, it's hardly any competition for 's vocals. Throat be damned, he lets loose the grim imagery: “Choking on a bed/Flowers rotting dead”; “Watch her slowly die/Saw it in her eyes.” Cathartic, to say the absolute least. Over the course of the next few decades, various songs would be referred to as “:X,” but none of them ever approximated the violence, depth, or bleak thrill of the reference point.

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 18:54 schreef bartrid het volgende:
alhoewel het op mijn Metal Box gewoon Swan Lake heet maar op de Death Disco verzamelaar heet het Death Disco

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:10 schreef belsen het volgende:
Dat is Radio 4, vernoemd naar een nummer van PiL van The metal box.

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:31 schreef bartrid het volgende:
Ginger Baker toch?

Maak van elke dag een Public Image dag.

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:32 schreef belsen het volgende:

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Zekers.

Bartrid +1

_{Maak van elke dag een Public Image dag.}

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"Bill Laswell, the producer, called and I flew in and out of New York from shows to cut the parts. I basically did all the guitar parts in two days... Some of the material I'd never heard and just went in and started playing on it. At the end, Johnny Lydon came in and liked it. "
Roger Trilling, "We recorded a few days of at Electric Lady, and then moved over to RPM for three days of vocals. John, I think, got a cassette the evening before. The idea was to get him on the initial take, and if it didn't work, keep the tapes, which was Bill's music anyway."

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:34 schreef Gambolputty het volgende:

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_{een beetje limited mag wel...}

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:38 schreef belsen het volgende:
Steve Vai, waarschijnlijk.

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were a post punk band from Bristol, United Kingdom whose uncompromising, dissonant sound spanned punk, free jazz and dub reggae. Their lyrics were, more often than not, political in nature.

Formed in 1978, they issued their debut single, She is Beyond Good and Evil on the 'Radar' label the following year.

Their debut album Y,was one of the earliest touchstones of the emerging post-punk sound. Produced by reggae veteran Dennis Bovell, the record is still cited today as one of the best of the era, although it is, at the time of writing, along with the rest of their discography, sadly out of print, save for an expensive import edition from the Japanese label Wea. A rarities compilation known as We Are All Prostitutes is also available on the Japanese label AK according to Amazon.com.

De drummer van deze band ging later naar PiL, overigens.

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:49 schreef peaceman het volgende:
The Popgroup?

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:51 schreef belsen het volgende:

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Damn, jij online...

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 19:55 schreef bartrid het volgende:
Mark Stewart zong daar toch in?

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 20:18 schreef belsen het volgende:
Hij lijkt ook wel wat op Andy Kaufman, wordt zijn werk eindelijk eens heruitgegeven?

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Op maandag 21 november 2005 20:38 schreef Neleos het volgende:
Met dichtgeknepen ogen is het net Bruce Springsteen...