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I gave this one a "meh." Just couldn't quite get into it. They sound to me like they're trying to copy The Velvet Underground, The Stooges and, to a lesser extent, Hawkwind but can't make up their minds which direction to go for. Some good riffs here and there but they never seem to fully develop into anything substantial that I can sink my mind into and the lyrics seem rather mediocre at best.
5/10
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Originally Posted by jwb
A middle class job sounds like a boring menu option at a brothel
01:50 Instant Pleasure (Written By – E.Breau-N.DeMerchant)
04:29 Electro Rock
03:21 Nazi Apocalypse
04:38 Mole Machine (Written By – Breau, Christoff, Romany, DeMerchant)
03:15 Bullet Proof Nothing (Written By – E.Breau-N.DeMerchant)
04:06 Here Come The Cyborgs (Part 1)
07:03 Here Come The Cyborgs (Part 2)
04:40 Dance The Mutilation
10:21 Illegal Bodies
I wanted to dedicate this installment of The Album Club to Pet Sounds. Before he left he left a few words to a select few members in his final goodbye. This is what is he had said to me:
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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds
Neapolitan:
Thanks for all the tunes, amigo.
I was somewhat perplexed by that because I can't recall what those tunes were, except for one ... even that I'm not too sure of the exact song, just the name of the band. Fortunately I met up with him in plug.dj/mb a few months back. This was before he decided to part ways with Music Banter. So I had this rare opportunity to be in plug along with PS and I remember the excitement to play for him something new I found. At the I knew nothing about except the fact the band was from Hamilton, Ontario. He thought that was cool cause it was the next town over, down a road a piece. That band was named simply ... Simply Saucer.
So when I first discover this album, I was not at all sure when the material on this written and recorded. I figured they were a band closely related to that small movement of Garage Revival bands during the 80s like The Chesterfield Kings or The Morlocks, only because the album was said to be released in 1989. However not a full fledged Garage revival band, they seem to have much greater musical ambitions. So it was puzzling how this band fits into the context of the music scene during the 80s. This was all before I found out much later that it wasn't recorded in the late 80s, it's really archival material that was recorded a decade and a half earlier. Simply Saucer was a band that formed in the 70s and disbanded in the late 70s. The first side A consisting of the first six tracks was recorded in 1974! And you know what they say about 1974!
Side B the last three songs were recorded live in 1975. Simply Saucer start out pretty much the same way Pink Floyd did just jamming out experimental Rock. And they ended like The Beatles, playing live on a rooftop the last few songs they recorded.
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Originally Posted by Kyle, South Park
Our band can't find a stylistic direction to go in. We need to go down to the mall to buy hundreds of CDs to listen to so we can define our sound.
The band was formed by avid record collectors. Their main interest being mainly obscure albums. And in an ironic twist of fate they became obscure themselves.
This album falls that category of albums that almost never were, which is one of my favorites. Albums like Atlanta Twelve String, Bodast Tapes, & Colour Green etc. These albums that were never heard of till they were released years after being recorded. They was strong possibility they would be lost to the ages. There may have never been heard, except for some serendipitous reason.
This is also starving artist album like Trout Mask Replica. Where Edgar Breau toughed it out a year and a half devoting himself to the band, also in that time also writing the songs. They started out as a six piece band just doing experimental music. Then the band pared down to a four piece and Edgar got more interested in writing songs. He didn't entirely abandon the experimental side of the band, saving those jamming excursions for the instrumental interludes.
The band wears their influences on their sleeves and I don't mind that. They become like a puzzle piece connecting different styles and different bands together. When I first heard them I remember my exact thought being, 'So this is what Velvet Underground would sound like if only they used that EMS synthesizer, instead of Andy Warhol giving it away to Brian Eno.' Besides hearing a bit of Velvet Underground, I heard both Garage Rock and Psychedelic influences too. I thought how great that was. And the bass playing is amazing, imho second only to William Mysterious.
Edgar Breau cites bands like The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Hawkwind, early Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett (solo albums), Soft Machine as main interests. Even though not mentioned I am sure they were influenced by the Canadian Garage scene, and I set about looking for what those bands were. I found Haunted, The Ugly Ducklings, The Quiet Jungle and had fun time discovering them.
Electro Rock has a killer guitar solo. It starts off simple enough, but get more and more Psychedelic as it goes along. And I just love they way he sings as if he has a cold and is all nasally.
Bullet Proof Nothing has a strummy guitar part that reminds me of Brimful of Asha.
The album ends with him saying "Thank you we'll be back in a few minutes." It took years for them to get back. The plans of mice and men. The band never had commercial success, not the it was their main priority during their day. However with a release of the album and genuine interest in his music Breau reformed the band. You might be tempted to think this album is so old and irrelevant, but the band has toured as recently as 2017.
Revisit this album over and over.
rating: my socks were blown clear off/10.
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Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
Lots of energy, but nothing really sticks with you. I'm not that big a fan of VU's overall aesthetic either, so that didn't help much considering they seem to be a big influence on these guys. The garage rock sound would have been cool if they had crossed over into zeuhl territory or something, but this needed more rather than less weirdness.
Lots of energy, but nothing really sticks with you. I'm not that big a fan of VU's overall aesthetic either, so that didn't help much considering they seem to be a big influence on these guys. The garage rock sound would have been cool if they had crossed over into zeuhl territory or something, but this needed more rather than less weirdness.
Voted "meh".
Yeah, I am like 99% sure you wouldn't play this on your yatch. But I bet if you played it at the Marina it would be a big hit.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
The Album Club: "Cyborgs Revisited" by Simply Saucer
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