Working Man's Dick_音乐专辑
Working Man's Dick
表演者: Supreme Dicks
发行时间: 1994
唱片数: 1
出版者: Freek Records
条形码: 0785501000222
专辑简介
Billed as "archival recordings 1987-1989," Working Man's Dick makes the official albums from the Supreme Dicks seem as polished as Pet Sounds. Very much a compliment, to be sure: next to nobody was sounding anywhere near so fractured, offbeat and interesting in indie rock at that time outside of the obscurer corners of New Zealand. The obscurity that swathes the band continues here — who knows who is playing on what song or even if the lineup is at all stable or consistent, but the results are what counts, and great results they are. The various vocal approaches help to immediately mark the band, ranging from the in-the-mic low semi-grumble/croon on "All That Returns" to the variety of styles on display in the chop-up piece "Arise! Life-Giving Seagull." If there's something that really marks out the band and this album, though, it's the beautiful melancholy on so many songs, combined with the fact that for all the seeming casualness the Supreme Dicks are very specific players, also aiming to set and maintain moods and mantras rather than solely improvise. Efforts like "For Now" and "Chateaux Banana! Parts XIII-XVI," as a result, forecast the exalted heights of Slint and Mogwai in their intensity, even if only in brief bursts. Songs like "Andy Herman Song," tender, quavering vocals, gentle descending guitar, and precise percussion, and the guitar/recorder combination evident on "The Baal Shem" need no qualification or extra musical shock value to demonstrate their worth. Moments such as what sounds like the mike-scratch rhythm on "The Pear Thripe" (followed by an audible decrease in volume all around) add to the off-kilter, fascinating appeal of the collection and the band itself.
曲目
Tracklisting:
1 Ranada's Demon
2 The Long Page You Learnt
3 All That Returns
4 In The Whippoorwills Sad Orchard
5 True Elephant
6 The Pear Thripe
7 Flaming Day Of The Locusts
8 Andy Herman Song
9 For Now
10 Descension Song
11 The Pusher
12 Hyacinth Girls
13 Arise! Live Giving Seagull
14 Talking Moby Dick Blues
15 Shroud Like Remains
16 The Baal Shem
17 The Searcher
18 Night At The Opera
19 Chateaux Banana! Parts XIII-XVI
20 Viva La Speedy Orgons
