“No Time This Time”/Police. Fine, double-timish track from Le Cops’ second LP. If you’re taling about there being “no time for small talk,” you’d better play fast! rhythmically, more conventionally a rock track than some of their early stuff, but still lots of fun, with a soaring chorus and excellent pre-chorus. better than average use of Der Stingle’s own high harmonies, though I’m on the fence about the flanged lead vox. nice quadruple false ending, too.
“Cross the Breeze”/Sonic Youth. I love this double LP, though I can seldom remember the names of individual tracks. this is the sort of thing that reminds me to go back for yet another listen. The prettily chiming intro, then those distinctive dissonant dual guitars, and so many wonderfully aggressive rhythmic shifts. I love that the vocals don’t come in till well after most pop songs would be getting ready to wrap up — almost 2.5 minutes in — but not because I don’t like Kim’s intentionally tuneless singing. Art punks! With the Youth, I always dig how the drums tend to keep to a fairly straight-ahead rock beat, regardless of how crazy everything else gets. Then everything breaks down, then gets built back up, and 5:30-6:30 or so is guitar bliss.
Police – No Time This Time
There are few pop &/or new wave bands with virtuoso drummers at Stewart Copeland’s level (Missing Persons with Terry Bozzio & maybe latter day Genesis are the 2 that come to mind). Fresh off some time spent in the nominally progressive Curved Air (kinda Jefferson Airplane-ish), his drumming helped separate The Police from the pack. His cymbal work is what I tend to notice and it is a part of a balanced attack on this frenetic track. The utilitarian guitar solo is well-placed and it is mercifully not too much over 3 minutes – must’ve been fun to play in concert while being quite the workout. Time!
Sonic Youth – Cross the Breeze
Another record that I need to fully investigate – one that I know to be a classic, but never got around to (but I dangle). This track first reminded me of Feelies – off of Crazy Rhythms, but then American Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of the Mind (
) – never would have linked to the psych previous, but the Amboy Dukes’ track happened to come up in my Pandora mix. Also thinking they were an influence for Smashing Pumpkins. While the Police track is held pretty tightly together, this one threatens to go wildly off the rails at several points. It uses it seven minutes wisely – exploring and providing several unexpected turns.
The Police – When people talk about best rock trios, The Police have to be in the discussion. Once Outlandos dropped, each subsequent album was an event for me. This was a solid ender to the album. Dig it.
Sonic Youth – Came a bit late to the Sonic Youth party, but once I got there it was worth the wait. This one captures the energy of Sonic Youth. Great track from a remarkable record.
No Time This Time: Frantic energy with a real live, organic feel to it. This would have been fun to watch in a small club. Drums and bass tire me out just listening; they kick ass. The voices have an effect on them that I want to turn down a bit but the song as a whole is a fun one to sink in to and bob the head…….also like the whole garage band feel of it…….
The Police – Nice and fast. and yes the drumming is the highlight of this song. Vocals and guitar get the job done. I think it’s too easy to dismiss the police as another 80’s new wave act. I picked up all their albums last year and I enjoyed almost every track. Only a few skip worthy songs across 5 albums. Not bad
Sonic Youth – Never listened to them before. I had a lot of preconceptions due to who was wearing the Sonic Youth patches in high school. Fast and punk-like as I expected. I wonder if Ed put the 2 fast songs together on purpose… I was not expecting female vocals. She’s not great, but it works great for the music. Did not know punkish songs went for 7 minutes.
Good stuff, I’ll listen to more.
“No Time This Time”/Police. Fine, double-timish track from Le Cops’ second LP. If you’re taling about there being “no time for small talk,” you’d better play fast! rhythmically, more conventionally a rock track than some of their early stuff, but still lots of fun, with a soaring chorus and excellent pre-chorus. better than average use of Der Stingle’s own high harmonies, though I’m on the fence about the flanged lead vox. nice quadruple false ending, too.
“Cross the Breeze”/Sonic Youth. I love this double LP, though I can seldom remember the names of individual tracks. this is the sort of thing that reminds me to go back for yet another listen. The prettily chiming intro, then those distinctive dissonant dual guitars, and so many wonderfully aggressive rhythmic shifts. I love that the vocals don’t come in till well after most pop songs would be getting ready to wrap up — almost 2.5 minutes in — but not because I don’t like Kim’s intentionally tuneless singing. Art punks! With the Youth, I always dig how the drums tend to keep to a fairly straight-ahead rock beat, regardless of how crazy everything else gets. Then everything breaks down, then gets built back up, and 5:30-6:30 or so is guitar bliss.
Police – No Time This Time
There are few pop &/or new wave bands with virtuoso drummers at Stewart Copeland’s level (Missing Persons with Terry Bozzio & maybe latter day Genesis are the 2 that come to mind). Fresh off some time spent in the nominally progressive Curved Air (kinda Jefferson Airplane-ish), his drumming helped separate The Police from the pack. His cymbal work is what I tend to notice and it is a part of a balanced attack on this frenetic track. The utilitarian guitar solo is well-placed and it is mercifully not too much over 3 minutes – must’ve been fun to play in concert while being quite the workout. Time!
Sonic Youth – Cross the Breeze
Another record that I need to fully investigate – one that I know to be a classic, but never got around to (but I dangle). This track first reminded me of Feelies – off of Crazy Rhythms, but then American Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of the Mind (
) – never would have linked to the psych previous, but the Amboy Dukes’ track happened to come up in my Pandora mix. Also thinking they were an influence for Smashing Pumpkins. While the Police track is held pretty tightly together, this one threatens to go wildly off the rails at several points. It uses it seven minutes wisely – exploring and providing several unexpected turns.
The Police – When people talk about best rock trios, The Police have to be in the discussion. Once Outlandos dropped, each subsequent album was an event for me. This was a solid ender to the album. Dig it.
Sonic Youth – Came a bit late to the Sonic Youth party, but once I got there it was worth the wait. This one captures the energy of Sonic Youth. Great track from a remarkable record.
No Time This Time: Frantic energy with a real live, organic feel to it. This would have been fun to watch in a small club. Drums and bass tire me out just listening; they kick ass. The voices have an effect on them that I want to turn down a bit but the song as a whole is a fun one to sink in to and bob the head…….also like the whole garage band feel of it…….
The Police – Nice and fast. and yes the drumming is the highlight of this song. Vocals and guitar get the job done. I think it’s too easy to dismiss the police as another 80’s new wave act. I picked up all their albums last year and I enjoyed almost every track. Only a few skip worthy songs across 5 albums. Not bad
Sonic Youth – Never listened to them before. I had a lot of preconceptions due to who was wearing the Sonic Youth patches in high school. Fast and punk-like as I expected. I wonder if Ed put the 2 fast songs together on purpose… I was not expecting female vocals. She’s not great, but it works great for the music. Did not know punkish songs went for 7 minutes.
Good stuff, I’ll listen to more.
It was somewhat happenstance – I try to make the selections for each week as random as possible using https://www.random.org