Even though I wasn't looking for them per se, I typed up "peel session" on SLSK and they came up. I had already heard some of their songs on Michael Goodstein's show on WFMU and figured I'd download the Peel Session because I admired how ramshackle they were...in a sense they're the British variant of Pylon. When I hit "download containing folder", I pretty much downloaded everything they released, from a rare 7" German EP (featuring a bad ass Germanic version of "I Didn't Get Where I Am Today By Being a Right Git"...one of the best titles ever no matter what) to the entirety of their
LP.
The LP's classic, as is the single for "We Are All Animals" and the German EP on Outatune Records, and I'm sure the rest (the Peel Sessions and the Discordo EP -- oh man, that title track is the nuttiest song ever) is just as consistent and brilliant skewered.
They were on New Hormones, for those not in the know, and some of the members went on to Dislocation Dance and The Pale Fountains. (Yes, I expect you to know who they are, haha!) They existed in the early Eighties and wrote songs like "Bricks" (they're not expensive at all!), "Isn't It Interesting How a Neutron Bomb Works?", "Fondue Soiree", and "I'm Not Going to Fight for Oil". Obviously the latter's still highly relevant today! They made the mundane very interesting and goddamn it they should've made a guest appearance on The Young Ones.
― Ian Riese-Moraine didn't get where he is today by being a right git! (Eastern Ma, Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)