V/VM: Classic Or Dud?

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"meat your needs": great LP/porn movie title

they're (he's) fun. up to a point.

but difficult to maintain interest in it after a while. that double cd thing that came out (auralofflalwaffle) thing had some nice stuff on - the mad mouse from morecambe big dipper thing was brilliant, but then funfair/big dipper music is fantastic anyway.

the take on asford&simpson's solid is very good too, giving the original this strange gunky funkiness. the turkey 7" is good, all christmas and arfur daley stuff.

but then there just seemed to be to many comedy covers. the falco one was boring, i'd rather just play the original. i can't see myself getting any more v/vm records. its worn a little thin now, become too one-dimensional.

Think they're a bit like Stock, Hausen and Waterman - the packaging and titles are more amusing than the actual recs, which suffer from the age-old prob of most 'comedy' albs - they're only truly funny the first time you hear 'em. Anybody heard the 'Girls on Top' single, which I think is a partial exception to this rule - the vocals from TLC's 'No Scrubs' and Whitney's 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' grafted onto the backing tracks of The Human League's 'Being Boiled' and Kraftwerk's 'Computer Love' respectively. It works as music as well as comedy by reconfiguring the familiar and making it seem fresh/strange, something V/VM never really seem to manage.

then again, i was reading the christmas NME (it was at a friends house, ok?) and they played v/vm's true steppaz thing to Jonny L, and he really hated it, and started going on about musicality and craft. he was really really offended by it, and said it sounded like 'just some kid with a computer' (and he used that as an insult!)

i was really disappointed by what he said, i mean, come on, it's Jonny L. he made the wonderful 'Hurt You So', and then he turns out to be a rockist old fool. he was talking about travis or something and praising its craft. he didn't seem to like it that much, and said it was good for 'the student crowd' i think, but he liked the fact that travis 'meant it'. shudder...

I've never understood - is V/VM an artist or a label or what?

v/vm is/was an artist and label. now the label is called "v/vm test." the only thing i've heard by them that i'd pay for was their side of the fat cat split with third eye foundation. at some point it all became a non-elaborate joke, i think.

like when they started putting out $8.99 7"s of pop songs recorded from a detuned radio. suckers.

As I've said elsewhere in NYPLM, it's the equivalent of doodling comedy moustaches/cigars on record covers. Also possibly misogynistic in the Stockport Butcher's evident passion for ruining songs liked by young girls and thereby making them cry - neither funny nor ironic. In this genre it's best either to have fun (Avalanches), be architecturally interesting (John Oswald) or have a politico-aesthetic point (Culturcide). Otherwise it ends up as something weirdly less than pop music - a pallid Xeroxed substitute for the real thing.

WAHT
that is a load of reactionary bollocks- I say classic. "Last Christmas" will thankfully never be the same again. S/D ?

i'd actually not though about v/vm in a long while, it all seems a bit silly and pointless

but, weirdly enough, ive been really enjoying his stuff as "the caretaker", ghostly loneliness

is anyone else downloading the VVMT365 stuff? some of it's quite good