oh go on then - more for YOU

a collection of 'pop' crude songs from earlier cds.
go on, check it out.

HERE

Last fm is all well and good but it's actually quite difficult to enjoy an album as an album - you can only really play one song at a time. So to experience 'brut pop collection' as it should be experience4d go listen to it over at the 'internet archive' : HERE

....This particular compilation is an attempt at capturing 'Crude's Greatest Hits'...Volume 2. Inner City Guitar Perspectives was Greatest Hits Volume One. The songs are just that - songs. These are tracks that people have responded favourably to in the past...songs that grab their attention and make 'em sing..these songs also tended to grab them with sly and acerbic lyrics that inflame further dissent on their part. Or so I'd like to think. Oh the self-romance of it all. We have songs like Anomie! from the New Fundamentals cd released in 2000. A peppy lil' electro-rock funker, Queen's early 80s schlock is palpable here. Or so I'd like to think. Oh the self-romance of it all. Many a drinking session's atmosphere augmented with this tune. Blip is another gem and it sure lives up to its namesake. A blip of a tune at 1 minute 30 seconds or so. A Punk-rock electroblast that could've been so beautiful (with a multi-million dollar media campaign behind it or some shit). Could've been so right... Black Budget is a Crude song thats been receiving some critical attention of late, an occasional favourite tune on Saturday afternoons' DPAG late breakfast on Radio One. 80's electro sound and 80's neo-liberalism juggled and so poignant as we in New Zealand veer towards our potentially black budget of 2010. Potentially? No way - it simply WILL be BLACK. There are songs like Camel; a cute guitar-centric rock number from the Modern Modern Modern cd. There's the rolling and sardonic heaviness of Automata - one of the highlight tracks from Datastream Cowboy. Spend some spare time soaking this up. Dedicate an hour to it, dedicate half an hour to it. Oh go on.