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.
The Copy Copy release instore do at Records Records last weekend placed a blunt needle into the virginal undersole of 2010...stylized keyboard excess the predominant motif of the day...weather being a good boy...the right people making appearances for just the right amount of time...just the right dose of indifference..just the right amount of enthusiasm -
just a little - not too much, not too little...like an average sized chappy ....just right..micro-local informational pamphlet ...a7 even...crude (me!me! plain conservatively dressed small-faced unremarkably statured legend in-ones-own-mind) belted out electronic throbs...lurid night-time musics in a hot hot afternoon..anomalous, anachronistic and amateur...but beat off i did and the micro-operatics refused to falter in the heat..the sun and the eyes on my skin..on my blood/brain barriers...Ended on judas priest loop and computer-speak--then the newest batch of rockers rocked-ed--subverting the steam-punk thematics with enthusiastic riffery..so theres a new band for the other new bands to collude wif , Brainleak is their name-o. Lee Noyes couldn't make the show unfortunately..Murderbike took the stage to the sound of a deathly synthetic motorcycle sample...robo-garage...medium-fi...languid and evil...swamp synths, the dadaist fetish that is the tone generating excercycle..always nasty fun in my book..
a sponataneous collab assembled nextly, with records records owner owner manager manager duane zarakov meting out signature cuts on his trap-kit,,,crude on doomed gat free psych and iso12 spewing sporadic korg flakes...audience filtration systems..with the exception of Kim Pieters and Sally McCintyre..then onto None for an obnoxious tirade of matty's mental verbal diarrohea/bollox (sorry everyone) . Great party - you work hard - you get to play hard. In my book any completed publication be it a7 or a1000 or otherwise is a triumph because in my experience everone is seemingly working on some sort of zine and only a small portion of these are ever seen in print soooo.. may copy copy keep comin'...especially in these days of insidiously stealthy media consolidation..on a big scale. Of course, watch out for the corporates copy copy...would hate to see the a7 look usurped ....they got spies..agents...moles...
