Category: BEATS
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First Time Friday with The Mark of Cain
Click or not: First Time Friday with The Mark of Cain If this is likely the First Time you’ve heard The Mark Of Cain, then welcome. Welcome to the 90s, welcome to Australia, welcome to a time when music was intense and vital and powerful. When the heat of the night air was intensified in whatever small, dark, dingey pub you happened to find yourself… …
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PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d Expect
Click or not: PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d ExpectYou can always expect the unexpected from PJ Harvey, yet you can be assured that you’ll get something haunting, thought provoking, terrifying, uplifting, depressing, beautiful and genuinely raw thrown into the creative blender. To call this a ‘cover’ doesn’t really begin to justify the way she’s taken control of not only the narrative but the… …
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Snoop Dogg Covering Red Right Hand Is As Shit As You’d Expect
Click or not: Snoop Dogg Covering Red Right Hand Is As Shit As You’d Expect Where the washed-up woke rapper butchers the Nick Cave classic, dropping his usual Masonic symbolism bullshit left right and centre, while the archaic, festering, socialist shit-show BBC blithely describes the song as the “theme to Peaky Blinders“. Why hasn’t he been shot yet? Because you need your senses sterilised and order restored… …
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FNM Friday: This Guy’s In Love With Mike
Click or not: FNM Friday: This Guy’s In Love With MikeThis could easily have been a Mike Patton Monday, but who can wait that long? The man with the often-purported greatest vocal range in music history stole not only my ears but my heart and a few other bits in the late 80s and took it to another level of man-love around the Angel Dust… …
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Maynard Mondays: 3 Libras
Click or not: Maynard Mondays: 3 LibrasUp until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding one’s soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to… …
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Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The Morrow
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The MorrowThis is a specially personal FF for me. Watching this epic video shot by an old friend brings back the taste of warm VB, the dry mouth and glorious lack of oxygen from a smoke-filled room, salty sticky bodies sliding against each other, the crush of the throng losing their shit yet at the same… …