been kind of digging the first album lately. Favorite song is 'Will You Walk With Me'--it has this unearthly creepiness that perfectly sums up the mood around my neck of the woods in the last week or two...
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
(by first album, I mean Part One, the one with the cover of Zappa's Help I'm a Rock)
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
HEY EVERYBODY check out Markley, it is great stuff. Just don't expect super psychedelic rock, it's mellower.
― Gay for Johnny Moped (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Markley album: not too sure about my grasp of the lyrics, but a couple of songs seem positively deranged.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It's probably because of my knowledge of the weird unsavoury history of this band and Bob Markley in particular but the song "In the Country", superficially a fairly jolly number about escaping the pressures of city life, always strikes me as unsettlingly suggestive of the Manson Family. Were this 'band' any good? I can't decide tbh.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Yes imo but there is a creepy vibe to a lot of their stuff
― piqued (wins), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Also interesting how these older, in many ways parasitical and opportunistic, individuals like Markley and Kim Fowley were so influenced by Zappa and the Mothers, Zappa being much closer to their ages, and far more a product of the '50s than the 60s... Manson also!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link