Basses Slung Low and Faces Set On Mope

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I have been listening to moldy oldies lately, and it occurred to me that half of what I love about U.K./Factory/post-punk/trenchcoat-rock is that ungodly bela lugosi bass sound that all hooky-worshippers wielded at the time. I need more of course, even though i've got a groaning shelf of such stuff. I've been loving the first Modern English and of course Xmal Deutchland lately. Early Colin Newman solo is great for it. As is Section 25 of course. I want non-obvious examples. No Bauhaus or J.D. or Siouxsie. They are all world famous! I bought a U.K.Decay album last week hoping and hoping, but, alas, aside from a couple of good Bauhaus rips their bass player was hiding under the table or something.If you do want to talk about the bass on "Arabian Nights" and why it makes you froth at the mouth, that's fine, I'll understand.

Scott Seward, Friday, 4 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

interpol

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

(*ducks*)

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

They WISH!

Scott Seward, Friday, 4 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Crispy Ambulance's song "Concorde Square" is great for this. This is my favorite type of bass, yum!

Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks for that, Fivvy. I will look for it. I've been meaning to go get me some C.A. for a while now. They did put out all those nice re-ish's for people like me. The least I can do is buy them.

Scott Seward, Friday, 4 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm trying to remember if VSS had that sound. (They certainly worshipped that style.) Maybe on their early stuff, before they chucked the bass tones for keyboards on their full-length...

die9o (dhadis), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

the vss were too fast to mope

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

genres of the future: "speed-mope"

it's the only thing that makes sense in today's crazee world

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link


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