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The William D Drake linked upthread is just all wrong, it might be that I'm just not interested in modern recreations of this sound but it needs to be wide-eyed and kind of naive and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s, OR it needs to be creepy and sinister and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s/early 70s. The William D Drake feels like a genre exercise.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 March 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
I have the idea in my head that there is a strain of elizabethan/jacobian referencing post punk, some of it Derek Jarman connected/inspired? The first two albums by The Passage maybe, what other stuff?
― soref, Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
It doesn't help that in that video you can see them in a record studio and one of them is literally smirking in places.
That's because they're a bunch of close friends having a good time playing music. Personally I like the interplay between the drummer and bassist on these videos, but whatever.
The William D Drake linked upthread is just all wrong, it might be that I'm just not interested in modern recreations of this sound but it needs to be wide-eyed and kind of naive and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s, OR it needs to be creepy and sinister and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s/early 70s. The William D Drake feels like a genre exercise.
See, now this is bullshit. If you'd said "I don't like his voice", I could understand that, but I can't hold with such an absurdly narrow and arbitrary criteria of musical worth. It's just dogmatic nonsense!
I also think it's worth pointing out the original recording of this song is almost as old as that venerated 70s era acid folk(recorded sometime between 83-4), and to my ears has that creepy, naive vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhTYgRaA60E
― Pheeel, Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
the American band Chrysalis were on another Saint Etienne related complilation, they seem pretty foppish and lute-playing, I'd always thought they were british
― soref, Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link