Song ago

[j4]

venta is officially the coolest person in the world for, ooh, at least all the rest of this afternoon. :-) The reason for this accolade: in the course of her excellent (recommended, readers!) Friday afternoon Boogie at your Desk feature, she has just successfully identified a song that I loved every time they played it at PANIC but never managed to find out what it was.

The song is "Time Bomb" by Rancid. If it's at all representative of the band's output, then they're much better than the rather inauspicious name would suggest!

It's not as if I needed more CDs to add to my wishlist, but it would be really churlish to complain about discovering more good music. :-) Talking of which, I should also probably take this opportunity to thank acronym for constantly recommending Pink Flag by Wire, which I finally got round to buying (£5 in Fopp at the moment!). It's great: now a) I know where Elastica got that fantastic riff that kicks off "Connection", the thieving so-and-sos, and b) I can say "they sound a bit like Wire" about all the good-ish new bands instead of having to flounder around somewhere on the Cure / Joy Division axis (AXIS OF GOFF).

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

What Ricky said. I can happily burn both of these for you if you like.
Also; if you like Wire, then chances are you'll love Gang of Four, who were in a way better by dint of them being at Leeds University roughly the same time as I was. And I'll bet the drummer out of Gang of Four tribute band Franz Ferdinand won't end up like his counterpart Hugo Burnham; to wit, turning up on Top Of The Pops "drumming" for Samantha Fox and causing me to drop a whole roast dinner on the floor in surprise.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Go4 rule; I can lend you (j4) Entertainment! which makes the entire career of most punk-funk/funk-metal bands entirely redundant. :)

- A (he fills his head with culture)