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rmRediscovered Shriekback today at work, and I mean aside from the one song everyone knows (Nemesis). I love this band so much. And I always forget. Listening to The Dancing Years. Am struck by the number of songs they have involving sharks. Hammerheads!
Anyway, I'm trying to think of how to describe it, and I can't really other than to say, to me, it's like songs for the fall of Rome as written by William Gibson. Which suits my mood today, and has a lot more relevance now than when I was listening to this and The Screaming Blue Messiahs at the end of high school and feeling like I was living in this weird isolation driven entirely by the fact no one had heard of anything I was into musically at the time.
Anyway the live version of both Hammerheads and Faded Flowers (which is the source of the subject line) are really spectacular.
Anyway, I'm trying to think of how to describe it, and I can't really other than to say, to me, it's like songs for the fall of Rome as written by William Gibson. Which suits my mood today, and has a lot more relevance now than when I was listening to this and The Screaming Blue Messiahs at the end of high school and feeling like I was living in this weird isolation driven entirely by the fact no one had heard of anything I was into musically at the time.
Anyway the live version of both Hammerheads and Faded Flowers (which is the source of the subject line) are really spectacular.
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Date: 2004-08-26 11:35 am (UTC)Strange band.
And I guess I should say that Nemsis is the one all the goths know.
And honestly, Faded Flowers was once used in an episode of Miami Vice of some such. So really, how underground is that?