[kj] Top 10 bands

[Leigh Newton]

Cheers, Oliver. Baby Lemonade is a really great song, totally. I especially love the Peel Sessions version. The production quality really does something to Syd's voice that I really like. I'll check out those songs you mentioned. I only recently got around to checking out the Damned and I really like what i've heard. New Rose, in particular, is a fucking amazing track. It doesn't suprise me that they have a song that sounds like Barrett as they were huge fans of him back in the day. 

I'm all over Soulseek all the time. I was just talking to a co-worker today about how p2p software is such a great way for us music fans to "do our homework", so to speak. I download shitloads of different things. If I really like it, I delete it off my hard drive and run out and buy the CD. I would still be in the dark on SO many different bands (Chrome, New Order, O.L.D., Girth, KTL, the Stranglers, and that's just off the top of my head, sooo many more...) if it weren't for Soulseek. Kind of like a "try before you buy" type thing, which is especially good these days considering CDs cost a fucking arm and a leg and there is just so so so so much shitty music out there. Probably 95% of all the music that is available sucks. Mainstream, underground, whatever. I think that's a fair (if not ridiculously over-the-top) guess. 

Leigh


----- Original Message ----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Top 10 bands


Leigh,


My gf LOVES Syd Barrett -- esp. "Baby Lemonade."  I like that song, too. 
A LOT!

If you notice, The Damned really do a sort-of rip-off job of Barrett's 
"Baby Lemonade" with their song "Nice Cup of Tea." I have to admit, I 
think "Baby Lemonade" is a really great song (and I like The Damned's 
"Nice Cup of Tea," too, even if it is derivative) -- one I never tire of 
listening to, for some reason. It probably has to do with the chord 
progressions and juxtapositions of odd melodies that later almost became 
bog-standard, but never succeeded in the way Barrett did succeed 
critically even if not totally financially.

There is a similar, unique innovative chord-pattern of excellence I get 
from POISON IDEA's "Hangover Heart Attack," for some reason -- which is 
hardcore punk, believe it or not, though Barrett is not. And that 
contributes to Poison Idea being in my Top 10. And I've noticed I'm not 
alone in putting Poison Idea in my Top 10 on this KJ list. If you have 
Soulseek (www.slsk.net) or the SSX equivalent for the Mac (ssx), get 
Poison Idea's "Hangover Heart Attack" song -- excellent riffage from the 
late Pig Champion, guitarist of Poison Idea, which for some reason 
reminds me of Syd Barrett (!), but filtered through a post-Black Flag 
lense. Just damn good stuff! It's why Pig Champion's recent death was so 
mourned by so may punx.

And I do like Syd Barett -- great choice, btw.

(FYI: Poison Idea's "Hangover Heart Attack" is the 1st song I play on 
Radio Schizo #46, available here online:  
http://www.cultpunk.com/?p=136     -- this mp3/show also features The 
Ramones at their thrashiest in the 80s, a cover of a Killing Joke song 
'Wardance' as well -- and more. But it leads off w/ the Poison Idea song 
I mention. The guitar work has a cool Syd Barrett sound to me.)

-Oliver




Leigh Newton wrote:

>

> 6. Syd Barrett

>


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