Saturday, 19 July 2008
Early Swell Maps blues sessions? The Fall playing Kinks' songs but they don't
know the lyrics? There's no other album in the entire New
Zealand music so chaotic, so
brilliantly cacophonous and so totally denying any label, music style or genre, like this double album from the Axemen, released by Flying
Nun, in this great label's absolute peak, in
1986.
Flying Nun was so great because, for several
years, would release music
by any, and I mean any, band that Roger Shepherd, Chris Knox and Doug
Hood thought that had something interesting, no matter what musical
style it had. This concept produced some
of the best music of the 80s, not only because the three mentioned
above have an excellent taste, but also beca
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