I was just reminded about Thee Hypnotics, a band I used to see live in the nineties with a great Stooges/MC5 image and sound. After they split, the Jim Jones Revue (apparently) continued the dirty, noisy rock’n’roll sound (clip featured). It puts me in mind of a kind of genre or feel of music – sort of Cramps, Gallon Drunk, Gun Club, Lounge Lizards, Morphine, Barry Adamson, Eat – grimey, loose, swampy sound.
Anyone else inspired to get down and dirty with some mucky music?
The unwashed sounds of Bomb Party
From the industrial oil end of grebo? – I like the meaty pounding bass.
How about some Primevals?
Absolutely! Although I prefer the fuller sound in this clip – captures the wailing guitar, if not the live experience
the bloke who recorded the Rouen gig is a pal, and he was 3 feet away from me!
and the chap who was dancing down the front in the Rouen gig gave me a hug afterwards. He smelt like drains. In a bad way.
Guess Dead Moon qualify
Made me think of Bo Diddley- ‘I use a cobra snake for a necktie’
Something of the high pitched urgency of Rob Tyner in the vocals maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35O1AJOfg
The Jim Jones Revue were terrific, one of the best live acts around. JJ has a new band now – Jim Jones And The Righteous Mind. I saw them back in October (with Bad Seed Jim Sclavunos sitting in on drums) and they’re really good as well. Only one EP out so far – this is the lead track
Love this, and glad he’s still out there, making raucous music and bringing such bold and striking imagery to life.
new tour dates just announced. Nowhere near me unfortunately, but if you’re reading this and they’re coming anywhere near you, well you know what to do.
actual dates what I forgot to put in
Feb
Wed 24 – Salle André Wauquier, Saint André lez Lille, France
Thurs 25 – L’Abordage, Évreux, France
Friday 26 – La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
Sat 27 – L’Echonova, Saint-Avé, France
Sun 28 – La Sirene, La Rochelle, France
Mon 29 – Le Bootleg, Bordeaux, France
March
Tues 01 – Le Temps Machine, Joué-Les-Tours, France
Wed 02 – Le Marché Gare, Lyon, France
Thur 03 – La Nef, Angouleme, France
Fri 04 – Las Armas, Zaragoza, Spain
Sat 05 – Teatro Albeniz, Gijón, Spain
Sun 06 -Sala El Sol, Madrid, Spain
Sat 26 – Le Beat Bespoké Weekender, 229, London, UK
April
Sat 02 – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK
Sun 03 – Broadcast, Glasgow, UK
Mon 04 – The Cluny, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Tues 05 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Wed 06 – Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea, UK
Thur 07 – Boileroom, Guildford, UK
June
Sat 04 – Camden Rocks 2016
Thanks – interesting tour route – also nowhere near me, sadly.
just because
Some superb visuals to go with that fine song, our Kid!
Mudhoney – Touch Me I’m Sick
Great track Bisto.
Yea Yea Yea – fuzzy, scuzzy guitar! Made me want to listen to their Spacemen 3 cover, coz I love the Spacemen – nicely sarcastic version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmkFMc75g_Y
Early Fannies
Everybody’s Fool
From a mere 15 years ago, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Gee 15 years !
Grimey rock never goes out of style. I remember playing this at a party many moons agoand the dancefloor went bonkers.
Gun Club – Run though the jungle
Which makes me think of Creedence who could as grimey as the best of them.
Let’s have a bit more Gun Club – from Mother Juno – the only album I know, but beautifully mucky. Here, he seems to be channelling Bill Hicks
all the Gun Club albums up to Mother Juno are AMAZEBALLS – check out The Las Vegas Story RIGHT NOW!! (The Primevals supported the Gun Club in Nov 83, when they were touring TLVS. And astonishing)
Cheers, ehm – I just heard some of the album on YouTube – it’s good stuff on first listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ECZMvbLxg
For some reason, that chunky blues boogie puts me in mind of these boys in blue:
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbwxLGohUM0
(2 Kindsa Love)
With theremin, no less! Let’s have some more from the Jon Spencer musical family –
None more sleazy than Boss Hog
and I’ve gotta have me some Pussy Galore:
Aarghh! Scratch that first one and play this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyxTYjAEBiA
Oozy sax, slinky bass – it’s Morphine
Grinderman – No Pussy Blues. Well grimy.
Bauhaus slowing things down
https://youtu.be/Npfm6M9-tnM
Mitch Ryder, Detroit imperfection, good cover, whole show worth seeing.
Everyone needs Parachute by the Pretty Things
https://youtu.be/fQqAH51VRbY
Thanks for that quartet, @Declan – I thought they got progressively grimier and the Pretty Things in particular, who I’d never listened to before I will be listening to again.
Aladdin Sane is a grimefest.
Cracked Actor
Let’s go way, way back. Back to 1958 and The Rumble by Link Wray.
This record influenced everything that came after.
Just don’t read the YouTube comments. Or if you do, make sure to wash your hands afterwards.
What’s wrong with people?
Respect!
PS- I didn’t read the youtube comments. I shudder to think.
This grimey enough for ya?
Very much so – highly sleazy. I particularly like what sound like farting trumpets.
Featuring the reappearance of the My Sharona octave bass riff. Still good. Hope I haven’t ruined it for you, Contrary, as in the music from The Sweeney sounding like A Love Supreme, here once, to howls of anguish.
Gawd. I love this band. They were stupendous live. Raaarrrrr.
Carla does grimy/sleazy vey well in all her guises.
This is probably her at her most sleazy, though not so rock’n’roll.
That woman could turn me. I think she’s amazing.
The Deadly Snakes- I Can’t Sleep At Night
I like the way they bash their instruments and shout and is that a bass saxophone? Throwing it all into the pot in the best tradition of Crazy Horse.
Barreracudas, channeling The Ramones
“Yo bro, it’s a no-go! Dude’s got a dick!”
I couldn’t view that here in Germany, but their other videos on YouTube are loud and fast and scuzzy in a good way.
No Parents – You Got Snaked
https://youtu.be/Lx3q_gpVRHM
Andy Human & The Reptoids – Eye 2 Eye
A touch o’ Devo about this lot methinks
I love the swagger o’ this
Deerhunter – Snakeskin
Yeah – it’s got a saucy swing to it – getting dirty and rocking out should be as much about the groove as the clattering noise – I like their style.
The Reatards – Your So Lewd
The Stranglers make great grimy music – nice’n’sleazy:
Listening to the lead bass and synths, I’m pondering about the New Order /Stranglers connection and found a relevant quote from Peter Hook on the JJB influence:
“I went to Bingley Hall in Stafford to see The Stranglers and I remember being absolutely transfixed by Jean-Jaques Burnel,” Hook remembers. “I thought he was the coolest thing I’d ever seen and his sound was unbelievable. It just blew me away. I remember waiting until the end of the gig to get near the front to go and write down what his set-up was. And it was a Vox TB18 cab with a HiWatt 100 and then I set my stall out to sound exactly like Jean-Jaques, so I went out and bought both.”
Well, it interested me.
Lee Brilleaux’s (originally) White suit alone should qualify the Feelgoods.