KeithV wrote:steve wrote:zom-zom wrote:Suicide Commandos Make a Record.
I think I disagree. I like that record, and I can't imagine it sounding any different.
I agree with Steve on this one. That whole record sounds pretty damn good, including the drums. Even if it did sound like shit, the energy would have still shone through.
I third this, if that's even correct English. The drums certainly don't sound "natural" (they actually sound like they've been sped up on tape though I know that's likely impossible) but I think the overall recording is definitely flattering. I mean, the recording mechanics never get in the way of the music unlike enormous piles of records from the early to mid eighties.
As an aside, I attended the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that Shellac curated and Steve played some track off this record (followed or preceded by "Youth of America") while DJ'ing in the pub and I probably rather drunkenly thanked him for playing it as it reminded me of home. I would probably pay five dollars not to have done this as it was embarrassing and fanboy-ish. I did a similar thing to Silkworm in the later nineties behind Jay's Upstairs on the "the van shit the bed and we continued in a giant, ancient car" tour and later wound up feeling like an ass although they thankfully did not remember this when I met them more formally years later. Famous people do not make me nervous but my heroes do. That they don't openly mock my sad attempts to make them aware of my existence and their hero status only endears them to me more. Thanks, heroes.
Dan
