Ω¬¬¬¬ Shady Crady - "In Bloom" (Demo) ¬¬¬¬Ω
Ω (unreleased, 1988) Ω
So here's the only other Shady Crady song that has been released. If you are one of the 7 billion people on earth who missed my previous post, read it for more info on this band. The Sonic Youth influence is very apparent in this one, and Live Skull was surely another big influence, since S.C., S.Y. and L.S. were all from New York, trafficking in arty experimental rock that actually rocked. This song is just a total masterpiece in every way, and deserves to go down as one of the key noise-a-delic indie songs of the '80s. If someone were to give it a fake band name (using all of the currently trendy words in band names, and I'll be very specific: Crystal, Twin, Bells, Beach [or anything beach/coast/wave-related], White), and a fake song title (say, "Evil Flourishes"), and date it 2011, and post it to some lame Pitchforky mp3 blog, it'd become an instant sensation. Well, no, probably not, since it doesn't sound like warmed-over Erasure or A Flock Of Seagulls, so it doesn't exactly fit in with the recent '80s bubblegum-synth-pop revival. I do wish this song had more singing, like "Clamor" does. The loud-soft contrasts are just insanely cool, and Suzanne Thorpe's forlorn "Evil flourishes... evil flourishes..." backing vocals near the end always send a chill up my spine. Comparing this song to Mercury Rev's late-era schmaltzy pop-rock is just an exercise in futility.
Planets with similar climates: Sonic Youth - "She's In A Bad Mood" (1984), Band Of Susans - "Mood Swing" (1993), Poem Rocket - "Small White Animal" (1995), A.C. Temple - "Chinese Burn" (1988), Broken Water - "Boyfriend Hole" (2009), Pixies - "Gouge Away" (1989), Live Skull - "Fat Of The Land" (1987).
Currently feeling less: Nauseated than I did last night upon seeing Lebron James make it to the NBA Finals. I honestly couldn't even eat for the rest of the night. Way to go, Carlos Boozer.
Still sporadically laughing at: The Roots covering Weird Al Yankovic's "I Want A New Duck" last night as Gilbert Gottfried walked onto the set of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. This has to go down as the most brilliantly withering walk-out music ever played on any talk show, considering last month's Gottfried incident.
Just a great song I've been listening to obsessively the last few days, "All Sideways" (re-recorded '95 version) by Scarce:
Currently feeling less: Nauseated than I did last night upon seeing Lebron James make it to the NBA Finals. I honestly couldn't even eat for the rest of the night. Way to go, Carlos Boozer.
Still sporadically laughing at: The Roots covering Weird Al Yankovic's "I Want A New Duck" last night as Gilbert Gottfried walked onto the set of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. This has to go down as the most brilliantly withering walk-out music ever played on any talk show, considering last month's Gottfried incident.
Just a great song I've been listening to obsessively the last few days, "All Sideways" (re-recorded '95 version) by Scarce:
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