#178
1980 Housekeeping
George Harassment
Masai Sleep Walking
Genre: Indie lo-fi Record Store Secret Find
1.75 out of 5
R. Stevie Moore.
Daniel Johnston.
The Homosexuals.
Jandek.
That’s where this band lives. They sound like they were recording it for themselves and then had the opportunity to put it on vinyl or cassette and put it out to the public to see what would happen.
Yeah, there are more songs here than on Jandek’s garbage. But it’s not as heart wrenching as Johnston nor as accomplished as Moore.
This sounds like me and my roommates in our dorm room with a 4 track.
You don’t need to have heard that. You don’t really need to hear this.
I did. But that’s the job.
The joke here is that “Harassment” sounds like “Harrison”. Except that it doesn’t. They and others want to put the accent on the “Ha” and not where it is grammatically correct. The pronunciation of the word was changed so that people wouldn’t hear the word “Ass” with their delicate ears.
Since the band didn’t know that and thought they were being cheeky, I have to dock them an entire point.
From the notes in the YouTube link: Notes
All tracks were recorded at home. Some on 2 track Revo + some on Mono Portable cheapo cassette machine. All tracks mastered on cassette machine. Tracks: 10. on Side One + 1. 6. on Side Two Rough Mixes from Sloppy Sound Studios - Surrey. The first song on Side Two is sung by lovely 'Michelle' of Battersea. Love to the twins and L Voag for bass on Tracks 1. and 6. of Side Two and much inspiration on the rest. This album was cut at Pye Cutting Studios and consequently sounds terrible.
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