Trio - Trio
#490
October 27 1981
Trio
Trio
Genre: Germanic Industrial New Wave Metal Punk Garage Acoustic Melange
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Ja Ja Ja
Broken Hearts for You and Me
Well, I don’t know what they are saying. And I don’t know that it matters. The machine gun “Ja Ja Ja” is an adrenaline shot into every biergarten crawler.
Unfortunately, we seem to only have a live version of that song because, once they get to “Kummar”, they show their kinship to the Laibach’s of the era. Growing up in a country wracked with guilt of the two wars they foisted on the planet must have been hard. Stephen Remmlar was born the year after the war ended. No doubt, much like children who grew up in the shadow aftermath of 9/11, it has affected him, permeating into his psyche.
Does that explain this kind of music? I don’t know. Like I said, I don’t know what they are singing about on some of these. But I feel it.
Now, when you get to the garage rock of “Broken Hearts” that’s when the band shows their true colors. They want to rock. Its in there. And they turn up the Radio Birdman in “Nasty”. Fully going for it with English lyrics this could have been a hit for a Thin Lizzy wannabe band if it was better produced.
There are so many different directions and styles and all of them show promise but it’s rare that they land their punch.
“Sabine, Sabine, Sabine” is the moment that I really wanna know what they are talking about. It’s a phone call to a woman named Sabine set to some beach friendly acoustic music and I imagine it’s lovely but….
Much like this album, this review is all over the place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKS2u7o0xk&list=PLlvn8uktX5LvGYoDRMj6dNsEhU23X0vAs
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