The Very Things - The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes
#355
1984 Housekeeping
The Very Things
The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes
2 out of 5
So this band is listed as a “dada-ist” band. I don’t know what that means. Dada was dedicated to showing the ugliness that Impressionist art and other pastoral forms weren’t depicting during WWI.
To me, something like Swans, as much as I loathe them, are more Dada than this. I mean, I don’t dislike this, it’s pounding, aggressive, self-important post-punk and maybe that’s what Dadaism ultimately is. Who am I to write the label?
I think Adam Ant’s first records are more Dada. Sex Pistols are Dada. McLaren, Fowley, anyone who was trying to upend the status quo while also turning a buck, since I believe the Dada-ists would have happily sold their art for as much as they could.
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The 1984 Listening Post - Bruce Foxton - Touch Sensitive
Bruce Foxton - Touch Sensitive
#109
May
Bruce Foxton
Touch Sensitive
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
It Makes Me Wonder
This is the Way
if anyone was wondering who the REAL songwriter was in the Jam…it’s still Paul Weller. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything to enjoy on this handful of 80s pop rock offerings.
I could’ve heard “This is the Way” on some lesser Jam album…and (“My Imagination S.O.S.” definitely is following Weller’s trail into big horn, big 80s style.
Is this great? No. If it was I imagine Foxton wouldn’t have waited 28 years to make another solo record.
It’s fine. Try the Highlights before putting the whole thing on.
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