Thursday, July 15, 2021

The 1981 Listening Post - Baby Buddhe - Music for Teenage Sects

Baby Buddhe - Music for Teenage Sects #137 April 28 1981 Baby Buddha Music for Teenage Sects Genre: Electro Punk 2.75 out of 5 Highlights: All Night Long There are too many covers here to create a “requisite” section. 
 There’s precious little about this band or album out there. It feels like it was all done by a couple people in a small, dark room on the outskirts of the city who just bought a drum machine and a 4 track. Of most interest to me is the pedigree of the engineer, Lance Ong. He played with Grand Funk Railroad, Pointer Sisters, Anne Murray, Michael Murphy, David Sanborn and somehow his real dream seems to have been to put out skittish electronic minimalist take on The Residents if they were forced to listen to Suicide while trapped in a void. The nearly pornographic moanings playing to what sounds like a Sam Goody Casio keyboard on “Your Cheatin’ Heart” stand in contrast to Kathy Peck’s serviceable vocals. It’s the most interesting and dangerous track here. But it’s the staccato burps and complete deconstruction of “My Generation”, a song virtually unrecognizable, that saves much of this DIY excursion. https://music.apple.com/us/album/music-for-teenage-sects/1088008747

No comments: