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February 10, 2005
black mountain :: black mountain
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As a sucker Neil Young fan, I glanced through some promotional copy about this disc, saw the words "Neil Young" and "70s", and instantly ran to the record store.
Wrong impression. The Neil Young comparison stops at his voice, which occasionally sounds like the wasted mid-70s Neil. It's a very good record, though. It's the kind that makes its inspirations and influences clear as day, but they're the right ones in new combinations. Let's take a look at the first few tracks:
#1 "Modern Music": Jonathan Richman via Exile On Main St., chanting "We can't stand your modern music, we feel afflicted!". A manifesto for things to come.
#2 "Don't Run Our Hearts Around": Black Sabbath meets Pink Floyd, into Led Zeppelin meets gospel, back to Black/Pink. Riff-rock extraordinaire.
#3 "Druganaut": A rhythm pinched from Can, slathered with more Sabbath riffage. But you've never seen Tony Iommi and Holger Czukay within 1,000 miles of each other.
#4 "No Satisfaction": A VU "Waiting For The Man" mashup with vintage Mick Jagger - and they had the balls to call it what they did.
This disc tails off a bit in the last few tunes, and you have to be ready for it when you hear it. Should you think combining Sabbath, Zep, and Floyd is utterly inadvisable, you'd best stay away. If, on the other hand, you wish Queens Of The Stone Age were rougher, artier, and 70s-ier, this is for you.
The best writing I can find online is on a message board haunted by serious rock fans and critics, where one guy said:
. . . made me want to get in a pontiac firebird and party at the moontower,
and another mentioned, . . . my sideburns grew two inches . . .
One track different from our picks is available here.
Druganaut (mp3)
No Hits (mp3)
Posted by borrowed_tunes at February 10, 2005 09:44 PM
Comments
Spot on with the references- Jonathan Richman, Led Zep, Black Sabbath. Wearing my feathered hair sporting my Wrangler jeans with a comb in my right pocket.
On some of the tunes (e.g. Set Us Free), I could swear PJ Harvey makes a guest appearance. I hope to catch them playing an art collective/gallery in Oakland. Should be a good stuff....
Cheers,
Sasha
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