When trying to sell your new album, it’s vitally important NOT to have a cover which looks like it was assembled by a committee of kindergarten-age head trauma patients:
Never mind the shoddy presentation of this album, kids–this geezer is singing his love ballads in a NEW ACCENT! Hold on to your zippers, it’s gonna be a long night!
Turntabling goes round the country selling rare, weird, and hard-to-find vinyl and CDs, plus a lot of just plain awesome titles. We do shows at a variety of horror and sci-fi conventions every year and our latest appearances are coming up quite soon:
Days of the Dead in Atlanta, March 9 – 11. The Turntabling Collection–our traveling record store–will be in Atlanta for the first time ever. Don’t miss us as there is a LOT of rare and unusual vinyl from Legendary Pink Dots, Sisters of Mercy, Coil, Skinny Puppy, the BBC Doctor Who collection on vinyl, plus rare Morricone and Bruno Nicolai soundtracks, much more.
Once Atlanta is done, Turntabling is scheduled for back-t0-back horror conventions: Horrorhound Weekend, March 23-25 in Columbus Ohio and Cinema Wasteland March 30th, 31st and April 1st, 2012 in Strongsville, Ohio.
Also–more and more people are approaching Turntabling about purchasing their vinyl collections–we are happy to view your vinyl (within reason) at the shows and make a decision about purchasing. Please feel free to bring a pile of vinyl records to the table, but keep in mind that our purchasing habits are identical in many cases to what we sell, do it would be advisable to bring your soundtracks, 80s/90s new wave/post-punk/goth/industrial, bizarre records and unclassifiable titles.
We have no interest in broadway show tunes, country (unless it’s really weird), classic rock (unless it’s really weird), opera (unless it’s really weird), etc. Unless it’s really weird. Careful readers might notice a trend with our choices here…
In the 60s, lots of so-called manly album covers wound up looking more like unintentionally homo-erotic ones. Here’s a great example, crammed full of “we didn’t mean that” double-entendre song titles.
In hindsight, how ELSE can you interpret a song like Whistle Punk Pete or There Walks a Man? If “whistle punk” isn’t some kind of euphemism for a rent boy, what is? Somebody get George Takei on the phone and ask him what HE thinks a whistle punk is good for.
It must be understood that unlike Rick Santorum, we have no qualms with homo-eroticism. No, the comedy value here is the exact opposite–people trying SO VERY HARD (ahem) to present a “manly” image that they wind up flying in the complete opposite direction. When you’ve got tunes on your record like Sick of Settin’ Chokers and Fire Danger, what else are we supposed to think?
Then again, maybe that’s the point–are loggers privvy to a secret side of their industry the rest of us don’t know? Maybe it’s a sexual free-for-all in those woods and the rest of us are missing out. A record like this definitely gives the game away…maybe you’d like to hitch a ride on the log truck? Now everybody SING: “I’m a lumberjack and I’m O.K……..”
The music blogs are abuzz about the new Public Image Limited four-song vinyl EP due out as part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012. It’s a precursor to the new PiL album, This Is Public Image Limited due out in the summer.
In an interview for the BBC, John Lydon told interviewers Adrian Larkin & Matt Everitt, “…we record live, some songs are made up on the spot,” and adds that the new songs are “not moody and terrible” and making a point to mention the “completely experimental” nature of the new material.
You can get a listen to the new PiL track, One Drop, at the SlicingUpEyeballs Soundcloud account. The track and commentary are via the BBC.
Soundwise, One Drop hearkens back to mid-period Public Image Limited, taking the more commercial (but still quite enjoyable) sounds of 9, stripped down a bit with a bit more dub space added for good measure. It’s nowhere near as dub-influenced as the Wobble-era recordings, but you’ll feel a bit of the Jamaican vibe, definitely. There’s even a bit of vocal harmony–PiL has always sounded stronger with additional voices to counterbalance Lydon’s verbal assault vocal style. Well done, lads.
Lydon’s voice sounds more vulnerable than in the past. The swagger is still there, but it’s been tempered by age and tragedy. Lydon had a death in the family prior to this recording–whether or not that factors into the actual songwriting, his material sounds more thoughtful, less antagonistic. Could that be reading too much into one single? Perhaps.
Lyrically, he’s revisiting his past. The track is said to be an autobiographical snapshot of his life in the early days. It sounds strange to hear Lydon, the grand old warhorse of the rock-n-roll swindle, singing “We are teenagers”…but the track is solid, no doubt about it. Any PiL follower would be happy to have this in the collection.
PiL and John Lydon fans will also be interested in the new Public Image Limited Live At Rock Palast DVD which is, at the time of this writing, is in the pre-order stage, due to be released on February 21.
