Monday, October 25, 2004  5:19 pm 

Human, fly away!

Mum and Dad- The Human Fly

Total evil riffing stunt rider music from Manchester. Ok, so The Cramps did a different thing about a Human Fly(available here at bubblegum machine, Help me help me….). Sonovac did a good cover. Gregor Samsa first awoke to find himself as one, and Wire wrote about the annoying one you found while applying face moisturizer (ok, i’m sure they ment something a little less literal).

Mum and Dad make a case for Evil Knievel being the actual Human Fly. This came out on a EP on Twisted Nerve Records with two grooves on one side! I think that is technically called a double cut – the record equivalent to a choose your own adventure (only you don’t choose, cos the grooves are too small, you just have to guess and hope for the best). Anyway, if you listen to one groove, the Human Fly makes it! The other, he doesn’t.

IS HE GONNA LIVE OR DIE????

DO NOT READ THIS NEXT BIT UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE SONG AND SEE IF HE MAKES IT OR NOT!

Cheer with me! I had to be nice, and post the one where he makes it, simply cos I love the rock out ending more. If I put the one on when he doesn’t you would all cry and stuff.

So this is The Fly! A desperate attempt to teleport, which should be possible by now, according to the theory of quantum mechanics which sort of means a thing can be in two (or more, or not any!) places at once. The problem is the genes all get muddled up and in the David Cronenberg re-make Jeff Goldblum ends up with a head too big for his body (didn’t he have that already?). As we know all pop stars are teleported through quantum teleportation and have heads too big for their bodies (I was once in the CDUK audience, trust me) unless they have boob jobs, another fucking scary halowe’en thing.

This is the same Mum and Dad who did the terribly disappointing album Castle Heights. They were one of my great white hopes after seeing there amazing live performance(not on CDUK), which they never lived up to on record. I have a whole CD of demos they did b4 the album which are great, and would highly recommend the single Mum and Dad – Dawn Rider.

Electro Putas- Sagitarrius Woman

In the Texas Chainsaw Massacre a bunch of inbred hillbillies slice and dice their way through a hippie love-wagon schooltrip and give interior designers a few ideas. Of course this is a metaphor for the end of the 60’s with free market (cannibalism) shredding into pieces the utopian ideals of the Aquarius people, as well as a defence of vegetarianism. Ah, and also it is one of the last horror flicks that rejoices in the dread of anticipation instead of surrendering to the easy pleasures of gore.

I could have posted a song by Sonic Youth (it’s about time we do, actually), particularly ‘Death Valley ‘69′, a sick chronicle of rampant mega-violence, instead I have decided to go for this bass heavy psychedelic odyssey by NYC werewolfrockers Electro Putas (which in Spanish means ‘electro whores’).

Here, the relentless bass suggests the horror of the never-ending chase, you are running through the forests with Leatherface hot on your heels, the buzz of the chainsaw never too far away, the voices in your head dissonant guitars, go left, go right, faster, he’s gonna getcha, far out, no, fast out *pant, pant* for a moment you think he’s lost your trail but YAIRGGHHHHH here he is again, he comes in for the kill, the ghosts that sleep in the forests scream and with a gritty noise the blade sinks in your tender skin, blood splatters the screen, now you are delicatessen.

This song is taken from ‘Space is No Place’ a compilation released by Psych-o-path Records (how much sense does this make?) which includes a nice collection of horrible evil (as in good horrible evil) music made by NYC noise bands. Very recommendable, I must say.

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