Tuesday, April 26, 2005  12:07 pm 

Primative Cuteness

Cuteness in nature a form of natural defense for the young. It is recognized by lots of species including humans and makes the parent form a bond with the child. From Gators to Vultures to Lemmy, we were all bonded with because of our cuteness. When animals look after other species young it’s caused by this cuteness and we get Feral children, very cute and very wild!

Hyper Kinako are this type of child exactly. Making noises straight from children’s shows and having a Japanese girl singer they go into the cute pile like a large eyed anime. You take them home, you feed them and love them and bring them up as your own, but beware!

With Hyper Kinako’s fractured sound of feral, cute and clever live they feel like an excitable Deerhoof without as much prog, or maybe just less jamming. This is obviously a most wonderfull thing, and we enjoyed them very much when they graced the Freebutt in Brighton with our own Help She Can’t Swim last Saturday.

Like with all cute things we were good little economy drivers and instantly driven to consume and purchase everything they were selling, knowing full well it would be the answer to all our superficial needs and calm some of those deep seated issues we have Edward Bernays knew all about . Here is a little demo track called Tokyo Invention Registration Office from Hyper Kinako’s 2002 demo for you.

Hyper Kinako - Tokyo Invention Registration Office

You can get the Kerrang single of the week (erm what, how? thats confused me…) Hyper Kinako - “Don’t Delete My Frog / Two Tadgers” from Purr records, some songs are also on the compilations from Go Jonny Go Go Go Go. We wait eagerly for promising new stuff they played live to be recorded. Be careful ! Like Romulus and Remus or Oxana Malaya, feral children can bite, may have fleas and should only be handled when supervised by a blind adult ok?

The Primitives - The Ostrich

Go jungle boy go!

The geographical knowledge of monkey impersonators The Primitives may have been a bit challenged (like what’s with the monkey noises? Ostrich live in the jungle now?) or maybe they were just twaddle at ostrich noises and should have got Johnny Morris in. Either way there is rawkus freak-out going on here in a go gorilla go go gorilla style, but with Ostriches.

Novelty dances are not what you usually associate with Lou Reed who as you can tell was the vocalist in The Primitives, but there you go. This is about as much of an unearthed oddness as Bowies early Anthony Newley stuff and Eno’s Music for Porn Films (ok we made that bit up) but you can do a nice bit of 60s mod dancing to do Do The Ostrich. I recon this would have gone down a storm at Napa State Asylum.

For some reason New Order decided it was a good idea to do a cover of Do The Ostrich in 1987, and yes that really does sound as bad as it sounds, you can get it here if you don’t believe me.

Luckily while Lou was writing pastiche pop for Pickwick records he met a nice young man called John Cale who was from Wales. Together with Terry Philips and Jerry Vance in 1965 they wrote my favourite pre-velvet underground composition by them (and the first together) - Why Don’t You Smile Now, as recorded by The All-Night Workers.

The All-Night Workers - Why Don’t You Smile Now

This is such a fucking evil song, like I just kicked you in the head, why don’t you smile now? All played out in the style of an innocent Drifters pastiche. As soon as you hear the instrumentation on the track you can tell who’s playing like a blueprint for what become the original indie band.

Spiritualised did a cover without any of the implied malice (did they even read the lyrics?) Thee Headcotes did made it Louie Louie, and we are waiting for the lost Jesus and Mary Chain version to really do it justice (ok we made that bit up again unfortunately).

A comprehensive Lou Reed pre-vu guide with audio clips is available on the nice site.

Anyone with some spare money can buy us the nice new copilation from Optimo on Eskimo - Optimo Present Psyche Out. The 12″ picture disco and Doublepack Vinyl please. In exchange a xxjfg will be your slave for the week. He is housetrained, but does not like being kept indoors for too long. I think he is a bit Feral.

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