Monday, May 30, 2005  10:37 am 

Sallow Faced Hoods Blast Off Into Science!

Crash Course In Science - Cardboard Lamb

Bit confused about the lyrical meaning behind this track. Luckily Crash Course in Science were nice enough to provide us with a video which helps explain it in much clearer terms than I could.

I’ll name that song in 10 say those of you who are trying to keep your edge. This sits in a compilation called music for old people cos Crash Course in Science must be old by now.

Science based drum machine patterns are our favourite kind. With its neat dinkey hiss and drone noise Cardboard Lamb is actually a deceptively pop record, which isn’t bad for a science experiment is it?

Ah….the miracle of science.

Crossover - Apples on a Stick

Crossover got Mount Sims in to produce Cryptic And Dire Sallow Faced Hoods Blast Off Into Oblivion and Carlo Pennisi from xxjfg’s uber heroes Goblin in to play on all the really scary tracks (check Avatar).

Apples On a Stick is the Renegade Soundwave classic Cocaine Sex sung by your psychopathic ex-girlfriend/stalker, The Flying Lizards chewing the inside of their face off with Plastique De Reve on the walk of shame.

Like all Electroclash bands just because Crossover play what sounds like dance music it doesn’t mean they are fans of dance music. They might be, but I recon they are just fashion goths at heart.

Was it was Matt Wright who said the people who made Electroclash did it just to piss off dance music fans. That’s such a great idea, immerse yourself entirely in something you hate and then start doing it really awfully just to piss off those who genuinely like it!

Eventually you will become assimilated into the amorphous mass of mainstream as they leach ideas from you until your own individuality has been replicated and you now sound boring and dated.

Crossover initially dip into the veins of Malaria!, Tuxedomoon and many other Serie Noire artists, which is probably why New Deutsch (agin Crossover sound influenced by this) compiler, freak collector and much featured on this blog man DJ Hell was drawn by their vampire stare to sign Crossover to Gigolo.

Cryptic And Dire Sallow Faced Hoods Blast Off Into Oblivion is played out by these demi goth models from the same school as A.R.E. Weapons, but where A.R.E. Weapons took the crack, smack and watched The Warriors Crossover got zoned out and watched Susperia before someone left them a 303.

xxjfg is still on holiday.

This is the second postcard and goes out to everyone suffering after a long weekend, be it in Brighton or Barcelona.

Have some fresh fruit and vege and drink lots of water.
Stroke a cat and go swimming.

An Ear With Swollen Appendices:

Stuart playlist from xxjfg in and out of order

!!! - Get Up
Crash Course In Science - Cardboard Lamb
Maggots - Tammy Wynette
J.J.Burnel - Freddie Laker
Cabaret Voltaire - News From Nowhere
Martin Peter - Cherrybox
M83 - Car Chase Terror
Tender Buttons - In Every Dream Home, A Heartache
The Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take
Aumsupreme - Closer
Throbbing Gristle - Adrenalin
Buffalo Daughter - Autobahn
Kurtis Mantronik - Original Electro
Huntemann - Femme Fatal
Avenue D - You Love This Ass
Melt Banana - Showroom Dummies
Selfish Cunt - Britain is Shit
An Albatross - I Am The Lazer Viking
Onida - Did I Die
Early Man - Fight
Mae Shi - You Can’t Do That To An Axe
Clap Amp - Atom Smasher Versus Helix Counter
Test-Icicles - Dancing on Pegs
Ssion - Worldsworth
The Barcelona Pavilion - New Materiology
!!! - Get Up (so good they played it twice)

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