Wednesday, April 25, 2007  12:37 am 

employee of the month

At 20jfg ours is generally that we don’t get the holy grail of pop music at all. We would be rubbish music business employees, and we know it. We would rather hear a devistating noise than that chorus hook, and that’s where we find our downfall. Conversations with an artist would go ‘Well that’s very nice, but could you make it a bit more dull drone and hide that melody?’ encouraging CCR to drop the bit about Suzy and just play the noodle bit for 4-25mins.

With this in mind, lets go try and expand our minds and listen to some pop music for a change, see what happens yeh?

San Serac - Love Tactics

So we roll from the Fulton drums to, Bowie’s soulboy rhyme in one smooth piece of passionate outburst from the otherwise coolly calm 80s boy.

‘ardcore 88 distorted keyboard stabs with the high pitch chorus vocal take this into that magical John Pugh land, and you cannot help wishing there was something as sexy played with by a full band on the last !!! album, but I guess we will all have to wait for Freeblood (out soon on our good brother’s ACTH Records upstart new label) to hear the real freakazoid stuff.

San Serac may sound like he’s taking the piss sometimes, but when he gets it right it’s as good as when Rick James cries ‘Now watch me’ and pulls out his amazing funk weapon that all the ladies love.

The album, Professional, is out now with a front cover we know xxjfsteve will love on Frog Man Jake records, and its pop!

Urg… ok now I feel like I’ve eaten too many chocolate eggs for Easter.

Drunken conversations with our good friends lead us onto the nature of pop and such, but in the end we decided that 20jfg pop was Animal Collective, Les Georges, Liars, Chromatics/Glass Candy and Gay Against You, The Boredoms and all the stuff you, dear reader, know and love. In the places we are lucky enough to play records these are all pop-ular, and we are lucky fuckers who thank the lord that it is so.

The Boredoms may be inspired by lots of music, but there has never been an actual moment where I have been able to say – fuck, they stole that completely – until now. DJ Rick on his inspirational radio show Art For Spastics played a Mekons single I never heard before, which even made Dan thedoclub scream ‘Fuck me, it’s the Boredoms’. Well not quite, but its legendary good shit and worth sharing.

The Mekons - Where Were You?

Would this fit in with ldn as an example of the new popular English accent? Or is it just a drunk tail of love by some punk with a heart. It’s the kind of incident that makes you bitter enough to write Part Time Punks, but we all know the girl was Brix and she ran off with Mark who was far more drunk and charming. If it makes you feel any better fella, he sacked her so don’t sweat it.

The Mekons post is dedicated to all those north of the border and lucky enough to be able to buy cheesecake in Mono.

Stuff

20JFG misanthropic nerds will be making a rare London appearance this Saturday 28th to wreck the Barfly on the Kill ‘em All night hosted by the lovely Filthy Dukes. Mighty Chaddtoddbruce coming up yo. Expect the usual dumb styles- American trouble&bass music, acid shitstorm, boom bap hip hop and crippling noise for the win. Yarr.

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