| Switzer, Bert / 1977-2002 |
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| Album: | 1977-2002 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Switzer, Bert | Added: | 01/2003 | |
| Label: | None | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-01-27 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-31 |
| Week Ending: | 23 Mar | 2 Mar | 23 Feb | 16 Feb | 9 Feb | 2 Feb |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 17, 2003: | the rust belt Animal Disease | 4. | Feb 12, 2003: | Brownian Motion Ko | |
| 2. | Feb 25, 2003: | In the Leaves Animal Disease | 5. | Feb 11, 2003: | In the Leaves Animal Disease | |
| 3. | Feb 19, 2003: | Brownian Motion Animal Disease | 6. | Feb 05, 2003: | Brownian Motion Animal Disease |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2003-01-17 | ||
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This is 2 bands: the first one is progish, noisey near-free jazz (Monster Island, featuring a young Henry Kaiser), the majority of stuff is old garagey psyche punk 1977-79 of The Destroyed. It’s a document of Bert Switzer’s collaborations going back 25 years. Most of the recordings, The Destroyed, are poor ghetto blaster cassette with drop-outs, as the band “never recorded professionally”. Super cool stuff. I like The Destroyed best as a lot of psyche was being injected somehow, spontaneously, coming across as bands like Green on Red and Leaving Trains did 5 years later. 1) free-jazzlike jam, progish but noisey feedbacky and garagey too 2) low fi ghetto blaster punky all-out jam around theme of “Crazy Train”, sans vocs 3) psyche garage feel 4) upbeat driving garage 5) slightly surfier but still driving garage 6) slower dirgier 7) slower dirgier, dirty, fuzzy vocs come through 8) driving rocking lo-fi garage 9) this sounds like an old 7”, hissy and scratchy, arty dissonant guitar, red crayola’ish 10) improv feel, drums in front, scratchy vinyl 11) cleaner but still low fi recording of band that did killer tracks 4-8, mellow, slow, introspective 12) swingy mellower rock 13) upbeat driving rock 14) ballady, cut off at end of music because of FCCs when he is addressing crowd 15) upbeat, psyche garage 16) slow dirgey 17) lots of drop outs, munched tape, poor, sludgey 18) FCCs at very beginning, late 70’s punk feel, poor tape 19) snappy bad ass jazzy drum solo | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Outside Reality | 10. | The Rebel | |||
| 2. | Crazy Train | 11. | Nothing Wrong with Tears | |||
| 3. | In the Room | 12. | Lizard King | |||
| 4. | 686-6 | 13. | 686-6 | |||
| 5. | Power | 14. | The Killing | |||
| 6. | The Ocean | 15. | One More Chance | |||
| 7. | Ko | 16. | Ko | |||
| 8. | Animal Disease | 17. | Please God | |||
| 9. | Hoh | 18. | Animal Disease | |||
| 19. | Out of the Straight Jacket | |||||