| Homosexuals, the / An Introduction to Astral Glam |
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| Album: | An Introduction to Astral Glam | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Homosexuals, the | Added: | 09/2004 | |
| Label: | Hyped 2 Death | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-09-27 | Pull Date: | 2004-11-29 |
| Week Ending: | 28 Nov | 21 Nov | 14 Nov | 7 Nov | 31 Oct | 24 Oct | 17 Oct | 10 Oct |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 23, 2009: | orangeasm Prestel | 4. | Jul 26, 2007: | Fiction Romance In Search of the Perfect Bab | |
| 2. | Mar 23, 2009: | PACC Appreciation Show Prestel, Re Entry | 5. | May 02, 2007: | "In Your Ear ..." with David Bug, a moment in reflection of what is possible Prestel, Hearts in Exile (45 Version), Astral Glamour | |
| 3. | May 01, 2008: | A2Z Walk Before Imitate | 6. | Jul 22, 2006: | What's in the Icebox? Prestel |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2004-09-27 | ||
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Reissue of ultra rare recordings of much acclaimed late 70’s London punk band – but some clarification of the label “punk” in this case is in order: “they wrote great pop tunes… but seemed to have much more fun dismantling and sabotaging them” (liner notes). These guys knew no rules, often replacing the loud angry electric guitar w/ an acoustic at just the right/wrong moment. A “punk” song turns spacey, a spacey one turns punk. All the sass of Peter and the Test Tube Babies, the crunch of The Clash, the beauty of Swell Maps, Wire, the sheer joy of Television or Rough Trade bands of the era, all wrapped into one. Throw in the tiniest dash of The Cars and Bowie maybe even somehow. Amazing retrospective. 1) epic glammy echoey not very “punk” 2) London punk, upbeat 3) upbeat urgent w/ acoustic guitar instead of electric devolves to uber spaciness, huh? 4) scattered feel, reverb and trippy sounds make it almost spacey, prog 5) more of a classic London punk sound, turns jammy if you can believe it 6) simple, crunchy, proto pop punk, great 7) starts urgen, turns almost 70’s stoney, ? 8) searing guitar, classic London tone 9) upbeat punk, fun 10) trippy, w/ piano strings, creative 11) straight up driving rock 12) good strong beat w/ silly chorus, harmonies 13) awesome overdriven disjunct singalong 14) slow sparse noodly turns almost epic 70’s classic rock 15) like a 70’s art-rock spoof, weird 16) more “art-rock”, like a disjunct Television/Wire 17) acoustic minimal song (no drums) 19) funky post punk air, instrumental, jammy 20) low fi rocker shifts to slow middle 21) low fi tom tom heavy pop rocker turns tribal 22) acoustic w/ fem vocs, drums enter and it turns cute pop 23) very spacey echoey droney build-up 24) near silly, minimal, low fi w/ fem vocs, picks up cool beat midway 25) low fi minimal, acous guit, tambourine 26) trippy echo efx heavy dubby bass 27) simple upbeat London art rock | ||
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