2 posts tagged “cornershop”
AD 2000 Anno to the Domini! Check it! Supermix from two to six! Brothers, mothers, sisters, others!
Fuckin' A, is what I'm pretty much saying here.
Ladeeeez and gentlemen, I give you two tracks from Clinton's album Disco and the Halfway to Discontent, a one-off project featuring Cornershopians Tjinder Singh and Kevin Ayres, with three appearances by their drummer, Nick Simms. Weak in spots, but deadly in others. Check it. The guy playing that cool bass on "Hot for May" -- and I'll tell you how cool it is, it's so cool, it sounds like the way I play bass (and if that's an old Fender Musicmaster like mine that he's playing, I wouldn't be too surprised) -- is one Alan Gregson (really a guitarist, which may account for the similarity), who's credited with engineering half the tracks on When I Was Born for the 7th Time.
Why'd they call it Clinton? Because at the time, it seemed to them that "Clinton" was the most recognized word in any language on Earth. Stoned to the gills, those lads.
I'm posting these in large part because I think my preschool niece, having reacted positively to Cornershop, may like 'em.
When I Was Born for the 7th Time, 1997. Great album. The album previous to this, Woman's Gotta Have It, is really good too, and the quasi-Cornershop Clinton album, Disco and the Halfway to Discontent, has several moments of greatness (mainly the ones featuring Cornershop's wonderful drummer, Nick Simms). The rest of the Cornershop catalog is unremitting ass.
I thought everybody knew this record, but I ran into somebody who didn't, or maybe had just forgotten it, so it may be that not everybody does know it. But everybody should. So here it is. Norman "Fatboy Slim" Cook did a truly horrendous remix of "Brimful of Asha", which they released as a single. He unerringly identified everything perfect about the recording and the arrangement (much is), and ruined those parts. Whatta eejit.
So, "Brimful of Asha" is honcho Tjinder Singh's paean to Indian film music, and "Good Shit" is just magnificent. Don't let it get you down, good people.
