feedtime - feedtime (1985)

GLARING OMISSIONS PART I

I don't know where to start with these guys, but this has to be one of the great unheralded classics in the history of Australian Rock ( the only time I've come across them being discussed is by Americans). I've been thinking how the hell am I going to describe this record and do it justice?  So it's been weeks since I was originally going to include it. Suffice to say I don't think I've come up with much apart from 'This is a truly fuckn' unique record!'  They could be influenced by X (the great Australian band) or Wire, but I don't know for sure.  So they were a 3 piece from Sydney in the Eighties and this record was their first LP.  feedtime's hypnotic harsh minimal approach could perhaps be considered post-punk but maybe not. I see them more on the outside of everything. By the sounds of stories I've heard they might have been. There is definitely something menacingly about feedtime's music and it could be one of the greatest drivin'/bikin' records ever made, along with Snapper's records, Loop's Fade Out or ZZ Top in their prime. Whereas Loop were hairily over the top psychedelia, feedtime were a tight monolithic machine of a band with tinges of psych and blues (bottleneck on the guitar). Sometimes their music reaches such machine-like states I wonder whether it's still music at all.  I can't not think of Chuck Berry when I hear the lyrical dexterity of a track like Fastbuck: "I got a Pontiac, gasoline, grab the cash, split the scene."  They also had that serious/funny thing goin' on too. This is an unrivalled original of an LP.  Let the good times roll!

Cheap Shots III

3rd day with my $50 mobile

From 18/8/11

RE: What ever happened to Ducktails?

Anyway diggin' on this now.

III: Arcade Dynamics

Ducktails

(11)

Anyway I was listening to this thinking 'Who does this remind me of?'

I started recalling my original thoughts on who their influences might have been from

back then. New Order/Galaxie 500 came to mind as well as Dif Juz and Durutti Column

which in 2008 was hard to believe that the later two groups were being

referenced by a young group from America.  This guy was probably not even alive when

Vini Rielly and Dif Juz released those records in the early 80s.

It made me think what a breath of fresh air they were back in 08.

When I say fresh air I also mean it as a description of their

lovely music.  Anyway they reminded me of Ducktails.

I realised they'd released a bunch of top records while pretty much

flying under the radar of most people.  This was the sound of hazy sunshine,  

the gentle rippling of waves and wasted summer days being wasted.  

Ducktails along with Dolphins Into The Future

will forever remind me of a holiday I spent in Fiji a few years back. In the barmy

evenings I would listen to them while drinking vodka after spending a hot day

in and by the water. It was like I was still floating in the water

or lazing on a boat in the middle of the pacifc ocean.



Anyway track down these classics and break out the drinks with umbrellas, along

with whatever else you might want to imbibe.

 

II

Ducktails

(08)

Landscapes

Ducktails
(09)

Ducktails

Ducktails
(09)

Alan Partridge

Golden Partridge

Just watching the DVD today.

This had me in Stichers.

funny

Early 90s Nostalgia?

Saw this on Letterman the other night.

Can't explain why I like it.

Same reason I like that Rustie LP I suppose.

Is it early 90s nostalgia?

Who cares?!

Just dig on it.

Geneva & Ducktails

Why isn't she as big as Ga Ga?

How can you not love Geneva Jacuzzi?

Actually a lot of people probably don't like her.

Not me though.

Love Caboose

from the compilationLamaze
as is this next one.

Clothes On The Bed

Ducktails
Hamilton Road
awesomeness!
RE: What happened to Ducktails?
This track is from an album they did last year,
III: Arcade Dynamics
I totally missed that.
I'll have to check it out.
Love the tune.
err...the video however....

Beer

I always thought Henry Lawson was a bore but here's a quote I like from him: "Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."

*What about Scotch, Sparkling Wine & Vodka?

**I will endeavour to find quotes for these passions of mine.  If poets did not write about the attributes of such things I will come up with the words to match their qualities.

Best Song..again

I was in Sydney a few weeks ago when I was writing those posts on best songs ever.  At a BBQ I asked my two sisters what theirs would be.  To my suprise my older sister picked this.  I love it too!

FOX

S-S-S-SINGLE BED

I also remember a great cover version of it by some of the people from Box The Jesuit.

Talkin Shit

* Is it just me or does every 2nd Drones song sound eventually like it's going to break out into Cortez The Killer?

*RE: Grr... Would Dead Can Dance have qualified to be in that book.  I mean they are a Melbourne band right?  What about Olivia Newton John's Xanadu? We claim all the other British born people and New Zealanders too. We're not claiming Livvy ? As far as pop goes that could be in the top 3 or 4.  What too much Jeff Lynne ? Not enough Jeff Lynne as far as I can see.

*The title of this post has made me remember this scenario -I was at a pub a couple of years ago with my wife and met some new people.  Anyway they asked what I did and I told them finishing with of 'Jack of all trades.  Master of none.' One of the guys possibly 10 years my junior replied 'Don't say that you never know who's listening.'  This struck me as very odd.  I thought that sounds like something an American might say.  I thought whatever happened to the great Australian National pastime of self deprecation.  God as far as self deprecation goes it was quite soft as it contained a positive statement along with the negative.  Did this guy think there was someone lurking around the corner about to give me a million dollar contract.   Now I was no longer going to get the job for being down on myself.  Anyway I thought fuck where is this dudes sense of humour? What? Are  they being brought up so confident they couldn't possibly dare to not take themselves too seriously even when they are at the bloody pub.  What would happen if I said something negative to this guy about him?
Would he be able to cope or would he be a delicate snowflake and be crushed.  What a turd!  Just for him I say 'What a load of bollocks this paragraph has been.  Not worth the electricity it used up! or the time it took me to type it and you to read it!'