"I hope you like listening to music made for girls...”
Perhaps Jon Chapple read the poor reviews that Shooting At Unarmed Men’s mini-album garnered late last year and something boiled over inside him, the devil on his shoulder taking a nailgun to the face of the angel that opposes. Perhaps, with the band on hiatus whilst he relocates to Australia for a couple of years, he felt like letting you know exactly how he feels now he won't see you for a while. Perhaps it’s neither, but either way, Jon Chapple and his mates are pissed off with you and they want you to know.
Shooting at Unarmed Men, you see, have put together a song crimson with rage and heavy with disdain, a song which takes a swaggering barrage of insults and a single simple guitar line, lays it over equally simple bass and drums and jams it into your aural passages, the insults getting louder, brasher with each repetition until you plead, “Please, guys, I never thought you were a second-rate Mclusky…”
“Your vagrant smell’s like tin”, retorts Jon, “your word means absolutely nothing”. So what if it’s simple? What of the huge debt it owes to the Pixies, and so what if it lacks finesse? They don’t want to tie a pretty ribbon around 'Girls Music', maggot, they want to penetrate you with it.
Mission accomplished.
I got this
and thiught it was a bit rubbish. Especially the B side.
that's
a shame.
what's the b-side like? my CD only had one track on it and you can probably guess which track that was.
I don't know
what it was called. I think it might of been Live or a demo or something.
I'll give it anoither listen. Girls Music wasn't as bad as I'm making out.
Ah
It was called Weapons of Mass Destruction.
no more
sloppy reviews containing the words 'mclusky' and 'pixies'. both fine bands, but the only common points are vocals, guitar, bass and drums. quite a few bands have those, that's why they're called bands.
i thought
this sounded a lot like the pixies in terms of instrumentation, and also a lot like mclusky in terms of instrumentation.
do you really think the only common points between mclusky, S@UM and the pixies are that they have guitars, vocals, bass and drums? i mean, honestly. you're 37 and you can't hear the similarity yet?