For the British members
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:33 pm
You guys ever hear of a group called the Birthday Party? They've been around for about 30 years now. And on another forum, there's a British guy who's trying to tell me they are the pinnacle of brilliance. So I checked out a couple of their videos of YouTube.
What.
The.
Fuck?!
Talk about your cacophony!! I just cannot get through a single song of theirs. The music... ugh. To me, they sound like a Tijuana-style donkey show taking place at a Ford motor production plant during the dayshift (before all labor cuts that is). Just absolutely painful.
That's to say nothing of the videos... I'm sorry, I don't like skinny, pale guys strutting around shirtless and leaping around the place. It isn't attractive when Iggy Pop does it. It isn't alluring when David Bowie did it... and it sure as hell isn't pretty here either.
But I gotta know... is this a British thing? Do you have to be from England to love this kind of thing? The other guy called it "excellent, drugged-out, tight avant-rock" music. Maybe that's it right there. The Birthday Party: proof that some guys should just NEVER do drugs. And if I want avant-garde, I'll listen to They Might Be Giants and Yoko Ono. Even Yoko's screaming isn't this painful.
So I put it to you Britons now. Is this an English thing? Like hair-metal is for the midwest USA?
What.
The.
Fuck?!
Talk about your cacophony!! I just cannot get through a single song of theirs. The music... ugh. To me, they sound like a Tijuana-style donkey show taking place at a Ford motor production plant during the dayshift (before all labor cuts that is). Just absolutely painful.
That's to say nothing of the videos... I'm sorry, I don't like skinny, pale guys strutting around shirtless and leaping around the place. It isn't attractive when Iggy Pop does it. It isn't alluring when David Bowie did it... and it sure as hell isn't pretty here either.
But I gotta know... is this a British thing? Do you have to be from England to love this kind of thing? The other guy called it "excellent, drugged-out, tight avant-rock" music. Maybe that's it right there. The Birthday Party: proof that some guys should just NEVER do drugs. And if I want avant-garde, I'll listen to They Might Be Giants and Yoko Ono. Even Yoko's screaming isn't this painful.
So I put it to you Britons now. Is this an English thing? Like hair-metal is for the midwest USA?