THE FLYING LIZARDS – MONEY (SINGLE EDIT)

March 17th | Posted by: NMJ

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To be listened to in conjunction with White Trash’s ‘I Still Don’t Love You’ (see ABON 0161).

The Flying Lizard’s 1978 masterpiece is as clever and witty and musically original and fresh as the White Trash track. But what White Trash manage to do, which the Flying Lizards never quite did, is to do all that whilst creating something that is also genuinely, credibly, danceable.

And to slightly rub salt in the Lizards’ wounds, anyone who spent the early 80s listening to the Lizards’ truly wonderful, mutant but ultimately not-very-danceable-really music – including ‘Money’ but also even better tracks like, ‘TV’ and ‘Sex Machine’ (see ABON 0148) – will also know that they will be so so envious of the sound of metal bashing milk bottle that White Trash seemlessly embedded in their track.

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October 23rd | Posted by: NMJ

IS IT TOO EARLY FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR?

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I don’t think we discuss particle physics on ABON quite as often as we should. The most mind-boggling consequence of the recent claims that neutrinos may be able to travel faster than the speed of light is that the concept of causality may not be as universally valid as we had imagined. Because – and you may not follow this completely – but, if things can travel faster than the speed of light, then results can occur before the actions that supposedly caused them have taken place in the first place. Hence the rib-tickler of a joke that’s been doing the rounds in all the funkiest labs over the last few weeks: “Barman says ‘we don’t serve neutrinos’. A neutrino walks into a bar”.

Which sort of gives me a perfect excuse to introduce the 2011 album of the year in October before all the albums of 2011 have been released.

Not necessarily putting it down to my intake of neutrinos but I do already know for sure that ‘Looping State Of Mind’ by The Field is the album of 2011.

More consistently brilliant than his debut (see ABON 0019) and a massive return to form after his disappointing second album, ‘Looping State Of Mind’ takes what you can do with a sampler and looping machine to higher levels than us lesser mortals thought possible.

Here’s ‘Arpeggiated Love’ as a taster. Other – even more remarkable – tracks from the album will feature on ABON at a later date. Or maybe they already have. Who can tell these days?

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September 27th | Posted by: NMJ

THE ORIGINAL KANSAS CITY. BY LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD

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August 4th | Posted by: NMJ

PINETOP SMITH’S ORIGINAL

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July 5th | Posted by: NMJ

OF COURSE IT WAS GIG OF THE YEAR. IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE

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Tracks are usually filed in the Vault in the year they were released. There are exceptions:

a. very old tracks tend to be filed in the year they were recorded and

b. anything that has been released for the first time many years after it was recorded has been filed in the year of recording rather than release.