Monday, April 28, 2008

UFO-Lights Out, Santo and Johnny-Volume Secondo, Boredoms-Vision Creation Newson

Had a fun weekedn with a friends 40th birthday where I had a bit too much to drink, and a then a little playdate/bbq on Sunday. I guess the most exciting thing about this weekend is that I may be closer launching my internet business because I spoke to somebody who is very interested and is the kind of person who could really help me get funding. I wont go into any details here on the web, but if you know me outside of cyberspace you probably have already heard of this idea, unless you haven't.
Pretty diverse music this weekend. Friday was UFO which for some reason I had never heard of, but I would say "Lights Out" is a pretty great 70s rock album, really recorded in the 70s! Santo and Johnny are jazz instrumentalists from the early 60s/late 50s who recorded rock tunes in a jazzy instrumental way. You would totally know them if you heard them, and probably totally enjoy them. The boredomes are noise pop (i guess, or something like that). Anyhow my friend andrew was really into them, may still be, but I was surprised a how "musical" this album was, a lot less noisy than I remembered, but maybe also a little less good. Two thumbs up for the first two and one thumb up for the second (eberts thumb).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I actually have a copy of that Boredoms album and think it's pretty good but yes completely different than they used to be. I think Vision Cration Newsun could be good driving music maybe. I only listened to it once or twice. I saw them a year or 2 (or 3?) ago and they were actually really awesome though not as mind-blowingly hi-energy as once.