A late post from us today. Many apologies to those expecting our usual midnight arrival. Today we visit the flip of the Lust for Youth / War split that we wrote about earlier this month.
War’s Somme, Maggio has been knocking around various blogs for a while but we’ll cover it anyway because we love AVANT!, because they let us post a downloadable copy and because it’s got that thunderously eerie juxtapositional thing we dig hard at 20JFG.
When we were living out our pastel nuclear nightmares at the dog end of the Cold War, Armageddon was forever portrayed as a hazy world of deafening, far off sounds and hideously distorted music. The theory being, we suppose, that pop was the vessel with which we defined our capitalistic utopias and the worst thing that could possibly happen is for the speakers to get blown out on our sweet Phillips tape player.
That ur-trauma seems to have permitted the bodies that make up War. Somme, Maggio wallows in irradiated tape hiss and the distant thuds of something nightmarishly energetic hitting the world, over and over again. The simple melody repeats like a numbers station, an ever-present reminder of what we’ve lost; a counterpoint to the megaphone shouts that weave between these two extremes. Pretty horrific, pretty remorseless and definitely worth posting about, even if we’re late today.
War – Somme, Maggio
As we mentioned above, this is the flip to the LFY / War 7″ on AVANT!
…and now, sadly, something completely different:
We never quite understood Donna Summer’s allegedly homophobic awakening at the hands of Christianity (in fairness, she later denied it). Before that though, she was involved in making some of the greatest records ever. This is one of them and it pretty much changed my life:
Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Mega Mix)
RIP
