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I managed to get my hands on Clutch's 2nd album today on Dutch Import. Self-titled, it's the only one I don't have on CD, but now I do.
So I'm listening away to it and trying to get someone, anyone, interested enough to get something by them.
All this talk recently of nu-metal and rock, but there's about 2 people here that know Clutch.
Your Honour knows them now, I sent him a mix-cd and I think they worked their way into his mind.
They're classed as "Stoner Rock", which basically means they have a lot of fun, don't make angry "life sucks and parents are mean" music and put on a stomping live show.
I've seen them 4 times now, and each and every time has been brilliant.
But none of you know them...shocking.
An age where a 30yr old millioniare record-exec can wear a baseball cap backwards and leap about shouting "Give me something to break", but a hard-working incredible band play to 200-300 people each time they come over.
Dammit, that's not right.
If you like rock, if you like Queens of The Stone Age, Led Zepplin, Stone Roses, Kyuss, Black Sabbath, funk/blues then get one of their albums, or leave a message here and I'll do you a CD myself to prove that they will rock your boat big time.
This album came 2 years after their debut, which was a hardcore, angry album with lots of shouting and swearing.
It appealed to the jock-rock crowd, but they got bored with getting up and screaming night after night, so they did what came naturally and just recorded the most downright shuffly, groove-soaked, riff-laden album I've ever heard.
They still rock the hard jams, but with a style and rythmn you ain't never heard before.
Some song titles on this one:
Texan Book Of The Dead
Rock N Roll Outlaw
Escape from The Prison Planet
Spacegrass
I Have The Body of John-Wilkes Booth
The House that Peterbuilt
Tim Sult Vs The Greys
I can't overstate just how monstrous and groove (I hate that word but it fits so well) filled this band are.
The lyrics are intelligent and extremely literate for a genre that seems to rely on "Smash Stuff!...Hate your mum and dad!..School is hard!".
But not just clever, but deal with subjects that you would never, ever think of if you were in a band.
On this album you have ones about finding the body of the guy that assasinated Abraham Lincoln whilst fishing, a pyscho truck driver that is spoken to by aliens and spends his time seeking out others to convert and a warning to not mess with The Weebles when they're out together because "you know they Weebles wobble whenever they get ticked off...Hell Yeah!"
But forget that stuff, Clutch do what a rock band are supposed to do - They rock. Big time.
Make you tap your feet, want to play the drums or guitar, shuffle-dance around yer house whilst cleaning (maybe that's just me though).
A rock band that has fun without being a comedy band, creates furiously rythmic music and, above all else, rocks you like nothing else can.
C'mon people, I read that we're all into different music forms, just take my word for it, seek out Clutch and you will be rewarded.
Or sent me an email and I'll do you a mix CD, I promise you'll fall to your knees and thank Clutch.
"I stared long and hard into the light...everything gonne be alright...YEAH...I smash through the halls like the son of Samson, hollering louder than all of Bedlam...everything gonna be alright..."
So I'm listening away to it and trying to get someone, anyone, interested enough to get something by them.
All this talk recently of nu-metal and rock, but there's about 2 people here that know Clutch.
Your Honour knows them now, I sent him a mix-cd and I think they worked their way into his mind.
They're classed as "Stoner Rock", which basically means they have a lot of fun, don't make angry "life sucks and parents are mean" music and put on a stomping live show.
I've seen them 4 times now, and each and every time has been brilliant.
But none of you know them...shocking.
An age where a 30yr old millioniare record-exec can wear a baseball cap backwards and leap about shouting "Give me something to break", but a hard-working incredible band play to 200-300 people each time they come over.
Dammit, that's not right.
If you like rock, if you like Queens of The Stone Age, Led Zepplin, Stone Roses, Kyuss, Black Sabbath, funk/blues then get one of their albums, or leave a message here and I'll do you a CD myself to prove that they will rock your boat big time.
This album came 2 years after their debut, which was a hardcore, angry album with lots of shouting and swearing.
It appealed to the jock-rock crowd, but they got bored with getting up and screaming night after night, so they did what came naturally and just recorded the most downright shuffly, groove-soaked, riff-laden album I've ever heard.
They still rock the hard jams, but with a style and rythmn you ain't never heard before.
Some song titles on this one:
Texan Book Of The Dead
Rock N Roll Outlaw
Escape from The Prison Planet
Spacegrass
I Have The Body of John-Wilkes Booth
The House that Peterbuilt
Tim Sult Vs The Greys
I can't overstate just how monstrous and groove (I hate that word but it fits so well) filled this band are.
The lyrics are intelligent and extremely literate for a genre that seems to rely on "Smash Stuff!...Hate your mum and dad!..School is hard!".
But not just clever, but deal with subjects that you would never, ever think of if you were in a band.
On this album you have ones about finding the body of the guy that assasinated Abraham Lincoln whilst fishing, a pyscho truck driver that is spoken to by aliens and spends his time seeking out others to convert and a warning to not mess with The Weebles when they're out together because "you know they Weebles wobble whenever they get ticked off...Hell Yeah!"
But forget that stuff, Clutch do what a rock band are supposed to do - They rock. Big time.
Make you tap your feet, want to play the drums or guitar, shuffle-dance around yer house whilst cleaning (maybe that's just me though).
A rock band that has fun without being a comedy band, creates furiously rythmic music and, above all else, rocks you like nothing else can.
C'mon people, I read that we're all into different music forms, just take my word for it, seek out Clutch and you will be rewarded.
Or sent me an email and I'll do you a mix CD, I promise you'll fall to your knees and thank Clutch.
"I stared long and hard into the light...everything gonne be alright...YEAH...I smash through the halls like the son of Samson, hollering louder than all of Bedlam...everything gonna be alright..."
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Neil "Clutch" Fallon doing Crazy Horses.
It doesn't get much better than that
It doesn't get much better than that
Really?
I must buy that then.
I've got Throat doing a cover of "Crazy Horses" by The Osmonds.
Now THAT is lunacy
I must buy that then.
I've got Throat doing a cover of "Crazy Horses" by The Osmonds.
Now THAT is lunacy
I do what little work they give me to do.
Check my "morals mean quitting stupid jobs" post in the Life forum for the whole explanation of this.
When I have stuff to do, I do it.
When I don't?
I come here and annoy others.
Check my "morals mean quitting stupid jobs" post in the Life forum for the whole explanation of this.
When I have stuff to do, I do it.
When I don't?
I come here and annoy others.
Just out of interest Goaty, do you get any work done during the day? You post more than I do and I work here, man.
That's the thing about Clutch - they take time to work their charms on you.
If you have a programmable CD, put in PRF and hit
Careful With That Mic
Open Up The Border
Red Horse Rainbow
Brazenhead
Immortal
Sinkemlow
Those are the best ones, purely because they have a fantastic groove to them/
If you have a programmable CD, put in PRF and hit
Careful With That Mic
Open Up The Border
Red Horse Rainbow
Brazenhead
Immortal
Sinkemlow
Those are the best ones, purely because they have a fantastic groove to them/
RAISED BY HORSES
I was eating dinner at the table
With people from the music industry
They asked me if I liked it in the city
I said I like it better in the country
The label representative asked me
What about it most appealed to me
I said I love to listen to the yellowhammers singing
“A little bit of bread and no cheese”
And I commenced to do a tap-dance
On eggplant parmesan before their eyes
Guided by voices whole bag of tricks
Raised by druids and horses
(And I told them)
Never underestimate the power of love
You dig my new horseshoes?
Never underestimate the power love
Come here quickly he’s lost his mind!
Frightened?
Well I’m not surprised
You’ve never seen the likes of me
Check it, I want a big fat advance
And my alfalfa free
Come here quickly he’s lost his mind!
The manager removed me from the restaurant
Crowd got to gathering around
I said you can throw a man out on his ear
But you cant keep a good horse down
Mounted police sprung into action
Never cut me any bit of slack
But I wasn’t going anywhere
Till they got off my brother’s back
Bop it down
Bop it down
Yeah
Bop it down
Bop it down
I was eating dinner at the table
With people from the music industry
They asked me if I liked it in the city
I said I like it better in the country
The label representative asked me
What about it most appealed to me
I said I love to listen to the yellowhammers singing
“A little bit of bread and no cheese”
And I commenced to do a tap-dance
On eggplant parmesan before their eyes
Guided by voices whole bag of tricks
Raised by druids and horses
(And I told them)
Never underestimate the power of love
You dig my new horseshoes?
Never underestimate the power love
Come here quickly he’s lost his mind!
Frightened?
Well I’m not surprised
You’ve never seen the likes of me
Check it, I want a big fat advance
And my alfalfa free
Come here quickly he’s lost his mind!
The manager removed me from the restaurant
Crowd got to gathering around
I said you can throw a man out on his ear
But you cant keep a good horse down
Mounted police sprung into action
Never cut me any bit of slack
But I wasn’t going anywhere
Till they got off my brother’s back
Bop it down
Bop it down
Yeah
Bop it down
Bop it down
Red Horse Rainbow
Pan-Amoebic algebra breeds bizarre bacteria
What to do? Oh what to do?
Africanised killer bees, alabaster deities
Milk from spoons, sip milk from spoons
Within the ruins
Against the firth
The salamander has given birth
Only Red Horse Rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by their hundreds
Pull the bog-man from the peat
Stand him up on both his feet
He jigs and reels, he jigs and reels
Infiltrating silver crabs
Carry a most scented flag to their front lines
Within the ruins
Against the firth
The salamander has given birth
Only Red Horse Rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by their hundreds
Run to the tower and call up the magus
If he has caused this we’ll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles and remove his hands
Pan-Amoebic algebra breeds bizarre bacteria
What to do? Oh what to do?
Africanised killer bees, alabaster deities
Milk from spoons, sip milk from spoons
Within the ruins
Against the firth
The salamander has given birth
Only Red Horse Rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by their hundreds
Pull the bog-man from the peat
Stand him up on both his feet
He jigs and reels, he jigs and reels
Infiltrating silver crabs
Carry a most scented flag to their front lines
Within the ruins
Against the firth
The salamander has given birth
Only Red Horse Rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by their hundreds
Run to the tower and call up the magus
If he has caused this we’ll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles and remove his hands
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