Bugs & Drugs was a Bristol fanzine that I came into contact with via the segments they ran in Deadline. It was an awesomely scabrous, cut and paste affair from a bunch of folks who I understand are now Collision Films (and by extension the groovy poster folks, Jacknife).
Punks Is Hippies has some pdf versions of the first two issues here and here. There’s also the 9th issue of it’s precursor Skate Muties From The 5th Dimension. I’m curious if they ever did all 40 promised cards in the Character Assassinations as that was always my favourite bit.
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When they showed the Rock N’ Rolla trailer in front of Dark Knight, you could hear laughs of derision flitter through the audience, like a sarcastic butterfly. And this was quite a small, first showing of the day audience.
Not as good as the last album, “Achtung Bono”, and some way off their masterpiece, “Cammell Laird Social Club”. Musically and lyrically it’s a little repetitive (this is even commented on within the track “Lord Hereford’s Knob”), but it is more HMHB and therefore is still a thing to be embraced. And it’s not like there isn’t moments of brilliance. Closing track “National Shite Day” is the album’s high point, a piece of dour miserable wit that goes beyond the usual Larry David-like irritation by minutiae that is part of HMHB’s stock in trade. Not that there isn’t plenty of that here too, see this album’s “Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess”, “Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show” and perhaps the ultimate condensing of HMHB’s themes, the Hokey-Cokey borrowing, “Petty Sessions”:
So, Murakami making commercial art? Better than Murakami making art that’s a commentary on commercial art?
Back once again with news you can’t use. This is all taken from Manga Mania Issue 10 Cover date April 1994. I would have still been ignoring anime and manga at this time, instead wandering the streets of Grimsby while harbouring a obsession with Chris Morris & Steve Coogan and wearing out audio tapes of On The Hour and Knowing Me, Knowing You.
UK NEWS
- Manga Video had Battle Angel Alita and the first volume of the Guyver finally coming out.
- They also had the live action Gunhed at various cinemas up and down the land.
- Kiseki had plans to get The Gigolo and Urotsukidoji III out in March. Whether this was the month Urotsukidoji III actually got released we’ll have to find out.
- Porco Rosso was due to be shown at the International Animation Festival at Cardiff.
SPAIN NEWS
- Manga Films Sociedad Limited released Porco Rosso in the cinema.
JAPAN NEWS
- The Space Cruiser Yamato OAV came out, complete with the Syd Mead redesign.
- Other Laser Disc fun included:
- Fortune Quest
- The Deep Blue Fleet
- Dirty Pair Flash
- No Need For Tenchi! Special – Galaxy Police Mihoshi
- The last Tenchi project of any worth in my book.
- The Hakkenden
- Armoured Trooper Votoms
- Machine God Corps
- Tokyo Babylon II
- Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
- Protect My Earth!
- Compiler
US News
- AnimEigo had an AD Police (the OAVs, not the even crappier TV show) Laserdisc coming, a dubbed Riding Bean, UY: Always My Darling and UY: Lum The Forever.
- US Manga Corps had Genocyber, The Heroic Legend of Arislan, Project A-Ko 2,
- AD Vision had Devil Hunter Yohko and The Girl From Phantasia, the latter eliciting the typical barbed comment from Trish Ledoux she tended to give ADV releases. It really seemed like she had it in for ADV. I do think it comes up more explicitly later in the magazine’s run when she has a column proper rather just doing US news.
- LA Hero/US Renditions had more Orguss
- CPM had Gigantor
- Pioneer had No Need For Tenchi LDs
- Streamline had Lupin III: Tales of the Wolf – a compilation of best episodes from the second series.
- Viz chugged on with Ranma 1/2.
- Notable manga releases had Antarctic Press releasing Iczer One, and Viz releasing Street Fighter 2.
Other Notes:
Three articles this issue:
- A typical Manga Mania article where a theme is picked and a variety of books/shows are listed to try and draw some sort of progression of the theme. This month? SAMURAIS!
- A translated article on Gon creator Masashi Tanaka taken from the Italian KAPPA magazine.
- And of historical note, there’s an article on the dub of Crusader’s release of Nuku Nuku.
While arguably atypical for Kid 606, this is the best work I’ve heard of his.
Essentially it’s the Kid 606 “mash-up” album. God I hate that term, I prefer the misleading “bootleg” moniker or the “bastard pop” one. Anyway, this is Kid 606 doing them there mash-ups, using various tracks and artists popular in the scene at the time. That time being 2002 and those artists being Eminem, Missy and 80s pop types.
It’s Kid 606′s usual arhythmical (is that a word?) breakbeats applied to the marrying of accapella tracks to a different song’s instrumentals. This is best seen in the tracks “Mp3 Killed the CD Star” & “Never Underestimate the Value of a Holler” which take tracks that had been overused in the bootleg scene at the time and does terrible and interesting things to them.
Also of note is final track “This Is Not My Statement”, a lengthy (13+ minutes!) destruction of Radiohead’s “Creep”. Which this clip isn’t. This is “Smack My Glitch Up”:
And now a new series of posts that continue until I lose interest. Going through my albums one by one.
This is the only Royal Trux album I own. I did have Veterans of Disorder, but I somehow managed to lose it somewhere between Hinckley and Spalding.
Anyway, this was their blistering first album after the genius shafting of Virgin Records they performed. They had released the terrible Sweet Sixteen to escape their record deal, all the while getting Virgin to pay for the building of a studio in their home. Once dropped they then put out this awesome rock and roll record on Drag City.
Opening track “I’m Ready” sounds like doors being kicked in. As do tracks “The Banana Question”, “Juicy Juicy Juice”, “Liar” and “Follow The Winner”. If it wasn’t for the bluesy “Yellow Kid”, the psychedelic “Another Year” and “New Bones” it would be an exhausting experience. And it all rounds off with the soft rock West-Coast ballad “Stevie (for Steven S.)”, one of the few songs written in celebration of Steven Seagal.
Here’s an inexplicably short video for Liar.
Hey it’s another Hisashi Mori compilation!
