Sunday, April 24, 2005
MUSIC CORNER: THE DAY THE EARTH MET THE ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS
I just finished listening, for at least the fourth time, to The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs, a 2002 compilation that is the only legit release from the original Rocket from the Tombs, the seminal 1974-75 Cleveland proto-punk band that spawned both Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys (in 2003 a reformed version of the band, with three of the original members plus Richard Lloyd from Television, toured; they have a CD out (see link above), which I haven't heard). And the Village Voice critic who called it "a pretty good heavy metal album," or words to that effect (iirc), was wrong, wrong, wrong. Granted, only nine of the nineteen cuts on the CD are great: "Raw Power," "So Cold," "Ain't It Fun," "Transfusion," "Life Stinks," "30 Seconds over Tokyo," "Final Solution," "Foggy Notion," and "Search and Destroy." But how many CDs do you own with nine great tracks on them? Not many, I'll bet. (The version of "Ain't It Fun" here is slightly inferior to the one on the Life Stinks bootleg from Jack Slack, if I'm remembering the latter correctly, but you can't have everything.)
I just finished listening, for at least the fourth time, to The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs, a 2002 compilation that is the only legit release from the original Rocket from the Tombs, the seminal 1974-75 Cleveland proto-punk band that spawned both Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys (in 2003 a reformed version of the band, with three of the original members plus Richard Lloyd from Television, toured; they have a CD out (see link above), which I haven't heard). And the Village Voice critic who called it "a pretty good heavy metal album," or words to that effect (iirc), was wrong, wrong, wrong. Granted, only nine of the nineteen cuts on the CD are great: "Raw Power," "So Cold," "Ain't It Fun," "Transfusion," "Life Stinks," "30 Seconds over Tokyo," "Final Solution," "Foggy Notion," and "Search and Destroy." But how many CDs do you own with nine great tracks on them? Not many, I'll bet. (The version of "Ain't It Fun" here is slightly inferior to the one on the Life Stinks bootleg from Jack Slack, if I'm remembering the latter correctly, but you can't have everything.)
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