BIG STICK - DRAG RACING
This record (that I acquired for the bargain price of £2.99 "this might have a bit of surface noise but you won't notice it") was in the small box of records that John Peel would've grabbed had there been a fire in his house. A fire in his house! That means he liked it a lot I would guess. It's funny cos it's a record that you could describe as a bit damaged. If I may link it to all the tape type stuff on the go now it sort of reminds me of a James Ferraro 'KFC as energy temple' huuuuge double cdr release but with everything compressed into two minutes. Something like two minutes. A short time.
It's like a rock record that has been smashed into little chunks that are then sliced up a bit more and put back together again. By some guy with very poor manual dexterity. Or like a six year old. Their manual dexterity sucks. Don't force your six year old to start playing piano, he will be rubbish and it will sound awful. She could be the next Tony Royster Jnr and play the drums instead! Drumming in the Timberlake band, imagine that. All your childhood dreams successfully projected onto your own child!
There may be some places in North America where parents are forcing their children into taking up Drag Racing, I don't know. This is a song about and involving the sounds of Drag Racing. It's like a documentary that someone has edited down into a sound collage. But it's still a rock song. The girl sounds like she's being interviewed and the bloke is the tannoy announcer. Then there's this muppet sounding bloke saying 'hello baby hello baby'. The rhythms are all broken and the guitar is absolutely mangled until there's only the slightest hint of a riff left. The drag racers rev, threatening to drown out everything else. It was a hit! Which I can totally understand because it's brilliant.
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