The Cynics - Blue train station
Let’s also open the chapter on the Cynics. For my personal taste in garage-garage punk, they are among the very best.
Disillusioned by the local punk scene in which he had grown up (the one around the Electric Banana in Pittsburgh) and disgusted by the rising new romantic movement, Gregg Kostelich decides to return to the purity of the sixties music he had discovered as a kid through 45s he salvaged from a burglary at a radio station in Canonsburg, his hometown. He thus decides to form the Psycho Daisies with the intent of emulating the spirit of bands like Seeds, Music Machine, Blues Magoos, Alarm Clocks, Litter, Nightcrawlers, and Sonics.
Renaming themselves Cynics and replacing Mark Keresman (the one who sings on the band’s debut 7”, NdLYS) with new singer Michael Kastelic, former lead vocalist of the Wake, the band is ready for their debut album, released in 1986 on the band’s own label, catalog number GH-1000.
Alongside Gregg and Michael are the loyal companion Bill Von Hagen (the protagonist of Debt Begins at 20, a short film by Stephanie Beroe that explores the birth of the punk movement in Pittsburgh, NdLYS), a bassist who seems to have slipped out of a Redd Kross album cover, and the lovely Beki Smith on Vox organ. The blue train station is one of the essential stops of the quick neo-garage of the Eighties: loud vocals and a sound that wobbles between fuzz hornets (Waste of Time, borrowing the riff from That’s What You Always Say by Dream Syndicate, Love Me Then Go Away), R ‘n B rattlesnakes (Blue Train Station, No Way, Hold Me Right, the cover of Road Block), and trails of slime from the mollusks that inhabit the folk-rock garden of the sixties (On the Run). There’s little to discard, except that I Want Love had already been done, better, by our Sick Rose and the comparison with the No Friend of Mine by Fuzztones has always favored the latter, forcing us to postpone the appointment with the masterpiece to the next meeting.
Let’s also open the chapter on the Cynics. For my personal taste in garage-garage punk, they are among the very best.
Disillusioned by the local punk scene in which he had grown up (the one around the Electric Banana in Pittsburgh) and disgusted by the rising new romantic movement, Gregg Kostelich decides to return to the purity of the sixties music he had discovered as a kid through 45s he salvaged from a burglary at a radio station in Canonsburg, his hometown. He thus decides to form the Psycho Daisies with the intent of emulating the spirit of bands like Seeds, Music Machine, Blues Magoos, Alarm Clocks, Litter, Nightcrawlers, and Sonics.
Renaming themselves Cynics and replacing Mark Keresman (the one who sings on the band’s debut 7”, NdLYS) with new singer Michael Kastelic, former lead vocalist of the Wake, the band is ready for their debut album, released in 1986 on the band’s own label, catalog number GH-1000.
Alongside Gregg and Michael are the loyal companion Bill Von Hagen (the protagonist of Debt Begins at 20, a short film by Stephanie Beroe that explores the birth of the punk movement in Pittsburgh, NdLYS), a bassist who seems to have slipped out of a Redd Kross album cover, and the lovely Beki Smith on Vox organ. The blue train station is one of the essential stops of the quick neo-garage of the Eighties: loud vocals and a sound that wobbles between fuzz hornets (Waste of Time, borrowing the riff from That’s What You Always Say by Dream Syndicate, Love Me Then Go Away), R ‘n B rattlesnakes (Blue Train Station, No Way, Hold Me Right, the cover of Road Block), and trails of slime from the mollusks that inhabit the folk-rock garden of the sixties (On the Run). There’s little to discard, except that I Want Love had already been done, better, by our Sick Rose and the comparison with the No Friend of Mine by Fuzztones has always favored the latter, forcing us to postpone the appointment with the masterpiece to the next meeting.
IlConte
29 mar 23 Versione 1
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