Listen here and read the rest of the post . I know it is long, I'll make an effort for the next time.
Funny how some new pass as a letter in the mail, yet with the dissolution impromptu Supergrass you lose is one of 4 or 5 groups the brightest of the 90s and 2000. Supergrass , it was a little Kinks Blair years, the perfect group which has not had as much as he deserved. Dropped by their record label recently before for quite some time just the first parts of the Boy Scouts of stinking Coldplay, the case smelled of pine. But the announcement of their separation after 18 years of a career punctuated by impeccable all 6 albums, has caught everyone short, it was announced in effect an album, Release The drones , Gaz Combes (singer) and Danny Goffey (drummer) had just published a book in June of occasions as name of the Hot Rats (Zappa tribute to patronymic one imagines), also well done but a bit pointless as so often with this type of exercise (if this is perhaps the Kicking Against the prick of Nick Cave ).
Citing this impromptu break, many emphasized that it was better that they separate before committing the album too. Ben I Personally, I would have liked to see, good or bad. One or two albums before disbanding low, as the Clash and Roxy (or 15 as the Kinks), it's reassuring, it formalizes, it prepares for a peaceful break, smoothly, without false hope and without regret. While there the three nickel feet (which were 4 from Robert, the brother of Gaz, had joined in 1997) spread apart a bit as messy. Retrace their path.
Supergrass are coming to Oxford as the mourners of Radiohead, fortunately there is their only common point. In 1995 they landed with a crash into the barn with britpop I Should Coco (already stuffed with the title ...), supersonic funky singles "Caught by the fuzz ," "Lose it ", " Mansize rooster," and the supremely asshole "Alright ", then putting everyone on their knees. Based on the tube (their only real) will build an unfortunate misunderstanding essentially one who is to see a bunch of nice Supergrass troublemakers while harmless, it said, they recorded some of the most enduring rock moments of these last thirty years. It is sad to note that it is necessary to mortify be credible. Supergrass had yet without even knowing it certainly included in what should be pop music: a music and referenced without being pedantic (and this is the difficulty) modern. This trio of gentlemen had everything we needed for this: energy, freshness, an insolent ease. In a word: talent. Which must be added a healthy dose of charisma rabble must see Gaz Combes live, curly look of one who knows he likes the predatory smile, beautiful like a Mick Jagger in 1966, despite a mouth not possible, some somewhere between the reptile and rodent. Vole Mi-mi-crocodile. Drummer is not bad in its way, the eye invariably haggard, his lip pendulous, the bewildered, banging on his drums with big reels outrageous. At that time, they are the new heroes of England.
Yet after that first album eminently buzzcockien (ie we are playing fast and hits hard), a split occurs with the public at the outlet In it for the money , who sees the sign of a slowdown in the youthful ardor fellows (when it is just less Speedy Gonzales as the first) and is also taken aback by the darkness (a big word anyway) unpublished certain securities (" Richard 3," " In it for the money "), although sales are still quite respectable.
I have reservations about the myth of "underrated" or "il'nsuffisamment recognized" even if good times and bad, I agree; Supergrass into the second category. Do not falsify, Supergrass had its heyday. One million singles sold for "Alright " anyway. But the disaffection (a big chunk of its audience, criticism that was interested more than polite indifference we reserve the former) from "In it for the money" was equally swift and inexplicable. For the four albums that follow will be equally successful. The more contemplative Road to Rouen the psyche Life on Other Planets and return to the rock of their debut Brindezingue posed Diamond hoo ha , Supergrass have never experienced any drop regime, advancing with a constant copy. We must listen to "Moving " and its bouncy disco party to realize that these people ensured to death. We must listen to "Mary " huge piece full of bad feedback, piece of ghost train. It is the perfect pop of "St Petersburg " which must have left on your ass in those who had remained at " Mansize rooster." "Seen the Light " T-rex better than the T-rex. And "Sad Girl ? And "Diamond hoo ha men ? And "Can not get up ? And "Bad Blood ? And "What Went Wrong With your head ? That's excellent, you said!
Three Supergrass will not have the presence of mind taking drugs, which would have led a wave will subversive (as Peter Doherty, I do not worship but fun and has occasional flashes of genius as here) who might be curbed their commercial decline. Just a thought came to me recently: I understand that rock stars are less inconsequential that there are thirty or forty years (do not be surprised if I say the opposite in an upcoming post). I understand very well that refuses to play in the rock'n'roll circus a role that was played by others, and that made sense at the time but which became codified as that in What he objected to the departure (it unfortunately often happens like that).
There was a time where I stuffed myself strictly to the mouth in a furious frenzy of hedonism, not by taste (or not by choice) but to match I do not know what life ethic. I had to finish five times to the cops, almost as many times in the street (that's stories for small children) and now there are days where I am seems to undermine a chore (which is surely indicate a certain mental health, but it depresses me a bit, frankly). Now I'm pissed because I do not drink (too n'ais never knew), without purpose. Note that when you find yourself in an apartment of 30m ² filled to overflowing, you do not know half of those present, and would have you wanted to talk to them, you could not because Wax Taylor or whatever else mud electro set at full volume you prevent the only sensible thing to do is s'anesthésier a good shot.
But Supergrass are not like that. There was among them integrity and epidermal distrust for everything relating to the promotion that commands respect. In an interview (he hated exercise) 2005, Gaz Combes says, the angels: "I never talked to me, nobody knows what my life". You're quite right big father.
Well, I finished, go and download their albums (I will not tell you to buy them, I would look silly). I do not recommend more than others even if I have a soft spot for the third.
Ah and I missed their last concert at La Cigale, that's for sure, I never see Supergrass in truth, they did not wait. With this concert it seems great for all those who were lucky enough to attend, the group finished in any case his career as he led; with class.
Vianney G.
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