Singles Reviews
Words: Jimmy Possession
Keith John Adams
Memory (Flitwick seven-inch)
There can't be many lyrics, except for the odd sea shanty, that feature
the line, "Keep my tiller even." There are undoubtedly fewer still, and
probably no shanties at all, that couple it with the plea, "Memory be
good to me". And it's a dead cert that if Syd Barrett never chanced across
this particular combination, Keith John Adams is the only bloke ever to
wrestle a psychedelic folk tune around the words and make it sound like
it should be on Top of the Pops to boot. www.flitwickrecords.co.uk
PO Box 26, Flitwick, Beds, MK45 1ZU
Spraydog
Girls Know Girls (Stupid Cat seven-inch)
Stupid Cat? Spraydog? We only need Rolf Harris and The Animals and Electronic
Brains Hospital can finally open. Seven pm every Monday and Thursday.
The slow brain fade slot. If Rolf doesn't show, we can still have "Dear
'Dog", a weekly phone-in where Spraydog answer viewers' questions to a
soundtrack of lackadaisical swirling guitar pop. Q: Dear 'Dog, why can't
I even be friends with a girl? A: "Girls know girls, it's true, better
than boys do." Simple when you know how. New album "Mint Hand" is out
now too. www.spraydog.co.uk
www.stupidcat.co.uk
29 Lawton Rd, London, E10 6RR
Rotator
Help Me To Keep Up Destruction (Broklyn Beats seven-inch) "Chicken Boogie",
on the underside of this apocalyptic barrage of thrice-spliced noise and
aggrobeats, is the best track I have ever heard. No contest. Like a Duracell
enema, it is the direct injection of raw power to a highly sensitive and
receptive organ. Unlike a Duracell enema, it does not involve shoving
anything up your arse - although there's no reason why you shouldn't do
that if it helps. 440 Broadway #3R, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA www.crucial-systems.com
My Legendary Girlfriend
Unfashionably Hi-Fi (Short Fuse seven-inch)
My legendary girlfriend, Donna Donnelly, is out in the garden. She's planting
some flowers in the patch of bare earth where last year I planted the
flowers. I like to think it was a successful wild garden. Donna secretly
thinks it was a weed's paradise. Actually that's not true. She pretty
vocally thinks it was a weed's paradise and she's determined that it won't
be the same this year. Which is why I'm relegated to digging holes, repairing
the fence and carrying stuff to the bin. Or skulking around inside going
through this pile of seven-inch singles and thinking that My Legendary
Girlfriend would probably have been able to grow proper flowers if they'd
tried. They seem to be able to do more or less whatever else they turn
their hand to. The pick of these pick'n'mix (pop, reggae and did someone
say XTC?) tunes is "Hey Adric!", where the title's Fall leanings are belied
by music's the outer space funk. 42 Seymour Rd, Nottingham, NG2 5EK www.mylegendarygirlfriend.co.uk
www.shortfuse.net
3jane
Thereminians (Sorted seven-inch)
"Thereminians"? Sounds like the underclass in a society governed by an
elite gang of Star Trek theme tune obsessives. Sort of. Try again. "Thereminians"?
Sounds like a record made by a gang of Star Trek theme tune obsessives
(who will no doubt tell me that the instrument used for the Star Trek
theme was, in fact, a persimmonbell model 4.2b or something) with a sideline
in modern skank. sortedrecords@hotmail.com
PO Box 5922, Leicester, Le1 6XU http://come.to/robots