My Firstborn Will Surely Be Born Blind

Geeky music bit now. But I was lsitening to this album today. One of my most favourite albums ever. its been with me since I was 17, and I still find have the same feeling towards it and it still stirs the same emotions up inside me today, as it did then. " What is this magical album then Oliver?" I hear you ask. The legendary Kiss It Goodbye! and "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not".
They where the band that ex-Deadguy vocalist Tim Singer and guitarist Keith Huckins formed in Seattle after there move north from New Jersey. They had a demo circulating for a while but Revelation put them in the studio with Billy Anderson and this is the result. A powerfull, emotional, cathartic, vitriolic wall of sound. That is equal parts aggro, twisted and fragile. That sounds really pretentious, but it works so well. This album accompanied me on so many train journeys to gigs. I had a very worn tape of it, that played on rotation in the days when no one could drive and you always travelled to Leeds or Birmingham ona train to watch some bands and then ended up staying in the train station until the morning for your next train home. It was these journeys that sunk the album into my brain. every little drum fill, every shard of discordance, every twisted riff. But Tim Singer's vocals are what make this album stand up. Catharsis doesn't describe it at all. One of my friends always used to say it is the sound of one man having a complete breakdown, and they recorded it. Dramatic, tearfull, aggro, emotionally barren etc etc... I have tried for years to find some information on what the his songs are about, you can make out phrases and line shere and there but the booklet never gave it away and over the years I have pieced together some info, mostly revolving around some issue with heroin and family. Thats my best lead so far.
I would have liked to have uploaded this for the very few people that read this blog but I can't really be bothered. Other than that you should really pick this up if you ahve any interst in emotional music or jsut want to spend an hour with a twisted, fearfull, chaotic mess. then this is the album you NEED to hear. I think Revelation mailorder still have copies of it.

Other news, my new car is now named...The Whipmaster. After one of the best Bill Murray sketches on Saturday Night Live. Watch


Plus I have put up links to 2 of my favourite blogs. The Dying Machine and Lo Res Viscera. both full of tons of amazing stuff, and you don't have to feel guilty about downloading as nearly all the stuff is very rare out of print vinyl only...more bonus.
While your there check out my good friend Macky's photography blog. He is an artist of the camera. Amazing work.

On another note, get into Dead Raven Choir. " My Firstborn Will Surely Be Born blind" is so good. Alongside " The Sporting Life" by Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones have been an inspiration this week.

Fuck you all.