Showing posts with label Like Flies on Sherbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Like Flies on Sherbert. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Sad score of the day: redux--LIKE FLIES ON SHERBERT sessions footage

Per my link last month to a copy of LIKE FLIES ON SHERBERT by the late Alex Chilton, here's a link to footage of their recording process...stuttering video streaming over potentially non-sync-sound footage results in little clarification as to how this album actually ended up ever getting recorded, but this is worth a gander for its miraculous ability to make this album seem even more chaotic than I'd ever previously managed to imagine.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sad score of the day: Alex Chilton R.I.P.

Let's just say, I've listened to Alex Chilton's first solo album a hundred times more than all of the Big Star albums together. Something tells me allmusic.com's one-star reviewer didn't really "get" this one, but maybe some grandchildren of its deconstructionist rock n' roll trailblazing took the cue and ran with it...on my mp3 player shuffle mode, I've repeatedly mistaken CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN outtakes for the bonus tracks on LIKE FLIES ON SHERBERT that I was less familiar with at the time. Get it. Chilton passed yesterday and will be missed. Too few musicians can still act as transducers to draw down sounds from outer space.