A woman singing, "I cut my teeth on dirty looks" isn't what you're supposed to find in dream pop, but here the line goes by like a smile: Watch those smiles.ģ) "Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll" (A&E, June 18, available on home video in July)ĭirected by Morgan Neville, written by Peter Guralnick, narrated by Billy Bob Thornton, this 90-minute documentary again and again trumpets the magical ear of the great Memphis producer and Sun Records founder - but the words that explain how Phillips captured varieties of American speech at their fullest, through such mediums as Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Junior Parker, Pat Hare and countless more, don't make it into the film. ![]() Recorded "either in Amy's garage or Wyatt and Alicia's living room," they make dream pop feel as easy to make as a can of soup, and as dangerous: Watch that jagged edge. The Bay Area combo Aislers Set catch the same casual vehemence, the sense that while you can read your fate in dust motes you can also sweep them up. The 1979 demos collected on "Salad Days" - "recorded in the rundown heart of student bedsit land" - prove something else: that to pull off a concept that strict you need perfect execution.Īlison Stratton's ultracool YMG vocals might have been picked up from the screen - from Anna Karina in '60s Godard movies. ![]() Those who know the Young Marble Giants of Cardiff, Wales - including Courtney Love, who covered their "Credit in the Straight World" on Hole's "Live Through This" - treasure the minimalist three-piece's 1980 "Colossal Youth" as proof that punk meant cutting back to essentials, including, one would think from the sound of the thing, stuff like furniture, heat, more than one change of clothes. 1 & 2) Aislers Set, "the last march" (Slumberland) & Young Marble Giants, "Salad Days" (Vinyl Japan)
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