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| 1. H.S. Art | |||
| 2. Another Song | |||
| 3. Vertical Slum | |||
| 4. Spitfire Parade | |||
| 5. Harmony In Your Bathroom | |||
| 6. Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me! | |||
| 7. Midget Submarines | |||
| 8. Bridget Heat (Pt.9) | |||
| 9. Full Moon In My Pocket | |||
| 10. Blam! | |||
| 11. Full Moon (Reprise) | |||
| 12. Gunboats | |||
| 13. Adventuring Into Basketry | |||
| 14. My Little Shops | |||
| 15. Ripped And Torn | |||
| 16. International Rescue | |||
| 17. Loin Of The Surf | |||
| 18. Shoot The Angels | |||
| 19. Elephant Flowers (No.2) | |||
| 20. Turn Me On Dead Man | |||
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SWELL MAPS A Trip To Marineville (1989 UK 22-track CD album originally released in 1979 as the Maps debut longplayer for Rough Trade a fantastic collision of post-punk/DIY ethic experimental soundscapes and psychedelic chaos! Includes 8 bonus recordings)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Say, that's a swell map!" so opens this classic album, one that bridged the gulf between punk and post punk, DIY and lo fi (the recent compilation Messthetics 1977 - 1980 shows that Swell Maps were the Beatles of this movement - the most famous acts alongside them being Desperate Bicycles & the early squat-theory of Scritti Politti). Swell Maps only released two albums, "A Trip to Marineville" and "Jane in Occupied Europe" - both of which are must haves. The band also offered up several compilations: the recent Whippersnappers..., "Whatever Happens Next..." and the excellent "Train Out Of It."
Any fans of Buzzcocks' classic 'Spiral Scratch' or 'Pink Flag'-Wire should find much to enjoy here, songs like 'Vertical Slum', 'another song' & 'H.S. art' holding their own with 'Boredom' & '12XU.' Swell Maps were always a bit odder - true DIY-heads with a penchant for military imagery, Krautrock, T-Rex, Gerry Anderson & Beefheart - the bit where 'Vertical Slum' slips into a chant ("The weather! The leather!") is fantastic - more Ubu/Zappa/Beefheart - and not that far from one of my favourite SM-moments, 1978's 'Full Moon' (found on "Train Out of It" and a definite Desert Island Disc for me!!). The moan that comes in on 'Spitfire Parade' shows that the band were playing with their punky DIY angles - the next album would find them adding Neu!-style piano to a song like 'Border Country' or creating drum'n'bass with 'Robot Factory.'
Loads of acts have nodded to Swell Maps - Sonic Youth, The Lemonheads, Blur, Graham Coxon...'Harmony in your bathroom' sounds like the kind of song Blur & Coxon have attempted to make several times, while the epic 'Gunboats' could have been on Blur's 1997 eponymous album or follow-up '13.' The vocal style and jangly minimalism is very Blur at their blurriest and Nikki Sudden's vocal appears to be the template for Damon Albarn's! (Blur used to be called Seymour, a moniker probably taken from 'Read About Seymour'!!). 'Gunboats' is followed by another experimental epic 'Adventures into Basketry', seven-plus minutes of drones'n'noise that could be seen to predict Sonuc Youth, Theoretical Girls & Tortoise. The album proper concludes on the brief 'my little shops', one of those hypnotic minatures the band made, in this instance just Epic Soundtracks on bass with David Barrington on guitar/vocals singing the joys of the corner shops...
There are eight bonus tracks as necessary as the tracks compiled on "Train Out Of It", as with many Maps recordings, there are some art-experiments that may not appeal to everyone, e.g. 'Turn Me on Dead Man', 'Elephant Flowers no.2'. The highlights remain the catchy indie-pop of 'Ripped & Torn' and an ode to Gerry Anderson in the form of 'International Rescue' - the bonus tracks make the album even more necessary.
"A Trip to Marineville" is one of the greatest records, one of those like 'Trout Mask Replica' and 'Hex Enduction Hour' that I come back to often - it's the purest music made by the young and adventerous. It seems to me one of those records to live by...It came from the Midlands and blew minds forever...something no one should be without. The original alternative until the end of time...
Any fans of Buzzcocks' classic 'Spiral Scratch' or 'Pink Flag'-Wire should find much to enjoy here, songs like 'Vertical Slum', 'another song' & 'H.S. art' holding their own with 'Boredom' & '12XU.' Swell Maps were always a bit odder - true DIY-heads with a penchant for military imagery, Krautrock, T-Rex, Gerry Anderson & Beefheart - the bit where 'Vertical Slum' slips into a chant ("The weather! The leather!") is fantastic - more Ubu/Zappa/Beefheart - and not that far from one of my favourite SM-moments, 1978's 'Full Moon' (found on "Train Out of It" and a definite Desert Island Disc for me!!). The moan that comes in on 'Spitfire Parade' shows that the band were playing with their punky DIY angles - the next album would find them adding Neu!-style piano to a song like 'Border Country' or creating drum'n'bass with 'Robot Factory.'
Loads of acts have nodded to Swell Maps - Sonic Youth, The Lemonheads, Blur, Graham Coxon...'Harmony in your bathroom' sounds like the kind of song Blur & Coxon have attempted to make several times, while the epic 'Gunboats' could have been on Blur's 1997 eponymous album or follow-up '13.' The vocal style and jangly minimalism is very Blur at their blurriest and Nikki Sudden's vocal appears to be the template for Damon Albarn's! (Blur used to be called Seymour, a moniker probably taken from 'Read About Seymour'!!). 'Gunboats' is followed by another experimental epic 'Adventures into Basketry', seven-plus minutes of drones'n'noise that could be seen to predict Sonuc Youth, Theoretical Girls & Tortoise. The album proper concludes on the brief 'my little shops', one of those hypnotic minatures the band made, in this instance just Epic Soundtracks on bass with David Barrington on guitar/vocals singing the joys of the corner shops...
There are eight bonus tracks as necessary as the tracks compiled on "Train Out Of It", as with many Maps recordings, there are some art-experiments that may not appeal to everyone, e.g. 'Turn Me on Dead Man', 'Elephant Flowers no.2'. The highlights remain the catchy indie-pop of 'Ripped & Torn' and an ode to Gerry Anderson in the form of 'International Rescue' - the bonus tracks make the album even more necessary.
"A Trip to Marineville" is one of the greatest records, one of those like 'Trout Mask Replica' and 'Hex Enduction Hour' that I come back to often - it's the purest music made by the young and adventerous. It seems to me one of those records to live by...It came from the Midlands and blew minds forever...something no one should be without. The original alternative until the end of time...
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Back in 1979 the fag end of punk rock was throwing up some really duff bands and some terrible music. Enter the Swell Maps with this stunning display of exactly what the whole thing was about in the first place. No they were not great musicians, yes it was recorded very quickly in a tiny four track studio, but the result is quite wonderful and so very English.
Here you get the original LP plus a load of bonus tracks (but not all of the tracks on the EP given away with the original vinyl issue which is a real shame). Buy now!
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A classic lp, these boys were punk and more. Its no wonder they have been seminal influences on the american punk and grunge scene, this is that good.
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