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The classic debut album by 23 Skidoo from 1982, remastered with bonus tracks from EPs The Gospel Comes To New Guinea and Tearing Up The Plans. Booklet contains detailed band biography and archive images.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Stunning, just stunning. The damned thing is nearly 30 years old but sounds fresh as a daisy, as raw, funky and downright in-yer-face as you could wish. Knocks seven shades off all the so-called punk-funk wannabe's who've popped up recently, pretending they always loved Gang of Four. The sound of untamed youth stretching for the moon whilst thinking hard and dancing even harder.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Bought this on vinyl originally back when it first came out. Had to repurchase being an all time favourite. This album could have been made today. It has lost none of its allure.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The Canonisation of 23 Skidoo
23 Jun 2009
Format:Audio CD
'Seven Songs' is quite reasonably afforded legendary status: massively influential and still frighteningly original to this day.
Unfortunately, that means pseudo-intellectual middle-class so-and-so's wearing long coats in summer; silly little beards and a deep and resolute knowledge of anything and everything in the universe - have taken them to their bosom
Irrelevant.
'Seven Songs' has tumbled down the years since its release, covering itself in more and more glory.
23 Skidoo get (unfairly) lumped in with the likes of Genesis P. Orridge and Stevo, replete with their leatherette's and Thrashing Muses and 'SS' is the kind of album dull people claim to like because it makes them appear more interesting than they really are; even though they don't understand a note and switch it off as soon as their friend has gone home.
You get the feeling 23 Skidoo are playing this deep, midnight disco music in a cave in Ilfracombe. Thrusting and screeching, but crucially, laughing their balls off the moment the pseuds backs are turned, to giggle like school-kids at the high-brow lunacy of it all.
This stuff sounds so bleakly experimental and sincere; you can't expect for a second, the people who made it to be serious: 'Porno Base' sounds like comic dash at a swish factory, while the storming, incessant 'Kundalini' carries genuinely amusing hostility.
The proclamation is funny: there AREN'T any songs, just tight, driving instrumentals and (OF COURSE !) there's just the 8 of them.
Unfortunately, that means pseudo-intellectual middle-class so-and-so's wearing long coats in summer; silly little beards and a deep and resolute knowledge of anything and everything in the universe - have taken them to their bosom
Irrelevant.
'Seven Songs' has tumbled down the years since its release, covering itself in more and more glory.
23 Skidoo get (unfairly) lumped in with the likes of Genesis P. Orridge and Stevo, replete with their leatherette's and Thrashing Muses and 'SS' is the kind of album dull people claim to like because it makes them appear more interesting than they really are; even though they don't understand a note and switch it off as soon as their friend has gone home.
You get the feeling 23 Skidoo are playing this deep, midnight disco music in a cave in Ilfracombe. Thrusting and screeching, but crucially, laughing their balls off the moment the pseuds backs are turned, to giggle like school-kids at the high-brow lunacy of it all.
This stuff sounds so bleakly experimental and sincere; you can't expect for a second, the people who made it to be serious: 'Porno Base' sounds like comic dash at a swish factory, while the storming, incessant 'Kundalini' carries genuinely amusing hostility.
The proclamation is funny: there AREN'T any songs, just tight, driving instrumentals and (OF COURSE !) there's just the 8 of them.
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