12/29/2007
If You Want to Clear Out a Party, Just Put On Some DNA...and Turn it Up!
In the brief, but very influential and wild late-70's New York movement, known as No-Wave, most bands had a general distaste for previously recorded popular music, including punk. They wanted to create something totally new and expressive. Something devoid of influence and predictability. Something primal. Something that confronted the audience and possibly alienated it.
Musical nihilists DNA were able to embody all of these things and still manage to create music that is listen-able...well, almost. The unrelenting, repetitive paranoia of "Not Moving" with its screeching guitars and unnerving tempo changes, sounds like nothing else that came before it. But it's the drugged out, naive rhythms of "Egomaniac's Kiss," that is really the band's signature tune. Although it flirts with pop structure, Arto Lindsay's intoxicated and ready-to-vomit vocal performance helps to ensure that the song will, undoubtedly, make all of your party guests leave...well, all except for me. I love this shit!
Check out a live, late-70's performance from the booty-shakin' trio:
Pick up the band's anthology DNA on DNA. It features 20 songs including the one in which the New York band, Blonde Redhead, derived its name.
MP3
Download 'DNA - Not Moving'2:40 | 6.12MB
Download 'DNA - Egomaniac's Kiss'2:12 | 5.02MB
Posted by Michael on 12/29/2007 3:41 PM in Experimental, YouTube, No-Wave
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