Electric Eels – Spin Age Blasters Vinyl 2LP
£
32
$
42
£ 32
Sold For
Apr 21, 2024
Sold Date
Apr 20, 2024
Start Date
1
Number Of Bids
Great Britain
Country Of Seller
eBay
Sold at
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Electric Eels - "Spin Age Blasters" 2LP
Sleeve shows some very slight marking/damage (please see photos) Vinyl may have slight surface noise.
The electric eels were the first punk band, full stop. They may not have “started” the genre, but they were the first to tick all the boxes. The eels rejected every 1970s rock convention―professionalism, virtuosity, subject matter, image. Dave E.’s caustic vocals, complete with an aggressive lisp and a head full of snot, would become de rigeur a few years after the group disbanded. Meanwhile, the songs’ focus on car crashes, suicide, neuroses, and generally hating people were as far out of the mainstream as possible. The two eels tracks that do approach the subject of romance couch it in terms of not really caring that much about it (“Jaguar Ride”) or placing it in the context of a grisly murder (“Silver Daggers”). Also consider John Morton’s signature guitar sound, a nails-on-chalkboard tone with brutally free soloing inspired more by Albert Ayler than the blues or aspirations to technical facility. Ditto Dave E.’s clarinet playing and affection for lawnmowers and vacuums during live performance. They were notoriously violent not only among themselves, but towards audiences, police, and anyone unfortunate enough to be around them when things went south. Then of course there are the leather jackets, the clothing festooned with rat traps or safety pins. And no bass player, why bother. There is simply no other “proto” band to have had all these pieces in place circa 1973- 1975. Yet it is a mistake to consider the eels exclusively in such a context. Yes, the eels could and did shock anyone who encountered them, but they also had great songs. While both Dave and John were visionary writers, they also had rhythm guitarist Brian McMahon, a melody and riff machine who wrote many of the band’s signature songs. And they were no one-trick pony. Although much of the band’s material is appropriately high-energy, there is also the downer eels―morbid, harmonically risky, and in full existential crisis. Although it’s not a focus of this compilation, the eels also had a penchant for completely free improvisation. Over the last forty plus years, there have been several electric eels compilations. Spin Age Blasters is quite simply the best one ever assembled, every single key track is here in its best version, properly mastered by John Golden, and sequenced with an eye towards both flow between tracks as well as individation between sides. A true monster of an album.A1 Splitterty Splat
A2 Wreck And Roll
A3 You're Full Of Shit
A4 Tidal Wave
A5 Refrigerator
A6 Cold Meat
A7 Spinach Blasters
B1 Jaguar Ride
B2 Zoot Zoot
B3 Giganto (Cyclotron)
B4 Bunnies
B5 Roll On, Big O
B6 You Crummy Fags
B7 No No
C1 Sewercide
C2 Silver Daggers
C3 As If I Cared
C4 Natural Situation
C5 Cards And Fleurs
D1 Agitated
D2 Cyclotron
D3 Black Leather Rock
D4 Dead Man's Curve
D5 Safety Week
D6 Accident
D7 Anxiety
D8 No Nonsense
Payment methods accepted: Paypal, personal cheque (UK cheques only), postal orders. No US or other foreign cheques due to the high commission and negotiation rates
SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY PLEASE
If payment is not received within a fortnight of the auction's end the item will be relisted and negative feedback left
If you have any questions regarding any of my items, or, if there's anything you're trying to get hold of, please do not hesitate to contact me
price rating
![ALBERT AYLER - New Grass [Impulse] STEREO UK 1st pressing EXCELLENT- LP](https://www.popsike.mobi/php/thumbnail.php?url=https://www.popsike.pics/pix/20160322/351683906909.jpg)
