![]() ![]() A friend sent me a barely audible tape-Krauss’ shimmering, preternaturally delicate warble of a 1967 hit by the Foundations, a not-forgotten British/Caribbean pop group. “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You,” at the Grand Ole Opry (TNN, 27 November 1993). “Prolonged or repeated listening is not advisable.” Tell it to the thugs. “Contains high frequency extremes, at the limits of human hearing & beyond, which may cause nausea, headaches & ringing in the ears,” Zorn warns. When the breaking glass comes back, and with it a mob unafraid of its own voice, you're sure of it. Despite the distant echoes, the true subject of this nearly 12-minute piece, recorded on 9 November 1992, seems as much the Germany of the present day as of 9 November 1938, when Nazis smashed the windows of Jewish shopkeepers all over the country. Then just the footsteps of someone running away then Hebrew chanting then a sort of Austro-Hungarian salon ensemble, discreetly summoning the dead soul of Central Europe. For almost three minutes the sound of breaking glass is like a waterfall: that fast, that implacable. “Never Again,” from Kristallnacht (Eva, c/o Wave, 6-2-27 Roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 106, Japan). Will Boris cover this one? Has he already? A completely convincing back-from-the-dead rewrite of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?,” apparently Boris Yeltsin’s favorite Elvis song. “When I’m Gone,” from It Won’t Be the Last (Mercury). ![]() From there on everything hurts, and every note rings true, especially on “Donating My Body to Science,” which may be the coolest metaphor for sex in the history of riot grrrl, not to mention the history of Western civilization. But with the instrumental “Intermission,” everything changes. For the first half of their own album they could be imitating themselves-looking for a subject, for a metaphor to burn the riot grrrl ideology out of singer Corin’s throat. This two-woman band (voice, guitar, bass, drums, or less) has been making extremist music about girlhood on stray singles and compilation-album cuts since 1991. Martin's Press).Ĭalculated (Kill Rock Stars, 120 N.E. His “Jungle Music: The All-Time All-Star 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll Movie” was recently collected in Mondo Elvis, edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole (St. Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. ![]()
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