Posted - 07/10/2012 : 07:54:13 I was just listening to Big Beat yesterday. It's nowhere close to being their best album but it has a couple of gems.
"Throw Her Away" never fails to crack me up:
Just like everything else in this world
Time wreaks havoc on every girl
What do you do, what do you do, what do you do?
Throw her away and get a new one
Chris Knight
Posted - 07/07/2012 : 22:51:47 Never heard of these guys before 2 days ago, but I was listening to that "your call is very appreciated" song from Lil Beethoven, and it was somehow like listening to a supergroup with members of Wire and Queen. Awesome!
TarTar
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 16:10:27 Those Dirtbombs do branch out more than your average garage punks (they would hate that term anyway), covering Robyn Hitchcock and Sparks... proud they are a local band!
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor
vilainde
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 09:33:57 I've never listened to the Sparks but the Dirtbombs covered Sherlock Holmes and I got obsessed with that song, so I've been meaning to listen to them for a while now. Thanks for the links.
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 07:48:23 I was listening to the Sparks song "When I'm With You" and my roommate was complaining about how that synth-oriented 80s era of Sparks gives them a bad name, but fuck it, I love that stuff. "Beat the Clock" is pretty champion.
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor
BLT
Posted - 07/03/2012 : 05:28:44 I love them. There are still blocks missing from my collection but I have all the albums up to Big Beat, also Angst and Whomp (which I tend to think of as a double album) and everything since Lil Beethoven. Not crazy about the other more electronic-sounding stuff but I may revisit it at a later date.
I was fortunate to attend this show a few years ago. It really was amazing. And that was less than a year after their "Sparks Spectacular" series of gigs in London, a feat which still boggles my mind.
