Hello again, Peabrain here. With me is my boy, Herman.<\/p>\n
Herman, set the Farback Machine for 1984. The place? Hollywood,
\nCalifornia – the scene of the rebirth of glam rock in the form of
\nheavy metal hair bands. Okay, push the button to launch the
\nmachine…<\/p>\n
Wait a minute, something’s wrong here… something’s very wrong.
\nI know we’re in California, but this seems to be more like 2000.
\nHerman, you nitwit, you crossed the wires of the Farback Machine
\nwith the flight schedule for United Airlines. What have I told you
\nabout surfing the Net on company time?<\/p>\n
All I know at this point is I’m hearing this band, Spiders &
\nSnakes, and I’m wondering if they got caught up in the electronic
\njumble that landed us here instead of the mid-’80s. Even a copy of
\ntheir latest disc,
\nLondon Daze<\/i>, has mysteriously appeared in the on-deck CD
\nplayer, and I’m wondering how such a relic could ever survive in
\nthe early days of the 21st Century.<\/p>\n
I mean, just look at the band – vocalist\/lead guitarist Lizzie
\nGrey, rhythm guitarist Doug E. Sex, bassist\/samples Leigh Lawson
\nand drummer\/backing vocalist Timothy Jay. They’re wearing sneers
\nlike I haven’t seen since Guns N’ Roses burst onto the scene.
\nMusically, though, they’re much weaker than their image
\nsuggests.<\/p>\n
Don’t understand, Herman? Go to the CD player, and select track
\nnumber three, “Party In Hollywood”. Or maybe you’ll understand when
\nthe next track, “Radio Stars,” blares forth in its ignominy. This
\nis a band who are most definitely trapped in a time warp, from the
\nsongwriting down to the actual performance of the tracks. The
\nslip-shod attitude of recording these is apparent – far more so
\nthan I think the band intended it to be.<\/p>\n
And if the ’80s flashback isn’t enough, take a closer listen to
\nsome of these songs, and hear the pure ’70s glam influence on this
\nband.
\nLondon Daze<\/i> absolutely reeks of this, from their covers of
\n“Run, Run, Run” and “Rock And Roll Queen” to the New York
\nDolls-like delivery of “Elvis’s TV” – good grief! What were these
\nguys thinking?<\/p>\n
They even dig back in the band’s own history to their first
\ndemos as “London” (hence the album’s title), featuring a young
\nmusician named Nikki Sixx. (We all know what he would later move on
\nto as a musician.) These songs are pretty decent – that is, except
\nfor the sound quality. My god, it sounds like this tape was kept in
\nthe cat’s litter box for 20 years.<\/p>\n
What’s sad is that
\nLondon Daze<\/i> probably could have been a halfway decent album,
\nhad some real attention been paid to the songwriting and the actual
\nperformances. Instead, all I’m hearing is a band who is more
\ninterested in having a good time recording than making an album
\nthat is structurally solid. Sadly, this is a disc that, like many
\nspiders, deserves to be squashed… and with that, let’s set the
\nFarback Machine to take us home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6390],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-36724","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-spiders-snakes","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36724"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36724"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}