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Artist: Speed, Glue & Shinki
Title: Eve
Source: CDDA
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Black Rose Rec.
Ripdate: Apr-08-2009
Storedate: xxx-xx-2001
Quality: VBRkbps 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks: 07
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■ Release Notes:
Quite a shame not many groups in the scene
started ripping the vintage vinyls from old
and legendary treasures out of Japan, since
the Japrocksampler book was released in
2007. The book pretty much revealed
information about bands like Speed, Glue &
Shinki, Flower Travellin' Band, Les
Rallizes Denudes, Food Brain and many more.
Okay.. the original vinyls are VERY
expensive, but Black Rose Records (and more
labels) started releasing some nice
reissues on CD. This is one of them,
digitally remastered from the vinyl, which
was originally released in 1971.
The next review is from jrawk.com:
"Eve" is one of the albums that have
recently been held up as a must have for
explorers of Japanese rock. Julian Cope's
Japrocksampler has it sharing the number
one slot with the Flower Travelin' Band's
"Satori," and those who know the head
Drude's tastes shouldn't be surprised: long
a proponent of all things lunkheaded and
chemically crazed, Speed Glue And Shinki's
"Eve" must have smacked him upside the head
instantaneously.
"Eve" is the earthy, slackjawed yin to
"Satori"'s elevated, breathless yang.
Everything about "Eve" is rooted in the
basic, the oversimplified, the
unsophisticated. "Eve" is one of those
records, like Sir Lord Baltimore's debut,
or every Mot÷rhead record, that is best
complimented with adjectives that would
normally be derogatory: leaden, brutish,
addled, primitive. In other words, it's an
utterly spectacular rock 'n' roll album, a
bad record by, if you'll pardon the clichΘ,
the kind of people your mother warned you
about. Shoot, two thirds of the band named
themselves after their recreational
chemical of choice.
Tracing the history leading up to the
formation of Speed, Glue and Shinki would
take more time than we're gonna spend here,
but suffice to say, they were a supergroup
of sorts: bassist Masayoshi "Louis Louis"
Kabe (aka Glue) was from GS group The
Golden Cups, guitarist Shinki Chen had
released a solo album as well as two albums
with Flied Egg, and both were in Food
Brain. Drummer/vocalist Joey Smith (aka
Speed) was the newcomer, but his name comes
first in the lineup.
There's a reason for that: not just because
he's the vocalist, but because his stories
of bad women and good drugs bring the
gloriously thick plod of the group's sound
into...well, it's difficult to justify
using the words "sharp focus" with this
album. But Smith's slobbering tales are the
final push over the cliff, the element that
takes "Eve" from being merely great 70s
blues rock to being an icon of dim, fuzzy
debauchery, like the MC5 without the rage,
or Grand Funk without the social
consciousness. His delivery is that of the
pissed off teenager who's barely articulate
enough to get the words out, ranting about
the stuff that most people...the nice
people...would never even think about
discussing. In other words, pure, undiluted
rock 'n' roll, the kind most pretend to but
few ever have the balls to actually make.
It's all done in a juvenile, excited tone
that's like AC/DC's Bon Scott if he were
too stoned to be witty.
Even when they try to be all sensitive and
aware, it comes off as a beautiful mess:
"Someday We'll All Fall Down" is dedicated
to "all the people out there...that are
good" (as opposed to the bad people, who
are dealt with on, you guessed it, "Ode To
The Bad People.") After a brief spoken
intro, there's a bit of acoustic meandering
that sounds more like tuning than playing,
followed by what in lesser hands would be
maudlin and sticky:
Someday we'll all be gone
Like man being shot with a gun
Like an explosion from a bomb
And someday we'll all realize...that we're
gone
Someday we'll all realize that we're Gods.
...sung in a style that implies the lyrics
are being made up on the spot. The song
eventually sputters and wanders to a halt,
as if everyone ran out of steam and decided
that this was as good a place as any to
stop.
As mentioned above, the things that make
this album so damned good are things that
sound, on paper, absolutely horrible: the
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