Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Spin We Own This Town 8 off 8th at Mercy Lounge, 11/30/09
Posted by The Spin on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM
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By the time we got back in town from our yearly Holiday in Fam-bodia, we were itchin' for a rock show. All the tryptophan and reminiscing about the various ways we damaged our reproductive organs in our youth was fun and all, but if we're going to spend the night screaming at the top of our lungs we'd prefer that it was at a club over a loud sound system, rather than at a table over dinner. Our real family is great, but there's a reason we don't normally spend four nights a week drinking with them--our rock 'n' roll family is so much more civilized. With that in mind, we hoofed it down to the Mercy Lounge Monday night for an 8 off 8th hosted by We Own This Town.
Eliza the Arrow kicked off the evening with Beth Cameron, formerly of local favorites Forget Cassettes, singing over 8-bit tracks of her new album. We honestly aren't quite sure what to think about them beyond the fact that we're going to have to listen to the new album on repeat, in the dark, lying on our bedroom floor, to really get what's going on there. Cameron's work has always been dense, and her brief set wasn't quite enough for us to grasp what was going on, but daggammit we're stoked for the new album. Eliza were followed by The Kingston Springs, a name you might recognize from your local weather report even if you, like WOTT's Joe Baine Colvert, don't actually know where Kingston Springs is located. The foursome played some solid, Southern indie swing that probably would have been quite danceable if we didn't have a brick of cranberry stuffing still lodged in our lower GI.
Next up were Bad Cop, a band we keep seeing in hopes of enjoying them but are always disappointed with--we're thinking it's the politeness and the safety-minded Iggy Pop impression by their lead singer, but we're just not buying what they're selling. Also, if you're a band from Nashville and you're playing in Nashville and play almost exclusively in Nashville, you don't need to tell us that you're from here--honestly, we could have guessed if we didn't know, which we did, so stop saying that shit every time you play. Also, sounding like a poor man's version of The Cult doing a modern rock take on The Stooges is so early Aughts...totes over it.
Majestico, on the other hand, might just be our new favorite band. They sound like Mott the Hoople except sometimes they kick it into overdrive and sound like Bad Company, which is basically like going from awesome to awesomer. Their shambolic Southern-glam sound hits the sweet spot like few bands in town, coming off with a casual swagger that puts your half-assed Pavement impression to shame. My Tyger, the Sam Ashworth-Jim O'Shea supergroup of sorts, played a tight set of radio-ready pop (and we mean that in a good way) that made us wonder why we never see them playing out. C'mon dudes, get on that shit--world domination awaits.
Speaking of world domination, the new De Novo Dahl lineup is just a couple of helicopters and a WMD away from achieving that end as well. The small army of musicians that have joined the re-emergent Joel J. Dahl and Serai Zaffiro--The De Novo Dahl Symphony Orchestra, as we like to call 'em--were full of the energy and melody that has made each of DND's previous incarnations so exciting, but this time they're not nearly as goofy. We'll miss making Muppet jokes, but we're glad the pajama costumes are gone. Now there's nothing interfering with our enjoyment of the Raspberries-meet-End-of-the-Century-era-Ramones pop goodness.
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It should be noted that Eliza the Arrow performance was her final one as a TN resident. Word is she is moving to Chicago in the very near future so the days of considering Forget Cassettes or EtA a local band are pretty much over.
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BETH CAMERON and DONI- YOU ARE AMAZING forever and ever no matter where you are.
adam.....from nashville.....just curious....once again, from nashville. yes this little town with the batman wings. nashville that is. you know...
Awww come on. Bad Cop are just some dudes rockin' out and having fun. Take it at face value and have a good time.
i shouldn't have asked, lol. i was just curious. it's entertaining viewing myself from another person's perspective.
heartbeater fucking rules. they have incredibly catchy tunes, i've only seen them twice and am picking up the hooks to songs.
the bad cop thing seems a bit harsh. or at least a little overkill. and i'd say the singer is doing more of a jim morrison or even ian curtis thing onstage than iggy. frontmen before (and after) iggy danced around stage awkwardly... cos they're white fellows and you know they can't dance to the jungle rhythms.
but, then again, i guess it's better to have something bad written than nothing at all.
I actually enjoyed the whole show. Sure I didn't make it until the last song by eliza the arrow,but duty calls. But still was fun. Bad Cop sounded more like white stripes with a sober jim morrison to me, maybe it's the hair. De novo dahl was...interesting, not really my bag. And I forgot the other bands, thanks beer!
i agree with jeremy...better to have something bad written than nothing at all.
how were the zut alors? how was heartbeater? how was that band from arizona who got added last minute with the guitar player who's a son-of-a meat puppet? good? decent? bad? god awful?
i guess we won't know because apparently none of these bands played...or don't matter.
oh, i know! getting to the east side's mundane monday night dance party was waaaaaay more important to get to, because, as you know, it only happens once a week.
ya why were none of the other bands written about? it just looks like this was attempt to praise a washed up band and bash a young new band that is going places. And wasn't heartbeater/ my tyger the main acts. how where they? does anyone in this blog know how to write, or is that why you don't get paid?
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