{"id":1756,"date":"2011-05-10T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2011-05-10T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:04:43","slug":"death-spiritual-mental-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/05\/10\/death-spiritual-mental-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"Death – Spiritual Mental Physical"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA few years ago, Drag City released an album\u2019s-worth of killer material by a ferocious punk rock band from Detroit from the \u201970s that no one\u2019s heard of. That band was Death, three brothers who got together to play funk and soul, saw an Alice Cooper show, and went headlong into the garage. That first one collected their single and some other tracks, and this companion piece of sorts collects the rest. The 10 tracks on this comp cover the \u201creel-to-reel\u201d demos the guys recorded in the middle of the decade. \u201cViews\u201d starts off in full \u201c1-2-3-4!!\u201d mode, punk fury with vocals that alternate between Malcolm Mooney like stabs and Gino Washington falsetto. It sounds like the Damned and the like, thrashing away at power chords, pounding out a beat with every instrument. The stomper \u201cMasks\u201d will put a smile on your face after your brain take those few seconds to realize why you \u201cknow this song from somewhere.\u201d They totally nicked the melody from the Beatles\u2019 \u201cGot To Get You Into My Life\u201d and muscled it into a corner. Taking a quick turn into quasi-hypnogogia with \u201cThe Change,\u201d an instrumental, two-guitar duet changes the mood completely and turns the woolly-rock into something of a psychedelic jam. The three tracks at the end aren\u2019t so much songs, as they are each member noodling around on their instrument. Great noodling, but not really songs (although \u201cDavid\u2019s Dream\u201d sounds a lot like \u201cThe Change\u201d). My vote for the best song on the album though, is \u201cCan You Give Me A Thrill???\u201d, a leather jacket-wearing, jean-knee ripping, sneering, spittle on the audience slice of everything that is Detroit rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. How these brothers went unnoticed, and almost undocumented, boggles my brain. But with this CD (along with \u201c…For The Whole World To See\u201d), you\u2019ve found that chapter that\u2019s been ripped outta the history books. Listen and learn. (Drag City, www.dragcity.com<\/a>) Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, Drag City released an album\u2019s-worth of killer material by a ferocious punk rock band from Detroit from the \u201970s that no one\u2019s heard of. That band was Death, three brothers who got together to play funk and soul, saw an Alice Cooper show, and went headlong into the garage. That first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}