{"id":909,"date":"2010-06-03T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=909"},"modified":"2010-06-03T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:29:50","slug":"review-alternative-tv-black-and-white-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-alternative-tv-black-and-white-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Alternative TV – Black and White: Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI\u2019ve been told that a live album is usually the wrongest way possible to get introduced to a band (the Who\u2019s Live at Leeds<\/em> perhaps being the exception). So this band, this bunch of old, English punkers, release this platter I\u2019m holding and hearing, and I like it a lot. Very much the jam-style rock plus the Fall\u2019s repetition and abrasiveness (plus sung by a guy who can keep a solid tone). They\u2019ve got their three chorders like \u201cViva la Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll\u201d (which sounds more evil than pop) and \u201cUrban Kids\u201d and a whole whack of others that wouldn\u2019t be outta place among the Buzzcocks and banks of their kind. Y\u2019know, snotty and fun. Their run-throughs of the Ramones\u2019 \u201cNow I Wanna Sniff Some Glue\u201d and their piss on \u201cLouie Louie,\u201d titled \u201cPlastic People,\u201d is spit out and played with that middle-finger-up barre chord sass that punk used to be about. There are some longer songs that show another side of the band, a noisier, experimental, avant garde band that played how they wanted to play. \u201cRelease the Natives\u201d is\u00a0 bleak, Glenn Branca-style guitar noise. \u201cSplitting in Two,\u201d this one too surpassing the six-minute mark, builds for a few minutes before exploding into a Mission of Burma-like rock assault. This live album, full of tape hiss and audible audience chatter, captures a band lighting fires on whatever stage they play. Shit, man, if this is how these geezers sound now, I\u2019m gonna step into the wayback machine and hear how they sounded before I was born. If anyone ever tells you that the live album intro is the wrong way to go, slap \u2019em across the head with this one. (Bongobeat, www.bongobeat.com<\/a>) Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been told that a live album is usually the wrongest way possible to get introduced to a band (the Who\u2019s Live at Leeds perhaps being the exception). So this band, this bunch of old, English punkers, release this platter I\u2019m holding and hearing, and I like it a lot. Very much the jam-style rock […]<\/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":[40],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alternative-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}