Gonzo review of Green Lung and Lowen at Colchester Arts centre. Thanks to Roki End Times, Joe and Paul for getting involved.

Sounds bad, feels so good.

There’s an abundance of tracks that sound jolly but have underlyingly bad lyrics. That’s what we covered last week. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, though? Why does angry stuff HAVE to be angry, and can it be something other than just dumb/wacky comedy if its not?

Neither of us went down the comic root, and both of us struggled. Along the way, we explore the deeper meaning of Otto, whether evolution may save us, and what the hell is going on with Billy Bragg? Is he truly the UK’s answer to Bob Dylan?

As with every week, we also offer scatological advice and horrorscopes and riffs of the week. What does Husker Dü?

One world, one love. Why are they spending so much money on bombs, and not enough on health care?

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Folterkammer - Agolagnia (2.43)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Husker Du - I'll never forget you (opening)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasitic Adaptation (1.35)

2. The Hirs Collective - XOXOXOXOXOX (opening)

3. Irreversible Entanglements - Our Land Back (3.17)

4. Billy Bragg - The Internationale (opening)

### Andrew's track choices

1. System of a down - Vicinity of obscenity (0:42)

2. Bjork - Hyperballad (1:54)

3. Dead Kennedys - Too drunk to fuck (opening)

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https://youtu.be/GUtQMfrhOeM?si=qfpukGNVbEbPSBSn

Happy Music, Dark Words

Your nan turns to you as you sit on the sofa, watching Tom Jones singing “Delilah” on the televised festival for OAPs (Glastonbury). “Isn’t that a wonderful song, darling. But I’m sure I heard something about a knife”, she says as she passes you the tin of Sainsbury own-brand non-alcoholic lager. You search the lyrics: aha. It’s a song about MURDER. But, it’s so much fun! HOW COULD THIS BE?

Lyrics, for lack of knowledge of a better word, tend to be somewhat onomatopoeic. As in, aggressive songs have aggressive lyrics, happy sounding songs have happy sounding music, and sad songs have sad sound music. How much this is project due to the lyrics, or projection on the lyrics due to the music, is no doubtful fascinating, but not for this discussion. What about when a song feels good, but the lyrics are telling you its not a good thing what is being sung about?

This week, Andrew and Sam are back spouting nonsense as they skip, hand-in-hand, though upbeat songs about murder, domestic disquiet, teenage prostitution, amongst other things. Mostly murder, though.

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Ekko Astral - baethoven (0.45)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Wormwitch - Rayonnant banners (2:53)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Hank Williams - Move It on Over (opening)

2. Sublime - Wrong Way (0:03)

3. The Cure - Close to Me (0.55)

4. Hall & Oats - Diddy Doo Wop (I hear the Voices) (1.48)

### Andrew's track choices

1. The Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman (2:17)

2. The Beatles - Maxwell’s silver hammer (0:26)

3. Barry Manilow - Copacobana (1:04)

4. Lou Reed - Perfect day (1:46)

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Here's that Imperial Triumphant track with Kenny G on it:

https://youtu.be/ywcshfrpO3A?si=LL8RO_e_Y2nuQwpu

The Beatles put a copyright block on our video on these timestamps

0:39:38:29 to 0:40:16:15

0:40:24:29 to 0:40:40:13