Detailed Twang profile picture

Detailed Twang

Read it at http://detailedtwang.blogspot.com

About Me

The heir to the long-running music blog AGONY SHORTHAND is simply another outlet for its author to cajole you into seeing culture & the world around you the way he does. If one child - just one child - reads a book, watches a film or listens to a record I'm recommending - or overthrows the state at my urging - then my toil shall not be in vain.

My Interests

Music:

Flesh Eaters, Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu, Skip James, Electric Eels, Black Flag, Wooden Shjips, Times New Viking, Nothing People, Cheveu, Desperate Bicycles, Psychedelic Horseshit, Tales of Terror, Pagans, Stooges, Bags, Carter Family, Josephine Foster, Crime, 13th Floor Elevators, Sonics, Keggs, Cheater Slicks, Mission of Burma, Charley Patton, Scientist, Dock Boggs, Weirdos, Urinals, Come, A-Frames, Link Wray, Roxy Music, Hank Williams, Rolling Stones, The Fall, Dream Syndicate, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Gun Club, King Tubby, Flipper, The Clean, MC5, John Coltrane, Captain Beefheart, Delta 5, Syd Barrett, Can, Booker T &; The MGs, Neil Young, John Fahey, Impact All-Stars, Lee Hazlewood, Joy Division, Kleenex, Barbara Manning, Modern Lovers, Loretta Lynn, Simply Saucer, Aggrovators, Kiwi Animal, World of Pooh, Patti Smith Group, Animals &; Men, Victims, The Germs, Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads, Midnight Circus, Sick Things, Mississippi John Hurt

Movies:

Three Women, Faces, Persona, The Decalogue, Apocalypse Now, A Woman Under The Influence, Nashville, Scenes From A Marriage, Casablanca, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, The Battle of Algiers, United 93, The Seventh Seal, The Celebration (Festen), The Passion Of Anna, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

Books:

"The End of Faith" by Sam Harris - read it now and soak up its truths. Currently reading "God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens. You can never get enough atheism, right?

Heroes:

Chris D, John Morton, Charles Darwin, Iggy Pop, Mike Hudson, Jospehine Foster, Christopher Hitchens, Rebecca Wyte, Will Clark, Sterling Morrison, Willie McCovey, Patrick Marleau, Emmanuelle Beart, Bobby Pyn, Dez Cadena, Rob Vasquez

My Blog

BANGS  GETTING OUT OF HAND DEMO

So it looks like the most popular post in the short history of this blog was the first BANGS single that I put up about a month ago, which warms the cockles of my dark heart. Perhaps we can best that ...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:15:00 PST

I WAS A NUMBERS FAN

I guess I sort of took a layoff from paying close attention to new bands, lasting roughly four years, from about 1998-2001. When I came roaring back, one of the first bands to catch my attention were ...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

THE SID PRESLEY EXPERIENCE PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE 45

1984 in England. I get flashbacks to The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smiths, The Cocteau Twins and even "Red Lorry Yellow Lorry" and "Half Man Half Biscuit". What about you? Under the indie radar and ...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST

THE DETAILED TWANG 100

Detailed Twang's in need of an mp3-posting breather, so here's an ordered list of 100 records to go out & get in the next five minutes. Astute readers will recognize similarities to the Agony Shor...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:57:00 PST

THE BRENTWOODS, MATRIARCHS OF THE 1990s OLDIES SCENE

Anyone who's heard THE BRENTWOODS' 1994 LP "Fun In South City"  and there aren't many of us, unfortunately  is still trying to get that ringing sound out of their ears & get that leg to stop twi...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:32:00 PST

BRAIN-ERASING DUB, ACT 3

If you visit frequently enough, and download every infrequent dub track I post here (at the rate of about two tracks every three months), then sometime late into 2008 you're gonna have yourself one he...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:31:00 PST

THE NO-COUNT GARAGE BLUES OF ART PHAG

There was this compilation that came out, jeez, I don't know, I want to say 1987 (?), called "IT CAME FROM THE GARAGE II". It was a bunch of Detroit-area garage bands, most of them extremely raw &...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:07:00 PST

THE SHEARING PINX: CANADA’S NOISY YOUNG STARS

Here's a fantastic recent track from a double 3"CD (!) from Vancouver's SHEARING PINX, one of the better debuts I've heard in a great long while. At times abstract noise, the grande majority of the re...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:07:00 PST

THE BANGS - "GETTING OUT OF HAND" 45 (1981)

Totally have appreciated the seething scorn heaped upon me every time I mention my love for the first couple of BANGLES releases. It certainly makes it all worth it, doesn't it? Well in high school I ...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:22:00 PST

THE PRATS RIDE THE SPECIAL BUS

Perhaps one of the most "developmentally delayed" - and yet paradoxically miles ahead of the pack - releases of the go-go late 70s would be the three tracks from THE PRATS that made it to the EARCOM 1...
Posted by Detailed Twang on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:08:00 PST