Wednesday, September 12, 2007

THE JESUS LIZARD – (FLY) ON (THE WALL) (TOUCH AND GO)


THE JESUS LIZARD – (FLY) ON (THE WALL) (TOUCH AND GO)

Playing out with a similar swagger to another of the great The Jesus Lizard moments in “Then Comes Dudley”, “(Fly) On (The Wall)” is a song guaranteed to induce a drunken sense of feeling and possibly a reaction worthy of something stronger.

There is a beautifully intimidating motion attached to this song. The baseline lumps along as the guitar pumps out some kind of low end loop while Yow leads the charge off on some kind of withdrawal rant aching for somebody to listen to his pained requests.

As far as their peers go there is very little to compare against The Jesus Lizard when their songs are so solid and astounding as this. Put up against of the current batch of so called dangerous bands filling the pages of music weeklies it is just laughable. Without the desire or necessity to boast about their exploits it only serves to extend the legacy of the band causing them to be a group of individuals that you just can’t trust along the way.

I don’t know what happened to music, why it went soft and why it stopped producing bands so deftly menacing as this. Somewhere music slipped between the net and anything loud and with a bit of energy these days just appears to get lumped in with the pedestrian metal crowd and if a band exhibits any such unique traits at the beginning you can sure as fuck guarantee that they will have been knocked out of their system as they exit.

This band should have killed everyone.

Thesaurus moment: nuisance.

The Jesus Lizard
Touch And Go

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