Re: great! thanks. I just ordered "Tonight...the Singles Bar" online, but would love to hear somethi
> prior to its arrival. I hear "Some Fools Mess" is really good?
Oh, I'm sorry, I ended up drinking too much Johnnie Walker Red last night and forgot all about this!
Okay, I'll get some songs online soon.....
"Tonite...the Singles Bar" is a compilation of their early singles. Which means you'll have to be the most open-minded of potential Gallon Drunk listeners to enjoy it (although "Please Give Me Something" is one most people would probably like). On those early tracks the songs were, like, in an echo chamber, and would often fall apart into a mess...a mess you either dig or you don't, depending upon your taste. I'm not sure that that's the best CD to start with, therefore. It could turn you off completely. But give it a chance. There's a terrific instrumnetal on there too.
"Some Fool's Mess" is a cool song from "You, the Night, and the Music," which is also early Gallon Drunk in sound, but more evolved. I'll post that amongst the tracks I upload when I get home later on. That song sort of has a James Brown influence. And it's lyrics are about seeing some dude's cum running down the leg of your girl. "You, the Might...and the Music" is my favorite of their albums.
Next, they had a release with Sire records which is where the sound became a lot more accessible and with easier to hear lyrics...although for Gallon Drunk that's still not anything that would be on commercial radio...at least not in the States. That album didn't sell either, so they accepted their fate as an underground band. Over the releases that followed, they became better musicians, and went to a more mature funk and sometimes jazzy direction...as well as some use of synthesizers....although still punk, and still sort of like Nick Cave's drunken, hellraising little brothers.
I've long believed Morrissey's "Whatever Happens I love You" has a Gallon Drunk influence.
