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Wednesday 19 April 2017

Waltz Around Her


Another long song but one that seems to shoot by far quicker than yesterday's expansive Screamadelica is Bang Bang Machine's Geek Love (also a favourite of Drew's but I don't think he's posted it this year). Bang Bang Machine, from Evesham near Worcester, never really found much success outside the indie ghetto and self financed this 12" which was also a favourite of John Peel and his listeners, who made it their Festive Fifty number one in 1992. The song starts out as indie rock but at a couple of minutes in becomes something dancier and stays there in, a dance-shoegaze groove with a totally hypnotic drum pattern and entrancing vocals, building further until finishing just after nine minutes. Lovely.

Geek Love

3 comments:

drew said...

I love it right. What a tune!

JC said...

don't mock or laugh....but it's probably the first time I've listened to it. It's nae bad.

Swiss Adam said...

Nae bad!