You'll have to forgive me: I didn't have any album covers on hand today, so instead I just decided to take a picture out the window and pretend it was an album cover. I kid, I kid. But Aztec Camera's cover for Knife (along with the video for lead-off track "Still on Fire" ) is eerily similar to what Seattle looks like today (and, OK, most of the winter), apart from the weird floating origami blobs and the sandy riverbank. Why did I never listen to Aztec Camera back when the young Roddy Frame was releasing records [...]
"We were two in a million, Stars like the ones in the sky, A love scene and a vision, We saw the world and we waved goodbye"
In surveying jangle-pop albums, calling an album great makes allowance for more uninspired tracks than on most other genre releases. Like early '50s rock albums by groups like the Everly Brothers – who inspired many of them – they are slipshod assemblies of 45s and tracks produced to sound faintly like those 45s. They're nevertheless [...]
Let's take a flashback to the far away time of four days ago, when I posited this question to my readers: "Anyone care to recommend a good direct-drive turntable? I'm finding more and more problems with my Audio Techinca. Any advice would be appreciated." The sole comment in reply said: "Search far and wide for used Technics turntables. There's really no substitute." I already knew that, of course, but it's nice to get independent verification. What's even better to get, however, is a used Technics SL-1210 MK2 for $200. [...]
Play People - Somewhere In My Heart [Aztec Camera] | zs
Play People shares their energetic, charming and wonderful cover version of Aztec Camera 's equally wonderful Somewhere In My Heart . Somewhere in my heart by play people
Back from vacation! A much-needed week and a half and literally accurate — my daily life mostly vacated, aided by amazing vistas, pastas, good company, and a happily spotty Internet signal. I'm just now getting reacquainted with familiar things (l ike paying for train rides in advance and not getting nailed with a stiff fine for not having a ticket when there's no clear place to buy one). And girding myself for pizza that's not supernaturally delicious. Erkay...back to music then. Usually during vacations, a song or two slip into my head and loop through it [...]
It's raining. It can stop anytime. Stupid rain. Aztec Camera Backwards And Forwards (Live) Jump The Bugle Sounds Again (Live) Mattress of Fire (Live) The Birth Of The Tune (Live) Do you like Aztec Camera? Do you like the fact that I semi-routinely post rare tracks by them? If so, swing on by to the amazing Anna Hegedus' website . If it wasn't for her I would have [...]
Whatever it is about Scotland that makes its songwriters singularly smart devotees of pop music, it has continued unabated for some time. Alongside the power-pop titans of Teenage Fanclub and twee-minstrels of Belle and Sebastian stands Roddy Frame, better known with a backing band under the moniker of Aztec Camera. Their 1983 debut, High Land, [...]
In the March 2008 issue of Mojo, there was a sprawling article on the Smiths. But if you look a little closer (on page 75 to be exact), you'll find a list of bands that were predecessors, contemporaries, and influencers on Morrissey, Marr & Co. These "indie" bands, oft classified as C81/86 or as part of Sarah or Postcard records, shared some of the jingle and jangle of the Smiths, without the spotlight. While some of the bands may remain in their cult status, others I must admit, I did listen to occasionally or often: Wild Swans, Orange [...]
2011 two CD compilation from the Scottish Pop/Rock outfit led by singer/songwriter Roddy Frame. Aztec Camera gained great popularity throughout the '80s with their unique and wistful guitar Pop.... Download your favourite album at The Mood Indicator
The drumbeat that we, as a species, are reaching the closing credits keeps getting louder and whether we are or not is anyone's guess. I am now able to face such a dire proposition with a new-found sense of contentment and a plan for success in a brave new world. I have seen The Postman . I had seen a bit of Kevin Costner's magnum opus years ago and had no intention of ever seeing more, but it was late and the pickings were slim. "I know that Tom [...]
for some reason i found myself listening to this today. this being 802s for this comp known as c81. the rest of this post is exactly what i wrote when i posted this back in 08. c81 was compiled by nme journalist roy carr and rough trade pr dude christopher rose for the 5th anniversary of independent label movement in the uk and of course to show off rough trades wares. more info can be found here , via wikipedia. there's some real awesome stuff here, there are a few turds too. but of course what might be pure [...]
A propósito de que hace unas semanas la (aún) influyente revista NME publicó una lista de los peores "covers" de la historia (destacando el de Celine Dion a AC/DC y Britney Spears a "I Love Rock and Roll" de Joan Jett ), se me ocurrió hacer un listado de algunas buenas recreaciones. lo cual es definitivamente delicado, ya que a lo largo de las décadas y décadas del rock se han hecho excelentes "versiones". Obviamente las mejores creaciones vienen de la mano de verdaderos artistas que tratan de ir más allá de la [...]
"Taking it's cue from the sophisticated pop sound of the mid to late 80s, The Luxury Pop EP by Rescue Cat is aiming for that cinematic, widescreen UK pop sound epitomized by bands such as New Order, Tears For Fears, Scritti Politti, Aztec Camera and Howard Jones to name just a few! Featuring songs about repressed emotions, chess and the breakdown of a relationship, The Luxury Pop EP delivers sometimes dark subject matter coupled with uplifting melodies and stabs of synth and heavy drum machine." [Video: Rescue Cat - £10 Bag] [...]
Antarctica Takes It! From: Bay Area, California United States If you own California lo-fi sextet Antarctica Takes It!'s first album, then you'll know that songwriter Dylan McKeever is an incurable romantic. The band's debut was awash with magical songs that conjure up the ghosts of [...]
Muchos conocen a Edwyn Collins por "A Girl Like You" esa especie de One Hit Wonder que casi lo llevó al mainstream, pero más allá de las apariencias, el guitarrista perteneció a uno de los grupos más influyentes del pop inglés, esa banda se llamaba Orange Juice y data de finales de los años 70, durante el auge del postpunk. Y bueno, ahora Edwyn regresa con un proyecto en el cual colaboran Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Electronic, The The), Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), Ryan Jarman (The Cribs), Romeo Stodart (The [...]
Scottish, new wave romantic Roddy Frame had our hearts aflutter on his pop outfit's debut album, High Land, Hard Rain in 1983. Formed in Glasgow in 1980, Frame was the creative voice and poetic genius behind Aztec Camera with help from hired musicians, Campbell Owen and Dave Mullholland and later backed by Malcom Ross of Orange Juice and Josef K. Fra me let his unguarded heart guide him through a parade of lovely jingle-jangle pop numbers full of powerful melody. Sounding somewhere between the soft edge of Elvis Costello and bitter element of Belle & Sebastian, Frame's first was an instant [...]
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