Add Date: January 26
Artist: Pierced Arrows
Album: Descending Shadows
Label: Vice
Genre: Garage Punk
Comments: I'm going to withhold giving much history about Pierced Arrows, except suffice to say that it's basically Dead Moon, a fairly big name garage punk band with sixteen albums (at least in Europe, where garage punk inexplicably seems to be popular) with the same talent. The main man, Fred Cole, has been doing proto-punk since the 60s, though never catching mainstream acclaim.
So, this is basically pretty good garage punk, which is essentially meaner and rougher garage rock. I'm fairly conflicted about this album, as after doing like a score of garage punk stuff, one wonders how much more ground a single man can cover. Of course, the REAL PUNK ROCK side of my mind replies with "screw you, punk rock is about rocking out." Indeed, Pierced Arrows bills itself as “rock’n’roll that’s rough, ragged, and honest." While that's a bit of a cop-out for a voice that is rapidly wearing itself out, obvious filler songs, and a lack of really inspired guitar rockouts, it's not like every other genre uses the same sort of code words. And hell, when you're like fifty or sixty years old and still doing punk instead of car commercials or some shit, I have to respect that.
Artist: Pierced Arrows
Album: Descending Shadows
Label: Vice
Genre: Garage Punk
Comments: I'm going to withhold giving much history about Pierced Arrows, except suffice to say that it's basically Dead Moon, a fairly big name garage punk band with sixteen albums (at least in Europe, where garage punk inexplicably seems to be popular) with the same talent. The main man, Fred Cole, has been doing proto-punk since the 60s, though never catching mainstream acclaim.
So, this is basically pretty good garage punk, which is essentially meaner and rougher garage rock. I'm fairly conflicted about this album, as after doing like a score of garage punk stuff, one wonders how much more ground a single man can cover. Of course, the REAL PUNK ROCK side of my mind replies with "screw you, punk rock is about rocking out." Indeed, Pierced Arrows bills itself as “rock’n’roll that’s rough, ragged, and honest." While that's a bit of a cop-out for a voice that is rapidly wearing itself out, obvious filler songs, and a lack of really inspired guitar rockouts, it's not like every other genre uses the same sort of code words. And hell, when you're like fifty or sixty years old and still doing punk instead of car commercials or some shit, I have to respect that.
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