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Von Lmo
The opening of Von Lmo's Future Language might be the greatest album kickoff since Locust Abortion Technician. Except it came out six years before Locust. Except almost no one has heard it. But now you have:
Von Lmo - Future Language
Now that I'm in the Von Lmo fan club, its hard to believe that they've been mostly overlooked in the last few years of appreciation of all things spazzy and recorded in the vicinity of 1980. They even wore silver pantsuits on the album cover. While Devo would be an obvious comparison, there's they got a meathead brilliance that makes them more like an East Coast version of Fear.
The amazing thing about their music is that, rather than breaking free into noise, noise seems to be the basis of it. But they can't quite keep it up. Their particular take on noise is fashioned out of metal guitar leads fighting with skronky funk. Yet it keeps falling into simple one-two-one-two punk. It's like they can't sustain the chaos for the bluntness. This is good.
In 1981, the year Future Language came out, you could still call yourself Heavy Metal and have a saxophone. With the meager information on the web, the consensus seems to be that Von Lmo were part of the NYC No Wave. But if the early New York Noise scene had a sense of humor, it was subordinate to it's arty confrontation. Von Lmo seems artless. It's hard to pin Von Lmo's sense of humor- some of the tracks here have such an upbeat message, it's impossible to figure out how seriously they were taking themselves at the time. They seem oblivious to their abrasiveness- lines like "Do you know what your are / Or are you trying to be someone else?" seem like earnest attempts at anthems.
Mr. Post Punk Junk has the most spaced-out Von Lmo tracks covered here. So I will add this pop number:
Von Lmo - This is Pop Rock
Which may or may not be sarcastic. This whole album is inspired.
Incidentally, the guy who reissued this on CD, Weasel Walter of the Flying Luttenbachers, is selling his record collection on eBay. So if you can't find a copy of Future Language, you can help him out with his future musical endeavors there.
posted by bendy @ 3/01/2006 12:03:00 AM [permanent link]
Great to see you're posting about Von LMO as well -- the reason I didn't just put up the whole "Future Language" album on the PPJ site is because I was unsure of its in-printness, although if Weasel Walter is selling his whole record collection, then that pro'lly means he doesn't have the $$ to keep "Future Language" in print anyway. In any case, I've got a non-album Von LMO track called "We're Not Crazy" that I"m a-gonna put up next month --
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