The High Fidelity - The Omnichord Album
"Really quite good" - Duck (Scary)
"It sounds just like an ice cream van" - Mrs Duck (Scary)
"Yes. Yes it does. Is that a crime?" - Duck (Scary)
Rising from the ashes of 90s baggy outfit The Soup Dragons came Glasgow's High Fidelity.
Rather than being just another guitar band, they experimented with other influences with varying success (and Unsorry is an undoubted triumph), turning the head of poor, dead musical god John Peel.
Sean Dickson laid his hands on an Omnichord, a frankly strange piece of electronic music-making that is part keyboard, part guitar, part accordian and exactly 23% of the moving parts from an ice cream van.
With some input from Peel himself, they went out and laid down their second album, comprising Omniture-based tunes.
The result - 2001's The Omniture Album - was a mix of uplifting pop, beautiful haunting ballads, downright weirdness and 23% of the moving parts from an ice cream van.
This is the opening track: Scream if You Want to Go Faster
And, as such, I love it do death, and don't care what others think.
More stuff: Sean Dickson on YouTube.
7 comments:
'I'm free'.
The number of times I've sung that at the school gate on the FDOS.
Is exactly the number of times I've been cold-shouldered by my kids.
On behalf of the little guy with glasses in the clip I would like to say
"YAAAAAAARCH!"
p.s. could do with a little more cowbell.
Oh jebus. The Tories are advertising on by Google Ads wossname. How do I make it stop?
Click away. They have to pay google for every click-through, and you get a penny too! Might drain their coffers a bit.
Well, in that case I won't tell you that I rather like it to. It does need more cowbell, though.
I hear no ice cream trucks. Must sound different in the UK.
YOOOO KAAAAAY!
Soz. I done a Mick Jagger channel.
Well, I liked it - I even visited Amazon but there was only one review!
Like many bands who aren't really great musicians (or singers), the sound is limited but can still be wonderful for a while, a moment.
I overheard this band, Passion Pit in a music store the other day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1KXFRIrpc
- and after half an hour ended up buying the album.
Their stuff is inarticulate, young person's often derivative music but like High Fidelity, somehow speaks of its time.
As Lulu sang in 1968:
Boom-bang-a-bang-bang, I love you.
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