A Heavy Nite With... is the one and only album by Relaxed Muscle who formed in 2002, gigged in 2003 and sort of disappeared after the release of A Heavy Nite With.. towards the end of 2003.
Often passed off as a bit of fun as many side-projects are I feel that this album is very under-rated, ... Read review
Everyone needs a break sometime, and onA Heavy Night with Relaxed Muscle, Pulp's Jarvis ... more
Cocker takes a sabbatical from wry social commentary, instead inventing for himself a new character, Darren Spooner, a Doncaster thug with a fine line in macho post...
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Everyone needs a break sometime, and on A Heavy Night with Relaxed Muscle, Pulp's Jarvis ... more
Cocker takes a sabbatical from wry social commentary, instead inventing for himself a new character, Darren Spooner, a Doncaster thug with a fine line in macho pos...
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Everyone needs a break sometime, and on A Heavy Night with Relaxed Muscle, Pulp's Jarvis ... more
Cocker takes a sabbatical from wry social commentary, instead inventing for himself a new character, Darren Spooner, a Doncaster thug with a fine line in macho posturing. But this is not ironic Darkness-style cock-rock. Backed for the most part by an urgent techno blues reminiscent of Suicide, Cocker/Spooner rejoices in violent nights out and racetrack innuendos, casting himself as a literate but bullying brute. It's fun, in a rough-house kind of way--the "Smash It Up"-recalling "Tuff It Out" is especially raucous--but there's something unpleasantly visceral about it all, there's a nasty whiff of reality. Clearly Cocker senses this, too, because he doesn't keep up the act for long. Frantic 1970s rocker "Sexualised" sees him reveal a painful impotence, the mournful "Battered" bemoans an ongoing decimation of mind and body, while the closing "Mary", which places a pretty synth-line over a "Lola"-like acoustic guitar, is a fraught look at a life gone entirely to pot. It's a magnificent track with Cocker exhibiting a deep understanding of and sympathy for the grotesque but tortured Spooner, and thus making sense of an album that's essentially Saturday night and Sunday morning revved up in extremis and set to music. --Dominic Wills
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Everyone needs a break sometime, and onA Heavy Night with Relaxed Muscle, Pulp's Jarvis ... more
Cocker takes a sabbatical from wry social commentary, instead inventing for himself a new character, Darren Spooner, a Doncaster thug with a fine line in macho posturing. But this is not ironic Darkness-style cock-rock. Backed for the most part by an urgent techno blues reminiscent of Suicide, Cocker/Spooner rejoices in violent nights out and racetrack innuendos, casting himself as a literate but bullying brute. It's fun, in a rough-house kind of way--the "Smash It Up"-recalling "Tuff It Out" is especially raucous--but there's something unpleasantly visceral about it all, there's a nasty whiff of reality. Clearly Cocker senses this, too, because he doesn't keep up the act for long. Frantic 1970s rocker "Sexualised" sees him reveal a painful impotence, the mournful "Battered" bemoans an ongoing decimation of mind and body, while the closing "Mary", which places a pretty synth-line over a "Lola"-like acoustic guitar, is a fraught look at a life gone entirely to pot. It's a magnificent track withCocker exhibiting a deep understanding of and sympathy for the grotesque but tortured Spooner, and thus making sense of an album that's essentially Saturday night and Sunday morning revved up in extremis and set to music.--Dominic Wills
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Advantages: Great Electro music Disadvantages: Just the one
A Heavy Nite With... is the one and only album by Relaxed Muscle who formed in 2002, gigged in 2003 and sort of disappeared after the release of A Heavy Nite With.. towards the end of 2003.
Often passed off as a bit of fun as many side-projects are I feel that this album is very under-rated, the lyrical content, grimey feel and quality music ensures that this electro album is up there with the best of them.
Relaxed ... ...is going to be a heavy night, I've seen the future and it's not bright" booms out in a cheerful manner in comparison with some of the more threatening tones such as "The place is heavy man, I'm feeling great, don't **** with me, cos I'm a heavyweight", "Heavy users never go to heaven, Jesus Christ it's only half eleven"
9/10
2 - 3 Way Accumulator - Not a big fan of the other syntheisized effects ... more
A Heavy Nite With... is the one and only album by Relaxed Muscle who formed in 2002, gigged in 2003 and sort of disappeared after the release of A Heavy Nite With.. towards the end of 2003.
Often passed off as a bit of fun as many side-projects are I feel that this album is very under-rated, the lyrical content, grimey feel and quality music ensures that this electro album is up there with the best of them.
Relaxed Muscle consist of Jarvis Cocker (need I say Pulp?) and Jason Buckle (All Seing I, Fat Truckers & a cameo role in Harry Potter), they used the pseudonyms Darren Spooner and Wayne Marsden and billed themselves as "The Sound of Young Doncaster" and claimed to have met whilst planting flowers, doing community service for burglary. With Relaxed Muscle's darkened image (black make up and skeleton suits), songs about domestic violence, alcoholism, drug addiction and gambling this fitted in well and they pulled it off, even going on Shooting Stars where Darren was labeled "the weed in the tweed". The live act included Darren smashing sugar bottles on other band members heads and karate chopping wood.
Anyway here is the lowdown:
1 - The Heavy, starts off with a superb beat and whispered "Heavy", spoken like a dirty old man down the telephone, the song is about the police and the catchy chorus of "This is going to be a heavy night, I've seen the future and it's not bright" booms out in a cheerful manner in comparison with some of the more threatening tones such as "The place is heavy man, I'm feeling great, don't **** with me, cos I'm a heavyweight", "Heavy users never go to heaven, Jesus Christ it's only half eleven"
9/10
2 - 3 Way Accumulator - Not a big fan of the other syntheisized effects on this track but the lyrics are pretty catchy and strong if not completely bizarre again, even from the start.. I've got a three way accumulator and now the race is on, so I think I'll see ya later, with no panties on and a bit later: I wanna pool my winnings on a woman just like you, it's only the beginning, my tote is coming through, by tv, by car, lose the stockings, lose the bra, cos we passed the winning post about an hour ago"
"Let it Ride" and "Keep your Blinkers on" are regularly blurted out and the whole song continues with the strange theme of horse racing and pulling two birds.
7/10 - pretty amusing but the Cher style voice does the head in abit unless you're into it
3 - Beastmaster - Starts off with a pumping beat worthy of Pink Grease, Simian or Ladytron, Jarvis is belting it out here amongst various animal noises. It all starts off with..
I know you heard about the boogaloo I know you heard about the hustle too But here's a new dance that you can do If you wanna rule the street
and somehow finishes off with
Little pet Gonna stroke you Ahh, ha ha ha Look at me Are you housetrained? I'm gonna stroke you Oh yeah
followed by plenty of ah ha, animal noises (zoo and farmyard) and the same amazing beat from the start, that's the kind of song it is. It's the Beatmaster and it's not bad!!!
8/10
4 - Billy Jack
An outstanding electro track, expressive lyrics, cowboy gunshot sounds flying around complete with an extremely weird video available on youtube which seems to get right up the noses of western fans!
Snidey and dramatical sounding "My name is Billy Jack, get back or I will attack", "You Wanna Mess with Billy, Man your being Silly" and "I'm gonna put you in your grave" are a focal point of the song but there's also the more story telling info at the beginning - legendary combos like
This is where the rabbit teach the eagle a lesson with this Smith and Wesson
and
Longbow or shotgun Bowie knife or pistol Time to buy a wake my friend 'Cos I'm chewing on your gristle
add to the whole fun, who needs Clint Eastwood when you have this? 9/10
5 - Rod of Iron
Another brilliant electro track, supposedly about "ruling my woman with a rod of iron" but deers (stags, deers, does seem to feature regularly) i.e.
I tell you one thing And I ain't lying I rule my woman with a rod of iron
Antlers clash at the break of dawn A stag abase, no man at all Stir in my porridge She'll stash your swine (?) Take your hands off what's all mine, all mine, all mine
The live show for this song was supposed to be particularly gruesome but I've never seen it, so can't comment. I know the beat really rocks and it's another strong track.
8/10
6 - Tuff It Out - An electro hit which sounds more like early 80's, there's even a hint of rockabilly about it for some reason. The subject matter as far as I can make out is a domestic argument but around 2:25, the track turns into a mad fairground like zone. A bit repetitive for my liking.
An insight: Don't come inside, don't touch me, it's frightening Don't go outside, you'll get struck at by lightning You don't know what to do What this is coming to You're so confused but you know you're gonna have to:
Tuff it out Oh, tuff it out Oh oh oh, tuff it out Ah, babe you gotta tuff it out
6/10
7 - Sexualized
Complete anarchy of a song, heavy on drums and muffled sounds, out of tune guitar playing, the lyrics aren't even that great but somehow it works out well.
The girls in FHM are sexualized Take a look at them, they're all sexualized On the TV it's all sexualized Everything that I see is all sexualized and
Oh, I gotta shut my eyes 'cos everywhere I look It's all sexualized I said, oh, I gotta shut my eyes 'cos everywhere I look It's all sexualized
7/10
8 - Muscle Music
Muscle Music has a sort of Ant Music feeling about it, ambulance sounds from the start to finish, a bizarre overall sound which ends up as somewhere between a Gary Glitter hit (if I'm still allowed to use his name), that school favourite - heads, shoulders, knees and toes and a mad northern bloke. It's pretty enjoyable, the simplicity and lack of complicated lyrics seems to suit well to the music.
Work your body Work your body 'till it drops You can't buy this stuff in shops
You gotta feel the pain Feel the pain Give everything And then you do it again
9 - B-Real
A sort of almost Blur sounding track about a man who wants to give up drinking and being a slob and become a sort of trendy character reading books and spending time with the family. The battle continues when he has to pick his teeth up from the floor and eat a stone baked pizza.
Legendary track 9/10
10 - Previous
Jarvis has a haunting voice on this track, it's about a bloke going to prison, it's a slow track, a rare thing for this album but it's still a winner.
11 - Battered
A song about getting drunk and fighting which is somehow a slow acoustic piece and almost sounds like Leonard Cohen singing, different from other songs on the album but the variety spices up the album. 7/10
12 - Mary
My favourite track on the album, the singer rings up his wife (ex-wife?) Mary to tell her his son has met him in the street and didn't recognise him but tried to sell him drugs. It's a slow electronic track but has hints of hippyness on the chorus of "Mary"
Now I, I like a bit of fun now and then And I know sometimes I have too much And I know things are different now But drugs Mary ****ing drugs!
Quality track. 10/10
All in all, an excellent British side-project that definitely shouldn't be forgotten and should have received more success!
"also reviewed on dooyoo
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