A Trip to Marineville is the Swell Maps debut album released back in 1979, the album is hit and miss but there is underlying geniusness! Whilst they didn't really make a big impact when it comes to commercial success, they made some pretty cool songs and had inspired future generations of bands ... Read review
Trip To Marineville - CD
H.S. Art Another Song Vertical Slum Spitfire Parade Harmony In Your Bathroom Don't Throw ... more
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A review by dangaroo on Trip To Marineville, A - Swell Maps December 18th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Originality
Groundbreaking
Lyrics
Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks
A couple of weak links
How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Good
Value for Money
Good
Advantages:
Good krautrock influenced new wave
Disadvantages:
Some short and silly tracks
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
A Trip to Marineville is the Swell Maps debut album released back in 1979, the album is hit and miss but there is underlying geniusness! Whilst they didn't really make a big impact when it comes to commercial success, they made some pretty cool songs and had inspired future generations of bands - Sonic Youth for instance.
The Swell Maps have slightly muffled tracks on this album which aren't particularly well produced but this is punk and I don't think it needs to be too refined.
The drum rolls are there, the guitar playing is sound and the vocalist uses a mixture of Johnny Rotten's voice and Sylvain Sylvain, whilst being as good as neither - at least he has good taste! Whilst tracks like Spitfire Parade and Vertical Slum may show the band in a fast Sex Pistols like style of punk or even pre-punk, plenty of other tracks show a more artistic, alternative side to them more similar to Wire or PIL - Harmony in Your Bathroom, Gunboats and Blam!!! are good examples of this particular style.
A downside is that they have a few experimental tracks that are just a bit too short and don't really materialise - laughter and the like - tracks like Turn Me on Dead Man or Shoot The Angels but despite a few let downs The Swell Maps intrigue me and I'm definitely intending to check out their later LP Jane from Occupied Europe.
Label / Distributor: The Grey Area / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 5016025640010
Catalogue Number: MAPSCD 1
Additional notes
Album Notes: Brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks started the Swell Maps in the early 1970s while in their teens. The band's chaotic mix of arty experimentalism, garage primitivism, and punk rock gumption established a template for the British DIY post-punk movement of the late '70s and early '80s. The band's 1979 debut, A TRIP TO MARINEVILLE, perfectly captures the band's two disparate yet strangely compatible elements. Songs such as "Spitfire Parade," "Another Song," and the rousing opener "H.S. Art" burn with youthful abandon and a glammy, knowingly primitive cool. Yet by "Don't Throw Ashtrays at Me" and "Bridge Head," the listener is presented with an almost completely different band, as improvised noise, clattering percussion, found sounds, and ambient piano soundscapes overtake the more straightforward rock elements that introduced the album. The hypnotic pulse of Krautrock creeps in on "Full Moon in My Pocket" and "BLAM" and the Sonic Youth blueprint is presented fully formed on "Gunboat." For the Swell Maps, the call to arms of punk rock wasn't about empty gestures toward anarchy and social rebellion, but rather the notion of a personal revolution via the limitless possibilities of art. A TRIP TO MARINEVILLE perfectly captures this realization.
Album Reviews: Uncut (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 - "MARINEVILLE subverts bilious sneers with old-fashioned yarns set to raucous guitar thrashes..." Magnet (pp.96-7) - "[T]he Maps embody the kind of free-wheeling, dangerous joy that results when six British teenagers completely disregard the rules....This debut is a drunken detour into two-chord post-punk."
Titles on disc 1
1.: HS Art
2.: Another Song
3.: Vertical Slum
4.: Spitfire Parade
5.: Harmony In Your Bathroom
6.: Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me
7.: Midget Submarines
8.: Bridge Head
9.: Full Moon In My Pocket
10.: Blam
11.: Full Moon Reprise
12.: Gunboats
13.: Adventuring Into Basketry
14.: My Little Shops
15.: Ripped And Torn
16.: International Rescue
17.: Loin Of The Surf
18.: Shoot The Angels
19.: Elephant Flowers
20.: Turn Me On Dead Man
21.: Bronze And Baby Shoes
22.: Nevertoseeanotherway
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