Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Method - Chances LP


It's 1981, and The Method have got a bone to pick. After a clutch of singles (not including the one on JK's UK label, which was someone else) they'd kinda got the hump with it all by the time of this 1981 album (limited to a pressing of 200 copies, apparently) and, although one side is just a fairly straightforward live-at-Dingwalls jobby which takes in a cover of the Yardbirds "Over Under Sideways Down", the other side is like Ivor Cutler's "Life In A Scotch Sitting Room" only with 'the biz' as its general grump-de-jour. They're not happy.

So anyway, here's an mp3 of bits of the stuff through the album. For my money, I wish it was all like the Ivor side - I could live without the live gear, which especially flags up a worrying penchant for sounding a little like a new wave Caravan or Henry Cow or something. The sleeve scan might need explaining: the browny-orange areas are actually sun-damage on this copy.

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