Jon spencer blues explosion live at the french tv. Magical colors - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - ACME [FLAC, full artwork] Jon Spencer Blues Explosion After a long and semi-successful tenure as leader of scuzz-rock heroes Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer took his anti-rock vision and hooked up with guitarist Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins to create the scuzz-blues trio the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Postmodern to the core, this is an ironic name; little of what this band plays resembles standard blues. There is, however, a blues feel to what they play, meaning that in many instances they appropriate aspects of the blues (very often clichés) and incorporate them into their anarchic, noisy sound.
Not part of alternarock's commercial establishment, Spencer also managed to sharply divide critics who tended to see him as either inspired showman or mendacious con man (frankly, he's both). He did, however, gain popularity and critical respect throughout the '90s. The Blues Explosion's "breakthrough" came (as it did for Royal Trux) when they began to sound like a '70s rock band.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Year One (2010) [Lossless] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Year One (2010) [Lossless] EAC rip | Flac, tracks + .cue, log-file | No cover | Rar 4% rec. | 515 MB Genre: Rock | Label: Shout Factory In 1992, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion inked a deal with Caroline Records and requested a very specific signing bonus-- the then-new 10xCD Jerry Lee Lewis box set. 2010 Remasters Vol. 1. These are the two remastered releases from JSBX in 320 kpbs in itunes Each album includes artwork and is properly tagged From Pitchfork: 8.5/8.7 Given the congenial pose he strikes with his current rockabilly outfit Heavy Trash, it's hard to remember a time when Jon Spencer was the most polarizing figure in American indie-rock.
Sure, Vampire Weekend may catch message-board flak over the socio-economic disparities between their privileged upbringings and the impoverished African musicians who've inspired them, but they've never been labeled a minstrel act or, worse, racist-- tags that dogged Spencer and his band, the Blues Explosion, through their mid-1990s heyday. Really, Spencer adopted black musical tropes and affectations-- be it the hysterical hoots and hollers of Little Richard or the self-referential shout-outs of Flavor Flav-- no more flagrantly than Elvis or Mick Jagger or Captain Beefheart before him. If you like - please buy, if you want a better copy, go buy it!! 2010 Remasters Vol. 2. Here is Year One and Extra Width + Mo' Width ripped at 320 kbps. In 1992, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion inked a deal with Caroline Records and requested a very specific signing bonus-- the then-new 10xCD Jerry Lee Lewis box set. Two years later, when the band jumped ship to Matador, they asked for the 9xCD Stax-Volt Complete Singles 1959-1968.
As band lore has it, Caroline never sprang for the set, and the Blues Explosion's tenure there was short-lived and acrimonious. Matador, on the other hand, made good with Stax, and the band enjoyed a decade-long partnership with the label. Business relations aside, these two signing requests neatly signal the musical differences between the band's first few releases as well as between the latest installments in this ongoing reissue series. Year One is the noisiest, most abrasive, and most alienating collection the Blues Explosion has released, for better or for worse. 2010 Remasters Vol. 3. 1994's Orange finds the Blues Explosion at the exact moment they left behind the pompadour-and-sideburns Crypt Records trash-can garage-rock universe and sidled their way into the Beastie Boys/Beck/Cibo Matto downtown genre-fucking cosmpolitan party.
Beck actually shows up on Orange, literally phoning in a guest verse on "Flavor", and they toured with the Beasties soon after. It's easy to hear what those guys liked in the band's assault. The Blues Explosion were honest, organic experimenters-- fusing tons of different styles into their musical assault without compromising their ferocity or making any of it sound forced. These influences are fully internalized, rather than self-consciously stapled on.
So we get Isaac Hayes disco strings on the drawn-out "Bellbottoms" intro, feral James Chance-sounding sax squawks on "Ditch", Meters/Booker T organ grease on "Very Rare", g-funk keyboard whine on "Greyhound". The Groupies - Primitive. The Groupies on Myspace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads.