AXEMEN Three Virgins.. 2LP NZ orig Flying Nun 1986 MINT
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Axemen -- Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions 2xLP
Original 1986 NZ release on Flying Nun Records (NEW ZEALAND) (catalog # FN 049), with gatefold sleeve.Glorious barely-controlled noise-pop chaos from New Zealand. Due to be resurrected by Siltbreeze later on this year, this here is a pristine copy of the original FN item is all its dayglo wonder-ment.
Lost In Tyme Review: Early Swell Maps blues sessions? The Fall playing Kinks’ songs but they don’t know the lyrics? There’s no other album in the entire New Zealand music so chaotic, so brilliantly cacophonous and so totally denying any label, music style or genre, like this double album from the Axemen, released by Flying Nun, in this great label’s absolute peak, in 1986.Flying Nun was so great because, for several years, would release music by any, and I mean any, band that Roger Shepherd, Chris Knox andDoug Hood thought that had something interesting, no matter what musical style it had. This concept produced some of the best music of the 80s, not only because the three mentioned above have an excellent taste, but also because, 20 years before that period, there was something in New Zealand’s water, that caused the appearance of a continuous series of very talented artists – the more obscure of them can be heard in the 3 volumes of Rarer Than Radium compilations here, here and here.
But even for Flying Nun “Three Virgins…” was extreme and something that couldn’t get under the “Flying Nun sound” no matter how we expand the term – and here is the proof: There’s not a track from the Axemen in any of the several compilations that the label released though the years. Even in the non-exclusively Flying Nun based Rarer Than Radium series, I couldn’t fit them in.
So what is this all about? “Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions“ is a double album, made by three 20-years old Kiwis (Bob Brannigan, Steve McCabe, Stu Kawowski) with the help of their friends. In the 22 tracks of this album they managed to include every musical style under the sun – from Mark Stewart’s mumblings to good-time tunes, from blues played with “big, huge pipe organ” to Krishna chants and from post-punk saxophone-based tracks to muddy guitar noise. The recording and production is totally (and deliberately) DIY and although the mixing was made in two different studios, the singer’s voice often seems to come from a different room that the rest of the band.
I’d say that the Axemen did a Kinks-style, ironic comment on music and life, passed it through Frank Zappa & Mothers lunacy and they paint it with the punk/DIY colours of the early 80s. Sharp, brilliant and full of references songs like “Chant Number Nine”, “The Yeasty Mayor” “Talk With God”, the full-of-ideas playing and the nerve to put out a 2LP set as their first release, prove once again that the hormones of youth are magical things.
Tracks:
- A1 The Warhead Of Love A2 The Dream A3 Effectively, My Baby A4 Something (The Wives Of The Presidentʼs Men) A5 Johnny Cash's Monster A6 Grudge Hill B1 Creaky Back Stairs B2 Spots Of Glue? Telling B3 Pacific Ocean B4 Chant No.9 Dub B5 Chant Number Nine B6 Talk With God B7 Womin Of Love C1 Fred And Barney: (The Untouchables) C2 Artie Shepp's Place C3 Think About Me C4 Mick's Dance Floor C5 Reign O' Seeds D1 John Bonneroff's Charmed Life D2 Here Is Your File D3 The Yeasty Mayor D4 Dolistermeiser
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