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Hasil Adkins – Chicken Walk (1970)

No one has ever taken the punk ethos of due it yourself more seriously than Hasil Adkins, and he predated those punk rockers by a good thiry years or so. I mean what I say when I compare him to a deranged Hank Williams. He has the same style of true country music but with quite a weird since of humor. His song topics range from chicken to love to decapitation to his made up dance the hunch and back to chicken. Truly he was punk before their was punk. This album in particular seems to be a really good compainion piece to another one of Hasil’s many collections of his early work entitled Out to Hunch. I would check these two albums out first. The recording quality is not great but you will quickly forget that when listening to his albums. His later in life albums, like Achy Breaky Ha Ha Ha, Drinkin My Life Away, What the Hell Was I Thinking, Look At the Caveman Go, and The Wild Man are also worth getting. Huh, I just noticed someone tagged this album with the word crazy. That’s awsome.

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2011: 05/24
POSTED BY: goldencosmonaut
CATEGORY: MUSIC
TAGS: Norton Records
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After Dinner – Live Editions (1991)

After Dinner is an 80s band led by vocalist and keyboard and tapes manipulator(a la Brian Eno), Haco. I bought Haco’s debut solo album before this. That is quite an amazing album in its own right. Haco’s lovely vocals tie together all the songs on this album. In no way is the music overshadowed by this. On the contrary, the music has an energy, a catchiness, and an experimentalism that isn’t present with most music. Though I don’t know Japanese, the translation of her lyrics shows that Haco’s words are just as original as her music. She has a definite vision of music as an art form. My favorte songs on here are Sepia-Ture 1 and 2, Cymbals at Dawn, Glass tube, A Walnut, Kitchen Life, and Iron clad Maiden. I usually listen to the album all the way through though. This is a collection of songs so unique and full of life that it’s hard to see why Haco and After Dinner haven’t recieved the attention that’s deserved. This is music that pushes the boundaries in the same way Brain Eno, Olivia Tremor Control and Pere Ubu do. You don’t have to buy this album but you have no idea what you’re missing if you don’t.