Fuck me it’s Helen Love
I’d completely forgotten about Helen Love until I came across a track of theirs this morning. It slightly disturbs me to come across a band I last heard of getting on for ten years ago, particularly when they still sound exactly the same. I had one of their singles, too, I think it was ‘Punk boy’ or maybe ‘Does your heart go boom?’ — the B side featured a sample of an interview with Mark Radcliffe, in which he did his ‘Sheena Easton punk rocker’ joke (which, googling tells me, later turned into a track on the Shirehorses album).
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Ha! I remember Helen Love! When was that track they always used to play down the Q Club in the first year? I hink it was “long live the uk music scene”. Peach.
Comment by Marty @ 4/27/2005 10:13 am
It was indeed. It was about Shed Seven, wasn’t it?
Comment by Stefan @ 4/27/2005 10:38 am
Apologies all round for my trademark mangling of the beautiful English Language.
Stef - indeed it was. Can’t seem to find the lyrics online.
I’m sure all the “Heads” that read this will find it interesting as an example of music criticism delivered through the medium of “the song”.
The only other example I can think of is The Beta Band’s “Round The Bend”, where a whole verse is spent defending the Beach Boys’ “Wild Honey”.
There must be more…
Comment by Marty @ 4/27/2005 4:59 pm
Actually, when rappers aren’t going on about how good they are, they do like to say how bad other stuff is.
I’d like to see Keane delivering the diss on Coldplay in a song. It would make mainstream indie a lot less anodyne.
Comment by Marty @ 4/27/2005 5:04 pm
Does Wild Honey need defending? It’s a tune.
Yes to indie bands dissing each other. It was the one thing missing from the blur-Oasis phoney war. (Apart from speculation over “Beetlebum”. Ooooh! He said bum!)
Comment by Alistair @ 4/28/2005 7:44 am
One of the songs off New Adventures in Hi-Fi (possibly “How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us”?) by REM was supposedly an Oasis diss.
Lots of mid nineties indiepop was about other songs / bands / the ’scene’, if that counts.
Comment by Stefan @ 4/28/2005 12:46 pm
It’s ‘Wake up bomb’, I think. Not really Nas vs. Jay-Z, though: the harshest line is something like, ‘See you, don’t want to be you’.
Comment by Tim @ 4/28/2005 1:00 pm
“Supersonic / What a Joke” if I recall correctly…
“Lots of mid nineties indiepop was about other songs / bands / the ’scene’, if that counts”
Like “This is Fake DIY” by Bis?
“This is funded by a major
But shabbily packaged to pretend that it’s cool
This is a fake indie label
Release the records you want but yr under our rule
This is limited edition
With a nice little sticker and a personal number
This is limited edtion
How they sell it so cheap it’s no longer a wonder”
Fuck me I love Bis
Comment by Marty @ 4/28/2005 2:14 pm
Thinking about it “Fuck me: I love Bis” might be a good t-shirt, although the number of ladies who’d want to fuck a 24 year old Bis fan is probably vanishingly small. Still, if any of them read this blog, I’m all yours, ladies :)
Comment by Marty @ 5/3/2005 3:29 pm