Hurricane #1 (Andy Bell)
About a two weeks ago I went to Amoeba and dropped about 50 bucks on a bunch of crap I didn’t really need. As always I hit the Ride section in hopes that I would discover something that I don’t already have, like a new album. And to my surprise I found “Hurricane #1″…
Later that night I picked up Travis and headed over to the Wiltern to check out BRMC for the 30th time. Which for the record was borderline depressing because they didn’t play any of the heavy shit and didn’t play very well. I love them, but the show almost put me to sleep. On the way over we listened to few of these Hurricane tracks and ended up singing along to almost all the songs which was so weird since neither of us had ever heard this album before. The good thing is, is that the songs are pretty catchy, but the lyrics are little predictable. Hence the reason why Travis and I were singing over this shit at first listen. It was actually pretty funny listening to Travis sing.
Hurricane #1 - “Just Another Illusion”
Hurricane #1 - “Faces In A Dream”
Anyhoo, about a year after Ride disbanded Andy Bell decided to put together this band. Hurricane #1, put out two records on Creation, but the band drew a ton of bad press, and borderline ridicule due to their similarity to Oasis… Then in 1999 Andy took some time off the play guitar for some band called “Gay Dad”. Yeah, I’m not really sure what that was all about. But the Gallagher bros saved him and now the guy plays bass in Oasis and is totally winning right. In case you aren’t sold just throw on the live Oasis album, “Familiar to Millions” album, and listen to Noel cays “Can I have everybody singing Who the fuck is Andy Bell?“. And check out who wrote “Turn Up The Sun” which is the first song on the last Oasis record. Guy wins.
So here are a couple of tracks that I dig from this.
Hope you like em too.
Love,
Troy Boy
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April 9th, 2008 at 4:02 am
It’s true that BRMC didn’t play very well that night.
It didn’t help matters that they played for 2 hours or something?
Also, what was up with the photobooth & t shirt printing at that show?
Camel sponsored events are weird.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:10 am
“Faces In A Dream” and “Just Another Illusion” are same file?
April 9th, 2008 at 5:31 am
This is the aural equivalent of stale bread. Go down the local you’ll hear 17-year olds playing shit like this. You boys seem to be fairly horny for music from Enger-land, was wondering if you’ve checked the new Elbow tune?
“Grounds For Divorce”……it’s good.
http://www.myspace.com/elbowmusic
April 9th, 2008 at 5:43 am
@@@… fixed those links… sorry I was tried. Should work fine now.
And Sir Alec… this is a pretty good used bin find. I don’t know any 17 year olds that make records this cool… if you do, sign em and start a label and lose your ass like I did. It’s a great life choice.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Apologies. I have the painters in.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:03 am
You should write a review on Seahorses… they were pretty bad but its kind of insane if you listen to it since it’s John Squire soloing non-stop and kind of boring vocals… apparently they played small clubs in the US and Mr. Squire had like 30 guitars with him.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
This record works quite well with a big ass bag of mushrooms(as all music does).
April 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
i used to have that cd. i got it free from columbia house about 10 years ago. i don’t know what happen to it though.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
What, no “Step Into My World”? Yeah, it’s probably the biggest reason for Hurricane #1’s comparison to Oasis, but that shit’s still the jam.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
The record cover is brilliant IMO.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Yeah please post STEP INTO MY WORLD!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am
do you like the house of love? if you like the stone roses, oasis, and ride/hurricane #1, i bet you’ll like the house of love…
April 10th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
not sure why everyone is so gah gah over ride. always sounded like a watered down swervedriver to me.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I’m not so sure about this Andy Bell stuff , but what he did for DONT BELIEVE THE TRUFF, was excellent ! anyway buttyhead readers, I uploaded some new tunes, pretty much classic stuff, check it !
http://spiritvine.muxtape.com/
April 11th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Loobie are you on planet outer space? Ride fuckin rule. Start with the best of… just their cover of The Creations - HOW DOES IT FEEL TO FEEL is worth the price of that cd. Don’t even get me started on “Drive Blind” & “Black Nite Crash”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3KJe48EVyK8
April 12th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Any of you that doubt Andy Bell’s musical prowess should pick up a copy of the Kaleidoscope maxi single. I’ll agree that they can be a little tedious at times, but there’s about 6 live tracks on that lil’ biscuit that will absolutely melt your brain.
2 questions: First, can one of you cheeba monkeys at the head explain to me why your stoned asses have never (to my knowledge) made any mention of Bardo Pond? Second, have any of you guys ever heard of a little space rock outfit from Austin called the 7% Solution? Inquiring minds must know!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
speaking of all things black, be it rebels or otherwise.. the new black angels record sounds fucking killer, which was to be expected I guess. but man it swings!
May 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
hey kurt cobain’s ghost, that was about as funny as the ‘i love the way you smack my ass’ line from that one song of yours