Album
A Trip To Marineville
1979 · Rock, Pop
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
A Trip To Marineville is a Punk album by Swell Maps, originally released in 1979. On Gatefold: 23 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
England’s Swell Maps released but two studio albums in their brief career, and their 1979 debut, <i>A Trip to Marineville</i>, immediately set them apart from other post-punk progenitors. While artists like Wire and PiL were becoming the standard-bearers for the massively creative period following the first wave of original punk, brothers Nikki Sudden (guitar/vocals) and Epic Soundtracks (drums/piano/”mumbling”) and their bandmates were more experimental, and their erratic, often unsettling music later influenced the likes of Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Pavement. From the starting gate, “H.S. Art” bubbles and roils with saloon-style piano, of all things, while a swollen bass throbs beneath a sheet of guitar that glints like crushed glass. Prickly punk (like “Another Song” and “Vertical Slum”) nudges up against grimy, pre-grunge punk (“Spitfire Parade”) and pre-goth slabs of guitar bleakness (“Gunboats”). Where sublime, Krautrock-influenced pulses of energy (“Full Moon In My Pocket,” “Midget Submarine,” “Blam!!”) delighted, Swell Maps’ mad, kinetic, sound pastiches (“Bridge Head, Pt. 9” “Don’t Throw Astrays At Me!”) confounded.
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Tracklist
- 1H.S. Art2:20
- 2Another Song1:42
- 3Vertical Slum1:11
- 4Spitfire Parade3:09
- 5Harmony in Your Bathroom5:25
- 6Don't Throw Ashtrays at Me!1:14
- 7Midget Submarine4:34
- 8Bridge Head, Pt. 92:00
- 9Full Moon in My Pocket1:29
- 10Blam!!3:30
- 11Full Moon (Reprise)1:20
- 12Gunboats8:08
- 13Adventuring into Basketry7:43
- 14My Lil' Shoppes 'Round the Corner0:43
- 15Lion of the Surf2:20
- 16Doctor at Cake2:06
- 17Steven Does1:45
- 18Bronze and Baby Shoes3:44
Sound DNA
- Punk
- Punk Rock
- abrasive
- chaotic
- art school
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- David BarringtonBASS, GUITAR, CYMBAL, BACKING VOCALS, VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR, JEW'S HARP, CYMBAL BACKING VOCALS
- Epic SoundtracksDRUMS, PIANO, ORGAN , BASS, SYNTHESIZER , VIOLIN, PERFORMER , SAXOPHONE , XYLOPHONE, HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS BASS DRUMS
- John CockrillGUITAR, BASS, BACKING VOCALS BACKING VOCALS BASS
- Jowe HeadBASS, GUITAR, HARMONICA, CYMBAL, PERFORMER , SAXOPHONE , HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS, VOCALS BASS BASS, BACKING VOCALS
- Nikki SuddenGUITAR, PIANO, PERFORMER , SAXOPHONE , HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS, VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR, PERCUSSION, HARMONICA GUITAR
- Richard EarlGUITAR, XYLOPHONE, PERFORMER , HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS GUITAR GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS
- Biggles BooksGUITAR GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS GUITAR, HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS
- GoldenBACKING VOCALS BASS BASS, VOICE
- Phones B. SportsmanACOUSTIC GUITAR, VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR, VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY BACKING VOCALS
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 23 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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