THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #4
KLIPH SCURLOCK - DRUMMER (THE FLAMING LIPS, GRUFF RHYS)
All-time favourite album:
Ooh, fuck, that’s tough. I’d say Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World or Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity or Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Favourite Welsh language album:
Right now it’s Endaf Emlyn - Syrffio (Mewn Cariad)
Favourite album by a Welsh band/artist:
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Favourite new Welsh band/artist:
I can’t think of anyone current I like more than Adwaith
Dream festival headliners:
If we’re going pure fantasy, I’d say MC5 in 1970, Deerhoof today and Cheap Trick in 1978
An underrated band/artist:
Why the MC5 aren’t universally hailed as being one of the greatest bands to ever set foot in a recording studio, I will never know. I also don’t know why Kris Kristofferson’s first 3 albums aren’t mandatory listening for anyone who ever considers writing a song.
A song that reminds you of a particular memory:
I recently listened to Prince - Around The World In A Day and I can still remember the first time I heard that record. I convinced my dad to drive me to Mother Earth Records to get it on release day. I was an obsessive Prince fan at that point and was so excited he had a new album out, especially since Purple Rain wasn’t even a full year old yet. The 15 minute drive from the record store back home was painful because I wanted to hear the record so bad. I can still even remember how the brand new cassette smelled. Anyway, we get home and I run down to my bedroom and slap it in the cassette player and - what the fuck is this?! I loved it, but it was such an unexpected turn after such a major hit album. I’ll never forget that first moment of that first wobbly sounding keyboard starting off with all this weird percussion coming in immediately afterwards. I really thought that was an amazing thing that he followed up a bazillion selling album with something so different and he earned eternal respect from me that day.
Go to album when you’re down:
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions or Neil Young - On The Beach. Depends on if I want to be brought up or revel in the gunk of depression.
An album that gets you worked up:
If I want to get fired up to take on a task I’m not looking forward to, the self titled Last Poets album or Ice Cube - Death Certificate. If it’s to get jazzed up to go out for an evening or I just need an extra boost in the morning, Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed is a good one.
A lyric that resonates with you:
“Come to lucky-in-lovin', I never had no complaints. They never said I was evil, but then, I wasn't no saint. I'm just a river that rolled forever and never got to the sea. I ain't blaming nobody; I had it coming to me.” Kris Kristofferson - Kiss The World Goodbye
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