I can’t really put my finger on why I like this so much. Maybe cause it’s oddness pointing in the direction of XTC(a band which I love beyond reason). Monotonues and perfectly capturing the lyrics in Bridgeport Lathe. Little Cities is more of the same but a little bit more uptempo with a rubber sounding bass. A perfect piece of plastic.
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Bessemer Process
Format: 7″
Songs:
Bridgeport Lathe.mp3
The Little Cities.mp3
this is so great i love bridgeport lathe total cool 2 d marks for 27 years thank you for this fantastic record thank you kbd.
Glad you do sir hake. Thank you!
Great single – you can get their CD album from this era dirt cheap from John here: http://www.metalsnowball.com/catalog.html
Oh thanks for the link Graeme! Never heard about the CD.
all other songs cool great records.thank you kbd and graeme.
Good record, never heard of this before. B-side is a nice rockin’ little ditty. I like the sleeve with them in an abandoned factory or whatever. Don’t wanna fuck with these guys. Is the one of them holding a cassette recorded? I bet he’s blasting a tape of XTC “GO 2.”
Very nice, thank you. There’s more than a hint of Talking Heads in the vocals.
When I put on Bridgeport I though it was the radio that suddenly started. The opening “riff” sounds so familiar that I’m sure someone recently came up with something very simular and got a hit out of it. Great song as well as the b-side.
both songs are great xtc i loved makin plans for nigel
Ha! Men go to work on the lathes because the “screach of shearing metal is what they wanna hear”! What’s fun is that the weird working-man lyrics don’t exactly jibe with the music, which is kind of fruit-cakey.
thats the whole point i think
Bridgeport Lathe is outstanding. Thanks for introducing me to them!
Fuck I love this record .. and I don’t even like XTC. Maybe there’s hope for me yet.
To quote sir hake, thank you kbd!