Well ok thy are the only chinese rock band Ive ever seen.... (I think theres only about 8 to choose from anyway). They didnt sound like the fall, joy division , gang of four or fugazi (get a new publicist guys) but they were entertaining - gotta love a singer who round-house kicks and swings the mike around -at lunch time to an audience of office workers....
La Muerte are definitely the best Belgian Rock band Ive ever seen. ( Ive never seen Plastic Bertrand and Im sure he would have been in the running if i had...and there dEUS I guess , but really who else? ).
The guys voice is awesome and he did one of the best Nick-Cave-release-the-bats "dentist drill" shrieks north of brisbane.
Lucifer Sam - La Muerte
Ok the Birthday party influence is there but songs like " Evil Land", "Haschassin" and "Tiny Bones" have a noise/punk thrust that other Cave derivatives never had. The helter-skelter down-escalator guitar riff of "Blame on you" is a classic and the band only shows a taste of the mediochrity that is to come on "Blues Heaven or Hell" : the debut album was a turgid lowland-swamp blues by numbers job with none of the sense of urgency or credibility the previous 12" had.
LA Muerte,Bay 63 London, 1985
1. Evil Land
2. Haschassin
3. Blues, Heaven or Hell
4. Tiny Bones
5. Blame On You
6. Lucifer Sam
7. Wild Thing
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