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| | Gyrate + | | | Music Artist : | | Pylon | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Dfa Records | | Release Date : | | 2007-10-16 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Cool
2. Dub
3. Volume
4. Feast on My Heart
5. Precaution
6. Weather Radio
7. Human Body
8. Read a Book
9. Driving School
10. Recent Title
11. Gravity
12. Danger
13. Working Is No Problem
14. Stop It
15. Danger!!
16. Functionality [#]
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 Great band
Submitted on: 2009-11-14 |
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This disc collects Pylon's best recorded work, though it's all eminently great. They were never better than on the "Cool/Dub" EP, which opens this disc, IMHO. All of "Gyrate" is really great, though. My personal favorites are "The Driving School," "Feast on My Heart," and "Gravity."
Nothing can match, really, though, the ferocious intensity that was Pylon live back in the day. I saw them on a bill with the B-52's at the Agora Ballroom in Atlanta circa 1980, and the sheer energy and joy issuing from the stage was just awesome. I thought I would die from dancing so hard. Pylon's monstrous rhythms would just make you move, whether you wanted to or not.
The whole band is great, but Vanessa is just fierce. I don't think she ever really understood just how primal her vocals were at the time. Recordings can't really capture the transcendental experience that Pylon was, but this comes pretty close.
Now, where are the Method Actors on CD?
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 Relive the Joy
Submitted on: 2009-11-11 |
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| Oh, what fun it is to hear this reissue! Those of us who were stuck in the backwater South when "Gyrate" was played at parties or on college radio can remember the joy and liberation we felt upon hearing Pylon and their Athens brethren. Those of us who "got" Pylon felt they were a punch in the face to all the purveyors of Arena and Southern Rock being force-fed to the masses. Much of the better known music from punk and new wave poseurs of this era sounds silly and dated twenty-five years later. However, owing to Pylon's superb musicianship and originality, their music holds up well. If you were in school in the South during the early eighties or are a connoisseur of new wave, you owe it to yourself replace your lost Pylon records by getting "Gyrate Plus." Relive the joy. |
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how did I miss them?
Submitted on: 2008-07-10 |
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| I got so rapped up in looking outside the U.S. (Enland Mainly) for older alternatives that I overlooked this great band. I can't believe they aren't more known than they are, even in underground circles. To set the record straight this music rivals anything Gang OF Four did. I don't mean its better just on the same level. So if u are a fan of them u should like this. Although they arent as political. Lets take the song DUB for example its like they are loud and messy on purpose, but it can be effective on the dance floor or dare I say a mosh pit. Seriosly this music dosent sound dated at all! |
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 I came, I read, I purchased . . .
Submitted on: 2008-06-11 |
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and what can I say? I'm not going to be listening to this CD. In fact, I'm going to copy it and trade it in at the local record store for something else. Really, I appreciate that this band was THERE, that they were an integral part of the Athens music scene. And I do appreciate that they influenced (and even moreso, were influenced by) some great bands, notably the B-52's whose James Bond/Duane Eddy guitar style is clearly evident on GYRATE in certain places.
Musicians whom I like much better have sung the praises of Pylon and no doubt had some great times with them. I've loved R.E.M.'s cover of Pylon's "Crazy" since the day I first heard it (probably the very week it was first released on the DEAD LETTER OFFICE collection).
GYRATE is primal and the instrumentation is primitive. The guitars are indeed scratchy a la Gang of Four and Pylon does in fact sound somewhat like that band. Both feature vocalists who aren't too concerned with, ah, sounding pretty. In fact, I find the Pylon vocalist to be rather atonal and annoying. I'm not really much of a Gang of Four fan either, but I do like them in small doses. I can imagine reaching for this album once in a blue moon, especially to groove on the dubby "Danger!" (quite unlike the song actually titled "Dub"). But it will never be a favorite and I can frankly see why they never blew up the way those other bands did. Rating: caution. |
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A much needed reissue
Submitted on: 2008-06-10 |
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| I can't believe there aren't more reviews here on Amazon of this classic postpunk cornerstone. DFA have done a wonderful job of digging up all of Pylon's early recordings - The Gyrate LP, Pylon! 10" EP, Cool/Dub single, and a previously unreleased track - and finally making them widely available. Contemporaries of the tense, angular, bass-heavy art/punk bands like Gang of Four, Au Pairs, Delta 5, Mekons, Mission of Burma, etc., that were flourishing at the time, Pylon are essential listening for anyone interested in that amazingly creative period from about 1978 to 1982 when, inspired by punk, bands were inventing new sounds and expanding rock & roll's horizons in amazing leaps. It seemed like a completely innovative new band was emerging every week, and Pylon were one of the very best. Definitely check this out, along with DFA's reissue of the band's second album (with bonus tracks) Chomp. |
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