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reference in The Heartthrobs bio Trouser Press www.trouserpress.com
Heartthrobs (FEMALE-VOCALS, ROCK, POP)
Playing gutsy girls'n'guitars rock-pop, the Heart Throbs--a quintet from Reading, England--have a nifty melodic sound that ages the Primitives from adolescence into young-adulthood. The Heart Throbs win brownie points by resisting the temptation to add what would be trendy but superfluous J&M Chain-styled noise. Guitarist Rose Carlotti (augmented by her bass-playing sister, Rachel) gives the songs a strong vocal personality; the band's three male members underpin the dynamic, full-bodied arrangements with a mid-Atlantic stylistic accent that occasionally recalls Holly and the Italians.
reference in Big Hello review www.notlame.com
BIG HELLO The Apple Album
Finally, the debut CD from Brad Elvis (ex-Elvis Brothers) arrives in all its rockin' pop glory. This is not power pop, but rocking pop. With the excellent front woman vocals by Chloe Orwell (and I'm not a big fan of female fronted bands, generally speaking), this CD is crisply produced by Cheap Trick producer Jimmy Johnson and is sure to light up fans of Blondie/Voice of The Beehive/Primitives school of pop. In a better world, many of these songs would take over radio, but for now the Beatle-y stylings of songs like "Sister Mary" and the pure pop of "Clouds Cover The Mountain" will have to do for those of us in the know. Jaw dropping hooks rip the flesh of the savoring mouth. A reworked version of the song that appears on Not Lame's "World's Best" comp "Today Will Be Yesterday" is included! Extremely Highly Recommended...even for pop fans who don't dig female lead vocals and DEFINITELY for those who do!
reference in Eggplant review www.notlame.com
Eggplant Sweet Anarchy EP
Huge buzz in England on these ladies, 4 varied Primitives post-pop and a song that even sounds like the Wipers!
www.notlame.com
Delightfull Little Nothings 7" EP
Not unlike the fab, lamentably forgotten Primitives, this band has a post-My Bloody Valentine take on pop, but the songs are straightforward and only take their Kevin Shields cues from their guitar sound and other odd ball-ish sounds here and there. Cool indie pop!
reference in Cinnamon review www.snackcake.com by MC
Cinnamon
About every two years someone finds their older sibling's Primitives record collection and decides to write some songs. Not such a bad idea I guess. Cinnamon (one girl, three guys) is a contemporary, jazzy, AOR, MOR, pure pop group built on a even keel of squeaky clean vocals, lush guitar/keyboards, and "the rhythm." Well-structured songs that remind you of rides in convertibles on sunny days. There's not a single song you can hate, not a single one you won't find yourself humming in your head. This might as well be a Stephen Street production but it's not. I am truly convinced that this is someone's favorite band.
reference in Stormclouds bio www.clivejones.demon.co.uk/biography.htm
..."It took us just four months to record our second tape, the songs were coming thick and fast. The first tape was a mixed bag of styles and we wanted this tape to sound like a coherent album. I'd heard stuff by The Primitives and other bands who were stealing from The Ramones and I thought I could do it better."...
reference in Vinyl Devotion review www.westnet.com/consumable/pre1994/old/c000atoz.txt
Vinyl Devotion (demo cassette)
"Sorry Isn't Good Enough" is a beautifully crafted tune, in the musical style of Lush or the Primitives, which will immediately capture the listener's attention. The lyrics tell a different story; "After wheels came motorcycles smeared with blood and scorn / Angels fighting for teenagers hardly worth to mourn / Sorry isn't good enough when there's time to think / in a million different places wallpapered in pink." Nothing fancy musically here, but quite enjoyable nonetheless.
reference in Courtney Love article VOX Issue 92, June, 1998 by Jerry Thackray
Courtney Love And The Return Of Hole
...After
years of loving pop, I've finally written the ultimate pop song!"
she continues. She's talking about 'Heaven Tonight' the 'happy'
song written for her daughter, which is supposed to mirror the sound of
horses galloping across the fields.
vicious kitten zine; issue 2 by Bruce Earl
TIGER TRAP (K-records)
My favourite Trap track, the candy coated ‘Words And Smiles’, closes side one. This song also appeared on one side of a split single on the obscure (to me anyway) FLW label from San Jose (Bratmobile were on the flip, and if that doesn’t make for a double bill from heaven, show me one). ‘Chester’, along with the sad but ever cute ‘My Broken Heart’ take the honours on side two. For want of a token comparison or two, think The Primitives or Shop Assistants, only miles better. A 10" EP - ‘Sour Grapes’, followed this album, but the band folded shortly after. Vale Tiger Trap. I strongly recommend that you become the third person in Australia to own a copy of this LP.
reference in The Yum Yums bio NOISE FOR HEROES zine
In the spring of '97 The Yum Yums did some shows with a young Norwegian girl rock-star - Vibeke Saugestad. According to the bio info on the Yum Yums website: "The idea for "Vibeke Saugestad and The Yum Yums" was to play a lot of girl pop/punk songs and the band did every song in the book. Blondie, The Primitives, Scandal, The Photos, Holly Beth Vincent, The Go Go's, The Darling Buds, The Bangles and even Nena. You name them... The shows were great and I'm pretty sure we will do more together."
reference in Morrissey interview New Musical Express February 18, 1989 by James Brown
The Playboy Interview, Part 2 ...How
do you view your relationship with your children? Those fans and bands
who receive attention because of your patronage: The Primitives,
Bradford, Shaun Duggan, Lucette from the 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' video?
reference in The Pretenders article The Cleveland Plain Dealer May 27, 1994 by Michael Norman
...Last of the Independents pairs Hynde with two new Pretenders — ex-Katydids guitarist Adam Seymour and ex-Primitives bassist Andy Hobson. The Pretenders' original drummer Martin Chambers returns full time for his first album since 1986's Get Close, while the group's longtime guitarist Robbie McIntosh contributes on the funky "I'm a Mother."...
reference in King/Paul King bio Trouser Press www.trouserpress.com
...Birmingham's Reluctant Stereotypes--which not only contained King but future Primitive/producer Paul Sampson--played likable reggaefied rock/pop much like another band of the same city and era, the Beat...
reference in Martyn Bates bio Trouser Press www.trouserpress.com
...Bates' latest effort, handsomely produced by Paul Sampson (who is best known for his work in and with the Primitives but was actually once Bates' bandmate in the Reluctant Stereotypes), manages to make his voice--showing better control than in the past--more palatable than ever before...
reference in Flying Tortellini's bio http://www.havic.com/Artist/F_Tort/FTBio.htm
...Anthony
Harty: Bass, vocals
reference in Feline bio The iZine http://www.thei.aust.com/music2/evans6.htm
...Vox Magazine said: "Coming in on a heaven sent fusion of Hole's sonic battery and The Primitives pop suss. 'Save Your Face' flashes past in a blur of primal screams and spangly guitar solos." Can't say fairer than that...
reference in The Heartthrobs review Melody
Maker Mar 3, 1990 (One Little Indian)
...The Heartthrobs used to be spat out in the same bad breath as The Darling Buds or The Primitives, but those toytown collectives never managed anything as neurotic or wilful as this, "Big Commotion" (no flatulent remixed B-sides here) is a tortuous, grunge-rock lament that makes "Burst" or "Sick Of It" seem like very slender fare indeed...
reference in The Heartthrobs interview Melody
Maker November 5, 1988 HEART for art's sake
...Rose: "Well, because we do upbeat pop we're seen on the surface as another bubblegum band. But what we do is much more intense and disaffected. Journalists want things to be simple, so on one hand they put Sonic Youth, Big Black, those bands, and on the other The Primitives, Darling Buds. But we feel more in common, spiritually or intellectually, with bands like The Pixies. Or Dinosaur. They're brilliant!"...
reference in The Heartthrobs interview Lime
Lizard July 1992
The Glamour And The Glory
..."We were a blonde failure," remarks Rose, "Our roots showed too much! The Darling Buds and The Primitives are like, real pop bands. The Heart Throbs are a pop band but we like to take ourselves a bit seriously which you're not supposed to do...
reference in The Heartthrobs interview Melody
Maker Mar 10, 1990 THE VANITY FARE
...If The Heart Throbs set the world on fire, or at least inflame a bit if unseemly desire (the latter's possibly preferable, certainly more likely), ingratiating shitehawks like Piers Morgan are liely to first embrace, then dismiss them as a two-headed Primitives. Basically the problem's the blondes, Rose and Rachael. Despite the noble efforts of Chris Roberts and Ellen Barkin, blondes still tend to elicit a curiously fickle response. Think blonde and at best you think siren, at worst bimbo, often both. Which is okay, but with The Heart Throbs way off the mark. They're not The Primitives, nor The Darling Buds. They're tacky and tasteful, they're genuinely bright, they shine where others simply sparkle like tinsel... ...Does it really matter if people mean what they're doing, it's never particularly mattered to us. "Well, it matters to us," says Stephen. "I mean, we could've taken a much easier route, at one point we could've easily gone in with The Primitives and Darling Buds doing trashy disposable stuff, we could've promoted the girls in the band. That was suggested to us. But we didn't." ...
reference in The Heartthrobs interview New
Musical Express Mar 24, 1990
PROBABLY A THROBBERY
...This is one of the reasons they were never happy being daubed with the Blonde tag, which suggested a throwaway happiness/heartbreak air. The Heart Throbs were and still are a nastier-sounding group than The Darling Buds or The Primitives...
reference in The Heartthrobs live review Melody
Maker Nov 2, 1991
THE
ONE AND ONLY THE HEART THROBS
...The songs they present us with tonight kick ass so feebly, they make The Primitives sound like Big Black. Presumably this is an indication The Heart Throbs are going for the American market in a big way. One hopes so: it would be sad otherwise, to see a once fair-to-great band ruin themselves so needlessly...
reference in My Bloody Valentine interview Q magazine Jan 1992 by Andy Gill
...And, when it comes to the crunch, the group value their art more than the blandishments of transient fame. Contrasting their approach to that of former Lazy Records labelmates, The Primitives - currently residing in the Where are they Now? section alongside The Tap - he stresses that, for My Bloody Valentine, music is a more important consideration than career...
reference in The Lightning Seeds bio Jollificational Lightning Seeds by Paul Gorman www.albia2000.force9.co.uk/seeds
UNSUNG HEROES
...Having started his career alongside Holly Johnson, Bill Drummond and the Banshees' Budgie as a member of 1977 Liverpool scenesters Big In Japan, Broudie spent the Eighties collecting an impressive series of production credits, working on the first two Echo & The Bunnymen albums and a slew of releases by acts such as The Fall, Wah!, The Icicle Works, Northside, The Primitives, Alison Moyet, Frank & Walters, Dodgy and Sleeper...
reference
in The Automatics review by Scott Zimmerman www.tweekitten.com
The Automatics I Wish
7" ...The flipside opens with the immediately catchy "Secrets" which is a cover of the Primitives song. It's the most memorable track on this release, which actually makes this record a bit disappointing to me as I would prefer to be blown out of my shoes by original songs. But, hey, I don't mind adding cool Primitives covers to my record collection and this one is mad-crazy punk-rock fun...
reference in Catatonia review Twee Kitten zine by Scott Zimmerman www.tweekitten.com
"Sweet
Catatonia" CD-EP
reference in indiepop review The War Against Silence by Glenn McDonald www.furia.com/twas/twas0211.html#entry10
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