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reference in Shonen Knife review The Salon March 24, 1997 by Michelle Goldberg www.salon.com/march97/sharps/sharps970325.htm
Brand New Knife Big Deal/Paradigm
Despite a few mediocre stabs at stupid, grungy guitar rock, "Brand New Knife" is full of the kind of sparkling songs that make you want to put on a miniskirt and blast the car stereo on a summer day. "Explosion!" -- the album's first and best track -- is reminiscent of the Primitives' "Crash", the quintessential piece of girlie power-pop.
reference in The Arrogants release info Shelflife Records January 2000 www.shelflife.com
The Arrogants
Sheer
elegance from The Arrogants!
reference in The Flatmates history http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5350/flatmates.html
...Perhaps they’d mistaken us for The Primitives and were disappointed that Deb wasn’t small and blonde...
reference in VH1 review of Reading Festival (2000?-2001?) http://www.vh1.com/thewire/news/article.jhtml?ID=850
Those who didn't come to the festival with security blankets are wondering what the hell Cay think they're doing to rock on the main stage. Led by a squealing girl in red hair, Cay are likely to follow in the f*ck-me heels of Transvision Vamp, Sleeper, and the Primitives straight to the island of irrelevancy. OK, we actually liked the Primitives a little. Even more worrying than Cay's corporate rock whoredom is that over at the Evening Session, Linoleum are stumbling in their glam footsteps. Oy.
reference in a music chart commentary for the week beginning March 13th 1988 http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bssnrw/comm/commentary11.htm
...Leona Naess, one of the few artists on the collection who hasn't been played into radio purgatory, is an amped-up version of The Primitives...
reference in a Velveteen Monster review http://www.velveteenrecords.com/html/velveteen_monster.htm
..."Hell is heaven upside down", this line sticks with me. I love lines like this, I want more lines like this. Great mildly-psychedilic lyrics. The blending of the male and female voice on this album is beautiful, reminiscent of the Pixies, the Primitives or Love & Rockets...I almost wished the guitar sound was brighter at times (listen to the beginning of "Crash" by the Primitives...
reference in Sandcastle site http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/news.html
..."Today I just received a master copy of the two Even As We Speak songs. The new song is called "Makes No Sense," and the older unreleased song is called "Let It Shine." Makes No Sense is catchy in a Primitives sort of way, and Let It Shine is laid back and in the vein of their last recordings for Sarah Records"...
reference in a Blink 182 review http://www.nuzik.net/blink182.htm
..."The catchy 'All The Small Things' reaches #2 in the UK Top 40, thus bettering its American chart performance (it peaked at #6 there). NME thinks it's not much cop. "Their album's called 'Enema Of The State'! Do you get it? Good: you're now fully equipped to join the rubbish Blink 182 world. They've taken the easy option and continue to paddle in the shallow carpet puddle of self-doubt comedy punk. Girls are a funny old business, aren't they? Knob gags are pretty sophisticated too. But, funnily enough, this still really sounds like 'Crash' by The Primitives."...
reference in a Fatal Charm site http://www.leesti.demon.co.uk/FatalCharm/contents.html
Their style was a kind of female-led pop-rock similar to several other bands around at the time; cf T'Pau, Voice of the Beehive, Primitives, etc.
reference in a Lush/Slowdive review http://misc.vassar.edu/spring_96/apr12/arts/4AD.html
The pop motif continues and expands on "500" which will leave your head spinning and make you scramble to find your old Primitives records. The ladies from Lush apparently found theirs, as the melody echoes all of the Primitives hits in all the right places-the chorus of "Brake baby brake" is a brilliant reworking of "Run Baby Run." The nick is near shameless, but like the song it mirrors, "500" is ace.
reference in a description of LAURA WATLING, album Early Morning Walk http://www.insound.com
...For fans of: The Cat's Miaow, The Darling Buds, The Primitives, The Autocollants, Go Sailor
reference in Morrissey article New Musical Express, February 20, 1988
Whereas
The Wedding Present and The Primitives do say
something to you? "Well,
it's definitely my world, but even within that I do have certain criticisms,
I do have certain rules and regulations. But, yes, they are very much
part of my little planet. The Primitives,
if we have to get personal about these things, I was initially very excited
by but I no longer see what I first saw. I don't know whether that's the
draining process; I can understand the pressures of suddenly being on
Wogan, of suddenly being on RCA, but a little bit of intrigue
has disappeared." Is that
why you refused to perform with them? "No, I don't think that's very stylish at all, singing with other people, especially as the song in question was 'Ticket To Ride'. I mean, would you?"
reference in The Holsteins band description
HOLSTEINS (THE) (N.Irel.): Angel train (poppunk with stong female vocals in the vein of PRIMITIVES/SHOP ASSISTANTS/...)
http://www.hot.ee/axelpaan/catatonia.htm
...You've Got A Lot To
Answer For... Catatonia are Welsh. We know this for a fact. But this is
one of the least Welsh records ever made. The tune is so sparkingly
Primitives perfect, it should surely have been crafted by someone
Swedish!...
http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1849
...At the behest of Morrissey, a recent comeback kid, Nancy Sinatra who herself is a sort of one hit wonder, is on the comeback trail. (Seems a reunion of the New York Dolls wasn’t enough to settle Moz’s middle-aged crisis. Will The Primitives be next?)...
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