- Goat Live If You want It
- Udder The Bridge
- If You Want Blood, You Goat It
- Goat To Get You Into My Life
- Baby, Please Don’t Goat
- Kid
- Janie’s Goat Gun
- Billy’s Goat Gun
- The Future’s So Bright, My Goat Wears Shades
- Goat Your Rocks off
I had a lot of fun playing with titles for this post* but particularly so today writing about Goat. Nope, I don’t mean your eccentric Swedish types with a weird schtick about being a lost African tribe, although I do like ’em, I’m talking about the Brighton based UK combo from the very early 90s. They released a mini-LP called As You Like and a full LP called Medication Time that I bought on cassette mostly because I liked the cover – I’ve always been a sucker for marble or tile effect covers.
Medication Time had one really good track, ‘Lying In The Flowers’, on it; their initial effort As You Like didn’t. I’ve listened to this 1990 LP four times in the last few days and I struggle to remember much about it at all. It’s cursed with sounds that were very 1990 but not very 2016, which possibly smacks of them trying too hard, in a pinch they sound a little like The Cult doing funk rock, which correct me if I’m wrong, is not a desirable thing. The very best bits of As You Like are the shiny bits on the cover, I only realised yesterday that the pattern on the cover was the band’s name repeated over and over and the track ‘Don’t Cry’, which is a bit meaner and earthier than the rest and a lot better as a result.
From their second LP I bought the single Good Times twice. Well, once was a bit of a rubbish shaped picture disc and once was a 12″ with a metal plaque and a newsletter. The later is rather fun actually, the plaque a bit on the pointless side and the music much better. ‘Good Times’ is a good rocker with a good tune, hamstrung by production that sounds a little treble-y to my ears. The B-side on both my versions is a stonking cover of the Stooges TV Eye, which captures the white-out intensity of the original and a live version of a track from As You Like called ‘Fallen Over You’, which is more ragged and energetic.
Goat were very much of their time and I would happily pick up a vinyl copy of Medication Time if I saw one, but I can’t see myself coming back this way for a bit. I’ve just goat a feeling.
711 Down.
PS: The usual 1537 caveat applies, this is far better music than I have ever put out – I’m just a dweeb with a keyboard, these guys tried – they win.
*it’s often my favourite part of writing a post anyway.
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I don’t think that shaped disc is rubbish. It’s not as shapey as it could be, I guess.
I’ve never heard of these people until this post, by the way.
Has HMO been by to ask about the evil goats from his death metal album covers?
No goat enquiries yet though, he must have more LPs with goats on the cover than anyone, ever!
* True story.
Consume 5 pints? Holy crap I’d be hammered.*
* I am not a good drinker.
For a crossword this complex you need at least 5.
Man, if I drank that much and DIDN’T fall asleep, I’d be writing scathing reviews of shitty albums.
The Roots’ How I Goat Over
Bryan Adams’ If you Want It, You Goat It
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Now I Goat Worry
Aerosmith’s Devil’s Goat A New Disguise
Bryan Adams wins!!
With those early records, he absolutely does!
I was given a free demo cassette at 1990 Donnington and it had a couple of Goat songs on it. I can’t remember what the songs were but I do know they were both pretty good. Never knew they put out a couple of albums, thanks for enlightening me.
Interesting, the second LP was really good – the one I haven’t got now, that is!
Isn’t that the way it always is?
You’ve goat to be kidding!?
I prefer the other Goat. Y’know, the one with he rhythms.
Goat a Grip, for Aerosmith fans.
Goat Goat Need, for Panini fans… (?)
Goat Your Own Way.
Now, what about some bands…
Goatbetweens, for example. Or Goat West.
That was the same song I was thinking about. By Feetwood Baaahhhh.
Rage Against Teet Machine?
Ace! The only one that springs to mind are the Goat-Goats!
The Cult doing funk rock? Where do I sign up? Goat to get me some of that.
(Pounds head on steering wheel in abject despair)
I’ve never contemplated goats’ elbows before. Hmm….
You see? I add to your existence!
Absolutely! Again 🙂
We’re here for a goat time?
Nice to see the Police win the title battle in the end!
Absolutely! It really is one of my fave bits of blogging, the titles.
Sounds like this album means
Goat Times Bad Times.
Yay!