Made Available: John Peel Sessions
By This Heat
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- 1 Horizontal Hold 8:27
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- 2 Not Waving 8:10
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- 3 The Fall of Saigon 6:08
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- 4 Rimp Romp Ramp 6:42
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Malcolm Brownproducer
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- 5 Makeshift 6:17
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- 6 Sitting 2:21
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- 7 Basement Boy 2:15
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Malcolm Brownproducer
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- 8 Slither 2:15
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Malcolm Brownproducer
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- Total length: 42:35
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6 Issues
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Made Available: John Peel Sessions [p] Archival, Digipak, Live sessions
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Made Available. John Peel Sessions Archival, Live, Paper/Cardboard Sleeve
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Made Available: John Peel Sessions Archival, Digipak
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Made Available 33 rpm, Remastered
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Made Available: John Peel Sessions Digital file, Remastered, Streaming
26 Reviews
With the first and the second lp, this one is also essential, buy it and you will see what's mean rock music with power, creativite, melody and the SOUND of this trio is magic like the quartet of Coltrane in jazz music, you will find the same genuis. Beautiful and unique band.
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Words fail. Far superior to either of their studio LPs proper. This is cutting edge and often stunning rock music that's bang up to date decades after it's conception.
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This Heat's Roundup
Five tracks listened to and I was ready to call this a ten. It's an extremely strong and tight tracklist up until that point - the three tracks with lyrics from their self titled, and the incredibly powerful Makeshift Swahili off Deceit.This additional release's production and mixing, despite being recorded in 1977, are extremely clear and powerful - and while I don't dislike the studio album versions of these songs, this clarity is added without the expense of losing the charm of their songs.
Horizontal Hold's take here is electronic and LARGE. In contrast, Not Waving is the best it's ever sounded - still keeping it's subdued, scary theme from the self titled, but presented more cleanly. Rimp Romp Ramp, a track I'm not familiar with outside this release, is big and powerful, with crushing riffs towards the end of the song, however with This Heat's trademark industrial/experimental sound throughout. Makeshift Swahili's version here clears up a lot of the issues I had with the track on Deceit - it obviously is less experimental than its original, with the noiserock section cleaned up and vocals polished-revealing some nuances I wasn't even aware of having only heard the original.
Then, the three tracks to finish. I do not know these tracks from outside this performance, leading me to believe they were improved or shortly written, and to me, the worst three of the album. Sitting still left some hope with me, as the piano nicely juxtaposes the jazzy improv sax/synth.. whatever it is. But I don't think of it as much more than an interlude... the same thoughts I have approaching the subsequent two tracks closing off the album. Because the album ends with almost seven minutes worth of aimless improv, in contrast to the incredibly tight track listing before it, I'm forced to not giving this album the ten that I feel it deserves, if it wasn't for the poor choices with the track listing.
If I were to be on the team releasing this archived performance, I would have at least made an effort to bury these final three tracks within the first four somehow. But alas.
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Kaleidoscopic in scope and ideas. I am reminded at how I first absolutely despised this band when I heard Deceit, and now they are one of my favorites.
The first 5 tracks are near perfect of course, while the last 3 are sort of inconsequential. Small compared to the monolithic Horizontal Hold or The Fall of Saigon or even the early version of Makeshift Swahili
The first 5 tracks are near perfect of course, while the last 3 are sort of inconsequential. Small compared to the monolithic Horizontal Hold or The Fall of Saigon or even the early version of Makeshift Swahili
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You can say this about This Heat: they were never boring. The instrumental "Horizontal Hold" has a cinematic sweep that despite some grating portions somehow never quite grates. "The Fall of Saigon" imagines what Brian Eno might have sounded like had he not gone ambient (and "Basement Boy" what he might have sounded like if he went ambient with a full band). "Rip Romp Ramp" is an appropriately-named piece of meandering, clanging funk. "Not Waving," however, is a dragging drone (droning drag?), and both "Sitting" and "Slither" are mostly contemplative throwaways. But the over-long and -ambitious "Makeshift Swahili" is the only real failure here. So even if this uneven release is more for the TH completist, there's a lot to like.
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MCR 926 Vinyl LP (2018)
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A rather odd little collection of BBC sessions from a band I had never even heard of previously. There's a fairly diverse collection of songs in this set, with all of them sounding quite different. Frantic drums and bass dominate the first track of the collection, while the second is driven by ambient keyboards reminiscent of Pink Floyd's most experimental era. "The Fall of Saigon" is mostly a noisy and repetitive drone with haunting harmonizing vocals and heavily feedbacked guitar, while "Rimp Romp Ramp" is a chaotic instrumental that changes rhythm and instrumentation frequently. This variety keeps the album from getting boring, and the instruments are generally well played, especially the drums and guitar. The vocals are largely unremarkable one way or the other, usually not unpleasant (outside of the obnoxious last minute and a half of "Makeshift Swahili") but often hard to understand and not too impressive. The last three tracks are rather dull as well, being a trio of two-minute ambient pieces similar to "Not Waving", minus that song's vocal part. Overall, a unique and fun listen.
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The studio versions of songs such as Fall of Saigon and Horizontal Hold are absolutely fantastic, yet somehow this John Peel sessions record has versions which top them. This record is probably the best example showing just how creative and ahead of their time This Heat were in 1977, masterpiece from start to finish.
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Listening to LARD FREE's "Unnamed" as I write this, seems appropriate. THIS HEAT is one of my all time favourite Avant bands and like many I noticed I also feel that they rank in this order of "Deceit", "Made Available" then the self titled debut. These John Peel sessions are the earliest recordings from this band as he had them on twice in 1977. So we get the first three tracks from March and the last five from October.
How amazing it must have been to actually discover all this adventurous music that Peel brought to his UK audience and beyond. I mean listening to this makes me wonder how many parents told their teens to shut that crap off. The word I found myself writing down as I listened to this making notes was "powerful". A trio including of course Charles Hayward the drummer from QUIET SUN and more. Gareth Williams plays bass and keys and is from Wales who would eventually move to India. And Charles Bullen another multi instrumentalist adding guitar, viola and clarinet.
The first three tracks are just killer. Especially "Horizontal Hold" and "The Fall Of Saigon" which are included in my three favourite tracks. The last five are shorter songs but man "Makeshift" is incredible. So much intensity from this band. Close to being five stars for me but it sort of tails off a bit in quality with the last short three tunes. A must for fans of experimental music!
How amazing it must have been to actually discover all this adventurous music that Peel brought to his UK audience and beyond. I mean listening to this makes me wonder how many parents told their teens to shut that crap off. The word I found myself writing down as I listened to this making notes was "powerful". A trio including of course Charles Hayward the drummer from QUIET SUN and more. Gareth Williams plays bass and keys and is from Wales who would eventually move to India. And Charles Bullen another multi instrumentalist adding guitar, viola and clarinet.
The first three tracks are just killer. Especially "Horizontal Hold" and "The Fall Of Saigon" which are included in my three favourite tracks. The last five are shorter songs but man "Makeshift" is incredible. So much intensity from this band. Close to being five stars for me but it sort of tails off a bit in quality with the last short three tunes. A must for fans of experimental music!
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Catalog
17 May 2024
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1
Horizontal Hold
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2
Not Waving
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3
The Fall of Saigon
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4
Rimp Romp Ramp
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5
Makeshift
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6
Sitting
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7
Basement Boy
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8
Slither
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