Album review: Bis This Is Teen-C Power
Mar. 29th, 2009 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juliet(One of the things on my 101 things list is to listen to & review some old albums.)
So after listening to Urusei Yatsura last week, I felt the urge to locate my old Bis albums. Although This Is Teen-C Power is not exactly an album, really, being only 6 songs long. (Technically their debut album was The New Transistor Heroes.)
But they are very entertaining songs! They do suffer a bit from the single-song problem that UY had (see also: Helen Love), but I mind less with Bis. (Again, see also: Helen Love.)
Kill Yr Boyfriend is pretty frenetic, as is School Disco (which I am v fond of. "Down at the disco, where nobody goes".).
Kandy Pop inevitably reminds me of Safari, when I was a 1st year, where Dave used to play it pretty much weekly (together with Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones, IIRC). They played it on TOTP in, hm, either late 1995 or early 1996: first unsigned band ever to appear on TOTP, apparently.
Not so keen on Teen-C Power: it's a bit too - measured, maybe? Although the bleepy bloopy background is kinda cool.
I saw Bis live at Kings College SU (where Collide-a-scope was and quite possibly still is); can't remember now who they were touring with, but they were *awesome* fun, & I got to say hello to Manda Rin afterwards which excited me enormously! Also they were dishing out badges, and at the time I was still busily extending the badge-collection on my denim jacket.
I'm really fond of some of the tracks from Social Dancing, their second proper album, but it was definitely a move in a different direction. Still bleepy drum-machine stuff, but a fair bit slicker. There's something enormously *fun* about Kandy Pop era stuff.
So after listening to Urusei Yatsura last week, I felt the urge to locate my old Bis albums. Although This Is Teen-C Power is not exactly an album, really, being only 6 songs long. (Technically their debut album was The New Transistor Heroes.)
But they are very entertaining songs! They do suffer a bit from the single-song problem that UY had (see also: Helen Love), but I mind less with Bis. (Again, see also: Helen Love.)
Kill Yr Boyfriend is pretty frenetic, as is School Disco (which I am v fond of. "Down at the disco, where nobody goes".).
Kandy Pop inevitably reminds me of Safari, when I was a 1st year, where Dave used to play it pretty much weekly (together with Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones, IIRC). They played it on TOTP in, hm, either late 1995 or early 1996: first unsigned band ever to appear on TOTP, apparently.
Not so keen on Teen-C Power: it's a bit too - measured, maybe? Although the bleepy bloopy background is kinda cool.
I saw Bis live at Kings College SU (where Collide-a-scope was and quite possibly still is); can't remember now who they were touring with, but they were *awesome* fun, & I got to say hello to Manda Rin afterwards which excited me enormously! Also they were dishing out badges, and at the time I was still busily extending the badge-collection on my denim jacket.
I'm really fond of some of the tracks from Social Dancing, their second proper album, but it was definitely a move in a different direction. Still bleepy drum-machine stuff, but a fair bit slicker. There's something enormously *fun* about Kandy Pop era stuff.
