T:16

( only true history remembers )

  
                 
 

 
  • Artist: 3lb BASS
  • Audio CD (August 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: AGIS
  • ASIN: AGIS316721  

Matt Ilie Von Hudson: Vocals

Fisherman Iain: Guitars & Banjo

Rodger McGough: Guitars

Frank E Chan: Bass

Magic Andy: Drums

Produced by Brian Spencer Smith.

  

Joaquin Sanchez Award 2002

Golden Bass Winner 2002

Average Review 3 /3

  
 

SOUND BITES

Here are some samples of the great tracks you can hear on this album. You will probably need Windows Media Player to do this (Iains brother can get you a copy of that for cheap).

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- 2 SUGARS -

(110kb)

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- LENINGRAD PIER -

(153kb)

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- 7-21 -

(144kb)

 

Track Listing

 

    
 

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epilogue:

 2 SUGARS

SET ME FREE

GIRL IN A BOX II

RHYMES OF RATIONAL AND OF REASON (One 2 One)

DEEP

DAGA

LIE TO ME

JIMMY STEWART

LENINGRAD PI3R

FISCIANT

7:21

    
           
  Late in the summer of 2002 T:16 was released upon an unsuspecting fan bass. After years doing all the recording themselves, the boys decided it was time to tie down some of their work in a more finished form. Recorded in record time the album T:16 was made below sea level in 6 days on a diet of 36 bottles of pop. The band were warned that this couldn't be done, so they went ahead and did it anyway, and did it very well I might add. In the time it takes any other band to tune up, 3lb BASS recorded Ten songs for the album, and then added another called DAGA which you could learn to play for yourself.

They also sold all the copies that they made, did some gigs and possibly made a profit.

As soon as the wailing siren like guitar of 2 SUGARS explode and the diamond edged rift begins its clear that this album is a call to arms, and a call to drink tea. The nature of the recording seems to give an added urgency and edge to the industrial rock of SET ME FREE and the madness and vitriol of ONE TO ONE. In contrast GIRL IN A BOX II and 7:21 have a sepia tinged sound which emphasizes their delicate melancholy beauty, without breaking their sense of hope. The backwards guitar yearning of DEEP and Matt's harmonies on JIMMY STEWART continue this.

FISCIANT grows and swirls out of an atmospheric embryo, before exploding into a primary colored cacophony of much anger and much beauty, before fading out again into washes of harmonics. Many of these tracks have become staple favorites in 3lb BASS' live shows, especially the epic LIE TO ME and the mighty LENINGRAD PIER, which Major Ken recently rated the greatest song in the world ever...and for once he might just be right.

 

 
   
           
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  BUYERS REVIEW: James Sheppard, Manager 'The Charles Bradlaugh', Northampton.  
           
 
  To say that the T:16 album is a monument in British horse racing would indeed be wrong. To say that the socialist band members have had more pussy than hot dinners would again, due to the eating exploits of 'Fat' Matthew Hudson, be quite wrong. To say that I entirely know what I'm talking about would be more wrong than a gerbil stuck up my own arse. But if I were to mention the strength and vision provided by Rodger McGough; the black spiral of imagination perpetuated by the fishing sorcerer Iain; The pharmaceutical knowledge of Magic Andy and the sheer amount of stuff Frank supplied to the band, then you would realise what a 'Motley crew' the minds that penned the music and lyrics to the album T:16 really are.
    The songs across the entire album are a veritable mine field of teenage angst, deep country blues, classical R&B and super rave techno garage. The lyrics and music strike so heavily into ones conscious that to classify them into any genre is more difficult than convincing the pope to install a condom machine into the Vatican. However, each individual number reverberates with technical genius, and often one finds oneself thinking of days at the seaside, communism, and the resurgence of shoving small children up chimneys. How or why these visions come to mind I can not explain - they just do - and due to this fact we can only guess the true meaning behind the writing of this album.
    In summary, I thoroughly enjoyed the bands first outing into the musical maelstrom that is Deal, and despite rumours of internal band difficulties (Frank moving and taking his stuff, and Magic Andy disappearing in a poof of nurses outfits), I believe change is always a good force, and I eagerly await the emergence of their second album.
 
 
Yours with Chocolate
 
Shep

 

  
         
           
     
     
           
     
     
     
     
       
           
     
       
           
 

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