Sunday , June 27, 2010
Ten Reasons Why You Should Download "At the Club" by Kenickie RIGHT NOW!!
1. They look like this:
(from left to right: losery boy drummer Johnny X; bassist Emmy-Kate Montrose; frontman/rhythm guitarist Lauren Laverne; lead guitarist/vocalist Marie du Santiago)
For more hot pictures of Kenickie, check out Kenickie Fried Chicken, a Kenickie fansite that I have been frequenting on-and-off for the past ten years of my life.
2. If there were no Kenickie, there would be no Laura Jane Faulds. Well, I guess there would be, but I have no idea who the Helen Keller she'd be. Just a boring loser normie, I guess, and totally not even scrappy at all. Ew! Can you imagine? I can't. What I mean to say is that 90% of my entire personality/aesthetic/identity is based upon the fact that I watched this performance of "PVC" at the 1997 (or possibly 1998) Reading Festival when I was twelve years old:
3. Kenickie are the coolest band of all time. Please bear in mind that I am in no way claiming that Kenickie were the the best band of all time; they certainly weren't, although they were the third-best band of the nineties. By the way, if you can guess my number one and two bands of the nineties, you win a free burned copy of Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School.
4. Kenickie are the perfect band for 13-year-old girls, which obviously adds to their coolness. If you happened to be born female sometime between the years 1982 and 1987 and didn't listen to Kenickie during your awkward phase, oh God, you really, really missed out, because being obsessed with Kenickie during adolescence was SO FUN.
5. They are also the scrappiest band of all time. This is confirmed by the following quote from Kenickie bassist Emmy-Kate Montrose:
"I was saying to Marie, it doesn't matter how much money we get, we'll always be attracted to things that are spangly and shiny, and I'll always look like I've just fallen over."
Without even knowing it, Emmy-Kate just defined the entire concept of scrappiness as championed by the Laura Jane School of Thought. One of the scrappiest things a person can possibly do is live in oblivion to your own scrappiness. Personally, I'm kind of lame for being so self-conscious about my scrappiness. Kenickie would hate me.
6. Emmy-Kate Montrose had a mouse named John Lennon.
7. Courtney Love says you should, and you should always listen to Courtney Love:
"They're a big bunch of sex, that band Kenickie. They're a big, raw-boned bunch of fucking sex - all three of them and the boy. I hope they get good. I hope we're a good example to them, I hope this record's huge and then the big labels will start sniffing around and then those big fucking raw-boned sexy Newcastle girls will be huge and have Number Ones and there will be an Amazon planet the way I want it."
Word.
8. The lyrics to "Come Out 2Nite" from Kenickie's debut full-length, At the Club, read as follows:
We dress cheap/ We dress tacky/ We dance for thrills/ Our night out is getting nasty
She drank all that we had/And she threw up and I was glad/I laughed
Time goes slow in the dark/ We're getting drunk in the park/ We've got our gang and
I know we'll always be friends/ And get chatted up by the lads
Bombing down the street is a laugh/I'm glad
Take what you can/ Eat off the man/ WEAR HIGH HEELS/ AND GET A RECORD DEAL
9. Not only are they cool, scrappy, and adolescent-friendly, but their songs are wicked catchy, as you will now learn from watching this video for "In Your Car" (from At the Club again; their second album, Get In, is sadly kind of not that great).
10. Well, you're obviously just sitting around checking the Internet right now, so you might as well.
Tags: Courtney Love, guess Laura Jane's favorite bands of the nineties sweepstakes, Kenickie, perma-adolescence, punk rock, scrappiness
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i have NO IDEA what your top two nineties bands are. fortunately i already have a copy of 'ww/hgls,' but this still troubles me. i guess we don't actually know anything about each other's musical tastes at all, laura.
and i'm happy 'cause when i saw the courtney love tag i was sure there would be some wildly anti-courtney copy ahead - but there wasn't! wow; what a beautiful day.
By Liz
on June 30, 2008 9:17 PM
Blur and Elastica?
By Jackson on July 1, 2008 12:19 PM
Yes! My favorite pen pal when I was like 14 years old put "In Your Car" on one of a series of mix tapes she made me, which totally shaped my musical taste and aesthetic for years! The saddest thing is that I loaned that tape to some dumb friend 5 years later, and now it's lost forever... boo hoo. Anyway, that wasn't my favorite song on the tape, but it was such a fun one to sing along with. Thanks!
By elsie on July 1, 2008 7:52 PM
Whoa! Jackson! You totally win.
By Laura
on July 4, 2008 1:14 PM
Please send WW/HGLS CDR to
5540 4e Av�nue
Montr�al, PQ
H1Y 2V6
Don't flake! My computer is broken, so I need others to steal music for me.
By Jackson MacIntosh on July 7, 2008 1:57 PM
Yes! That album is all that is right and correct about pop music.
I assume by third best, you are ranking them behind 2.Pulp and 1.Blur?
By Alex Paradise on May 18, 2010 10:00 AM