Video Nasties - Jellybean
"Video Nasty" was a catch-all term in the early '80s for those gorey, low-budget horror flicks that were thought to be too extreme for unsupervised viewing in the days when VHS and Betamax were first battling it out for supremacy in our homes. The idea of having such bloodfests within the home was too much for clean-up campaigners who led the charge for a change in the law (until then videos needed no certificate) effectively banning such stuff.
Remember Cannibal Holocaust? Cannibal Apocalypse? I Spit On Your Grave? Driller Killer? No? Well, this five-piece from London probably don’t either, given they were all born at the tail-end of that decade, but they’ve appropriated the phrase and turned it into one of the best British band names for a long time. While the title of new single Jellybean, taken from their forthcoming debut album On All Fours, isn’t quite in the same vein as, say, SS Experiment Camp or Prisoner Of The Cannibal God (what is it about cannibals?), musically it’s certainly a lot chunkier and meatier and gruesome than the majority of British ‘indie’ bands around at the moment.
And that’s precisely the point – when stripped back, this could almost be an early Strokes song, but, inspired by punk and hardcore bands of old, they fuzz and scuzz it up enough and inject it with a ferocious energy that elevates it above the whirlpool of mediocrity that so many of their peers seem to revel (and drown) in. Luckily, too, there’s little chance of these Video Nasties being banned.
[Hear Jellybean by Video Nasties here]
12:29 PM | 11/03/2009
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Really liked this tune. Spot on with comparing it to the early strokes stuff. Hope to hear more from this band.
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