SOUNDTRACK: ROCKET 00000-What Women Want (2010).
This is the second band that I have discovered because of this novel. I was looking for images to paste in last week’s post for Rocket 00000, and I came across this EP.
Rocket 00000 are a trio from Cincinnati and this is their first (and only) release. It’s got a kind of 80s punk vibe–I can’t really make out the words, but I like the feel.
There’s something very raw and almost amateurish about the record–but that seems deliberate, because the album sounds very professional–it’s recorded well and the band is very tight. And since I like the bandcamp site quite alot, I’m going to provide the link with extras here so you can listen to the album, too.
There’s four songs–two are 5 minutes and two are around 3 minutes. The two longer ones have intros and outros that extend the music to those long (for punk songs) times. And I really like these instrumental sections. In fact, when I first listened, I thought maybe the whole first track was an instrumental. Since I liked the tone of the album I was okay with that.
The “Summer City” part of “Summer City/Conspiracy Theory” has a simple but effective guitar solo as an instrumental. After about a minute and a half “Conspiracy Theory” kicks in, the vocals bring a new texture and a punk element into the song. “Lethal Weapon 2 & 4” has a great title, but it doesn’t sound all that different from the other songs (although the lyrics, “We’re not perfect…but neither are you” are pretty clear).
“Signs” has some cool drum breaks and fills, and the end of the song is musically interesting. “Braveheart: Forever Young” probably combines the music and vocals best–I like the upbeat music with the dark words. The song ends with about 2 and a half minutes of instrumental (with interesting feedback) that works really well together.
It’s not the best punk EP, but it’s got some good qualities and the band has a good name. I wonder how they “say” it?
[READ: Week of April 2] Gravity’s Rainbow 3.11-3.15
After last week’s breezy read, I figured that this week’s would be a bit rougher. But for the most part, it wasn’t–aside from the very end which was a little hard to stomach. There was a lot of technical discussion in this section–which was a bit hard to comprehend. There was a also a return of Franz Pökler–where we learned his story and what happened to him. We assumed that he was killed by a police truncheon, but that turns out to be untrue. His story is pretty dark and sad. Sorry, as Marco points out below, it was Peter Sachsa who was killed by truncheon. My conspiracy has been called out!
Section 3.11 opens uncomfortably with Franz Pökler… copulating with Leni in an aggressive and rough manner. He has just come back from showing of Alpdrücken and imagines that it’s Margherita underneath him. He assumes that men all over the country are doing the same thing because of the movie. He calculates that it was that night that Ilse was conceived–they’d barely had sex around that time. This flashback brings us forward to the scene of Franz waiting for Ilse to return to Zwölfkinder—a kind of children’s fantasy playground which would prove to be a very significant location for them. (more…)
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