Life Stinks - You'll Never Make ItPresent day San Francisco is a beautiful city but also a hyper active, tech grinding rat race. The money chase is on24 7, the rats hustling for tiny morsels of cheese, prayingfor the day when a big hunk o cheddar falls from the sky. Ifyouve lived in the city for a good while and are some creativetype or working Joe or Jane, you can be overwhelmedby it all. Life Stinkss second album Youll Never Make Itis a perfect portrait of that mind frame. Feelings

A large dose of electronic elements and an approach as influenced by their hometown of London as much as by West Africa

This fresh approach was extended on subsequent Villagers tours

After recording debut album 'The Return of the Durutti Column' with producer Martin Hannett in 1979

Considered an unprecedented magnum opus when it arrived on two records in May of 1966 (1997's Time out of Mind is actually only about a minute shorter)

which is part Jamaican and part Greek

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Ty reps for a good array of punk godheads too

Sonic Youth's second full-length LP 'Bad Moon Rising' was originally released on Homestead and Blast First in 1985

the band is credited with pioneering the DIY and lo-fi movements and influencing everyone from Sonic Youth and Neutral Milk Hotel to Daniel Johnston and Kurt Cobain (who asked the band to open some of the dates on Nirvana‰۪s In Utero tour

their singing now crystal clear

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