MARIONEXXES – Indie Secret Admirer CD-R
Marionexxes
Indie Secret Admirer – Exclusive Promo: The Cabaret Rehearsal CD-R
(Self-Release)
A guy with an electric guitar recorded in a bedroom somewhere. This reminds me of a tape I found lying beside the road near my house many years ago. In it, a guy played guitar and sung in his bedroom, doing well-known Scorpions ballads, some terrible original tunes and basically goofing off in private. Pretty charming stuff to listen to but immediately disposable, not to be foisted upon the public at all cost (unless you are some sort of superhero singer-songwriter with names such as Nick Drake or Billy Bragg).
And so here I am listening to a CD-R which I think should have never been out of the owner’s bedroom. let alone calling it “Exclusive Promo” and sold for RM5/USD2. There are 5 tunes, badly recorded, all distorted indie/pop-punk/grunge, not very well played nor sung. However, the songs do have potential to be rendered with a full band but I’m not vouching that they’ll be good though. The second song (Indie Secret Admirer) is alright, mid-tempo pop-punk in low-fi mega-reverbed home-studio setting. The rest are tired and tiring.
Years back when I was doing the Blasting Concept column, there was a new and totally unknown band from Melaka (or is it Seremban) who sent me a fanzine about nothing BUT themselves. There was not much writing in it but loadsa pictures of the band members in various rock star poses. You know what? It was 8xA5 pages, badly photostated and they were selling this “zine” for RM7! And tragically, it was not a joke nor an art statement.
Yes Jim, people are strange.
marionexxes@myspace
(and he has 2484 friends, very the rajin one)
Forgot to mention to you bro Joe this stuff is not in proper record. It is was the very-very “rabak” raw material when i did the songs. Have you seen the artwork backside of that cover? It is a man posting with the ‘SAMPAH’ murale caught somewher in Petaling Jaya building. Haha i don’t mind if the people will boo on this stuff because my bandmates actually don’t play their part for this rehearsal. So they’re still dunno where am i in that recorded?.
But okay to said everybody will never satisfied if this is the what the people expect for the RM5 artwork. Dunno why just to get to give away to you the fotostated version one. Oh that days the ink colour from my printer is out thats why I just use the low quality black-white printer. Haha. This is what totally punk am i? Don’t laugh at me. Haha.
It is suppose to be i put all the olds RABAK material in that CDs but my friend told me it is okay to make people blame what we are into than what we are sound like first. Is it true? Dunno lah that idea come from my good friend. He say this is strategy man. He influence me to do this. I’m just follow him. Haha. Make me bad.
What if we are out of tempo we suppose to play? That is not sound like original CABARET genre influence who am i into. It is okay for me for the rebirth of my band. I agree with your GREAT EXPECTATION on us.
Well hope can do it better. Haha. Keep it strong bro Joe.
Bro Joe, come lets try to ride BMX. It is very fun man.
cheers,
pikorionexxes
this is rare band, haha rojak Engrish songs