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v.intr.
1. Music To strum idly on a stringed instrument.
2. To speak in a monotonous tone of voice; drone.
The dictionary definition of Thrum could not be further from the truth when describing the Scottish band of the same name. They certainly didn't strum idly on their guitars and singer Monica Queen's voice could never be described as monotonous. In fact it's hard to believe that the soaring vocals actually come from someone so small in stature. I have read Thrum's sound described thus ' imagine a band with Tammy Wynette on vocals and Neil Young on guitar' * and 'Sonic Youth meets KD Lang' **. I think that sums the band up pretty well. Formed in Lanarkshire in the early 90's the band had a relatively short career which spawned just the one album and a few singles but the band are very much an important part of the Scottish music history. monica and guitarist Johnny Smillie have gone on to release two albums under the name 'Monica Queen'.
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Listen to Thrum's 'Rifferama' album -
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Thrum on MySpace -
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Sonic Youth's new album 'The Eternal' is released on Matador Records on June 9th. As a taster of what's to come the band are giving away a free mp3 of the album's lead track featuring Kim Gordon on vocals.
This track is taken from a Fence Records sampler called 'Fence Go Fishin' - Fence Sampler #2'. Released in 1999 or 2000, I can't find an exact date. The cd-r contained tracks by Lone Pigeon, King Creosote, Pip Dylan, Bummi Bako and Mundo Jazz amongst others. I bought the album direct from Fence in August 2002 via the website. Well in fact I didn't buy the album at all. What actually happened was I ordered the very first Fence sampler, Who's Afraid Of Fence? which was also released as a cd-r. The kind people at Fence generously added 8 tracks from the 2nd sampler on at the end. The e-mail I recieved confirming that my purchase(s) had been posted out that day said 'sampler #1 - plus the best of sampler #2 (now deleted) has been posted out today first class! Thankfully, the music outshines the artwork!!'. Not many record companies are that honest or generous. The honesty theme continues to this day on the website with this description of 'Fence Go Fishin'. 'The Fence sampler that time forgot. Some gems, some guff'. Brilliant stuff .
When it's a quiet day at work we often do quizzes among st the department staff usually on the theme of music or films. Quite often you will be sitting minding your own business when someone will challenge you to name 10 songs with blue in the title or 10 songs with a mode of transport in the title. Taking it a step further I'll be doing a regular (ish) theme day on here and this is the first in the series. As it's nearly the weekend and a lot of people will be looking forward to a few days of sport here is 10 songs with a sporting theme in the title.
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