Sunday 12 February 2023

Jung Analysts – "The Wishing Balloons" (Hamster Records And Tapes – HAM 12)

Yukio Jung aka Terry Burrows, international best selling author and music expert...yes...EXPERT!....multi-instrumentalist and the like, so on and so on.
He being the only member of his 'group', Jung Analysts, he likes to chop things up  bruv......sorry, i'm writing this while watching The BRIT awards.I explain this away as 'just waiting for Match Of The Day'.Which, as Terry has creative connections with Leicester,is totally appropriate, as I'm salivating at the prospect of watching the highlights of  Leicester City stuffing pretentious wannabe's Tottenham Hotspur 4-1.A lot better than watching a constant stream of Pop school graduates and talent show runner-ups collecting awards for good behaviour as a small cog in the corporate entertainment machine.(Wet Leg excepted of course!) .....OMFG i'm just watching the most awful toe curling cringeworthy dance routine ever by some chubby but clubby 'out' knob'ead called Sam Smith(!?)acting all sexeh like,with a troupe of dancers clad in shiny PVC?...who ever the Fuck he(They) is or isn't...Fuck Me! Wot a Dick!......great relief...Match of the Day's just starting.....unbelievably The Foxes aren't on first????
I'd like to see some of these poor Dancers choreographing  moves to "Here's Lucifer' by Yukio Jung,which is probably as close as you can get to Dance music on Die or DIY? Lots of funky synth and funny noises with stops and changes of direction,slap bass with tongue in cheek clever clever lyrics,just to show us that, yes, he's really playing that bassoon. Alternative dance music,which means you can't dance to it I assume?The same way as 1980's Alternative Comedians weren't funny....the Jung Ones.
There are parts of this that I could imagine Paul Jung unleashing some blue eyed soul affront of,other parts needed David Sylvian to croon to.
It turns left, it turns right,it stops,and even goes backwards...I kid thee not.Future Disco.
The only thing that's wrong with all this is the tiresome 80's underground requirement of a Margaret Thatcher sample to portray her as some kind of special evil.You can't slag off Thatcher and remain a capitalist consumer,which even Crass were,They own their own commune,bought and paid for thanks to a mortgage arranged with a local bank!?,Which, in the grand definition of things in general makes them "Bourgeois".Whatever happened to Property is Theft?

Good to see the late Jackie Charlton mentioned in the track listing,which brings to mind a rather creepy single released by the deceased world cup winner about the good old days ooop north,sitting on granddad's knee, why aye Man! Thankfully there was no such thing as Pedophiles back then, nor Homosexuals,or them troublesome human rights......"Why Aye,it w'grate back then" slurs an obviously salivating Jackie.

Jackie Charton Says:
"Why Aye Man, it was sunday every day back then" said Jackie Charlton.He would have thought that this album was utter shite man.....but you'd know you were doing something wrong if it was any other way.

Tracklist:

A1 Here's Lucifer
A2 The Cocktail Party
A3 Hello, Dali!
A4 The Executive Toilet
A5 Punishment Is Art
A6 Some Loops
A7 Maggie's Apples
B1 Jackie Charlton Said…
B2 Youth Of A Nation In Heat
B3 Mathew
B4 In Calanda
B5 One Foot In The Greenhouse
B6 Max Pax Fiend
B7 Pluggin' For The Empire

7 comments:

dreams-dxt said...

thnx! they (he) had 2 tapes from the early 80s... any chance to have them somewhere around your kingdom? anyway... Don't Panic! just some Low Flying Norwegians who are searchin' for an analyst like mine!!! cheers...

Richie Muster said...

Nicely mate. Just done my laundry (which involves a half-mile walk each way to the launderette) so this will make a tasty Sunday avo treat as my aged back creaks and groans with the stress.

Jonny Zchivago said...

0 dreams..............No Low Flying Norwegians here.....but good name for a band i suggest.

Jonny Zchivago said...

@richie.....my nearest laundrette is 20 miles away...you're so civilised over there.Think of the effort as staving off dementia....exercise is the only prevention. Sudoku does nothing..proven fact. So you'll have an active mind but yer back will be fucked when you're really old. Its a choice.

_sto said...

ah thanks - makes me feel "young" again :-)! I came across mr.burrows via the burning brides with asmus tietchens, which was my cup of tea back then. still worth a listen. and it took me a while to realize, back then, that it is not "young analyst" ... well, I was jung and stupid :-)

Richie Muster said...

Does 64 class as old? My back's fucked anyway. And it's an uphill trawl to get there. Heigh ho. Still, it gets me out of the house.

Vaykorus said...

THANKS!!