The John Peel sessions (2 of them) made around this time (before 'CUT') are absolute punk classics and the precursor to so many Punk genres. If you can find them you will understand how amazing they were, especially at this point in their career. Thank god for John Peel making an essential, quality Audio document of this era of The Slits 👋👋👋
Fantastic!! I don't know why it's often repeated that they could hardly play their instruments early on, to me it seems they could play very well, have their own style and they sound just great. Track 9 is Number One Enemy
Palmolive was the best, given time she could and should have been the new Keith Moon. Ari was a great feral vocalist. Tess came into her own later on with Cut as she was important in getting the funky world music sound. Viv was proably the least musically interesting of the four, basic street punk guitarist.
Anybody that's not into punk wouldn't know. Punks tend to play awfully on purpose thats the whole point about punk to not sound great to the listeners and critics punk is about the message and nothing more.
00:20 Vindictive (aka Let's Do The Splits) 01:51 Instant Hit 04:16 Vaseline 05:45 So Tough 07:45 New Town 11:35 Love And Romance 13:49 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground cover) 16:34 Shoplifting 18:05 Number One Enemy
There should have been a third Peel session with A Boring Life, No1 Enemy, Vaseline, Slime and Femme Fatale on it during Palmolive's time with the band.
Tape is playing fast. This probably sounds great at the correct speed I'm not slagging the Slits, I'm a fan and I know what pitch/tempo these songs generally were. It's a common problem with punk-era bootlegs (Banshees, Ants etc) as bootleggers tried to cram material onto a single master.
@@77netty check out the playlist I posted elsewhere in these comments and use it to "tune" this recording so that the pitches match on the songs so as to get the right speed.
00:20 Vindictive (aka Let's Do The Splits) 01:51 Instant Hit 04:16 Vaseline 05:45 So Tough 07:45 New Town 11:35 Love And Romance 13:49 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground cover) 16:34 Shoplifting 18:05 Number One Enemy
The John Peel sessions (2 of them) made around this time (before 'CUT') are absolute punk classics and the precursor to so many Punk genres. If you can find them you will understand how amazing they were, especially at this point in their career. Thank god for John Peel making an essential, quality Audio document of this era of The Slits 👋👋👋
This is brilliant ! I'm so lucky to have the Slits on my playlist while so many Don't & wont because it's too darn gooood!
Fantastic!! I don't know why it's often repeated that they could hardly play their instruments early on, to me it seems they could play very well, have their own style and they sound just great. Track 9 is Number One Enemy
Palmolive was the best, given time she could and should have been the new Keith Moon. Ari was a great feral vocalist. Tess came into her own later on with Cut as she was important in getting the funky world music sound. Viv was proably the least musically interesting of the four, basic street punk guitarist.
But yeah, you're right, the usual muso sexism.
Anybody that's not into punk wouldn't know. Punks tend to play awfully on purpose thats the whole point about punk to not sound great to the listeners and critics punk is about the message and nothing more.
Quelle trouvaille! une vraie bombass! trop merci!
Wow even a rough show sounds awesome from them! Long live the slits!!!
00:20 Vindictive (aka Let's Do The Splits)
01:51 Instant Hit
04:16 Vaseline
05:45 So Tough
07:45 New Town
11:35 Love And Romance
13:49 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground cover)
16:34 Shoplifting
18:05 Number One Enemy
There should have been a third Peel session with A Boring Life, No1 Enemy, Vaseline, Slime and Femme Fatale on it during Palmolive's time with the band.
Never heard this session before, pure unadulterated punk rock in the raw.
what raw energy - so different by the time they got to Cut. Track 3 = Vaseline
the throbbing gristle gig story never gets a mention - ....well well
Tape is playing fast. This probably sounds great at the correct speed I'm not slagging the Slits, I'm a fan and I know what pitch/tempo these songs generally were. It's a common problem with punk-era bootlegs (Banshees, Ants etc) as bootleggers tried to cram material onto a single master.
I wonder if i can slow it down??
I thought that.
@@77netty check out the playlist I posted elsewhere in these comments and use it to "tune" this recording so that the pitches match on the songs so as to get the right speed.
COOL‼️
The only genuine punk band.
Thank you, 77netty ♪♪♪♪
Damn. : )
THE SLITS WITH PALMOLIVE COMPLETE (AFAIK):
ua-cam.com/play/PL26V-Mm9m7oAXWbkvD_9cLg0iBDpAQZvL.html
What is the set list please? Ta
00:20 Vindictive (aka Let's Do The Splits)
01:51 Instant Hit
04:16 Vaseline
05:45 So Tough
07:45 New Town
11:35 Love And Romance
13:49 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground cover)
16:34 Shoplifting
18:05 Number One Enemy
Sound like little children
That was the idea.
Feral gang of girls in the playground that kick the nice girls' heads in.
although the tape playing fast does accentuate this. Ari's speaking and singing voices were deeper and bassier than this at correct sound.