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Select - Swastika Eyes ReviewSINGLE OF THE MONTHPRIMAL SCREAM Swastika Eyes CREATION Bringing together General Sir Mike Jackson of NATO's Kosovo taskforce and Michael Jackson, King Of Pop, here Bobby 6 condemns the demonic military industrial complex over a four to-the-floor dance track. Sounding like a vigorous three-way splice of The Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive', The Chemical Brothers' 'Out Of Control' and The Clash's 'Know Your Rights', this is the opiated moods of 'vanishing Point' awakened by a good bitch-slapping and a bucket of icy water More remarkably, it manages to encompass lines like "Government thieves... psyhic amputees" and still sounds as immediate and enticing as Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1984 gay disco nuclear war hit 'Two Tribes' Alongside the A-side we have, first The Chemical Brothers knocking up an elongated mix to delight the Gatecrasher nation, while Spectre's grimy overhaul gives the nod to New Order. The equivalent of a band riding onto a floodlit stage on big motorbikes, it also shows how the Scream may forget their own names, but they'll never forget those crazy acid days of '88 "IT'S ABOUT NATO, THE WORLD BANK OR THE IMF" Bobby G orders the powers that be to get In line - or da'Scream be on their asses. Some artwork by Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid has the Queen with swastikas for eyes Any connection with your single? "I've never seen that It came into my head last year I thought it was a great image and a great insult." Is the single spedifically anti-NATO? "It could be any authoritarian figure or organisa tion, whether it's NATO, the World Bank or the IMF. We've no time for that CNN view of the world we're saying we don't fall for that propaganda and we oppose it. I don't walk around all day thinking about it, but I think rock'n'roll should be wide open for people to say what they want It's pop art We've made a pop record." Despite the lyrical imagery, it is quite accessible.. "Totally accessible But there was no reason other than it just happened, honestly we really wanted a Giorgio Moroder feel, like 'I Feel Love' meets New Order Dead pop but with a bit of darkness in there, like Cabaret voltaire." Originally Appeared in Select Dec, 1997. Copyright © Select. Back |
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