An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming: Big Black Ley Line

An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming: Big Black Ley Line

The album is in many ways the ultimate teen fuck off. Big Black were rocket guitar fuelled inyerface blankness in a time when Ecstacy was creeping around the edges and everyone was finding love in amongst the trees. It was a matter of honour that you played this album as loud as possible (peversely, it's mastered about 10% quieter than almost every album I own) and that you used it as some kind of log-jam between your inevitably (in Somserset) emerging hippie tendencies. Get some hippies round, start them rolling with some mushrooms and the (for us) newly discovered mysteries of early Pink Floyd and Gong and then, at the peak of the flash, whack on Throbbing Gristle or Big Black to give everyone the fear.

I missed the ecstacy - but I didn't miss Big Black...
go listen to "The Power of Independent Trucking" (available to d/l if you just follow the link) really loud and pretend your pissing off your parents...