Daisy Chainsaw
I vaguely remember reading an article in a music magazine (could it have been Spin?) about Daisy Chainsaw back in the early nineties. I was perhaps fourteen, fifteen years old? I remember finding the name quite amusing and my curiosity being sparked. It wasn't until I heard the name again, this time mentioned by the character of Darlene (played by Sara Gilbert) on the popular sitcom Roseanne (her character wanted to go see them play live, much to the objection of Dan and Roseanne!), that I actually went out and got the album. Looking at the cover art today, I wonder why I found it so cool back then (well, it was colorful and strange!). This band went on to have as much importance in my teenage years as Pixies and Sonic Youth did. I loved this record. Unfortunately, none of my friends seemed to be interested, no matter how much I tried to shove it in their faces. Back then you had the big six where I came from: Sonic Youth, The Smiths, The Cure, Pixies, Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, if you didn't listen to these guys you were just not a part of the gang! Anything else was somewhat disregarded and became an individual thing. I had Daisy Chainsaw, no one else but me listened to them, they were mine, my own not-so-guilty pleasure. Unfortunately, they remained a UK thing and never made the list on my side of the ocean, which really surprises me come to think of it.
They had all that was needed to make it big! Nirvana were slowly paving the way for this sort of music; it was strange, had the proper teen-angst imagery and the music was completely addictive! So why didn't it succeed more in America? God only knows. Perhaps they were a tad bit too experimental in their pop aesthetics? Or their stage persona a bit too gothic (but The Cure's reputation seems to have remained unharmed)? Their music eventually faded out of my life as the years went by and I had gone on to more obscure and avant-garde music. But I never completely forgot them and only recently did I feel the (nostalgic?) urge to hear them once again so I ordered the CD, which I thought would have been out-of-print today (it is somewhat difficult to find). Katie Jane Garside went on to form Queen Adreena, a group I also enjoy very much, but it took me a while before I found out the two were related. This is the third time I purchase this album in my lifetime, hopefully I'll understand how much they've meant to me and hold on to it this time!
EleventeenLabel: Deva Records/One Little Indian Records Release: 1992 Format: CD Cat. no: TPLP100CD |
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