The latest releases from the Licorice Tree imprint are two 7” items. Thee Fine Lines “Looking Everywhere” EP goes round at 33? and finds the Springfield, Mo. trio in typically rough house shape. All four songs are well up to scratch in that righteously primitive vein that you folks tend to lap up.
Thee Shams “Gotta Be Something” on the other hand is, as far as these ears can make out, not much of anything at all. Never to be confused with The Shams, this is yer distinctly average garage grade no-fi. Neither side did anything for me at all except wonder why Chad would put it out? There's a copy sitting here waiting to go to a good home at no cost to the foster parent.There goes another weekend...
3 comments:
I would have to disagree. I have listened to both and Thee Fine Lines are no match for Thee Shams. But I guess for some people, mediocrity outweighs true talent.
So are Thee Fine Lines mediocre then? I see no talent true or otherwise in Thee Shams disc, I never heard any of their other records so maybe this is a blip. Maybe our ideas of true talent are just different.
Could be. I just think there is no comparing the two, in the opposite way you compare them. What Thee Fine Lines are doing now, Thee Shams and Greenhornes did 5 years ago. To each his own.
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