Wobble was one of the original members or John Lydon's post Sex Pistols band Public Image Limited, a band that almost deliberately set out to be as abrasive as possible. He didn't stay in the band very long, and Lydon has some choice words to say about how it all ended, but they appear to have mended fences since then. In the late 80s, he formed Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart, and in 1994 they released the song Take Me To God, an eclectic collection of songs that features today's song, Becoming More Like God - and the dreamlike voice of Anneli Drecker. I remember hearing this for the first time a little later, after I started working at Studentradioen i Bergen, but this song may even have hit me harder than Shimmering, Warm, and Bright had a couple of years earlier. Wobble's bass lines drives this song forward, and while the lead vocals on the verses might not be much to write home about, Drecker's vocals on the chorus certainly are.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
November 29 - Becoming More Like God
After drawing some serious attention to herself as the voice of Bel Canto, Anneli Drecker got some very interesting offers to join forces with other musicians, and luckily she took advantage of some of them. The first of the two collaborations she did that I will play for you to round out November was with Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart. John Wardle was one of the four Johns in Johnny Rotten's circle of friends - he writes a lot about the other three in his autobiographic books (that are well worth reading). The other three Johns were John Lydon - or Johnny Rotten, John Ritchie - better known as Sid Vicious, and John Grey, Legend has it that Sid Vicious was the one who in a pretty drunken stupor pronounced Wardle's name wrong, and thus Jah Wobble was born.
Wobble was one of the original members or John Lydon's post Sex Pistols band Public Image Limited, a band that almost deliberately set out to be as abrasive as possible. He didn't stay in the band very long, and Lydon has some choice words to say about how it all ended, but they appear to have mended fences since then. In the late 80s, he formed Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart, and in 1994 they released the song Take Me To God, an eclectic collection of songs that features today's song, Becoming More Like God - and the dreamlike voice of Anneli Drecker. I remember hearing this for the first time a little later, after I started working at Studentradioen i Bergen, but this song may even have hit me harder than Shimmering, Warm, and Bright had a couple of years earlier. Wobble's bass lines drives this song forward, and while the lead vocals on the verses might not be much to write home about, Drecker's vocals on the chorus certainly are.
Wobble was one of the original members or John Lydon's post Sex Pistols band Public Image Limited, a band that almost deliberately set out to be as abrasive as possible. He didn't stay in the band very long, and Lydon has some choice words to say about how it all ended, but they appear to have mended fences since then. In the late 80s, he formed Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart, and in 1994 they released the song Take Me To God, an eclectic collection of songs that features today's song, Becoming More Like God - and the dreamlike voice of Anneli Drecker. I remember hearing this for the first time a little later, after I started working at Studentradioen i Bergen, but this song may even have hit me harder than Shimmering, Warm, and Bright had a couple of years earlier. Wobble's bass lines drives this song forward, and while the lead vocals on the verses might not be much to write home about, Drecker's vocals on the chorus certainly are.
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