The Shouty Track
Encyclopedia
"The Shouty Track" is a single from the Lemon Jelly
Lemon Jelly
Lemon Jelly is a British electronic music duo from London, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen. Lemon Jelly has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and BRIT Awards....

 album '64–'95.

It samples the track "Horror Show" by post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

/New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 band Scars
Scars (band)
Scars were a Post-punk band that hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's bustling music scene of the late 70s - early 80s.-History:...

.

As with the other tracks on '64–'95, "The Shouty Track" differs from their previous albums, Lemonjelly.KY
Lemonjelly.KY
Lemonjelly.ky is the debut album release by downtempo/trip-hop act Lemon Jelly. Released on 23 October 2000, it is a compilation release, as all nine tracks from this album originated on the duo's first three limited edition EPs: The Bath, The Yellow and The Midnight, although minor changes were...

and Lost Horizons
Lost Horizons
Lost Horizons is the second album release from Lemon Jelly, released in October 2002. The album produced two charting singles in the UK, "Space Walk" and "Nice Weather for Ducks". It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2003...

, displaying a heavier, darker sound.

Music video

The animated video for "The Shouty Track" consists of two cartoon-like characters being drawn by an unseen hand, who then begin to head-bang to the beat of the music. Other elements include rapid montages of images related to the headbangers' lives such as barbecue and getting tattoos, but foremost, gratuitous violence - notably both the perpetrators and victims remain mostly unfazed by the punches exchanged.

The video is included on the DVD release of '64–'95, along with animated videos for the other tracks.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK