DNRC025 | LP | 2003 | DELETED
It’s sometimes easy to forget (and hard to believe, not to mention impossible to not remember) that merely three years ago The Various Journals did not exist; that indy-dorks with their earthtone clothes and hi-fi equipment could wander into their local record shop and say to the knobhead sitting behind the counter: ‘Has that Various Journals 10″ arrived from Japan yet?” and still receive a ‘What the fuck?’ response; that morons in distant lands could pretend to put out albums under “The Various …” moniker and still get “fans” to believe it; that anyone would ever decide what records to buy based on the self-satisfied reviews of a bunch of twats at the NME; that home taping is killing music (just ask Sonic Youth); that so much hot air is expelled over the still-twitching corpse of independent music; that digital downloading is just the next step in the liberation of music from meaning; that Various Journals, upon their inception, were forced by DNRC to change their name to The Various Journals in order to avoid being confused with the collective descriptor of various journals in the publishing world; that, upon agreeing to afore-mentioned name change, The Various Journals would then stick two fingers in the anus of their recording company by naming their debut album “Various Journals; that said album would indeed sound like two fingers being stuck up the anus; that “fans” of this degenerate band would still queue for miles outside the one record shop where “Various Journals” was stocked (Krowe Records, Tribesco) and then trash the joint when they discovered the manager had gone on holidays; and that after going to all this trouble, The Various Journals would split up and promptly disappear with their advance and the master tapes in tow. Still, good riddance, I say.
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