Burning Sensation

Professional angry-man, pedant, and all round great guy, Doug Thailes, writes in with the latest from the Perth scene, Burning Sensation:

There are some bands that are born great. There are some bands that have greatness thrust upon them. There are some bands that have thrust their great erections into thrush-ridden, syphilitic rotting vaginas, emerging with fetid, flaccid, diseased genitals and a fistful of pure songwriting gold. This is not Burning Sensation. Sure, they fu**ed the aforementioned syphlitic, rotting vaginas (amongst other organs and genders), but they emerged with a fistful of disturbed, purely wrong compositions that raise as many questions as they do eyebrows.

Burning Sensation are from Perth. Their songs are short and sharp, ripping chunks of musical flesh alternatively from 70s/80s UK punk bands like Conflict, Wire and Buzzcocks, and 70s/80s LA/US dumb punk freaks like The Angry Samoans and The Misfits. Their obvious lack of style, instrumental finesse and subtlety puts them in the same lineage as countless punk morons and hardcore flailers. What sets them apart? It’s hard to say really. Only writing songs about STD’s? Being WORSE? I don’t know, and I suspect neither do they. In these times of faceless indie pu##ies crapping out immaculately produced Pro-tools snoozefests, ‘punk’ bands churning out well-written, instrumentally complex epics with multiple time-changes and EVERYBODY having enough Photoshop skills to make hideous coffee-table-yuppie-design-magazine cover art, sometimes I just want to hear something that purely SUCKS with a vengeance. And this sh** fu**ing BLOWS.

Burning Sensation play at 6pm, at 208 Whatley Crs in Maylands on Saturday the 20th of January with Straightjacket Nation, Extortion, Sex Panther, 9 Must Die and Cease. $5.

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Posted in Flatbeat on Friday January 12, 2007.