MYSTERY SLANG: Venus Grove CD 1991 RARE Morrison (The Doors) type of vocals. For fans of Tom Waits, Nick Cave. Check whole album, all songs and video

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Mystery Slang – I’m Mad At You
Mystery Slang’s version of the John Lee Hooker number, I’m Mad At You. One-time MTV video of the month, produced by Gina Birch (The Raincoats).
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MYSTERY SLANG: Venus Grove [Latif Gardez, the force at the centre of Mystery Slang roars like Morrison after the Paris bathtub incident. File under illustrious Nick Cave Impressionist (Paul Lester, Melody Maker)]

Weirdness sells on a good day and this year it will be courtesy of Mystery Slang, a man with a vision hatched in a booze bottle and given flight in a lot of bad dreams. This debut album will shift units, comprising a number of narratives set in Gardez’ West London stomping grounds, it begins with ‘I’m mad at you’, a head on collision between Robbie Robertson and Iggy Pop, but the overview demands a comparison to Nick Cave. Listening to Venus Grove sheds more light on things, revealing someone with one ear tuned in to Tom Waits’ electric blues, the other to The Doors and dayglo rock. The strength of this debut is the uncluttered spaciousness of the arrangements, giving the spoken narrative lyrics ample room to swirl around a repetitive riff and loose, jazzy chords, or to ride a swelling Hammond wave over a crisp, bluesy guitar.It’s a collection of instantly appealing and powerfully compelling songs. (Paul Henderson, Q Magazine)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mKXPpRGJ9stDJeCM4kVcyb8CTr46Q1PIc&feature=gws_kp_artist

1 They All Ran Like Numbers 4:59
2 Seven in a Ditch 4:05
3 Eddie’s Dance 4:39
4 I’m Mad at You 5:19 [John Lee Hooker cover]
5 Along the Midway 4:07
6 Blind Joe 4:16
7 The Dark Archer 4:21
8 Billy Hit the Ten Ball 3:48
9 Babel Towers 6:09
10 The Golden Cross 4:01