Friday, 18 October 2024

Two Little Axes

Tucked away in the bowels of Wednesday's post was a reference to a visit I paid to Flashback Records in London's fashionable Essex Road last weekend.

As well as the album by Hukwe Zawose that I featured then I also found two albums by Little Axe in the bargain bin. Based on the assumption that any album on On-U is worth risking £1 on I snapped them up.

The albums in question were "The Wolf That House Built" (1994) and "Hard Grind" (2002). Here is a track from each of them.

"Wake The Town" - Little Axe

"Tight Like That" - Little Axe

My original plan for the videos was to have two videos of songs about axe-wielding, Bob Marley's "Small Axe" representing the supporters and Baris Manco's "Nick The Chopper" the opponents. Baris duly delivered.

But I couldn't find any videos of Bob doing "Small Axe" so I tried looking for the Twinkle Brothers' "Axeman" instead. Again no luck but bizarrely YouTube's algorithm selected the second video below as the fifth best match. And who am I to argue with the algorithms.

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  1. A fine example of Tartan Shortbread music in that second video clip

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  3. Little Axe is lovely stuff. Tackhead as a blues band? No, something more than the sum of its players. Maybe YT should have suggested "Pass The Hatchet" by Roger & The Gypsies, or the Panther Burns version!

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    1. Not familiar with the Panther Burn version, will need to seek it out

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  4. I think Baris has made better music than that

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    1. 11 seconds was 10 seconds too much of that Alexander Brothers song

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    2. What a sad lack of respect for your cultural heritage

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  5. Little Axe has always been a favorite of mine since I first heard The Wolf that House Built. It may be their debut but it is always my #1. Your assumption that any On-U Sound release is worth at least £1 is definitely true, the weakest On-U is worth more than that by far.

    You might have shared Witchdoctor by Small Axe.

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  6. Really liked that first Little Axe track you played - must track down The Wolf That House Built if for no other reason than its fabulous title. I managed a full minute and a half of the Alexander Brothers - is there anywhere I can claim compensation for said suffering?

    You could have played Pink Floyd's Careful With That Exe, Eugene - it'd be interesting to see how CC rated that vis a vis the tartan shortbread music of the Alexander Brothers.

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