Madonna is a corporate whore (EP), by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

Madonna is a corporate whore (EP)

by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

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This is an EP we recorded in 2007 at a cool studio call Ferme de la Justice. This was one of the earliest things we did as a band. It was fun!
Ahhhh! Good times!
Here's the story:
I had booked our first concert after about three rehearsals. I had previously played keyboards in a band called Tchiki Boum that practiced for a year before booking shows only to discover that playing live is the real test and is nothing like rehearsing and we’d wasted a year! I didn’t want to make the same mistakes with my new band. Tchiki Boum liked to scheme and plan. That didn’t really help so with Louis Lingg and the Bombs and tried to go as far in the other direction as I could and see if things held together! Take big chances and let the chips fall where they may!

Jerome had to leave the band to move so we needed a new drummer. Ben brought his friend, Nico, into the band to play drums. Nico laughed a lot and understood that we were flying blind a little bit and played the game! Good guy! I asked Clem Fresh (aka Clem Phlegm) to play keyboards. Clem was from a band I produced called Foxglove. They were an excellent band. Clem had a great taste in music and a good record collection so she was an obvious choice.
I brought my friend Laurent (aka Rudi Pourri) in on bass. He was and is as crazy as I was and also formed a franco-brazilian indie band called Udigrudi in which I played bass. A sacred pact was formed! We really were partners in crime! We had very different musical tastes but shared a certain idea of sticking out and doing things differently.

Our sound drifted away from pop-punk toward garage punk rock, (don’t resist the way the wind blows man! Just let things happen!) and we started playing concerts pretty much straight away. I can’t really remember our first gigs but we had no time so obviously you can imagine that perfectionism wasn’t high on the list of priorities! I also believed in keeping the stage shows unpredictable and crazy (and I still do). Luckily the band and the audiences were very nice about it! If you remember our first concerts, tell me what they were! Thanks! I suspect one of them was a party for the mexican Day of the Dead at Mexico House at the International University in Paris. Sounds crazy and I’m pretty sure that it was complete craziness. We might have played with Udigrudi and Laura E (aka Laura Llorens) but we may have played there twice so I might be mixing up gigs!

So I felt that the band needed to record 3 of our new songs so we booked a session to record without being fully ready. Our second record was recorded at the Ferme De La Justice, a recording studio that I had worked at producing records for NMA and Kings of Conspiracy. I absolutely loved that place. It doesn’t exist anymore but it was an amazing place. Built in half of an old farm building south of Paris. It was cobbled together with found, recycled and stolen equipment. It was filled up with nick nacks, obscure crackly equipment and old records. Jean Phi Bionaz built it and used his job on the flea markets of Paris to find really cool little details for the studio. It was all faded 70s wallpaper, nicotine stains and old 60s multicoloured toys everywhere. Awesome. Jean Phi was one of the real characters of the paris scene at that time and inspired a lot of people and went on to create one of the best french festivals, La Ferme Electrique. His hair stood up high on his head and he had cool sideburns. He also played in the post punk band Tue Pogo e64 which were completely bonkers live. Anyway, I loved that place and still love all those people. Those people from the Ferme de la Justice showed me that France was and is a great place for music! It’s just that good music and knowledgeable music fans like those guys are pushed so far to the edge of society that they’re almost invisible to many people.
In between listening to old vinyl records of french punk bands, we recorded Chomsky Changed My Life, Goofy’s Concern, We Kiss We Kiss and Madonna is a corporate whore which is basically a rip off of an old Madonna new wave song. Madonna was pissing me off at the time. I was a big fan of Madonna’s music but she kept on being a very annoying fake revolutionary in public. Yeah, I took that personally! Anyway, it made me laugh!
We recorded the songs live and played some overdubs and then I then went home with files to mix. The sounds were more scrappy and tinny than the previous record. Very difficult to mix with the half broken old computers of the time but it kind of works within the context of the garage rock vibe we were in at the time. You can hear that the songs have good ideas! That record was thrown off a few sites because its cover offended people. Here we were in 2007 and people were offended enough by blasphemous imagery that they complained and got us banned from some download sites. Crazy!
The cover was done by my friend Doris Lanzmann who went on to make the films Furry/Furie and Royan La Rage that both used our music. She formed a pretty cool electro band a year after called Mister Hyde.

Nico on Drums
Ben and Josh on Guitars
Rudi Pourri on Bass
Clem Fresh on Keyboards

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released January 5, 2008

Front cover by Doris Lanzman
Recorded by: Jean-Phillippe Bionaz and Joshua Hudes
Mixed by Joshua Hudes

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Louis Lingg and the Bombs Paris, France

Louis Lingg and the Bombs are goddamn punk-rock-garage-electro-big beat-pop-anarcho saviours of the 2 and half minute pop song. The bombs they throw are musical, they come from Paris (they could only come from Paris!) and they'll grab you and demand your instant attention.
Their sound is a mix of ultra-political anarchic punk rock and fizzing children's nursery rhyme riot-pop. Formed in 2006!!!! ... more

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