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Yes, Medicine were really good actually, although My Bloody Valentine could have sued them for copyright reasons. Mastermind Brad Laner was obviously a huge fan (or maybe heīd never heard of them and just had the same influences and the same ideas, but thatīs pretty unlikely), and managed to write records which often came very close to the blueprint MBV had set. The first single "Aruca" is pretty amazing, the first twenty seconds or so sounding like a hurricane going off in your room (if you want to piss your friends off, take the CD to their place, put it in the CD-player and theyīll think itīs broken. Iīve tried it, it works). The album that followed "Shot Forth Self Living" was very good as well, although it didnīt really fulfill all the expectations. |
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Their biggest "hit" was probably "Time Baby IV" which appeared on the "Crow" soundtrack, although the original version "Time Baby III", which was a b-side to the "5ive" single, is far better.
Their second album (which was delayed for a bit, cos the big earthquake in LA destroyed most of the master tapes) was better than the debut, maybe also because at the time it was released the wait for the new MBV album was already getting too long, so a dose of something pretty close was most welcome.
They released another album and a mini-album and then split, Brad Laner is still blowing speakers with various projects.
about Aruca, MM August 1992: "Maybe, as one enterprising freelancer suggests this week, Creation really have taken up genetic engineering. Who cares, when the end result is so fine?"
MM, August 1992: "Kevin Shields should be worried, very worried."
about the 5ive EP, MM February 1993: "Must get this stylus changed. Hang on, this is a CD. Stap me, now thatīs what I call distortion.
Brad Lander, MM August 1992: "Weīre perfectionists, obsessed with sounds and textures. We pay extreme attention to detail, to getting everything right. And what we want to get right is mixing extremely melodic tunes with extremely brutal sounds. We want to write the perfect pop song, but we also want to come up with the most outrageours noises imaginable." (nice!)
