Low Life From Squats To Lots: The Agony And Xtc Of Low Life

The Band: Low Life Are A Rock Band From Sydney, Australia. The Record: Low Life's 3rd Lp Is Called From Squats To Lots: The Agony And The Xtc Of Low Life. Notes On How To Listen To Agony And Xtc Of Low Life: 1. Some Records Hit You With An Instant Impression Of Timeless Brilliance, And Low Life's Dogging Is One Of Those Records, What The Wise Call "An Instant Classic". 2. From Squats To Lots: The Agony And The Xtc Of Low Life Is More Like Their Second Album Downer Edn (Read Edition), A Little More Withdrawn, A Little More Textured. Complex. Rich. Which Is To Say: You're Going To Need Some Time With It. 3. Some Show, Some Grow. Low Life Have Done Both. This One Is A Grower. Spend Some Time With This One. It's Got That Nuanced Flavour. Don't Guzzle. Sip. Savour. 4. Sip It, And Sense The Recurring Brilliance Of Mitch Tolman's Lyrics, Exploring The Usual Territory Of Gutter Life, Lad Life, Punk Life, Low Life. The Dirge. Disgust And Shame In White Australia. Council Housing, Bills Piled To The Neck, Substance Abuse And Rehabilitation, The Fallen Lads And Lasses Who Stood Too Close To The Flame, Loss And Loneliness, From Squats To Lots. Un-Australian Gutter Symphony. 5. There Is A Celebration Of Resilience And That's A Central Theme Of This Record And A Time Like Ours Needs A Record Like Agony & Xtc. Low Times Are Coming Through, But If You're Low They Won't Get To You. 6. Iggy Pop's Bowie Produced Studio Rock Masterpieces 'The Idiot' And 'Lust For Life' Are Important Reference Points To The 3rd Album Sounds Of Low Life. Here Comes Success! 7. 'The Agony And Ecstasy' Is A 1985 Novel By Irving Stone About The Life Of Italian Renaissance Painter Michelangelo. Stone Wrote Another Novel About The Single Eared Painter Vincent Van Gogh Called 'Lust For Life'. This Synchronicity Hit Me. 8. Iggy And The Stooges Are A Pretty Safe Reference For Low Life (And All Good Rock Music). Iggy And The Stooges Are A Low Life's Michelangelo, But Solo Iggy Like Lust For Life Is A Better Reference For This Particular Incarnatio...