David Thrussell’s 1997 opus Buy Me… I’ll Change Your Life goes under the microscope for this month’s We Have A Commentary podcast, made possible by our Patreon backers! Snog’s staunchly anti-capitalist, anti-corporate ethos was blended with a melange of folk, pop, and country sounds. How have Thrussell’s screeds aged on the other side of 9/11 and Trump? Can we ever have too much nihilism? How does Lee Hazlewood translate into a post-industrial context? We’re pulling no punches with this one, folks! Don’t forget to rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or download directly or stream from Spotify or the widget down below.
Actually, as a Snog fan from the beginning the style change on this album wasn’t a surprise at all. Thrussell and Bourke had been dabbling with spaghetti western electronica for some time with their Soma project. ‘Buy Me…’ felt like them incorporating Soma elements into Snog.