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I haven't yet gotten the Markley: A Group album, and I've kind of decided not to get the double LP on Sundazed of early jammage. Tell me otherwise.
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know how many WCPAEB guys played on Kim Fowley"s Love Is Alive and Well album, but THAT is a freaking classic. As a fan of Godz 2, dude, I am reasonably sure that you would like that record.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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Some good bands on it for a tribute lp.
― svend (svend), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link
"I Won't Hurt You" probably my fave cut.
that Sundazed comp of the earliest material is reeeealy spotty. for shure. don't even sweat that one, Ian -- ya ain't missin nothin. but the first two Reprise albs are definitely solid.
I've never heard "MArkley, An A Group" either! so who knows, maybe that's the keystone. or something.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 21 April 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
haven't heard markley but it's supposed to be soft jams.
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
wasnt there another lp after the markley lp, under another name, i forget
the wcpaeb story is so bizarre. its my favourite pop music story, sometimes
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
The one with their first album and extra material? It's not so bad. Yeah, it's a lot of covers (Dylan, Kinks) but they're done pretty well and early versions of some tracks that appear on the Reprise LPs, so I wouldn't dismiss it outright. Great liners, too. That said, I've only listened to it once and I've had it for a while now.
My fave songs by them (no order): "Smell of Incense", "Buddah" and "Here's Where You Belong". I've only heard Volume One, Part One and Volume Two, though, so I'm limited in my choices.
― Vic Funk, Friday, 21 April 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― 13thfloor, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― JS on da's computer for the damn weekend while he housesitsits yet doesn't want , Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
been kind of digging the first album lately. Favorite song is 'Will You Walk With Me'--it has this unearthly creepiness that perfectly sums up the mood around my neck of the woods in the last week or two...
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
(by first album, I mean Part One, the one with the cover of Zappa's Help I'm a Rock)
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
HEY EVERYBODY check out Markley, it is great stuff. Just don't expect super psychedelic rock, it's mellower.
― Gay for Johnny Moped (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Markley album: not too sure about my grasp of the lyrics, but a couple of songs seem positively deranged.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It's probably because of my knowledge of the weird unsavoury history of this band and Bob Markley in particular but the song "In the Country", superficially a fairly jolly number about escaping the pressures of city life, always strikes me as unsettlingly suggestive of the Manson Family. Were this 'band' any good? I can't decide tbh.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Yes imo but there is a creepy vibe to a lot of their stuff
― piqued (wins), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Also interesting how these older, in many ways parasitical and opportunistic, individuals like Markley and Kim Fowley were so influenced by Zappa and the Mothers, Zappa being much closer to their ages, and far more a product of the '50s than the 60s... Manson also!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link