I find myself singing "Niagara Falls" once a month too -- may band covers it!!
I remember seeing Best Kissers when I lived in Seattle in the 90s, can't recall a thing about them.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My band, obviously.
I would say that too, but my drummer is really into our old band as well.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 April 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
long gone LA slightly shoegazey band Night For Us ... Full disclosure, I once subbed on bass for them, and helped out with their first album.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 April 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm, guess i'm not the only one: http://www.la-underground.net/2007/07/los-angeles-sort-of-remembers-night-for.html
― tylerw, Monday, 20 April 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
best kissers in the world
Picking Flowers For! I probably own the album as well but I can't recall any of their other songs. But Picking Flowers For was *such* a great song.
― Joris Stereo, Monday, 20 April 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Too Much Joy's Trouser Press review sounds intriguing, and the Karen Alexander review is exactly what I'm looking for. Who do you LOVE?
Okay, another one: Reptile Palace Orchestra, sort of the Three Mustaphas Three of Madison, Wisconsin. From Turkish and Macedonian dance songs to "Little Wing" and "Cosmic Slop." Chanteuse in an evening gown and violinist with psychedelic FX aplenty. I own all 5 CDs, plus a live boot. (Collecting live shows: one way you can always spot a too-far-gone cult member.)
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Love Jones - Here's to the Losers
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Had that album for a while -- can still hum the title track.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I know others also revere A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please by June & the Exit Wounds, but they sure don't show up 'round these parts...
― henry s, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone heard "I, Thighpaulsandra" yet?
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I seem to be the only person in the world who still wonders about The Shanks "Brang" CD. You'd think the Fall-und-art influence would have roped in...somebody else.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Kiss: The ElderOasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of GiantsMerrymakers: No Sleep Til Famous.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Kiss: The Elder
You'd be wrong there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Dare I invoke this again, but I went on a pilgrimage to find the Elder door, and I found it. East 86th off Park Avenue towards Lex, if you give a fuck.
http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/img_5381_1.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha okay that is beautiful.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Knew you'd appreciate it.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
I am the truly earless
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
chronicle of the black sword - hawkwind
― kamerad, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Lewis Furey S/T? anyone?
― sonofstan, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Repulse Kava - Flow Gently Sweet AlphaExpando Brain - Mother Of God! It's Expando Brain
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
The Gospel According To the Meninblack by The Stranglers.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
.... though I'm probably not entirely alone there.
i will go to bat for the crash test dummies' "give yourself a hand" any day of the week
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^I will go to bat for "A Worm's Life"!
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, the last 4 tracks.
i've only ever heard that one once, when it first came out, and it didn't do much for me. will have to check it out again.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a really surprisingly underrated album, I think it and The Chemical Brothers' "We Are The Night" were my two "gosh I actually dig this shit" choices from the RYM all-time bottom 1000 records
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ my turn of phrase tbh
― gosh i actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
have you heard "give yourself a hand?" it's probably rated even lower. but i love it, it's great night driving music.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh, I got one. Despite the fact that seemingly every sentient being in the free world thought the debut album by Birdland was a steaming pile of dung, I quite like several tracks on it.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNbLlKOxn08/SRHQmKX5rCI/AAAAAAAAAIw/zf-xbhSW2cc/s320/birdland+birdland.jpeg
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Not heard GYAH but it is on Spotify so I guess my evening's sorted
First 8 tracks of AWL vary from ok to excellent (especially the title-track and maybe He Liked To Feel It, My Enemies t a stretch), but the last four are where it kicks off: a miniature suite of utterly differing, riveting little diamonds
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"he liked to feel it" was such a bad choice of a first single. way too similar too MMMM MMMM MMMM lyrically. the first line is "there was a boy" fercrissakes.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think they ever released 2 Knights And Maidens as a single, which was a terrific oversight imo
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a good song. that whole album is really solid, to me.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Best song on A Worm's Life is obviously An Old Scab (which is mighty and moving), but picking just one off GSHF is much harder. I can probably narrow it down to God Shuffled His Feet, I Think I'll Disappear Now, How Does A Duck Know? and 2 Knights And Maidens, all of which are great in ways I can't quite explain (beyond 'alchemy')
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to AWL right now and those first 8 tracks are just fine tbh, really do give it another go :)
GSHF could possibly use a poll, and I don't say that about many albums
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Have narrowed it down to title-track and 2 Knights fwiw but I'm Bimblin' so stfu
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Robbie Fulks' "Couples in Trouble" is an amazing, wide-ranging album that sounds like very little else he's recorded. I wish he'd kept using this more eclectic style on more recent albums because from the sound of this album, he could do any style he set his mind to.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark
I once worked with a guy who, after finding out I didn't really care for punk, gave me a 2 hour lecture on this band and then ripped me a copy of this. Not like the Ramones or the Damned or whoever people actually like - for him the genre was all about Birdfuckingland.
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a bit ridiculous.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
my vote'd be for "i think i'll disappear now," if only for the line "you float by like a summer vacation." plus, the tempo. it's really loose -- easygoing, you might say -- which at first seems to reflect the narrator's state of mind. he's single now, life is uncomplicated. but after meeting her again he's starting to chafe against the life he's living now: "i'll buy a fast car, i'll drive it fast from here," which really jars with the tempo of the song. then in the last verse he's talking about the past and how he'll move on and he'll forget all about it and all that, but i can't help but feel like he's stuck and trying to rationalize how he's fucked up. at that point the tempo's less about being easygoing and carefree than about being directionless. and that bridge! "aren't you gonna miss me? aren't you gonna even say one thing to me anymore?" that's what we're left with. for some reason the end of that song gives me the mental image of watching a car drive off toward the horizon, and it's somewhere out west where the sky is kinda dusty and the road's really straight.
good song.
lotsa xposts
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Hurricane_no._1.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
great britpop record superior to all oasis imo
bug that is superb and true; the bridge, especially when it returns for a second time, even more impassioned and lushly-orchestrated, is a thing of beauty, and the song is desperate in a particularly controlled, leisurely way, which makes the effort of control seem all the more tortured
HOOS that is unexpected and somewhat cheering
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I could do a similar exegesis on "An Old Scab" but that song speaks for itself a little more, employing pathos, bathos, musical flourish, musical resolution, and similar techniques of controlled emotional violence to evoke some really quite moving meditations on ageing, depression, helplessness and mortality, all in a sub-4-minute pop/rock odyssey
CTD really do have the nicest little guitar solos
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
the bass playing on GSHF is really tasty too.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
they are a proficient, deceptively imaginative band with an original and compelling style who do not have a proper ILM thread of their own ;_;
they wanted to be the Canadian XTC and largely succeeded on their own terms
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Gospel According To the Meninblack by The Stranglers."
you are certainly not alone. i love that album to death.
― scott seward, Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
How does a duck POLL: The Crash Test Dummies "God Shuffled His Feet" Poll
― casual racism fridays (bug), Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link