Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

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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.

Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

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 Elder
Oasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
Merrymakers: 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

one month passes...

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 Alpha
Expando 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.

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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.

― 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

great britpop record superior to all oasis imo

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link

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


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