yep!
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Flatlanders over Tribe & Big Star
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 24 April 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
I love the majority of these, Vile Femmes excepted. But the one that's given me the most musical pleasure o'er the years is Have Moicy! by The Unholy Modal Rounders with Michael Hurley and featuring Jeffrey Frederick and The Clamtones. The last of whom also made a wonderful very left field country lp called Spiders in the Moonlight, which also comes highly recommended. Xgau wrote a nice bit on HM! at the time. One of the Ol Deans more perceptive pieces in terms of veryOut of the mainstream music. Pretty sure it's on his,admittedly excellent website.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I feel like I should listen to one of these a week for the next 12 months
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Closer.
― Austin, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah, somewhere there's a thread where Dan Selzer talks about WBAB almost coming out on CD (would have been on Acute, I think), but the death of Nikki Sudden left the Swell Maps track uncleared---might have been more to it, but pretty sure he mentioned that part.
Wasn't so much the clearance that was the issue with Swell Maps. The clearance problems were the Pop Group and Robert Wyatt, both owned/controlled by major labels who make things difficult. Then on top of that losing Nikki who was my connection to the Swell Maps and Epic Soundtracks track i was going to put on the appendix bit, at first I wasn't about to try to reach out to his family to discuss this stuff, and eventually due to the other clearance problems I gave up on the project.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 29 April 2017 10:31 (seven years ago) link
Some of the Best is a good compilation that's of course been totally obliterated by basically every single subsequent Perry comp (and was probably so even at the time). Issue with a few of the comps on here.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 May 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I know this is Joy Division but voting Violent Femmes anyways.
― the future is now, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
Fuck, I missed Smashing Pumpkins.
― the future is now, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
is that Freedy in the photo w/ Adam Carolla?
― alpine static, Friday, 12 May 2017 06:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 May 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
how the fuck have i never listened to pere ubu?
― marcos, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
the modern dance is amazing wow
i saw black eyes a bunch of times when i lived in dc and i never knew they basically took their whole thing from this record
― marcos, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah, Pere Ubu are amazing! If you like that record make sure you get all the singles from around that time and just before.
I saw Black Eyes once when I came down to DJ between bands when they opened for the Rapture. I like to pretend I introduced Ital to house music that night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 May 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
yeah, the Smog Veil site's newsletter is a good source of Ubu and related reissues/prev. unreleases; also, though I don't always hear things like xgau does, he pretty much nails this early collection of even earlier stuff:Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection [Twin/Tone, 1986]Side one is the long unavailable Datapanik in the Year Zero EP, itself comprising two indie singles and a compilation cut and as powerful a sequence as side one of Dub Housing nevertheless. Side two collects the kind of oddments that rarely cohere on LP, yet here the outtakes and B sides and stray singles come together as a record of David Thomas's slide or progress from willed optimism to blessed whimsy. In short, this is a gift from God--a third Ubu album from the former Crocus Behemoth's pre-God period. A- He means third pre-G after The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, but also likes New Picnic Time and several others from DT's Jehovah's Witness prime time, before the art-rock further complicated/maybe took over the layers.
― dow, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Allen Ravenstine's solo/sidetrip mid-70s-recorded Terminal Drive is out soon, via Smog Veil.
― dow, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Hey, I wasn't the only Sebadoh III voter!
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
The Beat deserved at least one vote...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 13 May 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Hey, I wasn't the only Have Moicy! voter. Just being a smartass.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 13 May 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
I was the only Beck voter :(
Probably would have been smarter to join team Devo and I'm probably coming around that way anyway ok my old age
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 13 May 2017 11:12 (seven years ago) link
I knew I should've for the Upsetters :(
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Also, Modern Dance is fucking killer! I listened to it a couple times before but have mostly just stuck to Dub Housing in recent times, but man does it hit both the 'avant' and 'rock' sweet spots just right
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link