Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

and by Soft Machine, I mean Soft Parade.

Jewlia Eisenberg's Trilectic, who I have no doubt have more super fans, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

"I'm the only person I've met so far that recognizes Hetch Hetchy's Swollen as the best Hugo Largo album, and hence in the running for best dream pop of the 80s."

Hetch Hetchy: Classic Or Dud?

so sad that i'm the only hetch hetchy fan on ilm. so cold...feel...so...all...alone. post-punk southern gothic at its finest, folks!!!!
― scott seward, Monday, May 7, 2007 1:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

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Does anybody else love this record as much as I do? I remember them being written about in the NME many, many years ago, but they seem to be totally forgotten.

i'm the only hetch hetchy fan on ilm. so cold.

Clearly I've failed this thread's mission, but you now know that your taste isn't, in some fundamental and unique to yourself way, defective. Here's a blanket.

AR Kane -New Clear Child
Boogiemonsters - Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album

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"The Gospel According To the Meninblack by The Stranglers."

you are certainly not alone. i love that album to death.

Me too. I think it was also a top 10 record in the UK.

Big Pig - Bonk

Back in the day, "Devil's Song" by Big Pig was minor floor-filler in the goth clubs of Champaign/Urbana.

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I'm a huge fan of Bonk as well.

Abort - Tribe
When I Was a Boy - Jane Siberry
Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church

loveless - my bloody valentine
west coast - studio

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Change my display name to Fatbeard Badshave y/n?

euler i used to play the shit out of "shrine" back in the day on my radio show. what a jam!

fuck I love that album! "Slo-Mo Kikaida" is pretty much a perfect power ballad and it still get me worked up. "Shrine" is also badass; it had a video I think but youtube is letting me down.

When I Was a Boy - Jane Siberry

#25 in the 1993 Pazz & Jop poll so you're hardly alone there.

I used to love Big Pig. I got into them because I was a teenage Yahoo Serious fan.

"succeeds where daylight fails" by tyrnaround. i seem to be the only person who remembers they exist let alone have actually heard this fantastic record

Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church

Hardly alone.

When I Was a Boy - Jane Siberry

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"My sole tether to reality was Jane Siberry's When I Was a Boy. It's not an exaggeration to say that Boy, along with very patient friends and my shrink, are responsible for my survival."

This thread is a challenge.

Still feel like June Panic's "Baby's Breadth" is the big overlooked song suite of the decade

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Eusebe: Tale's From Mama's Yard. This is a mid-90s British rap album by a trio consisting of two girls and one guy. It's quite poppy and a bit smooth, but is also has some clever political and social commentary. Apparently the group never released anything else after it. The album was released by EMI, so it's not like it's some obscure indie record, but I've only managed to find one online review of it. It has 0 ratings on Discogs.com, and Eusebe itself has 99 listeners on Last.fm, but apparently the majority of those have only listened to the radio edit of their single "Summertime Healing". I even started a thread about Eusebe:

Whatever happened to Eusebe?

...but it seems only two other ILXors have ever heard anything by the group.

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.

yup. i still play the white vinyl copy from time to time, and do indeed enjoy it.
though when i spotted a recent compilation of the album and all the other stuff they recorded on one cd for a few quid i let it pass.
a few tracks is more than enough !

my extra entry after the posting 4 years ago :

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absolutely love love this album : underworld + yello + klf = dance pop brilliance from 90

grrr.

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Damn, leavethecapital, I thought of that Rhythm Sisters album only a couple of days ago! Probably because of a reference to "California Girls" somewhere (it being mentioned in "American Boys" on here).

who's landing in my hangar? - human switchboard
maybe not "me and only me", but it sure seems that way

Not alone with Human Switchboard. I was just listening to that the other day. So classic.

The Steppes: Drop Of the Creature

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Yay!! Some Human Switchboard love, great album.

Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church

Hardly alone.

Well, I never see anyone else repping for GAF. Even the band hate it.

I remember Expando Brain, the band, but have never heard the album. The set I saw ended the guitarist just banging on one chord for five minutes, and making it totally entrancing. Don't think they had a record out at that point.

Even though I don't listen to much indie rock these days I'll still rep for the first two Downy Mildew albums (Broomtree, 1987 and Mincing Steps, 1988). Three ilx threads on them but not much positivity!

Well, I never see anyone else repping for GAF. Even the band hate it.

It's a flawed album but anything that ends with "Grind" has it over a sea of general mediocrity by most acts.

Human Switchboard got tons of press in the early 80s but yeah, they've been largely forgotten in the rediscovery sweepstakes. critics are fickle!

i bought that human switchboard album at a library sale when i was a kid and i don't think i listened to it much. which i still had it, cuz i'd probably like it more. they thank xgau on the back, don't they? yeah, they were definitely critic bait. not that there's anything wrong with that.

definitely listened to the teenage jesus EP and buzzcocks records i got at that same sale a whole bunch more. thanks, Jim Stockman, whoever you were! (he wrote his name on all his albums)

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fun fact: human switchboard's lead singer went on to be an A&R guy for epic and the president of hollywood records

I think I am going to change mine to "God Bless Tiny Tim". Just heard it the first time yesterday and I am head-over-heels and I don't know why!

Human Switchboard got tons of press in the early 80s but yeah, they've been largely forgotten

I don't think it's ever been released as a CD. If it was, it would spark a major resurgence (or maybe just a surgence) because it's so good.

They've got a massive presence on Youtube, though...

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Wow, the Hollow Men!!! I have (and love) that album.