My kingdom for a band that sounds like "Trout Mask"-era Beefheart, "Totale's Turns"-era Fall, and "Dub Housing"-era Pere Ubu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PyhjmncqSI

I know they're not really a trendy name to drop but I tell you who is a really good answer to this: That Petrol Emotion. Fairly popular at the time but really critically underrated, especially by the Melody Maker. I swear by the first two albums which were big on the twin guitar Magic Band thing but a heck of a lot more propulsive than the Peel-ish likes of Stump etc as you woukld expect from their background in the Undertones. The second album especially is fantastic (Babble - ignore the hit single off it though cos the cod-rapping on it is kind of embarrassing though maybe it would have worked with David Thomas singing that part). Third album onward they started to go more in a George Clinton-y funk direction which never really worked for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtqsjaU3MPI

^ also u&k: MX-80 Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06UBxYJUGo

^ bit more of a concise MX-80 offering

i guess i should have better described tussle as "retro-dubby-post-punk-instrumentals"
and yes,
MX80 sound and the hampton grease band you knows it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSAR0ZfXYE

^ Men & Volts song from 1984 in which they pretty much write Cruiser's Creek a year before the Fall, but in a more Beefhearty style

I'm still waiting for a CD issue of Men & Volts' Tramps in Bloom. One of my favorite 80s guitar records...

This sounds like a description of about half the bands on the John Peel Show between 1981 and 1986.

"coming up next tonight, a new track from the Stitched-Back Foot Airman..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7enwi7VXQ

C86 seemed to kill off a lot of those bands, though some of them were on it

My kids are obsessed with that Stump song btw, but I did have to explain to them that it wasn't the sort of thing they should be singing in public.

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Sunday, 22 September 2013 06:51 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What percentage of kids would join in if one started up "How Much Is The Fish?"

It would put "I am Spartacus" to shame, for sure.

can never get over that wiggy stretch of bass solo in "tupperware stripper" - it is mind melting

One of my all-time highlights was getting Kev Hopper to pop into a thread here.

how do we get him to pop into fushitsusha as guest bassist for an album?

ask: http://www.spoombung.co.uk/Contact.htm

that was just idle fantasy, but you know what - i did just drop him a line about that !

yay.

Noseflutes.

Yes. At least they meet the remit of the thread title closer than any others here that I'm aware of.

"people - people;( jazz guitarist mary halvorson goes no-wavey w/ kevin shea on drums / lyrics)"

okay i think i actually heard these people and it was one of the worst things i've ever heard in my life.

really memorably horrible though cuz it was years ago.

Really kind of shocked Fat Worm Of Error hasn't been mentioned yet (although I haven't heard that era of the Fall, so I dunno, maybe they don't fit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-h3C-hZGOg

"people - people;( jazz guitarist mary halvorson goes no-wavey w/ kevin shea on drums / lyrics)"

okay i think i actually heard these people and it was one of the worst things i've ever heard in my life.

― scott seward, Monday, September 23, 2013 5:33 PM (Yesterday

That is the common opinion, sadly. I think W3asel is the only other non-member of the band I know besides me who thinks they are brilliant and awesome

any excuse to post these two really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqXEbsmB3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOAStfrwLQo

and since we're talking about scotland DAWSON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX9bWhjTKK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRbZLfrGrV0

"biceps (do you wanna feel 'em?)"

nectarine no.9's "fried for blue material" was pretty ace in that northern Britain nasal glam skiffle w/ random tape edits way. sadly the rest of mr henderson's n#9 albums were a bit too orange juice for my tastes.

how'd i forget the gorgeousness that was badgewearer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1jjbwvf1xQ

found this while rooting around for old dance-punk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFEIPpym98

the curtains' "fast talk" & "flybys" deliver the VLIET (w/o vox), (before they went wide-eyed 60's shaggs-pop) if not the here-required fall/ubu aspect.
monotract are worth a punt, and there's a cd on sub-rosa called "bokan! music from the margins" which is wayward french teens without formal music skills having a go. i'm sure the contents of this can be sampled and it can be purchased / DLed by those interested in it