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I'm guessing, actually, that not many people have heard it, but I would like to recommend *Wings Of Love* by The Temptations. It was a dud of an album when it came out and it was completely Norman Whitfield-less (As was the album before it, *House Party* that I also love.), and I'm not even really sure who was SINGING in the Temptations by this point, but nevertheless this album SMOKES. The opener "Sweet Gypsy Jane" is such a funky motherfunkin' treat and it pretty much leaps out of your speakers with some of the coolest fattest bass playing you have ever heard. Brings a tear to my eye. As does "Mary Ann", a bizarre and LONG prog-rock epic that I turn to again and again. There is more funky disco action and a couple of slow jamz for the Temps faithful, and overall it's a solid forgotten little gem. At least I think it's forgotten. I can't remember anyone ever talking about this album, and it was kind of a low point for the Temps brand-name. I say pick up House Party and Wings Of Love on vinyl for a couple bucks if you see them. I don't know what the CDs sound like but the wax sounds great. And Motown could be dicey in that area.


Anyway, give me more to go buy. And give me a reason to buy it. But it has to be something you haven't championed on ILM before. I need fresh picks!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

despite being really pretentious and getting a horrible review in the fork a year ago, I think Lansing-Dreiden's album the Incomplete triangle is great. noone ever mentions it. they never play. you've probably heard of it though. but that's my contribution

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a review of it! A long one!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and how about M.I.A, ever heard of her? I'm really pumped I discovered her, and I can't wait to tell everyone about it, you'll thank me for life!

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Lansing-Dreiden even made my top ten in the pazz & jop!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

where is the review. i'm curious. i want to read it. oh well, my suggestion ain't fresh

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You can read my review here, Owen:

http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_thefreelancementalists_archive.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Quick! Pick another album!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugarloaf Spaceship Earth

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it good, Donut? I've never heard it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hard Water"

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it rocks.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever heard John Lee Hooker's "It Serves You Right To Suffer"?

I bought this after a long period of disillusionment with electric blues. Rather than being one of those chunk-a-chunk-a Hooker records, here he has a full, top-notch rhythm section. It's hard to put into words what it is about this album because it's so subtle. There's just something unusually mature and un-hokey about it, like an after-hours session where everyone is playing more for their own enjoyment.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, "HOT Water"

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

scott. wish I could come up with something quick, but chances are you've heard it all. the new stuff I'm into I already posted about too when I started the new discoveries thread, but feel free to read that again. maybe you missed it. Favorite new music discoveries?

know/like any of them?
what about pit er pat. have you heard them?
i like them
pas/cal
also good.

am I helping?

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tad God's Balls... possibly the best Sub Pop release ever.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Satan's Chainsaw" being the highlight.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i know that record, i don't like it as much as 8-way santa.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, you were professing your love of hard-swinging trad jazz from the 50s and early 60s on the Coltrane thread. How about Arnett Cobb's "Blow Arnett Blow"? Features an all-star cast of severely underrated musicians: Cobb and Eddie Lockjaw Davis on tenor, George Duvivier on bass, Wild Bill Davis on Organ and Arthur Edgehill on drums.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but see, Owen, those records on that thread have already been mentioned. ILM moves at the speed of light. I want even more records to talk about.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I know one I've never seen here -- Gravitar's "Now the Road of Knives" -- ultra-lo-fi scary noise record with jazzy drumming.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that Tad record because it was basically the best Boner records album that Boner never released.

That said, another great pair of albums released on Boner that were NOT Melvins albums were:

Duh Blowhard
Star Pimp Seraphim 280Z

if you like that really tuned down sludgey bass guitar sound.. mmmmmmm

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

damn. i'm not quick enough! I also don't know the history of threads here very well. so I could easily suggest something there was a 2 month debate/chat about.
i think i might sit this thread out and see what others come up with.
have you heard everything mentioned in the beggining of the thread? or just read about them here--you gotta hear it! haha

what about pit er pat?
old ILM news?

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What about old punk band from Toronto(?) called The Government..

The Government Evil Eye from 1979..

"GREE-TINGS from the GU-TTEEEEEEEEER!"

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love the 50's jazz attack, Hurting. And the 40's! I will look for that one. I haven't listened to enough Arnett Cobb. Lately, I have really been digging this album from an old Riverside series of albums devoted to one artist's compositions. They did them for duke, parker, monk, etc. The one I have is The Compositions Of Dizzy Gillespie, and man oh man, a lot of my faves are on it. Philly Joe Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Bobby Timmons doing a solo piano version of "Lorraine". Junior Mance. Cannonball doing "Groovin' High" with Milt Jackson, Wynton Kelly. Percy Heath and Art Blakey!!! Great stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, while not an album, an EXCELLENT early robotic/post-punk/new wave/noise rock song by Grauzone called "Eisbär"... it's the fucking jam, yo.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

have you heard the song "tonight you belong to me" by patience and prudence?
i don't know about the album, but that's a classic many of my friends have loved but didn't know about

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

*Diz & Getz* I've been playing that too. A great one on Verve. Dizzy, Stan Getz(Duh), Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Max Roach. Plus, one track with Charley Persip on drums. My dad is a big Persip fan.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"have you heard the song "tonight you belong to me" by patience and prudence?"

I Loooooove Patience & Prudence. Joanna Newsom wishes! I have a bunch of their singles. I have that single.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

" I do love the 50's jazz attack, Hurting."

You might also dig "Easy Does It" by the Bobby Timmons Trio. I think that's also a Riverside disc.

I love Diz and Getz. I believe that was one of those Norman Granz sessions, where he took somewhat unlikely musicians and put them together for a jam.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll add to donut christ's with Earth 2 by Earth.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I've never actually heard Joanna Newsom. I'm just going by that other thread on her and her baby-doll voice. I enjoy making fun of her, apparently.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Newsom is easy to ridicule -- except that her songwriting is so good I feel bad doing it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, if you haven't heard the Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane record, that's definitely one to get. One of my all-time favorites.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll toss out two:

I know I talk about New Orleans brass band every chance I get but I don't think I've mentioned this album: Lil' Rascals Brass Band, Buck It Like a Horse. They may not have the hottest individual horn players compared to some of the other bands, but they make up for it in numbers and volume and the sheer almost-off-the-rails street party energy.

And:
Clarence Penn, Penn's Landing (Criss Cross). He plays with Dave Douglas now, but I believe this was his first solo album. It's a really nice set of swinging but progressive jazz, the writing is cool and even the Coltrane tribute works.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i give credit to joanna for writing nice tunes and and playing the harp well. but her lyrics seem contrived and her vocals affected. i hate her so much! not b/c it's trendy to either!

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm often pleasantly surprised by Criss Cross stuff. I need to check out that label more.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd really prefer hearing Newsom's songs done by other people, I think, though I do like her harp playing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, and Patience & Prudence reminds me that everyone should own *Introducing Larry and Lorrie - The Collins Kids* My fave pre-pubescent rocakabilly duo. Well, Lorrie was actually pubescent. Larry played one of those cool custom double-necked guitars with his name on it. "Whistle Bait", "Rock Boppin" Baby", "Hot Rod". Those two were smoking. I need more by them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll check them out. sounds intereting. i put my patience and prudence back on. i guess you are looking for older gems rather than new bands. had you heard all the ones on the thread I linked already?

― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to buy Criss Cross records habitually, then I stopped seeing them in the stores. I don't think I've ever heard a bad one, and a lot of them are spectacular. Off the top of my head, here's some that really stuck with me:

Billy Drummond, "Dubai" (the title track is a classic)
Ralph Peterson, "The Art of War" (OMG)
Mel Rhyne, "Classmasters" and all the other ones by that same trio (with Kenny Washington and Peter Bernstein, sometimes with Eric Alexander)

It's cool because most of the records have some big name players like Greg Osby and Tain Watts doing lower-profile, casual records, which often turn out much better than their major label ones.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never heard the Burrell/Coltrane album. I will look for that. Hurting, do you like that Gil Evans/Burrell album?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Okeh Western Swing" Various Artists

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"had you heard all the ones on the thread I linked already?"

Oh hell no, I can't afford all that stuff! And new records are fine on here, just as long as you think not many people have heard them and you haven't already talked about them elsewhere. Hah! I make arbitrary rules with ease.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/imgsm/1206.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A somewhat well-known whiteman's funk/soul for 30 year-olds from the 70s: Tower of Power - "Self Titled" or "Back to Oakland"; Includes classic Lenny Williams at his peak, David Garibaldi (learned his shit here), the bariotone sax of The Doctor "Steve Kupka", Francis Prestia, Chester Thompson, and even a young kick-ass version of Lenny Picket.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

see, by talking about stuff that you have never talked about before on ILM this thread doesn't turn into a grizzly bear thread. who are apparently a newer betterer animal collective.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I DO need more Tower Of Power records! And more Maze records!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugar, Sugar Ray. I posted two album tracks on Tofu Hut. Still no raves. :(

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Maze!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you punks up to now?

Anyway -- there's a lot of NZ stuff of recent vintage that's not been discussed much, and I'm listening to one of said examples right now, Birchville Cat Motel's Beautiful Speck Triumph. It's somewhere between Main/Thomas Köner-style alien drone and Ye Olde Murky Lo-Fi NZ experimentalism -- no vocals, really gripping stuff, often quite beautiful. Not for everyone's taste but it's the first such thing of its kind I've heard in a long while that I'll want to hear again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

woops. Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Gil Evans is one guy I haven't checked out much. Does that record have Elvin Jones on it?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

scroll down to the bottom of the "19" post on January 6th at the Tofu Hut, listen to the songs and tell me that those songs aren't the best country-disco and weezery power ballads you've heard in a while.

Forks doesn't think so but he's in denial.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, Ralph Peterson taught at my alma mater until recently (Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers). I was in the jazz program for two years, but switched to English.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, I was an English major but I played in the jazz bands (or black music ensemble, as it were). So did you study with him?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hey ned you know the birchville guy was touring the us recently? I didn't see him.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I studied guitar with the late Ted Dunbar. Drums was sort of a side thing while I was in school.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

hey ned you know the birchville guy was touring the us recently? I didn't see him.

Hadn't realized that! A pity, I would have enjoyed the show greatly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Burrell one is called *Guitar Forms* I can't remember everyone on it though. For Gil I would recommend: All the stuff with Miles (Natch), All the stuff he arranged for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra if you can find that stuff on CD, Big Stuff, Into The Hot, The Individualism Of..., Blues In Orbit, Svengali, Little Wing, Live At The Public Theatre Vol. 1 & 2 (great moody, spacey stuff), Live At Sweet Basil Vol. 1 & 2 , and Paris Blues (an album he made with Steve Lacey).

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

First thing that comes to mind is something I'm not sure you'd find without ordering it online. It was a band from San Jose called Duster that appeared on Seattle label Up! Records. The album was from 2000, called "Contemporary Movement". I know people are often too quick to compare things to Joy Division, but in this case I think it's warranted, and I think it would appeal to fans of Seam or Low as well. They had two other releases, neither of which was near as good. It's basically just sad indie down-in-the-dumps music, but if you don't mind that sort of thing, it's great, with shimmering pretty guitars in places.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread inspired me to go listen to some on-line samples of the Sam Yahel Trio record (s/t) with Brian Blade and Peter Bernstein.

Damn. It's not often I get chills from a thirty-second sample.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, I've gotta hear that. The Joshua Redman trio record with Sam Yahel and Brian Blade is awesome for about two songs, and then gets kinda bland. Reminds me of another of my favorite underrated straight-ahead albums, 'Bop on Pop' - Frank Perowsky, Ben Perowsky, and Sam Yahel playing standards.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I've talked about Christina Carter's Bastard Wing LP, which I listened to the other day and was really into. I don't pull it out very often, but it always catches me as really amazing when I do. The beginning of "The Desire To Play & Play" near the end of the first side is really beautiful and always jabs at something in my head. It's nice to have a piano album from someone I typically hear working with just guitar and voice (there is some voice on Bastard Wing too.) Still available from Eclipse I think.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

btw speaking of christina my charalambides interview will be up soon. like this week.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. Friendly people?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

via email, sure. only fleetingly been around 'em in person.

also it's gonna be in the next swingset.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not really sure if these are underdiscussed because I only started posting here recently, but the three most impressive records I heard for the first time this year were:

  • David Ruffin, David: The Unreleased Album

  • Candi Staton, Candi Staton

  • Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons, Firebirds

    • And a modern record that I haven't heard much about anywhere, but that I really enjoy is the self titled Gris Gris record.

    ― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

    Tell us something about these records -- I've never heard of any of them.

    ― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

    Hmm, i submitted the links because I thought they'd do a better job describing them. The David Ruffin album is a motown record from the early '70s that, for whatever reason, was never released. It's the lush, post-Spector orchestral soul music that motown specialized in during the late 60s and early 70s, and probably the best showcase of David Ruffin's largely underappreciated talent. He was a huge asshole by all accounts, but his voice is amazing.

    Candi Staton sings somewhat in the vein of Aretha Franklin, but with her own thing going on. Another record with excellent backing musicianship from that same period.

    I don't really know how to describe the Simmons/Lasha record because I don't have a very good vocabulary for jazz music, but it's late '60s record with some moments that really move me. I'd never heard anything by Lasha or Simmons before I picked it up. Now I want more.

    The Gris Gris record is a new release in 2004. It mixes the pop insanity of Syd Barrett, the playfulness of the Monks or maybe Beefheart, and the guitar tone of Thurston Moore.

    ― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

    everyone should hear:

    Charlie Tweddle - Fantastic Greatest Hits
    Ghedalia Tazartes - Eclipse Totale de Soleiul
    Little Wings - Light Green Leaves
    Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol 6
    Turner Cody - Buds of May
    Marissa Nadler - Ballads of Living and Dying
    Dead Machines - Human Brain Wasting Syndrome

    ― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

    Another Marissa Nadler album coming out on Eclipse this year, Rog. And a Dead Machines LP!

    Will I really like Little Wings?

    ― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

    I recommend the Moody Blues' To Our Children's Children's Children. For some strange reason, the Moodies get absolutely zero love on ILM, and I'm troubled by that.

    ― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

    Moody Blues = mom rock.

    ― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

    Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues, Corky Siegel's Traveling Chamber Blues Show!, 2005

    ...and here's why: it's completely batshit. Siegel is a Chicago blues harmonica player/singer, fronting a band with a percussionist (tabla mostly) and a string quartet. They play the weirdest music I've heard. It whips back and forth so much I think it's actually a snake.

    ― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

    Sonic Vomit = Ben Folds "Fear of Pop Vol. 1" ?

    ― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

    Also, I doubt enough of you have heard Men's Recovery Project "Bolides Over Basra." Unfairly lumped in with mid-nineties hardcore (i.e. angel hair, assfactor 4, echonochrist), this is really just Residents-styled New/No Wave. Brilliant lyrics, bizarre hooks and even some great/warped dance tunes.

    ― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

    Ian - I've heard the new Marissa Nadler - it's great. She's on the upcoming Polyamory comp as well

    Little Wings? I really, really, really love that band. Yes. Go for it.

    ― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

    Oh and everyone oughta hear Mary Gauthier, specifically a song called "I Drink"

    ― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

    Just found this: Marissa Nadler live on BSR. All I've heard at this point is Ballads of Living & Dying.

    ― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

    I want to make the whole world love these records:

    Laurie Spiegel "Obsolete Systems" cd
    Ruth Wellcome "Hi-Fi Zither" lp
    Mauricio Kagel "Tactil" cd
    Titonton Duvante "Selections for Intercourse" lp
    G. Park "Seismogramm" lp


    On the 'fessing up tip, I can't believe that only a few days ago I finally heard these two albums for the first time:

    The Slits "Cut"
    The Pop Group "Y"

    Fuck, how fantastic are these records? Damn. And Dennis Bovell produced em both.

    ― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

    I know I've mentioned Slapp Happy's Acnalbasac Noom a couple of times, and I think there are at least a few other ILXors who know about it, but it's hard for me to refrain from bringing it up whenever we have one of these threads. This is the album of original demos for the album Casablanca Moon (which I haven't heard) which were recorded by Faust producer Uwe Nettlebeck in Wumme in 1973 (but not released until 1980 or so), with the rhythm section of Faust backing the core line-up of Dagmar Krause, Peter Blegvad, and Anthony Moore. Hard to describe, I can't think of another album that's quite like it. Insidiously catchy, slightly shambolic (well they were demos) pop-rock with some kind of Brecht/Weill cabaret influence. The lyrics are cryptic, playful, literary, and witty - but they are never pretentious or dry (and how could they be with Krause in such top form? - she could sing the back of a cereal box and make it interesting, I'd wager). I fear I'm not doing it justice, but it really is a very special album. Also, it seems to slide in and out of print, so snap it up if you get a chance.

    ― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

    All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors' 'Turning Into Small' is marvellous.

    ― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

    kagel rules.

    ― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

    nate - is this the one listed on slsk as 'ultra rare trax?'

    ― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

    I haven't seen that on Slsk before - but it seems unlikely to me that it would be listed that way - since these aren't really that rare - they have been released several times, I think, on ReR, they just occasionally go out of print.

    ― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

    But if you don't find them on there, if you see me on the ILX DC hub, remind me to upload them at some point, Roger.

    ― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

    cool, thanks nate! But I'm downloading them from the 'seek right now.

    ― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

    Yeah, Slapp Happy's some good stuff. Been a long time since I've heard them.

    ― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

    scott! scott! so i had a crazy experience this evening of going to a show to see 2 bands, both sucked, but the third was AMAZING. like really really awesome. I will start a thread on it. they deserve it. also I saw you said grizzly bear are a newer betterer animal collective. hah. funny. they are good, equally so I'd say, but have their own thing going on, less 8 minute rambling songs with the grizz. also, all natural lemon and lime flavors=amazing! good call whoever it was that called that. to recap: 1: grizzly are great, not animal collective perhaps same genre. 2: i saw an amazing new band tonight that played with Kyp from TVOTR's solo show (it sucked, read thread for more info) and 3: all natural lemon and lime flavors are fantastic. good call. no need to really recap. i just felt the urge

    ― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

    WC and the MAAD Circle's debut Ain't a Damn Thing Changed; deserves a heretically high spot in the golden age/west coast rap canons, if the time for that hasn't run out already.

    ― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 24 January 2005 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

    on the 50s jazz tip: Soulsville by Ben Webster. contains my favorite version of "Makin' Whoopie" and concludes w/ Ben on piano for a few.

    Kenny Burrell's Guitar Forms includes Johnny Coles, Jimmy Knepper, Steve Lacy, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, Grady Tate and Charlie Persip.

    for a great Cheap Trick-esque power-pop LP: On by Off Broadway USA.

    ― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

    Extradition - Hush (recently reissued in Australia)
    Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sei Note in Logica
    Alice Through The Looking Glass - s/t
    Anthony Braxton - Willisau Quartets
    anything by Jacques Berrocal
    Your Choroid Choat - s/t

    ― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

    Oooh and

    George - The Magic Lantern

    ― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

    Guy Reibel - Choeurs imaginaires

    Esp. the first section, dedicated to Pierre Henry but in reality an homage to the vocal works of Ligeti, Penderecki, & Messiaen. Solo voices multiplied and processed infinitely to create massive choirs. Chaotic but not dissonant. Beautiful.

    ― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

    real life -heartland - 1983

    ― angelic one, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

    I recommend the Moody Blues' To Our Children's Children's Children. For some strange reason, the Moodies get absolutely zero love on ILM, and I'm troubled by that.
    -- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), January 24th, 2005.
    this might have inspired terence trent darby

    ― angelic one, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

    ihttp://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/porl/SPACEFOLKFRONT(1).jpg

    :)

    ― why must we cut onions? (Lynskey), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

    Fucking brackets.

    BUY MY EP

    ― why must we cut onions? (Lynskey), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

    second Roberto Cacciapaglia's *Sei Notes*. also dig his *Sonanze*, which precedes it. never heard his Ann Steel record though. is it as good as "My Time"?
    Tezartes' *Transports* is the one i return to more than *eclipse totale de soleil*. it's even dizzier!
    and while people always discuss Bill Nicholls' *Would You Believe?*, i've never heard anyone give it up for *Love Songs*, which is one of the finest 70s rekkids i 'eared. Caleb Quaye's string-bending licks on it are so tasty.

    ― Beta (abeta), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

    Nobody seems to talk about the Only Ones too much. I highly recommend their Peel Sessions album. Powerful, raw but wellplayed versions of the songs, often better than the studio releases.

    ― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

    Cacciapaglia thirded.
    and more great Italian stuff you never hear about:

    Lino Capra Vaccina - Antico Adagio (Aktuala percussionist; this album of modal 'ancient music' is like Popol Vuh playing Terry Riley)

    Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale - Luglio 1978 (house band for what must have been the strangest supper club ever. organ (Mino di Martino) and vox (Terra Di Benedetto) improv. not quite Noise, but still way out there. )

    Telaio Magnetico - Live 1975 (Battiato/Vaccina-formed free-music supergroup. like an Italian Limbus 3 leaning towards ur-ambient. grand)

    ― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

    OK, maybe this will be more in line with your thread: Roberta Flack's First Take- great singing, great "recorded live in the studio" sound, great funky basslines from Mr. Ron Carter.

    ― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

    those Ital titles sound tantalizing...

    ― Beta (abeta), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

    and then some.
    e- me, i'll sort you out.

    ― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

    done & done

    ― Beta (abeta), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

    Maids Of Gravity - self titled. The cover is solid orange with a picture of Jupiter right in the middle. I'm sure everyone on this board has passed it by in the used bin thousands of time. GREAT rock record. Someone in this band was in Medicine.

    ― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

    For shoegazing fans, I give you The Charmparticles:

    http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/charmparticles

    ― darin (darin), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

    Jordan, Clarence Penn used to come in and listen to CDs all afternoon at a record store I worked at in Richmond, Va., in '90 and '91! I remember when he first moved to New York to join Betty Carter's group.

    I pulled this Gene Ammons 'Live! In Chicago' CD off my shelves last week and was reminded how fabulous it is. "Recorded at the D.J. Lounge . . . August 29, 1961," and it's as great and unaffected as that sounds.

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

    Awesome, I met him once and he was really nice.

    Gene Ammons rules.

    ― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

    Polyphonic, check out Simmons' two '90s records for Qwest (!) -- they're out of print but I see them used occasionally in the bigger cities. 'Ancient Ritual' and 'American Jungle.' If all else fails, I can share on S1sk.

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

    xpost Yeah, he's a good guy. Some real talent moved through the VCU music school when Ellis Marsalis was there.

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

    I also dig me some Sonny Criss. My favorite is 'I'll Catch the Sun!' which opens with a terrific version of "Don't Rain on My Parade."

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

    OK, I have this album, on Monument, Larry Jon Wilson's "New Beginnings," 1975. I think Xgau reviewed in his '70s Consumer Guide book and I found it in a pile of $1 LPs scrabbling around one afternoon in Memphis.

    It was done in Augusta and Nashville, with great musicians like Reggie Young, Tommy Cogbill, Bobby Woods, Mary and Ginger Holladay--Memphis guys from American Studios days. The cover recounts LJW's journey from the south to NYC and beyond (has a Georgia bulldog wearing a cap, a NYC taxi, part of a rainbow, a kid's face in a window, and Larry himself--definitely over 40, with bad hair and a beard, all drawings, on cover, and photo of a wild-looking Larry in shades on the back). It's one of the more amazing southern-liberal records I know, with titles like "Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine," "Ohoopee River Bottomland," "The Truth Ain't in You," "Canoochee Revisited (Jesus Man), " and my fave, "Melt Not My Igloo." It's actually pretty damned good--how you could go wrong with those musicians I don't know. Kind of weird country-funk post-Muscle-Shoals-Memphis with Larry croaking along on top of it. I don't know anyone else who has this record. It's the kind of thing they definitely don't do any more. I don't exactly know how it came to pass he did it. I've tried to find out more about Larry Jon--I know he's from Georgia somewhere--and I think I found out he was doing some kind of promotional tourist videos or songs for disabled children or something like that, for the state of Georgia, and if he's still alive he's probably living in Augusta. He'd have to be pushing 75 by now. But like I say, I think it's a really good, strange, interesting record--he named his son after Bertrand Russell...good southern liberal...so if anyone has more information about this 'un...

    ― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

    both albums by the sunshine club (visit to a small planet and home) are gorgeous mid-90's San Francisco "slowcore". absolutely one of my favorite bands ever. Home is the superior record; early pressings also had the charlie brown christmas song on there as a bonus track and some other things. these were picked up by glitterhouse in Europe and might even still be in print there, I'm not sure. the band is gone; the guitarist plays with (the equally impressive) kelley stoltz now. but anyone who has any fondness for red house painters or the like should listen to these.

    ― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

    Eddie, do you have the Charlie Ainley record Christgau recommends? 'Bang Your Door'? English pub-based stuff, pretty good. I think I paid a buck for that one.

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

    Bang Your Door [Nemporer, 1978]
    The title cut is the raunchiest fuck-me song in years, and the funniest: when Charlie bellows, "I don't want you to fix my bed," the Misdemeanors chirp back, "I'm not." It just doesn't quit, and nothing else here comes up to it. But the overall level of rancor, humor, and genre experiment is gratifyingly high for what is basically an English r&b album. Bang on. B+

    Nope--never seen a copy of it, sounds like fun...

    ― es hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

    Y'know what we need is the old-vinyl equivalent of that guy who sells CDs for one cent online . . .

    Or at least a time machine.

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

    I have never heard anyone talk about Marion Brown's Three for Shepp, probably one of my most oft played jazz albums, not least since it's got both Grachan Moncur III and Sirone (pre-Sirone, he was still called Norris Jones). It's on Impulse though so maybe everyone's heard it?

    Gal Costa "Acqua Viva" - I see this second hand quite bit. It's a very '70s lite-disco-ish album, sort of like a Boz Scaggs thing. I hope that didn't turn you off.

    "Fuck You Norway" 7" by Showcase Showdown - The flip-off of a whole country?!? Really something.

    The band Spatula. Post-rocky band from North Carolina, I think. Really deft and unsung.

    Maybe Chet Baker and Crew on Pacific Jazz, 1956 I think. It's a fairly standard (read: awesome) Chet Baker album except that it's got somebody playing the 'chromatic tympani' on it, adds a kind of Balinesian or caribbean vibe.

    ― mcd (mcd), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

    Beef Sings 'Tongues is a post-punk/rock grab-bag that should have more fans. Spanish band makes like Peggy Suicide-era Cope, Wire, Galaxie 500, and early Disco Inferno all at once; ILX snoozes. what's up with that?

    Yoshinori Yanagawa gives unusually good solo-sax bleat on his A Piece of Metal Buried in Flesh. Abe-esque and yet, not.

    i don't even know how to begin to describe Gerhard Potuznik & Tex Rabinowitz's Mäuse project, but their first (s/t) album (possibly still available as MP3 at fals.ch) should be sought out by anyone craving absurdist plunderphonic pop ripe with PoMo/proto-Mego attitude.

    i mentioned Carmine once, just in passing, but this band's entire discography deserves heaps more love. a blend of Can, The Delgados, Dominique A, and everything great about the golden age of Too Pure. so ripe for rediscovery.

    and if you've ever wondered what Death in June would sound like with the sonic dynamics of Labradford (way better than you might expect), Noosfera's Junghian Epiphanies could be your bag.

    ― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

    They've been mentioned a couple times in passing on ILM, but the Sick Lipstick's *Sting, Sting, Sting* is a really fun danceable modern no-waveish album.

    ― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

    hain't heard that Larry Jon Wilson rec, but I did just pick up Travis Wammack's *Not for Sale*, which I think goes into that same swampy region. the slinky "Easy Evil" made the second Country Got Soul comp. Rick Hall and the Fame boys stomping crazy loose and tightly sloppy in '75, and Wammack kills the frets, even when his voice sounds like Kool-smoking Kenny Loggins or something. blues-y, boogied, tour-fried, muggy and kinda cheesy, but writing creds come from Clarence Carter and Jerry Williams, so the cream is choice.

    ― Beta (abeta), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

    'Three for Shepp' -- great record. Mcd, what label is the Gal Costa on?

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

    http://www.fraserdebolt.com/images/withiancover1000.jpg

    ― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

    whoa. uma!!!

    ― owen reading, Monday, 24 January 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

    Daisy DeBolt is an utter madwoman. Uma should be half as wacky!

    ― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

    I nominate The Holy Cows, *We Never Heard Of You Either.*

    ― chuck, Monday, 24 January 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

    Andy Beta, Love Songs by Billy Nichols is infectious!

    ― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

    http://cover09.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/430/437359.jpg

    Not quite as, um, big as Fraser & DeBolt... (I had no idea that would be so big!!!)

    ― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

    What about old punk band from Toronto(?) called The Government..

    The Government Evil Eye from 1979..

    "GREE-TINGS from the GU-TTEEEEEEEEER!"

    -- donut christ (do...), January 24th, 2005.

    That's a wicked record! (It's "Electric Eye", though) I haven't heard it in ages, but want to find my copy and play it (my things are still in disarray). I wonder what that performance would have been like with the videotapes and all. I wonder if there's a tape document of it somewhere.

    I'll fourth (!) Roberto Cacciapaglia's "Sei Note in Logica" album and second "Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale" (I found this one serendipitously, buying it from someone that was disappointed it wasn't a Gothic record) and Slapp Happy.

    Piero Milesi's "Nuclear Observatory of Mr. Nanof" is a wonderful collection of soundtrack music (to film, video and fireworks), deliberate and often melodic.


    ― Pangolino again, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

    Breathless - Between Happiness and Heartache...fans of Kitchens of Distinction's Strange Free World (which came out a month after) with major romantic sensibilities must rush to acquire this one. While I'm at it, Siouxsie and Cure and Comsat Angels (hell, moody post-punk, actually!) fans should look up The Glass Bead Game album as well, which I think is even better.

    ― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

    I love Breathless, too. I haven't heard the latest album, and I've never been able to find a copy of their first single. I haven't heard Kitchens of Distinction before - what is similar about their music?

    ― Pangolino again, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

    'Three for Shepp' -- great record. Mcd, what label is the Gal Costa on?

    It's on Phillips. I don't know if it's on CD but the vinyl appears pretty often.

    ― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

    the last two Breathless albums are ... different, to say the least. nearly amorphous strobelit psychedelia with only Dominic's vocals and keys lending any definition. methinks Gary Mundy may have something to do with this. if Blue Moon at least had "songs," Behind the Light is all suggestive atmosphere, broken into shorter tracks but in the same sprawling mode as the Moonstone sessions. the romantic heat of classic Breathless has been all but subjugated by a Floyd/P.Tree-like vibe. i still haven't decided how i feel about this development.

    ― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

    I think I know what you mean - I liked "Blue Moon" as an album, but it's strange how I can't hear many indications of the intricacy of the earlier songs. I can't think of another group that has changed in quite that way (without it just being down to having different members or it being a very gradual process).

    ― Pangolino again, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

    it's a puzzler. different drugs, maybe?

    ― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

    Also

    Bill Fay - Time of The Last Persecution.

    It's a long record, but it contains some amazing songs ("Narrow Way," "Sing Us One Of Your Songs May"). Very Scott Walker at moments, at least in its orchestration. Terribly despondent and heart-breaking.

    ― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

    I just recently went back and checked out Last Exit's Iron Path. I have all six of their CDs, but this is the only studio album in the batch, and it was produced by Laswell, so it seemed overly polite and kinda boring the first time I heard it (at least, compared with the self-titled disc and Cassette Recordings '87). But it's actually pretty great. There's some really good Brötz-blare on it, and Ronald Shannon Jackson pretty much pounds his drumkit right through the floor.

    I also recommend Mainliner's Imaginative Plain. Everybody always jizzes over their first disc, Mellow Out, and I love that one too, but this one, on PSF, kinda gets glossed over. It's well worth hearing, with some fast amp-destroying attack tracks and some slow bluesy jams (that are still totally speaker-frying). Good, good stuff. The only bad disc they've ever released is Mainliner Sonic, which just sounds like Guitar Wolf trying to be the Stooges, but that's way out of print so you might as well just pretend it never existed - I do.

    ― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

    Pirate Jenny, "Never-Sea Land", the "Pet Sounds" of pirate rock.

    ― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

    No-one aside from Alex in NYC has ever spoken of Slammin' Watusis, whose self-titled '88 debut was my favourite LP of that year until Daydream Nation was released. A trashy, unlikely and irresistable mix of speedmetal, blues-harp, Ayler-esque tenor sax, jokey skate (actually "skt") punk, Replacements/Springsteen "heartfelt" whatsis and Yngwie-wank axe soloing, all designed to appeal to virtually nobody. First indicator that second (& last) LP, '89's Kings Of Noise, was going to suck righteously: Only 10 songs, to the debut's 13. Second indicator: "originals" entitled "Born In Chicago", "Goin' Home", "Live For Danger", etc. Third indicataor: First track, "Livin' In Sin", a daring courageous hard-hitting uncompromising indictment of hypocritical TV preachers. The pro-wrestling tribute was smarter & more original.

    ― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

    Mentioned a lot but not tlaked about much: The Concretes C/D

    Mum and Dad off Twisted Nerve. Darkpop Northern psyche modern par exellence.

    ― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

    Skyphone: Fabula (Rune Grammofon)
    Nice, warm, but endearingly wobbly electronica that's trying to wrestle itself into a bottle. It doesn't succeed.

    ― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

    Rex Aquarium: Privacy

    ― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

    Logh - The Raging Sun

    ― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

    I'm not really sure...that Breathless album just has some shoegazy overtones and I really think it would be an excellent companion piece to that particular KoD album.

    ― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

    Indecent Obsession Indio" it's like "abc covering duran duran's "rio ".

    ― david dixon's blonde bimbo wife, Friday, 4 February 2005 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

    Festival der Geisteskranken - Burn, Manson, Burn.

    Some German band on Sonic Malade - related to Untoten -, a concept album about Charles Manson, somewhere in between gothic, postpunk, grindcore and eighties electro. Messy and weird, very enjoyable. No: great.

    ― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

    Toby Goodshank, "Safe Harbor" (Olive Juice Music)
    Wonderful naive/serious and extremely sad tunes from ex-Moldy Peach. Need a few listens, but he gets me every time.

    ― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

    Archie Whitewater's "Archie Whitewater", 1970.
    acquire the song "cross country" and you'll be at least intrigued.
    I KNOW I WAS!

    ― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

    three months pass...
    Revive!

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

    How about:

    True Blue, Tina Brooks

    ― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

    On the mellow tip:
    Honolulu Citys Lights - The Beamer Brothers
    Rashida - Jon Lucien
    On the more rockin' side:
    Money Money 2020 - Network
    LP - Kwikway

    ― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

    two weeks pass...
    Residual Echoes - s/t

    ― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

    Compulsive Gamblers – Gambling Days Are Over (SFTRI, 1995).

    If I were forced to pick only one Memphis artist for the desert island, there are a lot of days I'd pick the Gamblers over Big Star and Al Green. (Elvis doesn't even enter into the equation.)

    ― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

    one year passes...
    more stuff you have never talked about on ilm and that you have never seen talked about on ilm and that you love and why please!!!

    ― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

    oo blimey:

    Fairfield Parlour "From home to home"
    Wizzard "Wizzard's Brew"

    First, a lost psychepop album the second a very strage amalgum of free jazz, 50's rock and heavy rock.

    ― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

    B0b French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, The Legacy Lives On, 2001.

    Highlights: three-part gospel all-star action on 'Gloryland', amazing muted piano solo on Joe Avery followed by a rap verse over trad jazz that is actually good

    ― Jordan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

    It's only come up a couple of times (literally according to the search engine) but Roy Wood's [i]Boulders[i] is a wonderful record. And I'm not a huge fan of him otherwise.

    ― The guy who just votes in polls, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

    "Sheee's too good fr meeeee"

    just bought this (oxfam) after not having it for 30 years corblimey.

    ― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

    The thing I can't stop playing lately is the Bear Family comp of Jumpin' Bill Carlisle. Proto-rockabilly hillbilly corn with lyrics about women doin' the hoochie coochie dance, rhyming sugar with booger and piggy with thingamajiggy. Chet Atkins guitar all over the place.

    ― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

    T.Power - The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind

    Overshadowed by the release Goldie's Timeless, TSETOAIM is a great great example of mid 90s drum and bass taken to the edge of abstraction and atmospherics.

    ― The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

    i don't think i've ever seen too much talk about Epic Soundtracks and how amazing his first record Rise Above is...anyone else love it? Not sure what to compare it to -- a little Faces, a little Nillsson, some Bacharach, some Neil Young. And then some Sonic Youth thrown in for good measure. Epic's other records are good, too, but this one is the best.

    ― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

    The very last Epic album (the posthumous one, well, I mean he was alive when he recorded it!) is great too, maybe the best of the three. I still listen to him ALL THE TIME, if I had a dog, it would probably sit whenever Epic (or Wally Tax) says so. I have mentioned him in here before but always nice to see that kind of love for him! :-)

    If I had to pick one album that is great but most people probably haven't heard it would be the 1970 self-titled album by the group Zen from the Netherlands.

    Great pop-sike (btw, not to be a prick but I like to think everyone has heard the Fairfield Parlour album).

    ― Saxby D. Elder, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

    T.Power - The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind

    Is this OOP?

    ― Jordan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

    xpost - yeah, "Good Things" by Epic is nice, I was just listening to that one last week. It's funny that I bought Rise Above when I was a kid because of the Sonic Youth content. So when I played it, the music was definitely not what I was expecting! But it was an ultra-pleasant surprise. Hey I don't suppose anyone has the "mail order only" Epic album that I see in the liners for one or two of his CDs? I've always been curious about that, but it seems to be offered by a long-gone record company...

    ― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

    Is this OOP?

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Released in 1995 on the Sounds of the Underground (SOUR) label. I've seen it at Amoeba a few years back.

    ― The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

    Scott 4 - Works LP

    Stereolab, Neu!, Daft Punk and Neil Young stuck in an elevator...(has nothing to do with Scott Walker)...

    ― henry s, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

    sly and the family stone - life!

    bunch of WEIRDER songs than on stand/dance to the music, but definitely in the early-sly sound, not like riot or even fresh. "plastic jim," "chicken," "dynamite," "jane is a groupee," and "only one way out of this mess" are all CLASSIC kinda tweaked/paranoid pop songs.

    ― 69, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

    Well, I wish I could acquire Hudson Ford's Free Spirit on CD...

    ― M.V., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

    Human Switchboard - who's landing in my hangar?
    Cleveland band that made only one proper album, the aforementioned. David Thomas produced their lone ep prior to the album. The sound is on the Velvet Underground end of the garage spectrum and is farfisa-based.
    The songs seem very personal, too. I've owned this since it came out in 1981 and it'svery much a sentimental fave., but i honestly believe it holds up as well as anything from that period

    ― outdoor_miner, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

    xpost tylerw:

    I have that mail-order Epic CD...it's called "Debris", and was produced by a German label (Normal)...it's very good, with some of his first solo noodlings, along with the requisite demos and soundtrack-y instrumentals...material-wise, a bit of an overlap with the "Everything Is Temporary" comp...

    Epic's death was one of the few rock-star deaths that gutted me...(the other one was his brother, Nikki Sudden, because now who will release the supposedly prolific lost Epic recordings?)...but I digress...

    ― henry s, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was

    Hook a brother up?

    ― Jordan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

    I'd like to recommend "Rise To The Occasion" by the Unholy Trinity. This is a 1985 hard blues-rock mini-album by the guys from the Sid Presley Experience who DIDN'T end up in The Godfathers and contains some SPE songs that were only played live. It's very similar to the Sid Presley Experience - snotty, aggressive and above all, heavy.

    ― everything, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

    jansen/barbieri - worlds in a small room

    ex-japan members' pre-dolphin brothers solo album, beautiful mid-80s sino-textures, "breaking the silence" pre-dates mbv-ambience, glide guitar as played on a koto, "mission" is a huge clanking drama-skank, like coil covering three 6 mafia then remixed by carl craig (even has the same stuttering granulized sample noise as heard on "further back and faster" from L.S.D. five years before coil used it), "the way the light falls" invents tortoise, "blue lines" is chrono trigger in 2300 ad after the day of lavos. possibly the most successful of the various attempts at ambient music by ex-japan members throughout the 80s, possibly just an extremely nice ryuichi sakamoto rip off, but if you like playing final fantasy you'll dig this

    ― creme1, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

    er, not solo album. you know what i mean.

    ― creme1, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

    Though I find most of his stuff rather tedious (and tbh, this one isn't entirely an exception), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Bare Wires has always been one I enjoy. It's more folk/jazzy than the earlier stuff I've heard by him. And it features a young Mick Taylor, so that's pretty cool.

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

    of course, this might have made a much bigger dent in the UK...

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

    good to see some love for tpower.
    never heard that first album, but "waveform" is great. really dense sonics, urban paranoia vibe, sick production and some funk too.

    ― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

    Human Switchboard - who's landing in my hangar?

    Yes! They also remind me a lot of Yo La Tengo, the male-female singing, farfisa organ, even his voice is reminiscent of Ira Kaplan. Great record. Should be released on CD, especially since the singer was President of a pretty big record label a few years back.

    I would like to recommend The Glands. An indie rock band from Athens GA. Released 2 records, Double Thriller in 1996 and their masterpiece, the self-titled record in 2000. They should have been hugely popular, they certainly had the songs to put them over the top. But they had a lot of crappy record label problems, apparently. I saw them in NY and there were 7 people in the audience.

    Listen to Straight Down here, you'll be hooked:
    www.myspace.com/theglands

    ― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP

    I think it's extremely better than the album, Broom (I like Broom, though)...It might be my favorite EP ever...There's just something so special about it.

    ― Tape Store, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

    YES!! RE: THE GLANDS

    I saw them when the second record came out, and yeah, there were maybe twelve people. Shoulda been huge in indie land.

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

    I never understood why Glands-mania didn't sweep through the land. Everybody who likes The Shins would love them.

    Somebody please go listen to Straight Down and report back what you think.

    ― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

    I've actually really started to love the debut (which I always liked fine). It might not have the highs The Glands does, but it doesn't peter out towards the end, either.

    I actually had a drunken conversation w/ one of the Shins dudes when he mentioned they had done some shows together. It was basically along the lines of "Why aren't they famous?" or you know, like, internet indie famous?

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

    xpost actually

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

    Double Thriller is great, half of it is on the same level as The Glands.

    In 2003 The Glands played Maxwells in Hoboken and I asked Ross Shapiro if they're planning to release anything else. He said they have an EP coming out in early 2004 and another full-length after that. Obviously that didn't work out.

    They don't even have a website, and their myspace page has been inactive for over a year. They have 12 friends. It's so sad.

    ― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

    Couldn't find it with the search function, has anyone ever mentioned the Shivers? They just put out Phone Calls, and the lead guy Keith is a great, great songwriter with a really good, expressive voice. It's a little weird, it's a little country, goes well with booze.

    ― Maciej, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

    here's a Glands myspace page with more songs (and friends). It hasn't been updated in a year either.

    ― will, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

    Man I was about to start a POO "Lost Classic" thread when the search didn't turn anything up. Glad I caught this.

    Try as I might I can't find anyone repping for Dorothy Ashby's Afro-Harping. It goes without saying that Dorothy was an incredible harpist when she applied her skills to jazz, but this particular date focuses on sophisticated jazzy lounge pop. The title track and "Soul Vibrations" are funky and a little psychedelic, a few moments feature the harp drenched in Echoplex (!), and the Soulful Strings contribute hip, swirling backup throughout. There's even a cover of "The Look of Love" that manages to sound sexy instead of sleazy or dated!

    OG vinyl copies have been known to go for triple digits, I was lucky to snag one for $20; least I felt lucky til the 03 reissue made the tunes available on CD for half that.

    ― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

    Ossian- Ksiega Chmur

    i think maybe i should post this album.

    ― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

    Yeah the second Glands album totally fucking rules.

    I'd like to recommend Run On "Start Packing" which is an awesome mid-90s NYC indie matador record that no one talks about. I like it more than any Yo La Tengo album which is probably their closest comp. Sue Garner would eat Georgia Hubley's face off in a fight.

    ― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

    http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005LLW.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

    Jeanette - Corazon De Poeta

    Do you like soft Spanish retro pop with bittersweet childlike vocals? Get this, it's great.

    ― admrl, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

    Signal to Trust - Golden Armour

    great mix of math chops + sonic youth w/sort of unique talky vocal style...amazing rhythm section, beautiful record...it's also a cryptic concept album about comic books. almost every song has really obscure refs. to comic books etc, comic shops etc etc...

    ― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

    cool packaging...it was all hand screenprinted and hand assembled

    here's the front:

    http://modern-radio.com/graphics/STTGAcover.jpg

    here's what it looks like all folded out:

    http://modern-radio.com/graphics/STTGACD1.jpg

    AND...if you unassemble the artwork and cut everything out (there are dotted lines around everything)...you can make a DIORAMA! neato!

    http://modern-radio.com/graphics/diorama.jpg

    ― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

    If I suggest Yo Frankie by Dion is everybody to have heard of it and make me feel stupid

    ― roger whitaker, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

    Not an album, but three 1947 Dial Records 78s (on CD in various compilations).

    Two of them are Dexter Gordon tenor duels with Teddy Edwards: "The Duel" (a.k.a. "Hornin' In"); one is a split 78, with Teddy on the A-side ("Blues in Teddy's Flat") and Dexter on the B-side ("Bikini").

    Edwards is probably the least-remembered and least-celebrated of Dexter's sparring partners over the decades (e.g. Wardell Gray, Johnny Griffin, Booker Ervin, Gene Ammons), but his Bird-inflected tenor made him even more of a modernist at the time than either Gordon or Gray. And he wins, by a TKO.

    ― mark 0, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

    Leroy Hutson - Hutson. Anybody that likes 70s soul will play it to death.

    ― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

    New Ethan Lipton ('Mr. Softy') is grrrrrreat.

    ― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

    american death ray - "smash radio hits" & "a new commotion, a delicate tension"

    totally awesome memphis garage

    ― félix pié, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

    I may have mentioned the album title and the name of the act, but no more than that:

    The Merrymakers: No Sleep 'Til Famous

    In the mid 90s, there was suddenly a wave of Swedish indie pop acts partly crossing over to the European market. The most famous of these were Cardigans and Wannadies, but there was also quite a bit of attention for names such as Brainpool, Popsicle, Eggstone and This Perfect Day.

    However, the best of all those acts - The Merrymakers - sadly didn't manage anything else but to become Big In Japan. Plus 1998's "Bubblegum" album became very popular in the American powerpop underground. Most Swedes have never heard of them though.

    But still, in spite of "Bubblegum" being more famous, their best album was this debut album from 1995. In the midst of the Britpop explosion, this kind of melodic guitar based trad-pop was suddenly very trendy again.

    The album is crowded with great pop, influenced by the likes of Jellyfish, Crowded House, Squeeze and of course The Beatles (particularly McCartney's efforts). Lots of vocal harmonies, obviously, which belongs in this genre.

    The two best tracks here were both singles. "Monument Of Me" was probably the biggest "hit" off the album, a very McCartney-esque uptempo pop song, "Aeroplane" is a more different number, with sort of a bossa-nova beat and less vocal harmonies. But a most beautiful melody and some really interesting chords in the background still makes it an obvious highlight.

    In fact, other than Jellyfish, the powerpop revival never got any better than this. Matthew Sweet, Posies and Material Issue may all have released excellent albums, but none of them close to the genius that is "No Sleep 'Til Famous".

    Their Myspace site is at http://profile.myspace.com/merrymakers
    However, all the music examples are from "Bubblegun" (an excellent album that one too though, particularly "April's Fool").

    ― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

    Emmanuelle Parrenin's Maison Rouge. Innit. Awesome.

    ― Drooone, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

    Fuck, Maison Rose, not Rouge.

    Shit.

    ― Drooone, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

    I'd like to recommend Run On "Start Packing" which is an awesome mid-90s NYC indie matador record that no one talks about.

    I think I have mentioned this is here before. This is a neat record that surely fits the bill in that indeed very few people will have heard it. (I like it also).

    My recollection from living around Hoboken back then was that it was WFMU Music Director David Newgarden's band with Hamish Kilgour and his wife but now I remember that was Mad Scene. According to AMG, which I have now just consulted, David was in BOTH, which explains why this is all so hazy to me. I saw Run On at Coney Island and they were really amazing. I think Rudolph Grey played that night too, not too sure, maybe even with Licht (or was that another time?).

    Anyhoo, uncredited in the AMG listing for Mad Scene is a drummer by the name of Byron Guthrie, whom Galaxie 500/Luna freaks might remember (or be interested to know) was Dean Wareham's first post-Galaxie drummer and played in the then-provisionally-known group Pomegranate (that name was a bit of a secret maybe) for a few gigs before being sacked for the cleaner style and more major label bound marquee value of Stanley Demeski and the name Luna. Byron also played with Ultra Vivid Scene, as a "full member" (i.e. for whatever that's worth) and also toured with John Moore and also J&M Chain. I was just thinking about him the other day in learning of the passing of Luis de la Reguera, a director that was a friend of his (and whom I knew back then because he was making music). Don't know how I got onto all that... Sorry about the tangent but there is actually some interesting info in there for someone.

    ― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

    Try as I might I can't find anyone repping for Dorothy Ashby's Afro-Harping

    this is in high demand w/the beat diggers (obv why it usually costs so much). songs from it have been compiled on both the Dusty Fingers and Finders Keepers comps.

    ― jaxon, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

    Swimmer - Petit Pois. Fall-based but twisted in a different angular way.

    Tons of New Zealand stuff:

    Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! - herky-jerky spaz rock, the singer has this cool way of aligning his vocal style to the particular guitar tone of each track.

    Cyclops - whatever their one album was called. Low-fi oddness from Peter Jefferies et al.

    Throw - Rememory. Similar to the Chills but with a bit more oomph.

    ― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

    pixel - set your display between parts in order to (r-n074)

    ― tricky, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

    sorry that should be set your center between your parts in order to

    ― tricky, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

    They've never escaped Chapel Hill, but Three Torches and their album Infernal Machine is a damn good bit of dark twang, sort of like Nick Cave being smothered with a velvet pillow. Very jazzy in spots, dirgy in others.

    ― bendy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

    Afro-Harping is available as a cheap LP reissue, done by scorpio.. probably run ya $10-12 at most shops?

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

    Dan Peterson's choice reminds me of the Country All-Stars' Jazz From the Hills, another Bear Family reissue that collects really nice '50s cuts by a band that includes Chet Atkins, Homer and Jethro, etc.

    ― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

    smith n hack, tribute. techy disco edits (apparently it's made entirely from bohannon samples) pushed to the edge of abstraction, waaay beyond the dancefloor at times. many ppl know 'to our disco friends' from the playgroup dj-kicks set. unfortunately it's not on cd, and i don't think the vinyl is in print either but you'll find it if you hunt in the usual places.

    ― haitch, Thursday, 26 April 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

    the self titled album by A Poet Named Revolver is very good, if only for the song "Ex-Meadows." I think they're from somewhere down south. i saw them play in st louis a couple months ago and it was pretty great.

    ― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

    Afro-Harping is available as a cheap LP reissue, done by scorpio.. probably run ya Afro-Harping is available as a cheap LP reissue, done by scorpio.. probably run ya $10-12 at most shops?

    -- ian, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:11 PM0-12 at most shops?

    -- ian, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:11 PM

    Yah, you can also pick it up on CD. Hence my elation/frustration at paying $20 for an OG!/old & used copy.

    ― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

    wait how did that happen

    ― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

    yeah, but why would anyone want a CD???

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

    The first ones that come to mind:

    -Happy & Artie Traum "Double Back"
    Mentioned this on the post-psych/early-seventies/soft-country-rock thread. This is a great album. Their second one on Columbia. Like SO MANY albums of the era it leads off the with the "hit" which is Scavengers. A well-written, downer country jam. Chimey guitars, check. Bizarre imagery, reflections on American culture, check. Dark allusions to prostitutes and guns? Check. The rest of the album is really solid too. Comparisons to the Band would not be off the mark; the piano/organ's a nice touch in "The Seagull." Also, "The Ferryman" has a great anthemic, sing-along hook. then the fiddle kicks in. Fuck yeah.


    -Sally Eaton "Farewell American Tour"
    This is another one where the first track is the stand-out--"Once Before You Go." She's got a great voice and it shows here. Uncomfortable at first listen maybe, but the drunken, pitiable atmosphere only becomes more appealing as you find it stuck in yer head unexpectedly three months since yer last listen.


    -Arab on Radar "Soak The Saddle"
    This record used to SCARE people when I was in high school.

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

    i forgot to bold the rest of those titles :(

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

    oops, the traums record is on Capitol not Columbia my mistake. My copy has a red, purple & black label! nicer looking than the green capitol labels i think.

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

    there's also an exploito-flavored psych track on the sally eaton record--"Flowers In The Air" subtitled: "For Albert Hoffman." Sitar haaay!

    ― ian, Thursday, 26 April 2007 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

    SWAN SILVERTONES, My Rock

    ― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 26 April 2007 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

    "Gododdin" by Test Dept.

    ― novaheat, Thursday, 26 April 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

    one year passes...

    George Gerdes - Obituary (United Artists - 1971)

    LOVING this. Dylan-esque, country-esque, folk-esque, weird and intimate and then big and bold and then back to strange and small again. can't properly describe what his voice does. kinda sounds like a snake rubbing up against your ankle. but in a good way! and not the kind of snake that wants to make it with you, the kind of snake that just wants a bowl of mice before bedtime. impeccable production. early 70's. debut album. his only other major label album was called Son Of Obituary and i still haven't heard it, but it's supposed to be even BETTER and even harder to describe. best song on Obituary is "Real As Rain". soooooooooo pretty.

    "Seeking to spread more light- that's the aim,
    Every moment you don't is spent in vain,
    Carefully carve wood along the grain
    And the rest shall follow like the rain"

    ― scott seward, Thursday, 5 June 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

    Les Risques Du Metier by Benabar is pretty great. Kind of traditional French chanson but super catchy and funny if you half-understand french. Overall, an oddly neglected musician in the U.S.

    ― jsimp, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

    Great thread. Here's a few: Abayudaya: Music From The Jewish People of Uganda (simple arrangements of traditional Jewish songs performed with total joy and perfect harmonies and a percussive kick you've never heard with music like this); Louis Philippe's An Unknown Spring (sleek, sophisticated chamber pop from the man who did the string arrangements on the last Clientele disc)).

    ― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 6 June 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

    I've blabbed about all mine already :(

    ― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

    And this one, too. As of now it's only available as an advance on eMusic, but I think it will get a lot of attention when it's more widely released in a month or so.

    ― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 6 June 2008 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

    NO WAIT

    Darkspace - Darkspace II, some of the most astounding, brilliantly-realised black metal I've heard.

    ― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

    it's pretty hard to find the reissue, but the first album by Complex is genuinely incredible and probably one of my top three albums of the 60s.

    i don't know if 'josie' is the first psych/reggae crossover but it's gotta be one of the best

    ― electricsound, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

    The Side Effects -- s/t EP

    Released in 1980, the only record by this Athens band. You can hear the influence of the B-52's, Pylon, and Talking Heads. Four good songs.

    ― Brad C., Friday, 6 June 2008 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

    I already talked about:

    Where is the LOVE for Tiny Lights???

    the Virgin Prunes, Gavin Friday - classic or dud

    and I would also like to add the first 17 Pygmies album, an amazing blend of 80's pop and strange world music. It's called Jedda By The Sea and afaik had never been on CD. Has former Savage Republic members so if you like the SR singles "Film Noir" then this album is for you.

    Slapp Happy is getting enough love here lately.

    ― sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

    Jedda was released on CD, by a Greek label called Lazy Dog, paired with the Hatikva EP. it's a silver CD, though the slapdash artwork suggests that it might be less than official. agreed that it's an excellent, overlooked album. but i think i like the Hatikva/Missyfish CD even more. and some of the (non-narration) tracks on Welcome may be their best.

    a very underrated band. they often remind me of His Name Is Alive. the comeback album from last year was pretty damn good. could have used an editor, though.

    ― Mr. Hal Jam, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

    yeah I love all those records. By "comeback" are you referring to that 17th Pygmy CD?

    ― sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

    also "Krystallnacht" from Welcome is my favorite translucent guitar instrumental ever.

    ― sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

    Imagination - "Night Dubbing"
    http://batzbatz.com/uploads/posts/2007-09/1188815221_imagination.jpg

    Although Imagination are probably best known now for Leee Jones' silly name, this is a truly amazing record that shows how much broader the idea of what 'dub' meant was back in the 80s. Instead of shooting straight for stripped back, bassy interpretations the mixes here really play with the originals, injecting space and atmosphere beyond a simplistic 'dread' feel.

    ― J@cob, Friday, 6 June 2008 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

    Carmel - The Drum is Everything
    Tony Williams - Spring
    Matthew Ryan - Concussion

    The thread on Chuck Prophet doesn't mention his best album, The Hurting Business.

    The thread on The Innocence Mission doesn't mention Birds of My Neighborhood, their amazing, almost drum-free record.

    Not much on The Ditty Bops and no mention of their good album The Ditty Bops.

    Add to this list Bob Neuwirth's Havana Midnight and you've got most of my favorite records of the past 10 years.

    ― Eazy, Friday, 6 June 2008 06:35 (eighteen years ago)

    yeah I love all those records. By "comeback" are you referring to that 17th Pygmy CD?

    17 Blackbirds 2CD. it's billed as 17 Pygmies. second disc is remixes. album proper dabbles in gospel, with mixed results. is this "17th Pygmy" CD something else?

    also "Krystallnacht" from Welcome is my favorite translucent guitar instrumental ever.

    then you NEED to hear the Deux Filles' Silence & Wisdom, if you haven't yet.

    what did you think of the Del Rey & the Sun Kings album?

    ― Mr. Hal Jam, Friday, 6 June 2008 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

    tex perkins - dark horses. great late night break-up record, maybe the best thing he's ever done.

    ― __CB__, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

    is night dubbing available on cd yet ?
    i used to have it on cassette and indeed it is wonderful.
    love to hear it again.

    ― mark e, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

    is night dubbing available on cd yet ?

    doh. yes. should have checked. i thought this was a lost classic and OOP, but amazon is proving me wrong.

    ― mark e, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)


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