http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MISS70306042356&sql=Blj9fs36ba3dg
what can you tell me about them?alternatelywhat can i tell you about them?
― astroblaster (astroblaster), Monday, 1 September 2003 04:16 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 1 September 2003 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― astroblaster (astroblaster), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
check it out unless youre one of those that wont bother going anywhere near pitchfork.
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 1 September 2003 07:49 (twenty years ago) link
― bulletproofnothing, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
Playing the free WFMU show in Brooklyn on the 13th:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/09/wfmu-free-music.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 5 October 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Illegal Bodies" is the most awesome shit ever
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a song of the future.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Buying this on vinyl was one of the best things I did in 07.
― oscar, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"...where, unless you have a metal body, they're not gonna allow you to walk the street." "..." "No kiddin'..."
That intro makes me smile everytime, imagining all those bemused sons-of-steelworkers watching the band bash that one out
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 17 March 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay holy hell in ILM turning me onto good music shocka: This album Cyborgs Revisited is um...blowing my mind, only 4 songs in. Um...wow. Can we get these guys on a double bill with the Stooges??
― Bimble, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
This is unfathomably good. Holy mackerel.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
the vocals are kind of weak in a detroit/iggy way.
does.not.compute.
'weak' and 'detroit / iggy' in the same sentence is making me worry my computer is gonna crash or something
anyway, best SS song - "Nazi Apocalypse"
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
They were fucking amazing in Chicago tonight.
wow.
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 22 June 2008 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link
great article:
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12994
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 22 June 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jli9L1gyI
rock and roll
― iiiiiii've banned goooons beeeefahhhhhhhhh (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
love these guys
― Michael B, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder. This is just the thing I have been looking for!!
― US EEL (u s steel), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
A song of the future.
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
they quickly run though like five FANTASTIC riffs at the end of "illegal bodies", more than you get outta most albums. and i love the VU/hawkwind thing, wish more bands dug that furrow. missed 'em at portland garage fest this past fall. :(
here someone's posted the 1st three lp tracks. all great, esp "electro rock" & "nazi apocalypse" (though sound's very low):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeXRFo710U
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
they quickly run though like five FANTASTIC riffs at the end of "illegal bodies"
^^^^^ yes. Everybody in that jam session at the end kills it. I think it's probably the best rock recording ever; it's just 9 straight minutes of kicking ass.
― iiiiiii've banned goooons beeeefahhhhhhhhh (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
nd i love the VU/hawkwind thing, wish more bands dug that furrow.Some Pink Fairies stuff scratches that itch, imo.There's really nothing else like Cyborgs Revisited, though. The live stuff was recorded at a show in the Hamilton Shopping Mall!
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
The guitar solo on Illegal Bodies is so righteous. I'm listening to Gary Higgins right now, but it's so distinct I can hear it cut through everything.
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
The greatest Canadian rock 'n' roll song ever, recorded at a free afternoon performance on the roof of a Hamilton shopping mall. Amazing.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
they were awesome at the show FMU put on with Oneida a couple years ago
― dmr, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
They were great at Terrastock last year.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^Loved that little guy
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know what I mean, I don't know what I'm talkin baout
― got a bad habit I might OD of markers (crüt), Saturday, 1 January 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hey!https://simplysaucer.bandcamp.com/album/saucerlandguess this is the "complete" recordings? or something?
― tylerw, Monday, 11 April 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
also a pretty radical recent live recording: http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/2015/12/recording-simply-saucer.html
― tylerw, Monday, 11 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
these guys are incredible. i wish there was more music like this. maybe there is (?))
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
also lol to whomever didn't like the vocals... what about the first instance of the phrase 'nazi apocalypse' in the song nazi apocalypse and how cool that sounds
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
Do wish there was more of that early stuff. Haven't heard the postpunk stuff that came as bonus tracks on one version of the cd.There are a few semi comparable early 70s bands dotted around the US etc like Debris and bits of the Cleveland scene and maybe the Modern Lovers whose live stuff is worth checking out. But the main thing about Simply Saucer and the other maverick pre-punk bands may be their uniqueness and individuality. Would still like to come across more stuff with similar feel and vintage anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
Pandoras - Space Amazons , Cleveland OH band - one single 1974, comp came out in the 90s - is sort of in the same ballpark but more glam, less punky. Not identical by any means but same influences anyway & good stuff anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8E-yjExXak
― everything, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
THe Jesse locke biography Heavy Metalloid Music is very interesting. Some weird coincidences like SS frontman Edgar breau having been in contact with Craig Bell of the Mirrors since the early 70s thanks to Pink Floyd fandom.& the rest of teh book detailing the various incarnati8ons of the band from initial 6 piece who were documented on a lost recording and were supposed to be even further out than the first 6 tracks on Cyborgs Revisited through 2 different 2 guitar line ups both of which sound interestiing
Also just seeing that the full concert that made up the second side of teh Cybogs revisited lp was put out on the In The Red double vinyl version of the lp. Unfortunately doesn't seem to have appeared on cd and seems to be sold outon vinyl, buit is up on Spotify so I'm listening to it now.
Saucerland another double lp mops up other material by the band but again I wish there was a cd.
& I'm now wondering what the cd I picked up was. I thought it wasa recent release when I got it and i thought that was mid 90s but I'm only seeing an initial vinyl release in 1989 and an expanded cd release in 2003. Could swear i had it when I had a radio show which ended in '97.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 January 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
There was CD released along with the vinyl in 1989 apparently (Discogs).
― *there's (Noel Emits), Sunday, 20 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
Found it, it says Fist Puppet through Cargo and has the date 1989 on it. So wonder how well known it was in Rough Trade before I found a copy. Was it something that had been semi known for a while, I think I picked up my copy in the talbot road shop after coming across a review in Forcedexposure or YourFlesh or something.
Julian Cope reviewed it as an album of the month in 2001 and it was reissued as an expanded edition in 2003 with a b+w cover instead of the colourful solarised one mine has.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link