TS: Swell Maps' 'Get Down And Get With It' vs. The entire output of John Spencer Blues Explosion

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Like, one's pretty good, but there's alot more of the other.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd rather have a copy of the Sesame Street coloring book than the entire collected works of Danielle Steele.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah but *which* Sesame Street coloring book?

― omg, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

there's no such song but ok sure if there was it'd be better than the jsbx

― duane, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ernie and Bathtime, omg.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

JSBX so I could have one of those walls entirely covered with vinyl. Oh, you mean to LISTEN to

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

there's no such song but ok sure if there was it'd be better than the jsbx

The first U.S. Swell Maps comp reissue International Rescue contains this track, but the problem is.. a lot of these tracks are actually early Nikki Sudden solo tracks (like the excellent "New York")

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post Not the 'Bert and Cookie Monster STFU book'?

― Patrick Kinghorn, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

But hell, the gauntlet was raised, I'm gonna raise it further

Nikki Sudden "New York" vs. The entire output of Pussy Galore

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually wait, I'd rather have a copy of the Killah Priest remix of that JSBX song than anything the Swell Maps or Nikki Sudden have done.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, I'll let you know where to send the Swell Maps stuff... *looks on s*sk for the killah priest remix in question*

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's called "Greyhound Part 2" (it's on Wu-Chronicles II but also on the JSBX remix record. I sold my Swell Maps and Nikki Sudden stuff long long ago, DB.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean you don't like the Moby remix more? I mean, he makes it a DIFFERENT SONG, man! (haha, I actually like that Moby remix, but that track is the first time I remember noting the humor in the whole mid to late 90s somewhat-famous-techno-guy remixing the somewhat-famous-indie-band "hey, now it's a different song!" phenomenon)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard the Moby remix. Is it as "good" as his Mission of Burma remix?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

am i the only person on here that still likes both JSBX (only up to Sideways Soul, though) AND the Swell Maps?

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup, you are. Childhood's End and all.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Down And Get With It was actually one of the tracks on a 7" EP by "Phones Sportsman Band" - a Swell Maps side project released on Rather...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

nikki sudden has a good website. he keeps an interesting journal.

― katnyc, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you Jack.

I mean, god bless Alive for the Swell Maps comp, but there are two major problems with it (as far as the CD goes)

a) they cut out the first few seconds of "Let's Build A Car"'s amazing fuzzed out intro

b) NO LINER NOTES

So, newbies have no idea that the Nikki Sudden or Phones Sportsman Band songs are actually side/solo projects rather than Swell Maps' songs.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

International Rescue comp = bliss.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's build a Car isn't even on the lp version (though it is on my Jane from Occupied Europe cd reissue in all its full-lenght splendor).
I was a pretty confused when I heard NeW York on a Nikki Sudden reissue, thinking it was a Maps contribution as my only reference was the Alive comp. This thread has illuminated. xpost.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have 2 vesions of Let's Build A Car on 2 Mute CD reissues(can't remember which, probably the aforementionted Jane and Train Out of It) They both have amazing intros, one has the fuzzed out line, the other has this beautiful reverb-drenched blissfull line. I remember an interview from the 90s where someone, I think maybe Seefeel? said they'd spend a lifetime trying to recreate the sound of the intro to Let's Build A Car, but was never sure which version they meant.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Thurston Moore says the fuzztone guitar intro "comes slicing slabbing and all out fuzzifying off that crackling vinyl groove" in his liner notes to the Collision Time Revisited 2xLP comp that came out on Mute in the late '80s.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, if it was Seefeel, I'm guessing the "beautiful reverb-drenched blissfull line." I think the Collision Time Revisted 2lp is just the greatest.HA! Xpost.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

god bless Alive for the Swell Maps comp, but there are two major problems with it (as far as the CD goes)

Hey, the CD has shitloads more songs then the vinyl version (which doesn't have "Get Down & Get With It", "Let's Build a Car" or "Read About Seymour"), so it could be worse.

a lot of these tracks are actually early Nikki Sudden solo tracks (like the excellent "New York")

The Swell Maps actually perform "New York", though. IIRC, Nikki Sudden wrote in Secretly Canadian reissues that this was to be the next SM single before they broke up.

I like both bands in question (though I listened to the SMs last night, and haven't listened to the JSBX in at least a year), but I don't know this song, so I'll go with the JSBX's entire output.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh ok. (i've got the vinyl "int. resc." so i never heard that). is it the bobby marchan/slade song? that would definitely rule

― duane, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

swell maps : all time top 3 of always & forever/jsbx : liked em lots for maybe nearly a year

― duane, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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