Rave About One Solitary Song You're Reasonably Sure No One Else on ILM has Ever Heard but that They Should Seek Out With All Speed!

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Ripping random tracks from my deesk collection to the ol' iPod (I have a yawnsome two hour bus trip tomorrow) and dug out the `97 album, Two Legs Bad by a friend of mine's husband's band, LIFE IN A BLENDER, and "Chicken Dance" (the first track on the album, is so fuckin' great it has restored my faith in the future of mankind. An entirely bizarre ditty about a machine in a Chinatown arcade (that actually existed, I've seen it) wherein a quater bought you a dance from a chicken (cruelly perched on an electric wire that would shock the hen into dancing). In any event, it's a fuckin' classic (and the video, should you ever have the opportunity to see it, is heart-stoppingly hilarious).

yer turn.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Please excuse the needlesss usage of open-ended parentheses above.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

savoir faire, by family fodder, makes me happy. maybe it's already popular in these parts? I don't know.

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombie Lickins by Tan As Fuck.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon, people...RAVE about them. Tell us why we should hear'em!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd suggest something, but I have this fear that ILM has already heard my entire record collection.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And HOW we can hear them, if possible... I want to hear anything by a band called Tan as Fuck. And the Chicken Dance sounds brilliant, too.

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Where there's a will, Neb, it's been said that there's a way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil Wyte - Comin Your Direction (dragged & chopped). Bit like 'Squaredance' but not as serious, just dumb ugly white boy druggy porch-drunk-Rocky rap with silly chanting country chorus, banjo and a cowboy riding his horse saying YEEHAW!!! it's produced by DJ Paul & Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia fame so you know it good.

― scg, Friday, 25 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My Window by Secret Dakota Ring link
also, the rest of the album

virtuoso pop that rocks just enough. i keep listening to it while i walk home from work if it's nice out. for those who like fountains of wayne, the posies, matthew sweet, xtc. so many of you will hate it, don't tell me about it

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

enforcer - dam tuff, fierce and jagged mentasms attacking from all angles, over kyperkinetic and scything breaks, spinning out of control, white heat intensity, could this really be Lime, from sl2? hollow eyed hedonism fallen over, dead eyed mdma but with the smiles taken out, purity only

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

www.tanasfuck.com has some mp3s.

i don't know if that song is one of them, though. but it's all good.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mighty Hannibal - "Hymn #5" because it's the best song ever about Vietnam.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Savoir Faire by Family Fodder is a fave of mine as well...so forget that.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I know people may have heards it, but I can't understand why we haven't had 1000 posts about Cinerama's tortured cover of that late-house classic, "Groove Jet."

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This Bike Is A Pipebomb, "The Black Panther Song" ( availeable here: http://www.plan-it-x.com/songs.html )

I'm kinda drunk now so I can't explain it exactly, but even though I'm not really a punk at all and don't feel like a part of the scene no matter how many shows I go to, the punk scene has restored a lot of my faith in huumanity lately. This is the best DIY punk band in America and this song is absolutely magic live.. seeing them in a big crowd where everybody knew the woirds was magic

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 25 June 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Deadbeat has released some fine dub albums recently on ~scape, but his first e.p. "Cesium Beam" was like nothing I've ever heard. He stripped down minimal techno to the barest rhythms and echoes, much like Ritchie Hawtin's recent work, but with ZERO funk. It's stark and it's cold. If Aphex's SAW II had been conceived as being lost in a power station while on acid (Aphex's words, not mine), then Deadbeat's effort is dancing in the power station on acid.

Available on the Hautec label, and only on vinyl, if I'm not mistaken.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Good news for folks who mightgive a damn about the song that inspired this particular thread. THE VIDEO (as raved about in the final sentence of my question) can be downloaded here:

http://www.downrecs.com/blender.html

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That being "Chicken Dance" by Life in a Blender, i mean.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Louisiana Red & Brenda Bell's "Red's in Prison" from an old Spivey label album from the seventies. Just vocals,footstomping and some wailing from Ms.Bell and harmonica buried deep in the background. Could be viewed as a soulful template for those acapella Jandek cd's that scare the living hell out of my neighbors.

― dialecticbricks (dialecticbricks), Saturday, 26 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i mentioned this on another thread somewhere, but there is a song here about tits: http://www.falserumor.com/thestunning/audio.htm

at first the singer goes "mu mu mu mama mu mu" like he is is getting his voice ready and then he goes, "ohhhhh ohhh tits" inna high voice and the guitarists (they have two and a drummer) just sor tof fuck around plunking some high strings...it kills me. and then the rock begins. thats all I am going to say because I cannot properly explain myself.

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"amy" by baby flamehead.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 June 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

coke, suede and waterbeds by sopwith camel

― angel duster, Saturday, 26 June 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me someone here has heard "Poly Vinyl" by The Mumbles. This is a song about falling in love with a girl at a record shop, for Gods sakes. He mentions records like every two lines...

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Drew K0ndraske - "Community College

A friend's little brother, I think he might have been 14 when he recorded this.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i might have that tan as fuck album, i have one, its pretty sweet. i set up a show for them and the dutchies last year. i think i shall rep DOOM BUGGY-VERSUS THE BEAST, female fronted beast rock, x-ray spex meets gang of four meets deep purple meets mmid 90s alt rock. they are on tour now, three nyc dates, creep. http://www.beastinfection.com/

― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

milo that song was amusing

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to Drew K0ndraske now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost downloaded the video, Alex.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't seem to get the picture to work, but the song's there to hear at least.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately I haven't had any luck with it. It keeps saying I need to adjust my browser settings and yet the settings it's telling me to set my browser to is exactly what it's on anyway.

That's okay because I've just decided I'm crazy about The Armoury Show, after wanting to hear them for...15 years?

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that would be nearly 20 years. I refuse to lie about my age.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

McGeoch!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks so much for summing up in one name what I was about to try to explain in three sentences.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

All that needs be said, my friend.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Castles In Spain" came up on the UK chart over and over and over as I made my list of artists that had come across the UK charts over the past couple of years say, '84-'86. A list I proceeded to painstakingly alphabetize without the aid of a computer, and proudly completed.

By the way I want to make a gratuitously cliched statement:

A Killing Joke compilation without A Love Like Blood is NOT a Killing Joke compilation at all, it's a complication. Okay? Just saying.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, for a start, it's simply "Love Like Blood" (no "A"). Secondly, what prompted this assertion? Are you referring to....

Killing Joke For Beginners

1. The Wait
2. Primitive
3. Butcher
4. The Fall of Because (Live) - Single B-side
5. Chapter III
6. We Have Joy - Previously Unreleased Mix
7. Fun & Games
8. Harlequin - Previously Unreleased Single Version
9. Wilful Days - Single B-side
10. Tabazan album
11. Night Time
12. Victory - Previously Unreleased Version
13. Twilight of the Mortal
14. My Love Of This Land
15. Obsession
16. Rubicon - Previously Unreleased Chris Kimsey Mix

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes and it's laughable, really.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Geddit? JOKE - LAUGHABLE? Bahahahahahaha

Well, those aren't the sixteen tracks I woulda picked, but these For Beginners... albums are almost always ridiculously flawed in one way or another. I also privately resent the inclusion of dubious "previously unreleased mixes" just to rope in frothing fanboys....like myself (and yes, of course I'll get it....if only to hear the "previously unreleased single version" of the mighty "Harlequin").

KILLING JOKE UBER ALLES, YOU SCHWEINHUNDS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You just can't have a Killing Joke compilation without the Love Like Blood, man. It doesn't happen. It's an anomaly of the laws of physics.
That's all I'm trying to say. Not that there isn't a lot of great KJ stuff, but a compilation without...

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Trelldom - Sonar Dreyri

The album this track is from is definitely solid, but this 10+ minute closing song is utterly brilliant. One hypnotic buzzsaw riff, repeated again and again over a nihilistic, hollow-eyed garden-sprinkler type drum pattern, all in glorious trance-inducing necro sound. Demented moans slowly give way to howling, layered shrieks and when at the eight minute mark the second guitar kicks in for the final onslaught, hell is real.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 26 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Siegbran. I like that track a lot!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 26 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Earthquake by Graham Central Station, a monster funk riff and the mother of all endings - Play Loud!

― holojames (holojames), Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

??? (Carson Robeson I think?) - "Ohio Prison Fire." ILM people should listen to 78s more often. This one is a really really sad folksong from the 1930s about prisoners that died in a fire because they couldn't get out. My grandfather used to play it for me a lot when I was about six, but then it got lost and of course I have no idea how to get ahold of another copy. If you see one, let me know!

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"alma llanera," venezuelan folk song, as performed by the mighty mexican organmeister juan torres! starts with crazy percussive intro, followed by amazing syncopated organ awesomeness, i love this song so much (found it on a record that was sitting in the garbage), even used it in a movie! it makes me so happy!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

so ive been listening to a lot of jazz lately, and theres this one awesome song by muhal richard abrams, called "one for the whistler", from blu blu blu. it has this middle section that totally changes timbre and goes into this weird, psychedelic-big-band sound that rules. the way the rhythm and timbre change reminds me of "paperhouse", when the tempo picks up and jaki liebezeit starts driving the song. it also reminds me of the halfway-point change in PiL's "memories", where the whole production sound changes suddenly. anyway, it sounds awesome and psychedelic.

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

cheating, but I just heard this on the radio

Dopestyle 1231 ft. Del the Funky Homosapien

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "Chicken Dance" better than John Anderson's "Chicken Truck"? The Indigo Girls' "Chickenman"? I can't imagine it being better than Ebenezer Calender's "The Stolen Chicken".

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Disiz la Peste f/Bilal "La reveille".. beautiful.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Feminine Complex 'Hide And Seek'
You'll know why when you hear it.

― Neil Kulkarni, Monday, 28 June 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'Truckers of Husk' by Truckers of Husk. Trans Am meets Don Cab, kinda, as enacted by some young gents from South Wales who you wouldn't expect to do something like this at all.

http://www.midasuno.net/audio/ (click the mp3)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

'Freeker by the Speaker' by Keller Williams. Funky, fly guitar, cheeky lyrics, humour - it's pretty much all there. It also compels ladies to dance in formation.

The best thing? It's a free download on amazon dot com, so grab it and run! BE WARNED - the rest of his stuff is kitten weak.

― Toby Wagstaff, Monday, 28 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I've heard "Freeker," I feel more confident suggesting:

"The Water Is Fine," David Meece,

especially since I've never seen anybody rave about Christian rock on here (this last, granted, may be your cue to run and hide). But it's a kickin' electro Vannelli Bros. production, with an eery jungle beginning (that always reminded me of the "Emerald Forest" video sleeve) that segueways into helicopter beats that hit harder than "Open Your Heart." Dude runs into John the Baptist and gets baptized. It may be generally-weird-religious enough that you can dig it in a Dylan sort of way, even if you don't dig baptism proper.

My favorite song of 1987!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen david meece in concert. circa 87 in fact. me baptist kid.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Shit Shit Money Money," Bersuit Vergarabat. Because it's a slow-building power-ballad in Spanish that may or may not be about capitalism in Argentina, the tension is scary and so are the psychedelic voices that burst in to squeal "Money! Money!" and the bassline might as well be the heartbeat of a dying nation. Plus, it ends with a shouty football stadium cheer: "Yeah yeah! Yeah yeah! Yeah yeah! Shit!"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Whatulike," by Mr. De, is the B-side of "Time Space Scrilla."

It was first released in the mid-90s on Electrofunk, and reissued in 2002.

The words, which I won't spoil, are a naughty boy/girl duet which typifies the DJ Assault ass-thetic.

Perfect 8-note bassline, sleazy slow production things, the whole drill.

Of all low-down Detroit electro, this song has had the longest shelf-life for me. It works first as a novelty and then in perpetuity as a great groove. This may sound strange, but I also think it's one of the most earnest songs I've ever heard.

― ben tausig (datageneral), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why Don't You Look Into Jesus" by Larry Norman. Preferably the version on the 'Bootleg' album (much looser, more raw sounding than the version on 'Only Visiting this Planet').

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

s "Chicken Dance" better than John Anderson's "Chicken Truck"? The Indigo Girls' "Chickenman"? I can't imagine it being better than Ebenezer Calender's "The Stolen Chicken".

It's better than all that sthit, but it's not as great as "Chicken" by the Cramps.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"You and Me" by Nathan Brown. He's from Fort Worth. Tours a lot, often by his lonesome. Think Prince v. Joe Jackson v. Michael McDonald v. i dunno what else. Also has a Priest style metal band called Pretend King. And he writes cheers, high school football (american) style. See this man. And demand he play that tune if you do.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i acquired things like the Family Fodder track and Judy Nylon's 'Information Rain' thru other ILXers but i've forgotten who!

anyway i guess i will say Brighter Lunch 'Chicglasgo'. they were a short-lived small Brighton band and this instrumental folky number was just lovely as i heard it on local BN radio in the pouring rain as we drove around town before actually meeting the band (friends of a friend) in a pub. the producer of the track eventually contacted me via Soulseek as well so that was nice.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this guy Coolzey, a midwest hip-hop dude, has a song, raw hot dog, that is like the best biz markie song ever except it's not actually a biz markie song.
it can be had here:
http://www.coolzey.com/audio_page.htm

― C H (Spokes), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'What a World' by Benny Hill.
It's Benny doing a Bob Dylan impersonation. It's on 'Benny Hill- The Ultimate Collection'. He also invents one of the most famous lateral thinking puzzles on one of the verses.
(I don't really believe nobody else on ILM has heard this, but it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here before)

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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