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1. Beekeeper 'Ostrich' (how could something so awesome just dissappear?)
2. Hurl 'A Place Called Today'
3 Run On's 'Start Packing'
4 Idaho's 'Year after Year'
5. Shudder To Think 'Funeral At The Movies'
6.Come's '11:11',
7. Swell '41'
8.Chavez 'Gone Glimmering'
9. Thin White Rope's 'Sack Full Of Silver'.
10. June Of 44 'Engine Takes To Water'

Or maybe these ain't forgotten? S'just I was in a tidying-my-shelves mood and as usual got distracted cos fuck me some of this stuff is good (especially Beekeeper - wh'appen to them? And is the first album as good as 'Ostrich?)

― Neil Kulkarni, Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chavez too.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Philistines Jr.'s "The Sinking of the S.S. Danehower."

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job (contains the original "Drivin' on 9", covered by the Breeders)

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed's Redeeming Qualities remind me of the mid-'90s Wrens in that they have a small but obsessive group of fans, and I've been ignoring 'em. (Granted, the Wrens were on the Worst Record Label in the World, Grass.)

What "RIYL" type bands would you say they remind you of?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

some of Beekeeper joined Ida I think?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't know...they're like the Breeders but without the guitars and more twee....I'll have to give em a listen again.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to add Wade's self titled album to the list. gorgeous.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Small 23 True Zero Hook
3Ds Hellzapoppin

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Scratch the 3Ds, I misread the title.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It came out in 1989 so I can't add Slovenly's "We Shoot For the Moon" lp to this thread. Darn!

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 29 October 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the guys in Ed's Redeeming Qualities writes the "Cheap Eats" food column in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His brother (named Dominic Leone!!! who wrote the song gear refers to) passed away about 15 years ago.

The Summer Hits - Beaches And Canyons
Cherubs - Heroin Man
Pitchblende Quartet - Gygax!
Further - Sometimes Chimes

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

first half of the '90s...

Couch Flambeau "Ghostride"
Electric Eels "Having a Philosophical Investigation with..."
Ass Ponys "Mr. Superlove"
Fish & Roses "Dear John"
Shrimp Boat "Duende" and "Cavale"
Schramms "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dynamite"
Pell Mell "Flow"
Velvet Crush "In the Presence of Greatness"
Unrest "Imperial f.f.r.r."
Love Child "Witchcraft"
Frank Allison & the Odd Sox "Hokey Smoke"
Raymond & Peter "Shut Up Little Man"
DQE "But Me, I Fell Down"
Supreme Dicks "The Unexamined Life"
Tarnation "I'll Give You Something to Cry About"
Cardinal s/t

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Miss Alans' "Smack The Horse"

― Dark Horse, Friday, 29 October 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Pell Mell, Shut Up Little Man, Love Child all OTM.

I'm not sure that Unrest is as forgotten as many of these others are (wasn't it Spin's album of the year in 1991?).

The Mountain Goats - Sweden
Peach Cobbler - Georgia Peach
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Funeral Pudding
Seam - Headsparks

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Spin gave Unrest a good review, but I don't remember it placing on their year-end list. I dunno, it's just not a record you tend to read much about, and my wife recently bought it on CD so I've had it in my consciousness of late.

Thumbs up on the TFUL pick!

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

cardinal is mostly richard davies songs so that's not really american.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Allison and the Odd Sox!!!! BBT, you so crazy.

Tarnation and DQE OTM!

Pell Mell -- that reminds me, god, I used to love that Geffen record they did. Is that Flow? We used to play it in the store all the time. I bet THAT's one that you can find on Amazon for a penny. wait, let me check... Ha! OK, Flow was SST; Interstate was the major label one and, yes, Amazon has it for $0.95!! A bargain.

Ok I got one for you:

Babylon Dance Band - Four on One. this is really good!! I just listened to it like two weeks ago. Worst selling Matador release ever? did that Toys Went Berserk record ever come out?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Treepeople - Guilt Regret Embarrassment
9. That Dog - Totally Crushed Out
8. Blackgirls - Procedure
7. Poster Children - New World Record
6. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands
5. The Drovers - Little High Sky Show
4. 11th Dream Day - El Moodio
3. Bailter Space - The Aim
2. House of Large Sizes - My Ass Kicking Life
1. Poster Children - Jr. Citizen

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Treepeople OTM!!! I saw them that tour and it was an incredible show.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably liked them better than Built to Spill - tough call.

Also, sorry, scratch Bailter Space (not American) and substitute:
3. Walt Mink - Miss Happiness

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Vulgar Boatmen - Please Panic
Vulgar Boatmen - Opposite Sex
Mary Janes - No. 1 Record
Sardina - Presents
Grenadine - Goya
Eggs - Bruiser LP
His Name is Alive - King of Sweet
Eric Matthews - It's Heavy in Here (much better than the Cardinal album)
Fellow Travellers - Just a Visitor (and anything else realeased on Okra.)
The Schramms - Dizzy Spell

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Waxing Poetics, Bedtime Story
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Bait and Switch
The Silos, The Silos
Howlin' Maggie, Honeysuckle Strange
Lynnfield Pioneers, Free Popcorn

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

so basically, since people apparently can remember these, it's more like a great "out of print" american indie albums of the 90s list..

― reo, Friday, 29 October 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no-one's said DELEWARE by drop nineteens yet.

― piscesboy, Friday, 29 October 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

World of Pooh's _The Land of Thirst_ is seriously just about my favorite album ever. And, relatedly, that _Not All That Terrifies Harms_ compilation cassette (and of course the abridgement Tim put out).

Tim, Ed's Redeeming Qualities were very much in late-'70s Jonathan Richman mode, except with more bite & somewhat less charisma. They led with goofy lyrics ("Lawn Dart" was the irritating novelty hit), followed through with really strong melodies. The two 7"s (and Tim Alborn's proto-Harriet Records _Harmony In Your Head_ cassette) had a lot of my favorite songs of theirs.

Neil & Electric Sound, Karla Schickele of Beekeeper has indeed been in Ida for the last few years, and also records as K.

I really really miss Unrest. Although I would happily accept Flin Flon as a substitute if they made more records. I might even like Flin Flon more.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 29 October 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

supreme dicks seconded. esp. "the emotional plague"

and the spinanes' "strand"...

― jwd, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bailter Space - Robot World
Rachel's - Handwriting
Swell - Too Many Days ...
Chavez - Gone Glimmering
764-hero - Salt Sinks ...
Karate - In Place of Real Hindsight
Drop Nineteens - Delaware (agreed)
Codeine - Barely Real
Rex - C
Rodan - Rusty
Acetone - s/t
Lync - Remembering ...

― tk, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when were Shudder To Think forgotten (especially round these parts)?

I'd like to add Scarce's 'Deadsexy' to the list, though.

― Mog, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck yeah! Scarce! Chick Graning! Anastacia Screamed were awesome live.
And otm to those who suggested Rex, Eric Matthews, Tarnation and Seam - I don't think I'm gonna be able to stop listening to this stuff until Monday week.

― Neil Kulkarni, Friday, 29 October 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Last I heard of Chick, a few years ago, he was touring with Delta Clutch (the rest of AS) as his backing band, and he'd done some ace demos - but he's since disappeared off the radar completely, and his website's gone down. Wonder what he's up to now?

― Mog, Friday, 29 October 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

extra nudge for small23 - true zero hook .. damn that one got heavy rotation, was lucky to se'em on tour with Archers of Loaf when that lp came out .. loved em ..

others :

cold water flat
crown heights
flick - the perfect kellulight
superdrag - various
grand mal
lotion
tripping daisy
wool

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The amount of Nz stuff on this thread is reminding me just why it was so easy to become an indiekid here in the 90s, we were kinda the best at it

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

circle x - celestial
pretty mighty mighty - ugly
polara - s/t
hypnolovewheel - angel food
bügsküll - phantasies & senseitions
cyrus rego - s/t
big swifty - canals of the atlantean plane
amoeba - pivot
salt licks - (1996) trust your body
buddha on the moon - the last autumn day

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Last I heard, Chick had moved back to Knoxville and was working on stuff there. I hear occasional updates second-hand through an old pal of his named Carl Snow.

I don't know about forgotten, but perhaps still undersung:

Codeine Frigid Stars LP
Freakwater Feels Like the Third Time
Scud Mountain Boys Massachusetts
Come 11:11

Also, though they are perhaps not forgotten either, the Grifters' recordings, pre-Sub Pop.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

DOG-FACED HERMANS!

― mattp, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

More Ed's Redeeming Qualities trivia: if you ever get the chance to read any of the writing of band member Dan Leone, it's quite good.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
The Dambuilders - Encendedor
A Minor Forest - Inindependence
Red Aunts- #1 Chicken
Crain - Heater

― mama brain, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, the Damnbuilders. They made some nice music and then fell off the edge of the earth, apparently.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Come, Don't Ask, Don't Tell

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

More Ed's Redeeming Qualities trivia: if you ever get the chance to read any of the writing of band member Dan Leone, it's quite good.

I mentioned him offhand upthread ("One of the guys in Ed's Redeeming Qualities writes the "Cheap Eats" food column in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.") If you like cheap food in SF, the weekly column's pretty funny (although occasionally too hokey).

The Dambuilders 7" - "Shrine" b/w "Candyguts" OTM

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I had some but I forgot what they were. (ha)

I am very happy that someone mentioned Walt Mink.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Walt Mink was also a pet band of Ryan Pitchfork's, back when he was a college student in Minnesota. I think there's a 10.0 review of them in the archives from back in 1995.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Who covered "pink moon" first: Sebadoh or Walt Mink?

I remember a lot of Nick Drake samples in late 80s sebadoh/sentridoh.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hazel, Are You Going to Eat That

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Dart, 36 Cents an hour (all my friends were in this band at some point or another)

Scrawl, Velvet Hammer

Timco, Gentleman Jim

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that Dart cd is grrrrrrrreat. where is Lauren these days?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

she is in san francisco and working as a designer the last I heard. Actually she is one of the only people from Dart I didn't know.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hehe. was she the only non-American in the 36CaH lineup?

this thread makes me want to run home and listen to nothing but '90s Amer-Indie all weekend.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell! I think I'm having a Melody Maker relapse into 90's leftfield indie here! :-)

Thumbs and pinkies up for Chavez though!

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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seltzer OTM, this record was great, totally forgotten. Also ditto to This White Rope's The Ruby Sea which, along with Sackful of Silver were the only TWR records I really liked.

The first Loud Family album (plants and birds and rocks and things) was really good too, though I got increasingly less interested in them with each release.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

David

very embarrassing moment(the morning after) 2/3 years ago when we rolled in from pub and were blasting 'Sci-fi song' to our neighbours, when we clocked the tel. no on the rear of cover.Obviously,they wanted us to call?

I would like to apologiise now to the Katis family and all those who may have been affected by our loving message

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Certainly, Sir is like a corny Junior Boys - make of that what you will; I like it.

If we're gonna get picky-nicky, then feel free to sub something from my list w/:

Damn Near Red - the record referred to as their "Swedish B-side" compilation (and I believed it @ first!)

Kyle, do not deny the power of "Sodium Laureth Sulfate" & "Don't Respond, She Can Tell"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like those songs. That record was better than the Tape of Only Linda, anyway. the later records really fell off for me though. I guess I was never really that big a fan although god knows I know people who were OBSESSED

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Philistines Jr. are probably no longer; their drummer Adam runs Bubblecore and is in his own band that's apparently pretty big (Mice Parade). Too bad, but I'm glad I caught them in Chicago with James Kochalka Superstar circa '96 or '97. For those who like their geeky take on things, check out the Russian Futurists, who remind me of a cross between Ph Jr and the Magnetic Fields.

Dittos to the Mazarin, Atavistic-era Eleventh Dream Day and World of Pooh releases. (Did that World of Pooh compilation CD ever see the light of day, btw?)

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that Bryan May has remixed the latest Ditchcroaker 10"

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and by "forgotten" I think it makes for a more robust thread to include non-canonical albums that may have achieved national stature at the time, but have since languished in the public consciousness. Limiting discussion to locally released stuff on defunct labels would probably make for a much shorter thread.

x-post Ditch Croaker, LMFAO.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(That said, I recall Lotus Pool releasing a couple of interesting albums including Bully Pulpit, Zoom and possibly one other band...)

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

THE RAYMOND BRAKE - "PILES OF DIRTY WINTERS"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrape.

Fucking awesome.

Epitome of Rawk

Jean jackets flailing into the heavens

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This world Of Pooh talk reminds me of Barbara Manning - One Perfect Green Blanket, or has it been mentioned already?
Souled American seconded, their 90's albums went in a more drone-country direction but are still excellent.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrape...weren't they a cross between Cows & Beer-era Die Kreuzen, Born without a Face, and South of Heaven-era Slayer? Good times, good times.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Born Without A Face!!! holy shit you blew my mind

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

For a 90s ensemble, Modern Vending were a bit ahead of their time? They sounded like they were caught on the North Atlantic drift which made them all the more 'difficult', but beautiful, in the way they said.... 'Just going for it....'

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Repulse Kava kicked Modern Vending's ass.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

A Ten O'Clock Scholar - Quietest

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww fuck..
Repulse Kava. What was that great, probably 80s hit, 'Daddy's crowbar'?

Maaaan, back in the day...let the good times feed us.

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I have the whole Butt Rag records discography

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Another confirmed Born Without a Face kill, right here!

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Butt Rag were great man. What a floating roster they had. BR signed FlopHouse?

Respect.

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno about Flophouse, but he definitely put out singles by Timber, The Biggest Square Thing, and Borbetomagus (2!! in fact)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Modern Vending, Jot, Datura Seeds...the sounds of Muncie/Naptown live.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, getting back to the original post but THIN WHITE ROPE, were not appreciated like they should have been.Their version of 'Some Velvet Morning' is a belter for starters
Neither were the GRIFTERS properly appreciated.
Any news on the latter? I had heard that they'd reformed?

What happened to Weird Paul;?

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Datura Seeds.
Were they the guys from indiaaaoappouiaasjsd?
I have their album.
I keep playing it to what become my ex s

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on. Are the Grifters and TWR 80s? Shouse is 67, right/
Time passes so quickly when yr having so much fun

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, more...

Prisonshake "I'm Really Fucked Now"
Men & Volts "Cheer Up"
Curlew "Bee"
Trunk "La-Ugh"
Datura Seeds "Who Do You Want It to Be"
Fire in the Kitchen "Theory of Everything"
King Kong "The Old Man and the Bridge"
Nothing Painted Blue "A Baby, a Blanket, a Packet of Seeds"
Tube Bar Deluxe
Shrimp Boat "Volume 1"
Treepeople "Guilt Regret Embarrassment"
Vomit Launch "Dogeared"
Luxurious Bags "Voluntary Lifelong Quarantine"
Grifters "So Happy Together"
God Is My Co-Pilot "I Am Not This Body"
Fly Ashtray "Clumps Takes a Ride"
Sun City Girls "Live from Planet Boomerang"
Styrenes "It's Artastic!"
Karl Hendricks Trio "Buick Electra"

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Helen Shields much more than Jot, they were a great live band. The Helen Shields 7" that they recorded with Kramer is fantastic.

Modern Vending and the Datura Seeds were both cool bands. Vess also had some good songs in the United States 3.

The 90s Indiana bands that fell through the cracks that make me sad are Speed Luxury and the Steve Kowalski Army. I'd love to get a copy of the Speed Luxury demos and the SK 7"s and the orange tape. I keep hoping someone will eventually put some of that kind of stuff together. It bums me out that those two bands never even got to put out a proper CD/LP. They were both so good live.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://community-2.webtv.net/sabata/THEMUSICOFWEIRDPAUL/scrapbookFiles/mailedD17.jpg

You rang?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, Earl, I have that Helen Shields 7"!

And, I was *this* close to releasing a 7" by Steve Kowalski Army..."Can't Find London" woulda been the A side. I backed out when I realized it probably wouldn't have sold.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, the Grifters: dunno if they're reforming. Whatever happened to Those Bastard Souls? They were getting pretty big there for a while.

That photo above, btw, is "Weird" Paul Petroskey. I still remember putting up him and Manny Theiner when Weird Paul played a show at the Lounge Ax in 1991 or so. As I remember it, he played with plastic Army men on the edge of the stage as part of his set.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the SK did put out "Can't Find London" on a 7's with Jake's "Live Alone and Like It" on the back. I used to have that and the orange tape. If "Can't find London" wasn't a single it was definitely on the orange tape. My band in college played with the SK Army a few times, mind you this was when Brent Olds played bass after Jake left. They were still great.

Speed Luxury (aka Joyride aka Trailside Killers) were bad ass. They were my favorite of the B-ton, Indy, Muncie band brigade of that time period. Their EP they recorded with John Strom was OK, but they held back their best tunes for an album which was promised by a label and never happened.

All of The Grifter's side projects definitely underscore that they were more than the sum of their parts when together. They were great the two times I saw them live.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Prickly, _Velleity_; great strummed-Stratocaster outer-Boston pop, apparently now quasi-reformed as Shumai. But maybe this was never well-known enough to be considered "forgotten."

― Guayaquil, Friday, 29 October 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicidal Tendencies had a lot to say. Maybe that was in the 80s tho'?

― hull hole (hull hole), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say that Loud Family's Days for Days is an overlooked and lost classic. This, probably because of all of the interludes between the actual songs. But what songs! "Way Too Helpful", "Business Men are Okay" and "Deeepression" pop to mind immediately. Great stuff!

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Spain - "She Haunts My Dreams"

morbid, lost-love songs. perfect if you're in the right mood.

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Daddy in His Deep Sleep

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know how "indie" it is, but Failure's Fantastic Planet is still the most underrated record possibly ever.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto Spain, i loved "Blue Moods".

Also Drop Acid were fun.

― tk, Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man is this ever a trip down memory lane. i own more than half of the records mentioned. ditch croaker!! there's a track from the chimpfactor ep which i just adore, i think it's called "fell behind" or something like that. awesome awesome awesome. small's "chopsocky" is another track that rocks my socks.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps we should all get in touch with the philistines and beg them to make a new album!

Oh my, American 90's Indie was so great.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 30 October 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bundle of Joy" by Land of the Loops.

― ng, Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Both Sammy albums, though I wish the first one sounded better.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Hey does anybody interested in this stuff want to go to a really great shop in northern NJ for really obscure 90s vinyl that has been sitting there since it was released... with me? I'm probably going back this coming Saturday, and I want to keep it a secret and tell everyone at the same time. Luckily, not many people care about this kind of stuff, which is why its been sitting in this store for so long. Yesterday I purchased from here:

Boyracer - Racer 100 EP one sided 12" (label says super limited and I believe it)
Eggs - Exploder 2xLP
Rollerball - Apples/Le Galaxy 7" (really charming 90s indie-pop band, not much info about them out there)

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 27 September 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

Is that the Rollerball from Portland? If so, they are still active and better than ever.

― Nate Carson, Monday, 27 September 2010 06:47 (fifteen years ago)

Oh probably! Thats good to hear.

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 27 September 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i just remembered the band dis-

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 4 January 2013 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGPkO4dAXxM

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 4 January 2013 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

They had the best song titles.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 January 2013 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

also from the OP: Beekeeper 'Ostrich' (how could something so awesome just dissappear?) <- this is a really good album

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 4 January 2013 15:50 (thirteen years ago)

Not really forgotten, because not many heard them to start with, but Boise, Idaho's Dirt Fishermen put out a record on C/Z that I still like a lot, Vena Cava. Duelling female vocals would certainly appeal to fans of The Breeders or Veruca Salt, with a bit lower-fi production, like maybe Salem 66. Very 4AD-ish song titles: "Caracul," "Ingridory," "Wrath of Rabbit."

― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:13 (thirteen years ago)

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