Quick! Recommend A Great Album That You Have Never Talked About On ILM And That You Are Pretty Sure Not Too Many People Have Heard

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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.

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

am I helping?

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

what about pit er pat?
old ILM news?

The Government Evil Eye from 1979..

"GREE-TINGS from the GU-TTEEEEEEEEER!"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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)).

I've blabbed about all mine already :(

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.

NO WAIT

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Imagination - "Night Dubbing"
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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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.