Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "C" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Inspire me to pull their records off the shelf and listen!

Andy Caldwell
Captain Sky
C-Bank
Cepillin
Certain General
Chequered Past
Cheri
Cheyne
Chiefs of Relief
Chiclette Con Banana
Johnny Chingas
Christ Child
City Boy
CJ & Co
The Commercials
Corina
Cosa Rosa
Coughois
Count Bass D
Count Coolout
Cowboys International
Crystal Grass
Cynthia

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, should be COUCHOIS. (Though I do like the idea of a band with "cough" in their name.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ha !

i had the double 7" single by Chiefs of Relief .. dreadful powered up riffs and chants ...weren't they a spinoff from Sputnik .. or sommat like that ?

and i traded in my Count Bass D album .. which i now regret cos its in demand these days i think ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

C-Bank! "One More Shot"! One of the greatest singles of the '80s! As opposed to the pallid Xerox of it which hit the charts as "IOU" by Freeez!

Cheri - "Murphy's Law/Sure out to get you." That was a cracking little Pinky and Perky take Manhattan single.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Audio Dynamite connection . not SSS ..

http://www.philjens.plus.com/kickdown/chiefs.htm

suspect i saw them support BAD in 87/88 but i have no recollection of their set at all ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the freestyle cynthia?

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Cowboys International/Ken Lockie get loads of love for "Thrash" and "Nothing Doing". I didn't know until recently that Lockie was involved with "The Dominatric Sleeps Tonight", so I love him for that, too.

I totally agree with Marcello about "One More Shot", breaking glass and all. The singer was Jenny Burton of "I Remember What You Like" fame. Did they have any other hits?

― Moosie Grosvenor (Arthur), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The CHIEFS! of RELIEF!

Wasn't Paul Cook their drummer?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem - mark :

http://www.philjens.plus.com/kickdown/chiefs.htm

all details contained within ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. the freestyle cynthia (and the freestyle corina, too!)

i also have a c-bank best-of CD. "one more shot" was far from their only good song!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought C-Bank's "One More Shot" 12" in 1983 on white label, while it was still playing in the shop. I can't think of another instance where a record has grabbed me so completely on the first listen, then retained all of that power on every subsequent listen. The missing link between Yazoo and Shannon. A John Robie production, wasn't it? That's someone who never gets sufficient credit. "Good To The Last Drop" wasn't bad, either... though I was disappointed by "Get Wet".

I saw Chiefs Of Relief live once, at a "warehouse party" at the London Dungeons. They were good, in a "don't actually want to buy any of their records" sort of way.

Johnny Chingas did a fairly rubbish dull-and-limp mellow-jazz-electro cash-in thingy called "Phone Home", trying to surf the Extra-T's "E.T.Boogie"/ Tyrone Brunson "The Smurf" wave.

City Boy did "5-7-0-5"; I've never quite been able to shake its chorus out of my instant-access memory ever since. They had quite a lot of record company money thrown at them, but got caught out by punk - could easily see them on the next Sean Rowley "Guilty Pleasures" comp.

"Crystal World" by Crystal Grass is an overlooked classic: funky spacey disco from around 1975, whose horn break was pinched for "Theme From S-Express". I put it onto a "Back To Mine" mix set on my blog only about a week ago. YOU MUST PLAY THIS AGAIN!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Certain Gneral - were they on Homestead? I remember an LP with grey sleeve with trees on it, I think. It was goodish, but I know I sold it years ago.

― dr.c, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, i think i gave chuck that chiefs of relief record.

i listen to count coolout all the time!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So? You want some Cepillin????

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/pics/recpics/cepillimama.jpg

El payasito de la Tele!!!!

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

>Certain Gneral - were they on Homestead? I remember an LP with grey sleeve with trees on it,<

The EP I have is from the early '80s, before Homestead existed, I think. (What was the first Homestead record, anyway? Must've been around 1985 or 1986 or so, unless it wasn't.) Anyway, my EP is more green and white with somebody's triangular face or something on it!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, all this, and no mention of Captain Sky's super-classic-super-break Super Sperm?!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, I also would've included these guys, if there hadn't already been a thread on them yesterday (which thread, come to think of it, inspired me to start these threads in the first place, since it forced me to look at my record shelves in sheer wonderment):

Where's the love for Cruella de Ville

Oddly, the Captain Sky LP I own does not have "Super Sperm" on it!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I have always spread love for Christ Child on ILM. Use the search function and you will see I am Christ Child's biggest fan. I think the Christ Child record should be reissued by Wounded Bird or Ryko at once. Christ Child's "Five Finger Exercise" is a mildly humorous and vile hard rock/metal unheard classic.

Christ Child did not even put their faces on the album. They did not want anyone to know who they were. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing Chiefs Of Relief too - at The After Dark in Reading to be precise. I knew that Paul Cook and Matt Ashman were in the band was but I didn't know there was a link to Martian Dance (who were absolutely brilliant - the missing link between Adam & The Ants and Killing Joke).

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what I'm going to say, Stew.....I was at that gig too! They were rubbish IIRC.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Weren't Terry Chimes and Keith Levene in Cowboys International?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be the first to give love to Count Bass D. Even the kinda dull new album. His stuff had a motion all of its own.

Shouldn't you be at work?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at work now, Whiney! (I put up these threads over my morning coffee, before I came in!) (I only own one Count Bass D 12-inch single, though. I think one of its sides is an answer song to TLC...wait, am I remembering that right? He definitely did not do "No Pigeons," I know that for sure!)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

T-Boz Tried To Talk To Me... From the BST era (Before Sporty Thievz)

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I forgot to list Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns at the top of this thread!

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what I'm going to say, Stew.....I was at that gig too! They were rubbish IIRC.
-- Dr.C (petethane...) (webmail), May 10th, 2005 4:23 PM. (link)

There we were, all together.

MAX were the support. They were better. Weren't they some ants too?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Having been blown sweatily away at a Carrasco/Crowns show back in the day, I'm ashamed to own not one speck of their recorded music. Anybody up to an S/D?

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The self-titled debut by Carrasco/Crowns is great! "Party Weekend" is a new-wavier take on the same ideas, produced by Richard Gottehrer; also big fun.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello is like, totally right about C-Bank and Cheri but like, totally WRONG about 'IOU'. Because IOU is just as king.
'One more shot' has the initially baffling, subsequently lovable cd-skipping effect in it which must have sounded magnificent at the time but just sounds like a dirty cd right now. The other C-Bank stuff I heard is ok but OMS is waay the best.

Maybe give Cynthia's 'Dreamboy Dreamgirl' another listen but don't waste too much time on her. Same goes for 'Temptation' by Corina. Just go a few records to the left and pull out those Connie and Connie Case records instead.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

revive

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

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― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

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― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

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