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

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Please inspire me to pull them out and listen to them again!

Chip E. featuring K. Joy
The Earons
Earthquake
The East Coast Crew
Ebn-Ozn
Ego Summitt
The Evasions
Exude

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

beserkley's earth quake?

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that Ebn-ozn single aeiou (sometimes y) smart, nervy electro pop.

Were the Evasions the band who did the novelty hit The Wikka rap?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

yup, one and the same earthquake -- three albums worth (though probably not all on beserkley, come to think of it)!

and the evasions did indeed wikka their rap, though i have no idea if they were actually a band. they sound like one guy!

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

are those albums any good, chuck? we got in 8.5 and one other at the record store where i worked, but i didnt get a chance to hear them...

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The three I have (Leveled, 8.5, and Earthquake, I believe -- don't have them in front in me anymore) are definitely good, in a Brownsville Station hard-rock-as-softball-team kind of way. I believe Leveled is the best one, though again, I'd have to run home and check to make sure, which is impossible at the moment. But I'm sure when George Smith gets here, he will elucidate in more detail.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Earthquake album I have is, I think, their first: "Rockin' The World." It contains many non-essential, but fun, bar-band covers of "Friday On My Mind," "Little Tin Soldier" and "Ma Ma Ma Belle." I had others by them which I sold long ago, but this one I kept and still put on from time to time.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah yeah - leveled was the other one we had in... ill have to keep my eyes open for them again.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, those Rockin the World tracks sound familiar; "Friday on My Mind" is definitely on one of the LPs I own. But wasn't that their live album? I am confused. Again, I will check the titles when I am home. Which album has the Paul Revere and the Raiders cover on it? I'm pretty sure that was the best one.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, Rockin' The World is live, with a very low budget cover.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Earons had a soul/funk tune called "Land Of Hunger" around 1984. I remember it being quite good.... curious now.

You could happily bin the Evasions' "Wikka Rap" - comedy Britfunk which depends on familiarity with a UK travel documentary presenter called Alan Whicker. The hilarious idea being that Whicker had become a rapper, y'see. Lots of end-of-the-pier yo-ho-ho-isms about "12 inches" etc etc.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

EBN-OZN I vaguely remember were supposed to be these superfamous New York producers who'd made a record of their own at last, but I can't think of anything else they ever actually worked on. Anyway, "AEIOU Sometimes Y" is a fine fine song, and "Bag Lady (I Wonder)" has stuck with me too.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so here's a question: Was there a relationship between Ebn-OZn's vowel song and "I.O.U." by Freez? Did one rip the other off? Or were their love a vowels a complete coincidence? Which came first? (And has anybody ever thought to do a sequel called "A E I O U and sometimes Y, and maybe even sometimes H and W according to Xhuxk's second grade teacher, I swear I'm not making this up"? If not, maybe I will.)

― xhuck, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, "poxy fule" ate my post. Earthquake semi-discography: Earthquake (A&M), "Why Don't You Try Me" (A&M), "Rockin' All Over the World" (Beserkeley), "8.5" (Beserkeley), "Leveled" (Beserkeley" and one last one that was pretty worthless and I can't remmember the name of, also on Beserkeley. Also had a live side on a double album released in Deutschland featuring Beserkeley bands (Tyla Gang, Greg Kihn, and the Rubinoos). If you ever see it, grab, because it rages. Except for the very last record, if you like Chuck's description, they're all worth having. "Leveled" is the heaviest but still very pop tune oriented. "Rockin' All Over the World" is the most electric by dint of being live.

Paul Revere's "Kicks" is on "Leveled," as is "Trainride," one of Earthquake's signature tunes. "Trainride" first showed up on "Why Don't You Try Me" but no one apparently bought tickets and the band was dropped. It was a good album, anyway.

A lot of Earthquake has been reissued on CD, enough to satisfy tastes at any rate.

― George Smith, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ego Summit album is pretty good. Parodied by some free folk jokers on the Ego Plummet EP that was released last year on Polyamory.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, how many people could have possibly understood that parody? All three people who heard the Ego Summit album, and still remembered it?

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'Like This' – Chip E. featuring K. Joy on the mighty DJ International . Great but not as great as ' If You Only Knew'

― wtin, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't a parody in anything but name, really.

And I'd say there's probably more than three people who remember it (though maybe not more than fifty.)

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Earthquake's "Friday on My Mind" is as good as the Vanda and Young version, I think, and better than Bowie's.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Earthquake also covered "Knock On Wood." Like Bowie. I think they were watching him.

― George Smith, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Coolia sample "Wikka Rap" around '95 or so? And didn't The Evasions also do Scots send-up of "The Message"?

"Don't wake me
'cuz I'm stayin' in bed
I only get up
just to
cook my poached eggs..."

Oh, and were D-Train from Chicago?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

So it turns out that I own *Rockin the World*, not *Earthquake*; I'd just forgotten what it was called. But *Leveled* is indeed my favorite; I'd forgotten that they covered Hot Chocolate's great dead-silent-movie-star song "Emma" (years before Urge Overkill did, by the way) (and it is an even better dead-silent-movie-star song than "Marie Provost" by Nick Lowe, by the way.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

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

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

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

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