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

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Inspire me to pull them out and listen to them again!

Imagination
Implog
The Incredible Moses Leroy (the only reason he's in my collection is that he does a 12-inch single cover of a Grupo Sportivo song, "Beep Beep Love." I am fairly certain his other music was totally useless)
Infidel? Castro
Instant Funk
Ippu-Do
Donnie Iris
Iron City Houserockers
Terry Iten

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, nothin' BUT love for Ippu Do and Masami Tsuchiya. Radio Fantasy is sooo creamy & dreamy. They did a live album that's great, too.

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The implog record has been getting a lot of love as a no wave obscurity recently.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

surely, chuck, you need no prodding to pull out the iron city houserockers...

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

>The implog record has been getting a lot of love as a no wave obscurity recently<

Really?? Wow, I had no idea. Will hipsters pay lots of money for it??

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a girlfriend in high school who liked The Incredible Moses Leroy.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

donnie iris rules,
at least "ah leah" which MUST
be the song you have

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Got my mind made up
you can get it girl
anytime
tonight is fine

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Imagination do "Just an Illusion"? That was such a cool song.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i have donnie iris's *back on the streets* LP, though i wouldn't swear "ah leah" (which i like a lot, operatic Uriah Heep crescendos in a prog-powerpop context and all) is my favorite track on there. i seem to remember somebody telling me *king cool* is worth owning, too. plus, he he had a hit with "the rapper" with the jaggerz in the '60s, and he was supposedly in wild cherry for a time as well, though i'm not sure whether he was one of the boogie singers playing in rock'n'roll band never having no problems burning out the one-night stands before they had their number one disco hit or not. (ok, THERE'S a question: Was Wild Cherry's pre-disco boogie rock stuff actually any good? Did it even actually exist? Or were they lying?)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and yes, Imagination did the great "Just and Illusion." I have a 12-inch, but supposedly their album was (albums were?) good as well.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Being a native of Western PA, I have significant love for the Iron City Houserockers and Donnie Iris. I picked up the CD reissue of "Have A Nice Time (But Get Out Alive)" recently -- it captures the essence of hanging out on the South Side of Pittsburgh better than any other record that I've ever heard.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought "Have a Good Time" because of this Jimmy Guterman review (http://guterman.com/guterman_100/guterman_100_haveagoodtime/guterman_100_haveagoodtime.html) but never really dug it; but I guess I haven't listened to it since I got a decent turntable.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jimmy was a rocker/Oh how he liked to rock."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 May 2005 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

On "Have A Good Time," I would start with the "Old Man's Bar"/"Junior's Bar" double feature, and then move to "Blondie" and the title track. Maybe "Angela," as well. I like the lyrical redundancy about Jimmy the rocker at the beginning of "Pumping Iron" -- it's right up there with when Gwen Stefani sang "come here a little closer/'cause I wanna see you baby real close up."

― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In The Heat Of The Night is the Imagination LP to own. It includes "In The Heat of the Night." Every other record I heard by them through the 80s was a terrible letdown in comparison.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Imagination = CLASSIC. "Body Talk"! The extra "e" in Leee Johns' name!! The bit where the drummer used to get up from his drumkit and dance around with the rest of the band!!! The nappies!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

... I forgot, the (b)latent homoeroticism!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I remember some beefcake-y album covers now that you mention it. Oh I meant to say "Just an Illusion" is on that LP mentioned above. "Body Talk" was on another record, but it wasn't bad at all.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, [Iris] he had a hit with "the rapper" with the jaggerz in the '60s, and he was supposedly in wild cherry for a time as well,

My first rock and roll band played "The Rapper"!!! Donnie Iris was Pennsy's Cub Koda. They even sort of looked a little alike. "Now he starts his rappin'/Hoping something will happen."

And you can't forget Norman Nardini, who was in the Houserockers, no??? And how about the first and best Diamond REO, existing at teh same time as Champagne's REO Speedwagon pre fame, the former another western Pennsy band!!!

― George Smith, Friday, 13 May 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I forgot to list I Start Counting at the top of this thread!

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the Instant Funk their album Witch Doctor distributed by Salsoul? Philly soul man Bunny Sigler's protege group, though fully more disco than straight funk. Larry Levan remixed them at some point, maybe one of the cuts on the album. Despite the pedigree, I seem to remember it as mostly kinda thin.

― Toenes, Friday, 13 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, the Instant Funk record I have is just a 12-inch single -- "Got My Mind Made Up," I think. (An early inspiration for house music, supposedly. I know nothing about their other stuff.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:32 (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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