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

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Please inspire me to pull them off my shelf and listen to them!

Lady Pank
Lakeside
Laid Back
Laissez-Faire
D.C. Larue
Last Exit
Stacy Lattisaw
Lavender Hill
Lavilliers
Amanda Lear
Leather Nun
Le Car
Ledernacken
The Lemon Pipers
Les Rita Mitsouko
Jona Lewie
Meade Lux Lewis
Leyden Zar
Lime
The Limeliters
Lime Spiders
Little River Band
Dave Loggins
A'Me Lorain
Lord Tracy
Lordz of Brooklyn
Los Graduados
Love and Kisses
Love Deluxe
Monie Love

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want to be rich
You got to be a bitch.
rich.
bitch.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Lattisaw lords over this bunch:

It’s Clack it back, I gotta Clack attack
I gotta Clee Cly Cloe the Clack a jack
Turn the Tyde, you gotta move the Myde
You gotta wham-bam funkify the Fyde with Clyde

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Leather Nun

Never as good as they should be whenever I listen to them, which is a pity.

Les Rita Mitsouko

Always as good, etc., which is anything but a pity.

Little River Band

"Walking through the park and REMINISCING...."

But yeah, Lattisaw.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, The Lemon Pipers!!!! Everyone owns at least one Lemon Pipers album! Don't they???!?!?!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I have two Lemon Pipers albums.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the lemon pipers, in the "video" for "green tambourine," is a dead ringer for andy partridge. so much so that i did the math on his age/their timeline to see if it was even possible. i guess i could've just looked it up.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lemon Pipers were proto-Ram Jam (but that'll have to wait 'til xhuck gets to the R's).

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Last Exit? Sting's old band?

I used to know someone who had "Whispering Voices" on Wudwink records from when it was first issued, and was looking forward to selling it for big bucks, only for the label to reissue it in exactly the same style as the original (although his had a solid centre and mine had a 'push out' style).

Mind you, that was a seven inch. Are you putting singles on your 12" shelving?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything else Laidback did apart from "White Horse" was shitey old toss of the lowest order. "Sunshine Reggae"! "High Society Girl!" Yerks!

Ledernacken's "Amok" is a hoot. Proto-Laibach, with the fascism substituted for heavy duty gay S&M. Ja! Ja! Leck mich am Schwanz!

Along with Cowley and Orlando, Lime (from Canada) pioneered the whole Hi-NRG sound. So many classics: Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight, Take Me Up, Guilty, Angel Eyes, On The Grid, Unexpected Lovers. They were cheerfully mixed into early electro on stations like Kiss FM and WBLS.

I once walked out of a Little River Band show before they even took to the stage. Was only there to see my hero Kevin Ayers supporting. God, he was dreadful. Too depressed to put myself through any more torture...

Was thinking about my A'me Lorain 12" only the other day, in a "was it good or was it crap, because I can't remember" kind of way. Wasn't she like Tiffany, but with a cool dance production team?

Loved her at the time, but I can't imagine Monie Love has aged too well. I liked her because she used unbelievably obvious samples like the Whispers "And The Beat Goes On", meaning I could satisfy all the political lesbians who came to my club each week demanding loads of female rap, while still keeping things pop enough for my PSB/Erasure gay crowd.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If memory serves, Lakeside is way past due for a re-listen. They were crazy hot for a time, and I remember being amazed at the chutzpah of following up "Fantastic Voyage" with that bizarre, left-field smoove ballad take on "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". They hadn't even hit their high-water mark yet, though, which surely must have been RAAYD! on the dancefloor!"

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I give my four Paul Ross thumbs up to Lime for 'Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight' and 'Your Love'.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

>Everyone owns at least one Lemon Pipers album! Don't they???!?!?! <

Nope! Not me - I only own HALF of a Lemon Pipers album (since 1910 Fruitgum Company are on the the other side!)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Lakeside played here along with Confunktion and some others as part of some old school funk soul blowout, oh, last summer. wanted to go but was baroque.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

>Last Exit? Sting's old band?<

Nope: Sonny Sharrock, etc.

>Are you putting singles on your 12" shelving?<

Only 12-inch ones (along with albums and EPs).

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Monie Love: quite good on Queen Latifah's "Ladies First," but I think her epitaph as an artist was written by Roxanne Shanté: "Your album cold garbage/Had one good jam, now you think you a star, bitch."

Love & Kisses: is this the ultra-ridiculous Alec Costandinos disco act who recorded "How Much, How Much I Love You"? It's like the post-lobotomy "Love to Love You Baby." "You'll never know how much I love you/You'll never know how much I caaaare/You'll never know how much I love you/You'll never know how much/How much/How much how much how much how much..." And, um, that COVER ART!

One of Lakeside's albums starts off with a frisky little bass solo. All I've ever liked by them.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

>Love & Kisses: is this the ultra-ridiculous Alec Costandinos disco act who recorded "How Much, How Much I Love You"? <

yes!

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That Roxanne Shante song ("Big Mama"?) packs a lot of devastating old-school diss.

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Last Exit mentioned several times on ILM, and when mentioned there has been much love for them. So that's where it is.

― 666, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I have pulled A'me Lorain's "Whole Wide World" down from the attic and am playing it now. It's... OK. Quite like the male vocal bit that goes "whaddyatellinme whaddyatellinme whaddyatellinme whaddyatellinme". Uh oh, pointless rhythm guitar break. Her vocals are very 80s Madonna. Nah, it all plods on a bit.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, monie love. i bought her cassette my freshman year of college, when i moved from portland, oregon to poughkeepsie, new york and was introduced to all this crazy new hip-hop music. (i'd heard NWA before, but that was it - well, that and anthrax's "i'm the man," which we caned in our drives around suburban pdx, summer after graduating. i quite liked "it's a shame." never liked her as much as mc lyte, though, who - come to think of it - i'd actually been turned onto a year or so earlier, i think. "hit the road, sam..."

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lakeside: Secondhand P-Funk but very solid, and did a great live show back in the day (better, perhaps, than their studio work). Roughriders what stands out in memory.

Laid Back: Two Germans, I think? "White Horse" was a good dance rock track, despite the stupid lyric.

D.C. Larue: Not as good as Patrick Hernandez.

Last Exit: More Bill Laswell than Sonny Sharrock for my taste, but good moments nonetheless.

Stacy Lattisaw: Sort of like Brandy before TV crossovers; the duets with Johnny Gill were great.

Amanda Lear: I remember there was some weird, manufactured buzz over whether or not she was originally a he. In any case, the rumour was more interesting than her albums.

Leather Nun: I remember the fist-fucking song seemed really shocking in the '80s. But so did Reagan's foreign policy...

Meade Lux Lewis: The boogie-woogie pianist I presume? Not as good as Pete Johnson (Joe Turner's man), but good.

The Limeliters: Sub-Peter, Paul & Mary, notable only for the presence of Glenn Yarbrough.

Lime Spiders: Better than average Aussie pub band.

Little River Band: Originally, Australia's (not very good) answer to the Eagles. Made way too many albums.

Monie Love: Could've been a contender.

― J.D. Considine, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha, JD -- very "Distinctions Not Cost Effective". (That's a compliment, by the way.) (But Laid Back were Danes, I think.) (And I like the words.) (And the Limeliters were much more Kingston Trio than Peter Paul and Mary; they were FUNNY!) (And DC Larue was MUCH more prog than Patrick Hernandez.) (And all I own by Little River Band is the best-of, which is surprisingly good, though I just got a slightly longer best-of CD in the mail, which may well supplant it.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Laid Back were either a Dutch duo or Danish duo, actually. I think allmusic.com would have the 411.. too lazy to check now.

Sadly, "White Horse" is a singularly excellent funk jam amidst a discography of otherwise horribly bland shit that sounds nothing like "White Horse" (originally a "throwaway" B-side to a single called "Sunshine Reggae" which sucked sucked sucked)

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've especially curious if any of the Canadians out there know anything about these guys (who nobody has mentioned yet, and whose album rocks harder than the description in the link below suggests):

http://www.nwoutpost.com/mfv_detail.asp?mfv_id=99

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i've got the lime spiders' '88 album on caroline, _volatile_. not terrible but a little blah. has a couple of sweet tracks though. "a lot to answer for" comes to mind first. not heard their older, better stuff.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

where did i read about laid back's "white horse" catching prince's ear and he put it as a b-side on one of his tunes at the time and that's how we even know of their existence? yeah, they're danish.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

In early 2003 I bought Les Rita Mitsouko's "Bestov" and less then six months later I'd purchased every single one of the their albums

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Monie Love: Could've been a contender.

-- J.D. Considine (jdconsidin...), May 13th, 2005.

So true. Wha happened?

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a White Horse/Erotic City mashup out there that works exceptionally well, and I generally don't like the mashups.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Jona Lewie's "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" was one of my favorite discoveries when I bought the Stax Records box a couple years back. Great synth-pop tune.

Lordz of Brooklyn got played a lot on Superock, the show MTV replaced Headbanger's Ball with.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Lime have beautiful record sleeves. You should hang 'em on the wall.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I forgot to include Linx on the list at the top of this thread!

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

>Jona Lewie...Stax Records

Ah yes, the legendary deep soul pub rocker! (I think that's the STIFF Records box...)

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If the Leather Nun rekkid is either the 12" of "Prime Mover" or the 7" of "gimme gimme gimme", great!! "Prime Mover" has/had room-filling power even at low volume, though this might not be much of a USP when just about every damn rekkid is compressed to fuck these days. "Gimme Gimme Gimme" still has enough rockingness about it that it trans-whatsits the whole novelty aspect of it. Plus, laugh at Jonas' claiming that his changing the lyric from "a man after midnight" to "my man after midnight" was subversive in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.

If it's any of their other rekkids, meh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a sort of best-of-their-not-quite-earliest-years LP, I think, issued for stateside consumption -- *Force of Habit. "Gimme Gimme Gimme" is on it, but far from the best track. "Prime Mover" (which I'm pretty sure isn't; I know it mainly from their long-gone live LP, though wasn't that also on a 7-inch with "FFA" once upon a time?) was great, but the one I really miss is their *Slow Death* EP, from 1984.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Prime Mover"/"FFA" I had was a 12", w/extra deep cut grooves, or something. It was LOUD. What phun it was to leave the sleeve out in some not immediately visible place when we had visitors at our flat, haha. Pick the front or the back, it made no difference.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Their best song ever was "Desolation Avenue," as far as I'm concerned. Also, they pretty much invented Turbnoegro, when you get down to it.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a sort of best-of-their-not-quite-earliest-years LP, I think, issued for stateside consumption -

Wasn't their US release an IRS signing? I thought they had turned into an art dance band for that one. Don't recall hearing many remnants of the FFA/live/Slow Death days on it. "You got shit on your knuckles..." Now there's a lyric, obviously superior to anything written by Turbonegro, ever.

― George Smith, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Not quite art-dance, but yeah, going in that direction. More Velvety or (in better moments) Hawkwindish than flat-out shit-fisty for sure. I remember disliking, say, "Pink Houses" (their goofball anti-American answer to John Cougar Mellencamp!) at first, on account of their having mellowed. Anyway, *Force of Habit* (get it?) was indeed on IRS; it came out in 1987, but the best stuff on it apparently dates way back to 1981.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"shit on your knuckles/pain up the ass for you". I suspect that record would still make just about anything else sound like "polite company" by comparison.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, "Prime Mover" IS on *Force of Habit* after all. I'm not sure if that's the track that dates back to 1981 or not; my *Stairway to Hell* annotation says "rec. 1981-1987," but I'm not sure where I got that info, to tell the truth. (*Volume: International Discography of the New Wave*, which came out in '82, actually lists the *Slow Death* EP as coming out in 1979, so apparently the 1984 version I used to own was a reissue?) Anyway, my point is that about half the tracks on *Force of Habit* -- invariably the best ones -- were apparently older singles, of some vintage or other.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I have determined from their latest greatest CD (which i still like) that little river band were at least as much proto-men at work than post-eagles. probably even more so. plus there is a platypus on the cover--good for them!

― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

latest greatest HITS CD, I meant. (there's a difference.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:42 (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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