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

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Inspire me to pull them down from my shelf and listen to them!

The Off
Danny O'Keefe
Ole, Ole
On Air
One-Two-Three
One Way
Opus
Orange Lemon
Raul Orellana
K.T. Oslin

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Opus

LIVE IS LIFE

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Raul Orellana

'Real Wild House' is a classic Italo-house cheesefest complete with flamenco pluckery and a fab nod to Iggy Pop.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Raul Orellana seconded. Hooray for Italo-house.

Presumably The Off is not Off, of "Electrica Salsa" fame?

One Way had a mid-80s soul/funk dance hit called "Let's Talk About Sex", with a radio edit renamed "Let's Talk About Shh" to spare blushes. (These things still mattered back then.) It wasn't much cop though.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

>Presumably The Off is not Off, of "Electrica Salsa" fame?<

Yeah, it is. Which = Sven Vath. Which = 16 Bit. Which = whatever he called himself when he did "J.R. is Dancing Pogo." Etc. I'm pretty sure my copy (a 12-inch on the great ZYX label, though it's also on the great *Electric Salsa* compilation on Baja a few years later) does have a The before its Off, though.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

One-Two-Three are the Bobby O act, right? Runaway is O by numbers, which is to say AWESOME. Kinda slow-paced, tinsel synths, it has Bobby (at least I think it's him on vocals) haranguing a young girl "You're just a runaway, running away" then he feels bad and he "just can't live without you, thought I knew everything about you." It's not the best O Records track but it's still great.

Another Knife In My Back is my favourite. Apparently remixed by Jellybean which just adds to the whole goodness. It's a relatively bleak track, some bad girl has done Bobby over and he's sad and a bit mad. It has my second favourite Bobby O spoken-word moment (first is the 'dollar sign baby' in How To Pick Up Girls):
Bobby: "When I first met you I thought that you were pure, now I'm finding out you're just a tramp, just a whore"
Bad Girl: "Remember the times we made love back then? I want you to know I always thought of other men..."
Brutal.

Falling In Love With Myself has the same-old mid-paced synths but an annoying New Wavestyle vocal. Not as good. I've not heard the rest of the album but this thread has inspired me to get the rest of their tracks from Emule.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

KT Oslin was an idiosyncratic country star of the 80s, sort of a Nashville singer-songwriter. 80s Ladies, This Woman (contains the soulful "Hold Me") and Love in A Small Town make up her trilogy. Haven't listened in years but she was a revelation on the radio.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

One Way's "Mr. Groove" was a James Brown tribute that was better than Brown's own stuff at the time (this was when Brown was doing Dan Hartman). "Cutie Pie" was also quite nice.

K.T. Oslin's album "This Woman" is also worth hearing, if only for the ease with which it steps beyond '80s Nashville formula.

― J.D. Considine, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's really funny how noted dour industrial group Laibach has been more associated with their cover of that Opus song than Opus themselves! It also doesn't help that Laibach titled the album from whence their cover of it came from Opus Dei... hahahaha.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost: My version of "Electrica Salsa" is the UK 7" on Sonet, credited just to Off, and subtitled "(Baba Baba)". (Sven Vath, huh? Blimey.) It was big(gish) in British gay clubs c.87/88.

Wasn't One Way's "Mr Groove" a vocodered electro-funk thingy, along the lines of Zapp / Midnight Starr "Freak-a-zoid" / Bar-Kays "Sex-O-Matic"? I'd forgotten that Al "You Can Do It" Hudson was behind them.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

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

bump

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:03 (sixteen years ago)

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