Where is the love for these bands on the Magnet sampler I threw in the trash last month?

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Pohgoh
Boyskout
Silent Tongue
Channing Cope
The Perishers
Full Scale
Beneath Augusta
The Beatings
Inara Geogre
Street Dogs
Single Frame
Costy L.
Bourbon Princess
Greenlight Promise
Man Of The Year
Suit Of Lights
Mando Saenz
Lismore
Death From Above 1979

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how there's always ONE recognizable band on these samplers (DFA79) and the rest are like, who?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Pohgoh's label must have the big buxxx, though, to shell out for the first track on the CD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

>The Beatings<

There's a guy who works at the Voice who likes these guys a lot. I think they're from Boston (as is he, I think); think I heard their music once and it did nothing for me. When I see their name, I always read it as "The Beatnigs" (who were an entirely different band.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Magnet samplers and free-CD offers have an uncanny resemblance to next year’s 99-cent CD bin, only without all the promo-only stickers and cracked cases.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(And whatever stolen r&b / gospel CDs were recently pity-purchased from homeless men.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, aren't Boyskout as sort of electroclashish all-girl band of some sort? I think I wrote a short show preview about them once.

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

Boyskout = very good, ever so slightly goth but not so much as to bother you if you don't like goth, Cure and New Wave influenced group with a decent pop sense. Originally from San Fran, they moved to Brooklyn for a while, but I'm not sure if they're still here. Their one album is about half great. Lots of membership changes. Their video for Back To Bed is kind of sexy, though it seems to be gone from their website (much as one of the making-out-in-the-video bandmates is gone from the band).

― dlp9001, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The mp3s on their website claim to be by Number One Cup??

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

what?

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

Clarify?

― dlp9001, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

lismore ... i recieved the promo for this on 2 occasions ... and couldnt get into it either time...so-so electro-pop from NJ i think..

― b b, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarify? I dunno, two of the mp3s are tagged as being from Number One Cup's 1996 release "Just Let Go." I assume this is just low-budget dumbness with someone's burning software and the CDDB.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

For the record I don't think Number One Cup ever released anything called "Just Let Go" -- point is just that they've got their promotional mp3s terrifically mistagged.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just Let Go" was a single from Possum Trot Plan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

man, mistagging your promotional mp3s is a bad fuckup!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Man of The Year is a Portland band that plays kinda spacey indie pop with wee-ooh! wee-ooh! keyboards. Meh-rock.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Boyskout played in my basement once. They were okay, but the draw seemed to be the second vocalist who was wearing very little. I've heard she's not in the band anymore, and that the main songwriter replaced everyone with lookalikes.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]...and the rest are like, who? [/i]

isn't that sortof the point? or shouldn't it be?

― william fields, Monday, 16 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be closer to the point if there were any chance that people would discover and rally around any of the groups involved, but most of the time it's honestly just bores and mediocre product, not underdogs. Like "these bands all kind of sound like stuff Magnet might theoretically enjoy, only not very good."

J, I'm almost kinda disturbed that you have immediate recall of the Number One Cup catalog!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, what N said. My point, though, is that they always manage to get a semi-recognizable band so that you get excited for a minute -- like, "Wow, I've always been meaning to check out Pinback, this CD is great, lessee, what else do we have? Oh ... uh. Hmmm."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're meant imagine they're all bands just as good as Pinback, bands that you're just not tapped-in enough to know about! I mean, I certainly remember doing that a lot when I was in my mid-teenage years: pick up a comp, there's two bands on it that you love, ten you've never heard of, and ... ahh, those ten must all be on a par with the ones I've heard of! I must buy this comp! (And I almost kind of miss wasting money on bad comps, not just for hearing the few things I did turn out to like, but for the fun of posting to ILX over a decade later and remembering hilarious bad singles by hilarious forgotten bands. These days if I don't really hear bands I'm not going to like, and I worry that this is a way of following music that's not really in touch with a lot of the fun of the music-following experience.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, in 2017 someone on iILX(TM) will make a joke about Street Dogs and someone else will go "hahaha STREET DOGS I can't believe you remember that, that's worse than Inara George" and then some third person will be like "holy crap, I remember that Magnet sampler!!!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(More realistically, subtitute "The Glass," "Radio 4" and "that Sound of Young New York compilation.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I said this on another thread, but Magnet sells at least a certain number of the slots on each of those CDs to whoever will pay on a first-come first-serve basis, at least as far as I can tell. My band sent them a CD for review and now we constantly get e-mails trying to goad us into spending a few hundred bucks for the track placement. This thread is a perfect explanation of why I'd never do it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatings aren't even nearly a thousanth as good as the UK band who shared their name (now known as the Beat Up)..

the rest of those band names could well be made up for all i know

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

man, mistagging your promotional mp3s is a bad fuckup!

Not if your promotional mp3s suck.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh haha *plots*

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

In general, are these Magnet samplers worth it, in your opinion? Let's say your (otherwise broke-ass) label throws you around $500 for PR and the choice is between a couple of ads in a local newsweekly or a spot on this monstrosity.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

fuck no

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Someone handed me a Bourbon Princess CD today. It's almost like the Sly Stone at the Grammys perfomance with Morphine members... Or maybe like the Doors with Scott Weiland.

Anyway, I'm surprised that with the Morphine connection, there is absolutley no mention of them on ILM.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

The Beatings are all right. I've seen 'em live a couple times. The two things holding them back are that their albums are always wildly inconsistent and they tend to have shitty titles.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

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