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

We've got a number of fans of them on the board, there has been talk even in quieter corners. "Even Less" is I think still my fave song by them. Been a whole slew of reissues of the early stuff recently. Steven Wilson is one busy guy. (I still like No-Man more in the end.)

The Primitives

The late 80s one? Great for the first singles and first two albums.

Propellerheads

Finally selling them back.

Pashmina will explain the appeal of the Pink Fairies

The Porcupine Tree here is a sidewalk-sale-purchased double-album early-years comp called *Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape*, on yellow vinyl and with a liner notes bio that seems entirely fabricated, and is pretty funny even if it's not. More recent stuff I've heard (their new album just entered Billboard's Top 200 two weeks ago!) sounds considerably less weird; is that the consensus with their loyal fans? (I've never met one myself.)

Primitives are great, the first album, and side one of the second album especially. There's a fair bit of kind-of clever arranging going on in a lot of their records, which lifts them a way above yer average indie underachievers. plus, two good singers.

Pink Fairies are one of my favourite bands, especially when they had paul rudolph playing for them. Nice falling apart but not quite feel, i love the singer's voice, mighty raga-rock lead breaks here & there, I dunno, they just make me feel warm & happy.

It was their high point in many eyes -- I suppose even mine! If you find the Lovely album, which that was on, give it a whirl; you might also like Lazy 86-88, which collected the indie singles. But I have an extremely soft spot for the second album Pure, which is one of my three 'summer' albums -- ie, I can't play it except during summer and I will *always* play it every summer at least a couple of times. Puts a little more dreamy psych and fake Morricone and more into things while still riding the JAMC/Blondie jones hard and it all works.

*rereads* Well, I think Pash said it already! So I'll echo him. The first side of Pure is definitely the stronger but the whole thing works.

I'm not really a loyal fan of Porcupine Tree, I kind of find them likeable, not lovable, if you know what I mean. The best one is the first one, which is super cheesy, sounds like it was recorded on a bedroom four track, and lysergic as fuck.

That would be On the Sunday of Life, which was indeed a bedroom record and intentionally recorded as a mock late 60s exercise a la the Dukes of Stratosphear. Then he turned serious. ;-)

My friend Stripey rilly rilly lurvs "Always Never," which is a great song from The Sky Moves Sideways. She also likes them for the Japan connection given that Barbieri ended up in the lineup.

I suppose they've built their audience up over a long time, so there's a lot of early records that were pressed up in small quantities. My copy of "on the sunday of life" or whatever it's called is the original delerium CD pressing, I wonder if it's worth ebaying?

I'm on the no-man mailing list so I should know about demand. ;-) I don't *think* it is since the reissue is out with more tracks and all but maybe there's some goof who really wants the original as it stands for some reason. *shrug*

There exists a Primitives single where they do "As Tears Go By" with EXACTLY the same arrangement as "Crash."

... and this is a good thing?

Pigbag.. now there's a band whose records I pick up without ever really needing to preview them. the "Hit the 'O' Deck" 12" is great, as is the "Getting Up" 12".. actually all of them are quite nice. Also proto-!!! non-shocker.

I wish the band didn't have this stigma of "bland hipness" (as John Leland described him in one of his early Spin columns, as funny as the context was.)... or this "music for older people" stigma.

Phuture: "Acid Trax" is a true classic, a real breakthrough in the abuse of programmable rhythm synths (the Roland TB-303, to be specific).

Pink Fairies: Very sloppy proto-pub rock; memorable mainly as the launching pad for Mick Ferren.

Piper: Where Billy Squier came from. I remember liking the self-titled album, but haven't listened to it in decades.

Joe Piscopo (in Sinatra covering rock songs mode): Perhaps the only reason to love Harry Connick.

Propellerheads: "History Repeating" includes the first non-ironic use of Shirley Bassey since the Bond flicks, which is recommendation enough for me.

I must deny you, J.D. -- Shirley's singing on "The Rhythm Divine," written by Billy Mackenzie with Yello on a Yello album in the late eighties, was totally non-ironic and thoroughly brilliant.

Pink Fairies were the Deviants minus Mick Farren who went solo around the same time or was kicked out. The albums he might've been doing were "Mona" (??) and "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money," although PF's were probably a little earlier than the second.

Precious Metal -- LA all-girl metal band. "Right Here, Right Now," was the first, was really good, produced by Sabu! Saunders swore by them. Made a few more records, none as good as the first, covered a Bruce Springsteen song ("Two Hearts" ??) for their last. Blew a production deal with Keith Olsen that might have made them huge. Kind of annoyed with Vixen for getting on TV. Saw them with Extreme opening at the Cat Club many years ago. One guitarist went to work with Lindsey Buckingham. The singer, Leslie Knauer, is in a Cali-indie band called Kanary that plays in the LA-->Riverside-->Sacramento-->Fresno bar circuit.

I'll stick to the Muffs.

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You mean there are two more earlier albums that are more bubblegum-ish?

Also, the Propellerheads one I liked wasn't their unstomachably kitschy Shirley Bassey thing; it was their earlier 12-incher "Bang On," which somehow reminded me of Todd Terry's "Bango", which had somehow reminded me of Dinosaur L (aka Arthur Russel)'s "Go Bang #5."

Then they became a dirtier version of Precious Metal for "Rock Hard."
Still needed a lead guitarist.

I've always loathed Journey but "Oh Sherry" by Steve Perry was a good pop single in a year (1984) loaded with good pop singles.

kings of oblivion is so classic ("i wish i was a girl" - c'mon!). the first pink fairies not so much due to some real crap here and there. haven't heard the second one yet.

I had the Polydor thing, too. Traded it in when the CD reissues of the Pink Fairies arrived. "The Snake," which rooled -- Ah the sna--a-aa-ke, better watch out now, watch out, -bomp- -bomp- -bum- -bomp- -bomp-." is a bonus cut on one of them, prolly the first. Invigorating high dumbness much better than Humble Pie's "One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba."

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