Chris Connelly and the Bells: C or D?

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I'm finally hearing Blonde Exodus for the first time and it's pretty great for a massive Scott Walker Francophile hodgepodge. I still haven't heard the first album, Ultimate Seaside Companion, because I can't find it anywhere, but the lineup on it (which includes Jim O'Rourke and Bill Reiflin) is amazing, but leads me to fear that it might be, like a Bill Laswell album, the kind of thing that seems better and more interesting to the people who played on it than it is to anyone else.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I am man enough to admit that this album cover is why I first bothered to look into any of this:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e273/e27345fvbri.jpg

although I hate the font on this one:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e519/e51915t9y9f.jpg

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like that first Bells album quite a bit; the Rieflin collaboration album is also worth looking into. His more recent stuff has passed me by which is a bit annoying to me, because I do think he's an incredibly underrated artist (and the one time I met and interviewed him he was funny, gracious and very cool). He rides the Bowie/Scott Walker jones hard but he does so incredibly well and comes up with his own distinct style. (And his cover of Walker's "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg" was I think the first time I had ever heard any Scott Walker song, back in 1991.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Come winter I'll have to revive this and post "All I Want for Christmas is You" by The Reckless Records -- i.e., Chris and the Wicker Park store staff. The proper records are really great, really elegant.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

NB Kyle there are Bells more attractive than that cover.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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