Unrest Classic or Dud?

I was listening to the Isabel Bishop EP last night and realized how great the funkier version of "Isabel" is.

Haven't heard the EP is a couple decades but how far from the original with the "Ashley's Roachclip" drum break added is it?

iirc the EP version is the same as the "Isabel Bishop" 7" - only the version on Imperial is drumless

I want a Mark Robinson/Unrest anthology...

god i love this band

Same!!

perfect teeth was so great, what a way to go off into the sunset

love

Any Air Miami fans?

Tomas MacLoughlin
8 years ago
the drummer, phil krauth is my English teacher!!!
how cool is that??

xp Mike Fellow is no Phil Krauth, but Air Miami are OK. Never clicked with them the same way.

Not to brag but I saw Unrest at Maxwells and The Ropers were the openers...

...in 2010

I kinda want to be a completist but it is expen$$$ive.

― sleeve, Wednesday, February 27, 2013

five years later, the only formal Unrest releases I'm still missing are the "Make Out Club" 7" and the split tape with Dust Devils, but then there are a bunch of impossible-to-find Teenbeat cassette compilations as well.

Were you really finding it expensive at the time? None of my Unrest records are worth that much money. I don't see a lot of interest in Unrest these days in general. I'm wondering if they will be "rediscovered" by p4k or someone and have their classic status affirmed a little more among the general public someday.

the really expensive one that I still don't have is the UK LP release of Perfect Teeth, it's like $80 or more

Make Out Club single is > $20 and I just can't justify it since I have all the tracks already afaik

most of this stuff is pretty affordable, I think I had to spend $40-50 on the 1st LP original

This one? https://www.discogs.com/Unrest-Perfect-Teeth/release/1622164

yes, trying to find a copy for sale in the US is very difficult

Based on that marketplace, Germany is hoarding all of them!

Any Air Miami fans?

*raises hand

tbh I bought the Air Miami CD because I saw it 2nd hand for about £2.50 some time in the 90s because of the Unrest connection, listened to it a couple of times but didn't think that much of it. A few years later when I first started talking to my now-wife about music she was a fan (of both bands) and sent me a copy of their demo and got me to listen to the album again, and that time it clicked for me.

Any Cotton Candy fans?

me otm 16 years ago about flin flon and ESPECIALLY about panax's "the garden" (from the 2000 teanbeat sampler):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiP1U1DIcMM

when i was a kid in dc the teenbeat stuff felt a lot less cliquish than the dischord post hardcore cool guys and a lot more stylish than the theater dork pukka shell stylings of the dismemberment plan.

yes, trying to find a copy for sale in the US is very difficult

sleeve, i will keep an eye open for that one for you

<3 thank you!

Oh my god, I Do Believe You Are Blushing, where have you been? Apart from, of course, on my shelf for the last decade, unlistened.

Where do I go after Imperial ffrr?

Perfect Teeth, immediately :)

and then BPM

I do believe your blushing is their best song imo

uh wow

Unrest 06-09-1991 Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVDyKwVZws&feature=youtu.be

aw man, gone already

nah it's there, just Google "Unrest 06-09-1991 Middle East" and it'll be the first result

thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryyk4ee5Tw

nice thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndlZ3NJfZSE&feature=youtu.be

what was that supposed to be?

oh wow is it gone already? Unrest live at the Khyber in Philly 1992

https://youtu.be/ndlZ3NJfZSE

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea-MgTUWkAAFAqL?format=jpg&name=medium

A new radio programme debuts tomorrow morning at 11AM on
@wmbr
. Mark & Evelyn's American Top 41 starring
@evelyn0909
and Mark Robinson. http://wmbr.org

Cool! They do a lot of kitschy station identification jingles for WMBR, and every now and then pop up here in town (Cambridge/Somerville, MA) in their Cotton Candy guise, so this show should be a lot of fun.

that's very good

also, this is not really related, but I'd like to post it here anyway, just for fun

https://cdslimspine.com/assets/photo-img.png

Terry Tolkin (R.I.P.) did a lot more besides release Imperial, but that’s where I know his name from. Mark tribute from earlier today:

Terry, me, Richard. Teenbeat 173 with Teenbeat 178 on the table. Teenbeat Banquet 1995. pic.twitter.com/JoRm4u16sO

— Teen-Beat / Mark Robinson (@Teenbeat463) January 22, 2022

I need to look back at that Teenbeat item re to Tolkin No. 6 label .

In an email I just got

Party Milk
Your Problem as a Mountain
35-song single LP
The new album from the duo D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark R. Robinson (UNREST). Originally dubbed FANG WIZARD, this dynmaic group of two changes their moniker with every release.

Pop experimentalism like you've never heard before. An electric, eclectic, and electrifying duo from Washington, D.C. Their unique, (mostly) lyric-less instrumentals are created by combining old school melodies with futuristic beats and bizarre, fractured howls.

AIR MIAMI
Me. Me. Me.
Double LP gatefold
2 x 45

All 16 tracks from the session remastered — three not on the original album. On Miami orange and sea blue vinyl. New jacket design.

A Teenbeat / 4AD co-release. Comes out July 28.

PRE-ORDER NOW:https://t.co/b32MQ5lSJt pic.twitter.com/y2esqpCygP

— Teenbeat / Mark Robinson (@Teenbeat463) June 7, 2023

the really expensive one that I still don't have is the UK LP release of Perfect Teeth, it's like $80 or more

― sleeve, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:25 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

sleeve, i will keep an eye open for that one for you

― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:24 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

<3 thank you!

― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:29 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

is a sleeve still in need?

no, but thank you! I found an autographed copy a while back. much appreciated!

oh good stuff! finally found a copy for cheap today, guess I'll just sell it for £££ instead :)

yah ebay that sucker!