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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jul 22, 2021 0:13:09 GMT
been experimenting on what music is working as a cooling agent in this stifling heat
what's not working: any sort of hectic guitar music or energetic funk/soul. I tried putting HIGH ON FIRE on and of course it was like sitting next to a volcano while being hit over the head by another volcano.
what's working:
ENO ambient stuff
KRAFTWERK radioactivity lp A side. cool, sterile and synthetic. perfect.
LAURIE ANDERSON: big science and that other one with Sharkey on it
OMD: anything
ROY MONTGOMERY: ditto
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO B-1 has soothing plip plop moments but still too much energy
COCTEAU TWINS Garlands Lp. too much high frequency squall
SLOWDIVE souvlaki. Success!
NEIL YOUNG: mellow acoustic stuff
BLUE NILE: hats. the perfect cooling album
TOM WAITS black rider soundtrack
NICK CAVE and WARREN ELLIS white lunar. (BIG success, this one was perfect)
NEU! s/t a-side
next on deck:
more Cocteaus
COIL horse rotorvator
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Post by fuckface on Jul 22, 2021 9:38:10 GMT
been experimenting on what music is working as a cooling agent in this stifling heat fuckface's stinkin' hot recommends |
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jul 22, 2021 22:24:05 GMT
Wow jezz usually just annoys me but that Necks things is some soothing shit!
I see on discogs that album has never even been pressed to LP.
Or even cassette.
Straight to cd only.
Stupid 1989!
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Post by fuckface on Jul 23, 2021 12:52:02 GMT
Wow jezz usually just annoys me but that Necks things is some soothing shit! I see on discogs that album has never even been pressed to LP. Or even cassette. Straight to cd only. Stupid 1989! yep, stupid pretty sure they never released anything except cd's until 2011 seen em a few times '90s - mid naughties and they never had anything but cd's at their merch desk they can be a bit hit or miss live but when they hit, they sure don't miss |
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Post by fuckface on Oct 9, 2021 21:11:34 GMT
cale.
heres two live versions of the ol' elvis classic one year and a few (dozen? hundred? thousand?) lines of coke apart.
he really tears it up in the second one starting around 4:40ish.
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Oct 10, 2021 1:12:35 GMT
Hmm, looked like a fairly normy crowd there, bet they werent expecting that. That live show stuff on the Sabotage LP is such gold
I've had my 4 FLOOR tapes going around and around. Deep lumbar brain anaesthesia 4 morans:
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Post by fuckface on Oct 10, 2021 2:35:58 GMT
Hmm, looked like a fairly normy crowd there, bet they werent expecting that. That live show stuff on the Sabotage LP is such gold pretty sure 90% + were there for huey lewis and level 42 who were all on the same bill for german tv. i saw him on that '83 solo tour in a small seedy club on a weekday night in brisbane (100 people tops) we were seated maybe ten feet from the stage. he alternated between e.piano and guitar. had an electric jug on a stool next to his piano he poured boiling water from which he drank from a cup. guessing he was on a health/get clean kick. fucking phenomenally powerful performance. intense. saw an interview with peter jefferies awhile back where he said he had no doubt that the auckland show cale did on that tour with tall dwarves was the single best show he'd seen. |
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Post by fuckface on Oct 13, 2021 2:08:36 GMT
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Oct 13, 2021 10:23:20 GMT
that sounds real good. like a time capsule for those mid 80's j-goth bands. keeping it real simple too. Goddamn there are so few weird freak people around this neck of the woods it blows my fuckign mind. Everyone dresses identically and NOBODY goes their own way like those kids. Just follow the flock and like what they like on their fucking phones. Is it just me or were about 10% of people back in the day weirdos? Especially on uni campuses. |
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Post by beta on Oct 13, 2021 15:52:44 GMT
Just another boring motherfucker here listening to Blind Lemon Jefferson this evening. Motherfucker could write a song, arrange a song, play like a motherfucker, and sing to boot. "Hot Dogs" keeps growing on me even after decades of listening to it.
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Oct 30, 2021 9:37:57 GMT
I think I very, very badly need this COIL record.
I feel certain it will fix everything for me.
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Nov 9, 2021 22:35:57 GMT
Speakers on, some superb musicians timing here...
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jan 14, 2022 3:05:59 GMT
My dubbed tape of this "lost tracks" album has become my-go staple for when I dont know what to put on. So awesome. Couched right in there in my perfect wheelhouse of rhythm, repetition and weird
my CHROME ranking:
1 Half Machine Lip Moves. still blows my mind that each Led Zep LP will have around 800 or so entries for each album on discogs yet this absolute masterpiece only has 21. FFSWFT, World. Twenty fucking one.
2 Half Machine From The Sun, The Lost Chrome Tracks From '79-'80
3 Read Only Memory
4 Alien Soundtracks
5 Red Exposure
6 Blood On The Moon
7 3rd From The Sun
8 The Visitation
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 22, 2022 9:52:55 GMT
I saw Helios Creed at Gilman St. of all places, opening for youthful punk bands and a small apathetic audience. He was loud as fuck but it was hard to get into a spacy mood. I went to the side room to chat with some friends but could still hear him perfectly. I remember my friend offering an Oreo to a punker chick in a leather jacket, "No thanks, it has lard in it"..."And your jacket?" "I got it before I became vegetarian..."
Cool little docu about Sabotage. If you thought artists were treated great before Spotify, it goes into great detail about how their management fucked them quite well. Also, it made me finally remember why I always looked at that "Radio Rental" reference and thought it felt like something I knew, but I didn't (??) Love cockney slang ~ like telling brits "I'm a septic" almost always to confused looks...
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jan 23, 2022 9:42:27 GMT
Somehow never made it across the bay to Gilman St despite living on the west coast for 6 months. That whole MRR too-cool-for-everything crowd wasnt much of an allure anyway. Wouldnt want to run afoul of any of their strictly codified dress codes/social mores/tenets that they all adhered to religiously so they could keep thinking freely. I'd rather go see Skankin Pickle.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jan 23, 2022 20:31:45 GMT
I gotta say I was real young when I saw Skankin' Pickle and now I think I would find this annoying but on a very small stage the bass player mid-set is somehow juggling on a unicycle -- a young nikkeisindex was very impressed indeed.
I started reading MRR in HS so let's say 91-92 and seeing things line up like oh the guy from lookout has a column, ben weasel has a column, screeching weasel are on lookout, but so are opivy, and they're totally different, that was super cool to me.
It seemed to get more annoying as it went on, although I'm sure people had been saying that for years. Once they really limited the exact type of punk they would cover that seemed like the first nail in the coffin (since I had started reading), then slowly firing all their best columnists. By the end I felt like okay, great, I hope the half dozen most politically correct punk practitioners enjoy living in a squat by themselves...
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 24, 2022 11:35:06 GMT
I kinda forgot that Tim Y and MRR ended their official connection to Gilman Street very early on:
I was coincidancedly at this crazy-ass show that was quite, uhm, compelling
Preserved for posterity!
I stopped reading MRR in 87 or 88 but I wish I had known about the Shane White era.
And about living in a squat: back when I visited my friend, MRR rented a nice big house in the Noe Valley, a fairly decent neighborhood next to the Castro, supplemented by Tim Yo's lab job at UCB I think. Taped a bunch of the legendary green-duct taped records while staying there. Specifically remember taping Crime 7"ers and the first Green River album there...and early Clash and SLF singles...
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jan 24, 2022 23:11:16 GMT
I gotta say I was real young when I saw Skankin' Pickle and now I think I would find this annoying but on a very small stage the bass player mid-set is somehow juggling on a unicycle -- a young nikkeisindex was very impressed indeed. I had some utterly mental times at SP shows. Must have see them at least 6 or 7 times. Would far rather see them than some MRR approved dirge like Econochrist at Gilman with 8 people standing stock still with crossed arms and glum faces making sure everyone kowtowed to their sad little scene politics. |
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Post by fuckface on Jan 25, 2022 9:17:28 GMT
lived in a squat in sydney for awhile in '85 when i was on the skids. was not a political act. it was ok, but there was no privacy at all and when it rained the roof leaked so badly that i went and slept in the doorway of the shop around the corner cause it was drier than inside the fucking squat.
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 25, 2022 9:31:20 GMT
I gotta say I was real young when I saw Skankin' Pickle and now I think I would find this annoying but on a very small stage the bass player mid-set is somehow juggling on a unicycle -- a young nikkeisindex was very impressed indeed. I had some utterly mental times at SP shows. Must have see them at least 6 or 7 times. Would far rather see them than some MRR approved dirge like Econochrist at Gilman with 8 people standing stock still with crossed arms and glum faces making sure everyone kowtowed to their sad little scene politics. Fwiw, the Gilman scene became extremely goofy also, there was some story about Choke of Slapshot being bummed because everyone was riding around on Big Wheels... Was Skankin Pickle better than Op Ivy? Never really listened to either and this was the last ska band I saw live... okay okay - something really fucking great. Best 4AD release outside of The Cocteau Twins (who are in their own Universe)?? modernenglish.bandcamp.com/album/mesh-lace |
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jan 25, 2022 9:50:16 GMT
Was Skankin Pickle better than Op Ivy? Havent heard Op Ivy since the 90's but from what I remember they were pretty much the gold standard for that style of music? Ground zero? SP were more zero airs and graces silly fun: |
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Post by fuckface on Jan 25, 2022 10:01:45 GMT
always liked heavy dub, bits n pieces of reggae , but ska, i never got at all...and if skankin' pickle and toasters are the best on offer, then i guess i never will. happy to have my head turned tho, so school me if theres better
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Post by fuckface on Jan 25, 2022 10:38:58 GMT
this is probably as close to ska as i have amongst my records
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 10:45:24 GMT
I’m not even close to reading all these post, it’s making my cock sore. In brief, Laughing Clowns, the horns turned me off. Prefer Scientists over Kim Salmon solos. His work in Beasts of Bourbon is godhead stuff. Newish stuff listening to: Viagra Boys, Sleaford Mods, IDLES Oldish stuff revisiting: Black Lung, Soma Suppose the giiitars are taking a back seat for a bit. Picked up a big bag of electronic stuff I’m still wading through. Lot of ambient youtu.be/GVAsPS_7IKE |
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Post by Dr W.F.T Blundershart III on Jan 25, 2022 11:22:49 GMT
In brief, Laughing Clowns, the horns turned me off. Yeah me too. Scientists just didnt work for me either.
today on the hifi: NEIL YOUNG homegrown. the lost 1976 album. can see why he shelved it in favour of "Tonight's The Night". But still. Super acoustic versions of Pocahontas and Powderfinger = win. PIN GROUP 12". Flying Nun #01. Bugger me I almost had a heartattack when I read the date on the back; 1982. FFS 40 years ago! Time marches on, pretty soon we're all gone... FLOOR s/t total munt doom. Sounding very TORCHE here. Still can't believe No Idea remastered it and sped up their release of it. Fucking clowns. It's not skapunk, shitheads. |
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Post by fuckface on Jan 25, 2022 12:49:28 GMT
In brief, Laughing Clowns, the horns turned me off. Yeah me too the thing is, maybe you're thinking laughing clowns are supposed to be some kind of rock band. they were not a fucking rock band, not a post punk band, nor a shronk band and 100% definitely not a post punk jazz punk band. they were more akin to archie shep 'fire music' or late period john coltrane than they were to any of their 80's independent contemporaries. they could indeed rock when they set their minds to it, but so could the art ensemble of chicago. nobody would say that the horns turned them off sun ra. they might say sun ra isn't even music or whatever, but they wouldn't say 'i think i'd like sun ra if it wasn't for those horns and those fucking keyboards'. so likewise, if you're listening to the clowns and the horns turn you off. you are in the wrong hole my friend, you are in the wrong hole! |
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Post by pussycat on Jan 25, 2022 15:37:40 GMT
always liked heavy dub, bits n pieces of reggae , but ska, i never got at all...and if skankin' pickle and toasters are the best on offer, then i guess i never will. happy to have my head turned tho, so school me if theres better This is my take as well, but I do enjoy the first wave of ska from jamaica, and some of the second wave in the uk Check out desmond dekker, toots and the maytals, prince buster, skatalites, byron lee. For second wave: specials and madness. |
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Post by pussycat on Jan 25, 2022 15:43:28 GMT
I’m listening to lots of jazz lately, specifically alice coltrane who might be my most favorite jazz person, and one of the best music people, period. Listening to monastic trio, huntington ashram monastery and ptah the el daoud (gesundheit!). Love the dreamy chords and droning basslines. Haven’t delved too deep into these later albums like lord of lords where she’s doing a more orchestral sort of thing with an electric keyboard buzzing along through it.
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Post by fuckface on Jan 25, 2022 21:59:16 GMT
always liked heavy dub, bits n pieces of reggae , but ska, i never got at all...and if skankin' pickle and toasters are the best on offer, then i guess i never will. happy to have my head turned tho, so school me if theres better This is my take as well, but I do enjoy the first wave of ska from jamaica, and some of the second wave in the uk Check out desmond dekker, toots and the maytals, prince buster, skatalites, byron lee. For second wave: specials and madness. thanks. altho i don't own any i am familiar with desmond dekker, jimmy cliff et al as well as madness, the specials, the beat, buster bloodvessel etc. all of which had hits and were on the radio regularly when i was in my teens. for some reason i wasn't really thinking of any of them with my earlier comment. i actually like all that stuff, so i guess i do like ska after all. definitely not punk ska tho...prove me wrong |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 21:59:44 GMT
the thing is, maybe you're thinking laughing clowns are supposed to be some kind of rock band. they were not a fucking rock band, not a post punk band, nor a shronk band and 100% definitely not a post punk jazz punk band Probably more just bad timing in my case. Every cough medicine drinking mongrel band at the time had horns, got a bit monotonous. |
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