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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 30, 2022 6:27:55 GMT
re; FairPort and Blurt (never heard of either) it is weird how these bands come along early for us and make such a first consciousness impression that it sort of becomes indelible for the rest of our lives.
re: The Fall, I am jealous of you being right there at Ground Zero. ps ffs u r old.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 30, 2022 7:35:11 GMT
already can guess F.Uckface's Top 5 Strayan Musics so to save him the trouble I'll just type them out for him:
5 Australian Crawl
4 Air Supply
3 Men At Work
2 Little River Band
1 Kylie's Krissmas Klassics Band
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 30, 2022 8:56:11 GMT
mY tOP 10 Alltime Aussie Boofhead fAVE BANDS.
1 MIDNIGHT OIL
2 EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING
3 UV RACE
4 BIRTHDAY PARTY
5 ACDC
6 SAINTS really only massively rooting their 3rd one All Fools Day
7 GO BETWEENS wft I have everythign by this band, I should be ranking them higher
8 KIM SALMON AND THE SURREALISTS
fairly feeble effort by me. what about that recent wave of new garage bands they had? Cloud Nothings hasnt clicked yet. what are the other ones cuntz. Wuldnt know where to start witbh King Gizzard ffs
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 30, 2022 11:31:50 GMT
hey all, how d'ya like my new reply style. pretty flash eh?
jk...The sound really is amazing. Even podcasts struggle to get good sound with bands...Even those bootlegs, ripped from fans' tapes even I spose
TPE just added too many horns I guess...real interesting early on...
Re: Tet cash...little joke, because who the eff is gonna give me happy money? Doled out 1 million dong to our main housekeeper and 500,000 to other personnel of our "serviced" apartment...I will burn a 1000 dong under the full moon for ya tho!
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Who knows why AmRep has gone so crazy limited - didn't realize the CD limit! I left the AmRep FB group because of the jerking off over getting all the different versions and shit BUT the label was like no.1 with a bullet for me in the late 80s and it was easily obtainable. Love everything about it and most all the early bands that he put out...
That is a great version of Chow - already a great song:
NP: 1979 |
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 30, 2022 12:01:41 GMT
Not sure if I am in favor of this segregationist move but...
Just about the Fall...Takes a while to click or maybe never but I think it was a tape of the A-sides thang that finally pushed me to listening to more. Definitely the Fall "hits" - I found myself humming/stuff like "Hey! Luciani!" or "Cruisers cr**ee**k nooowwww" for days, also wondering wtf he's going on about, as his reputation already preceded himself (like early '90s). MES obviously had a penchant for quirky, bouncy, 60s stuff judged by his covers of Mr Pharmacist and
He did a few Monks covers
And lyrics usually ain't much for me, but they are important here and sometimes the only saving grace of later albums...teehee
For reference:
www.discogs.com/master/38928-The-Fall-458489-A-Sides
Also: A cassette of Kurious Oranj was an early purchase - still want to see the staged ballet! But even now, I often find myself shouting "Check the record, check the record, check the guy's check record" in many pertinent and not so pertinent instances.
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feels sorry for Adolf
hey there
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Post by fuckface on Jan 30, 2022 20:48:11 GMT
can't say i like this ghetto sub genre bullshit, but anyway....
johnny o’keefe and the dee jays - wild one - 1958 i is minus four when this came out. my mum liked him and other '50s rockers like bill haley
masters apprentices - undecided -1966 - i is four yrs old i know nuthin' about nuthin'
wild cherries - g.o.d. - 1970 - i is 8 yrs old and we watch this show with my mum every week. probably saw this one, but can't say f'sure
the saints - this perfect day - 1977 - i is fifteen, this band make a mark in my tiny little mind, which a year later becomes an itch i cannot cease to scratch.
rose tattoo - rock n roll outlaw - 1978 - sour sixteen and this is the first live band i see that grab my full and undivided attention
....to be continued...or as benny would say 'later cunts'
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Post by Gordon, "Gordo", Forthreich on Jan 30, 2022 22:28:20 GMT
Not sure if I am in favor of this segregationist move but... |
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 31, 2022 0:55:13 GMT
Not sure if I am in favor of this segregationist move but... How to make a mess of a forum in three easy steps! |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 31, 2022 7:02:09 GMT
How to make a mess of a forum in three easy steps!  |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 31, 2022 7:07:07 GMT
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Who knows why AmRep has gone so crazy limited - didn't realize the CD limit! I left the AmRep FB group because of the jerking off over getting all the different versions and shit BUT the label was like no.1 with a bullet for me in the late 80s and it was easily obtainable. Love everything about it and most all the early bands that he put out...
That is a great version of Chow - already a great song:
The COWS were totally my guyz. You can keep the Melvins, I've got the Cows. "Daddy Has A Tail" is still my fave LP of theirs too. Also really dislike How Haze is redoing all the covers with his generic red black and white Mickey Rat bullshit artwork. They all look the fuckign same now ffs. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 31, 2022 7:16:23 GMT
Just about the Fall...Takes a while to click or maybe never but I think it was a tape of the A-sides thang that finally pushed me to listening to more. Definitely the Fall "hits" - I found myself humming/stuff like "Hey! Luciani!" or "Cruisers cr**ee**k nooowwww" for days, also wondering wtf he's going on about,
Ive found there's the 5 Stages of Ingratiation that are entered into upon acquiring a new Fall album. As Larry Graham once said, "you have to go through it to get to it"; 1 "Whats the big fuckign deal?" 2 "Fuck it I'll put it on again" 3 "Some of this shit is getting stuck in my head." 4 "Kind of curious about this thing now." 5 The clouds part. This is now the favourite thing you own. |
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 31, 2022 14:25:04 GMT
FWIW ~ Here's where Bailey took the Saints ~ also on TV in between the Divinyls and INXS in 86-87
Lobby Lloyd 4-Ever
The Sweet on even more yellow-jackets...
1973 but could be NWOBHM ~ thank buddha Metallica never covered it!
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jan 31, 2022 17:10:14 GMT
Swell Maps. Here we go for the weakest brag you have ever heard. Somehow... a friend here ended up in a band with Epic Soundtracks.
I guess that's it. I know a guy who was in a band with the brother of the guy who was in Swell Maps.
My friend was in another pretty obscure band here in Chicago, The Chamber Strings. I hope this doesn't come up on google should he ever decide to google himself -- we're not that close, but a guy I've known for a long time. Well well well I landed in Tokyo and upon hearing I was from Chicago a guy I met said "Oh Chicago, wow, I love the Chamber Strings."
Again: I did not say that I knew this guy or his band. This insane person offered this in response to hearing the name of an American town.
So, small world. Watch out!
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jan 31, 2022 17:25:04 GMT
Another good small world story, for me, was discovering Bill Nelson. Very innocuous name and overlaps with an American senator which makes googling fun. He's been a guy for a long time. Be Bop Deluxe which is sort of categorized as "glam" although I myself don't get it.
Bill Nelson: Red Noise / Sound on Sound -- holy shit. I could not be more on board for this. Supposedly he was like a "guitar god" and Clapton would go be front row to see him play and then he heard punk and said ok, fuck that -- hard synth, 0 guitar solos.
True or false, this concept - super talented musician with high production values that decides to chuck his prog abilities and make a hard new wave punk record, oh my god, I'm drooling just recapping it.
PLUS Japan bonus, he married a Japanese chick, which I'm guessing is why my bandmate knew about him and loaned me the record, or minidisc, or whatever the fuck.
Now, I'm a small minded stubborn man. When I heard the Buzzcocks and Undertones, I mean it when I said music after approximately 1981 became irrelevant to me. But here we have Mr. Bill Nelson who has been cranking out obscure solo artifacts for DECADES.
So, I go on the forum, it's basically his name in the URL and I was like "Wow man all this old shit is hot shit" I mean there are 7"s and B-sides and obscurities all of which I am maximally into uh oh.
Response from "Bill Nelson" explaining that he's been a musician for a long time and has tons more releases throughout the 80s, and 90s, and 00s, and maybe I should look into them.
#awkward
No? I will not be doing that but now I have to feel bad about it.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 13, 2022 10:22:03 GMT
I was coincidancedly at this crazy-ass show that was quite, uhm, compelling
They seem to have mellowed over the years. This 7" came out in 2017!  |
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 14, 2022 13:50:16 GMT
Frank Discussion stole Jello Biafra's wife at some point. Legit story...Life Politics Art all Colliding is the Situationist way...or weigh...
Re loving this artifact. Maybe on a list with No NY stuff but a little more polished, hailing from Massachusetts so a little more college sofistication (some 100 colleges and unis over 10,000 square miles, you do the math) but really just amazing and timeless, at least today:
Earlier -prolly Uni days!- poppy band with the excellent Thalia Zedek (Come 11/11 is a top tenner fer shur)
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Post by Ladyfingers on Feb 15, 2022 4:16:42 GMT
Latest eBay acquisition based on a track that caught my ear during a Miami Vice episode (Rubbermiro was the track). A 1997 repackaging of everything they recorded from 1981 to 1983, Very nice minimalist post-punk/no-wave dubby stuff. Remastered tastefully and cleanly with a DR of 9, so boosted a bit but not crushed flat.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 15, 2022 12:16:33 GMT
AmRep's cheapy $5 CD line, finally got a copy of this munter, only took me 25 years
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 16, 2022 23:55:16 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 27, 2022 0:23:59 GMT
FFS. Poverty is dictating I'm going back to cd's.I dub them to cassette tape so I can at least try to relate to them. Fucking LP prices have gone potty.
$50 for these 10 or so cd's versus 1 copy of the Le Noise on vinyl that starts at $150. GTFO.
The Bats - Couchmaster. more dreary jangle, an old comfort from home
Bloodthirsty Butchers - 荒野ニオケルbloodthirsty butchers
Bloodthirsty Butchers - Blue On Red Comp. these were My Guys in 1993. That 2nd album, I played that thing to death. What a corrosive sound. Little did I know they would never scale those heights again. And they havent here.
Neil Young - Le Noise. experimental and grungey but not worth $150. I'll take the $3 cd thanx cuntz.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part. sold the 2xLP for a truckload yonks ago but this was an itch that needed to be scratched. I think of it as his magnum opus. The lyrics are apex level of creativity. Spellbinding stories. TLDR its pretty fucken great InMyIhomOpinion
Pixies - Bossanova. also think of this as the peak of this band. Had the LP, another numbskull sale
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 2xCD. odd history with this band. pretty much missed the boat completely. Saw their early ep's around in late 80's/early 90's, not fussed, saw them at Reading Festival in 91 where they were awesome.... then never bought their stuff. Never even heard it. So here in 2022 thought I'd take my first punt. Lot to dig through. Can see why they were bigger than Santa. That vocal styling is like catnip to disaffected teens. Plus the mellow tracks are extremely goddamn relaxing. Someone better tell Tim, my MRR house punk points are going to get docked again.
Swervedriver - Sandblasted CDEP. so good. layers and layers of shoegazey slacker noise.
Van Morrison - His Band And The Street Choir. better grow on me
Yo La Tengo - Fade. only really took a punt on this band in last couple of years, they aint done me wrong yet. V.mellow and relaxing with some Neil Young grunge biffed in there.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 1:03:46 GMT
Siamese Dream is fucking amazing. One of the biggest walls of guitar since Loveless. Mellon Collie has good moments but a lot of filler.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 3:19:23 GMT
Captain Beefheart - Safe as MilkProbably the only album by the guy that I actually truly love, and like a lot. Abba Zabba is so fucked sounding in the best way possible. He walked up to the edge of the pier on this one. By the next album he would have jumped in. still vaguely ticked off that my first exposure to Captain B was the "booglarize" vid on youtube, thought i'd go nuts for the rest of his stuff... only to find that was the only track I liked. Even the lp version of booglarize was nothing on that nutty hepcat youtube thing been going thru my tapes on the Pioneer T-9090WR i scored for $60. think its from about 1985 and retailed for $600 or so then  feeling a bit dumb now having persisted with my old Teac for the last 20 years. I thought it sounded fine! Then I plug this new one in and there is a noticeable jump in sound quality. Never used "Dolby" on tapes before today. Always just seemed to muffle the sound. Maybe I was just using low quality tape decks? Dolby B on this prick removes the brightness and cymbal wash so perfectly from cobalt/chrome tapes. Dolby C still muffles but works brilliantly on metal bias tapes. Who knew Dolby was actually a useful thing #always_the_last_to_know
yesterday, all 90's:
DINOSAUR JR: where you been. raucous and great. just such fine burnout music. the first half anyway. then it gets a bit dirgey.
SONIC YOUTH: thousand leaves. made a tape WITHOUT the kim gordon mewling vocals track and sudenly this thing is so fucken awesome
OF CABBAGES AND KINGS: hunters moon. still rooting this old band that had the Swans and Unsane drummers. I could listen to this shit all day. never get sick of it. This release suffers from the 1st track being the worst on the whole album. Most wouldve switched it off right there and then. Why oh why do bands do that. Lead off with their most unrepresenatative track and kneecap themselves.
Dolby noise reduction works if the cassette is recorded with the right pre-emphasis. If you record with Dolby on and then play back with it on, there should be no muffling as it'll have boosted the trebles during recording to deal with the playback treble reduction that eliminates the hiss. It works really well on tapes that are recorded with it in mind. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 3:39:06 GMT
For curiosity's sake, there was actually a vinyl companding technology, but it's vanishingly rare.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 29, 2022 4:31:54 GMT
This is pretty great. I love that noise from 1:17. It's like the greatest security blanket for my brain ever. When I turn on a cd and its not there I get suspicious.
I'll turn on Dolby B for my next recording.
ps if I have to redub ALL of my tapes I will be spewing.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 4:59:21 GMT
This is pretty great. I love that noise from 1:17. It's like the greatest security blanket for my brain ever. When I turn on a cd and its not there I get suspicious. I'll turn on Dolby B for my next recording. ps if I have to redub ALL of my tapes I will be spewing. Techmoan's breakdown of cassette tech over the years and how good/bad it was is is genuinely excellent.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 5:04:37 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 29, 2022 5:20:25 GMT
Techmoan's breakdown of cassette tech over the years and how good/bad it was is is genuinely excellent.
Disappointed at lack of coverage for cobalt bias tapes. My absolute gruntiest are cobalt Can recall paying $8 for blank metal tapes in the 80's and thinking nothing of it. Crazy. That was often more than a regular recorded album! |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Mar 29, 2022 5:24:24 GMT
Holy crap. That is unbelievable. Pure sorcery. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 5:27:54 GMT
Techmoan's breakdown of cassette tech over the years and how good/bad it was is is genuinely excellent.
Disappointed at lack of coverage for cobalt bias tapes. My absolute gruntiest are cobalt Can recall paying $8 for blank metal tapes in the 80's and thinking nothing of it. Crazy. That was often more than a regular recorded album! I only had a few cassettes recorded off my school library's vinyls and played back on a supermarket walkman before I started buying (and occasionally recording from) CDs, but my brother had a lot that I would sneak out of his room to play on the family system. The only blanks I ever really had were some no-names from one of those cosmetics/pharmacy sorts of shop that relatives would chuck in as a bonus (or blank video tapes) for Christmas. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Mar 29, 2022 5:30:27 GMT
Best tapes I ever had were some BASFs, and I can't ever remember what others I had aside from some frankly shit Philips. I recall being loaned Maxells and noticing how good they were.
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