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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Topic started by: Wabash Trash on February 05, 2008, 04:32:37 AM
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Missed out on the LP sometime ago. Anybody know of any distros still sitting on this thing? Maybe a contact for the band to see if they got anything up their sleeves.
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If you like these guys you gotta see RTFO Bandwagon from Columbus. Rich is playing drums for them now. They're like a weird lo-fi hippie jam thing. It's so fuckin' good and sounds like nobody else in the city or anywhere else. They completely defy all trends. It's kinda gypsy-ish and very Columbus without sounding like anything that's going on at the moment. One of the Tommy Jay songs on the CDR cassette sampler sounds like it could be a RTFO Bandwagon song.
I promise that this is gonna be one of the next Columbus bands that everyone is talking about. Everyone who knows their shit in Columbus already think they're the best band around.
http://www.myspace.com/rtfobandwagon
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Kevin what's the story on this release that these cats have out? You got any details on how to get this in my grubby hands? Maybe they can travel over to the Hoosier Heartland.
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the male vocals reminds me of Isaac Brock
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RTFO Bandwagon video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP67UPPu-Vc
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i got a copy of the Blossoms LP from Apostasy Records, one of the labels that put it out(there were several). I believe the label's website name is apostasyrecordings.com As of late December, they still had copies.
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record is still in print. i know blackvelvettefuckere has them.
write Kris at <blackvelvet79 at hotmail.com>,
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I like "Rockin Rocket Ship" the best. And "The Mighty Mississippi."
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"golden window"
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I wrote a song-by-song review of the Cherry Blossums record on here some time back. Pretty mixed record.
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Yeah the LPs all over the place, but overall I like it. "Rockin Rocket Ship" is my least fave of them all.
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jeff only likes the BOC cover
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Yeah, that one's crappy too.
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Here it is for those who missed it the first time around:
Side One
1. "The Mighty Mississippi" - This is one of the main things I don't like about this album. It's not the writing - it's the production, the playing, and most specifically the singing. Now I'm not usually one to dislike music based on musical ability, after all I absolutely love Liimanirina, The Electric Eels, The Silver, The Shaggs, etc. And while I can here a kinship to the aforementioned Holy Modal Rounders here, their loose-limbed playing works, whereas the Blossums just sounds off, like nobody's paying attention to what anybody else is doing. But if that weren't enough the vocals on this song rival Yoko, Diamanda, and Linda Sharrock for atonality. I'd rather listen to Mrs. Miller (http://www.mrsmillersworld.com/)
2. "Amazing Stars" - Amazing stars is right, this song is great. This is one of those sombre bastards that I mentioned in the post above. It's so eerie and I want more but instead I get....
3. "Rockin' Rocket Ship" - This and a few other songs (like the next one) make this sound more like a record that was made for kids (which is fine) than anything garnering a "Senior Alert". Those backing vocals - man! - they're like the backing vocals on "Rock Lobster" and yet I like the B-52's. All the things on this record that I don't like are like backwards versions of things that I do like.
4. "Charlie Prim" - I can basically give this the same review that I gave "The Mighty Mississippi" only this one is a bit less ramshackle - that is until the kazoo solo and the wailing kick in.
5. "The Wind Did Blow" - This is the more that I wanted from "Amazing Stars". GREAT song.
6. "Rocks and Stones" - ........another like the first. Until, that is, it drifts off into a bit of a lull towards the end.
Side Two
1. "Godzilla" - A backwoods ESP-Disk cover of a terrible song does not make a terrible song any less terrible. Especially with those damn backup vocals. Almost makes me want to listen to the Honeymoon Killers version.
2. "A Love of My Own" - This one I like. I think it's the subtlety of it. It crawls along in a nice subdued haze.
3. "Glow, Jesus Glow" - No. No.
4. "Golden Windows" - Another "Mighty Mississippi". At this rate I can't believe I've made it this far. The first side was a little more evenly split between the good & the bad.
5. "Clam Stand Theme" - What the fuck is this? This is awful!
6. "The Rising Tide" - This may actually be the best song on the album. Which encapsulates what I was saying about the sequencing perfectly; the song prior was some of the worst shit I've ever heard - totally obnoxious trilling, kazoo tootin' bullshit, right next a genuinely well-written beautiful back-porch - GOD_DAMN_IT! ENOUGH KAZOO!! - ahem - ballad.
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If somebody put a gun to my head, I'd probably pick this as my favorite lp from last year.
Rockin Rocket Ship is the worst song on there.
Godzilla is not a terrible song and the cover is pretty good.
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Amazing Stars is my favorite song from last year. If someone put a gun to my head, though, I would repent and tell them whatever they want to hear.