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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 05, 2013, 12:43:02 PM »

Snapper 12".  I listen to this record way too much.

  Have you heard the Xpressway Pile-Up comp?  It has a diamond-hard live recording of "Death and Weirdness in the Surfing Zone," gets me every time.

Fuck yeah. Thing that's the first Snapper song I ever heard. One of my all-time fave comps (even if it's all from previously-released singles).
 

Bummer that song isn't on the LP version.  I think the lp, tape, and cd all have different track listings and somebody should compile everything into a double lp.

 

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: August 27, 2013, 01:03:11 PM »

His Electro Blue Voice - Ruthless Sperm.  This thing is great.
Marvelous Sound Forms Twisted Village comp lp.
Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar.  Awesome Iranian folk/ambient/found sound stuff on Folkways.
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson - Daily Dance. 
High Wolf - Kairos: Chronos
White Heaven - Strange Bedfellow & Next to Nothing
Toyko Flashbacks 2 --  Overhang Party is especially cool.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: August 09, 2013, 08:16:19 AM »

Don Cherry Brown Rice this one came up in this thread a bit ago...thought i'd "check it out check it out check it out." Only had prior exposure to the Don Cherry/Albert Ayler collabs. The whispered vocals and some of the textures on the title track strongly recall Can's Future Days. Not really Jazz or fusion or Afro-futurism or new age dogcrap or whatever people were trippin' on at the time, just kind of its own weird thing. There aren't enough records like this one.
 

I can't find any clips online, but these dudes did a cool version of 'Brown Rice.'

http://www.discogs.com/Green-Ray-The-Archers/release/3536166

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: August 01, 2013, 02:50:33 PM »

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/paris-1942-moe-tucker-alan-bishop-sir-richard-bishop

Outside a few links on the internet, little has been said about Paris 1942, and besides the occasionally excited blogger, reception seems pretty negative. User ?teenagegurls? from the terminalboredom.com message board calls it, ?ready-made recipe for the worst music of all time.? Same forum, ?panama fist? says, ?add this to my ?no one actually listens to? category.? User ?frankie teardrop? simply calls it ?fag crap.? But it?s when ?Whet Bull? says that Moe Tucker is ?Velvet Underground?s LVP (Least Valuable Player)? that the sort of fear regarding lack of traditional rockist value is succinctly articulated.

That's goofy.  I wonder if the writer also knows about the record they made w/ the Residents.

(i like the Paris 7" more than anything on the lp.)

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Music Shit / Re: What did Metal ever do for Punk?

« on: August 01, 2013, 09:08:35 AM »

Megadeth (one of the worst metal bands ever IMO)

i heard maybe two of their songs and couldn't figure out how liking metallica / slayer could lead to liking them. sounded pretty girly.

The first two Megadeth records had their moments, but I imagine they sound pretty dated to younger folks now.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 29, 2013, 09:19:18 PM »

Working through some new purchases.

Joe Tex - The New Boss.  Not his best, but it still has some awesome moments. Dude was a great singer.
Straightjacket Fits - Life in One Chord.  I know a lot of folks think these guys were too slick, but I dig this EP a lot.
Barracudas - I Can't Pretend 7"
Drags - I Like To Die 7". 
Can - Spoon 7"
King Brothers - Super X 7"
Night Kings - Brainwashed 7".  I think this now completes my Rob Vasquez collection.  If anybody is looking for the first Night & Days 7", Exiled in Portland has a nice copy for $8.  Weird how that shit hasn't caught on w/ collectors yet.
Troggs - Cellophane lp
Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale.  Apparently this dude was planning on doing some US dates and couldn't get booked in town.  Lame.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 12, 2013, 12:49:44 PM »

Wicked Lady - Axeman Cometh.  This one is sort of a let-down.  Maybe it's a grower, but the whole thing just seems pretty plodding and not very interesting (especially the drummer).  The Dark record is way better.
Comus - First Utterance. 
Subway - s/t.  Cool psych-folk reissue on Guerssen.  Not as great as Comus, but better than most hyper-rare hippie dippy folk.
Steve Gunn - Time Off.  Dunno much about this dude, but he's a really great guitarist.  Any good GHQ starting points?  They kinda got lost in the huge wave of noise/improv/NNF bands from 5 years ago.
Eric Dolphy - Last Date.  Han Bennink rules.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 05, 2013, 01:07:53 PM »

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness.  Weird how some folks prefer their later, more traditional stuff like Heartwork over their early records.  "Crepitating Bowel Erosion" is a classic.
Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Group 1850 - Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth.  Cool, but Paradise Now is better.
V/A - Epitaph for a Legend

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: June 28, 2013, 09:16:56 AM »

Here's a live youtube clip of them covering the Mummies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5gpzlPx0cc

Scott McCaughey & Kurt Bloch (from the Young Fresh Fellows) are in his band, which makes the idea of an REM dude covering the Mummies less weird.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: June 21, 2013, 03:30:59 PM »

Overhang Party - s/t.  Great reissue from a few years ago. That Important boxset worth it?
El Kinto - Circa 1968.  Also rules. Now I need to check out Limonada. 
Reggie King - Looking for a Dream.  Goofy name & cover, but really good demos recorded in between the Action's Rolled Gold & his solo record.  This is way better than his solo record.
Group 1850 - Paradise Now 
Twink - Think Pink
Sainte Anthony's Fyre  - s/t.  Alright early hard rock, but kind of forgettable. 
Heazelwood - Hellmouth 66.  King Loser dude doing a sorta Axemen thing.  Really good.

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Music Shit / Re: feedbands and the future of passive record collecting

« on: June 21, 2013, 11:17:08 AM »

I like this line.

Could these guys be the next Radiohead?

Probably not!

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Music Shit / Re: Letters - Nobody Loves Me OG and Repro difference?

« on: June 15, 2013, 10:46:16 AM »

the boot from 10 or so years ago also has that matrix number.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: June 14, 2013, 11:28:41 AM »

Thanks for the pic, Dirty Knobber.  Unbelievable.  Must have been deafening.  Looks like it's in a museum somewhere?

Yeah, it's in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  Here's the description from his Wiki page.  I just wanna know who the hell came up w/ the Wurlitzer horn idea. 

His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns

Cipollina used a custom foot switch setup to select reverb, tremolo, Maestro Echoplex (the unit mounted on the right of the Twin Reverb), and Standel Modulux (on the left of the twin reverb). 12 volt automotive running lights indicated which effect was being used.

Cipollina also employed a Gibson Maestro Fuzz and Vox wah-wah/volume pedals.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: June 14, 2013, 10:20:43 AM »

Last night at the studio it was Quicksilver's first.  Hadn't played that in a while.  I'd forgot how brassy and "soul" "Pride of Man" is, and how deliriously beautiful and transcendent "Light Your Windows."
The guitars on that record... jeezis.  It's one of the those things that just makes me shut up and wonder why one bothers doing music at all.  A silly thought and it won't take, but that's how good this record is.
 

Jim Cipollina's amp set up was also insane.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: June 07, 2013, 08:18:04 AM »

Reggie King - Looking for a Dream.  Goofy cover & record title, but these demos are way better than his actual solo record.  It sounds more like the Action- Rolled Gold stuff. 
999 - s/t. Never really bothered with these guys and judging by this, I don?t think I missed much.
Hood - Cabled Linear Traction.  Another band I never really bothered with.  Okay stuff.  They do anything better?
Seventh Seal - s/t.  Cool psych drone by some High Rise & Mainliner dudes.
The Terminals - Disease CS.  Lo-fi live & demo recordings.  One of my fav NZ bands.
Gonzales & Steenkiste - Stuffed with the Down of the Eider CS.  Pretty cool drone noise by some Sylvester Angfang-related band.