What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

[Indoorsman]

Swamp Dogg, Cuffed, Collared & Tagged.  Welp, fuck me flying sideways if this doesn't contain one of the most depressing versions of "Sam Stone." 

  Swamp Dogg vinyl needed for the Indoorsman Nailbiters' Recovery Center.

My house: The Blank Realm continues to get lotsa mileage.

Can Lost Tapes - the missus had an obsessively completist set of Can records before we started going out, so this was a natchel for an Xmas present. 

Faith Healers Peel Sessions CD: some otherwise unreleased stuff, plenty of familiar ones.  "Reptile Smile" is great and one more recording is welcome.  I was so addled the one time I saw them that it's just a hazy, shifting memory, which convinced me to be relatively together for shows after that.

Richard Francis/Bruce Russell/Jason Kahn Dunedin CD: first spin was kid-interrupted, but it's noisy electronics executed well.  Will return.

Cheater Slicks Reality Is a Grape LP: loving it.

Times New Viking Over and Over EP: Where'd they steal that keyboard melody in "Middle Class Drags"?  "Melt With You"?

Mahmoud Ahmed Ere Mela Mela CD: I'd heard a bit of this guy on Ethiopiques 1, but he really clicked when the missus and I were having dinner at Nile in Orlando a few months back & they were playing his music, probably from one of the Ahmed-devoted Ethiopiques discs.  Clearly Arabic music-influenced and yet trying so hard to sound like a Western soul band, and the end result's pretty winning.

[Mitch]

"Rumours Reimagined"...a bullshit CD comp that was included with a recent issue of Mojo, where Fleetwood Mac appear on the cover.  A bunch of current bands (who, other than that NYC band Liars, were all totally unknown to me because I don't read Q or NME or whatever the fuck) covering a tune from Rumours.  To say it sucks would be giving too much credit to things that suck.  I actually put the jewelcase on the floorboard of my car and started stomping on it while I was sitting in traffic.  FUCKING HORRIFYING.

Bobby Gentry - The Delta Sweete
Fine.

JJ Cale - Naturally
Excellent first thing in the morning.

UV Race - Homo and Racism
I prefer Racism.  ("I love to racism, bro!")

Sleaze - LP
Really fucking fantastic...was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I do.  Getting more play than "Ball Power" or that McElroy deal.

[April Showers]

Daywand - Temporary Sanctuary LP
Got this in the mail unsolicited and have been listening to it more than anything lately. Very good psychedelic music that sounds like the hyperspacial link between Aphex Twin's Richard D James Album and Opizdanevshie's Psychedelia Tomorrow. Self released by the band who appear to be from rural PA.

I actually just listened to this album today and I want to listen to it again. I dig it. Definite Aphex Twin vibe.

[Whet Bull]

FETUS PRODUCTIONS? SNAPPER? HEADLESS CHICKENS?

It was in fact FETUS PRODUCTIONS -- their 1985 album Luminous Trails, which is excellent and was blogged about at 01fragments.  Just downloaded it.  Very killer record.  Currently not on Sniper's list of forthcoming Captured reissues. 

[DaveK]

I agree with all the positive things said here about the Blank Realm record. That's all I have today.

[Swampy]

Mike Zink just sent me new (and unmixed) Aluminum Knot Eye recordings. Really good. Sideways but organic. Rare amalgam.

Zink's solo shit needs to surface, too. It's been years, but those tapes made quite an impression on me.

Basic tracks for that AKE were recorded 3 years ago! Did a couple overdubs about a year after that. Zink has been grappling with mixes since then. We've all had shit going on in our lives, but it should be out sometime this year, I hope... We'll probably record another album in a few months, along with some singles. We've obviously been moving as slow as always with this shit. It's a hobby! Our drummer might be moving (for family reasons) to Portland sometime this year, but we plan on carrying on with someone else, but another hill to climb... Our usual NYE show at the Circle A went off really well. James Chance wasn't as good as he was 2 years ago, though... Kinda pathetic and shitty, really... Oh well... We still might venture out on a tour some year, who knows?

Yeah, I agree. I'd like that Zink solo stuff to come out. I've only heard a few of those recordings and seen the live show (Silent Drape Runners) a coupla times...

[erickelric]

Did you make sure Jim-Jam had enough coke?

I've heard some good stories.....

[Swampy]

Did you make sure Jim-Jam had enough coke?

I've heard some good stories.....

I was not his caretaker. He did get most of the door money, though. Like I told the wife - "He deserves it... Not for what he did tonight, but for what he did 30+ years ago..."

He looks just like some grumpy old Mafia guy. Scorcese should cast him in a gangster film... The Golden Jew or something...

[Scrod Prickknee]

He's 3 feet tall. I measured.

[k.]

Y'all should have came to Algoma.

[P-TNT]

no bails. wu tang. run dmc

[bazooka joe]

no bails. wu tang. run dmc

i was having a no bails / biz markie session the other night.

[Scrod Prickknee]

If you're talking to me, I couldn't do either one (saw him there last/some other year). Hopefully it was awesome!

[k.]

Junta - Junta 12" EP
Recorded in '84, this is weird experimental goth/private press new wave from somewhere in Ohio. Kinda reminds me a bit of The Men from Chicago, or early Clock DVA with plenty of skittering drum machines, sax and bizarre instrumentation. Kind of a midwestern take on 4AD. Some relation to The Wolverton Brothers who had an album on Dan Dow's Okra label.

V/A - Eastern Front - LP
Got this for the Toiling Midgets track but the whole thing is decent, which is weird since it's all live, and Tanks ended up being the real treat here. I wanna hear their 7".

[SLASH]

Easter Monkeys-Splendor of Sorrow: I've come to realize I'll take this over any Cramps/Dead Boys/Ubu record on most days. Every song is just so damn GOOD. Pagans are still #1 Cle band, or maybe a tie between them and the Eels. Aw shucks, it's so hard to pick favorites...CLEVO: THE CITY OF SHIT AND GOLD.
Utah Jazz-7": One of the best new releases in recent memory, really hope I get to see these gals/guy live sometime. Heard some funny stories over christmas vacation that still got me chuckling.
V/A-Red Snerts (The Sound of Gulcher): Top drawer, never gonna be bored hearing this. Worth it for the Gizmos song alone! Indiana is fucking weird.
Thin Lizzy-Fighting: Rocks.