What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

[Jerry Scotty]

Got nothing but love for Opal, but the rest of the paisley schitt I just can't get into it, it's just like Erick said.

[bruce]

Got nothing but love for Opal, but the rest of the paisley schitt I just can't get into it, it's just like Erick said.

So, you're saying that dream syndicate - days of wine and roses is shit? 

[hillside wrangler]

Chariots of Fire brought six-year-old me to tears when I first heard it during an IMAX film about mountain climbing, and did so for years thereafter. But then again, so did "Pomp and Circumstance".

Game Theory: if ya don't like 'em now, ya probably never will. (I love 'em.) Lots of people are put off by Lolita Nation, which is excellent but annoyingly noncontiguous.

I'm going to find the fucking hilarious Best Show bit where Wurster exposes the "seamy underbelly" of the paisley underground and talks about Michael Quercio chain-whipping dudes outside a Rain Parade show.

[Old Kyle]

Got nothing but love for Opal, but the rest of the paisley schitt I just can't get into it, it's just like Erick said.

So, you're saying that dream syndicate - days of wine and roses is shit?

Yeah, because it's the opposite of shit.

[STWND]

That EP and the others on that label that Lastname mentioned are all good, Red cover, Green cover, i have Dream Syndicate, Green On Red, there's another by (?), like 'em better than albums i heard.  Days of Wine and Roses is chick rock for sure, i'm always really close to selling it.  But i like the two EP's i have. 

[Old Kyle]

Need more examples of chick rock

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

Days of Wine and Roses is also very good.  Chick rock?  Possibly. 

[hillside wrangler]

Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony, again. The older I get, the better it sounds. I don't know if that's an endorsement or an indictment.

[meshkalina]

What makes Days ... chick rock?

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

I've personally included "When You Smile" on about three or four mix-tapes or discs I made for women. 

[Mark Beef]

What makes Days ... chick rock?

not music Vinnie can listen to when he's blowing dudes in the park.

[erickelric]

Days of Wine and Roses is good sure, great? I dunno. Just listen to Another View or make a  VU mix tape. Opal is cool. The Last have a cool single. Rain Parade and Green on Red pretty much suck. Shit is leagues from being "psychedelic."

The Paisley Underground was the Captured Tracks of its day.

[OzKar KRaPo]

Germany, 1970. 1st album. Classic lysergic Krautrock.
 

USA, 1971. Cool Psych' Rock... but nothing to be excited about.


USA, 1983. Not bad... almost new wave... Sounds like some of those soft cool songs you sometime find on the Homeworks compilations.


USA, 1981. Much better... Post punk / Art Punk. There's a LP I never heard. I found it once on ebay but I never recieved it.


Japan, 2011. With Keiichi Miyashita (Godman, Wabo-Chao), Akira Kikuchi (Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate) and Masataka Fujikake (Shibusashirazu, ex. Zeni Geva). Supposed to sound Krautrock'ish... I hear some Post-Rock references here... Not bad either.

[Der Eismann]

Long Ryder's , first leaving trains

Yes. Are Leaving Trains considered Paisley Underground? Don't think so, but still good (the second one,"Kill Tunes" is also pretty good).
I love The Long Ryders but definitely not even a hint of psychedelia there, more like sped-up Byrds.

[Marek2011]

Brown Sugar - Luvly 7''
My favorite 7'' of theirs. The doo-wop part at the end cracks me up every time. Really, really good band. It's a real shame that they split up.

Pissed Jeans - Honeys CD
Got to review it and interview the band. Don't have many positive things to say about either. Korvette wasn't talkative and I don't like the record. Newport's done a hell of a production job on it but the songs are weak. The first two tunes are ok, the rest just forgettable.

The Garbage and the Flowers - Eyes Rind As If Beggars 2LP+CD
Waited for this to be reissued for years now. Can't really believe it's out.

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Ready For Boredom mp3s
Can't get into that one at all. Sounds generic and not in a good way like ECSR.

Cows - Cunning Stunts and Orphan's Tragedy
Like the songs on first better, but the latter has superior sound.

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Forgot how crazy this record was. What's Going On is a perfectly broken song.

feedtime - The Aberrant Years
Over and over. What a powerful band.

I'm stoked for Spray Paint, Banque Allemande, Nothing People and 100 Flowers. Little worried about higher postage rates.