i really like that first It's Immaterial album. a late discovery for me about 5 or 6 years ago.
with kissing the pink i bought Naked when it came out because they played "The Last Film" a ton on the radio and i fell in love. i have never stopped playing that album since 1983. it was a big deal to me. funnily enough, i never even saw the second album, What Noise, until years later! mostly because it didn't come out in the U.S. It's great too. the KTP stuff i wasn't as sold on but i did love the big single.
Naked one of my fave art rock records of all time. i think i can call it that. its perfect to me.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
the KTP song must have charted here? it was kinda everywhere at the time. mtv. radio.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
they toured it here too. lots of publicity money spent on it.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
okay i'm gonna listen to that ktp album now. maybe i will fall for it late in life.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
aww, i forgot about "one step"! love this song. they played this song on the radio too.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
where do people stop with Shriekback though? it's Go Bang!, right? but i'm pretty sure they put out records in the 90s! we may never know what they sound like. they were godhead up to and including Big Night Music. Simple Minds win for me. seven amazing albums until they all became filthy rich and i stopped listening. but i will listen to those 7 records until they cart me away to the old grump's home.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
I would think that they would have a decent hi-fi at the old grumps home.
― henry s, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
ok I stand corrected Re Kip , maybe it’s an east coast/west coast thing
― brimstead, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
there’s this apocryphal meeting between Jim Kerr and Bono on the beach that occurred in between NGD and Sparkle, I always cite that as the beginning of the end
― brimstead, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
Shriekback never stopped making excellent records. "Go Bang" is the one outlier in their catalog, everything else is worth hearing.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
I liked Go Bang! :(
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 September 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
weird to see ktp love, i had an import lp on the strength of love lasts forever i think? somewhere in the pacific trash gyre now after a relocation catastrophe in the 80s
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 September 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link
Add me to the love of KTP.
Barry wrote up the story of "Go Bang" on his website:https://www.tumblr.com/shriekbackmusic/87300284602/go-bang-and-after-compromise-king-swamp-and
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 1 September 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
Sometime within the last few years I saw a brand new video for a new shriekback and it was way better than I’d ever have expected. Some people just never lose it. Simple Minds I thinks gets the interest in all their history and tries to recapture it a bit but it’s not quite there. I like a tiny bit of post Derek Forbes stuff but his leaving seems the turning point to me.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 September 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
i like this. from the movie Wildcats. there is an actual LOL 80s video for the song but the long version is nice. i would play this if i was DJing an 80s night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d5-GUE4va8
― scott seward, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
i got a copy of the first Blackbird EP! in a random box of records. "Howl" sounds even better on vinyl than on the unsigned band CD comp i first heard it on. now i want the album on Scotti Brothers from 1992 which ALSO has "Howl" on it because why not nobody ever heard it and its a bitchin' song. in 1990 Fundamental put out a Blackbird comp that...you guessed it...also has "Howl" on it. the first side of the EP is so cool i haven't even gotten to the second side. lots of great guitar noise.
i won't post the "Howl" youtube again but you should listen to it! it's addictive to me.
https://i.discogs.com/OJj41mjCIT9Q1k04qUfjL4TWmFaf4biyCy6vBQ61kJc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODQ2/ODYtMTUxODgwNDU1/NC0yNTkxLmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
(they also put out their own album in 1989 after the EP and it does not have "Howl" on it. i'd like to get a copy of that too.)
― scott seward, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
This is one of my all time favorite deep dive tunes. It's not even the considered the good lineup of TSOL. I found this one doing radio back in college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voJSmhxiQBM
― earlnash, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
i had that album! i liked it a lot. i even liked that hokey song "how do". i bought it when it came out thinking it would be punkier of course. but i played it a bunch.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
i just sold that first red rockers album - condition red, which is great and i was totally tempted to keep the copy - and they did that similar thing that t.s.o.l. did. heck lots of punk bands did it. went cowpunk or poppunk or slower/gothier.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
'October File' by Die Kreuzen is an example of that thing. I heard that before I heard the early hardcore.
― earlnash, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
This may be an ILX first mention, of this song, at any rate? A truly weird and good 80s Quebec band called The Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3gcDg5M3M
― master cushion (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 September 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
Mock me if you will but I'm quite a fan of this ludicrous 1983 piece of sub-Queen nonsense from Northern Ireland's Cruella de Ville, just playing it for the first time since it came out ― the phantom flim-flammer (Matt #2), Monday, August 14, 2023
I absolutely ADORE Cruella de Ville. I wish they'd gone further - they had a Roy Wood-produced album in the can apparently. I'd love Cherry Red to pick that up, but maybe not enough people are aware of the band.
― houdini said, Monday, 4 September 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
I can't not post China Doll, a singer from Birmingham who fused Kate Bush with italo disco and got... nowhere.Great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Tv0_ln4N0
― houdini said, Monday, 4 September 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
Wow! that is really something. how have i never seen that? that is a gem.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
i got a copy of the first Blackbird EP! in a random box of records. "Howl" sounds even better on vinyl than on the unsigned band CD comp i first heard it on. now i want the album on Scotti Brothers from 1992 which ALSO has "Howl" on it because why not nobody ever heard it and its a bitchin' song.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
heck lots of punk bands did it. went cowpunk or poppunk or slower/gothier.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link
I love TSOL's Change Today?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:34 (one year ago) link
were Blackbird any good live, elvis?
thank you so much for the offer of the rip but i probably wouldn't listen to it that way. i don't know why. i take things slow. i just ripped my first CD a month ago. i haven't even progressed to burning yet.
i'm imagining they were the kids of some hollywood guy who made music for commercials and they used their dad's studio to make their EP and LP. that's my imagination for you.
right now i'm listening to a 1987 EP by the band King Face and i only put it on because Ian MacKaye produced it. it's pretty terrible. and produced terribly at Inner Ear. maybe Inner Ear was just terrible. it was that guy's basement, right? you can see the 90s coming in King Face and not in a good way. Ian connection. the singer of King Face was in the band Sevens with Joe Lally.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
SKOT'S TIP FOR THE DAY! buy this record. go get it on discogs. cost you like 10 bucks. get it before numero group or soul jazz or whoever gets their hands on it and the price skyrockets. its insane. homemade mix of soul/rock/dub/dance/whatever. sounds crazy. just gets crazier because they include an LP of dub versions that are even MORE bonkers. there is one track on youtube but it doesn't really do justice to how the record sounds.
https://i.discogs.com/4jRRhU8Hg39PiReFrk8lvbgFPylGIP5_18n1MwyJJfA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc4ODY5/NTUtMTQ1NDcxNzcz/My02NjY4LmpwZWc.jpeg
what the heck i'll include it but you really need to hear the dub version which is a whole other animal. this record will do something to the wiring in your brain. its made...weird. the first track on the album "rita rita" is the most bizarre of the bunch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dJxAmxS-8
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
private press. vinyl only. never reissued.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
were Blackbird any good live, elvis?...i'm imagining they were the kids of some hollywood guy who made music for commercials and they used their dad's studio to make their EP and LP. that's my imagination for you.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
OK, this has officially supplanted the Sly Stone thread as my favorite active thread on ILM. (even though i know half the stuff getting boosted in secretly garbage)
― enochroot, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
XP - I think you mean Cowboy Nation (who actually played cowboy music), not Cowboy Mouth (who were great live, mostly because they had a sweaty, hyperactive singing drummer)
― enochroot, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
doh! yr right
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
Wow, there's actually some live recordings of them on YT. I think I was at this show...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1GEgDDPmI
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link
Abecedarians were a LA-based group of Factory Records fans - accomplishing their mission by getting Smiling Monarchs released as FAC 117 and an opening slot for New Order in 1985. I've always liked this one from '87https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiiCcRTcNE
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
Following up on my 80-84 list upthread this is tracks from 85-89 that are new to me this decade but went into my year by year playlists with ease
Love And Rockets - SaudadeScribble - LowdownRoger Doyle / Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In Its MouthVirginia Astley - A Summer Long Since PassedStephen Duffy - Dream MachineThe Cavaliers - It's A Beautiful GameHelen - ZanzibarJasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili (aka Hoomba Hoomba)Harold Budd - Flowered Knife ShadowsBlack Sabbath - Scarlet PimpernelSteven Jeffries, Mary Carewe & Donald Grieg - Evil At PlayObywatel GC - Przyznaje sie do WinyGeoffrey Landers - Say You'll Say SoF.O.E. - World Famous Techno PopGigi Masin - Tears Of ClownCheryl Glasgow - Glued To The Spot Yello, Billy Mackenzie - Moon On IceQuintus Project - Night FlightDionne - Come Get My Lovin'Quiet Force - Listen To the MusicSevered Heads - All Saints DayReese - Just Want Another ChanceThe Prince Of Dance Music, LB Bad - The New Age Of FaithEmerson - Sending All My Love OutConroy Smith - Sugar MeAC Marias - One Of Our Girls Has Gone MissingBulgarian Voices Angelite - Oi Mara
― nashwan, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 09:36 (one year ago) link
Jasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili
― enochroot, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
@scott - this is lovely. i don't have a record player - otherwise I'd snap this up immediately
― tremolo, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:20 (one year ago) link
Didn't know that Jasper Van Hoft but seeing on youtube one poster lists it as "electronic-afro" and another "typhoonized" posted it sped up shows this definitely had an impact on the italian Cosmic scene.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
this is a lovely Abecadians track that I think was on a later ep on Independent Project Records but also on more recent reissues of the expanded Eureka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNvBZfm7KPY
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:36 (one year ago) link
i like that a lot. very nice.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
had a wtf 80s moment at home yesterday. put on a copy of Metal Circus and when i put on the other side, well, i will let Discogs tell you:
"Side B contains songs from Side D of Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade"
surprise! but i am always up for some recurring dreams so i just went with it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
are there fans of early soup dragons...i'm a little scared of this 1986 EP i have in front of me. Edinburgh address. i wonder if they were friends with Hee Haw up above there.
is this a 4-track 7 inch? IIRC they stopped its release but the guy who ran the record company sold it by mail order to anyone who sent him the money.
― fetter, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
lol to correct myself it's Jasper Van't Hof. Confident I will never make this mistake again again. Some confusion from Discogs as the 15m version was released as 'Hoomba Hoomba' BY Pili-Pili in '85 but shorter versions credited just to Jasper were released in '84 TITLED 'Pili-Pili'. Not sure why you would listen to the shorter versions tbh :)
― nashwan, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
i get to crank this before i open the store. my nrg is already hi-r.
https://i.discogs.com/MNqBU3fvMPCrOprWpg9fuJ24UvnB3U90fxsT1mZ-5SA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3NDA5/NDYtMTQwMTM3NDk2/MC04Njg4LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
"is this a 4-track 7 inch?"
no, its a 12-inch.
https://i.discogs.com/2XnjcXtThmeq8epS66l3QmviL9yMYQnTQXXlh4Psre4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzUw/NDgtMTQ4Mjc3NjI3/NS02MzUyLmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
Picked this one up on a whim recently partly on the strength of its cover, weird synthpop with rambling spoken word bits, the main guy went on to found Third Mind Records which would seem to be a good fit for this thread!
https://i.discogs.com/tDZ6TTBR6PexxPZGCf_f5qyJ2RjClpaM5Hbk4GMpyH8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcyMDE3/LTEzMDU4OTQ2NTAu/anBlZw.jpeg
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
that looks cool! i love inscrutable covers.
i'm listening to danny elfman's stunt double right now. not bad!
https://i.discogs.com/Wrn7cMQvHsu2FxgL3AG0yWufPtX-JINimouPb-JQXQc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODI4/OTEtMTMwNTcxMTQz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link