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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.


Scott - I can send you a rip of the Scotti Brothers album now, otherwise I'll keep an eye out next time I'm making the rounds. I still see the albums around often. I even saw them live twice - once even at the infamous Bob's Frolic Room when they were putting on shows there.

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.


Basically the Lords Of The New Church

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.


Blackbird was OK live and a couple songs were really good. I always liked The Dils and Rank & File so I was hopeful that the Kinman Brothers could figure it out with Blackbird, but everything (live and recorded) felt unfinished - but pointing to something better. Then the Kinman's bailed on Blackbird and started Cowboy Mouth.

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 '87

https://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 - Saudade
Scribble - Lowdown
Roger Doyle / Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In Its Mouth
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Stephen Duffy - Dream Machine
The Cavaliers - It's A Beautiful Game
Helen - Zanzibar
Jasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili (aka Hoomba Hoomba)
Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows
Black Sabbath - Scarlet Pimpernel
Steven Jeffries, Mary Carewe & Donald Grieg - Evil At Play
Obywatel GC - Przyznaje sie do Winy
Geoffrey Landers - Say You'll Say So
F.O.E. - World Famous Techno Pop
Gigi Masin - Tears Of Clown
Cheryl Glasgow - Glued To The Spot
Yello, Billy Mackenzie - Moon On Ice
Quintus Project - Night Flight
Dionne - Come Get My Lovin'
Quiet Force - Listen To the Music
Severed Heads - All Saints Day
Reese - Just Want Another Chance
The Prince Of Dance Music, LB Bad - The New Age Of Faith
Emerson - Sending All My Love Out
Conroy Smith - Sugar Me
AC Marias - One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
Bulgarian Voices Angelite - Oi Mara

nashwan, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 09:36 (one year ago) link

Jasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili

Wow, this is towering -- it's like he hit a good groove and said "let's just ride this for 13 minutes".
No wonder he named the whole band after this song.

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

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


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