911 are WAY better than Yipes! for the record. they can jam.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
dig the music on this. luckily the 12-inch comes with an instrumental version. gonna play it loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4lTTD74CTQ
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
man, talk about forgotten. how did all these people get signed to labels? they had an album too. Keep It Dark is a weird name for a band that is not goth. their a-side single sucks. gonna try the b-sides.
https://i.discogs.com/HSFxFGIAVgHDfhyXGuiNSSaoDqbG-DXMQfVYBjrlZrM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU5MDgz/MjctMTQwNjAzMzAz/My02MTg2LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
how did all these people get signed to labels?
guessing cocaine played a large part in all this
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
i made fun of the connells so i listened to their "hats off" single. i think i remember seeing the video on mtv. they got the smiths jangle as well as the r.e.m. jangle. if "hats off" wasn't at least a little bit inspired by smiths i'll take my hat off and eat it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
they were the buffalo tom of their day.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
grant lee buffalo being the buffalo tom of THEIR day. which might have actually been the same day...
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
I was disappointed to play a bit of Shiva Burlesque recently (talking of GLB) and finding that I didn't love it nearly as much as I did at the time. Althogh I did keep the first couple of Downy Mildew LPs on a replay, were they known in the US? Totally obscure in the UK.
― I spent too long trying to write sensible SF (Matt #2), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
When I was a teenager and used to tape 120 Minutes every sunday night I HATED the Connells. I thought this song was the tweest wimpiest thing of all time.
Revisiting a few years ago when I wrote a thing about 120 Minutes for my blog I realized I had grown up and could now appreciate this anthemic jangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fluvL_5P1XM
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
here's my 120 minutes if yr interested. Sorry for the dead links.
http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=29
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
The first Downey Mildew album was on Jack Rabid’s top 200 of all time list or whatever (from a 90s big takeover issue)
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
this is so great. john luongo for the win!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_NDwZTlU4
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
speaking of don dixon, jack rabid, jangle rock, and the 80s, i went and saw concrete blonde at their debut performance in nyc after their first album came out (and sang "still in hollywood" on stage with them!) and jack rabid was playing the original version of "blue line" up above and this led to me hanging out with jack and looking at all his cool 45s and he had every cool 45. i was a top let's active fan as well as a top oh OK fan. i had never heard the original. i flipped out that someone would play it in a packed rock club.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
ubiquitous 80s album i have never been tempted to play: Rave On Andy White
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
buzz buzz buzz. i got a bunch of these radio shows on vinyl. john peel intros to every track.
https://i.discogs.com/LNOCJwiDWh1o_Oqc7AcaHKeykkRAFhdqGVDltwLb6Og/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:444/w:450/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODA2/MTQtMTE5ODgxNTAw/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
hubba hubba...
https://i.discogs.com/0krwFVRpmWcpPS7DuTl8L3_YU64m3DLFSNS2OxJ9-78/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4Njg2/ODctMTQxMTA5NzA4/MS04MjA0LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Friday, 8 September 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
damn, i wasn't expecting such freestyle goodness! sign me up!
also, r.i.p., tommy:
Tommy Page (born May 24, 1967, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA - died March 3, 2017, New York City, New York, USA) was an American singer-songwriter and later a music industry executive. He served as an A&R executive and Vice President of Top 40 Promotion at Warner Bros. Records/Reprise Records, associate publisher at Billboard, and Vice President of Artist and Brand Partnerships at Pandora Internet Media.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 September 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
I don't remember Tommy Page at all but his Wiki entry is filled with "unusual details in Wiki articles."
Page also appeared on an episode of Full House, titled "Crushed", which first aired on January 14, 1992.[6] In the episode, he sings a special song to Stephanie Tanner on her tenth birthday, but spends the following day with her sister DJ, much to Stephanie's dismay.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 8 September 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
this album is outstanding. the freestyle is actual freestyle and not some pop hybrid and the syrupy pop ballads are way over the top orchestral and goopy behind his unthreatening boy voice. they sound cool. plus, you get a pet shop boys song about africa!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-wOIJ4TUY
― scott seward, Friday, 8 September 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
playing loudly in public...
https://i.discogs.com/yG62W0hYcTclJlwJ8pVzs1SrDs-UcFIaqAr3MXQ5I5g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMTk2/MDItMTMyMTAxNjYy/OS5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
listening to this and trying to figure out why people pay so much for it. $200+. apparently its because of the LONDON STEPPER RARE GROOVE SCENE OF YORE. kinda one of those IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW situations. sounds nice. that Koko Pop record sounded nice too. and it will only set you back five bucks.
https://i.discogs.com/j8OC96UoZvUf2u_XXv_4son_yfxSOPJKNtwa9kvrB-s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNjQ4/MzQ1LTE2MDQxMzQz/MTAtNzI1Ni5wbmc.jpeg
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
i sold that Zulus EP! same guy bought a drum & bass 12-inch and his kid got a sweet copy of Beck's Loser 12-inch. 1st pressing. it's really the best way to hear "Loser". the one Beck song i love.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 September 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
i sold that tommy page record so fast. and that rare soul stepper lp as well. definitely want the tommy page CD.
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 September 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
best promo cover of the day. please believe us! midge is your man! hahaha. so not going to happen.
https://i.discogs.com/0CnydiHENZla14sn8K77tYvwkWJpHLa2UjK1RQy3sOo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNDQ2/NjMtMTUxMDg0NjU3/Ni01NzU2LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 September 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
Is the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate a notable venue for incisive rock criticism?
― I spent too long trying to write sensible SF (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 September 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
It's a bit impressive how anonymous Midge Ure remained in the US given all that hyperbole.
― enochroot, Sunday, 10 September 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
I had literally never heard of him before just now, but it’s the guy from Ultravox? Weird that I didn’t know that
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
(fwiw i am almost 39 so it sort of makes sense that i wouldn’t know but still)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
The guy from Band Aid you mean
― PKD did a job on me (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
His Wikipedia page says McLaren asked him to be lead singer of the Sex Pistols. Hard to imagine God Save The Queen in the Vienna voice.
― enochroot, Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
That was later. At the time he was doing this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQod5Qwjteg
― everything, Monday, 11 September 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
He was briefly a guy in Thin Lizzy!
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 11 September 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
At least twice!
i'm a sucker for this kinda stuff. they made three singles and then made two singles as Escape From New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtlLztQQVdI
― scott seward, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
only two years from their initial "crime" and "english guns" political platform and they had discovered party drugs in Thatcher's England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-B00sIXLcs
― scott seward, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
You’re missing their big track Fire In My Heart. This has been bootlegged and repressed and is something of an underground/cosmic/balearic hit. https://escapefromnewyork.bandcamp.com/album/fire-in-my-heart
― dan selzer, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
He had more of a trad punk rock voice when he was in Rich Kids w/ Glen Matlock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkQYKLDK4A
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
oh man you guys i wish you could hear this so bad. this band from liverpool sounded EXACTLY - and not like a little or oh they must have been fans of that band in a big way - no, EXACTLY like...wait for it....R.E.M.! it is a true approximation. its funny. it really is. and they have a saxophone! just to make things better. even the picture of their EP on discogs is funny!
https://i.discogs.com/4t7p6wepggm_9lXdEf2m0ct_CSnoDKE07j8RszppFrU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:337/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2Mjcw/MjktMTUzNTI5MjMw/NC00NDQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Monday, 11 September 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
oh but anyway i couldn't find it on youtube. maybe you can find it on one of your shadowy dark music torrent sites. search for the song "inching up" or "two men waiting".
they had a later album too. haven't looked for that yet. i hope they sound like late-80s r.e.m. on that.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 September 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
i put this de wolfe library record on from 1981 and it turns out its the music from Prisoner: Cell Block H! can't get much more 80s than that. i just couldn't resist the challenger floating past the world trade center. *kidding* *lol* #neverforget #christa4ever
guitarist alan parker started making library music in 1970! he also made that sappy Congregation album that had a big 70s hit. he made a lot of music with the great herbie flowers. studio legends spend a lot of time together. he was also in Blue Mink. he was in CCS that had a big hit with their led zep cover. him and herbie made the legendary Rumplestiltskin album. a hard rock classic. basically, if chris spedding was busy, alan got a phone call.
https://i.discogs.com/lEGrmJhFR56xptH8T6h7K5XXla8UYJXvg_r8_MYiWWU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:461/w:463/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNDg0/NzctMTMzMDE5ODUw/NS5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
see i told you guys i loved that robyn hitchcock song a lot. a tape i made in 1987. a very definite "rock" tape made for rocking purposes. i loved LSD at the time. this was about as amerindie as i ever got. touch & go and homestead ruling my world apparently. and its a pretty sloppy tape as mixes go. why clan of xymox and that new order tracks are on there i have no idea. in 1985 half the tape would have been stuff from It'll End In Tears and Up On The Sun. in 1984 it would have been hardcorehardcorehardcore and hippie rock. i tried so hard to like That Petrol Emotion after the first album. i played that first album at least a thousand times. "Big Decision" wasn't so terrible except for the rapping. i made dance and synth-pop mixes too. they would probably be more fun to hear now.
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/704883_10151943131067137_1390051502_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2c4854&_nc_ohc=BV3CnWqF0MsAX9UoYDC&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfDz1roVBZ8Bk77O9FlA0EMXOyvPJdlH8JQU1Ajn2OpMbA&oe=65280086
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
with a few exceptions, my kind of americana!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Salem 66 are a great lost band.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Liking the ‘That Petrol Emotion’ love - co-sign Salem 66 contribution.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
I nagged the Omnivore Records twitter account at least a dozen times that they should reissue the Salem 66 records.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 11:19 (one year ago) link
Talking of bands from Liverpool, I think "Immaculate" by The Wild Swans might be the most 80s-sounding track ever. To my ears it manages to combine New Order, Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen, Lloyd Cole, The The, Icicle Works...
― fetter, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
i should listen to a wild swans record. wait, have i?? well, again then. cuz i can't hardly remember.
meanwhile, in the north of england, this sounds so GREAT at 9AM eastern time.
https://i.discogs.com/DABhduX06qiZB-dHx-ZF8pWDpbtZWrQpuSS9FQeZw1U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMzI4/MC0xMTQ3NTM0NTE1/LmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/mI0lL-IuUj02VxR60s0RbbEaQKTXcHa2XA6BXXvaMOI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:547/w:588/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMzI4/MC0xMjg4NzYyMDM5/LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:31 (one year ago) link
wait, liverpool is northern too.....?
i just think of manchester. and newcastle. coal...so much to answer for.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
i watched both seasons of The Cleaner on Britbox the last couple of nights. its a Madchester-themed dramedy. lots of happy mondays talk.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link