I recently discovered River City People who just sneak into this thread by virtue of their début single being released in 1989 although their two albums both came out in the 1990s. Lovely, chiming folk rock that should appeal to fans of 10,000 Maniacs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGHp6e_f6s
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 10:30 (nine months ago) link
i know that scratch acid were big birthday party fans but i forgot about inca babies. they must have totally fallen for them too. kinda the same thing really. (i am a teen scratch acid fan. was never much of a birthday party fan except for the stooges cover on the live split with lydia lunch. i used to play that song a lot because i didn't have the stooges record to listen to!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwHSytI_Vo
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:39 (nine months ago) link
all the ranting young men. so many ranters in the 80s. blame Mark E. i guess.
(related to ranters: i was totally loving this vic godard/subway sect comp i got recently and i hadn't heard that stuff in literally decades and now all i can think is that half of the diy brit tape music dudes must have picked up guitars after hearing those two 1978 singles. nobody's scared and ambition. they're so fucking great and they totally give you the feeling of: hey, i could do this! not exactly a VU revelation maybe but they must have been a revelation for some people!)
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
love that inca babies, never heard of them
i didn't realize subway sect predated stuff like television personalities by a few years
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
yeah second on both ums comments, that was neat
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:35 (nine months ago) link
subway sect predate everybody except for the pistols, damned and clash. post-punk starts there!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:45 (nine months ago) link
and HUGE acknowledged influence on all things scottish post-punk.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
Absolutely, which is why Alan Horne issued Vic Godard's End of the Surrey People LP on his revived Postcard label in 1993.
― henry s, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:34 (nine months ago) link
you can really hear the wool sweaters on that early subway sect stuff. Vic Godard is a really great pop star name.
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:16 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCuStj9Ld4
― scott seward, Friday, 15 December 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
xp it is and somewhere out there in indieland is vic picard making bad in in in jokes that feel inevitable only to him
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 December 2023 19:15 (nine months ago) link
1983/1984. ohio U.S.A. art-rock/post-punk. cool EP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvi_rDOXts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUNo0nG2aE
― scott seward, Friday, 22 December 2023 16:36 (eight months ago) link
apparently some relation to these people? Bands That Time Forgot: Wolverton Brothers
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 22 December 2023 17:42 (eight months ago) link
do i need to listen to The Band of Holy Joy? guess they were 80s and 90s. and maybe beyond. never heard them. they have a lot of stuff. i have their 1990 rough trade album here. and probably other stuff.
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:23 (eight months ago) link
I recall them sounding like a Weimar Republic-era version of the Pogues, if that helps
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
uhhh...hmmmm...
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link
This is the song I remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFZ_YdfJzg
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
only the first tapes and EP are any good imho
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:48 (eight months ago) link
I like those Junta songs. Lead guy went on to a band called Redmath, which is good gloomy dance rock but not as experimental and not as interesting to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-juN-E8V7k
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:50 (eight months ago) link
Two words. Red Math. Mea culpa.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
Tried playing Band of Holy Joy's Manic, Magic, Majestic the other day, as I remembered the Pogues comparison with McGowan's death. Only song I liked was the one that made me get the record, heard first on a Melody Maker comp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_QOSQUNE8o
― bendy, Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:39 (eight months ago) link
i know that scratch acid were big birthday party fans but i forgot about inca babies.
the other two Birthday Party worship acts out at the time, who I've never heard anybody mention but me were Anorexic Dread and Turkey Bones & the Wild Dogs. This was the Anorexic Dread 12" I had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T01Dzktyzxw
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:11 (eight months ago) link
and here's the only somewhat less forgotten Turkey Bones & the Wild Dogs, who are biting the Cramps as hard as the BP to be fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ryhm2cx8w
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:13 (eight months ago) link
they cover all the bases...
https://i.discogs.com/IbCkaQmxNT4GipUnU5lAlWNHzLoHoIiXu_G1QcN6YBA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:581/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyODA0/NjEtMTU4NTMzNTI3/Ni04OTQ2LmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/3rUyUMgHTxdqEfihS0eO-u91czENlkn9Fu9y-FUnMGs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:581/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyODA0/NjEtMTU4NTMzNTMy/MC03NzI1LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Friday, 29 December 2023 18:43 (eight months ago) link
i'm not ashamed to admit that i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. well, maybe a little ashamed...
#nostalgia
― scott seward, Friday, 29 December 2023 18:44 (eight months ago) link
Easterhouse was the first promo I was ever assigned. Gave them a good review, of course. I still listen to it!
― bendy, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:53 (eight months ago) link
My roommate, who also signed up to write reviews for the college newspaper got a less forgotten/unknown/unloved assignment: Licensed to Ill and Yo Bum Rush the Show.
― bendy, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:57 (eight months ago) link
that’s an awesome assignment in 2005 tho.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:19 (eight months ago) link
Squeeze's 70s bass player made a cool album in 1980. the bass is cool on it in that 70s Squeeze way but its the synths that rule on this record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmMBtVzIkU
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:02 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsXt6I7Xrg
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:05 (eight months ago) link
That's a nice find (especially since it presumably turned up in western mass)Maybe he should've teamed up with Klark Kent for some kind of 1980 new wave sidemen supergroup
― enochroot, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:34 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, I dig those tracks. I’ve never seen that LP in the wild.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:07 (eight months ago) link
same! sent me down the oval records rabbit hole which turned up some vaguely familiar new wave obscurities i've never got round to listening too. who knew that martyn bates of eyes in gaza was once in a band (the reluctant stereotypes) with paul king of king fame?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:28 (eight months ago) link
jesus my frozen fingers aren't typing too well! eyeless in gaza ffs
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:30 (eight months ago) link
this is great tbh, huge this heat vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUqXsDqDrUReluctant Stereotypes - The Lull
somehow after that they got signed by WEA and morphed into quite a shitty-sounding ska band
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:35 (eight months ago) link
The lone album by The Secret was on Oval. Not on YouTube but this track is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hiu3IJO9R0
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
was kinda hoping that was a 999 cover, oh well
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
Reluctant Stereotypes - The Lull
Also reminds me of that Edward Gorey album Robert Wyatt sang on (Michael Mantler?)
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 18:11 (eight months ago) link
goddamn...Polyrock - s/t album from 1980, tense arty new wave produced by an obscure modern composer named Philip Glass
i am in love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgvNzWqcRo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:17 (eight months ago) link
they spent soooooooooooooooo much money on that album. publicity-wise. so many ads. for so long. someone really wanted it to go big. there are still so many promos of it across the country. they must have pressed a million promo copies. but, heck yeah, if you are a Feelies or Love Tractor fan, then you will definitely like that first album a ton.
― scott seward, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:58 (eight months ago) link
i love some tight ass nervous ants in your pants new wave vibes, this is doing it nicely
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:00 (eight months ago) link
that's really funny someone thought it would be popular
i still can't get over how much i like that album by The Thought. Dutch group. its so cool. unfortunately, it has one of those generic "weird" 80s covers that is terrible. i would reissue it with a better cover. after hearing the album for the first time i totally remembered seeing the video for their cover of "eight miles high" on MTV! it impressed me back then in 1985 because the video was of someone on an acid trip and you didn't see that every day on MTV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcjoOSEz_s
― scott seward, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:05 (eight months ago) link
given yr of release that polyrock is pretty next level
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 19 January 2024 03:48 (eight months ago) link
Really like 'your dragging feet' off that polyrock album, bit of a dreamy one. Still hoping to bump into a copy in the wild here but i must be going to the wrong shops
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2024 08:44 (eight months ago) link
one of my friends in high school bought that The Thought album in a thrift store and hung it on his wall, we were hoping it would sound weirder than it did.
― brimstead, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:17 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auOoDmnmrI
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:07 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5KnBSG46uUDole - Rumroad (from 'The Speed of Hope', PIAS 1986)
^ bought this Belgian postpunk album for cheap today, mainly drawn by the words 'Produced by Adrian Borland' (!!!) on the hype sticker. really liking this song in particular, but it's all pretty decent. sounds a lot like Sad Lovers & Giants or someone of that ilk. anyone else know them?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:13 (seven months ago) link
(also bought an EP by The Dance which it turns out i already had at home, think they're connected somehow to Polyrock who we were talking about just a few posts up? they were also the band that played on that amazing Chandra record iirc)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:21 (seven months ago) link
shoutout to polyrock. 'romantic me' is very classic. both of those albums are great new wave.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:41 (seven months ago) link