i'm definitely down with the thompson twins from 1981 to 1984. they did have that first weird post-punk album too.
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:04 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gvG0qMO2wY
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:06 (eight months ago) link
make that 1980 to 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buUmp5ujmzs
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:07 (eight months ago) link
this has chuck eddy written all over it. i could go on a serious Play It Again Sam Records bender right about now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7njy42ihpEs
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:21 (eight months ago) link
i'm actually cleaning a double A-side 12-inch and this is the non-Borghesia side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEbR1kDfn80
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:23 (eight months ago) link
Click CLick were good!
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:24 (eight months ago) link
Click Click!
https://i.discogs.com/8_UBHr1uYGCDlFCBxgL-YLW2Rxkz_cwXrkx4GrVTC5o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:324/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTMyNjMw/LTE0ODkwNjkxNzQt/NjQ1Ny5qcGVn.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/cfbTYB0r80gciQ3mf6SkeA8YOyPwkYOAe4_ZSCw9yPE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:355/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTMyNjMw/LTE0NjMxNDk0OTYt/Njk1OC5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:25 (eight months ago) link
i want click click's party hate on vinyl.
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:27 (eight months ago) link
cuz i hate parties too. i only party on the inside.
1982 click click is good for this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYFwCoWUb-c
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:28 (eight months ago) link
back to polyrock hmm listened to first one from here, it's good+ wave/pp, outta curiosity i then listened their second album and it's quite good++. what a weird miss in my lived-thru 80s wave/pp knowledge, i don't even remember their name. awful lot of hyper instrumentals and theyre pretty damn fun, but i can see how those missed the charts.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:24 (seven months ago) link
just catching up with the thread. enjoyed that fra lippo lippi, will pick up their first couple of records one day (if i ever see them!). the album after those was their breakthrough one on Virgin, and maybe a bit too commercial for some people but i do love some of the tracks on it ('shouldn't have to be like that' is very drippy and yet so lovely). You probably already know that one of the main guys in the band is the guy behind the Rune Grammafon label (Supersilent, Arve Henrikson, motorpsycho etc).
oh, and that De Press track and the Ashwin Batish are both fantastic too, very nice indeed!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 28 January 2024 21:34 (seven months ago) link
hadn't heard click click before, that guitar makes them sound like gang of four gone goth, like a more beat-driven bauhaus
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 28 January 2024 21:43 (seven months ago) link
that first wire train album should go on that good bargain record thread. its cool and it is always a dollar. speaking of 415 Records, i like the first Translator album even more. as much as i love their college radio smash "everywhere that i'm not" the rest of the record is weirder. so good.
― enochroot, Monday, 29 January 2024 03:04 (seven months ago) link
this is cool. early stuff from the guy who did lemon kittens with danielle dax. it came out on vinyl in 1983. a public plea: i would totally pay $24.99 for a two-disc set of those two lemon kittens albums and the two singles. can someone get on that? that stuff is wild and should be heard by more young folk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_hTZfJOm8
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:48 (seven months ago) link
(but i will pay you to take these danielle dax 90s promo 12-inches from me...that was mean. sorry. but nobody will ever want them.)
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:49 (seven months ago) link
love love love all that stuff
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:53 (seven months ago) link
his other band was Shock Headed Peters iirc
― dan selzer, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:54 (seven months ago) link
I don't love the 90's Danielle Dax so much, it's true. the 80's stuff is great, all of it, Lemon Kittens and Shock Headed Peters and Dax and Blake solo, plus The Underneath, Evil Twin (maybe 90s), and prob another Karl Blake band I forget now
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:55 (seven months ago) link
ah yes The Reflections
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:56 (seven months ago) link
i love this from his discogs page:
"He then went on to contributing vocals, guitar, bass and drums to such bands as Kneeswand, Orange Jelly Baby And The Six White Chocolate Mice, Sedusa, Chrome Toad, and Maggots. None of these outfits produced much more than a handful of gigs, rehearsals and jam sessions."
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:58 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNLp9dr9RI
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:09 (seven months ago) link
quite the performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz-gxGAtLE
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:57 (seven months ago) link
Are you guys down with Rexy?? This album is so sick. Eurythmics adjacent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEmOTYquio
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:00 (seven months ago) link
Legal Reins never released music video! Filmed the first week of June 1989, The Reins found themselves making the video for Wait For Fire Burning that Arista refused to make, but they were nearly thrown in jail in the process. Xanadu at Pan Pacific Park, long an architectural and cultural icon in Los Angeles, burned to the ground May 24, 1989. Arson was suspected. A week later, Legal Reins began shooting their non Arista sanctioned video when they stumbled on a burned out building surrounded by police tape. Being a San Francisco band, they knew little of the storied building or its demise. Tell it to the cops who showed up mid shoot and saw the band as interfering with an ongoing arson investigation! Their fast talking manager Kathy Cook was the only thing that kept them out of jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXAGqVHLBzw
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:03 (seven months ago) link
that rexy album is real collector bait, even the reissue from 2016 goes for about fifty quid now. cool record though!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:46 (seven months ago) link
just so you know, the 1982 album by former Toto dude Joseph Williams - son of John Williams of Ewok fame - is really big with AOR fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYceKfNW7Q
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:19 (seven months ago) link
just in case you need something to talk about at a cocktail party.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:20 (seven months ago) link
save us, nirvana! swoop down on flannel wings and spare us this late-80s thing that was a thing. you can probably blame inxs. though i love inxs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NFBda6md0
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:21 (seven months ago) link
Roxy owns. “Do you want to be alien too”?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:27 (seven months ago) link
Rexy
Rexy got a hip reissue a few years back.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:54 (seven months ago) link
90 but how do we feel about Warrior Soul? I remember liking them. Kind of anthemic alternative metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-DBDhEBCE
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:57 (seven months ago) link
more metal than I remember. My memory has them more like a Janes Addiction or something.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:00 (seven months ago) link
My friend was in a band supporting Trouble when Kory Clarke was in them. Apparently he was this brash cowboy hat dude who'd be all like "Hey Stockholm, I hear there's some good pussy in this town!" etc on stage.
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:00 (seven months ago) link
i can't remember if chuck eddy was a warrior soul fan. seems like he might have been. i can hear jane's addiction in the vocals. i never listened to them. i mean i was aware of them in the same way that i was aware of king's x and circus of power. but i didn't listen to them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:04 (seven months ago) link
Oh man I'm lucky I picked up that Rexy reissue when it was cheap!
This is one of the coolest albums I've ever heard in my life. Fred Frith produced it. Dark, angular, funky, experimental shit from Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBhcToq17E
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:05 (seven months ago) link
there was such a huge amount of amazing metal qua metal coming out in 1990 that i didn't really pay too much attention to MTV stuff. or cowboy stuff. or post-hair roots grunge. i think i just put seasons in the abyss in the tape deck and left it there.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:08 (seven months ago) link
this is cool. i don't know how to describe it. new wave with a quirky art rock side. a side of art rock if you will. not on Youtube.
https://i.discogs.com/sNfq9ajvq0wusc5V7QyaRIrB2tIesj06vKVgL_A4rww/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MTMy/NzMyLTE2MjM2Mjkz/MjgtMzQxMy5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:36 (seven months ago) link
one of the guys from Dreamhouse was in this band and this is from 1979 but its cool and you should hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojt2V6tD37g
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:38 (seven months ago) link
i actually saw Warrior Soul in 1989, they supported Metallica on the ...And Justice For All tour in the UK
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:42 (seven months ago) link
that Dreamhouse is from 1986 btw. on Domino Records. but not that Domino Records. California label that put out a Steve Roach album.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:43 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfqTH5iayc
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:15 (seven months ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/VQ6A9gCAiFIdikIkPyBa03XaauFTVMkLerrLn2YdYjk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:269/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM3NDc2/Ny0xNDY4NTI5NDUw/LTE4OTkuanBlZw.jpeg
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:16 (seven months ago) link
love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlG1JZGtqiU
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:33 (seven months ago) link
mesmerized by this little old new york hypno-club track from Queens. i love all 4 versions on the 12-inch too. hard to pick a clear fave. the club version is pretty solid though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lzaPTR_3o
― scott seward, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:28 (seven months ago) link
i posted this on the thread devoted to him but i will put the link here too because there is a lot that fits here. 173 track Jean-Pierre Massiera playlist that i made. of his own stuff, outside production/engineering/songwriting/etc.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjoEh4WfakzrEGo153ogYu4
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 February 2024 19:12 (seven months ago) link
i needed something new to work to...
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 February 2024 19:13 (seven months ago) link
this is a perplexing one for me. i like it but i'm not sure why. the song itself confuses me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsD9usYs4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVoRgsyn9w
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:47 (seven months ago) link
when they put stuff like that out at Atlantic records...what they thinking? were they going for that market of people who loved the short circuit theme "who's johnny"? its bewildering.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:50 (seven months ago) link