Elvis Telecom's favorite fifty albums that rarely get mentioned around here

Here's that last choice in detail (it rules!)
https://www.discogs.com/release/12424498-Various-Early-Tzigane-Records-Budapest-Monte-Carlo-Madrid-Berlin-Milan-Paris-1898-1922

This Heat s/t so great

Kinski! Love that one and you’re right it’s very underrated around here.

This one is almost 100% stuff I don't know (I have FSA's "Wish" on a mixtape from a friend), going to start investigating.

FSA's first album is still such a great line in the sand when it comes to raw expanses of noise.

There's multiple Unknowns out there, but specifically I'm talking about this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuOOJvTLjLw

Also, the Green album is one with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alZkFE_VPPc

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops, nice

intriguing list. haven't heard most of it. voted Armand Schaubroeck

Oh wow, The Little Desert is not the sort of thing I anticipate being referenced on ILM. I dug it out a few days ago! Part of me wants to give some love to one of the antipodean selections but I'll check out some blindspots first...

The Muffs for me, having my ears further opened by Omnivore's expanded reissues.

Oh wow, The Little Desert is not the sort of thing I anticipate being referenced on ILM.

i'm surprised that morphine aren't spoken more about here! i wonder why that is. cure for pain gets my vote, wonderful album. cool to see flying saucer attack and bevis frond on here too - not really my thing but i definitely respect it

Mark Sandman's death? I feel like there's a lot of late 90s early 2000s that just got k-holed before the social media era amplified everything around it. Acetone (Richie Lee RIP) is another band that comes to mind. I felt bad for cutting Lhasa de Sela's The Living Road, but if you're following this thread and you haven't heard her, please check her out.

The Muffs for me, having my ears further opened by Omnivore's expanded reissues.

I was always a stan of the first album until I saw their in-store at Freakbeat here where they played all of Happy Birthday To Me along with a couple bonus tracks. It was their last ever show in Los Angeles

lol awesome

Ratfucker vs Scandal In Bohemia vs Union, went with the Jazz Butcher

I know we have a small contingent of Thin White Rope fans, myself included.

Heldon just barely over Ratfucker

Union ❤️❤️❤️

Kinski, op8, Anna Calvi all amazing

Lotta records I don't know here, but all the records I do know are fantastic ... will pick up some of these.

This Heat is best, closely followed by Ratfucker and Interface.

... and Mike Heron!

so much i haven’t heard, but this is the absolute correct bardo pond album

Number of albums heard: a mere 3

Favourite: Thin White Rope

Least-favourite: Green, can't bear the singing

Nicest surprise: The Sound

Unheard, but most want to hear: Heldon, This Heat, Mike Heron

Wow, The Bevis Frond - New River Head, I don't think I've heard that one (or thought about that one) in ... over 30 years?

so good and it's not even my favorite, I put Triptych on my list but could have also gone with NRH or Any Gas Faster

Inner Marshland was my first listen. I think it had been out for a couple of years. I’d have to go back to my old Terrascopes, but somewhere before NRH, Bevis Frond became a real touring band that Nick wrote songs for rather than Nick DIYing everything himself. Some really good last-forever type songs on NRH.

OTOH, I almost went with Sprawl but it’s… well it’s almost too much sprawl.

Bevis Frond listeners might want to check this out that Sun Dial album, especially if you only know them in their 90s guitar+drum machine sad sack era. This is dgaf Loop goes Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks territory

(grr can’t write on phone)

Never heard any of these. Voted for Bardo Pond because I heard a different album by them that I liked.

yeah i thought i was up on this stuff but i’ve barely heard any of these

I then kicked out all the Spacemen 3/Sp*, The Church, Eno, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, krautrock, shoegaze, paisley underground

aha you missed one because i voted bardo pond

i think the others i’ve heard are this heat s/t, fsa and heldon which are pretty low priority releases for me (w/r/t to those acts) … and morphine. sorry i can’t hang with morphine. i had a college roommate who was really into “yes” and 20 years later i’ll still be like “no” when i see that fireplace log and 90s text treatment

i used to like warp acid jazz act “red snapper” a lot but lately found i could barely handle it. it might be the guttural honking porkpie hat baritone sexxy sax tone putting me off

voted ratfucker partly 'cause i felt like nobody else would but there are several other contenders there for sure...this heat, maybe even king loser altho (full disclosure) i played on some of that alb (mostly rec'd after i got booted outta the band tho)

ps re: king loser - the king loser movie is finished, you gotta see it to believe it

Bardo Pond is *the* premiere American psychedelic band. I've been lucky to see them a lot, but as I've aged they've become my Grateful Dead - constantly checking YT and slsk for new live recordings.

Bardo Pond seems like they were on their own separate path. It's like calling Windy & Carl a shoegaze band - maybe from a certain angle, but I keep hearing so much more.

Oh lord, Moonhead, what a record!

king loser altho (full disclosure) i played on some of that alb (mostly rec'd after i got booted outta the band tho)

Flying Saucer Attack - S/T

Nice one

i think that's the strength of bardo pond for me, i hear new things in every album and they all hold my interest ... "lapsed" probably my favorite, or maybe even hash jar tempo "well oiled"!"

OK I need to do a deep Bardo dive. I have Amanita, Dilate, the 2011 S/T (which rules), and Set & Setting, I should just put them all on shuffle

Elvis and I (and Ned and hstencil) all saw the 2008 Terrastock gig I think!

Nice surprise to see Sam Phillips (and later-day, at that) mentioned on ILM. She's one of the more brilliantly clever songwriters of the last three decades, IMO.

She doesn’t really play shows outside of LA now which is a shame. I think there were two shows for World On Sticks here at Largo and that was it. We saw one - Ms Telecom’s review is a simple “that was one of the most beautiful gigs I’ve been to” and I agree.

Sleeve, definitely pick up BP’s Lapsed too. Also, those covers EPs from 2013-2015 where they do “Maggot Brain” “In Every Dreamhome…” “Here Come The Warm Jets” are fun “great band having a greater blow out” moments that are utterly still Bardo Pond

don’t forget “music is the healing force of the universe” and “the creator has a master plan”

their “in every dream home” is one of the most amazing covers i’ve ever heard

there was an incredible bp live set posted a little while ago (by elvis himself? or maybe ned?) that started with a killer s3 cover

bardo pond

^^ thx again!!

thanks y'all, the 3 EPs are on Bandcamp but Lapsed is not, I should be able to find that one in a used bin someday

Also, those covers EPs from 2013-2015 where they do “Maggot Brain” “In Every Dreamhome…” “Here Come The Warm Jets” are fun “great band having a greater blow out” moments that are utterly still Bardo Pond

Seconding that. (And ET's poll choices as a whole, I'm honestly terribly surprised how many of you haven't heard of any of these bands, but not in a bad way -- you can all check these out for the first time now!)

listened to Persephonees Bees on account of the fact that i recognize that name from way back. that was great

Gotta go with the jazz butcher, a real classic

elvis t. - re: king loser flick, it only premiered here in nz a few weeks ago but i guess there's some sorta plan to get it shown in other countries sooner or later

there's a instagram acct that might keep you up to date on the subject -
https://instagram.com/king_loser_documentary?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

great to see love for bardo pond. thats my fave of theirs too, chris.

I did however vote in the end for Heldon. Very nearly voted for either Flying Saucer Attack, Paik, Kinski, The Sound and of course RATFUCKER

The best way this poll could end is that every album gets at least a vote.

I wish the same for mine. I assume we'd all like that for our own polls

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Excellent and unexpected winner

Hahah indeed, and very appropriate.

rats I was gonna vote Clouds :/

wow, great winner.

I'm Elvis Telecom and I endorse these results!

Supermoonhead

For Bandcamp Day, here's links for some of the zero vote getters:

https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/second-of-spring
https://jpshilo.bandcamp.com/album/as-happy-as-sad-is-blue
https://notdrowningwaving.bandcamp.com/album/the-little-desert
https://magnog.bandcamp.com/album/more-weather
https://lebutcherettesofficial.bandcamp.com/album/a-raw-youth-digital-deluxe
https://hedgehogrock.bandcamp.com/album/sun-fun-gun
https://the-original-scenic.bandcamp.com/album/the-acid-gospel-experience
https://staubgold.bandcamp.com/album/we-know-nonsense
https://sevenpercentsolution.bandcamp.com/album/all-about-satellites-and-spaceships
https://tomvek.bandcamp.com/album/we-have-sound

Reviving this thread, because Timbuk3's "Wheel Of Fortune" came up today. They'll always be known as the one hit "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" band, but on those four IRS albums if you dig in between the inferior novelty song hit attempts there's some great downer college rock. "Wheel Of Fortune" (from 1989's Edge Of Allegiance) is something else... someone current could cover this and make a zillion dollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nU9tPNLkuo

I guess bookmark this thread because I've got a lot more to post

done

Information is scarce on Esperanza Encantada. Lorenzo Martinez, along with his sisters Roberta and Doris were the children of a famous mariachi family in Albuquerque. In the 60s the trio had been performing traditional music under the name Los Chamacos, but at some point they started covering a lot more rock and roll when in 1970 they got signed. They changed their name to Esperanza Encantada and recording one album. The cover of "Let It Be" ("Sea Asi") is nice and "If I Were A Carpenter" ("Si Yo Fuera Carpintero") is unexpected, but stick around to 5:37 when New Mexican hippie boogie band Mudd kicks in and there's a legitimate fuck yeah moment. BTW, that's future Ozzy/Crue drummer Randy Castillo playing drums so that fuck yeah is indeed legit. "Manna" (at 11:56) is worth stopping at too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnYPFPXJDu8

Would’ve voted Sun Dial / Acid Yantra; love that album. I was surprised to read in an interview with Gary Ramon from last year that he had originally been in talks with Steve Albini to record it.

I remember seeing an ad for Reflecter in Alternative Press when it had first come out. I’d never heard of the band but something about their name and the album name and cover totally drew me in, and then reading the song titles when I found it at the record store convinced me to take a chance on it. Still one of my favorites from that era. I haven’t followed them/him very closely since Acid Yantra but I find something off-putting about the way his vocals have been recorded on the stuff I’ve heard since then. I blast their cover of Magic Potion when I need a burst of energy.

Euclid were from Haverill, Massachusetts and supposedly sounded like this right out of the gate - an unbelievable concussion of BTO/James Gang buttrock pushed as far as it could go. One album, Heavy Equipment from 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdxa9b8ZPUU

The two covers on the album do not disappoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esziZnm3WM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndJ2rry7d_Y

I really don't know much about Emmalee Crane. She was recommended to me by a friend who lives in Fresno - I guess she lived in the Central Valley for a time? Anyway, she made three beautiful home spun drone albums 2009-2013 and largely disappeared from the Internet.

All of her releases are great: https://emmaleecrane.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUF0htP2OtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5L_8my7rc

Damn, will investigate!