revola records - classic or dud?

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just got my cds through in the post....am listening to the moon at the moment, completely wacked brian wilson takes a '69 death valley trip with the manson girls. lisa mychols, whose christmas album made it on the david international pop overthrow bash's list of 35 coolest albums and it's like a cornelius have a merry japanese christmas of power pop. spectorists beware....this is sweetness. and the loveliness of eternity's children.

fuck it, i love it all.

somehow revola records feels like a proper record label not those dodgy reissue labels that always pop up, a dime a dozen, etc. done with the wit of mondo hollywood.

what do you think?

― doom-e, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Apart from Ivor Cutler the new incarnation of RevOlaseems to have a fairly narrow perspective (roughly late 60's california) - which isn't a good development. Don't get me wrong, I love a lot of that stuff but I prefered the earlier eclecticislm, always choosing the gems from whatever genre rather than strip mining one till its totally worked out.

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno - what about the scruffs? etc. is seems to me that revola is just finishing up the job that they started with poptones from the vaults - reissuing the stuff from gary usher, etc.

have you heard the lisa mychols album? it's not from the sixties! and they maybe reissuing an exploitation album that sun ra did from the 60s of batman and robin tunes for a new jersey toy company.

― doom-e, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with kank; even I'm a bit bored of endless permutations of the Boettcher/Salisbury/Usher axis. Some of them are very laziliy packaged too, with un-elucidating sleeve notes etc.
Having said that, the Thomas And Richard Frost LP on Revola is one of the best things I've heard all year, and the packaging & notes are great, so you takes yr choice. (Palao vs Foster??) At least they're better than the Poptones ones, which had the worst reissue packaging ever. But still, miles away from Rhino, Sundazed et al.

― harveyw, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

At least they're better than the Poptones ones, which had the worst reissue packaging ever

I disagree - I thought the packaging was fantastic, and Revola's are just dull in comparison.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

THe Fred Neil lp they released a few years back is one of the most cherished items in my collection.

― bham, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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