C/D, S/D Feel Good All Over Records

Hey first of all you got to find them. The only things I've seen in stores are the Cannanes discs and the Barbara Manning one. The local college radio has quite a few but you can bet your life savings that I'm probably the only person in The Pioneer Valley to play the Fish And Roses CD-It was stuck to the cover from not ever being opened....
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Alstair Galbraith- Seely Girn
Barbara Manning Sings With the Original Artists

Didn't FGAO also release _The Legendary Chaos Tape_ by The Fall? (Post-Google, the sentence can replace "?" with "!" and cut the "didn't", and feel free to change some verb tenses where applicable.) That's good stuff. The version of "Spectre Vs. Rector" on there is choice.

Note #1: I would severely maim for a copy of the 1st Nice CD.

Note #2: I snagged a copy of _Caveat Emptor_ off the 'web from some Chicago-based sick-n-tired mailing list cat. It took me 6+ months to actually get w/ that record, and it was only because my g/f brought it on a long car trip that the album got w/ me, and I am glad it did.

Note #3: The FGOA "story" makes me weep and shake my fist @ the same time.

Note #4: Brian G. is OTM re: his picks (especially w/ _Seely Girn_)

Ah yes, the Alastair G. CD -- forgot that one!

And I know *of* the B. Manning disc but can't for the life of me remember what the album was about. Was it a covers record?

David G., you're right about the Fall reish. Never heard it, so I left it off my C/D list. I might be able to help you on the Nice CD search; I know of one source that still has some copies of the earlier FGAO CD titles. I'll e-mail you some info.

It was BM performing songs written by Stuart Moxham & Jon Langford w/ a cast of thousands (or a select few - Mike Applestein's site has a nice page w/ pertinent information). It was a good album - probably something I should dust off & play more than 2 times a millenia.

Search: Scrawl's Bloodsucker EP (reissed by Simple Machines)

the Cannanes albums that FGAO (eventaully) released are fantastic, Caveat Emptor being their best IMO.

I'm sure Randall Lee probably still has copies of the Nice album. If Ashtray Boy tour down here again I'll ask him..

a fine fine fine label fucked by mismanagement. if only henderson had had a partner with some business sense.

What everyone else said. I've got a few things around here but most of them were actually reissues on other labels...

i mean, FGAO was seriously one of the labels that opened doors in my listening, including introducing me to the Dead C and the Cannanes. Certainly a tight release record until the unravelling really started to hit, including some sort of aborted alliance with Restless near the end run. And let's not forget DQE's debut album, either -- freaking classic and unnerving. Of course, it was all so hard to find around these parts -- and I still regret to this day not picking up the Crabstick LP when I had the chance.

still, more labels than FGAO have had good taste minus any financial horse sense (including paying the artists), including Irridescence, which released two classic Half Japanese LPs, the Blue Daises, and Men & Volts. The story from Penn Tiller (on the Band That Would Be King doc) about getting back the Half Japanese masters from the Irridescence guy is priceless.

Ass Cobra by Turbonegro was an album that made me feel good all over.

Wassup HP!

jack, the alliance was with Bar None towards the end. I think these recs went through that arrangement: Barbara Manning, Sally Timms, Mekons (repress), Linda Smith, Magnetic Fields 'House of Tomorrow' CD EP, Alternative TV and the Fall. FGAO was also handling U.S. licensing of the Icelandic label Bad Taste, and offa the top of my head, they released CDs by Unun and Bellatrix, both of which flopped.

Hendy's former roommate Ms. Phair once remarked to me that she thought John knew FGAO would end up in a fractured collapse a la Iridescence, and that's probably what he wanted, ultimately -- to be looked back on as this messed-up, insanely creative home for cool/underlooked bands. He succeeded, in part.

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Stuart Moxham - Fine Tuning: acoustic performances of a good cross-section of the Moxham catalog (incl. some YMG songs), intended as publishing demos. I actually prefer this to Signal Path.

Linda Smith - Nothing Else Matters: Smith leaves her 4-track behind on this, and while I'm partial to her home recordings, her songs are always good. This album is now available from Homemade Music, with a bonus song (a cover of YMG's "Salad Days").