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I've never heard them, so where should i start?
I just read WIRE's piece on the late cellist Tom Cora; their collaboration with him on Scrabbling at the Lock sounds really cool:

"Cora...concentrat[ed] on full-bowed counterpoint in minor keys that soared over the group's motorik pulse."

I love hearing punk rock collide(dumb verb. eww) with European folk(a thread i'd like to start soon, BTW), and apparently this album does it really well.
So with regard to their later stuff, should this be my first listen?
and what about their earlier, Crassy stuff?

feed me, ILM

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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my excessive, crutch-like use of parantheses bothers me. Please, if any ILX overlord feels like playing english-teacher and deparanthesizing my post for educational purposes, i will return the favor by reading their posts, henceforth, with the same rapt, doe-eyed level of attention i gave my dreamy high-school english teacher. shewasROWR

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

paratheses roxx u r all paranoid

the ex sound like big country (search your heart you know it to be true)

search, the last two albums on touch & go for starters: starters alternators & dizzy spells

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess means Midnight Oil.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

david and jess mean hunters & collectors, except the ex are much better.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, Gabriel - both albums w/ Tom Cora are great (_And The Weathermen..._ is the goofier of the two), as is _Instant_, their double-disc vocal-free collaboration w/ all sorts of folks (most notably Han Bennink).

And given your taste for punk rock / European folk getting nice & intimate, you will LOVE "Hidegen Fujnak A Szelek" (from _Scrabbling At the Lock_).

I'd second Dan's emotion, but I dunno H&C from PB&J.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i've got the day off, i'm manic, and soulseek is DOWN!
curses!

and i've already moved the furniture.

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Cora albums
Too Many Cowbots
Aural Guerrilla

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, the cora albums are definitely masterpieces. the ex have always been pretty consistent if you like what they do. my favorite is probably "joggers and smoggers" which is sort of the beginning of their really experimental stuff. "blueprints for a blackout" is also pretty fantastic. but i would actually start with the Cora discs.

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Their live show! Much better than any album I've heard, the songs just build and build and build... One of the best shows I've seen. Though I have enjoyed Scrabbling and the Touch & Go records.

Destroy: The Dignity of Labour didn't seem so hot the one time I played it.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Joggers and Smoggers kicks my ass everytime it's on!

― ddb, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

hey gabriel, if you want starters/alternaters for free, lemme know, I have it and *hate* it. But if you wanna give it a good home, email me or something.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

jel, i'd love it. cool.

lets trade!!

i'm kind of sketchy on what you'd want from my big pile of cd's (many of which are OBJECTIVELY good--but sit in brown paper bags anyway). and i won't make a long embarrassing list...

..but if you name the three albums you WISH i had to give you, i'll counter with several disappointing alternatives.

yes?

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The two Tom Cora records are fan-freaking-tastic, each in a different way. My favorite thing by them, though, is _Een Rondje Holland_, credited to Ex Orkest--the 30-piece lineup of the band. KABOOM.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't forget the two Spanish Civil War covers ("Ay, Carmela" and "El Tren Blindado") on the book-double-single-whatsit 1937.

― Uncle (Methuselah), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! How's the new double-album, anyone?

― original bgm, Friday, 26 November 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's good, albeit 1000X better live.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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