Sleepers (early SF punk band)

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I found this CD on my shelf while looking for things to get rid of, and barely remember buying it (which is unusual, since I don't have zillions of CDs). I think I had read them praised by someone who was praising other bands I liked. (The Flipper connection alone wouldn't have been enough to make me buy it; nor would the naked Goth cover, as I must have been older than 13.)

Any advocates of this band? (A cursory listen does not thrill me.)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000J03.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Sam J. (samjeff), Saturday, 24 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i will advocate for ricky williams till the day i die. good stuff, but the first toiling midgets album with ricky is the masterpiece. Sea Of Unrest is a lost classic. as for the cover, yeah it does suck but then T/K records wasn't know for their graphic arts school (or treating musicians well). thor, who ran it, was a scumbag and a half.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 24 May 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(I guess that cover's not quite "safe for work" - sorry about that. I wasn't thinking beyond its ridiculousness.)

― Sam J. (samjeff), Saturday, 24 May 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I d/l'd parts of it recently and wasn't knocked over either. The band has its advocates, I reckon (and that CD is OOP, so it might have some value to someone if you decide to sell it)...I've read about it a handful of places. (Mojo, I think, wrote about it as "Buried Treasure" a few years back.) But this thread doesn't impel me to go play those MP3s again, alas...

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Saturday, 24 May 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it a lot and bought it because of the american music club/midgets connection, but yeah, it's not quite as good as sea of unrest or any amc stuff. interesting in an a proto synth post punk way. is there any truth to the oft-stated rumour that ricky williams was pegged by new order to replace ian curtis? I've only heard this in SF-centric camps, never from anyplace else.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 24 May 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

this comp is classic to me, right now

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

also, the first post amuses me now, since it is so clearly a man on the cover

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

I just finished When Can I Fly?, Michael Belfer's deeply informative history of The Sleepers/TuxedoMoon from the inside.

Michael passed away last year so it was a bittersweet read, but worth it if you are keen on early SF punk.

book:
https://hozacrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/when-can-i-fly-the-sleepers-tuxedomoon-beyond-by-michael-belfer-with-will-york

friendly obit:
https://tapeop.com/blog/2022/03/23/michael-belfer-1959-2022

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 22:59 (two years ago)

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