Favorite 4AD Records: OPX

this is a handy site for people with no memory left and too many records to look through. maybe that's only me, actually.

22)the birthday party side of the birthday party/lydia lunch live split record

underground lovers - leaves me blind
unrest - imperial f.f.r.r.
birthday party - hits
ultra vivid scene - special one
throwing muses - in a doghouse
spirea x - speed reaction (esp. the b-side "jet pilot")
red house painters - down colorful hill
pale saints - barging into the presence of god
mojave 3 - ask me tomorrow
lush - gala
liquorice - listening cap

1: I haven't listened to any of these in several years.
2: Honorable mention for AR Kane's Lolita 12".

Colin Newman - Not to
Colourbox - Colourbox (the 1985 double LP edition)
Insides - Euphoria
Spoonfed Hybrid - Spoonfed Hybrid
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Ultra Vivid Scene - Joy 1967-1990
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Pale Saints - In ribbons
Mojave 3 - Ask me tomorrow
Lush - Gala

[I have purposefully left the Pixies as it was too hard to pick only a few and everyone knows how incredible they are anyway]

Who / what's this Alex? Nothing to do with the Swiss band LiLiPUT (originally Kleenex) I presume?

Not sure why they called it Liliput, but a suppose a Jonathan Swift allusion is as good as any title.

It's coffee-table book sized, and looks like this:

http://www.4adweb.freeserve.co.uk/backupfiles/images/cd/LILLIPUT.jpg

Lilliput1&2 (1992): Bauhaus: Dark Entries [AXIS3 (7")], The The: Controversial Subject [AD10], The
Birthday Party: Nick the Stripper [CAD104], Modern English: I Melt With You [CAD206], This Mortal Coil:
Song To The Siren [CAD411], Xmal Deutschland: Incubus Succubus II [AD311], Cocteau Twins: The Spangle
Maker [BAD405], Clan Of Xymox: Stranger [CAD503], Colourbox: Baby I Love You So [AD604], Throwing
Muses: Hate My Way [CAD607], Dif Juz: No Motion [CAD703], M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up The Volume [AD707],
Ultra Vivid Scene: Mercy Seat [CAD809], Dead Can Dance: The Host Of Seraphim [CAD808], Pixies: Monkey
Gone To Heaven [CAD905], Lush: De-Luxe [BAD0003], Pale Saints: Throwing Back The Apple [CAD2004],
Pale Saints: Featherframe [CAD2004], The Wolfgang Press: A Girl Like You [BAD2006], The Wolfgang
Press: Birmingham [CAD1011], Michael Brook: Breakdown [CAD2007], Michael Brook: Urbana [CAD2007],
Spirea X: Chlorine Dream [AD1004], Spirea X: Signed D. C. [CAD1017], Heidi Berry: Gloria [CAD1012],
His Name Is Alive: Are We Still Married? [CAD1013], Swallow: Tastes Like Honey [CAD2010], Swallow: Follow Me Down [CAD2010], Pale
Saints: A Thousand Stars Burst Open [rib1]

"The nicely silkscreened cd's are built into the front and back cover of a 10" book. The covers are thick chipboard with a blue and orange Chris Bigg scibble on the front and
a cryptic number thing on the back (33 and 45 rpms, 15 and 300/500). The first half of the book has a short story about the development of 4AD along with various v23
photos. The second half of the book gives each of the bands on disc 2 two pages and a very short description. Also, the book has a shiny gold 4AD logo stuck on the front
and the whole thing is bound with binding tape. At first, it looked like it was taped back together, but after closer examination, it is part of the design. A t-shirt came with
the package. It's grey with the blue and orange design and the number thing. The shirt is 25% polyester! Limited edition of 3000 copies. 2500 were shipped til the USA as
a promo item for Warner Brothers and US retailers. Also released in Taiwan as «The Sounds of 4AD», which might be a bootleg. «A Thousand Stars Burst Open» plays as
a part of the last track and not listed on the cover."

I just knew I forgot some things.

Lisa Germano: Excerpts from a Love Circus
HNIA: Stars on ESP
HNIA: Fort Lake
Pale Saints: In Ribbons
Air Miami: Me me me
Pixies: Doolittle
Cocteau Twins: Head over heels
Bettie Serveert: Palomine
Breeders: Last Splash
Wolfgang Press: Girl like you

Strangely, I absolutely DETEST Throwing Muses.

hmmm, mostly 90s records.

1) Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue (I swear that in time this record will be rediscovered as an unjustly neglected classic)

2) Breeders - Title TK (also underrated)

3>) Everything by the Pixies (Maybe this is being lazy, but to me the Red House Painters are, well, not quite, and at this moment the Birthday Party are no more than a curiosity. Oh, and I love them.)

*Honourable mention) Breeders - Cannonball

surfer rosa

all the this mortal coil albums

and, of course, PUMP UP THE VOLUME

alex- the liliput title came from a little magazine that they used to get alot of their source imagery from - e.g. the spinning lady/ cala lily used on pearly dewdrops' drops.

i think...

okay, yeah, i had it at number six. that's cool.

best song ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6UJYY56bk

Tanya Donnelly's Whiskey Tango Ghosts is a classic in need of a larger audience. Amazing that two of the best songwriters to emerge over the last 30 years (Donnelly and Kristin Hersh) are stepsisters.