simply saucer

check it out unless youre one of those that wont bother going anywhere near pitchfork.

Playing the free WFMU show in Brooklyn on the 13th:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/09/wfmu-free-music.html

"Illegal Bodies" is the most awesome shit ever

It's a song of the future.

Buying this on vinyl was one of the best things I did in 07.

"...where, unless you have a metal body, they're not gonna allow you to walk the street."
"..."
"No kiddin'..."

That intro makes me smile everytime, imagining all those bemused sons-of-steelworkers watching the band bash that one out

Okay holy hell in ILM turning me onto good music shocka:
This album Cyborgs Revisited is um...blowing my mind, only 4 songs in. Um...wow. Can we get these guys on a double bill with the Stooges??

This is unfathomably good. Holy mackerel.

the vocals are kind of weak in a detroit/iggy way.

does.not.compute.

'weak' and 'detroit / iggy' in the same sentence is making me worry my computer is gonna crash or something

anyway, best SS song - "Nazi Apocalypse"

They were fucking amazing in Chicago tonight.

wow.

great article:

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jli9L1gyI

rock and roll

love these guys

Thanks for the reminder. This is just the thing I have been looking for!!

A song of the future.

they quickly run though like five FANTASTIC riffs at the end of "illegal bodies", more than you get outta most albums. and i love the VU/hawkwind thing, wish more bands dug that furrow. missed 'em at portland garage fest this past fall. :(

here someone's posted the 1st three lp tracks. all great, esp "electro rock" & "nazi apocalypse" (though sound's very low):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeXRFo710U

they quickly run though like five FANTASTIC riffs at the end of "illegal bodies"

^^^^^ yes. Everybody in that jam session at the end kills it. I think it's probably the best rock recording ever; it's just 9 straight minutes of kicking ass.

nd i love the VU/hawkwind thing, wish more bands dug that furrow.
Some Pink Fairies stuff scratches that itch, imo.
There's really nothing else like Cyborgs Revisited, though. The live stuff was recorded at a show in the Hamilton Shopping Mall!

The guitar solo on Illegal Bodies is so righteous. I'm listening to Gary Higgins right now, but it's so distinct I can hear it cut through everything.

The greatest Canadian rock 'n' roll song ever, recorded at a free afternoon performance on the roof of a Hamilton shopping mall. Amazing.

they were awesome at the show FMU put on with Oneida a couple years ago

They were great at Terrastock last year.

^Loved that little guy

I don't know what I mean, I don't know what I'm talkin baout

hey!
https://simplysaucer.bandcamp.com/album/saucerland
guess this is the "complete" recordings? or something?

also a pretty radical recent live recording: http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/2015/12/recording-simply-saucer.html

these guys are incredible. i wish there was more music like this. maybe there is (?))

also lol to whomever didn't like the vocals... what about the first instance of the phrase 'nazi apocalypse' in the song nazi apocalypse and how cool that sounds

Do wish there was more of that early stuff. Haven't heard the postpunk stuff that came as bonus tracks on one version of the cd.
There are a few semi comparable early 70s bands dotted around the US etc like Debris and bits of the Cleveland scene and maybe the Modern Lovers whose live stuff is worth checking out. But the main thing about Simply Saucer and the other maverick pre-punk bands may be their uniqueness and individuality. Would still like to come across more stuff with similar feel and vintage anyway.

Pandoras - Space Amazons , Cleveland OH band - one single 1974, comp came out in the 90s - is sort of in the same ballpark but more glam, less punky. Not identical by any means but same influences anyway & good stuff anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8E-yjExXak

THe Jesse locke biography Heavy Metalloid Music is very interesting. Some weird coincidences like SS frontman Edgar breau having been in contact with Craig Bell of the Mirrors since the early 70s thanks to Pink Floyd fandom.
& the rest of teh book detailing the various incarnati8ons of the band from initial 6 piece who were documented on a lost recording and were supposed to be even further out than the first 6 tracks on Cyborgs Revisited through 2 different 2 guitar line ups both of which sound interestiing

Also just seeing that the full concert that made up the second side of teh Cybogs revisited lp was put out on the In The Red double vinyl version of the lp. Unfortunately doesn't seem to have appeared on cd and seems to be sold outon vinyl, buit is up on Spotify so I'm listening to it now.

Saucerland another double lp mops up other material by the band but again I wish there was a cd.

& I'm now wondering what the cd I picked up was. I thought it wasa recent release when I got it and i thought that was mid 90s but I'm only seeing an initial vinyl release in 1989 and an expanded cd release in 2003. Could swear i had it when I had a radio show which ended in '97.

There was CD released along with the vinyl in 1989 apparently (Discogs).

Found it, it says Fist Puppet through Cargo and has the date 1989 on it. So wonder how well known it was in Rough Trade before I found a copy. Was it something that had been semi known for a while, I think I picked up my copy in the talbot road shop after coming across a review in Forcedexposure or YourFlesh or something.

Julian Cope reviewed it as an album of the month in 2001 and it was reissued as an expanded edition in 2003 with a b+w cover instead of the colourful solarised one mine has.