Spaceheads, C/D

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The only Spaceheads I have is their contribution to the Merge 15-year comp. Are they worth the effort in tracking down the albums?

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i found them to be really amazing live, but the feeling doesn't carry through as well to their albums. i really wish it did... but i think half of what is special about them is how they pull it off live, with the trumpet effects, and their interaction, etc... it blew me away.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just the two of them live? I think I've read somewhere they use live looping for the brass parts. Sounds pretty cool.

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the insound comp (flat blue/silver pkgng) of liveage captures the sweatness.
avoid the spacey one with collaborator(s).

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the best live bands I've ever seen. (Disclaimer: I put out their first three albums. But go figure: I like them.) It is indeed just the two of them, with (trumpeter) Andy Diagram (also of 2 Pale Boys) sampling & looping himself in real time. I really really really like their records, too--search "Shoot the Boss," "Joyriding," "Pay Me My Money Down," "Bella Ciao," and the title track of _Angel Station_.

The two of them have actually been playing together for about 25 years in various bands--Dislocation Dance, the Honkies, etc.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

How about the Primitives' 'Spacehead'? I like that a lot.

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Douglas, what were the Honkies like? i can't imagine Spaceheads + C. Kraabel blowing in unison!

the DBC releases are the Spaceheads' best. nothing has topped the self-titled and live Round the Outside, imho. their collaboration with Max Eastley was cool, kinda different for them. title track of Angel Station aside, the last two albums haven't been too thrilling.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

was introduced to spaceheads when they played a session on douglas' show a few years ago. it was amazing. and i did order some stuff and it wasn't as amazing as that show. still interesting though. just checked the wfmu archives and it looks like they didn't archive that particular episode of rhubarb cake, unfortunately.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the max eastley disc!

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

So I can only buy one right now. Should I go for the Insound Tour Support or the self-titled first?

I'm leaning toward the s/t, but mainly to complete a coincidence string: last night a friend dropped of an advance of the new Tom Waits; this morning on the bus I open up my Da Capo 2000 to my last stopping point, which was the "Gone North" article on Waits; then Douglas responds to my question; if I buy the cd from his label...

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mudhutters!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mudhutters? I'm going to need more assistance on this one than Google can give me.

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mudhutters were a great post-punk/DIY/art-rock/indescribable band. Both Spaceheads played with them but only the drummer was a permanent member, I think. They are mostly remembered now because Radio 4 stole the image to one of their records for one of their covers. Really hard to describe, more along the lines of Rock In Opposition kind of stuff then standard post-punk. Look for the Information Ep and the Declaration EP, but they're not easy to find. I only have the stuff burned from people.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Amazon list-maker is killing my online search...

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the only thing I own by them is 'round the outside live in the usa'. and it's great.

― (Jon L), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Got the Mudhutters' Declaration EP. It's surprisingly good (not that I doubted you, Dan). Spaceheads yet to come...

― JC-L (JC-L), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, see why I had trouble describing it?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah -- I want to call it post-punk, but that's not quite right. I need a few more spins to have something useful to say. Maybe once I get back in town next week, I'll get a thread started on them.

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Echoinggrove, the Honkies were FREAKING AMAZING--song structures that dissolved into insane improv and abruptly snapped back again, very strong "performance" element (costumes! makeup! movement!), etc. Three albums, of which my favorite is their last, "Who Eats?"

There's also a post-Honkies band called Smart Bombs, which was basically the Spaceheads and a bassist plus Kathy Hulme, a horn player who fronted the pre-Dog Faced Hermans band Volunteer Slavery. They only ever put out one 12", but it's fantastic groove-blatt stuff--grab it if you ever see it.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I can now throw the Spaceheads' s/t album into the classic category -- absolutley incredible.

― JC-L (JC-L), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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