"i never thought they'd reissue *that*!"

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(Yes, I have the original.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

The Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands:
Papa, Don't Lay That **** On Me, Coming soon!
"When I'd never seen a woman give a downbeat, when all-male dance bands had one girl singer sitting in a folding chair snapping her fingers, when women were supposed to be way too competitive to play music together, the Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands blew that world apart. Together with some of the punk riot-grrrls who've followed, they're all on the great re-issued CD. This is music you can dance to, rebel to, rap with, and pass on to generations. Just do it!" -Gloria Steinem "Every movement has a music. At first, it is as raw and dangerous as imagining a different world. Yet it invites us to jump in. It screams, "Come on!" The laughter makes us brave. The music helps us to stop holding our breath, hooking us up to motion that is unfamiliar to our frozen bodies. The voices challenge everything we have ever been taught about ourselves& among the sounds of change was the music of the Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Bands." -Holly Near The legendary Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands (1972), remastered and with two new bonus tracks by the contemporary feminist rock band Le Tigre. From blues to stand-up comedy to ragtime to rock, this hilarious, spirited, and soulful album has been called "the mother of riot grrrl, foxcore, any rock by women who ask no quarter." (Ben Kim, Illinois Entertainer)

(The music is horrible, by the way.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Other "WTFOMG" reissues here (particularly of LPs you owned but never thought to see in a digital format).

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm still waiting for the Chipmunk Punk re-issue.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I love that Genevieve Waite's Romance Is On The Rise is available for 24hr dispatch from Amazon. I haven't bought it yet though.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Label: Chrome Dreams

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Not only is it hard for me to believe that they're reissuing that album, Amateur(ist), but I can't believe they ever released it in the first place.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

um, who ARE those people on the cover??

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

I hope that cover is supposed to be funny, but I have a feeling it's not. What the fuck is up with the dude in the back?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Boys Prove Failure of Proto-Riot-Grrl Album Through Comedy Sexism Shockah!

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

hey, I'm not passing judgment on anything I haven't heard - but I do find the cover perplexing, and I don't recognize any of those people.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

they shoulda found a way to stick that Berkeley Women's Music Collective record on there too. not that THAT's particularly good, but for the sake of completeness...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Only joking, Shakey. ;)

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

plus: fuck any "proto-feminist" collection that does not include Yoko Ono's "What A Bastard the World Is", the greatest feminist rock ballad ever.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

i think the cover is supposed to be funny.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

we've come so far that we know longer recognize yesterday's satire. progress.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

should be "no longer"

― dan (dan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

oh I get it, they're "satirizing" the prototypical cool male rock star grimace.

why am I not laughing.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

That album looks hysterical!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Is that Kristin Hersh on the right? She let herself go...

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

and a pre-big-floppy-hat Linda Perry kneeling in the front...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

I think the woman behind Linda Perry wants her hat.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/clay_cassiu_iamthegre_101b.jpg

This album does have some novelty appeal, but I can't see there being much demand for it. Seems weird that a major label would spend the money to reissue it.

― Lingbertt, Friday, 4 February 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I originally read that sleeve as "I am the greatest! I am gay"

I'm still waiting for the Chipmunk Punk re-issue.

I swear I was just thinking about that record this morning.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"the nuclear family is a nuclear disaster"!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

we've come so far that we know longer recognize yesterday's satire. progress.

-- dan (dregan2...) (webmail), February 3rd, 2005 11:06 PM. (dan) (link)

well, it is satire, but very strident and unimaginative satire. and most of the music is just-barely-competent BLOOZE of the enervated roadhouse mid-70s variety, with a sort of sub-janis joplin wailing on top.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

i really wonder why anyone would want to hear this, outside of historical interest. unless it's those people who listen to music for its political sentiments (cf. the music reviews in the back of "z magazine").

anyway i used to get a laugh that these LPs were in my collection so now that they've been reissued i had the unpleasant feeling that the laugh was on me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I totally want this!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

i predict you will listen to it once, and leave it on your coffee table as a conversation piece.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i think i was channeling criswell.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

i'd TOTALLY buy that cassius clay album! though preferably on vinyl for 25 cents.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Madonna's a good editor

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

"i'd like feminists a lot more if they got their tits out"

― boobies boy, Friday, 4 February 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

I've always wanted to hear Chipmunk Punk! What's on it??

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 February 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~boyaxe/bobbro.JPG

Bobby Brown - The Enlightening Beam of Axonda. I bought this album years ago because the cover was kind of funny. I probably only listened to it once but I'm pretty sure it's not a lost psych masterpiece.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

I have that Bobby Brown LP. It was mentioned on an ILM thread before. I bought it from Bobby himself in '76 or so.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 4 February 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty darned surprised to see this on cd:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f245/f245010v7de.jpg

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 4 February 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg_images/957/200699957.jpg

― Rev. Hoodoo, Sunday, 13 January 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

Apparently, "Dazzle Ships" by OMD will be re-released in a new and expanded version this year. Lots of ILM'ers are cheering, but I still wonder why they would reissue their biggest flop and not some of the more popular pop albums from the later 80s instead.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 13 January 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.killingjoke.org.uk/images/otgbg.jpg

....Jan. 28. With extra tracks, no less. Easily the band's darkest hour.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 13 January 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

Dazzle Ships is about 10 times more interesting than any of the later albums that OMD did Greir.Your love of the pop song has been well documented here but real fans of the band consider albums 1-4 as their artistic peak where the band was actually innovating.Perhaps you should pick up a copy of the soundtrack to "Pretty In Pink" while you wait for the later albums to come out.

― captain groovy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

-- walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 07:18

i listened to it many times and i am sure it is a lost psych masterpiece

― laxalt, Sunday, 13 January 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20071114/300172234537.jpg

Bonus track, of course, is the recording of the mass suicide from the recorder underneath Jim Jones's throne.

― ian, Monday, 14 January 2008 05:19 (seventeen years ago)

Christ, I just saw the doc on the People's Temple today. Let me tell you: babies don't commit suicide. Fucking depressing.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 14 January 2008 05:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nZPu20cOL._SS500_.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 January 2008 06:16 (seventeen years ago)

sexydancer comes correct. i hate that stuff.

― elan, Monday, 14 January 2008 06:25 (seventeen years ago)

Crystal Method

<i>deluxe reissue</i>

Jesus unicycling Christ

― Telephone thing, Monday, 14 January 2008 06:43 (seventeen years ago)

whiney g. otm. I did a double take when I saw it in a Best Buy the other day. 30 fucking dollars!

― circles, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:35 (seventeen years ago)

b-b-b-but ALL THE "BUSY CHILD" REMIXES

― Matos W.K., Monday, 14 January 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0h4nU-Xig

― circles, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

You know what I never imagined would get a reissue, especially not a "Deluxe Edition"? The Sophtware Slump by fucking GRANDADDY (reviewed in P-fork today). I mean, seriously? Am I crazy to think that something you could find for $3 in any decent-sized used CD scrap heap is not necessarily in need of this sort of boot-kissing? In the words of Alex in NYC, "RAISE YOUR STANDARDS"...

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

As I pointed out on their own thread...

― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

HAHAHAHA

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

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