What I really want is recommendations of anything that sounds similar. For the uninitiated: vaguely prog, but really more cabaret-pop. Fey male singer, but also prominent female vocals. Jazz-influenced lead guitar. Produced and orchestrated by Rupert Holmes. (I've never heard Holmes' debut "Widesreen," but I'm wondering if that might be worth a search.) I already have complete collections of Bowie, Sparks, Roxy Music, Steve Harley and Deaf School, all of whom sound at one time or another a little like this. I also hear bits in everything from The Doors (especially the song "The Soft Parade") to National Health (the vocals of The Northettes) to "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..."
Recommend me something along these lines to go record shopping for, please.
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)
Other possible reference points include some of the stuff I've heard by Sailor, like "Glass of Champagne" and "Girls Girls Girls" (produced by Jeffrey Lesser, who worked with Holmes on the Luna LP) and some things by 10CC ("Une Nuit a Paris" from "The Original Soundtrack" is one.)
I like the debut by The United Staes of America, which is not all that similar musically, but is somewhere in the ballpark. A bio of Orchestra Luna inside my promo LP namechecks The Insect Trust, which I've never heard, but want to; may be a little more 60's psychedelia than what I want...
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 March 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)
― Guitarthur and the Ecstasy Defecators (Arthur), Thursday, 3 March 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)
― mnm, Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)
I've got a totally obscure album by a group called A Raincoat, "Digalongamacs."
Maybe there AREN'T many records that fit my parameters!
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)
There are 2 FAST compilations, one on the Bullseye label and a later one on Munster Records. http://www.munster-records.com/novedades/infos/the_fast_ing.htm
Umm...the Brett Smiley CD is recommended, but again, he's more glam...
― mnm, Thursday, 3 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
which isn't such a bad thing, 'cause you'll have more money left over for food and other such stuff!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 March 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
http://www.marketsquarerecords.co.uk/store/system/store.htm
Bumping this thread, because the record has finally been rereleased, and the label has a sample you can listen to. This cut is not very representative of their overall sound, but enough that some prog-head might be able to recommend anything that sounds like this.
― Dan Peterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago)
fake
― s1ocki, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago)
Fake what?
― Dan Peterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago)
Revive, ten years after the fact. A holy grail of mine has been secured: video of this band! This has made my year.
https://vimeo.com/135193948
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 20:16 (ten years ago)
had this album on my list for a while thanks to an offhand interaction by dan p and scott on the petty thread and finally listened. i am flabbergasted by this, feels like a transmission from an alternate universe
i think “heart” is the one that stuck with me the most, with that bizarre baseball interlude
that video is incredible. cant imagine going to cbgb to see blondie or whoever and instead seeing these possessed folks casting an incantation on the crowd
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 August 2024 20:20 (one year ago)
I missed this thread revive, so glad you enjoyed the album, vc.
The baseball monologue, with its alliterations and quotes from The Doors (petition the Lord with prayer,) Fred Astaire (pick yourself up, dust yourself off) and Bobby Marchan (look over your left shoulder, hang your head and say...) is as ingrained in my psyche as anything from Firesign Theater or Monty Python. I can do the whole thing verbatim, but don’t make me sing!
― Glam conspiracist (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 17:26 (eight months ago)
"boy scouts" has also been in my head since that first listen. been planning to teach myself that one on the piano
― now TAYNE i can get into (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:46 (eight months ago)
That song is so ridiculous, I can’t believe anyone actually wrote and got others to perform it. It’s a song seemingly tailor made for my bizarre tastes (and whoever else “gets” it.)
― Glam conspiracist (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:15 (eight months ago)
The song of my people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3KLtEiAxe8
― Glam conspiracist (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 17:35 (eight months ago)