Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "B" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Please inspire me to pull their records off the shelf and listen to them!

Backseat Sally
George Baker Selection
Baja Marimba Band
Bam Bam
The Bambi Slam
Bamboo!!!
Bandera
Claudja Barry
Belle Epoque
The Belle Stars
The Belmonts ('70s incarnation, sans Dion)
Big Stick
Bionic Boogie
Bits & Pieces
Black Bizarre
Bombers
Betty Boo
Taka Boom
Daniel Boone
Botellita De Jerez
Boys Town Gang
BPA (By Products of America)
Brainbombs
Brainoil
The Brains
Brian Briggs
Mel Brooks (in his '80s rapper incarnation)
Patti Brooks
B-Side
Bumble Bee Unlimited

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

No, you're all right.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Betty Boo gets much love.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

But not enough!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Produced by Spring Heel Jack!

Just out of interest, what do you have by the George Baker Selection apart from "Little Green Bag"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

"Una Paloma Blanca" - that was them wasn't it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I have love for ' Where's Your Child?' by Bam Bam.

― wtin, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Big Stick. I assume that's the "Crack Attack" 12" on Buy Our Records (wakka, wakka). I have ve not heard that in maybe 15 years (at least). And yet... it'll now be stuck in my head all day.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

george baker: yep, the album wih una paloma blanca on it!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Big Stick !

yeah ..

"Crack Attack - I want my money backkkkk"

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

big stick : i have cd single version that was put out on mute .. with Fon (Rob gordon) remixes ??

been a long time ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

If the B Side side is "Change le Beat" w/ Fab Five Freddy - hell yes. breathy-vox french femme futzing around with the mudd club's favorite homeboy while the celluloid crew creates serious havoc?

sorry but it's classic.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday" is an easy, breezy Britgum classic! I think Tom Ewing wrote an article about it once.

Boystown Gang do the timeless "Cruisin' the Streets". "Hey, you're a hot man" "You're pretty hot yourself." Cue moaning and blow job noises. Then the streetwalker gets in on the action.

― Moosie Grosvenor (Arthur), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

werent big stick drag racing underground or something?

betty boo is everywhere on ilx, surely

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

La Belle Epqoque - they did "Black Is Black"? That's great.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

We love ze musick! We love ze deesko zound!

A number two hit in Britain in the year of punk, readers.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

We love ze musick! We love ze deesko zound!

Indeed - one of the first singles I bought.

― mnm, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

The Brains did the original version of "Money Changes Everything," no?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

bam bam's "where's your child?" is easily in my favourite hundred singles of all time. sign o' the times, &c&c&c. betty boo's pretty great, too - who came closest to being a UK equiv of l'trimm/jj fad &c anyway?

― etc, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Bam Bam's "Give It To Me" is great: urgent, propulsive Chicago house on the jack-track/early acid interface, with lots of orgasmic heavy breathing.

Bits & Pieces were bascially Sly & Robbie: they covered Yarborough & Peoples "Don't Stop The Music" - not exactly the most radical of re-interpretations (to put it mildly), but it definitely gains something.

Taka Boom is Chaka Khan's sister, I think. Never rated her stuff; all a bit also-ran.

Best bit in Boystown Gang is the police raid: "Up against the wall, fags!" And to the vouyeuristic hooker: "You too, c**t!" (From memory, at least.) Also their c.18-minute medley of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Remember Me" is spectacular.

I will never forget seeing a packed 1000+ dance floor in Berlin all impassively dancing to "The Hitler Rap" when it was in the German Top 20, as if it were just any other random record. Particularly bizarre since the club in question had once been the home of Erwin Piscator's Theatre Of The Proletariat in the late 1920s/30s.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

the bam bam 12-inch i have is a different one, not "where's your child"....wait, i will check in the other room, though then i have to go to workand can't check anything for a while....ok, it is called "give it to me." not nearly as good as "where's your child" (what is??), but still good!

yep, that b-side, and that belle epoque, and that brains. but what i have are the albums (well, 2 albums and an EP by the brains.) they are all great! (by 12-inches i mean all 12-inch vinyl including albums by the way -- not just 12-inch singles!)

question: i was considering including BANG, the BIZARROS, and HERMAN BROOD AND HIS WILD ROMANCE on the above list as well, but decided they were not obscure enough. Was I wrong? Either way, you can talk about them, too, if you are so inclined.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Ah, the Bambi Slam - JAMC wannabes with added cello. 'Don't It Make You Feel' was alright but nowt special. They did one other single (at least) and an album that I never heard.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard, or even thought about that big stick record in over 12 years.

The Bambi Slam I seem to remember having one really good 7" indie rock thing, but I can't remember anything about it. (x-post curse yr superioy typing skillzrzx, nick b)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

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Botellita De Jerez. What they do is called Guacarock.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The good--nay, great--Bambi Slam single is "Bamp Bamp." Is that the one you've got?

― Dark Horse, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I have the Belle Stars' "Iko Iko" on 7" single (somewhere).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Brainbombs are a horrible sex-is-violence type noise sludge band from Norway, intermittently on Load Records, who I think are still going

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was gonna ask me if anybody wanted to convince me to either keep or get rid of that Brainbombs record. It's from a couple years ago; I think it might be a split record with Pink & Brown. (I'm at work now so I can't check.) I must have liked something about it when it came in the mail, but I remember nothing about it now, and I am starting to go through a hatred of noise bands stage again I think.

I lied about the Brains EP. I only have the two albums. I used to own the EP though; I'm pretty sure both albums are better.

And yeah, "Bamp Bamp" sounds right in re: Bambi Slam. Though I would have to go back to my shelf at home again to be absolutely certain.

Finally, I also left BARRABAS off the list. They are very important, though nobody talks about them here much! Obviously somebody should!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Belle Epoque - Miss Broadway!!!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

scottseward played this game already.

― dmun, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

No, he only played a *similar* game, revolving around BANDS HE HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD. But it was a great one, deserving of a sequel, and I credited his inspiration in the very first line of the "A" thread.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I think they're going to have to create a new category just to hold these types of threads.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

B-Side "Bones" - funky dancy lovely thing it is.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday" is an easy, breezy Britgum classic! I think Tom Ewing wrote an article about it once

twas Robin Carmody:
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/cottage.html

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Pull out Brainbombs for a solid 15 to 20 minutes as loud as possible, then put it back. They're about as nasty as scuzzgarage can get--perfect sinus clearing fodder in small doses.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I have Bam Bam's "Where's Your Child?" and the collab he/they did with The Shamen for the "Transcendental".. both of which are amazing.

And I loved the percussive sonic din of The Belle Stars' version of "Iko Iko".

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

scottseward played this game already.

So you can go home now and leave it all to us. Doh!

― Harry Klam, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Herman Brood--what a great name, and I saw him on a triple-bill with the Divinyls and the Psychedelic Furs. He beat the other two bands, hands down, and wore this ridiculous floral shirt and black leather pants. Always kinda liked Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba band better than Herb Alpert/T.Brass, anyway, he was a really good marimba player...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

The first Brains LP is excellent; I never heard 'Electronic Eden,' I don't think.

And that Belmonts album ('Cigars, Acappella, Candy,' I presume) is great. Unless a Jonathan King fan can correct me, they were the first to make the connection between "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

'Acappella' [sic!]

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

"Electronic Eden" wasn't as good as the first album. No "Money Changes Everything," naturally, and no "Raelene" which was also a great barnstormer. The guitarist wound up the bass player for the Georgia Satellites.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I second the enthusiasm for Belle Epoque's "Miss Broadway"! That voice!

Big Stick, if I remember correctly, made an entire career (for a while) out of the line "In the SUMMER I wear my TUBE top and Eddie takes me to the DRAG strip."

Claudja Barry: "Boogie Woogie Dancing Shoes"?

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Don't miss the Bam Bam mix of Ten City's "Devotion", which is particularly purty.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday" is an easy, breezy Britgum classic! I think Tom Ewing wrote an article about it once

twas Robin Carmody

How could I have forgotten this? Sorry, Robin, you are my Britgum guru!

― Moosie Grosvenor (Arthur), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

belle stars did the clapping song too which i prefer to iko iko.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

someone needs to set up a YSI for that Boystown Gang song.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Tim OTM about the Bam Bam mix of "Devotion," I like it better than the original!

Boystown Gang did an amusing 10 minute disco version of "Can't Take my Eyes off of you," predating the Pet Shop Boys by some 6 years.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

"funk for days" by bumblebee unltd. is v. good echo-y discofunk, don't know what their other stuff is like

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 12 May 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I forgot to list Brotherhood Creed at the top of this thread!

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

'Everybody get dancin' by the Bombers is possibly my favourite disco song of all time, it's stunning. The pace of the rhythm makes me feel a bit anxious, like I've just taken an e, but the vocals and strings smooth it all out and make everything ok.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I also forgot to include Bermuda Strollers at the top of this thread!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Also, I'm pretty sure I read that at one point Bombers wound up hiring Jennie Haan from Babe Ruth (of "The Mexican" fame etc) as their singer. I've never heard any of that stuff, and would love to. The single I have ("Don't Stop the Music" b/w yeah, "Everybody Get Dancin," a 12-inch on West End) goes totally into disco-metal territory on at least one of its sides, if not both of them.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

The Belle Stars' "Sign Of The Times" was a great single.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (fifteen years ago)

― where is the love, Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:13 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:04 (fifteen years ago)

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