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"HOLY FUCKING SHIT" is my reaction to Todd Tamanend Clark's NOVA PSYCHEDELIA

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At some point maybe you bought a Chrome album. Maybe one of the classic ones and you thought they were pretty good. Then maybe later you heard Simply Saucer and Debris and Twinkeyz and realized that there bands that were bands who were greater.

Imagine if the Twinkeyz had been led by someone whose conceptual genius was on a par with Captain Beefheart and few others - and I ain't saying this lightly. Todd Tamenend Clark took the football of this aesthetic and kicked it to the top of fricking Mount Olympus.

This is a two disc set collecting his recordings from 1975-1985. I haven't even gotten through the first disc yet. It's too good. You listen to one of these songs and you want to go screaming and running out into the streets.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

YSI please?

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, GO BUY IT.

Lazy music burgler.

― downtown tunnel brown, Monday, 7 November 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about his music, but his Amazon wish list is pretty awesome.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

overselling it a bit? i mean, i wanna hear it, but damn...

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 7 November 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

"overselling it a bit?"

The answer to your question is a resounding "NO."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Prolific, too.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04345/424332.stm

― George the Animal Steele, Monday, 7 November 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, GO BUY IT.
Lazy music burgler.

-- downtown tunnel brown (apolog...), November 7th, 2005.

I assume Jena was requesting a track or portion thereof, not the entire two disc set. I second the request.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Edward's assumption is OTM, let's hear it!

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Amen. I'm listening to this 33 song set for the first time and it's blowing me away! Like an audio tour of a world accessed only through the hole in the tattered silver screen of the local monster movie theater. Chrome, Debris, Simply Saucer and Twinkeyz are definite reference points. Throw in a little United States of America or 50 Foot Hose while yer at it, but this set pursues a singular, warped vision. It's gonna take me awhile to process all this...theremins, synth blurts, phaser-damage, echoplex UFO landings, guitar sponch!, ed wood voices in my head...damn.

― Rich Space, Monday, 7 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

This stuff is just so much more BOLD than those groups. And compositionally it's on another level, too.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Is that David Coverdale?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Actually this sounds awesome, is it in the vein of Von Lmo in any way?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I would say it's not that much like LMO. More of a kind of serious vibe and more psychedelic.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

"This stuff is just so much more BOLD than those groups. And compositionally it's on another level, too"

Maybe...those groups were all pretty BOLD, and compositional complexity isn't always a plus for me with this kind of thing. That said, this is amazingly demented stuff! It's gonna take some more listening to soak it up and put it into context. On that note, here comes "March of the Legion" again...9:30 into the song and it sounds like the band was just joined by Sun Ra as another UFO lands on the studio roof...

― Rich Space, Monday, 7 November 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

I just got this in the mail. I gave it one listening sober and one listening stoned out of my noggin.

I was thinking that it's a kind of sci-fi movie soundtrack, comic-book prog-rock (with insanely complex compositions) as played by the Godz. He has that sense of rhythm. Cool...

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

supposedly my copy should be showing up this week, tim. you've amped up my anticipation (and, admittedly, i had some fears what with the wank he seems to embrace these days).

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

OK, two tracks chosen by TTC himself! (And my apologies to Todd for misspelling his middle name - TAMANEND - twice so far in this thread!) I haven't done this before so I hope it works. These are m4a files.

First one: "Brain and Spinal Column (Including Animalism)" - 1977 (8:02)

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UTRQAR5O5C1E1Y7N1VN6JD20U

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Second one: "Stars in Heat" - 1983-84 (3:40)

http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HDRD778LCOMA0AJ86B7USC3TW

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's overreaching to call this a great reissue. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect from this one but it's a mindblower! I'd never heard of this TCC guy before but was informed by a collector friend about his rare albums. Bears some similarities to: early Chrome, Debris, Pere Ubu, Cosmic Jokers, Residents, Hawkwind at their most spaced. Acid Mothers Temple will eat this up! The 14 minute multi-part track The Grim Rider made a huge impact when I first heard it earlier in the week. I think I'll play this back to back to Ruth White's "7 Trumps from the Tarot Cards" tonight!

― matwanga, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

TTC that is (Not TCC) looks like I need remedial abbreviation training!

― matwanga, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

That first song sounds like it was influenced by the worst songs from some dodgy arf arf psych comp -- and not in a good way.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

like, who are all of these non-logged in people and why do they love todd tamanend clark, man?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

unless those tracks are the weakest ones on the set i'm not really blown away. it's like 1/32nd machine lip moves.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

They're OK. Are those the strongest?

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

"it's like 1/32nd machine lip moves"

As far as this whole set goes, let's invert that fraction.

"That first song sounds like it was influenced by the worst songs from some dodgy arf arf psych comp"

Haha, you know, putting it on now, I can KIND OF see where you're coming from with that. I am a big fan of the two 'Calico Wall' comps, though, and would hardly call those "dodgy" psych comps.

"Are those the strongest?"

Seems pretty much all strong so far TO ME.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

seriously, tim, if you, matwanga, and rich space are getting paid you can tell us.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

No, silly. I asked permission to post a couple of tracks. Perhaps the two other people you mention are friends of those involved who were made aware of this thread. The suggestion that a label like ANOPHELES would pay someone to make trumped up comments is - of course - ... silly ...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

And, honestly, you know, it's a little upsetting to be accused of something like that because you never know who is going to see a thread like this and whether or not they would understand the context of your little joke.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I JUST HAPPENED TO GET THIS ALBUM AND LIKE IT. GOD FORBID THAT SOMEONE SHOULD SAY SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN C!H!R!O!M!E!!!! OHMIGOD!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

ATTENTION IDIOTS OF THE WORLD WHO STUMBLE UPON THIS THREAD WHILE USING GOOGLE: I AM JOKING. AT LEAST ABOUT TIM ELLISON.

you can say it's better than chrome all you want; it isn't, though. i'll probably wind up buying the clark, but those too tracks are so flaccid and unimaginative when compared with creed/edge. ok, ok, if you compare them to the later creed/edge albums it'd come out more favorably.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood this morning. Anyway, wait'll you hear the whole comp, duder.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

You mean I can get paid for this?!

― Rich Space, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Tim, you're right that dodgy was the wrong word to use, especially in connection with Arf Arf who are one of the least dodgy psych compilers around. But yeah, it's funny that the "brain & spinal column" track dates from 77 because it wouldn't be out of place as the sprawling psychedelic b side on some garage band's only 45.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Totally. (And there's Farfisa or some other '60s compact organ on some of the stuff, too.) But this stuff would have been very extreme examples of that genre.

And sabor totally OFF TM w/ the "flaccid" comment re. the hard rock elements on this album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Those Calico Wall comps are favorites of mine too (dodgy Voxx Records "calico" comp included), and some of this stuff could fit on a future volume: "Beyond the Beyond the Calico Wall"?

― Rich Space, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

And sabor totally OFF TM

i am just going by the tracks you posted, man.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Matt, you were right to bring up VON LMO, though, in a sense. Consider this equation plz, people:

"Todd Tamanend Clark is to Jim Morrison as VON LMO is to Jimi Hendrix."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
i need this as a free download about NOW

― mike jones, Sunday, 11 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

back then they didn't want me...

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i'm not really getting into this (or atleast the tracks you posted). but haven't spent much time on it.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 12 December 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

"At some point maybe you bought a Chrome album. Maybe one of the classic ones and you thought they were pretty good. Then maybe later you heard Simply Saucer and Debris and Twinkeyz and realized that there bands that were bands who were greater...This is a two disc set collecting his recordings from 1975-1985. I haven't even gotten through the first disc yet. It's too good. You listen to one of these songs and you want to go screaming and running out into the streets"

mmmh...thanks Tim, I'm already salivating over this album...going to buy it now! also, all the Anopheles releases I hear were at least very interesting - and yes, I'm not paid by them! :)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
ok, i downloaded it, i'm three tracks in and this cover of "two thousand light years from home" is pretty amazing.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...
"Todd Clark is to Jim Morrison as VON LMO is to Jimi Hendrix."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

alright.

did i mention i bought this? it's pretty good. still

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Julian Cope's piece:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/1570

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

it's a bit insulting comparing clark to morrison since clark is actually good.

― Forsythe Jones (Grodd), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

I love this album! It's like my boy Ariel Pink hosting Creature Features. But I'm a-scared to venture further into TTC's muck/discography. Any experts out there wanna suggest other titles?

― Kevin John Bozelka (Kevin John Bozelka), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

He may make good music, but in newsgroups, Todd Tamenend Clark is acting roughly as pompous as a certain G*nd*la Bob.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)


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