Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "C" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM?

O I've loved the ...little of what I've heard of COH, which may've been just a couple of tracks. Alas.
I've also had the suspicion (and still do) that the moniker derives from the Russian word for "sleep".

I think we had a thread about Cordelia's Dad, Albini produced folk-rock, but better than that sounds.

Chieftains, venerable old Irish folkies, a bit too keen to collaborate with the Corrs et al but their album with Van Morrison is suprisingly great.

Nick Castro - pretty good fractured/acid folk dude of recent days, have one album, it's good.

Colourbox - the full 4AD album was great and I have it still. Dance/sample mania. Later were half of M/A/R/R/S.

Cordelia's Dad - as per what Billy just said.

Lula Cortes - Satwa dude. That album referred to here is a treat. Both are talked about on the rolling 2005 psych/drone/etc. thread.; Satwa has own thread as well.

Helios Creed - Chrome was still the best but he can make some evil noise when he wants.

Johnny Casino's Easy Action: Philly band doing dirty ass roots rock. Same singer as Rancid Vat when RV was living in Philly. Fairly excellent cover of Pretty Things' "Midnight to Six Man." For reasons I can't fathom it arrived originally as an Australian import.

Chicken Shack -- Stan Webb's blooz rock vehicle. Started out with Christine Perfect before she was McVie on Blue Horizon. Added Paul Raymond who would go into UFO. Turned into a power trio for Imagination Lady. Did a couple of classic rock albums and now Webb records albums released in Germany that I never see. Someone should reissue Broken Glass, a band he formed after Chicken Shack briefly ceased in the mid-70's. That or Savoy Brown's Boogie Brothers which had the same people.

where Is the love for cooper moore? i've been meaning to get ahold of his recent records. i have a bunch of wierd downtown jazz records featuring him and saw a hot session between him and thurston durring the No Music '01 Festival but haven't ventured much further in.

anybody have thoughts on where to go?

Nah, Brooklyn folk-rock on the Oneida-run Brah label. Andy Beta compared it to Palace, but the songs I like seem tougher than that, maybe even Fairport Convention influenced. (Then again, it's not like I've spent all that much time listening to Palace, I should admit.) Either way, one of the most marginal acts on the list up above; if I still own that CD a couple years from now, I'll be kinda surprised.

> City High's "What Would You Do?" is one of the most laughable singles of the decade<

I think it's one of the best r&b songs of recent years, myself. (Which isn't to say I never laughed at it.)

>Cold Bleak Heat... just a mess or a mass projection?<

Uh....

>I hated the Caesars when I first heard them but sonuvagun if it ain't great. And it turns out they're not even British! <

I've just got the first six-song sampler EP CD they put out in the States a few years ago, which includes "Jerk it Out" (just like every other record they've put out in the States, I think!) and two more short-titled songs ending in the word "Out." No suprise that you like them, Anthony, since you like the Hives, right? But for those six songs or so, the Caesars are better. Their later stuff? Not so much.

>Chieftains, venerable old Irish folkies, a bit too keen to collaborate with the Corrs et al but their album with Van Morrison is suprisingly great.<

Wasn't knocked out by any of the recent collaborations, the Van one included. What I've got is a best-of of mostly earlier, tradder stuff.

>Cordelia's Dad? Isn't that you, chuck?<

Yes! And the band even sent me a T-shirt, to prove it!

>no Candyskins?<

I think I heard a CD by them I briefly liked once; weren't they kind of like Book of Love? I may've even written a good review, somewhere. Unless that was another Candy band. Either way, the CD's long gone.

Nah -- Book of Love were sparkly/moody US synthpop, late eighties; Candyskins were all-right-if-you-squint-but-no-more UK college rock, early nineties.

Ugh, sounds like I'd hate them. I'm pretty sure I was thinking of CANDYFLIP instead. (Though they, too, were British, I think.)xp

I've got two Cold Crush Brothers CDs, one live, and I don't *think* either of them feature Wayne Kramer, though I should check, I guess!

I'll admit that I haven't heard much by the Clone Defects, but Timmy Vulgar's new band Human Eye released a great album this year.

anybody have thoughts on where to go?

Love Cooper-Moore. The new Triptych Myth on Aum Fidelity is grebt. He also shines on the the William Parker records that he's on - free and folksy and steeped in tradition. The endgame for C-M, though, the real essence, can be found on the 5x7" box that 50 Miles of Elbow Room put out last year, where C-M plays a different instrument on all 10 sides. Totally amazing and essential.

I actually started a failed thread on it (with pseudo review):
Cooper-Moore 5x7" box

xp... "Wembley" was good at the time...it aged badly...and the rest was horrible...

The Chromatics are one of my favorite random promo bands, even if their best track was a Silver Apples cover.

If that's the same C*nts that sent me a promo, the reason why they get no love is that they suck. Cheesy dorm metal, though I will obviously concede that there are probably more than a few bands who have chosen that moniker.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0344,eddy,48162,22.html

I like the Human Eye album, but I think both Clone Defects ones are better.

revive

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