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

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gina g
gallery of mites
ghoultown
gigi (female singer-songwriter, BZD records, 2004)
gilberto gil & milton nascimento (together not apart)
nick gilder*
gillette
thea gilmore
gipsy kings*
girl
the girls
girlschool*
the gizmos
glass harp*
goa! (a/k/a goa gajah)
goatsnake*
go betty go
the goddamn gentlemen
gogol bordello*
the golden boys
gold sparkle band
dexter gordon*
gracie
the grand island
grandpa's ghost
the great society*
great white**
the greehornes
pat green*
andy griggs
groovski
the groundhogs
grupo exterminador
margo guryan

* - ok i lied; they really do get enough ILM love; in fact, some of them might even get TOO MUCH, but I just felt like listing them anyway

** -- in terms of people discussing their music rather than their, er, mishap

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

There was a Girls from somewhere NW USA I think who were good. Dunno if it's the same one.

I only know the Muff Diving song by the Gizmos, which isn't really that funny.

That's about it, apart from I like the Girlschool/Motorhead songs

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 26 November 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

> a Girls from somewhere NW USA<

Nah, NE USA: Boston, to be precise. *Live at the Rathskeller* album (recorded 5-17-79); "The Elephant Man"/"Jeffrey I Hear You" single (Hearthan 1979, reissued on CD 2000).

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

and "greehornes" should be "GREENHORNES," obv

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

"The Elephant Man"/"Jeffrey I Hear You" single (Hearthan 1979, reissued on CD 2000).

Where did this happen, and how do I get one?

There was also a Girls album on Brasch Music, which was amazing. Vinyl only, as far as I know.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Shit that is the Girls I was talking about, I thought they were from Washington or Oregon. Oh well, I stand corrected. They were good, though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

>Where did this happen, and how do I get one?>

"Abaton Archive Special Release Limited Edition 100 Copies," it sez here. So....I dunno.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

And I forgot to asterisk the groundhogs (and whichever other bands I should have asterisked).

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I know some of these! Girlschool's "Future Flash" is rockin'! As are many of their others, I just can't mentally distinguish them! And Gilette's 2nd album meant quite a bit to me when I was first living on my own; it's very catchy, plus gives me a warm feeling, which is weird considering it's all craven insults. and Glass Harp I've never heard, but they're, like, seriously Christian rock, right?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

"Abaton Archive Special Release Limited Edition 100 Copies," it sez here. So....I dunno.

I think there might have been a regular version too. I've got one, good little album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 November 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Gigi: isn't she Laswell's wife? She should start a thread for us, not the other way around. (cue: "There's A Thread For Us")Thea Gilmore:I gotta listen to that one this weekend, no sweat. Gypsy Kings: you got me into Mosaique, their most Moorish, and another , when you were the Dean of Entertainment Weekly.Gilberto *and* Milton! Too much of a similarity, I suspect...Goatsnake: that's the one with the Confederate Vikings on the cover, isn't it? I still need to listen to that!Gogol Bordello: they'e on Conan tonight! I can't afford to buy anything, or they'd be on my P&J again. (Maybe I'll put 'em on there anyway; nobody will know.)Dexter Gordon: yeah, I like him on some comps, and he was good in the French movie about expat jazzers, but never heard a whole album, and get tired of bop after Bird, for the most part.(Except for Sonny Rollins etc.)(actually, I still listen to a fair amount of it, just resent its dominance.) Granpa's Ghost: ugly cover, but I should listen. Great Society: the old LP seemed like a lame set of bare demos, but maybe the CD is better. (Frank likes 'em, so hey!)Greenhornes: didn't like Dual Mono or whatever (boring bare retro), but a couple of 'em were in the band Jack White put together for Loretta Lynn, and that worked.Pat Green: dedicated follower of Mellenplate. Pays off in country: no matter how useless you feel and/or are, keep those beats and crisp, raspy little phrases buffed, you'll be okay again for 3:54 or so.Groovski: they got me back into reviewing, but don't hate 'em. Fun droney halloween surfboards.Groundhogs: Split, Hogwash, Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs! (With the Marvel cover, with the fabulous rock festival maiden: ah, lost impact of LP cover art!)

― don, Saturday, 26 November 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Gillette's on the attack!

Love her.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

(Girlschool too, obviously, but they're well-loved around here.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

Both of the Margo Guryan records are lovely, especially "Take a Picture." I think I first heard her songs being covered on that "Songs for the Jet Set" compilation--the sort of thing that indiepop neo-samba types wish they could do.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 26 November 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Gina G! I remember being essentially addicted to "Ooh, Ah... Just a Little Bit" for about three months in '96. It tickled the same pleasure centers as Ace of Base, though with a bit more cheese. The album wasn't as delicious, but I still have it anyway.

Gil and Nascimento I find mildly disappointing, mainly because one expects two greats to make supergreat, and they just make very good. I think it's a phrasing thing...

― J.D. Considine, Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I find "Timothy Gone" by Margo Guryan (the only thing I've ever heard of her) to be a really neat little song.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

>Gigi: isn't she Laswell's wife? <

News to me; she doesn't *sound* remotely Laswellized. Closer to, I dunno, the burnt-voice hard-living soul-mode side or Shelby Lynne or Tift Merrit, I'd say, only way funkier. Jim Lauderdale on backing vocals; Gary Tallent on bass-- whole different head and geography than the Laswell milieu, Are we talking about the same Gigi? But I dunno; maybe we are...

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

you dont hear about GINA G anymore because she DIED of SCURVY after forgetting to eat her LIMES

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for The Gizmos, ILM? I hear ya about "Muff Diving"'s general suckiness, Colonel Poo, but they have better stuff. I'd guess Mr. xhuxk has the reissue of the 3 Gulcher EP's which are more of a sub-Dictators proposition, maybe you had to be there. However, a newer incarnation of this band put out some excellent Embarrassment-type Midwest punky pop, and these recordings have also been reissued by Gulcher. I have argued with Jay Hinman in vain about his preference for the "old" Gizmos, but I stand by the later Dale Lawrence stuff. And The Amerika First EP!

― sleeve, away, Saturday, 26 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Great White seem to have released a lot of cover versions relatively recently. Obviously, they're pretty good at interpreting other people's work, even bands like Status Quo and Angel City. But I probably like their Led Zep album, Great Zep, best.

I think they also covered "Burning House of Love" which I bet they don't do anymore.

Go Betty Go -- LA Latinas doing very poppy punk rock. I liked their first EP, out about a year ago. Haven't listened to their new album.

I've talked about Girl before. Get the first album, skip the second. Stepping stone for dude in Def Leppard and dude in LA Guns.

Gallery of Mites: garagey stoner band project. Lots of guest guitarists and such. Traded it.

Goatsnake: really heavy soCal stoner band. Best when they're doing covers of classic rock tunes from the early '70's, because they actually have a decent singer.

― George the Animal Steele, Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

>I'd guess Mr. xhuxk has the reissue of the 3 Gulcher EP's which are more of a sub-Dictators proposition, maybe you had to be there. However, a newer incarnation of this band put out some excellent Embarrassment-type Midwest punky pop, and these recordings have also been reissued by Gulcher<

Not sure I'm following the chronology here, but I definitely prefer the Gulcher 1979-1981 *Rock & Roll Don't Come From New York* comp (best song: "Bible Belt Baby") to the 2-CD Gulcher *1975-1977 Demos & Rehearsals* comp (which is interesting, but really blurry and not really even songs for the most part -- sometimes barely even *riffs,*in fact, as far as I can hear); it's not even a close contest. So I think that means I agree with sleeve, unless he knows even more recent stuff that I'm not familiar with.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Wait, yeah, "the Dale Lawrence stuff" -- that means 1979-81. So yeah, we do agree. (unless "LATER Dale Lawrence stuff" means even later than that.)

― xhuxk, Saturday, 26 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Laswell is married to a Gigi, but I don't know if it's the same one. The Laswell-married one has an album coming out sometime between now and April on Palm Pictures.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 26 November 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Well, Gigi is such a good name for a singah, I hope there's two (or more). Ditto Margo, yumm. Anybody remember the Margo in that three-girl-roomates comic strip, Apartment 3G? Always on Sunday, mmm-h'mm. Since there's a Songs For The Jet Set connection, I'll have to check her out, thanks Douglas.

― don, Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Xhuxk, you are correct, Real Rock And Roll... is the Gizmos CD I love and recommend. It is essentially a revised version of a long-bootlegged Indiana tape called The Gizmos Story.

There is also a CD-EP of slightly later Gizmos/Lawrence recordings called The Midwest Can Be Alright that is really good as well.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

There's an Ethiopian Gigi whose album of a few years ago Laswell produced. Are they married? I heard a cut one morning on our Pacifica station and tracked it down, it's good, though I don't play it much.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 27 November 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Dexter Gordon bores the shit out of me.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 28 November 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Yes! That Gizmos compilation is great. I reckon 'Pay' is the best track though. "Tell all you friends you want a nice cold Gatorade".

Wasn't Eddie Flowers the vocalist for a while? What's the stuff with him playing like?

We need a Gulcher thread...

― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I still refuse to believe that that's a man's voice on Nick Gilder's "Hot Child in the City" - first thing I ever heard from him was the mid-80s "Let Me In", and he sounds perfectly masculine on that one. "Roxy Roller" (which I believe also exists in a version with a very young Bryan Adams on lead vocals) is a pretty snazzy glammy number.

Gillette's "Mr Personality" is a fun "Mickey"-like number. Most of the rest of her first album (which I swear I bought before I ever read Accidental Evolution!) is filler.

I bought two Girlschool tapes on eBay once and they were beat up and barely playable, but from what I managed to hear they sound like pretty generic hard rock.

Go Betty Go is a fun, friendly female punk-pop band.

Gipsy Kings' "Bamboleo" and "Djobi Djoba" were huge hits in Quebec, and my parents saw them live once. Which album of theirs should I get?

What I've heard from Gogol Bordello sounds awesome, and I can't wait to find one of their albums for cheap.

Great Society's album didn't really impress me, sounded mostly like sloppy proto-psychedelia - maybe ahead of its time, but not hugely catchy. I'd like to try it again though.

― Patrick (Patrick), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

> "Roxy Roller" (which I believe also exists in a version with a very young Bryan Adams on lead vocals)<

Yeah, my 45 says "Sweeney Todd Featuring Bryan 'Guy' Adams"

But Gillette's debut was as solid as any album released that year (whatever year it was); her second was solid too. And I'm not sure how Girlschool were generic, since nobody else sounded like them (well, Suzi Quatro, maybe. But Girlschool had way better guitars).

The Gipsy Kings albums I liked were Mosaique (probably the one to start with) and Este Mundo - their most energetic and catchiest stuff is their least trad/authentic, their most disco/Santa Esmeralda.

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

(But wait, I think Nick Gilder sings lead for Sweeney Todd; Adams just sings backup, doesn't he?)

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Greenhornes are great live, but I never heard the album.

The Goddamn Gentlemen are a lot of fun in that Mono Men/Supersuckers sort of way, but I kinda got bored with the album until I found it again about a week ago while re-integrating the cd collections (things slowly drift to office or car or bedroom stereo or... Luckily, putting them in order is a fun refresher...)

― js (honestengine), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I recall seeing the Gold Sparkle Band live years ago and they blew the top of my head right off. Are they still active? What's good by them? I think there's lots of Groundhogs love, see Split, Hogwash, Thank Christ for the Bomb etc etc.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

The aforementioned Girls were originally from Boston, but the PacNW Girls are a new, different band obviously. (friends Jen, Martin, and I saw the card for them in a CD store one day, thinking the Boston Girls got a reissue, and we were both really dismayed that it was another band. "Hey, what the fuck is THIS shit?", Jen exclaimed. Same thing with Hula. There's an PacNW indie band called Hula, as opposed to the English early 80s industrial/funk group)

Yup. Nick Gilder was the first lesbian Top 40 artist I ever heard that turned out to be a man.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

one of two dueling Nick Gilder-inspired threads

the other one

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

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

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:02 (sixteen years ago)

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