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

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la barranca
la bruja
la castandeda
lacrimosa
lacuna coil*
steve lacy*
mike ladd*
la derecha
lamia
la muerte
brad lancaster
lana lane
robin lane & the chartbusters*
la numero 2 banda jerez
david lasley
last days of may
the last vegas
lava baby
lawnmower deth
leatherface
leather hyman
the leaving trains
th' legendary shack shakers
dannie leigh
lemon jelly*
les baton rouge
les georges leningrad
les negresses vertes
les rythmes digitales
lifesavas*
lighter shade of brown
lionrock
little axe
the little women band
the living end
the lizards
charles lloyd*
loco mia
sofia loell
lo fidelity all stars*
lo'jo
looker
los de abajo
los del mar
los prisioneros
los reactors
lost goat
los umbrellos
los van van*
love as laughter (l.a.l.)
love/hate
lucyfire
jessica lurie ensemble
lycaon pictus
kevin lyttle

* - see previous asterisks

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Lordy, xhuxk, do we have the same CD shelves?

Lawnmower Deth: My favorite Earache band after Godflesh. They really seemed to bring out the absurdity in Napalm Death.

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

les rythmes digitales have been talked about quite a bit - here for instance...

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I always thought that Lacuna COil was kinda boring. But I love Mike Ladd and Charles Lloyd, and just kinda assumed they were part of the unspoken ILX canon...

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

new LAL album isnt awful - at least one member of my band is pretty into it...

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm sure Lemon jelly have turned up at various points but David Lasley, there's a blast from my 7" single buying past. I think it was called "Where does the boy hang out?" or something. Doesn't he have a really high voice? I must have liked it at the time. Gotta get that box of singles out of the loft though to listen to it. I wonder if it's worth it?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

>Doesn't he have a really high voice?>

Yep, a lovely one, too!

I asterisked lemon jelly, mike ladd, and charles lloyd, so i feel no remose re: those. About les rythmes digitales, i have no explanation.

New LAL sounded pretty awful to me, actually. *#1 U.S.A.* from '98 is the only one I cared to keep, and even that one may sound iffy now.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

little axe - tackhead for sore heads. same musicians, just a lot more mellow, and incorps old blues samples into their futuredub noise.

very nice stuff - only for the idea to be lifted wholesale by moby for 'play'.

lo-fi allstars - love em .. their second album was slated at the time, but reckon it has aged well and still love their disco groove.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a Lawnmower Deth CD. It was pretty amusing for a while, then I sold it.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I heart Leatherface. Most adorably "gruff" singer since Paul Westerberg. And really, really, good songs to boot.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard Jessica Lurie Ensemble. but I'm a longtime fan dating back to her days with The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (featuring the weird and wonderful Amy Denio!) and, later, Living Daylights. Heckuva sax player.

Robin Lane's "Imitation Life" is one of the best fifty cent cutout LPs I've ever bought. I went through a period where I played that and Holly Vincent's second album religiously. A minor masterpiece of moody 80s female rock.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Chuck you have so many really bad CDs!

Lionrock had a video on MTV for two minutes that I liked. It was a dude riding around Jamaica on a moped, I think.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

les rythmes digitales is jacques lucont. didn't he play with madonna on her last tour? i seem to recall so.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

That Les Baton Rouge album was pretty great.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

There are actually at least 3 different les baton rouge CDs (with some minor overlap between tracks, and at i believe one track that's the name of one of the other CDs, a' la "houses of the holy" or "almost blue" or whatever), but the other two are EPs. The longest one (which is still fairly short, i guess) is the one still in my apartment; the other two are in storage in bucks county somewhere.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

and oops, la banda jerez is numero 1 not numero 2, i just realized! (though it would be cool if they bragged about being the second best banda group in the world, i suppose.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Lionrock is Justin Robertson who has released a few interesting things thru' the years. I remember that moped video - was that Mr Robertson himself - was it for Rude Boy Rock?

― ned trifle2, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Steve Lacy I've always admired from a distance--avant-Sidney Bechet soprano sax. he's known as maybe the foremost interpreter of Monk tunes, but I've always found his stuff a bit cold to the touch. he worked with Monk on a pretty good '63 album called "Big Band and Quartet in Concert." did some pioneering work with Cecil Taylor in the mid-'50s. some who've seen it say his work with kabuki dancers and Indian musicians is pretty amazing, but I just can't get past his icy tone, give me Bechet any day...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to Lava Baby? They were the next big thing for a little while, right? They were a really fun live band.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I saw Leatherface last year, they were pretty good. Frankie Stubbs looks almost exactly like Pete Townsend now, which must be nice for him

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah for "rude boy rock"! sorta skanky big beat thing.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Last Days of May -- Karl Precoda's heavy psychedelic instro band. Had an EP that was as long as an LP. Good idea, good execution, but something was missing. Songs and riffs prob'ly.

Legendary Shack Shakers -- after I gave this lunatic roots band a good review, Yeproc took me off their promo distro list. They must have took exception to the part about the band not fucking any chickens in the title.

The Lizards -- classic hard rock metal band whose album Rule featured the last known performance of John Garner of Sir Lord Baltimore. Then they fired him or he quit for the next CD and hired a much more nondescript singer. I traded the second one and still have Rule which also contains an ace version of "Kingdom Come."

Lost Goat -- stoner band trio with a girl guitarist front person. More jagged-sounding and obtuse than the usual stoner rock sleepover. I probably shouldn't have tossed it. No matter, I can still d/l it.

Leaving Trains -- Falling James' band. Made about a lot of records, one of which I liked, on SST, who published many. Last one I heard was on Steel Cage and was a live recording with a pic of the band in which he was wearing a dress, which I am told is a common thing.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I just know My Body The Pistol.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

There's also *Women Non Stop* (which is the one still on my shelf) and the *Chloe Yurtz* EP (if that's how they spell it.) (I forget which is the other one I was thinking of as an EP.) They're all good.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

lycaon pictus -- NYC (?) arty noise band. Had it for a couple months then put it in the trash and recycled the jewel case..

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

i used to play in a band with a guy who left to be the leaving trains' touring bassist for about two months. when he came back, HE was wearing a dress, and he continued dressing that way for at least a couple years after that. beware the influence of falling james. he might also be responsible for courtney love turning out the way she did.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

No LOS DEL RIO???

(kidding.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I have the "Macarena" CD single (split with Scatman John, maybe?) in storage somewhere; probably have the Bayside Boys mix on some CD comp(s?) too. But the Los Del Rio album was nowhere near as good as the Los Del Mar one (which is indeed up above.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

when he came back, HE was wearing a dress, and he continued dressing that way for at least a couple years after that. beware the influence of falling james.

Contagious cross-dressing. I'm speechless.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

la barranca
la bruja
la castandeda
les baton rouge
les georges leningrad
les negresses vertes
les rythmes digitales
You really oughta move these off of your "L" shelf. Or is your "T" shelf really that big?

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

(I think we already delt with the foreign article question on the "A" thread. JD Considine approved of my filing method for those, but not for A Flock of Seagulls. Oh well. At least *I* know where to look.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Les George Leningrad another Montreal band, but skews more towards an L'Animal Collective feel than L'Arcade Fire.
I think I have a promo copy of one of their CDs (something about an Eskimo) but haven't had the motivation to put it on.
I still have some Lo-Fidelity twelve-inches gathering dust on one of my shelves, but I remember being underwhelmed by their debut.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

OMG!!
Why in the world would you have a La Castañeda album? Not even me!!
My God... They had the record of an extint radio station of the longest run in the chart of said station. They used to play (or so they said) a whole lot of mexican rock, that was their "intention" (I quote 'cause that didnt really happened). What a horrible, anachronic, boring band. Even if they have one or two touching and emotive songs their music and the voice of their singer(s)... agh.

Los De Abajo, loved in the world music, WOMAD, scene. Somehow, underated in their country. Just beloved among the very bizarre ska scene.

Why on earth does Mexico have such a heavy love for bands like Lacrimosa?????? I'll never understand it. I have no words for them.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been wondering about that last question myself -- The Mexican record stores in Queens have all kinds of Scandinavian goth metal bands on the shelves, it's crazy! Or maybe not crazy at all, seeing how bands like La Castandeda (*especially* La Castaneda) and even Caifanes sounded like Scandinavian goth metal before many Scandinavians did! (By "Scandinavian" here I mean, um, "Continental European." Larcrimosa might even be from Italy or somewhere; I forget. Lots of European goth metal comes from Romance-language countries, Moonspell from Portugal for instance. Not to mention, duh, Lacuna Coil from Italy. So there you go. Anyway, I think all of the bands I've mentioned in this post are not merely dark but also quite beautiful.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 2 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

(though unlike many if not most of the goth-metal scandinavians, caifanes and la casteneda also had some truly *rocking* tracks -- I think my favorite on the la casteneda album is "la fiebredenorma" or however they spell it.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 2 December 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Les Rhythmes Digitales did the excellent Darkdancer album back in '98. The guy behind it is Stuart Price, who, for better or worse, produced Madonna's latest album.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Max Steiner fans should search for Lo$ Umbrello$ "Obsession," which would be a more-goofy-than-sexy sex track except for the absolute gorgeous use of the "Theme from A Summer Place."

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I really love "Obsession" too!
My favorite Los Prisioneros track is the one that goes "Ba ba ba ba ba ba bababa" etc--is it called "Ba Ba Ba"? (I'm too lazy to check right now.) I like it more than "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da," but less than the 77s' "Ba Ba Ba Ba." (Maybe Prisioneros' is "Pa Pa Pa"?)
That Los Del Mar album I taped from the library; it always sounds good whenever I drag it out, but I can't remember that well what's on it. Don't they do "Oye Como Va"?
And Darkdancer's pretty good. I especially like that "Sometimes" song--nice chord progression there! I put that CD on overhead working late night at the book store once, and one of the ladies I was working with didn't like it at all--too repetitious. I think it gave her a "migraine."

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 3 December 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

The Prisioneros song is "Pa Pa Pa." And to chime in on the filing debate, I shelve them under "P" and consider myself correct. (Of course, the 77s should technically come before the "A"s, but I don't do that.)

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 3 December 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

No, no, no, 77s (whoever they are) belong in the "S"'s.

Los Del Mar (post-Lime Montreal Francodisco dude going "Latin" at least in the macarambo # 5 loco mia electrica salsa ba ba ba ba sense) does indeed cover "Oye Como Va."

― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

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

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

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

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