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

SUPERBEES, it should be, not SUGERBEES.

And Jacobites

Scrawl I always appreciated more than loved, but I think I might be missing something as a result.

Six by Seven are top of the line candidates in my Truly Amazing Bands Nobody Noticed list.

Azalia Snail's way cool, very friendly and puts on good shows.

More could be said but I'm still waking up.

This is the Scrawl album I still have; a helpful sort of career retrospective, though I'm pretty sure the tracks from their Rough Trade records (maybe half of the album or so?) are re-recorded:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g7o20r1ay48c

Best song: "11:59: It's January," up there with "The Ice of Boston" by Dismemberment Plan and, um, "Dominance and Submission" by Blue Oyster Cult, I guess, as one of the best songs ever written about New Year's Eve. I also remember liking Scrawl's first album *Plus Also Too* way back when, though I haven't heard it in years. They could have afforded to be less unpretentious, but they were good at it.

Scrawl - I miss 'em.

Was Snake River Conspiracy the kinda industrial band from the late '90s? I think I have a cassingle from them around here somewhere...

As for Sawyer Brown, I'm kinda surprised that there's no love on ILM. Just kinda assumed that's in the canon...
And Wayne Shorter? Christ, for Moto Grosso alone he deserves a love fest.

But Switchfoot? Aren't they the Christian punks? Eh. Weak.

Is the Sodahberk a full length or EP CD? The Partying Without Inhibition... EP has a nice (title?) track of minimal techno with dirty vocals that's more four-on-floor clubby than his other less-focused blip stuff on tigerbeat 6, etc.

-Chris

sirens: from detroit; not at all like heart. big-boot stomping glam, like if gore gore girls traded in their supremes and sonics albums for slade and suzi quatro albums. one of the best guitar rock albums of 2005 (though i guess it probably technically came out in 2004).

stun gun: also from detroit, more like heart than the sirens are. had she already eaten mexican food when she offered to blow you?

spiders: not japanese; from southern california, maybe, i think? at least two really good '00s hard rock albums. frank kogan wrote about them here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0349,kogan,49145,22.html

switchfoot: yeah, christians. no, not punks. depressive but anthemic soft rock, really. in fact they do early u2 better than u2 have in decades, to my ears. maybe also toss in some counting crows.

sodahberk: the one i have on my shelf is a full-length, *don't want you to know* from 2002. I heard *unfortunately* a couple years later, and like it ok but not as much; I think I may still have it in a storage garage somewhere. Never knew there was an EP in between.

the scene is now: wow. wish i could reprint the review of their retrospective album i wrote for l.a. weekly a decade or more ago, but it ain't handy. they could be really beautiful, and really weird, and open to the Latin rhythms you apparently used to hear floating out of doors on the Lower East Side. Totally beatniks, but somehow not totally annoying about it. Much more loveable (because more melodic and less didactic, I guess) than Mofungo, who were also pretty good. And if you like Scrawl, there is no reason you should not totally love "Finding Someone to Take Care of You." Maybe frank kogan or douglas wolk will show up to explain them more. (Actually, I think Frank wrote once that The Scene is Now made no wave happy in the way Shonen Knife made punk happy, or something like that. Does that help?)

Is this the live set that was recorded at Tonic a couple years back? I was at one of those shows. Braxton was great, though I felt like Smith wasn't really listening to him. He seemed intent on doing his own thing, and it seemed like they didn't find much common ground. But maybe the other sets were better.

And yeah, the Smith and Braxton CD was recorded at Tonic in 2003.

-Chris

Sirens -- yeah, not Heart-like at all. Stomping pop glam and they basically do all covers, a suprising thing which made their CD as xhuxk said.

SVT -- San Francisco hard rock group reissued on Ryko this year. Featured the bass player from Hot Tuna, which originally got them noticed along with the line that they were inspired by punk rock and new wave. They didn't sound punk rock or new wave. Crashing hard rock, short on pop hooks.

Sheavy -- Canadian stoner band with a singer who is a dead ringer for Ozzy. Excellent in the manner of Count Raven. Three or four CDs, all about the same quality. Making better Black Sabbath records than Iommi makes solo albums, or something like that.

Sex Slaves -- gutter hard rock from NYC. The album I just heard has them in the course of it going from Rancid-like singalong punk about the joys of being with the boys to poppy hard glam rock. There is even a fairly good really hard "country" tune on it.

Solitude Aeturnus -- Texas doom metal band. Best record is appropriately called Downfall, I think.

Sea of Green -- Canadian stoner metal band that did not sound like Black Sabbath. Performed and recorded an excellent version of "Breathe."

Slunt -- NYC hard rock outfit with two girls who played on their heavy slut image, real or imagined. Good version of "Never Say Never," some tunes sounding guitar-wise like AC/DC. Toured with Motorhead so they must be pretty tough.

Skyclad -- Jethro Tull, sans flute, does thrash metal. Very Celtic. Fans of the Dropkick Murphys would like them if they weren't hung up things not orthodox punk rock.

Sloth. There's more than one of them. Which is it? The one I've heard is in the stoner metal scene and were Brits. Fair.

Silvertide -- Philly hard rock band who look like the walked off the set of a Guns 'n' Roses video shoot. Good debut album on a major, excellent song, "California Rain," which may make my P&J singles list. But may not, too, can't tell quite yet. Ask in a week.

Scrawl=classic.

And damn, Chuck, saying Scrawl "could have been
less pretentious" is like saying Motorhead "could have rocked a little harder", or somethin'.

Slunt's "Get a Load of This:" "Waiting for You," way heavy Joan Jett & the Blackhearts mimicry, "OK OK" -- AC/DC cop (good). Record-ending metal tune sung by silly girls about their cat, which is allegedly a "carpet-munching" fag.

OTM. Their most recent (and final) album is a cinch for my top 20 albums of the year.

Sensational is one of my favourite ever hip-hop artists. I cannot confirm that "Drop It Like It's Hot" was the Neptunes' attempt to blatantly rip him off.

Which SuperCollider?

The Supercollider from L.A. in the early 90s on Emigre records?

..or the late 90s electronic Super_collider, feat. Jamie Lidell?

Supercollider: king of the overlooked

Didn't even know there was another one out there.

Scatman John RIP.

Stun Gun: Yeah, this was after they'd eaten. I worked at said Mexican restaurant at the time. I think the evening ended with a lot of drunken vomiting. More Heart-like? They must have changed since then (but that was probably six or seven years ago). I know that they were at least marginally related to Queen Bee.

I won't ask whether the blowjob would have been after the vomiting.

1) If the Stalk-Forrest Group album had come out and been even semi-popular, they might have continued as the Stalk-Forrest Group and would possibly have never made the decision to become a heavy metal band. How would metal history have turned out differently if there had been no B.O.C.?

2) Given the strong Meltzer presence, the album might have been looked at as a significant proto-punk album. If punk had meant not just "Stooges/NY Dolls/etc." but also "Stalk-Forrest Group" in more people's minds in the seventies, would punk have turned out differently?

i'm not sure if i've ever heard the scene is now, but their "yellow sarong" is a favorite from yo la tengo's covers album fakebook.

stereo total could be somewhat annoying over the course of an entire album, but as lo-fi synthpop bands go, they had their moments of spectacularity, including but not limited to their cover of "push it" and "holiday innn." or, come to think of it, about a dozen other songs i could name. they were a charming-as-hell live band, too, and maybe they still are.

switchfoot's "meant to live" was one of my favorite songs of 2004 (or whatever year it came out). a quite effective nirvana clone single. like many bands with both mainstream and christian followings, they're somewhat reluctant to talk about the christian thing in public.

when you say strines, you don't mean the nyc band with the australian chick singer that my friend chris played with until a few months ago, or do you?

Yeah, xhuxk will answer, but that sounds like them. Pretty good power poppy and glam rock act, at least by the CD. The only duff moment was a cover of Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" which they didn't do so well. I thought the cover art was also done by someone Frank Zappa used to employ.

My all-time favorite Scrawl album, top-to-bottom, is Smallmouth. Ten perfect tracks, no waiting.

& I forgot to list Slojack at the top of this thread, for some reason.

i've obviously got one of his others. it's also got lots of electronics but is very noisy and intense (i think he recorded it in a couple of days, after he split up with his girlfriend who cheated on him with his best friend, or something). saw him live once; was great. very loud and energetic. he played guitar ánd played some sort of electronic percussion with his knees over beats from a minidisc-player. i always thought boyracer were better in theory than in practice; their songs just aren't catchy enough.

have got loads of six. by seven albums and eps and singles (the dot's there on purpose). lovely moody stuff. seemed to do everything in their power to fuck up any commercial potential they had.

oh, and stereo total rules!

Actually, this IS the one I have! *Horslaugh on My Ex*! But being noisy and intense (not to mention a breakup album) doesn't make it not pretty or funny. Though maybe I just thought the glitchy itchy *noise* was funny? It's got a pink cardboard cover. It actually made my pazz & jop ballot the year it came out:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/01/critic.php?criticid=132

Bbut I haven't played it much in the last couple years (thin sleeve, so I forget it's there!); I should pull it out and give it a listen.

Funny way to identify him. I liked the singing, songs, and chord patterns more from the other famous band he was in. Funkiest of the nonfunk bassplayers (though the few SVT tracks I heard didn't move me all that much, way back when, but I only heard them once.)

Slojack -- manly gay metal rock and roll band from LA. First album, Naked is best but Can't Get There From Here, their last is more than acceptable. Great live band with terrific lead guitarist (who started in Yipes, an old New Wvey-style bar band from somewhere in the midwest), Slojack was always stuck playing dives mired in atrocious five band bills. Moved to San Francisco at one point. Didn't make much headway, as far as I could tell. The singer, Eddie Fritz, told me once he was inspired by Brian Grillo of Extra Fancy. However, Slojack sounded nothing like EF.

Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns made the happiest music I have ever heard. I must go listen to "Lil Liza Jane" right now.

My adoration for Azalia Snail is pretty well documented, given that I've put out half a dozen or so of her records. Just heard the new album, "Avec Amour," which I think she's put out herself--so gorgeous!

oh, absolutely. just got a bit confused by the mention of 'folk'. played it, for the first time in ages, this morning. in the first few songs he samples the jam's modern world ánd 99 luftballons ánd that happy song the philipino-program who use the local-community-radiostation-studio before me on mondaynight almost always play (when nót playing the south-east-asian equivalent of whitney houston, obviously)... it *is* very fun.
did you know that stewart, when not touring the world with boyracer, works on a ranch in arizona? driving cattle. maybe even whilest riding on horse. i don't think there are many sarah records-alumni you can say that of...

revive

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

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