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

They were unfairly lumped in with the hair-metal scene, but none of the guys wore makeup, wear anything too flashy, nor were they particularly good looking.

"Little Suzie's on the Up"

Do you mean That Dog? Weren't they on 4AD for a bit.

*total coelo**

Do you mean Toto Coelo? Had a hit with the ridiculous I Eat Cannibals in 1982-ish. Wasn't Carrie of BBC's Fame Academy in them?

I eat cannibal, feed on animal
Your love is so edible to me, I eat cannibals
I eat cannibal, it's incredible
You bring out the animal in me, I eat cannibals

What can you do, you're in a stew
Hot pot, cook it up, I'm never gonna stop

Fancy a bite, my appitite, Yum, yum, gee it's fun
Banging on a different drum

I Eat Cannibal, feed on animal
Your love is so edible to me, I eat cannibals
I eat cannibal, it's incredible
You bring out the animal in me, I eat cannibals

I like spice, tasty and nice
Looks trim, vitamin, forget the dieting
Mmm such a dish, I can't resist
Healthy recipe, what you got it's good for me

Yeah, That Dog, like I said. Their Minneapolis, Long Island, and bound and tied songs (and the album those are on) are best.

And yeah, Toto Coelo, sorry. (I will not link to the Voice's current cannibalism s&m fetish cover story, though that Thanksgiving dinner picture is pretty wacky.)

They were Finns who tried to sound Scandinavian. "Upside Down" is merely OK. "Don't Turn Back" is scrumptious. (Those are singles. Haven't heard their album(s).) I think you were the person who sent me them.

http://www.birdmanrecords.com/gfx/otha2.jpg

(I also have a VHS tape of that goat movie, but it's in storage. Isn't the deal that he would throw a huge goat barbecue every year, and he would slaughter the goats himself before cooking 'em all up?)

It IS Treponem (not Tremponem) Pal, though.

The Theoretical Girls was the band formed by Jeffrey Lohn, Glenn Branca, Wharton Tiers and Margaret DeWyss. They were the prime representative of the Soho No Wave bands. Thurston Moore said they weren't on No New York because none of them would fuck Lydia Lunch. Original plans for No New York included other bands like Rhys Chatham's the Gynaecologists but in the end they just went with the 4 "east village" bands. The Theoretical Girls had 1 single, with Lohn's U.S. Millie on the one side and Branca's You Got Me on the other side. They are both totally classic. Also on the CD are some seminal NYC guitar noise tracks, some of which feature proto-Sonic Youth guitar sounds, while some are just cool punk/rock songs. Unfortunately the quality isn't that great, so you really have to turn up the volume on tracks like Europe Man to really rock out. It's also the first CD I released and deserves to get mentioned more on ILM, and elsewhere. Just blast Loving in the Red, it's criminal they didn't release that in 1978 or so.

I still know all the words to Tin Huey's lone LP. I bought the much-delayed followup CD, but most of it was a lot more bland than "Contents Dislodged..."

I'm also somewhat of a fan of Transglobal Underground, an attempt to fuse electronic beats with middle-eastern vocalizing (courtesy of Natasha Atlas) and ragga toasting (which doesn't always work.)

Tsar -- Hollywood glam pop band, led by a UCSB graduate. I was kind of tough on their debut on Hollywood. Now they disclaim that record. Band-Girls-Money came out on TVT earlier this year. It's pretty good,
rocks hard and fast throughout.

Thor -- here's what I said.

http://www.thorcentral.com/mp_redesign/images/news/villagevoicenov05.jpg

xhuxk, the Voice's web boffins are up to mischief-making again or I would've posted the direct link. They've done something so that Google returns only the most recent reference, which because of the way things work quickly becomes NOT the reference one is searching for...In this instance, I got Joe Perry in place of the ref for Thor.

I remember when I had a zine getting a Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts disc to review and really not liking it, but I've changed my mind on a lot of things since then... Maybe I should give them another listen (though I sold the disc years ago. Had some black and white tennaments on it, I think).

To Roccoco Rot: They were trip-hoppish, right? Hmm... I remember them from somewhere, but can't place it. It's possible that I've confused their stuff with the reformed 23 Skidoo album...

Thundertrain -- raw Boston rocking metal band with an early Aerosmith look. I don't remember what the original lable was but was reissued on Gulcher and it's still as rare as hen's teeth. Kind of in the same time frame as Bux and Reddy Teddy.

To Rococo Rot I know only from their work with Saint Etienne on Sound of Water.

So, wait, does this mean that one of DNA (Robin Crutchfield, Ikue Mori, Arto Lindsay) did fuck Lydia Lunch?

That's about the sum total of my knowledge, ther.

Gloria Trevi's website seems to be down, I was always curious about what her records sounded like, given the uh, "interesting" history there.

That's about all I've got on this lot.

Yeah, that's their debut, and their best album. The subsequent two (now in the storage garage in Bucks County, PA) were pretty good, too.

And George, I will ask the techies here what is up; thanks

To rococo rot: Not really trip-hoppish; more, um, proto-microhaus-ish, maybe? With some broken-beat-ishness thrown in, perhaps? But I have never been all that great at electronic subgenre classification. I would just call them "palindrome techno," but people might get mad.
*Music Is a Hungry Ghost* is the album I have, but didn't they also do a decent collaborative CD with i-sound? Or was that somebody else?

The one time I saw Rachid Taha live, he rocked like a motherfucker. I've never seen the Libertines, but I can't imagine they do the same.

You'll have to ask them.

templeton, them ranch, and tarantula hawk never did much for me.

i have a record by the the 60's band T.I.M.E. but i don't know if it's the same band.

*Music Is A Hungry Ghost* is the album they did with I-Sound.

The Tough and Lovely are a relatively young garage band outta Ohio, I think. Saw them live once, and they were pretty good.

i've got two songs of theirs, "down the road i go" and "tunnel of tomorow," on a monster comp that, if memory serves, came with martin popoff's seventies guide, and both are pretty damn good.

otm

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09fqxqrhldde

Tarantel are one of the most boring live bands I've ever seen.

Two ex members of Ten Benson were at my wedding! Their song "Tits" is quite good.

That Dog was Petra Haden's band, her dad's Charlie Haden and her brother's Josh Haden from the band Spain. I think they were in Sassy magazine a lot.

I still regret selling my copy of Thor's "Unleashed" or whatever it was called, but luckily I still have the live concert from the Camden Palace I taped off "Cue The Music" (this will mean nothing to non-Brits). There's about 3 people there and the theatrical stage show looks like it cost about £2.50.

To Rococo Rot were way better than Kreidler, Tarwater et al, on their early records at least. I got the feeling their later releases descended into Tortoise-isms but I'm willing to be disproved (maybe by, er, hearing them).

Twisted Roots was Paul "then-husband of Black Flag's Kira" Roessler's band. Another pile of shit on SST I bought for £1, played once then gave away.

(this is now a rude x-post)

Well...I don't know if bands like Tarentel (or To Rococo Rot or Tarwater or, uh, even Isis, who I saw once, at Bowery Ballroom, and I had trouble staying awake) are *meant* to be seen. Heck, they're barely even meant to be paid attention to. For the most part, it's usually hard for me to imagine their music is even made by actual human beings, to be honest. It just sorta *exists*. But that doesn't mean they're not nice to play in the background while doing stuff.

Keep the Dogs Away! I do believe from what you are describing that most, if not all, of this is now on An-Thor-Logy -- which I again recommend. About a third of it seems to be taken from a variety of bits broadcast on Brit TV. In any case, the pleasantly cheesy video for "Keep the Dogs Away" is also priceless.

xhuxk, are you saying that Tarwater et al are basically Kenny G?

xp

That Thor DVD, on the other hand, is as hilarious as George says, and it's not just a novelty -- the songs rock, they're totally catchy. Thor means way more to me now than Tarentel or Tarwater ever will.

I really like Tizzy--smart fun la-la indiepop stuff.

Let's not forget Anna Warnoker, daughter of Warner exec and producer Lenny and brother of Beck drummer Joey. She's also married to Redd Kross's Steve McDonald. Retreat From The Sun was a great, hooky album if you like that kind of thing.

Tin Huey - gets plenty of love from me around these parts.

Temper Temper - got several of their singles, late 80s/early 90s, always to be found going for peanuts in the bargain bins on the week of release - a lot of misfired record company hype going on there. They had a gorgeous old-school big production soul ballad called "Like We Used To", which tore me apart. The singer continued as a rather average UK commercial house diva... Melanie someone.

Couldn't get on with the Toiling Midgets at all... quickly scampered back to the safety of solo Eitzel instead.

Trans-Global Underground were The Future Of Music in a couple of UK style mags for about five minutes in, ooh, about 1989-90, but "Templehead" is a downtempo dance classic and they made a good album. Singer Natasha Atlas ploughs a respectable world/fusion furrow to this day.

Unfortunately, I think he's inconsistent live. The Live album is wonderful, and his third of the "1, 2, 3 Soleils" album is even better, and the one time I saw him he was a great showman and very entertaining. However. If he could ever sing as strongly live without electronic assistance as he does on the studio releases, he sure couldn't when I saw him. He has muscular dystrophy, which clearly affects his performance at times, and it may be getting worse as he ages. And maybe drugs/alcohol (he's a pretty traditional rock star kind of artist). Anyway, on his tour this year there were apparently more meltdowns than triumphs. The band is always tight, though.

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