― Pop Ryan (Rebelwordsmith), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c770/c77004c7626.jpg
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand Beatnik Filmstars - In HospitalableBeatnik Filmstars - Boss DisqueGrifters - One Sock MissingBECK - Stereopathetic SoulmanureBECK - One Foot in the Grave
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)
― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)
― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)
Dude, I don't know, he was better off when Jim was, y'know, PRODUCING him. Eeek, hope you don't get an allergic reaction here.
So what constitutes Lo-Fi? Faux-four track or hit-the-button-record?
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)
I also thought of Will Oldham/Bonnie 'Prince' Billie. And Apples in Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control. All great lo-fi acts.
― Pop Ryan (Rebelwordsmith), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)
If not, Se[ntri|ba]doh.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)
― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)
Skullflower, Suckdog / Costes, Throbbing Gristle, Pussy Galore, The Fall, Olneyville Sound System, early Sonic Youth. Anybody remember Astoveboat?
Oddly enough, Kate Bush's The Cathy Demos is one of the most stunning lo-fi recordings evah.
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)
― maarten maes (dice collective), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)
Also, The Blow, although the stuff I like best by them/her is the most "produced," IOW Pure Aim: Love Songs, which lands in my top ten for the 2000's easy.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)
Temple of Bon Matin
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)
― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)
Nü-ILM is suking big time these days.
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)
and indeed it was, in an expensive professional multi-track studio, with professional studio musicians, using a professional recording engineer who'd worked with (among others) the smashing pumpkins.
which, i suppose in some alternate universe, is exactly the same as a kid in his bedroom with a cassette 4-track. but, you know, that's nitpicking, innit?
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)
On the whole, though, I'd go with Flying Saucer Attack too, since they came up with a sound that doesn't sound particularly limited by its recording process. They/he did a great job of designing a sound around the strengths of a 4-track.
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)
A lot of Asaurus label bands
and the best lo-fi band ever: THE SHAGGS: this mean lo-fi
― antonio navarro (elbuenvigia), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)
I can't believe it took 29 answers for someone to say Eric's Trip.If this was a top 100 all time best lo-fi bands and Eric's Trip came in at 29 then I'd say that's about right, maybe even a tad high. Then again, I've always enjoyed Elevator to Hell a bit more.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)
i do have a soft spot for Pavement's Westing though. Not soft mushy, more soft gently yielding.
― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)
― el buen vigia (elbuenvigia), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)
If so, I heard loads of it back in the late eighties and early nineties and there were only two bands that really floated my boat
The GriftersGuided By Voices (until and including Under the Bushes...)
Maybe Sebadoh started it but the pre Bakesale stuff was awful and the latter wasn't lo-fi
Some Peter Jefferies stuff was good lo-fi but he was not a band.
As much as I dug Polvo, they were not lo-fi to my ears
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)
― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)
I am temtped to say that if you claim to dig any lo-fi recordings but you don't like Sebadoh's "pre Bakesale stuff" then you don't really like lo-fi recordings. Of course, that's totally snobbish to say, but I've always considered Sebadoh to be one of the top three most definitive lo fi bands. Virtually all the "bedroom" indie from the late-80s on seems deeply influenced by "pre Bakesale" Sebadoh. That stuff was pop, noise, folk, and rock all at once.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)
I'm of the opinion that Sebadoh w/o Eric Gaffney wasn't all that hot. He made some of the most twisted lo-fi weirdness of the indie rock era.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)
...a whole heck of a lot of Shrimper, that's for sure.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)
― marbles (marbles), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)