The three Rs: Recent Rock Reissues

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Anything good? I got the Maypole vinyl reissue on Anopheles - Baltimore ca. 1970 heavy rock, not really "psych" per se or prog, but extended structures and vocal harmony. I'll say more when I listen to it again.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

The Cravats are being reissued! 2 CDs worth of dada punk tomfoolery coming out on Overground in the near future (or already out). Some weird omissions on the tracklist, skips the best track from "The End" single ("Burning Bridges", suckers) but includes both sides of the awesome "Precinct" 45. Also missing some tracks from the 1st LP. Regardless, I am buying this at the first opportunity.

Here's the full tracklist:

Off The Beach
Terminus
There Is No International Rescue
I Am The Dreg
Daddy's Shoes
Working Down Underground
Ice-cubists
Rub Me Out
Who's In Here With Me
Land Of The Giants
The Shroud Of New York (Volume 1)
The Station
Execute His Will
Still
Triplex Zone
You're Driving Me
XMP
Firemen
All On Standby
In Your Eyes
And The Sun Shone
Precinct
The Shroud Of New York (Chapter 2)
The Hole
When Will We Fall
Ceasing To Be
The End
Séance
Still
In Your Eyes
Tears On My Machine
I Hate The Universe

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Friday, 3 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Good stuff from the first round of anthologyrecordings.com reissues, and some of it's prev unreleased. I wrote about China Shop (NYC post-punk), on the future home of Ilxor, paperthinwalls.com (which also posted review of Anthology's Parson Sound disc, blanking on reviewer's name, which isn't mine, or would remember) Anthology, which sells by the track as well as album, so you can make your own Anthology anthology, also offers speedy protometal from Sainte Anthony's Fyre, protometal/scorched-earth postpsych from My Solid Ground, protopoppunk from Suicide Commandos (live in a bar), demos from Moondog (not the Viking, but Walter Schreifel's studio group, in between his Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand): frustrated (with self and other) punk-metal appeal (good bass, anyway), and other stuff. Next round incl. Yo Wah Ho 13's Penetration and Anonymous (said to be like Byrds x Airplane).And at some point, Traffic Sound, Totem, Joe Bataan, lots more.

― don (dow), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

I have never heard that live Suicide Commandos record! I have the Blank LP and the first 7". Cool.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

It's "a live recording of their last shows at the infamous Minneapolis' Longhorn Bar. Twin/Tone released The Suicide Commandos Commit Suicide Dance Concert as its first full-length LP in April of 1979(the double album Big Hits came out two weeks later)." Referring to Big Hits Of Mid-America Vol. III, with a couple of songs S.C. recorded for it. This live album "was pressed in a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies and to this day is one of the most sought after titles in collectors circles (Anthology Recordings will also reissue this record following the Make A Record release)." Not sure what that means, since this was the first round of reissues, but maybe it means that the live will come out as LP or CD after Make A Record does, cos apparently they're going to sell some hard copies as well as downloads, at some point.

― don (dow), Saturday, 4 November 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

But the vocals x low-fi tip the scales against it, cos to me he sounds kinda Billy Joe/Billy Joel, though I do like some Green Day, incl Green Day soundboard boots I've heard, with a better balance, so the voice isn't too close to dominant.

― don (dow), Saturday, 4 November 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

I sort of like these. Maybe I'll talk about them someday:

Dead Moon – Echoes of the Past (Sub Pop reissue)*
The Free Spirits – Out Of Sight And Sound (Sunbeam reissue)
Brush – Brush!? (Normal/Shaddoks Music reissue)

And oh yeah, Warpig! And Pentagram, duh...And probably some more.

* - actually, I reviewed this in Spin. But everybody already knows about it by now, I assume.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

and oh yeah, this (though i gotta say the first disc of it is WAY better than the second disc):

Incredible Bongo Band "Bongo Rock" reissue on Halloween

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

shit, not the first DISC - I mean the first ALBUM by them. (I'm tired and should go back to bed.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

And the Mott the Hoople and Cheap Trick and Public Image Ltd and Survivor and Loverboy and Bangles reissues this year were good, too.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

i've been wanting to start a thread like this for a while. i didn't, though.

Anonymous (said to be like Byrds x Airplane)

yeah, i never cared for them personally. jefferson airplane comparisons almost always mean uninteresting band, for some reason.

bought a few things on fallout - which i'm sure is in no way related to radioactive - that are good:

fields (formerly w.c. fields electric string band & ESB) - kinda overblown soulful cream-y blues/heavy rock stuff that manages to be not embarass itself with bad blueshammery.

thorinshield - hollywood studio project with some tangential sagittarius connection #12891020319. sometimes i think it's brilliant and moody and weird, other times it sounds too 'big' and drowns under strings/horns.

i'm dying to get the dead moon anthology. and that transmission ep.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 November 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Funny that Chuck should mention that Relapse Warpig reissue.
I'm setting up an interview with two of the members for an article with their hometown newspaper. One of the guys (the former bassist, I think) is a regular at the local open-stage jam nights.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm working on a piece on Pärson Sound/(International) Harvester/Träd, Gräs Och Stenar for the mag I edit. Anthology was supposed to send me that reissue as a CD-R, but hasn't yet. I gotta bug 'em again.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i can't even think of anything! i guess i haven't bought any reissues lately. or received any of note. last "recent" things i have bought would be sunbeam stuff. oriental sunshine vinyl and the fresh maggots cd with extra stuff on it. but they aren't really NEW, you know. i have bought lots of stuff that SHOULD be reissued though. i still have to go to the store and pick up that 2nd In-Kraut comp. they are holding it for me. i might pick up the new bigstar/bell vinyl reissues too since i no longer own the ryko CDs for some reason (must have sold them at some point of poverty).

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

( i feel kinda dumb buying the friggin' big star album for like the fourth time in my life though. i don't know why i can't hang on to a copy.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Not rock, but the 2nd Karen Dalton LP is finally getting reissued on LP this month.

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

I never heard the Cravats untill recently...Caroline True Records in the UK, who I met because they did some Nightingale's reissues and the Prefects live CD after Acute did the Prefects studio stuff, is putting out new Cravats stuff, featuring a collaboration with one of the guys from Orbital! Check it out on CTR's myspace page, pretty cool stuff.

Caroline True also have a CD coming out compiling one of my favorite forgotten post-punk bands, Manicured Noise.. For fans of Talking Heads, Josef K etc. Varying quality but worth it for including their only 2 singles ever at the least.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

I wrote about Wounded Bird reissues earlier this year. One would have to be nuts to pass up the first Point Blank record -- plus the price is right. The Brownsville Station WB's give you some to choose from too.

This Angel anthology also floated my boat. And The Left's 'Jesus Loves the Left' -- while in a completely different vein than Angel, was very good, putting their vinyl back into circulation via digital.

And I've also been listening to The Stray reissues. Maybe I'll even get around to writing about them. Definitely been high in the CD changer for the last couple of months. As far as Brit barrel-scraper 70's hard rock goes, they were even better than Stretch, another favorite. The Strapps first, which came in and out of print real fast in the last twelve months or so, would be worth combing through used bins for, particularly to those fans of the other two "Str-" bands. In this order: Stray-Stretch-Strapps.

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ehhh, that In-Kraut Vol.2 didn't get me like I hoped, Skot.Some faintly stodgy (maybe just too long) bites of Amerikaner R&B, but: the Deep Purple version would've been good for my high school marching band, and who knew James Last was capable of "Soul March," and Hildegarde Knef has a slighty surreal rant/pre-rap rap(but really just a plausible train of thought, in early 70s Germany, in the recent wake of Munich Olympics, Baader-Meinhof, feeling the breath of NYC from "across the shrinking ocean," and all: it's a summer song, yo). And there are few others I really like, maybe it'll grow on me some more.

― don (dow), Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

That Cravats reissue is great news! I only have a couple of 7"s, their albums tend to go for too much money.

Overground have been quite busy lately. A lot of classic anarcho punk reissues, here's hoping for Alternative, Six Minute War, Amebix (I think the early stuff pre-Arise is still out of print?) and Anti System...

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

october and november are killing me and my wallet. i'm broke as hell and i have no idea what i need to live... any opinions on these?

terry manning - home sweet home
dave waite & marianne segal - paper flowers (pre-[silver] jade)
andwella's dream - love and poetry
gudibrallan - t-doja
samla mammas manna - samla mammas manna, måltid
mighty baby - a jug of love
alan sorrenti - aria
penny nichols - penny's arcade
dilip roy - namaskaar

i'm pretty sure i have to get that terry manning - the samples i've heard are raw 60s swampy-psychy shit. pretty cool.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

that In-Kraut Vol.2 didn't get me like I hoped, Skot

Most of it was bad lounge music! Really disappointing. I did like like the cut with the rapping by the Nico-like lady, though. (I kind of hate Nico-like ladies in general, but they're fun when they rap!)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

hats off to Lawrence Hayward, for recently re-issuing the classic 1st Denim LP without the standard, pefunctory bonus tracks...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

the terry manning reissue is a gas. "home sweet home." he did it for enterprise, a stax imprint. it's somewhat like "strictly personal" crossed with the move, and a little like that first manfred mann record where they covered randy newman and dr. john. the 10-minute take on "savoy truffle" might be the best beatles cover i've ever heard; and you got to hear fritts-hinton's "choo choo train," all coitus interruptus drums and guitar riffs bouncing around. i'm really enjoying it.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

the first malory record. best slowdive ripoff ever?

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry but every time I read the title of this thread I want to say

REPETITION REPETITION REPETITION.

I feel so much better now. Please continue.

― Pump up the pumpkin, pump up the pumpkin dance dance (Bimble...), Sunday, 12 November 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's a reference from the band The Fall, don't trouble your head about it too much.

― Kid B (Bimble...), Monday, 13 November 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

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