― Mitchell Dickerman (Mr. Odd), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)
― keyth (keyth), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)
i think there are only 2 real gems on disc 4 - the ghost club and that king loser track
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)
― Mitchell Dickerman (Mr. Odd), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)
― keyth (keyth), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)
Lurv the Able Tasmans! Y'all should know about the 'new' album under the Humphreys & Keen moniker, available at CDBaby. Now if I could just track down the 3 tracks from their debut EP that were left off the _Cuppa Tea_ CD.
― Mitchell Dickerman (Mr. Odd), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)
Anyone know where I can get the Goblin Mix/Exploding Budgies CD ??
― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)
― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)
― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)
is graeme humphreys still a sports broadcaster?
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)
Disc 101 The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else02 The Gordons - Coalminers Song03 25 Cents - The Witch04 Pin Group - Ambivalence05 Bilders – Alien06 Bored Games - Joe 9007 The Stones - Something New08 Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For09 Naked Spots Dance - Governed By You10 The Victor Dimisch Band - Native Waiter11 Marie & the Atom – Isol12 Childrens Hour – Caroline's Dream13 Fetus Productions – What's Going On14 The Chills - Pink Frost15 The Rip - The Holy Room16 The Great Unwashed - Neck of the Woods17 The Verlaines - Pyromaniac18 Expendables - The Man With No Desire19 Doublehappys - Needles & Plastic20 Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies - Randolph's Going Home
Disc 201 Tall Dwarfs - Crush02 The Exploding Budgies - Kenneth Anger03 Alpaca Brothers – Hey Man04 Axemen – The Wharf With No Name05 The Weeds - Wheatfields06 Dead Famous People - Barlows House07 The Orange – What's In A Name08 Goblin Mix - Travelling Grave09 This Kind Of Punishment - Immigration Song10 Sneaky Feelings - Trouble With Kay11 Bird Nest Roys - Jaffa Boy12 The Bats - North By North13 Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie - Thief With The Silver14 Jay Clarkson - The Boy With The Sad Hands15 The Cakekitchen - Dave The Pimp16 Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer17 The Terminals - Batwing18 Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway19 Snapper - Buddy20 Stephen - Don't Know Why21 The Dead C - Scarey Nest22 S.P.U.D. - Breakdown Town
Disc 301 Sombretones - Good Evening Listeners02 Chris Knox - Meat03 Headless Chickens – Gaskrankinstation04 Queen Meanie Puss - Contracts05 Olla – Skeptic Hagfish06 N.R.A. - Glitch07 Chug - Flowers08 Skeptics – Sheen Of Gold09 The Magick Heads – The Back Of Her Hand10 Dribbling Darts – Hey Judith11 The Renderers – Touch Of Evil12 JPS Experience – Bleeding Star13 Pop Art Toasters - What Am I Doing14 3Ds - Philadelphia Rising15 Dimmer - Crystalator16 Alec Bathgate - Pet Hates17 Rik Starr - A Sort Of Holiday18 Garageland - What Will You Do?19 Bailter Space - Splat20 Able Tasmans - Klingon National Anthem
Disc 401 Superette - Saskatchewan02 Loves Ugly Children - Suck03 David Mitchell & Denise Roughan - Crying Room04 Solid Gold Hell - Country Sow05 King Loser – '76 Comeback06 Bike - Save My Life07 David Kilgour - Chop Me In 1/208 Bressa Creeting Cake - Rocky Mountain09 Chris Heazlewood - Surf's Up In Malibu10 Martin Phillipps - Evermore11 The Hasselhoff Experiment - Brown Paper Bag12 Ghost Club - Ghost Club Theme Song13 Betchadupa - Spill The Light14 Robert Scott - Harmonic Deluxe15 The Subliminals - Uh-Oh16 High Dependency Unit - Schallblüte17 Graeme Downes - Cattle, Cars & Chainsaws18 The Shocking Pinks - Emily19 The D4 – Sake Bomb!20 The Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!21 Toy Love - Rebel
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)
sometimes they went with the obvious choice and sometimes not. this is like the 5th comp the 'randolph's going home' has been on, sure it's amazing but maybe denise roughan's 'to sleep, to dream' instead. i've always wanted that orange ep.
the humphreys/keen record sounds just like an able tasmans record! i suppose that's about right since all of them had a hand in it.
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)
1. Flesh it out with some more great tracks by the Clean (easy to do), Verlaines, Bird Nest Roys, Chills, "Future Shock" by the Gordons, etc. etc.2. Now, we stray off topic with regards to it being Flying Nun exclusively,but we're talking CD-R's, so let's say the Shallows single and some of Roy Montgomery'stellar solo work, and Trash's "On and On With Lou Reed"3. Throw in some of the great punk stuff featured on "AK 79" (which FN DID reissue, so fair game, right?) like Proud Scum's "Suicide", the Terrorways and the Scavengers. Also add some other tracks by the Spelling Mistakes and the Nocutrnal Projections. If someone is really an insider. then throw in some unrelased tracks by the Enemy.4. Finally, add some of the Xpressway releases from 1988-92 like the Plagal Grind EP , Dead C's "Sun Stabbed" 7, and the Carter-Jefferies 7"".
But again, this would not be a celebration of Flying Nun, per se, but it would be a great overview of the NZ scene at that time.
― Max Hechter (Max), Saturday, 6 January 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)
Garageland sucks though :P
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)
Other interesting notes:The Puddle don't show up on a single Flying Nun compilation. Draw your own conclusions."Randolph's Going Home" actually is on just 3 comps."Not Given Lightly" is on 5. And it deserves it."Suck" by Loves Ugly Children is also on 5. I think it's a top tune, but c'mon...The Bats lead the way with 14 unique tracks represented.
The only comp I couldn't find that I really wanted was _Outnumbered By Sheep_. If anyone has a vinyl rip to trade, lemme know.
And I passed on the two _Freak The Sheep_ comps, those look clearly second-tier. Anyone have an opinion of them?
― Mitchell Dickerman (Mr. Odd), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)
― Mitchell Dickerman (Mr. Odd), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)
Scott, box set isn't really that bad, & there's interesting/"interesting" stuff that people wouldn't put on their own box sets for you (NRA! Rik Starr! Naked Spots Dance!) on there.
― etc (esskay), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)
― willem -- (willem), Monday, 8 January 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)
― willem -- (willem), Monday, 8 January 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)
Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits Documentary in 9 parts:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sjUDemQFznA
― will, Monday, 25 June 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago)
thanks for that.
really drives home how great the fits were before Andrew Brough left and how rubbish they were after that. squandered your opportunities there, shane.
― good dog, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago)
I'm still loving this box set. I need to step up my defense of disc 4 - where's the weak tracks here? Both Superette (with sort of a poppy Sonic Youth vibe) and Bike's (the good part of Straitjacket Fits, all soaring melodies and guitar wash) only albums are absolute classics. There are a few tracks that are far and away the best thing done by the band ("Suck" by Loves Ugly Children is a model for quiet/loud/quiet songs and The Subliminals "Uh-Oh" is a totally addictive early Stereolab-like groove with a hiccuping vocal that sticks in your head) and the King Loser track is perfect Kiwi surf-rock. The Mint Chicks track, with it's driving, martial drumming just begs for repeat plays, even the D4 track is a short burst of pure punk that does it's job and leaves. The experimental soundscape from Robert Scott isn't killer but it fits well. Even the stuff from otherwise uninteresting Betchadupa and Hasselhoff Experiment are solid. Too bad Flying Nun is just a barely animated corpse these days.
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago)
why so much time on the headless chickens? sure they were the biggest selling band but that doesn't mean they were not wretched. martin phillipps new job is to cry all the time. some of the guys seem pretty bitter. of the top ten straitjacket fits songs andrew brough probably wrote five or six of them. that atmospheric melodic noise he made in the background left with him and it's why 'blow' blew.
― keythkeyth, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago)
Just to re-bump this: Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits Documentary also available here now (in 6 parts - quality may be better than the youtube version):
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/heavenly-pop-hits-the-flying-nun-story-2002
This documentary tells the story of the legendary Flying Nun music label up to its 21st birthday. The label became associated with the 'Dunedin Sound': a catch-all term for a sprawl of DIY, post-punk, warped, jangly guitar-pop. The Guardian: "[it's] as if being on the other side of the world meant the music was played upside down". Features interviews with key players, the spats and the dark-but-breezy glory. The label's influence on the US indie scene is noted and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus covers The Verlaines' 'Death and the Maiden'.
― Bill E, Friday, 11 September 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago)
i dug that doc
one of the things i really love about FN is that there never seemed to be a cult of personality around the people who ran it, unlike many/most highly influential labels.
― surfin on my face (electricsound), Friday, 11 September 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago)
That documentary rules.
The cheapest way to the box is to check it out from the Auckland library for two dollars.
(note to self: always be in New Zealand)
― CharlieS, Friday, 11 September 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah Roger is a thoroughly down to earth bloke, apparently looking to get FN back from the clutches of Mushroom, so rumour has it, so a relaunch may be possible in the near future. xpost
― Bill E, Friday, 11 September 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago)
This Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeneyedowl/ is amazing -- tons of awesome FN-related posters and news clippings.
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago)
Ha, I just noticed that as well!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago)
There's a Verlaines review where the writer calls the FN guitar sound dated -- and this is from 1983!
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago)
That comp really should have something off Scorched Earth Policy's first 12" EP. Maybe "Green Cigar" or "Too Far Gone." Near the top of the (very high) early 80s NZ heap.
― Michael Train, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago)
Just release a box set of the first 60 singles like Cherry Red did.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, and I've long thought there should be a box in which was found cd-5 repros of the first ten to 15 12" EPs. in minimal cardboard sleeves if that's what it took. But who wouldn't want the Clean, Gordons, Scorched Earth Policy, Orange, Max Block, Bored Games, Alpaca Brothers, Children's Hour, Plagal Grind, Pin Group, and Stones? Yeah, I know, that's eleven, and probably not the first eleven at that, but you get the point...Through in Ballon d'essai, Marie and the Atom, the Rip, and the Bird Nest Roys and you'd have fifteen.
Probably too elaborate a concept. Maybe just go your Cherry Red route and fill up four cds that way.
― Michael Train, Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago)
man, it's too late for copy-editing. "Throw in"