Barbara Manning - C/D

CLASSIC!

Where do you find this btw?

I got my copy on eBay but Mod Lang has it cheap.

i'm curious now...

Love the Lately I Keep Scissors / One Perfect Green Blanket CD, not so keen on 1212 or SF Seals really. Would you say this box is just for completists?

huge fan of 1212

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where can you get the box set other than ebay? doesn't seem to be on amazon ... i really liked I Keep Scissors, but lost my copy of it a while back.

totally rules, esp the in NZ ep! class act all around. "aramoana" is such a tight jam.

"end of the rainbow cover" on 1212 is v v good.

um move cover out of quotes blah blah

and, um, classic! at least for that particular record. Haven't heard everything she's done, though. Wasn't nuts about 1212, liked some of the SF Seals stuff (I still have that baseball-themed 7 inch). Seem to recall that her tune on the No Alternative comp was ace too. Though now it seems weird that she was on that! And I don't have it but i remember liking the NZ ep with the Clean peeps. Nice cover of "Everything I Do Is Right"

If you've already got the CD two-fer with Scissors / Blanket, the box is really for completists. I think AmazonUK has it listed, check the usual suspects - Darla, Mod Lang, Aquarius, etc.

Bab's has stray tracks and guest appearances all over the place and they're all wonderful. She does a cover of The Fall's "Paintwork" that is totally worthy. And her appearances on David Kilhour's Heavy Eights record is great as is JC Hopkins -Athens By Night-.

Is there any way to get the World of Pooh stuff yet?

Could someone please supply a track listing, so I can see how completist I actually is / be?

No CD reissue for World Of Pooh yet, sadly. Rumored to be in the works.

Lazy sods! The track listing is on Amazon.co.uk, title is "Super Scissors".

World Of Pooh comp was delayed by Brendan, no fault of the person trying to put it out.

Ha - thank you for putting a foot up my ass, Mr. Odd! For other lazy fuckers:

Disc: 1
1. Scissors
2. Breathe Lies
3. Somewhere Soon
4. Talk All Night
5. Make It Go Away
6. Never Park
7. Every Pretty Girl
8. Mark E. Smith & Brix
9. Something You've Got (Isn't Good)
10. Prophecy Written

Disc: 2
1. Straw Man
2. Smoking Her Wings
3. Don't Rewind
4. Sympathy Wreath
5. Green
6. Lock Your Room (Uptight)
7. Someone Wants You Dead
8. Sympathy Wreath (Demise) Or ODE2WOP
9. Walking After Midnight
10. Green Home (Demo Version)
11. I Wish I Could Tour
12. Cheap Holiday Song
13. Lock Your Room (Uptight) (Home Demo Version)
14. For Pity's Sake (Live)
15. On on and One (Live)
16. Winter Song (Live)
17. Optimism Is It's Own Reward (Radio Session)

Disc: 3
1. Scissors (Acoustic)
2. Make It Go Away
3. Every Pretty Girl
4. Mark E. Smith & Brix (Alternate Version)
5. Something You've Got Isn't Good (Acoustic)
6. Prophecy Written (Electric Version)
7. Wires Cages Fences and Gates (Without Drums)
8. My Name Is Not
9. Song for Trish
10. Someone Wants You Dead (Acoustic)
11. Make It Go Away (Alternate Version)
12. Wires Cages Fences and Gates (With Drums)
13. On on and One (Home Demo)
14. Reverse Disguise (Home Demo)
15. Scissors (I've Been Working on the Railroad) (Home Demo)

I really like her previous rarities collection (the great Verlaines track is compiled on there.) The two SF Seals records are amazing (except for that nine minute noise thing on the first one.) I like 1212, but I actually prefer the tracks after the Arsonist suite on that record.

The only meh thing she did was that Sings With The Original Artists thing which I just couldn't get into.

JOED OUT!!!!!

I think one of my earliest NYLPM posts was all about comparing 2 Verlaines songs she covered (that one, & one off of Over the Moon).

I love the Bats' cover too! B4 WE GO UNDER!

To counter act the two "meh" votes for Original Singers, I'll go on record as liking it (tho, to be honest, I haven't listened to BM in a looooooong time).

David - you're welcome. Now I have to wash my foot.

Alex - I concur about -Original Artists-. I pulled it out recently and it still is just "meh". Oh, and "B4 We Go Under" is a Magick Heads song, beautiful it is.

What's the other Verlaines cover? Her kiwi pals say nice things about her in the -Super Scissors- liner notes.

The only side project I couldn't stand was Glands Of External Secretions. Noise stuff, not my scene.

"Oh, and "B4 We Go Under" is a Magick Heads song, beautiful it is."

Same diff.

Are her singles on that rarities comp? I wish they were on this box, there were a couple of good ones (a split with Glands etc iirc, plus the one on Forced Exposure and another one).

Pretty classic, my favorite in the In New Zealand record but I like it all. There was also at least one excellent live torrent floating around that had some good cover tunes incl. Tom Lehrer and Amon Duul.

From her myspace site:

Now that Barbara is back in California, she finished a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. She hopes that having a "real" job will enable her to continue her passion of making music. She plays solo and with other local heros in her current home town of Chico California. check out her website at: barbaramanning.com

The discography on her barbaramannning.com website is from 2005

http://cdbaby.com/cd/manningbarbara

That's a good deal.

would anyone really say dud?

the SF Seals are amazing.

One of my favorite songwriters ever. And one of the best songs-by-other-people-coverers around, too.

There's a great cover of "Crazy Man Michael" in the most recent ish of Ptolemaic Terrascope.

Classic (duh).

Playlist from the homemade 2 disc career-spanning retrospective I put together shortly after the box set came out:

Disc 1: Isn't Lonely Lovely?

1 These Days / BM / Under One Roof: Singles & Oddities
2 Patience Is Gone / BM / In New Zealand
3 Talk All Night / BM / Lately I Keep Scissors
4 Every Pretty Girl / BM / Super Scissors Box Set Disc 3
5 Blood of Feeling / BM / Under One Roof: Singles & Oddities
6 Something You've Got Isn't Good (Acoustic) / BM / Super Scissors Disc 3
7 Wire Cages Fences & Gates (w/o Drums) / BM / Super Scissors Disc 3
8 Scissors (Acoustic) / BM / Super Scissors Disc 3
9 Never Park / BM / Lately I Keep Scissors
10 Joed Out / BM / No Alternative
11 Winter Song / SF Seals / Nowhere
12 When I Dream / BM / Sings with the Original Artists
13 Cake Walking / BM / Under One Roof: Singles & Oddities
14 Life/Luck / BM & the Go-Luckys! / Homeless Where the Heart Is
15 Hide Your Love Away / BM / Under One Roof: Singles & Oddities
16 Whatever I Do Is Right/Wrong / BM / In New Zealand
17 Optimism Is Its Own Reward / BM / Sings with the Original Artists
18 Walking After Midnight / BM / One Perfect Green Blanket
19 Cry Me a River / BM / Sings with the Original Artists
20 Isn't Lonely Lovely? / BM / 1212
21 Prophecy Written / BM / Lately I Keep Scissors

Disc 2: Something You've Got (Isn't Good)

1 Don't Neglect Yourself / BM & the Go-Luckys! / You Should Know By Know
2 Straw Man / BM / One Perfect Green Blanket
3 Burnsite / 28th Day / The Complete Recordings
4 This Train / 28th Day / The Complete Recordings
5 Make It Go Away (Alternate Version) / BM / Super Scissors Disc 3
6 B4 We Go Under / BM / Under One Roof: Singles & Oddities
7 End of the Rainbow / BM / 1212
8 Stain on the Sun / BM / 1212
9 S.F. Sorrow / SF Seals / Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows
10 San Diego Zoo / The 6ths feat. BM / Wasps' Nests
11 Dock Ellis / SF Seals / Baseball Trilogy
12 Druscilla Penny / World of Pooh / The Land of Thirst
13 Stones of Judgement / 28th Day / The Complete Recordings
14 Smoking Her Wings / BM / One Perfect Green Blanket
15 Sympathy Wreath / BM / One Perfect Green Blanket
16 Day 12 / SF Seals / Nowhere
17 Baby Blue / SF Seals / Nowhere
18 Prophecy Written [Electric Version] / BM / Super Scissors Disc 3
19 Something You've Got (Isn't Good) / BM / Lately I Keep Scissors
20 Hanging By Strands / BM & the Go-Luckys! / Homeless Where the Heart Is
21 Pulp / SF Seals / Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows
22 Time To B / BM & the Go-Luckys! / You Should Know By Know
23 Buds Won't Bud / BM & the Go-Luckys! / You Should Know By Know
24 You Knock Me Out / BM & the Go-Luckys! / You Should Know By Know
25 Talk All Night / 28th Day / The Complete Recordings

Doubtless there'd be some more World of Pooh on these if I had any more, but "Druscilla Penny" is the only track I've ever been able to get my hands on (Glands of External Secretion, otoh, are unrepresented due to their total suckage).

Just because this might have slipped by many interested parties, someone in another thread pointed out that the World of Pooh album and some singles have been mp3 blogged. Go find the pertinent links near the end of:

Whatcha listening to in 2008?

and rejoice.

Thanks!

Hey, she's playing in Seattle on Friday.

Will she come back to the US East coast?

glad to hear she's still making music! thread is reminding me i still need to get that super scissors set, all these years later.

I think she's been too busy doing molecular biology or something to tour. Our loss entirely.

She is studying Forestry.

New stuff up at http://barbaramanning.bandcamp.com/

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL WEEK

huh, that is like a 12-track album, yes?

Just listening now. Track "Island" is very good. I'm happy about this.

Some is great, some has some really bum notes. Clearly Barbara is one lonely woman.

Cool, glad she is still at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_Uh0Le-eA

12/2/85 - "Pages Turn" by 28th Day out of Chico, CA.

So I guess she's still teaching science in Long Beach these days...

A year ago--Aug. 2015 interview

https://sseennsseess.com/tag/barbara-manning/

touring!!!

Nov 09
Irving Plaza
New York (NYC), NY
Nov 09
Bowery Ballroom
New York (NYC), NY
Nov 10
Black Cat
Washington, DC
Nov 11
Underground Arts
Philadelphia, PA

see also this lovely solo performance, which I had missed before

https://bufms-barbaramanning.bandcamp.com/album/alone-in-a-room

November 9th is opening for Codeine at Bowery Ballroom, rescheduled from Irving Plaza (thankfully)

DC show is also opening for Codeine. I think she's on a break from school teaching for the tour

i love her

Saw her tonight opening for Codeine at Black Cat. Great solo set with her Gretch guitar, plus one song with Codeine bassist and drummer. She opened with a Moody Blues cover . Was very chatty between songs and beaming during songs. She’s now a drama and guitar teacher in high school. She did a new song called “Cantor’s Mind was Rocking “ and tunes from throughout her career.

She also sang “Strawman,” “ Number Zero” “Never Park”. “Better By Bounds” ( dedicated to late singer George Jones) “Ladies of the Sea” “Deep Sea Diver” and “ Scissors “

<3

Just getting to the new album now, it's good! May need to make room for it on my ballot.