Family Fodder

Film Music and Cold Wars and Savoir Faire are my favorite songs. I've only ever had Dark Beloved Cloud's best of, but a friend recently burned All Styles and Monkey Banana Kitchen which I should get around to soon, as people are always complaining "they left this song or that off the best of".

I'm so smitten with "Disarm Completely." The most political love song of all time?

dan, I can't believe you hadn't heard monkey banana kitchen. that's my fave (also starring charles hayward)

shit, it was Silent Movie i meant in first post, not Film Music

(altho Knife-ish 'Film Music' would still be welcome)

New(ish) 2-CD, 42-track compilation: More Great Hits!:
http://www.amazon.com/More-Great-Hits-Family-Fodder/dp/B000ZN8OFU/
http://www.tower.com/more-great-hits-family-fodder-cd/wapi/111704426

Only $9.99 at Tower. Most (not all) of the Savoir Faire compilation is here, plus there's another disc worth of stuff. How did this slip by without more (any?) fanfare?! Ordered my copy just now...can't wait to hear it.

New album!! *Classical Music* Here's an interview for *The Quietus*: http://thequietus.com/articles/05283-dinosaur-sex-family-fodder-interview

Konki Duet just came out w/very nice cover of Savoir-Faire.

Love Family Fodder so much--top 10 post-punk groups, easily.

SO good.
"Film Music" is def an all-time top 10 for me.

Were they tremendously unpopular in Britain? Ever hip at all?

"Classical Music" and the eps they put out last year are dope too. The original singer's daughter (ha!) is/was singing with them these days.

i don't think they were ever hip in britain. mostly unknown or ignored but beloved by a few. i saw them in hamburg last summer but when i say i "saw", i mean i arrived just as they were leaving the stage. bummer. by all accounts they were great and rapturously received by a surprisingly large crowd (r. stevie moore was on the bill too).

New album is another great one. Bit more of a live feel at times than 'Classical Music' -
videos for each song here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FamilyFodderTV

Anybody seen them live?

Oh, I remember the old days of the Virgin Megastore, a dark place, "Playing Golf" over the speakers, all the new sounds, etc. "Iiiii wanttttt toooooo be Deaddddd"...

Then they shut it down for 2 weeks for a refit and after that it was like Boots the chemist.

I am addicted to Charles Hayward and will play everything he plays on forever

Also, I always loved the CD packaging for this compilation and then found out it was done by Mark Robinson, interesting! to me anyway

Yeah have loved Playing Golf since I first heard it.
Think I picked up 2 lps for either £1 0r £2 each in my Sounds Familiar shopping days. Monkeybananakitchen and Greatest Hits. I just had Debbie Harry pop up on my walkman yesterday out of the blue, their quirky pop stuff is pretty great anyway.

It took me years to find out that the band name is a collective like a Russian circus or something. So it's a group consisting of Alig Fodder and adoptive family. All I'd read about the band was in the old pile of early 80s NMEs that my brother left behind when he left for college & those disappeared a long time ago.

The Savoir Faire compi was a very good one, much needed when I discovered its existence.

"Frank Sumatra and the Mob" is the same bunch, yeah?

^ yes! i love that 12"... never on cd as far as i know.

^^^ Their quirky pop stuff IS great!

First I heard them was on that 1981 box. Driving from Boston to Montreal, "Film Music" came on and, from that moment on, has pretty much been my favorite song. Messy, ambitious and energetic. The version on 'More Great Hits' is way better than the one on 'Savoir Faire' (and youtube).

The new album gets better with each listen. Dig in if you're up for some moderately unfashionable odd pop. Worth it.

I'm not a journalist or anything, but I've set up interviews with some of the Fodders for the unofficial Fodder facebook page I made.
First in line is multi-instrumentalist Grahame Painting who played with them in the early 80s... went away to do other stuff forever... then ended up involved again a few years ago. Nice fella... and some nice background on working methods.

http://itsabigailsparty.tumblr.com/post/61452335859/interview-with-a-fodder-1-grahame-painting

Interviews with Mae, Darlini and Alig to come!

Love this group.

Monkey Banana Kitchen and Schizophrenia Party getting the reissue treatment from Staubgold!
Bonus tracks... ltd vinyl version of Schizo... very fun.

Damn, this group is/was SO underrated.

http://www.staubgold.com/en/albums/

I figured out that the "other" (older) best of has all of the MBK tracks missing from More Great Hits, but it is definitely due for a reissue

Is there a series of reissues just coming out on these guys? The current Mojo has the cover of MonkeyBananaKitchen in among its short reissue reviews. Think it's that but could be Uncut

well there is at least an expanded version of that lp out on Staubgold
http://www.staubgold.com/en/album/142/monkey-banana-kitchen/?PHPSESSID=a6b236b1c40d18959147cb9d614ea7f2

plus vinyl of Schizophrenia Party which also adds the tracks from the 7"s Film Music and The Big Dig, latter of which I assume is the Beefheart song from Decals.

nah I think it is a Satie tune? iirc

Only classicla cover I was aware of was der Leiermann not sure who that was by is that Satie?

Shame that Staubgold site doesn't have a tracklisting. Just says what the previous releases were so you have to check elsewhere. I guess Discogs will have full contents though

Oh right, didn't think Satie would use such beatnik slang. But just seen the credit on the discogs entry.

Der Leiermann is Schubert. Big Dig is indeed Satie.

Here are the tracklistings:

Schizo vinyl ltd to 500

01. Dinosaur Sex
02. Better Lies
03. Dazomo
04. Emergency
05. Silence
06. Tea With Dolly
07. Film Music
08. Room
09. The Big Dig
10. Plant Life

Monkey Banana Kitchen cd/lp

01. Darling
02. Symbols
03. Savoir Faire
04. Cold Wars
05. Monkey
06. Wrong
07. Love Song
08. Organ Grinder
09. Bass Adds Bass
10. Cerf Volant
11. Philosophy
12. Banana

CD-only bonus tracks:

13. Film Music
14. Dinosaur Sex
15. Silence
16. Dazomo
17. Emergency
18. Better Lies
19. Tea With Dolly
20. The Big Dig
21. Plant Life
22. Room

Drop by the facebook page I run for them. Alig has been helping out with rare pics and mp3s and interviews. Good times!

https://www.facebook.com/familyfodder

Fantastic news. Top five post-punk group, for me. Used to burn copies of 'Monkey Banana Kitchen' with exactly the same EPs/singles appended (because they fit so nicely on a CD). Another disk with the 'Sunday Girls' EP, "Playing Golf," the "Coral" single, and the misc. non-album tracks from the 'Greatest Hits' LP and the 'More Great Hits!' and late 90s best of, and maybe some other unreleased bits and side-project madness--then you're really set!

I admit 'All Styles' never really hit home quite as much--but it's worth a listen, too.

Alig chats about the new reissues:

http://itsabigailsparty.tumblr.com/post/74228450781/interview-with-a-fodder-6-alig-talks-monkey-banana

Looks like - assuming the versions are the same - that there are only three exclusive tracks to this CD if you have the Dark Beloved Cloud CD and the More Great Hits 2xCD. But it's all genius, so I'll buy it.

The three tracks are Emergency, Tea With Dolly and Plant Life.

And those are pretty cool tracks!
The MBK LP has a cool insert with lyrics and whatnot too.

Bunch of live shows coming up. Schizophrenia Party line-up + some additions (i think).

May 21 @ King Georg in Cologne, Germany
May 15,16,17 residency @ L'Ubu in Perpignan, France (3 nights of FF shows + a bunch of Fodder solo shows)

May be more on the way...

I know mr.raffles posted something from this tumblr upthread but there are lots of interviews with FF members! Nice to see what they've been up to since then:

http://itsabigailsparty.tumblr.com/

I'm so glad I discovered this group

https://www.youtube.com/v/3gC1m-EF9QE%26fs=1%26hl=en
This youtuber has most everything including tracks 2-3 on the Singularity singles. (Missing Singularity 5)
Channel Playlists

nevermind, he has Singularity 5

The main Fodder, Alig, is living in Crete these days. About to launch a kickstarter... new Fodder material and hundreds of songs from the archive are on the way.

Savoir Faire and Film Music, etc.. are great, but their new albums really are just as good.
Totally special band.

<3 revive
I haven't heard about that. I Must support.

Search YouTube for "family fodder nerd sex" to hear one of their new random tracks

They did a bunch of work with the 'Schiz Party' band last year... with new vocalist Bee. Really cool stuff.
Also... they got covered by Yacht on their upcoming album!

We'll be announcing the kickstarter on the facebook page within the next month or so, I'd imagine. Whatta band.

I just discovered this band a few days ago and I’m just completely bowled over by them. Monkey Banana Kitchen especially but all the early stuff is just super fantastic. I don’t understand why that are not more revered. MBK is way ahead of its time.

*they* not *that*