TS: A Trip to Marineville VS Jane from Occupied Europe

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I can never seem to make up my mind.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Jane from Occupied Europe10
A Trip to Marineville 6


bmus, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

i can never seem to close brackets either.

bmus, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

JfOE

For the dubby instrumentals. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

PhilK, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

Jane gets the edge. This is definitely a band whose discography was much smaller than they deserved, as I think the followup to Jane would have been even better.

Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

me, I like the punky Swell Maps. Always preferred the first LP.

sleeve, Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

my favorite is some LP i have called "Sweep the Desert"

the only one of these two i know is Jane and I love that record.

M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

Then gain knowledge of "Marineville" immediately sir! It gets my vote, love both however.

Tom D., Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:00 (seventeen years ago)

For the dubby instrumentals. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at

And this is bollocks, by the way

Tom D., Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:04 (seventeen years ago)

almost impossible choice, but Jane gets my vote by a neck.

Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:28 (seventeen years ago)

Robot Factory and Raining In My Room, such a great way to start and finish an album.

Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

A Trip to Marineville is great! Jane... is almost perfect.

Jane

S-, Thursday, 21 August 2008 10:07 (seventeen years ago)

I always think that Jane is my favorite, and then Midget Submarines comes on...

bmus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

MARINEVILLE

For the songs. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

contenderizer, Thursday, 21 August 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Marineville. I got a full mooooonnn...

hugo, Thursday, 28 August 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

For the songs. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

Agree to disagree (they were great at both the tunes *and* the more experimental stuff), but their most "songy" songs are on Jane From Occupied Europe. "Helicopter Spies", "Let's Buy a bridge", "cake shop girl", "Secret Island", "Bleinheim Shots" which segues amazingly into "a raincoat's room".

Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, yeah, A Trip To Marineville is awesome too, but I usually only go back to that one for "Midget Submarines", "Harmony In Your Bathroom"(!!!), and "Full Moon/B.L.A.M.!/Full Moon Reprise".

Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

And then there's the Collision Time Revisted comp which has all the best from their entire discography. That was my introduction to Swell Maps and I think it's probably the best career retrospective of any band.

Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

agreed trip maker. those bomp comps were nice and all, but collision time revisited has been needing a repress for years! my dubbed tape aint gonna last forever.

andrew m., Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, and its got "Let's Build a Car" ferchrissakes. Epic selected the tracks and running order himself. It's so perfect. The Munster 2lp 180g reissues are pretty nice, as well. I missed the singles box, though.

Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

"Lets build a car" is one of the my favourite songs ever: totally awesome.

Marco Damiani, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

another point for the European/Mute edition of Jane From Occupied Europe: it has the definitive version of "Let's build a car" without the accidentally truncated fuzz gtr intro. (Is this version preserved on the Secretly Canadian issues?)

Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

Trip Maker OTM WRT Collision Time. That was my intro to the band, too, and it remains, song for song, my favorite Swell Maps record. Wish I still had it...

contenderizer, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

(Is this version preserved on the Secretly Canadian issues?)
Let's Build A Car isn't on either of the Secretly Canadian cd issues,i think. Nor is it on the new-ish Munster reissues. It's on the Bomp/Total Energy/Alive reissue of Marineville, though. I'm not sure if I've heard this truncated intro version that Mackro is talking about. Sounds lame.

Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

What's the deal with Let's Build a Car? Seems like it should come at the very top of any list of the band's essential songs. But it's often left off anthologies (like the Alive comps) and expansive reissues (like the Munster LPs). Are the rights owend by C.M. Burns?

contenderizer, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

It was in that singles box that Munster did. Yeah, seems like a no-brainer for inclusion on any Swell Maps compilation.

Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

"Let's Build a car" leads off Collision Time Revisited, and I assume this also has the non-truncated fuzz guitar intro (like the bonus track on the Jane FOE Mute/EU CD), but of course, Collision Time Revisited isn't in print these days apparently.

There were two Alive comps, International Rescue and Sweep The Desert. The former was more Nikki heavy; the latter more Epic heavy. The former one does have "Let's Build a car". It's LOUDER than on the Mute/EU editions, but it's the first instance of "Let's build a car" where part of the intro was truncated.

Since then, it seems every inclusion of that song thereafter uses this truncated-intro version, even the Swell Maps 7" box on Munster.

My only guess about the mishandling of "Let's build a car" is because the remaining members don't think it's a big deal and/or thinks it's funny -- otherwise, it would have been taken care of.

Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe it's just the LP of International Rescue that omits Car. Stupid obsolete audio format.

contenderizer, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

As it should be. Both are fucking amazing though.

jonathan - stl, Friday, 29 August 2008 02:12 (seventeen years ago)


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