spinART Records

Wondering what records everyone enjoys from this label?

Just found the Poole album "Alaska Days" which is great if you love "A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns" or "Eccsame the Photon Band."

alaska days is good, but i've never been able to listen to the whole thing through in one sitting

one last kiss is the king of all compilations imo. seriously opened up a new world for me

lilys stuff on sA all great, the first minders album and (particularly) their singles comp.

heaps of the 45s the label put out were hidden gems.

i love monsterland, they deserved to be bigger

once i would have said the apples on stereo but their entire catalogue has been ruined for me by the dreadful records they've been putting out for the last few years

Still kind of weirds me out that Small Factory are going to end up a big zero in the history books. I can kind of understand why, but at the time it seemed like they were going to add up to...something. "Chose oblivion over futility."

At the moment I'd go w/Kaito UK as my favorite thing on the label.

small factory were weird. i adored their first two singles and that 45s compilation is pretty good all the way through. but the albums proper just weren't quite right. and the godrays fuckin sucked

The Poole record trails off pretty quickly, but starts strong.

I don't love the Suddenly, Tammy! album on spinART as much as I love the Warner Bros record, but it's still really nice.

I kinda liked one Godrays track: Boyscout Thriller, but not enough to get too worked up about it.

This is still lurking around on Youtube looking half embarrassingly-earnest, half proto-Dandy Warhols:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJekie1Br4

i've occasionally wondered whether alex kemp was as insufferable in person as he came across in his music

Let's see, looking through the listing to jog my memory.

Technical Jed weren't bad at all. Main problem seems to be bad band name, lack of image, and kind of generic indie sound, but I still play their albums once in a blue moon.

The "At the Sound of Speed" 7" by Boo Radleys has one of my favorite songs of theirs: Let Me Be Your Faith. Really weird song structure that starts out rather thornily, then takes an abrupt left-turn into swirly uplifting amazingness...

don't forget the awesome swirly vinyl!

the one last kiss comp was pretty awesome.

Also found The Sneetches recently, if anyone else knows of them. They aren't bad. Also I like that Lotion material more than many people on this board. As far as this label, nothing will beat the Lilys stuff for me.

Also makes me want to start a thread on Caroline Records to talk about Drop Nineteens, Hot Rod, Fudge, etc.

Holy shit. Speaking of Small Factory, check out the highest price this is going for on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0000020YH/ref=ntt_mus_ep_olp

sneetches started out as MBV labelmates.. had a couple of lps out on creation too. their spinART stuff is good but their earliest stuff is wonderful

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Oh OK. Just picked up the album from a clearance bin after I saw they were on spinART.

"and i'm thinking" is a favourite powerpop tune of mine

Before it gets lost up there- just want to point out some clowns are trying to sell that Small Factory album for 2,000 dollars. Probably just a scheme to get other sellers to price it high.

I'll revisit that Sneetches album for that song. I've only made it through once so far.

i thought it might be a decimal misplacement xpost

Oh it could be! Seems more practical...

And obvious. Ha.

Someone needs to reissue this stuff.

Went back and relistened to the Technical Jed albums, and there's some really great stuff on them (and some not as great stuff). Song "Tribute" from The Oswald Cup is like the best late-period Sonic Youth song I've heard, and kind of invents that sound like 8 years before SY got to it...

I have not heard that yet! Like Murray Street era? Or more recent? Some of the prettier jangly SY songs I find pretty enjoyable, actually.

i love monsterland, they deserved to be bigger

i thought i was the only person who loved this group... was introduced to greg vegas a few years back at SXSW (he now works for a distro company, i think) and recognised the name and told him how great i thought his band were. he seemed a little embarrassed.

I mostly used to listen to 'One last kiss' and the 'Pop licks' 7" set.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cxLwfL0HH80/0.jpg

My 'Pop licks' box got smooshed in one of our moves. Haven't tried to listen to the records in ages.

Always loved Regia's The Art of Navigation and wondered why they weren't bigger.

Lotion.

xpost @ Evan: no, it's not very jangly, for the most part.

lotion seconded, they got beat up around here on some recent thread. telephone album way underrated, imo

one of spinART's last releases, Apollo Sunshine's 2005 self-titled album, is probably my favorite record of the past few years (putting it at the top of my ballot for the '05-'09 poll).