Alternative Tentacles VIRUS95CD. 1991
I don't really get it, or like it.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo - Strange But True
Matador OLE309-2. 1998
Imagine Yo La Tengo in lazy/slightly silly mode with Jad Fair singing/talking.
I like Yo La Tengo. I'm starting to resent Jad Fair's presence in my music collection.
Did I mention Jad Fair stayed at my house? I should have took him out when I had the chance.
The Lucky Sperms (Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston) - Somewhat Humorous
Jagjaguwar JAG34. 2001
I picked this out of the rack as I have a great 7" by The Lucky Sperms (Ecstatic Peace, 1987). On closer inspection it's a different Lucky Sperms (t'other one being Sonic Youth and Mike Watt), but I bought it anyway since it's Jad and Daniel.
What a ghastly racket this is. Really, I don't care if the lyrics are funny or clever if they're sung over inept, cack-handed thrashing.
Jad Fair stayed at my house once, but I've already banged on about that here.
Family - The Peel Sessions
Strange Fruit SFPSCD061. 1973
Not too bad, though a bit more R'n'B than Doll's House.
I don't need to listen to this again.
Family - Music In A Doll's House
See For Miles SEECD100. 1968
I'd been putting off starting the next shelf as this was the first CD thereon. I remembered Roger Chapman's really annoying over-emphasised vocal vibrato and I just couldn't bare it. But it wasn't going to go away, and surely I've sat through worse over the last few months.
As it turns out, once we're past the first track he calms it down a bit and the rest of the album is actually quite good. Not nearly as proggy as I remember. Phew.
Another disk bought during NF's big CD clearout many years ago.
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Duane Eddy - Bonnie Came Back / Movin' 'n' Groovin' 7"
London American Recordings 45-HLW9050. Can't see a date, but it says recordings first published 1958/9
A twaaang version of My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean???? Fair enough. B-side is a twangy 12-bar which is pleasant enough.
I've no idea where this came from, or any memory of having played it before.
Was I really drinking that heavily?
The Hard Ons - Surfin On My Face 7"
Waterfront DAMP34. 1987
Ramones meet the Beach Boys.
The other three tracks remain surf-free, and punk their thrash into your face.
The Hard Ons - Just Being With You / Growing Old 7"
Waterdront DaMP94. 1988
I think the guys must have found love by this release, as they get all mushy (in a noisy way).
Still good.
The Hard Ons - The Girl In The Sweater / I Heard her Call My Name 7"
Waterfront DAMP27. 1986
More Ramones-y output from the hirsute, unwashed antipodean thrash-monkeys.
It all gets a bit twee on Sweater, but it's alright.
Big Black - The Model / He's A Whore 7"
Blast First BFFP24. 1987
Both tracks are absolutely stupifyingly good. They've managed to take two great songs and make them both completely different but just the same, and just as good/possibly better in both cases.
Better than that, the cover is pretty funny too. You have to look twice to notice it isn't the originals. Only having three people in each image gives it away a bit, but it's a lovely touch, and the photoshoots probably cost more than the recording.
Homestead Records HMS042. 1985Brutal Glockel Terror - Lasch / Ganzlasch 7"
Snoop Records SR002. 1989
Back before the interweb and mp3s destroyed our ability to write with pens and use stamps, we used to send tapes and records across the globe, stuffed with flyers received from other people's packages of tapes and records, until the whole thing came around full circle and you'd end up with some of your own flyers back that'd covered 506,000 miles over the course of a year.
I received this from someone, don't know who. I hadn't ordered it. I hadn't paid for it. But here it is.
More unsolicited noise on my shelves. I couldn't really say if it was good or bad noise. No tunes. Just thrashing and shouting.
Ah, the good old days.
The Dickies - Banana Splits 7"
A&M AMS7431. 1979
Oh come on, I was only 9. Despite the novelty aspect this is quite good. The two tracks on the b-side are nice slabs of punky goodness as well. Lovely yellow vinyl.
They played Newcastle last week but I wasn't on the guest list and I'm too tight to pay to see a band I only sort of kind of like a bit.
Butthole Surfers - Flaming Lips / Declaration of Love 7"
Red House Records exp001.
This claims to be recordings from their first ever gig, but I wouldn't know. I've no idea what one side is, but the other is a rendition of The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave, so the sleeve is at least 50% wrong.
Good quality recordings, but where and when are they from?
Seven Minutes of Nausea - Our Culture Is Boring 7"
TNT&R 22/02 (copy no. 114 of ?). 1988
This is on the same label as my first Stench of Corpse release, so I assume Matthias (the label guy) sent it to me. I didn't really listen to much noise stuff, I just made it.
This is just two guys - drums and guitar/voc - banging it out. 1 or 2 second thrashes that seem formless and random. Then, would you believe, I came across the title/lyric sheet!
Not something I would put on for pleasure, but it has a kind of nostalgic value as we were all making a right old racket at the same time, to the same people.
Reverb Motherfuckers - LSD 25 7"
Vital Music Records. 1991
Not nearly as good as the memory. Side A is just a freeform psych workout with some spoken samples over the top. Side B is more of the same with less guitar but more squeaky noise.
Not what I'd chose to listen to on acid. No sir.
Nice-Up! DJs - Skankin in the way 7"
Nice Up! 004. 2008
I can't remember where I heard this, but it's one of the best mash-ups I've heard. Beth Ditto's vocals sound completely different detached from that annoying shit Gossip churn out, and you'd swear they'd been recorded specially to go on top of this ska backing. Cheers me up every time.
B-side is Skee-lo's I wish over a cut-up, jerky ska track that doesn't really work for me. Never mind.
Lefside and Esco - Tuck In Yu Belly 7"
Young Legends. 2008
A nice slab of sexist dancehall ragga. Nice instrumental riddim on the backside - Throw Back Giggy.
Should keep the booty swayin' all night.
The Fall - White Lightning (Single)
Phonogram/Cog Sinister SINCD6. 1990
Floor stomping version of the Big Bopper tune.
Three other tracks are ok.
The Fall - This Nat-ion's Saving Grace
Beggar's Banquet BBL67CD. 1985
And here we have it. The one Fall album I really like.
Decent yet still slightly shoddy production. A good proportion of songs that aren't that one grating riff. Real tunes.
Chuck in a Can pisstake (I am Damo Suzuki), which even makes a Can-ite like myself smile, and we have a winner.
It's all good, but Spoilt Victorian Child, L.A., Gut of the Quantifier, Bombast, actually I'll stop there or I'll end up just typing out the track list.
My new house.... you should SEEEE-EEEEE my new house! Keep AWAAA-AAAY from my new house.
The Fall - The Light User Syndrome
Trojan/Jet JETCD1012. 1996
They lose a lot of their charm with lavish(ish) production.
It shows how poor the songs actually are.
The Fall - Hip Priest and Kamerads
Situation Two BBL13CD. 1988
The non-live tracks are canny.
Just goes to show you don't need to be a musician to be in a successful band.
If anyone can sit through the whole 15:20 of And This Day without a break there's something wrong with them.
The Fall - Perverted By Language
Cog Sinister COGVP104CD. 1998
Unlike a lot of people, it isn't Mark E Smith's voice that bugs me about The Fall. It's that most of the songs are one short simple riff banged out over and over, and that riff is normally written specifically to agitate whoever is listening to it.
I do quite like this one, even though Eat Y'self Fitter is exactly as described above.
It's just as well Brix was a sexpot as she can't sing at all.
Can't argue with the quality of song titles though. I Feel Voxish. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot. Class.
£4.99 in J.G. Windows' sale.
The Fall - Oswald Defence Lawyer
Receiver RRCD213. 1996
I'm quite picky with The Fall.
This is all live.
I'm even pickier with live stuff.
Bad combination.
Though this has some great songs on it, the live thing just doesn't do it for me.
Flux of Pink Indians - Strive To Survive / Neu Smell
One Little Indian. 1997
I suppose I'm just not angry enough for this nowadays.
Annoying after a while.
The Future Sound Of London - ISDN
Virgin Astralwerks 6144 (Limited to 10,000). 1994
Does 10k count as limited edition?
I officially hate FSOL.
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Single)
Virgin VSCDT 1484. 1994
The least shit of all the FSOL stuff so far. Almost listenable.
Almost.
Liz Fraser and Tavlin Singh should be ashamed of themselves for being involved in this.
The Future Sound Of London - Stakker Humanoid 92
Earth Beat CDS TOT 27. 1992
Probably ok pumped right up in a sweaty warehouse, but low quality unimaginative techno at a reasonable level in my living room.
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Virgin CDV2722. 1994
Has the odd listenable section, but it's up there with Sacred Spirit, or whatever that pretend native American Indian shite was called that was doing the new-age rounds a while back.
I really don't know what I saw in FSOL. It isn't big or clever. Or interesting. I think I was looking for something to supplement my Orb intake.
The Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosive
Virgin VSCOH1616. 1997
Some different mixes of the same tedium as below.
What was I thinking? Was I thinking at all?
The Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosive remixes
Virgin VSCDT1616. 1997
Some large beats. And some annoying remixes of said beats.
The Future Sound Of London - far out son of lung and the ramblings of a madman
Virgin VSCDT 1540. 1995
Simply tedious.
Fuel - Fuel
Sixth International / Rough Trade RTD157 1186 2. 1990
Can't find an image for this anywhere. I'll scan it when I can be arsed. This appears to have been rereleased as Monuments to Excess in 2000, but there's nothing on this package to indicate such a title.
Should be filed under Bands that like Fugazi, subcategory Producers that can't record bass drums.
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
Dischord dis70cd. 1993
I loved the early stuff (Margin Walker ep, Fugazi ep, 3 songs 7"), but wasn't over impressed with Repeater. This renewed my interest a bit, and we've had an on-off relationship ever since.
I still don't really like Guy Picciotto's vocals though.
Folk Implosion - Natural One (Unkle mixes) (Single)
London LONCD382. 1995
A disappointing Unkle Mix, pointless instrumental mix, then the first mix again but with no scratching.
Not the finest example of Lavelle's talents.
Folk Implosion - Natural One (Single)
London LOCDP382. 1995
I must have really liked this - I've got two versions.
Title track is still good, Cabride is just stupid, Nothing Gonna Stop is a bit annoying, Simean Groove is dull big beats with cheesy organ squeak over the top. Money Mark does it so much better.
Worthy effort from Mr Barlow. I still haven't seen the film.
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
V2 Music VVR1032552. 2005
Misfiled!
More epic glory from the kings of lazy. Not as instantly appealing as Cast... but ultimately rewarding. So polished I can almost see my face in the sound.
Quite lovely. Even if it was in the wrong place.
Friday, 1 August 2008
Won't someone please sell me a copy of THUG - FUCK YOUR DAD 7"?
Oh go on. I'll pay handsomely.
And if anyone has a copy of the long out of print Yoro Kery Goro's Number One Du Senegal I'd really appreciate a rip. Much ta.
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