Rock of Gibraltar: Lorelei
Lorelei
The Virginia-based noise-pop outfit Lorelei formed in 1991.
Originally a five piece: Davis/mandolin, Gina Yi/vocals, Dave Cerf/guitar, Peter Biby/drums and Stephen/bass; the band slimmed down to a three piece following the release of the three song The Bitter Air 7″ in 1991.
With Gina, Dave and Peter out, Davis moving over to drums, Stephen on bass and the addition of Matt from the Lilys on guitar 1993’s The Asleep ep blends
the dubwise dynamics of PiL and Moonshake with the dark tension of early Cure.
Probably the most apt description of 1995’s Everyone Must Touch The Stove sound is if Lorelei were an
Elephant 6 band that grew up listening to Bailter Space rather than the Beach Boys.
The carefully orchestrated songs on this album are built upon the bedrock of Davis’ powerful drumming; the “melliluous melodic chording” of Stephen’s bass and Matt’s free-flying guitars; while strings, marimbas, maracas, timpani and other exotic instruments help to color the arrangements.
Though the band disbanded in 1996 the group’s members have remained musically active; Matt recording as Textile Sounds, Stephen working as Chessie and Davis issuing material as Glass Bottom Boats.
Lorelei Discography
Releases:
The Bitter Air (7″) (Slumberland Records) 1992
Asleep (7″, CD-EP ) (Slumberland Records) 1993
Everyone Must Touch The Stove (CD, LP) (Slumberland Records) 1995
Informed By The Future (12″ Vinyl) (Textile Sounds) 2002
Tracks Appear On:
“Mimesis” …One Last Kiss (CD) (spinART Records)1992
“Probe” Burning the Midnight Firefly #2 (Fanzine) (Cass) 1992
“Burro” Calling At Duke Street (LP, EP) (A Turntable Friend) 1993
“Red Red Wiggy” Something Pretty Beautiful (CD) (Brilliant Records) 1993
“No One Is Driving The Car” Terra X – Vol. 1 Love And Hate (CD) (Terra X Records) 1993
“Honeysuckle” The Noise And The Melodies – The Pearl-Compilation (CD) (Pearl-Fanzine) 1993
“The Bitter Air” Unnecessary Niceness (CD, LP) (Beechwood Music) 1993
“Mostly I Sleep” CMJ New Music Magazine Jan. ‘94 (CD) (CMJ) 1994
“Stop What You’re Doing”,”Float My Bed” Why Popstars Can’t Dance (CD, 2xLP) (Slumberland Records) 1994
“A Thigh For A Leg” (edit) Smash Hits for Teens (Level and Dischord) 1995
“Resin” Bedroom Palace (Cass) (Lo-Fi Recordings) 1995
“Oscillations” Electronic Evocations A Tribute To The Silver Apples (CD) (Enraptured) 1996
“My Assassin” Field and Streams (2xCD) (Kill Rock Stars) 2002
“Today’s Shrug” Slumberland Records Spring 2009 Sampler (MP3 Sampler) (Slumberland Records) 2009
Lorelei - Everyone Must Touch the Stove (1994)
Playing Time: 53 minutes 40 seconds
1. Today’s Shrug (3:39)
2. Quiet Staid Debt (5:29)
3. Thigh For a Leg (6:24)
4. Throwaway (5:37)
5. Inside the Crimelab (6:29)
6. Day (2:40)
7. Newsprint (8:40)
8. Windmill (3:23)
9. Stop What You’re Doing (3:50)
10. Pillar (7:29)
Everyone Must Touch the Stove (Part 1) (Part 2)
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Swirlies and What Do About Them
Swirlies
While researching the availability of Scrawl records for my recent post on this former Columbus, Ohio group I noticed while browsing Amazon.com that
“Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” the Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton”
Seeing that made it obvious to me what I was going to post next.
It begs the question; how does one go from being a Go-Go’s cover band called Raspberry Bang to becoming the Swirlies, leading light of Boston’s “chimp rock scene?”
Originally formed in 1990, the band; guitarist/singer Damon Tuntunjian, singer/guitarist Seana Carmody, bassist Andy Bernick, and drummer Ben Drucker, along with the bands Kudgel and Fat Day, and a few others were all part of Boston’s chimp rock scene
“which pitted dreamy, guitar-based pop against noisy, experimental tendencies.”
Releasing a handful of singles in 1991 and 1992 the Swirlies teamed up with Kudgel to release the split double single “Red Fish Dreams.” Of the two Swirlies home recordings on the single, the nearly inaudible “Her Life of Artistic Freedom” which was
“basically amplified surface noise with a little guitar and singing“
is perhaps a hint at the future direction the Swirlies music will take.
Signed to Boston based Taang! Records they release What To Do About Them in 1992. Although “Her Life of Artistic Freedom” is included, What To Do About Them, is a collection of the group’s earlier singles along with new material, but What To Do About Them will mark the group’s last full fledged foray into “dream pop.”
Taking it’s name from a vintage tube equalizer, the Swirlies’ first full-length album, 1993’s Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
melds noisy guitars, samples, and sweet girl-boy vocals into a disheveled take on dream pop.
With it’s tape loops, found sounds, Moogs, Mellotrons, and white noise
songs like the “static-spattered “Pancake” and “Park the Car by the Side of the Road” alternate with gentler songs like “Bell” and “Vigilant Always.”
One reviewer writes
The combination of Seana Carmody’s demure vocals, big guitars, and burbling Mellotrons makes for one of Boston’s most memorable pop moments since the Pixies’ “Gigantic.”
That certainly puts them among some pretty good company.
1993 also sees the group release Brokedick Car, but with it’s shorter version of
Blonder Tongue’s “Wrong Tube,” two home-demo quickies and two alternate mixes of “Pancake”: the less-noisy “Pancake Cleaner” and a dance version entitled “House of Pancake”
Brokedick Car is essentially listenable filler.
The period following the release of Brokedick Car is marred by almost constant personnel turn-over. Original members Ben Drucker and Seana Carmody leave; with Carmody forming her own band, Syrup USA.
For 1995’s Sneaky Flutes and 1996’s They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons original members Tuntunjian and Bernick are joined by new members, singer/guitarist Christina Files and drummer Anthony DeLuca.
In the spring of 1996 DeLuca leaves the band and is temporarily replaced by Karate drummer Gavin McCarthy. With a trigger drum kit now part of their equipment the Swirlies occasionally tour as an electronic trio. Later that same year Adam Pierce becomes the group’s permanent drummer, but Files will leave in 1997.
1998 found the Swirlies continuing as a guitar/electronic hybrid, releasing the remix album, Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music, adding another guitarist, Rob Laxo, but most damagingly losing their label distribution.
Undaunted by the loss of a label they begin
releasing cassettes as part of their Sneaky Flute Empire project.
and by 2000 Sneaky Flute Empire is beginning to release CDs including Damon Andy Rob Ron: Yes Girls. Continuing to record the Swirlies release the mini-album Cats of the Wild, Vol. 2 in 2003 and that summer embark on their first major US tour opening for the Lilys.
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases:
“Didn’t Understand” (7″ Single) (Slumberland Records) 1992
“Error” (7″ Single) (Pop Narcotic) 1992
“Red Fish Dreams” (2×7″split with Kudgel) (Cinderblock Records, Nervous Records) 1992
What To Do About Them (Cass, CD, LP, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records) 1992
Blonder Tongue Audio Baton (CD, LP, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records) 1993
Brokedick Car (7″, 12″, CD-EP, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records) 1993
Vents Of The Ocean Floor (split 7″ with Iris) (Bubble Core Records) 1994
Working Holiday November (split 7″ with Pitchblende) (Simple Machines Records) 1994
Sneaky Flutes (CD, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records) 1995
They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons (CD, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records)1995
Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music (CD, 2xLP, MP3 Album) (Taang! Records) 1998
Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music / They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons (2xLP) (Taang! Records) 1998
Damon Andy Rob Ron: Yes Girls (CD) (Sneaky Flute Empire) 2000
Cats Of The Wild: Volume 2 (CD) (Bubble Core Records, P-Vine Records (Japan) 2003
Tracks Appear On:
“Chris R.” …One Last Kiss (CD) (spinART Records) 1992
“Park The Car By The Side of the Road” Unnecessary Niceness (CD, LP) (Beechwood Music) 1993
“Two Girls Kissing (Live at The Middle East)” Indie Rock Blueprint (CD) (Go Compact Discs) 1996
“Indian Ocean Nosedive” Flygirl (EP) #7 (7″) (Blue Bunny Records) 1997
“Protect Yourself From Aliens (Soul Slinger Remix)” Upload: A Continuous Mix (CD) (Jungle Sky) 1998
“Christmas In Kenmore Square” The Tarquin Records All Star Holiday Extravaganza (CD, MP3 Album) (Tarquin Records)2000
“Dolphins Dance With Our Music” U.S. Pop Life, Volume 7: Experimental: Random Access Music Machine (Contract Records (Japan) 2001
“Rare Moment” NPU Let’s Go! (CDr) (Metal Queen Projects) 2002
“Give Us Moonrocks!” 2003 Pre View Listen (CD) (Bubble Core Records) 2003
“Indian Ocean Nosedive” Like Clockwerck (CD) (Pehr) 2003
“One Light Flashing I Love You” Little Darla Has A Treat For You V.20 Summer 2003 (CD) (Darla Records) 2003
Swirlies – Blonder Tongue Audio Baton (1993)
Playing Time: 42 minutes 31 seconds
1. [Untitled] (0:12)
2. Bell (4:29)
3. Vigilant Always (5:10)
4. His Love Just Washed Away (5:24)
5. His Life of Academic Freedom (2:07)
6. Pancake (3:15)
7. Jeremy Parker (4:14)
8. Park The Car by The Side of The Road (5:04)
9. Tree Chopped Down (3:12)
10. Wrong Tube (5:06)
11. Wait Forever (4:18)
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Tags: Chimp Rock, Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Noise Pop, Shoegaze
… And Seven Weeks Later We’re Back!!!
Whoa! So how does “see you in a few weeks” manage to turn into seven weeks? Very easily! Things happened, things did’t happen and some things, like this blog just didn’t get done. Anyway I’m back.
Three people recently wrote asking me to repost material I originally posted back in 2006.
Erik wrote looking for Trains and Boats and Planes Minimal Star, while zzeitg wanted Scrawl, and Ed was looking for the Wedding Presents’ It’s A Gas from my very first post on July 17, 2006.
I’ve combined Erik’s and zzeitg’s request into one new up-dated post. someday I just might get around to up-dating my original three part Wedding Present series, but at the present time anyone who would like to hear It’s A Gas can find it here or here .
Thanks to zzeitg for graciously providing Scrawl’s Velvet Hammer.
Scrawl
Long before riot-grrrls ever made their appearance on the indie rock scene there was Columbus, Ohio’s Scrawl
“a trio of tough chicks with no specific agenda and far more enthusiasm than skill”
Originally known as Skull, the trio, singer/guitarist Marcy Mays, bassist Sue Harshe, and drummer Carolyn O’Leary debuted in
the summer of 1985, opening for the Meat Puppets with a twenty minute set. With the encouragement and financial backing of friends they recorded Plus, Also, Too , which was released on the small No Other label in 1987.
Plus, Also, To is
“sloppy, occasionally strident indie-pop”
and often there is more disharmony than harmony between Marcy Mays’ “uncertain singing and bassist Sue Harsh”, but the album generated enough positive reviews that Scrawl toured in support of it, and in the process attracted the attention of Rough Trade Records.
Signing with Rough Trade in 1988, the trio’s sophomore effort, He’s Drunk, was recorded at Prince’s Paisley Park studios. More assured than their debut release, their instrumental work was generally solid, but the album was marred by the fact that
“while Mays and Harshe both show improvement, their voices still don’t blend together very well at all.”
Produced by Gary Smith (Blake Babies, Throwing Muses) 1990’s Smallmouth , is a more intimate affair with
“sketchy lyrics (that) touch on real-life encounters and personal problems”
Smallmouth found the group alternating between brash punk inspired songs like “Rot” and “Absolute Torture”, with songs like “Tell You What” and “Time to Come Clean,”and the tender “Charles,” a rewrite of the Kiss’s “Beth,” a song which clearly exposes the band’s ’70s rock and roll roots.
Label problems forced the group to leave Rough Trade in the fall of 1990. When the label declared bankruptcy several months later the group’s back catalog goes immediately out of print.
Label problems and relationship problems clearly inform 1991’s bitter and biting Bloodsucker . Engineered by Steve Albini
“Mays and Harshe sing and play with renewed fervor, which works to their advantage in dispirited songs like “Love’s Insecticide,” the depressed “Please Have Everything” and the powerfully edgy “Clock Song,”
but with poor distribution and lack of air play the album quickly joins the group’s other albums in limbo.
Carolyn O’Leary left the group in 1992. Performing as an acoustic duo Mays and Harsh soldier on by mounting the “Foxcore, My Ass” tour.
Simple Machine Records Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson were fans of the band and in 1993 signed Scrawl, once again a trio, with the addition of new drummer, Dana Marshall. The band’s brief relationship with Simple Machines saw the release of Velvet Hammer and the re-release of Bloodsucker .
With its songs of fractured relationships 1993’s Velvet Hammer may just be
” one of the saddest, most heartbreaking records you will ever hear. It’s soaked in tears and alcohol, punctuated with bruises and frostbitten fingers.”
Like American Music Club’s Everclear or Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Velvet Hammer
“bleeds with despair and grim reality.”
Major label Elektra released Scrawl’s last two albums, 1996’s Travel On, Rider and 1998’s Nature Film. Though Simple Machine were fans and would have continued to support the group they, unlike Elektra, couldn’t
“put Scrawl’s records in more shops and provide a decent recording budget”
but, unlike Simple Machines, Elektra didn’t have a clue what do with
“a band whose minor chords and emotionally naked songs could never translate into unit shifting.”
Travel On, Rider , recorded and engineered by Steve Albini and Jeff Powell’s was their most professional sounding record to date. The songs are still bitter, still pessimistic, and still sad, but the bands playing is tighter,
“Dana Marshall’s underrated drums are at their most dynamic, Sue Harshe’s Rickenbacker bass is graceful and thick, and Marcy Mays’ Wire-meets-Cheap Trick guitar lofts countless catchy riffs.”
1998’s Nature Film, Scrawl’s last album, is a blend of old and new songs. Songs like “Rot,” “For Your Sister,” “Standing Around,” “Charles,” “11:59 It’s January,” and “Clock Song,” all released prior to Bloodsucker ; and for most purposes unavailable to the band’s fans, but had remained as part of the group’s live repertoire
“get powerful updates, finally capturing the band’s live edge on tape.”
True to form the albums new songs are about bad relationships.
“You Made It a Crime” is scornful, “100 Car Pile-Up” is shameless rage, and “Guess I’ll Wait” is empty resignation.
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases:
He’s Drunk (Cass , LP) (Rough Trade (US) 1988
He’s Drunk (LP) (Rough Trade (UK) 1989
He’s Drunk / Plus, Also, Too (CD, MP3 Album) Rough Trade (US) 1989
Plus, Also, Too (LP) (Rough Trade (US) 1989
Smallmouth (Cass, CD , LP) (Rough Trade (US) 1990
Bloodsucker (CD-EP, 12″, MP3 Album) (Simple Machines Records) 1991
Bloodsucker (CD-EP) (Feel Good All Over) 1991
Misery (Someone Is Winning) / Just Plain Bad (7″) (Singles Only Label) 1992
Velvet Hammer (CD, LP, MP3 Album) (Simple Machines Records) 1993
Working Holiday (January) (7″) (Simple Machines Records) 1993
Your Mother Wants To Know (7″) (Simple Machines Records) 1993
Inside Dave’s Garage – Volume Two (7″) (Radiopaque Recordings) 1994
Good Under Pressure (7″) (Simple Machines Records) 1995
Travel On, Rider (Cass, CD) (Elektra) 1996
Travel On, Scrawl (CD-EP) (Elektra)1996
Nature Film (CD) (Elektra) 1998
Tracks Appear On:
“Reuters” Lever (7″ Comp) (Simple Machines Records) 1991
“Bad Seeds” Fortune Cookie Prize: A Tribute to Beat Happening (CD, LP) (Simple Machines Records) 1992
“Clock Song (Go Girl Go)” International Pop Underground Convention (CD, 2xLP) (K Records) 1992
“Drunken Fool” The Lost Weekend (LP) (Blast First) 1993
” Reuters” The Machines 1990-1993 (CD) (Simple Machines Records) 1993
“Misery (Someone Is Winning)” They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway (2xCD) (WFMU) 1993
“Your Mother Wants To Know” Fuck Loud Music (CD) (Ox Fanzine) 1994
“Good Under Presssure” Volume Eleven (CD, 2xLP) (Volume) 1994
“11:59 It’s January” Working Holiday (CD, 2xCD) ( Simple Machines Records) 1994
Debonair (CD Single1) (Blast First) 1994
Debonair (12″) (Blast First) 1994
Debonair (7″) (Blast First) 1994
“Ready” What Jail Is Like (12″) (Elektra)1994
“Louis L’Amour” Breakin’ Necks, Rockin’ Discotechs (Killer Blows From the Temple of Electra) (CD) (Electra) 1996
“Louis L’Amour” huH, Volume 26 (CD) (Huh Music Service) 1996
“Charles” CMJ New Music Monthly Vol # 58, June 1998 (CD) (CMJ) 1998
“I’m Ready” Gimme Indie Rock. Vol. 1 (2xCD) (K-Tel) 2000
“Charles” The Blue Album, Volume 2
Velvet Hammer (1993)
Playing Time: 37 minutes 3 seconds
1. Your Mother Wants To Know (3:20)
2. Take A Swing (3:54)
3. Disappear Without A Trace (6:10)
4. See (3:17)
5. Face Down (4:00)
6. Tell Me Now, Boy (3:07)
7. Drunken Fool (3:45)
8. Prize (2:41)
9. Blue Green Sea (2:50)
10. Remember That Day (3:59)
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Travel On, Rider (1996)
Playing Time: 40 minutes 36 seconds
1. Good Under Pressure (3:39)
2. The Garden Path (3:11)
3. I’m Not Stuck (4:23)
4. From Deep Inside Her (2:49)
5. Story Musgrave (4:46)
6. Easy On Her Mind (2:46)
7. Hunting Me Down (2:27)
8. Louis L’amour (3:12)
9. Come Back Then (2:49)
10. He Cleaned Up (3:09)
11. Story Musgrave (At The Piano) (3:39)
12. What Did We Give Away? (3:46)
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Nature Film (1998)
Playing Time: 44 minutes 40 seconds
1. Rot (2:54)
2. You Make It A Crime (3:11)
3. Charles (3:02)
4. Don’t We Always Get There? (4:39)
5. Standing Around (2:24)
6. Public Image (2:56)
7. 11:59 (It’s January) (4:46)
8. Clock Song (3:16)
9. Everyone I Saw Tonight (3:04)
10. Nature Film (5:08)
11. For Your Sister (2:49)
12. 100 Car Pile-Up (2:56)
13. Guess I’ll Wait (3:35)
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Trains and Boats and Planes
Taking their name from the title of a Burt Bacharach/Hal Davis song this Danish (Nikolai Nørlund, Søren Kruse, Jens Ole Lembcke, Nikolai Stig Olsen & Soma Hammerlund) group’s one American record, 1994’s Minimal Star , was recorded and produced by Shimmy Discs legendary Kramer.
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases:
Hum (LP EP) (Cloudland Records) 1990
Hum (CD EP) (UFO Records) 1992
Engulfed (CD, LP) (Cloudland Records) 1992
I Like Cars (CD Single) (Cloudland Records) 1993
Minimal Star (CD, MP3 Album) (Shimmydisc) 1993
Tracks Appear On:
“Spook” Snowstorm: A Tribute To Galaxie 500 (2xCD) (Elefant Records) 2001
Minimal Star (1993)
Playing Time: 51 minutes 10 seconds
1. Parents’ Place (4:40)
2. I Like Cars (2:30)
3. Private Party (By The Coast) (3:30)
4. Minimal Star (4:45)
5. She Had Us (3:59)
6. All We Got (2:35)
7. A Wake (4:09)
8. Playback (3:48)
9. Kitty Wu (4:58)
10. Genius Spider (5:14)
11. Pat Is Free (2:52)
12. You Hear! My Dear (3:30)
13. Timelove (4:40)
Tags: Alternative rock, Indie Rock, Noise-Rock
I’m on Vacation – See You in a Couple of Weeks
I’ll be taking some well deserved R & R but before I go I thought I’d leave you with some music to tide you over until I return.
These two compilations cover just about every popular musical genre given a name, the mid 1940’s jive of Harry “The Hipster” Gibson, 60’s psychedelica from Country Joe & The Fish and the Small Faces, Latin Rap from Delinquent Habits, the psychedelic Soul/funk of Funkadelic, Garage Rock from the Sonics and Indie Pop/Indie Rock from Sebadoh.
Music to Floss Your Ears With! (1996)
Playing Time: 49 minutes 2 seconds
1. Skold – Neverland (4:41)
2. Republica – Ready To Go (5:02)
3. Delinquent Habits – Tres Deliquentes (4:23)
4. Babe The Blue Ox – Stand By Your Man (4:10)
5. Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise – Once Upon A Time (3:22)
6. Skold – Anything (4:09)
7. Zoë – Hammer (4:17)
8. Delinquent Habits – When The Stakes Are High (3:32)
9. Republica – Wrapp (1:45)
10. Babe The Blue Ox – Can’t Stand Up (3:17)
11. Zoë – The Lion Roars (6:52)
12. Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise – California (3:32)
Mojo – Feed Your Head (2002)
Playing Time: 1 hour 13 minutes 30 seconds
1. Dramatics – The Devil Is Dope (5:25)
2. Sonics – Strychnine (2:12)
3. Nat Adderley – Quit It (3:49)
4. Small Faces – Here Comes The Nice (3:03)
5. Dillinger – Cocaine In My Brain (5:10)
6. Donovan – Sunny Goodge Street (2:56)
7. Country Joe & The Fish – Bass Strings (3:59)
8. Pretty Things – Defecting Gray (5:11)
9. Flamin’ Groovies – Slow Death (4:40)
10. Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos (3:47)
11. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It) (7:38)
12. Sebadoh – Too Pure (3:49)
13. Mighty Hannibal – The Truth Shall Make You Free (3:18)
14. James Booker – Junco Partner (5:09)
15. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (10:20)
16. Harry “The Hipster” Gibson – Who Put The Benzedrine? (3:04)
Feed Your Head (Part 1)
Feed Your Head (Part 2)
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, British Psychedelia, Early R & B, Folk-Rock, Garage Rock, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Jive, Latin Rap, Piano Blues, Power Pop, Psychedelic Soul, Soul, Swing
More Music From Minnesota
Flour
Flour was the solo project of Minneapolis musician Pete “Flour” Conway who was also the bassist for
“two of the finest post-punk/guitar noise bands of their era, Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport”
Recording as Flour, with only minimal instrumental assistance and an overtaxed drum machine, he released four solo albums (the first two are on one CD) of claustrophobic noise, of which Fourth and Final is, as the title suggests, is the last.
One critic went so far as to suggest that Flour’s sound
“is reminiscent of that Big Black/Helios Creed wall-of-shit approach, crossed with Eno’s early pop-whuzz”
while Flour/Luv 713 songs
“are pleasant pieces of atmospheric blanket-snuff.”
Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured Steve Albini (Big Black, Rapeman) on bass and Todd Trainer (Breaking Circus) on drums, before they went on to form the band Shellac.
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases:
Flour (LP) (Touch And Go) 1988
Luv 713 (Cass, CD, LP) (Touch And Go) 1990
Machinery Hill (Cass, CD, LP) (Touch And Go) 1990
Fourth And Final (CD, LP) (Touch And Go) 1994
Appears On:
Complex (12″, EP) ( Ruthless Records) 1985
Smokers’ Paradise (12″, EP) ( Homestead Records) 1987
Live At The Entry, Dead At The Exit (LP) (Angry Fish Music) 1989 Live At The Entry, Dead At The Exit (CD) (Ruthless Records) 1989
Primo (LP) (Big Money Inc, Ruthless Records) 1990
Call It A Day (12″) (Touch And Go) 1991
Call It A Day (CD) (Touch And Go) 1991
Call It A Day / Eye For An Eye – Tooth For A Tooth (CD) (Touch And Go) 1991
Little Drummer Boy (7″) (Big Money Inc) 1991
Truth Will Out (CD, Album) (Invisible) 1993
Truth Will Out / Washingmachine Mouth (2xCD) (Devotion Records UK) 1993
Washingmachine Mouth (CD) (Invisible) 1993
Washingmachine Mouth (Cassette) (Invisible) 1993
The Best Of Pigface: Preaching To The Perverted (2xCD) (Invisible) 2001
Pigface – Fook (3xCD) (Invisible, Underground, Inc.) 2005
Tracks Appear On:
“One Step At A Time” Du Huskers: The Twin Cities Replays Zen Arcade (CD) (Synapse Recordings) 1993
“Blood” All Tomorrow’s Parties (3xCD) (Not On Label) 2002
Flour – Luv 713 (1989)
Playing Time: 1 hour 8 minutes 32 seconds
| LUV 713 | FLOUR |
|---|---|
| 1. Rain Reign (3:00) | 11. Love (4:59) |
| 2. Bodies On Fire (2:21) | 12. Red (2:15) |
| 3. Kick Now (3:51) | 13. Accordian (3:08) |
| 4. The Face (3:25) | 14. Grey (2:35) |
| 5. Braindead Genius (3:09) | 15. Coffee (3:22) |
| 6. Nicky’s Sister (4:11) | 16. Intro (3:42) |
| 7. Love Kills (1:54) | 17. 1×1 (2:09) |
| 8. Break Away (3:47) | 18. Blood (3:36) |
| 9. Fish Or Cut Bait (3:10) | 19. Mirror (2:04) |
| 10. Midi This (4:53) | 20. Outro (3:57) |
| 21. Starts A Fire (3:04) |
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Industrial-Punk, Noise-Rock
Run Westy Run
Stylistically dissimilar to any of Minneapolis’ other post-punk guitar bands, Run Westy Run; with Kirk Johnson (vocals), brother Kraig (guitar), Terry Fisher (guitar), Tom Merkl (bass), and Bobby J. (drums) over the course of three albums experimented with “noisy blues, dissonant rock, chunky funk and twisted country.” Probably because they never developed a singular musical style, unlike fellow Minneapolis contemporaries, The Replacements or Husker Du, Run Westy Run never achieved greater national recognition.
The group signed with Greg Ginn’s SST Records (home to Husker Du, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Dinosaur jr. and the Meat Puppets) in the late 1980’s, and their first full length, 1988’s Hardly Not Even was produced by Husker Du’s Grant Hart and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. The album proved to be primarily a showcase for
“Kirk Johnson’s literate lyrics and dramatic vocals, plus the band’s complementary guitarists.“
Their second album, the self-produced Run Westy Run, is noted for the marked differences between the first halves clearer, melodic, folk-inflected songs and the second halves emphasis on early-’70s slop-rock and
“Stoogey storm of thick guitar drive.”
With SST Records facing bankruptcy 1990’s Green Cat Island was released on Minneapolis based Twin/Tone Records. Co-produced by Peter Buck the album with the exception of a few
” folky lullabies like “Kiss the Night,” and “So Long”
manages to channel vintage Rolling Stones and Aerosmith.
The Westies last full length, 1994’s Cockroach Park was self produced and recorded over the space of several days at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
Kraig Johnson has also played with, mostly-local supergroup, Golden Smog, and the Jayhawks.
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases:
Dizzy Road +2 (7″ EP) (Tontine) 1986
Hardly Not Even (LP) (SST Records) 1988
Run Westy Run (CD, LP) (SST Records) 1988
Plowed Into God EP (7″) (Big Money) 1990
Green Cat Island (CD, LP) (Twin/Tone Records) 1990
Cockroach Park 1994
David’s Drum (CD Single) (Big Money) 1995
Run Westy Run – Green Cat Island (1990)
Playing Time: 41 minutes 27 seconds
1. Johnny John (3:38)
2. Electrick Co (3:24)
3. Kiss the Night (2:49)
4. Keep Out (2:19)
5. Starlight (3:22)
6. Last Swallow (4:47)
7. Could Ya Would Ya (3:55)
8. Cardinal Drive (3:28)
9. Hate in the Morning (2:27)
10. Whada (3:46)
11. Get On (3:41)
12. So Long (3:51)
The Twin Cities – 1995
I love going on business trips or a vacation where you actually go some place because it always affords me the opportunity to check out the local “indie” record store. Some stores, like Amoeba Records , in Berkley, California, are so large that you might consider packing a lunch. Most stores are much smaller. When we go to Ocean City, New Jersey I always visit the punk record shop on the boardwalk, and at The Cape you’ll find me at Spinnakers in Hyannis or Falmouth.
In the spring of 1995 I attended a designers conference in the Twin Cities. Held biennially by my former employer these conferences provided me plenty of opportunity to visit local record shops throughout the Midwest and west. Luckily for me, at the Twin Cities conference Cheapo Discs was right next door to our hotel.
When buying records on these trips I make it a point to only buy that which I haven’t seen locally. I do have one major restriction thought and that’s not to break the bank buying records; because as my wife always asks, don’t you have enough records…. yet????
Fourteen years after buying these three cds I couldn’t possibly tell you why I bought these particular cds. With all the discs at Cheapo Discs I’m certain I could have chosen wiser; but this is what makes it fun, taking a flyer on someone you’ve never heard of, because just possibly you’ll find that elusive perfect record.
I’M STILL LOOKING!!!
The Campfire Girls
Formed in Los Angeles in 1993 the Campfire girls consisted of Christian Stone (vocals/guitar), Mike Semple (guitar), Andrew Clark (bass), Jon Pikus (drums) and Kelli Scott (drums on Tell Them Hi).
The seven song Mood Enhancer EP with its rocked-out grunge and fuzz rock influences is considered a near cult classic; and until the release of Delongpre in 2002 would be the nearest thing to a full- length that the group ever released.
On the strength of a few singles and local performances in the L.A. area the band signed with Interscope Records in 1994. The band would record 15 songs in their basement studio, but before the album was released the band imploded, a victim of both drugs and personal squabbling. In 2000, with the encouragement of Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland, the band re-formed and in 2002 those shelved tracks were released as the full length Delongpre.
While Mood Enhancer never sounds overly dated, the same can not be said of Delongpre,
“which trades for the most part in post-grunge clichés… sludgy mid-tempo textures and an almost complete lack of interesting melodies or hooks.”
2003’s Tell Them Hi with it’s smoother production values, dual guitar work from Christian Stone and Mike Semple and
“pure aggressive pop loaded with heavy life experiences and dark melodies” make for a polished sophomore effort.”
Discography
Releases:
Little Wolverine/Post-Coital (Boy’s Life) 1994
Lifter & Campfire Girls (7″) (Fingerpaint Records, Boy’s Life Records) 1995
Sad Dog (Atlantic) 1995
Mood Enhancer E.P. (10″) (Beggars Banquet) 1995
Mood Enhancer E.P. (CD) (Beggars Banquet) 1995
Delongpre (CD) (Tornado) 2002
Delongpre (Digital Download)
Tell Them Hi (CD) (Interscope) 2003
Tell Them Hi (Digital Download)
Tracks Appear On:
“Motorola Casanova” Turn It Up & Pass It On, Volume 4 1995
Water Music (CD) (Just Add Water) 1995
Classic Dinner Music (Airwalk) (CD) (Interscope) 1995
“Motorola Casanova” This Ain’t No Sippin’ Tea (CD) (Beggars Banquet) 1996
“Perry Farrell Ate My Girlfriend” Modern Day Paintings By Original Artists (CD) (Fingerpaint Records) 1997
“Someday” The Inside Track (CD) (Interscope) 2003
“Someday” CMJ New Music Monthly, Volume 120: January/February 2004 (CD) (CMJ) 2004
“Ode To El Niño” The Suburbans (CD, Digital Download) (Ignite) 2000
Campfire Girls – Mood Enhancer EP
Playing Time: 36 minutes 48 seconds
1. Upon (1:21)
2. Motorola Cassanova (3:28)
3. Homework (3:23)
4. Little Wolverine (5:46)
5. Quick Phone Call (4:48)
6. P.F.A.M.G. (3:39)
7. Junkman (14:23)
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Post-Grunge
Capsize 7
Capsize 7, Joe Taylor (Guitar/Vocals), Geoff Abell (Guitar/Backing Vocals), Mike Jackson (Bass), and Chris Toms (Drums) was part of the same 1990s Chapel Hill indie rock boom that birthed Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, and Polvo. Their sound was a blend of the
“Archers’s fractured power-pop and Polvo’s baroque guitar shapes with Slint’s churning rawness”
they never lasted long enough “to garner their share of the hype.”
Discography
Releases:
Mephisto (CD) (Caroline Records) 1995
Recline and Go (CD) (Hep-Cat) (1995)
Tracks Appear On:
“The Safe” CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 28 (CD) (College Music Journal) 1995
“Column Shifter” Immortal: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD) (Permanent) 1996
“Queen Bitch” Crash Course for the Ravers: A Tribute to David Bowie (CD) (Undercover Records) 2003
Capsize 7 – Mephisto
Playing Time: 38 minutes 44 seconds
1. Column Shifter (2:48)
2. Armstrong (2:24)
3. Pong (1:54)
4. Western Friese (3:04)
5. Blasting. Radios Off (3:00)
6. Blower (2:48)
7. 1-8 (4:18)
8. The Safe (2:57)
9. Remote Control Human (2:22)
10. Ash Man (4:42)
11. Tomato Paste (2:17)
12. Connecticut (2:30)
13. Malt Lemur (3:40)
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Indie Rock
The Edsel Auctioneer
Taking their name from Ford’s ill-fated automobile, The Edsel Auctioneer; Ashley Horner (guitar/ vocals), Phil Pettler (bass/ vocals), Aidan Winterburn (vocals, guitar) and Chris Cooper (drums) formed in Leeds in 1988.
In early 1988 they recorded several songs for a small Glasgow indie label, unreleased the tape found its way to legendary English DJ John Peel who invited the band to Maida Vale studios to record a session. The group’s first Peel Session produced four songs; “Brickwall Dawn”, “Blind Hurricane”, “Between Two Crimes” and “Place In the Sun.” This Peel Session was broadcast in late 1988 and once again in 1989 as the group would record another Peel Session in 1993.
On the basis of the 1989 Peel Sessions the band signed with Manchester’s Decoy Records, also home to Mega City Four. Their first single, produced by Iain Burgess, “Our New Skin/ Strung”, was released in 1989. They released the Stickleback EP in 1990 and later that year those first two releases were combined and released as the mini-album Voice of the Harolds.
With a sound that clearly showed the influence of indie noise merchants Dinosaur Jr., Hüsker Dü and My Bloody Valentine, along with touches of the Byrds, the Monkees, the Go-Betweens and the Pixies the band proved moderately successful in the UK;
“supporting bands like Teenage Fanclub, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Senseless Things, the Telescopes, Buffalo Tom, Silverfish, the Lemonheads and the Wedding Present.”
In 1992 Chris Cooper left to join the Pale Saints and was replaced on drums by Tris Williams. Simmer, their first full length was recorded in Edinburgh and at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in late 1990. Produced by Chris Nagle the album, due to Decoy Records financial problems, wasn’t released until 1992.
While Simmer produced a series of singles, “Starfish”, “Slouch” and “Undertow” continuing financial problems resulted in Decoy Records folding and the band was forced to look for a new label. Following a US tour and an appearance at 1993’s CMJ festival in New York they signed with Alias Records.
Their second full length, The Good Time Music of… was recorded in the summer of 1994 with The Cure’s engineer Steve Whitfield producing. Released by Alias in 1995 the album spans
“a number of genre, including noise, bubblegum pop, grunge and country.”
The album did produce one single, the breezy bubblegum pop song, “Summer Hit”, with Meriel Barham from Pale Saints singing back-up, but with little label support the album withered on the vine and in late 1995 the band broke up.
Discography
Our New Skin / Strung (7″) (Decoy) 1989
Gutted EP (7″, 12″) (Decoy) 1990
Stickleback (7″, 12″) (Decoy) 1990
Voice Of The Harolds (EP) (Decoy) 1990
Voice Of The Harolds (LP) (Decoy) 1990
Voice Of The Harolds (CD, EP) (Decoy) 1990
Starfish (12″) (Decoy)1991
Jimmy Starfish / Beatslag Day (7″) (Clawfist) 1992
Pop Song # 2 (7″) (Summershine) 1992
Simmer (CD, LP) (Decoy) 1992
Slouch (7″) (Decoy) 1992
Undertow (7″) (Decoy) 1992
Symmetry / Stuntman (5″) (Alias Records) 1995
The Good Time Music Of … (CD) (Alias Records) 1995
The Good Time Music Of … (Digital Download)
Tracks Appear On:
“Did She Ever Pay?” Knowing Where It All Leeds (CD) (Stolen Sounds) 1991
“Lost Interest” Ruta 66 (CD, LP) 1991
“Summer Hit” Summer Hit! (CD) (Running Circle) 1995
“Summer Hit” Spin This 6 (CD)
“I Cut A Hole” Untitled (Flexi, 7″) (Ablaze! Magazine)
The Edsel Auctioneer – The Goodtime Music Of…
Playing Time: 47 minutes 37 seconds
1. Summer Hit (3:04)
2. Simple (3:44)
3. Philled (3:31)
4. Stuntman (2:52)
5. What’s The Use? (4:58)
6. 11Th September ‘94 (4:23)
7. Hangover (2:47)
8. Faces One (4:10)
9. Haircut (4:13)
10. Country Song (4:20)
11. Shortchanged (4:41)
12. Just Can’t Believe It (4:54)
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock
By Request: The Dentists
I had a request from Melon to refresh the links to my August 27, 2007 post about England’s psychedelic posters, The Dentists.
The albums posted are 1992’s Dressed, 1994’s Behind The Door I Keep The Universe and 1995’s Deep Six.
So for Melon and those of you who may have missed it the first time around here is the direct link:
http://bitemefanboy.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/no-pain-with-these-dentists/
Your dentist should be so cool…
There Was A Time I Use To Dream: Mega City Four
Mega City Four formed in the mid 1980’s in the Hampshire, Southern England town of Farnborough. The band consisted of singer/guitarist Darren “Wiz” Brown, his brother and rhythm guitarist/vocalist Danny Brown, bassist/vocalist Gerry Bryant and drummer Chris Jones.
Their debut single, “Miles Apart”/“Running In Darkness,” released in September 1987, resulted in a round of gigs with the bands Senseless Things and Snuff.
“Miles Apart” and “Running In Darkness” were re-released separately in 1988 on independent Decoy Records, but it wasn’t until the release of 1989’s, “Less Than Senseless,” that the critics began to take notice.
Produced by Iain Burgess the group’s debut full length, Tranzophobia, was released in 1989, and unlike many debut albums did not include any of the eight tracks from the band’s first four 7-inch singles.
Already “noted for their hard-working ethics and extensive touring ethos” the band toured extensively around the UK, Europe and North America in support of the album
“working with bands including Les Thugs, Midway Still, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and Doughboys.”
For their second album, 1990’s Who Cares Wins, the group once again worked with producer Iain Burgess. Jack Rabid, editor-in-chief of The Big Takeover noted that
“the mix is murkier than it should be, and the long record sounds as if it were pressed on cardboard-but the band’s work is dramatically improved.”
When Mega City Four signed to Big Life their former label, Decoy Records, released the twelve-song Terribly Sorry Bob, a compilation of all their non-LP tracks to date.
While signed to Big Life Records the group would record two studio albums, 1992’s Sebastopol Road and 1994’s Magic Bullets.
Produced by Jessica Corcoran Sebastopol Road with it’s
“dense pop songs with deep, jagged edges,” and“mid-range pop-punk crunch with plenty of emphasis on the pop”
earned the group its first UK Top 40 for the single “Stop” and was the group’s only US studio album release; but UK pop fame proved fleeting and a falling-out with Big Life Records consigned 1994’s Magic Bullets to relative obscurity and left the band without a record label.
In the two years before the group signed with Fire Records the group released the The Peel Sessions, which included sessions from 1988 and 1993.
Abrasive and noted by a tight post-punk attack 1996’s Soulscraper is a marked turn around from the pop warmness of 1992’s Sebastopol Road.
Following the release of Soulscraper in 1996 the group broke up with Wiz moving to Montreal and joining the Canadian alternative rock band Doughboys. While a member of the Doughboys “he co-wrote two songs each on the albums, Turn Me On (1996) and Crush (1993).” After the Doughboys broke up he returned to the UK and formed the group Serpico. At the time of his death in December 2006, from a cerebral blood clot, he was leading the group Ipanema. He was 44.
“The Forward 4 Wiz trust was set up in April 2007 in memory of Wiz’s inspirational approach to music and to life. Always striving forward, the trust has taken Wiz’s attitude and applied it to what he loved most. New music.”
MEGA CITY FOUR DISCOGRAPHY
Singles, EPs and Full-length
Clear Blue Sky / Distant Relatives (7″) (Decoy) 1988
Miles Apart / Running In Darkness (7″) (Primitive, Decoy) 1988
Awkward Kid / The Cradle (7″) (Decoy) 1989
Less Than Senseless / Dancing Days Are Over (7″) (Decoy) 1989
The Singles (12″) (Vinyl Solution) 1989
Tranzophobia (CD, LP) (Decoy) 1989
Finish (7″, EP) (Decoy) 1990
Finish (12″, EP) (Decoy) 1990
There Goes My Happy Marriage (12″, EP) (Houlala) 1990
Who Cares Wins (Cass, CD, LP) (Decoy, Vinyl Solution) 1990
…And Smells Of Petrol Stations… (12″) ( Bondage Records) 1991
Stop (Maxi, Single) (Big Life) 1991
Stop (7″) (Big Life) 1991
Stop (CD, Maxi) (Big Life) 1991
Stop (12″) (Big Life) 1991
Stop (7″) (CNR Records) 1992
Terribly Sorry Bob (CD, LP) (Decoy) 1991
Words That Say (12″) (Big Life) 1991
Words That Say (7″) (Big Life) 1991
Live (7″, EP) (Big Life) 1992
Sebastopol Road (Cass, CD, Album) (Big Life) 1992
Shivering Sand (12″, S/Sided) (Big Life) 1992
Shivering Sand (CD, Maxi) (Big Life) 1992
Iron Sky (7″) (Big Life) 1993
Iron Sky (10″) (Big Life) 1993
The Peel Sessions (CD) (Dutch East India Trading) 1993
Wallflower (7″) (Big Life) 1993
Wallflower (10″) (Big Life) 1993
Superstar/Chrysanth (7″, CD Single) (Fire) 1995
Android Dreams (CD, Maxi) (Fire Records, Park ‘n Ride US) 1996
Soulscraper (CD, LP) (Fire) 1996
Tranzophobia (CD) (Cherry Red) 2002
Skidding(7″, CD Single) (Fire) 2003
Tracks Appear On:
“What You’ve Got” Justice Is Our Conviction (LP) (State Injustice) 1989
“What We’ve Got” Sounds Blasts! EP3 (7″, EP) (Sounds Magazine) 1989
“No Time” Untitled (7″) (Vinyl Solution)1989
“On Another Planet”, “Clear Blue” Now Thats Disgusting Music (CD, LP) Too Pure 1990
“A Hard Days Night” Revolution No. 9: A Tribute to The Beatles (CD) (Quattro, Pop God) 1991
“Stop” IndieHits (Cass, CD) (Telstar) 1992
“Enemy Skies” In A Field Of Their Own Volume 2 – Glastonbury 93 (2xCD) (New Musical Express) 1993
“Iron Sky” Independent 20 Volume 17 (2xLP,CD) (Beechwood Music)1993
“Wallflower” The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze, And Brit-Pop Gems Of The Last Millennium (4xCD) (Rhino Entertainment Company) 2007
“Drown” By Any Means Necessary (2xLP) (Youth Against Racism In Europe)
SERPICO DISCOGRAPHY
Everyone vs Everyone (UK Serpico) 2001
IPANEMA DISCOGRAPHY
“Je Suis un Baseball Bat” / “Skull” (7″) (Boss Tuneage) 2003 Me, Me, Me EP (10″, CD) (Boss Tuneage) 2005
Ipanema S/T (CD) (Boss Tuneage) 2008
Sebastopol Road (1992)
Playing Time: 44 minutes 13 seconds
1. Ticket Collector (4:08)
2. Scared of Cats (2:41)
3. Callous (3:52)
4. Peripheral (3:30)
5. Anne Bancroft (3:30)
6. Prague (3:48)
7. Clown (4:04)
8. Props (3:44)
9. What’s Up (3:27)
10. Vague (3:51)
11. Stop (3:51)
12.Wasting My Breath (3:47)
Soulscraper (1996)
Playing Time: 43 minutes 10 seconds
1. Android Dreams (2:26)
2. The Dog Lady (4:59)
3. Skidding (1:56)
4. I Stop Breathing (4:01)
5. Creepy Crawlies (4:47)
6. Circles Of One (5:03)
7. I Know Where You Live (3:36)
8. Superstar (2:35)
9. Walking-Glass (4:40)
10. Slow Down (4:27)
11. Picture Perfect (4:40)
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Indie Rock
Reading ‘95 II or Sometimes We Bite Off More Than We Can Chew
When Grunge finally broke free from the narrow confines of America’s Pacific Northwest at the end of the 1980’s it swept away everything in it’s path. In the States Glam Metal/Hair Metal bands that had dominated the American musican scene for the better part of a decade were suddenly dinosaurs.
The English music scene by the end of the 1980’s had become increasingly moribund. The Smiths with “Morrissey’s lovelorn tales of alienation” broke up mid decade, and as Avis is to Hertz, The Wedding Present tried harder but wasn’t enough to cut through the ennui. Dream Pop and its attendant Shoe Gazer bands as a movement peaked and then quickly crest in 1991 following the release of My Blood Valentine’s Loveless… and the arrival of Grunge on British shores.
Grunge was short lived as a movement or a life style, but musically it’s influences still resonate nearly 20 years later, and with it’s success Alternative/Indie Rock finally escaped from the college rock radio ghetto and prove once-and-for-all that it was commercially viable.
In England the success of of the newly-commercialized grunge music, and notably that of Nirvana forced British bands to change their sound and style. American bands had been confronted with that same issue nearly thirty years earlier when British groups, most famously The Beatles, but also including:
Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman’s Hermits, The Rolling Stones, The Troggs, Donovan, The Who, The Kinks, and The Dave Clark Five
had dominated American rock radio and Top 40 from 1964 until 1966. That dominance would end with 1967’s Summer of Love when listeners turned their attention from “Swinging London” to San Francisco and the first wave of “psychedelic” bands:
the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Byrds, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Country Joe and the Fish.
In the early 1990’s Britpop, another alternative rock genre,
“emerged in part as a reaction against the dominance of grunge in the United Kingdom.”
and also as a reaction to British Dream Pop bands who had
“became perceived by critics as over-privileged, self-indulgent and middle-class”
Wrapping themselves figuratively and sometime literally in the Union Jack Britpop bands reveled in their Britishness, while for the listener Britpop
“offered intelligible lyrics, often about the trials and tribulations of working-class life; this was a stark contrast to the “vocals as an instrument” approach of the shoegazers, which often prized the melodic contribution of vocals over their lyrical depth.”
and replaced “the dourness of grunge” with “youthful exuberance”
While Britpop would remain the dominant musical form in the UK from 1993 until 1999, the roster of performers at England’s annual Reading Festivals would seem indicate that its peak was from 1995 to 1997.
Not everyone was enthused by Britpop as these reviews of the 1995 and 1997 Festivals make abundantly clear:
1995
“Britpop (sad indie shite by any other name) is all the rage so Gene, Menswear, Marion, Shed Seven, Echobelly, 60ft Dolls, Heavy Stereo, Ash, The Bluetones, My Life Story and Cast all play.”
1997
“James, Suede… The Lemonheads, Super Furry Animals, Embrace, a tedious Manics, Symposium, The Verve, Eels, Hurricane Number 1 and Snug represent the sad indie shite brigade.”
The groups in this post all played 1995’s Reading Festival, while all the albums, except for backsaturday, are debut full lengths.
Defiantly politically correct, Echobelly’s sound is an amalgam of “the ironic, self-absorbed viewpoint of the Smiths”, stylish Blondie posturing and some solid guitar crunch.
Echobelly’s debut full length Everybody’s Got One, EGO for short “clearly echoes one of the great English self-obsessives, Morrissey.” Led by vocalist Sonya Aurora Madan the band gained perhaps too much U.K. press attention “over the surprising fact that she was non-Caucasian and non-male.”
By the mid-’90s he band will find itself eclipsed by contemporaries like Elastica and Sleeper, although the group still maintained a “dedicated cult following in the U.S. and U.K.” and a devoted Japanese fan base.
The Welch band 60 Ft. Dolls, Richard Parfitt (vocals/guitar), Mike Cole (bass) and Carl Beven (drums) found their inspiration in the music of the Who, the Clash, and the Jam, and surprisingly from Motown. With Beven citing John Bonham and Keith Moon as influences there’s little wonder that the band builds up a rowdy following around Wales. They release their debut single, “Happy Shopper”, in 1994, and by 1995 they’re opening for Veruca Salt on the New Musical Express Brat Bus tour and sharing 1995’s Reading Festival Melody Maker Stage with the Foo Fighters. By 1999 their done.
Leisester, England based Prolapse was never considered Britpop. With two vocalists, “Scottish Mick” Derrick and Linda Steelyard, two guitarists, Pat Marsden and David Jeffreys, bassist Mick Harrison, keyboardist Donald Ross and drummer Tim Pattison, this seven piece sound can best be compared the Birthday Party, the Cure, and Bauhaus.
Unlike their subsequent albums that tended to be lush
backsaturday is an “interesting” second album recorded in a couple of days without the precaution of writing songs before rolling the tape
and with its focal point “noisy rock derived from P.I.L. and the Fall” and marked by the extremes of “imaginative noisemaking or well-executed, taut, post-punk rhythms.”
Originally conceived as a reaction to Britpop, 1996’s Fuzzy Logic, the debut album by Super Furry Animals, with it’s fusion of the ’70s pop of Mott the Hoople and David Bowie, psychedelia, and art rock proved to be anything but. Reaching #23 on the UK Albums Chart, the album also produced two top 20 hits “If You Don’t Want Me to Destroy You” and “Something 4 the Weekend”.
Q Magazine named it as one of the Top 10 Britpop Albums Ever in December 1996, and in 2004 listed it as one of the Best British Albums Ever. It’s also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Here is a link to the complete list of Artists and albums that the book covers.
Los Angeles native singer/song writer Julie Daniels forms Star 69 in London in the mid 1990’s with Patch Hannan, Richard Cordon and Warren Huart. Without even releasing a single they play Reading 95’s Carlsberg Stage. In 1996 the group releases two singles, plays the 1996 Reading Festival and signs with Radioactive Records. Relocating to Los Angeles that same year they record their debut full length Eating February with Cracker and John Hiat producer Don Smith.
Echobelly Discography
Singles, EPs and Full-length
Bellyache (12″) (Pandemonium Records) 1993
Bellyache EP (CD) (Pandemonium Records) 1993
Close…But (12″) (Fauve Records) 1994
Close…But (CD Single) (Fauve Records) 1994
Everyone’s Got One (CD) (Fauve Records, Rhythm King, Sony Music) 1994
I Can’t Imagine The World Without Me (7″, 12″, CD Single ) (Fauve Records) 1994
Insomniac (12″, CD Single) (Fauve Records, Transglobal) 1994
Great Things (Cass Single) (Rhythm King Records) 1995
Great Things EP (CD Single, CD1) (Fauve Records, Rhythm King) 1995
Great Things EP (CD Single, CD2) (Fauve Records, Rhythm King) 1995
Insomniac (CD) (Rhythm King Records) 1995
King Of The Kerb (CD Single) (Fauve Records, Rhythm King Records, Sony Music Australia) 1995
King Of The Kerb (CD Single, CD1) (Fauve Records) 1995
King Of The Kerb (CD Single, CD2) (Fauve Records) 1995
On EP (CD) (Rhythm King,550 Music, Fauve Records) 1995
Here Comes The Scene (7″) ( Fauve Records) 1995
Dark Therapy (7″, 12″, CD Single) (Fauve Records) 1996
Here Comes The Big Rush EP (CD Single, CD1) (Epic) 1997
Here Comes The Big Rush EP (CD Single, CD2) (Epic) 1997
Here Comes The Big Rush (12″) (Epic) 1997
Lustra (Cass, CD ) (Epic) 1997
The World Is Flat EP (CD Single, CD1) (Epic) 1997
The World Is Flat EP (CD Single, CD2) (Epic) 1997
Digit EP (CD) (Fry Up) 2000
People Are Expensive (CD) (Fry Up) 2001
Best of Echobelly: I Can’t Imagine The World Without Me (CD) (Epic Europe) 2001
Tell Me Why (CD Single) (Fry Up) 2001
Kali Yuga (CD Single) (Fry Up) 2001
Gravity Pulls (CD) (Takeout Records) 2004
Lustra (CD) (Sony) 2007
The Best Of Echobelly (CD) (SonyBMG) 2008
Tracks Appear On:
“Insomniac”, “Sober” 1494 (CD) (Les Inrockuptibles) 1994
“Today Tomorrow Sometime Never” Class Of ‘94 (Cass) (Vox Magazine) 1994
“Insomniac” Dumb And Dumber (OST)(CD) (RCA) 1994
“I Can’t Imagine The World Without Me” Indie Top 20 Volume 20 (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1994
“Bellyache (Remix)” Reading Present (Cass) (Melody Maker) 1994
“Father, Ruler, King, Computer” Secret Tracks 2 (Cass) (Select Magazine) 1994
“Fake” Volume Ten (CD) (Volume) 1994
“Give Her A Gun” …Hold On (CD) (Melody Maker) 1995
“Today Tomorrow Sometime Never” Buy British (2xCD) (Dragnet Records, Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) 1995
“Insomniac” CMJ New Music May – Volume 21 (CD) (College Music Journal) 1995
“King Of The Kerb” CMJ New Music November – Volume 27 (CD) (College Music Journal) 1995
“Today Tomorrow Sometime Never” Home Truths (LP) (Echo) 1995
“Close….But ” Indie Top 20 Volume 21 (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1995
“Great Things” Indie Top 20 Volume 22 (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1995
“Great Things” New Voices Vol. 3 (CD) (Rolling Stone (Germany) 1995
“Fake” Sharks Patrol These Waters – The Best Of Volume Part 2 (2xCD) (Volume) 1995
“Car Fiction (Live At Mark Lamarr Show 29.09.95)” The Radio 1 FM Sessions Vol 3 (Cass) (Vox Magazine) 1995
“King Of The Kerbs” Top Of The Pops 2 (2xCD) (Columbia) 1995
“I Can’t Imagine The World Without Me” Best Of Indie Top 20 (Vols 16-22) (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1996
“King Of The Kerb” Britpop Vol. 1 (2xCD) (Columbia, Sony Music (Germany) 1996
“King Of The Kerb” Diesel – General Warning! (CD) (Sony Music (Denmark) 1996
“Pushing Against The Flow (7″ Edit)” Hits Mania ‘96 Volume 1 (CD) (Telstar) 1996
“Great Things” Ladykillers (Cass) (PolyGram TV) 1996
“Great Things” Shine 7 (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1996
“Pantyhose & Roses” The Basement Tapes Volume 1 (Cass) (Melody Maker) 1996
“Great Things” The Best… Album In The World…Ever! (2xCD) (Circa Records Ltd.) 1996
“King Of The Kerb” The Best…Album In The World…Ever! Vol.3 (2xCD) (Circa Records Ltd.) 1996
“Car Fiction” The Mark Radcliffe Sessions (Cass) (Vox Magazine) 1996
“Car Fiction” Tonnage 2: A Compilation (CD) (Epic) 1996
“Great Things” Truebrit – 40 Essential Indie Hits (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1996
“Go Away” Unheard Pleasures (Cass) (Select Magazine) 1996
“Great Things” Very Best Of (CD) (Sony Music Media (Germany) 1996
“Natural Animal” Volume Fourteen – Reading ‘95 Special (2xCD) (Volume) 1996
“Here Comes The Big Rush (Midfield General Vocal Mix)” Block Bustin’ Beats (2xCD) (Solid State Records) 1997
“Here Comes The Big Rush” Compilation Artist News Décembre 1997 Vol. 1 (CD) (Sony Music (France) 1997
“Dark Therapy” Crush (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1997
Dark Therapy (New Version)” Long Live Tibet (2xLP, CD) (EMI Records) 1997
“The World Is Flat” Musikexpress 10 (CD) (Musikexpress) 1997
“Bleed” Zoo Magazine CD Sampler 11 (CD) (Zoo Magazine (DK) 1997
“King Of The Kerb” Essential Drive (CD) (Q Magazine) 2001
“King Of The Kerb” Live Forever (2xCD) (Virgin) 2003
“Great Things” 100 Hits 90s (5xCD) (Demon Music Group) 2007
“Great Things” Play It Loud (2xCD) (Universal Music TV) 2007
“Insomniac” The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze, And Brit-Pop Gems Of The Last Millennium (4xCD) (Rhino) 2007
Echobelly – Everyone’s Got One (1994)
Playing Time: 41 minutes 15 seconds
1. Today Tomorrow Sometime Never (3:39)
2. Father Ruler King Computer (2:41)
3. Give Her a Gun (3:37)
4. I Can’t Imagine the World Without Me (3:01)
5. Bellyache (4:30)
6. Taste of You (3:30)
7. Insomniac (4:16)
8. Call Me Names (3:49)
9. Close…But (2:51)
10. Cold feet warm heart (3:28)
11. Scream (5:53)
60ft Dolls Discography
Singles, EPs and Full-length
White Knuckle Ride (Single) (Pinnacle) 1995
Pig Valentine (7″) (Indolent Records) 1995
Hair (10″) (Indolent Records) 1996
Hair (CD Single) (Indolent Records) 1996
Happy Shopper (CD Single) (Indolent Records) 1996
Happy Shopper (7″) (Indolent Records) 1996
Stay (CD Single) (Indolent Records) 1996
Stay (7″) (Indolent Records) 1996
Supernatural Joy EP (CD Maxi) (DGC) 1996
The Big 3 (Cass, CD) (Indolent Records)1996
Talk To Me (CD Single) (Indolent Records) 1996
Talk To Me / Ponyride (7″) (Indolent Records) 1996
The Big 3 (Cass, CD) (Geffen Records) 1997
Alison’s Room EP (CD Maxi) (Indolent Records) 1998
Alison’s Room (CD Single) (Indolent Records) 1998
Joya Magica (CD) (Huge & Jolly) 1999
Tracks Appear On:
“Dr. Rat” Club Spangle Number4Four (7″, EP) (Spangle Records) 1995
“British Racing Green” For Immediate Use (Cass) (Raw Magazine) 1995
“No 1, Pure Alcohol” Home Truths (LP) (Echo) 1995
“Happy Shopper” Indie Top 20 Volume 21 (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1995
“The Universal” Long Agos And Worlds Apart – A Tribute To The Small Faces (Album) (Nippon Crown) 1995
“The Universal” Long Agos And Worlds Apart – A Tribute To The Small Faces (CD) (Nice Records) 1996
“Pig Valentine” Evening Session Priority Tunes (2xCD) (Virgin Records) 1996
“Newloafers”, “Stay” Hardware (CD) (BMG Music Australia) 1996
“Talk To Me” Indie Top 20 Volume 23 (CD) (Beechwood Music) 1996
“Ponyride” London Calling Volume 1 (CD) (London Calling) 1996
“Happy Shopper” Peaceful Greasy Feelin’ (CD) (Geffen) 1996
“Talk To Me” Mad For It (2xCD) (Telstar) 1996
“Talk To Me” Radio One Sound City: Leeds 1996 (CD) (MCI) 1996
“Talk To Me” Shine 5 (2xCD) (PolyGram Record Operations) 1996
“Happy Shopper” Swagalicious (CD) (Geffen Records, Dreamworks, Almo Sounds, Outpost Recordings) 1996
“Talk To Me” Tenacious (CD) (BMG UK & Ireland)1996
“Stay” The Best…Album In The World…Ever! Vol.3 (2xCD) (Circa Records Ltd.) 1996
“Stay The Night” The Magnificent Seven (Cass) (Melody Maker) 1996
“Stay” Spin This 8 (CD) (Not On Label) 1997
“Hair” Vital Distribution At London Music Week (CD) (Vital Distribution) 1997
“No. 1 Pure Alcohol” Snogging and Shagging (CD) (Geffen) 1997
“Ballerina” Fierce Panda Presents: Dial M For Merthyr (2xLP) (Fierce Panda) 1997
“Talk to Me” DangerZone (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1997
“Happy Shopper” Suburban Hymns (CD) (Crimson) 2000
“Stay” KROQ 97 Hits
“Hair (7″ version)” Gimme Shelter
60ft Dolls – The Big 3 (1996)
Playing Time: 41 minutes 48 seconds
1. Happy Shopper (3:04)
2. Stay (3:00)
3. Pig Valentine (3:17)
4. The One (2:48)
5. Hair (3:16)
6. Talk To Me (2:57)
7. Streamlined (5:13)
8. Loser (3:01)
9. New Loafers (2:05)
10. Good Times (3:11)
11. No. 1 Pure Alcohol (2:41)
12. Terminal Crash Fear (2:54)
13. Buzz (4:21)
Buy The Big 3
Prolapse Discography
Singles, EPs and Full-length
Crate: Songs for Ella (EP, Vinyl) (Cherry Red) 1994
Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc (CD, Maxi) (Cherry Red) 1994
Pointless Walks To Dismal Places (CD, LP) (Cherry Red) 1994
Pull thru’ Barker: Songs for Grandpops Manterfield (CD, Maxi) (Cherry Red) 1994
Backsaturday (LP) (Lissy’s Records) 1995
Backsaturday (CD) (Lissy’s Records) 1995
“T.C.R.” (7″) (Love Train) 1995
“When Space Invaders Were Big”/”Love Like Anthrax” (7″) (Cherry Red) 1995
“Flexed” / “Unroadkill” (12″) (Lissy’s Records) 1996
“Warped Reality #4″ (Flexi, 7″, S/Sided) (Eva-Tone Soundsheets) 1996
Backsaturday (CD) (Jetset Records) 1996
Autocade (2×7″) (Radarscope Records / Radar Records) 1997
Killing The Bland (7″) (Radarscope Records / Radar Records) 1997
The Italian Flag (CD, 2xLP) (Radarscope Records, Jetset) 1997
Deanshanger (7″) (Radarscope Records / Radar Records) 1998
Deanshanger (CD Single) (Radarscope Records / Radar Records) 1998
Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes (CD, LP) (Cooking Vinyl, Jetset Records) 1999
“Fob.Com” (7″Single) (Cooking Viny) 2000
Tracks Appear On:
“They Slept in Darkness” A Taste of Tea (Cass) (Tea Records) 1993
“P.D.F.”, “Screws” An Assortment (CD) ( Cherry Red) 1994
“Visa For Violet And Van” Volume Twelve – Winter ‘94 (CD) (Volume) 1994
“Irritating Dub” Ashtray Heart (CD) (Sorted Records) 1995
“Headless In A Beat Motel” Easter Egg-Splosion (7″, Comp) (Basketcase Records) 1995
“P.D.F. (Demo Version)” The Sorted EP (7″, EP, Comp) (Sorted Records) 1995
“TCR (American Mix)” Each Pillow Is Tethered Like a Rock (Cass) (Sorted Records) 1996
“Serpico” Ambitious? (CD) (C & S Records) 1996)
“TCR” CMJ New Music August – Volume 36 (CD) ( College Music Journal) 1996
“TCR” The Camden Crawl II (CD) (Love Train) 1996
“Move To Limit Slabs” Volume Fourteen – Reading ‘95 Special (2xCD) (Volume) 1996
“Chill Blown” Femme Fatale – Volume 1 (CD) (Dressed to Kill) 1997
“Chill Blown” Grrrl Power: A History of Women in Popular Music (3xCD) (Dressed to Kill) 1997
“Autocade” UK Rock Manifesto (Warner Japan) 1998
“Cacophany #A” Drinking From Puddles: A Radio History (CD, 2xLP) (Kill Rock Stars) 1999
“Adiabatic” Delicatessen One: 18 Delicious Creations From the Cooking Vinyl Kitchen (Cooking Vinyl) 2000
“Fob.com” Cooking Vinyl In Rockdelux (CD) (Sinedín Music) 2000
“Murdered by Killers #1″, “Dunblane Hydro” Havock Junction (CD) (Sorted Records) 2001
Alliance Entertainment Caroline Distribution Sampler
Prolapse – Backsaturday (1996)
Playing Time: 46 minutes 26 seconds
1. Mein Minefield. Mine Landmine (2:21)
2. TCR (3:16)
3. Framen Fr. Cesar (7:53)
4. Every Night I’m Mentally Crucified (7000 Times) (2:20)
5. Zen Nun Deb (5:54)
6. Irritating Radiator (5:36)
7. Drown Radio Therapy (1:38)
8. Flex (15:04)
9. Strain Contortion of Bag (2:24)
Buy Backsaturday from Amazon.com
Super Furry Animals Discography
Singles, EPs and Full-length
Llanfairpwllgwngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod EP (7″) (Ankst) 1995
Moog Droog (7″ EP, CD EP) (Ankst) 1995
Fuzzy Logic (CD, LP) (Creation Records, Epic) 1996
God! Show Me Magic (7″, 12″, CD Single) (Creation Records) 1996
Hometown Unicorn (7″, 12″, CD) (Creation Records) 1996
If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You (7″, Cass, CD Single) (Creation Records) 1996
Something 4 The Weekend (CD) (Creation Records) 1996
The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (7″, 12″, CD Single) (Creation Records) 1996
Demons (CD Single) (Creation Records) 1997
Demons / Hit And Run (7″) (Creation Records) 1997
Hermann Loves Pauline (7″, 12″ CD Single) (Creation Records) 1997
Play It Cool (CD) (Creation Records) 1997
Play It Cool / Pass The Time (7″) (Creation Records) 1997
Radiator (CD, 2xLP) (Creation Records) 1997
The International Language Of Screaming (7″, CD Single) (Creation Records) 1997
Ice Hockey Hair (7″, 12″, CD EP ) (Creation Records) 1998
Out Spaced (CD, LP) (Creation Records) 1998
The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (12″) (Creation Records) 1998
Do Or Die (7″, Cass ) (Creation Records) 1999
Fire In My Heart (Cass , CD) (Creation Records) 1999
Fire In My Heart (7″) (Creation Records) 1999
Guerrilla (CD, 2xLP) (Creation Records, Flydaddy Records) 1999
Northern Lites (7″, CD) (Creation Records) 1999
Radiator / Out Spaced (2xCD) (Flydaddy Records) 1999
Do Or Die (CD) (Creation Records) 2000
Liverpool Sound Collage (CD Single) (Hydra) 2000
Mwng (CD, 2xCD,LP) (Flydaddy Records, Placid Casual Recordings) 2000
Ysbeidiau Heulog (7″) (Placid Casual Recordings) 2000
(Drawing) Rings Around The World (12″, Cass , CD) (Epic) 2001
It’s Not The End Of The World? (12″, CD) (Epic) 2001
Juxtapozed With U (12″, CD) (Epic) 2001
Rings Around The World (CD) (Sony Japan) 2001
Rings Around The World (DVD) (Epic) 2001
Rings Around The World (2xCD) (XL Recordings) 2002
Golden Retriever (7″, CD) (Sony Music Entertainment (UK) 2003
Hello Sunshine (7″, CD) (Epic) 2003
Hello Sunshine (DVD Single) Epic 2003
Phantom Power (CD, 2xLP) (Epic, XL Recordings, Sony BMG (UK) 2003
Phantom Power (DVD) (Epic) 2003
Phantom Phorce (2xLP, 2xCD) (Placid Casual Recordings) 2004
Phantom Phorce / Slow Life EP (2xCD) (Beggars Banquet US) 2004
Songbook: The Singles, Volume 1 (2xLP) (Epic) 2004
The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (12″) (Epic) 2004
The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (Live From London’s Hammersmith Apollo) (CD Single) (Epic) 2004
Fuzzy Logic (2xCD) (XL Recordings) 2005
Guerrilla (2xCD) (XL Recordings) 2005
Lazer Beam (7″, 12″, Cd Single) (XL Recordings, Sony BMG (UK) 2005
Love Kraft (CD, 2xLP) (Rough Trade (UK), Beggars Banquet US, Epic, XL Recordings) 2005
Love Kraft (SACD) (Epic) 2005
Mwng (2xCD) (XL Recordings) 2005
Out Spaced (CD) (XL Recordings) 2005
Radiator (2xCD) (XL Recordings) 2005
Songbook: The Singles, Volume One (CD) (Epic) 2005
Hey Venus! (CD, LP) (Rough Trade (UK) 2007
Run Away (7″) (Rough Trade (UK) 2007
Show Your Hand (7″,CD Single) (Rough Trade (UK) 2007
Hey Venus! (CD, Album + CD, EP) (Rough Trade America) 2008
Dark Days/Light Years (CD) (Rough Trade (UK) 2009
Inaugural Trams (CDr Single) (Rough Trade (UK) 2009
Tracks Appear On:
“Hometown Unicorn” Alternator (CD) (Dino Entertainment) 1996 “If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You” Brit Beat…Later Volume One (CD) (Island Records) 1996
“Hometown Unicorn” Class Of 96 (CD) (Vox Magazine) 1996
“Mario Man” Here Comes The Summer… (Cass) (New Musical Express) 1996
“Hometown Unicorn” London Calling Volume 1 (CD) (London Calling) 1996
“Something 4 The Weekend” Shine 5 (2xCD) (PolyGram Record Operations) 1996
“If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You” Shine 7 (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1996
“Mario Man” TOTP – The Cutting Edge (2xCass, 2xCD) (Sony Music TV) 1996
“If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You” The Best…Album In The World…Ever! (2xCD) (Circa Records Ltd.) 1996
“Dim Brys, Dim Chwys” Triskedekaphilia (CD) (Ankst) 1996
“Hometown Unicorn” Vladivar – Good Clean Fun (Cass, Album) (EMI Premium) 1996
“Frisbee (Demo Version)” Volume Sixteen – Copulation Explosion! (CD) (Volume) 1996
“Arnofio / Glô In The Dark” Creation For The Nation (Cass) ( Creation Records, New Musical Express) 1997
“Play It Cool” Shine – Best Of 97 (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1997
“Bad Behaviour” Trackspotting (2xCD) ( PolyGram TV) 1997
“Bad Behaviour” Twin Town Original Soundtrack (CD) (A&M Records (Europe) 1997
“Smokin’” Buzz Mix 3 Go! (CD) (Epic Records (Japan) 1998
“Ice Hockey Hair” Fresh Hits 98 (2xCD) (Sony Music TV, Global Television, Warner.ESP) 1998
“Download (Llwybr Llaethog Mix)” Melody Maker Presents Reading 98 (CD) (Melody Maker) 1998
“Bad Behaviour (Live)” NME Clean Sweep: Live At The London Astoria ‘98 (CD) (New Musical Express) 1998
“Bad Behaviour” Priceless Creation: Sampladelica (CD) (Creation Records) 1998
“Gucamole” Radio 1 Sound City Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (CD) (New Musical Express) 1998
“Focus Pocus / Debiel” Rock Sound Volume 4 (CD) (Rock Sound) 1998
“Ice Hockey Hair” Shine 10 (2xCD) (PolyGram TV) 1998
“Organ Yn Dy Geg” BSE Bangin’ Summer Extravaganza (CD) (Select Magazine) 1999
“The Turning Tide” Musikexpress 31 – Double T Music / The Popular Organization (CD) (Musikexpress) 1999
“Do Or Die” New Voices Vol. 30 (CD) (Rolling Stone (Germany) 1999
“Gathering Moss” Priceless Creation (CD) (Creation Records, New Musical Express) 1999
“Download (Remix)” Spring Offensive (CD) (New Musical Express) 1999
“The Turning Tide” Un Eté 99 (2xCD) (Les Inrockuptibles) 1999
“Dim Bendith” Unconditionally Guaranteed Volume 9 (CD) (Uncut Magazine) 1999
“The Turning Tide” www.bigbuzz.nl (CD) (Epic) 1999
“The Man Don’t Give A Fuck” Creation Records • International Guardians Of Rock ‘N’ Roll 1983-1999 (2xCD, 3xLP) (Columbia, Creation Records) 2000
“Peter Blake 2000″, “Free Now” Liverpool Sound Collage (CD) (Capitol Records, Hydra) 2000
“Northern Lites” Music For The Millennium (CD) (Not On Label) 2000
“Citizen’s Band” The Bands Who (CD) (New Musical Express) 2000
“Ymaelodi Â’r Ymylon” The Deep End (CD) (Select Magazine) 2000
“Shoot Doris Day” 2001 Technics Mercury Music Prize Compilation (CD) (Mercury) 2001
“Sidewalk Serfer Girl” Oorgasm 06 (CD) (Emag!c Entertainment) 2001
“Shoot Doris Day” SPEX CD #11 (CD) ( Spex Magazine) 2001
“Juxtapozed With U” The Album (2xCD) (Circa Records Ltd., Virgin) 2001
“Long Gone” Trigger Happy TV – Soundtrack To Series 2 (CD) (Channel Four Music) 2001
“Juxtapozed With U” Festivalguide Free CD 2002 (CD) (Festivalguide) 2002
“(Drawing) Rings Around Saturn” Virgin Recommends – Volume 7 (CD) (Virgin Megastore) 2002
“Touch Sensitive” DJ Vadim – Stereo Pictures Vol. 03 (CD) (MK2 Music) 2003
“Piccolo Snare” Juillet / Août 2003 (2xCD) (Les Inrockuptibles) 2003
“Juxtapozed With U” Q Presents: Glastonbury 2003 (2xCD) (Emm Records) 2003
“Golden Retriever” SPEX CD #32 (CD) (Spex Magazine) 2003
“Foxy Music” The Amos House Collection Volume III (2xCD) (Wishing Tree Records) 2003
“Golden Retriever” The Cornerstone Player 045 (CD, Promo + DVD) (Cornerstone Promotion) 2003
“Something For The Weekend” John Peel – A Tribute (2xCD) (Warner Strategic Marketing (UK) 2005
“Juxtapozed With U” Revolutions * Alternative Bands Radical Music (2xCD) (Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. 2005
“Frequency” Rough Trade Sampler .02 International Edition (CD) (Rough Trade UK) 2005
“Frequency” Sinnamon Records (CD) (Sinedín Music) 2005
“Ohio Heat” Sounds – Now! (CD) (Musikexpress) 2005
“Slow Life” Winter Sampler ‘05 (CD) (Beggars Group) 2005
“The Proper Ornaments” Les Musiques Que J’aime – My Favorite Songs (2xCD) (Tolerance Records) 2006
“Smoke It (Dave Clarke Remix)” Remixes & Rarities 1992-2005 (2xCD) (Music Man Records) 2006
“Juxtaexposed With You” The Definitive Tom Dunne Vol.01: Pet Picks 2000 – 2006 (2xCD) (Rubyworks) 2006
“Suckers!” Indie Icons (CD, Album) (Rough Trade UK, The Sunday Times) 2007
“Show Your Hand” Morceaux Choisis (CD) (Magic, Bonne Nouvelle Éditions) 2007
“Something 4 The Weekend” The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze, And Brit-Pop Gems Of The Last Millennium (4xCD) (Rhino Entertainment Company) 2007
“The Gift That Keeps Giving” Seen And Heard: 4AD & Rough Trade 2008 Sampler (CD) (4AD) 2008
“Inconvenience” All Areas Volume 103 (CD) (Visions Magazine) 2009
“Inaugural Trams” C09 Rough Trade Compilation (Cass) (Rough Trade (UK) 2009
“The Placid Casual” Musikexpress 16 – Creation Records (CD) (Musikexpress)
“Do Or Die” Shock Waves (CD) (Shock)
Unofficial Releases:
“Lazer Beam” From Man To Mouse (2xLP) (Not On Label) 2007
Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic (1996)
Playing Time: 41 minutes 30 seconds
1. God! Show Me Magic (1:50)
2. Fuzzy Birds (2:28)
3. Something 4 the Weekend (2:51)
4. Frisbee (2:22)
5. Hometown Unicorn (3:33)
6. Gathering Moss (3:23)
7. If You Don’t Want Me to Destroy You (3:17)
8. Bad Behaviour (4:26)
9. Mario Man (4:07)
10. Hangin’ with Howard Marks (4:20)
11. Long Gone (5:20)
12. For Now and Ever (3:33)
Buy Fuzzy Logic
Star 69 Discography
Singles and Full-length
I’m Insane (CD, Maxi) (Radioactive) 1996
I’m Insane (7″, Single) (Radioactive) 1996
You Are Here EP (Radioactive/MCA) 1996
Eating February (CD, Album) (Radioactive) 1997
Tracks Appear On:
“I’m Insane” Chill Out With the Class of ‘97 (CD) (Dennis Maxim) 1997
“I’m Insane” Universal Ser Fremover Vol. 4 (CD) (Universal Music Norway) 1997
“I’m Insane” KROQ 97 Hits
“Hard Act to Follow” California Soul (CD) (Unisex) 2004
“Days of Young” Nu Soul Sessions (2 x CD)(Sessions UK) 2005 )
“I’m Insane” V-71 (disc 1)
Star 69 – Eating February (1997)
Playing Time: 50 minutes 32 seconds
1. You Are Here (3:54)
2. I’m Insane (4:28)
3. Burning Down the House (4:04)
4. Rotten Punch (4:56)
5. I’m Selfish (4:47)
6. Lay Me (4:31)
7. Scabs (2:53)
8. Mama Don’t Let (4:16)
9. Bruise (3:47)
10. I’m Not You (4:17)
11. [silence] (0:04)
12. [silence] (0:04)
66. [silence] (0:04)
67. [silence] (0:05)
68. [silence] (0:48)
69. 69 (4:02)
Buy Eating February
Tags: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Alternative rock, BritPop, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Rock
Hockey Season Is Finally Over And It’s Now Back to Business
| 2009 Stanley Cup Champions | 2009 Calder Cup Champions |
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I’m sure that some of you may have wondered where I’ve been the last month. Well between work, and trying to get the house painted I’ve been on kind of a hockey hiatus, watching an awful lot of hockey. (IMHO) nothing in sports comes close to matching the intensity of play exhibited during The Stanley Cup Playoffs, thought the AHL’s Calder Cup Playoffs is a close second. Hockey players are just a different breed of athlete.
Now I’m not sure if this has ever happened before but on Friday night, June 12th, both the Stanley Cup and Calder Cup were awarded.
Congratulations to both the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009 Stanley Cup Champions and the Hershey Bears 2009 Calder Cup Champions on their achievements.
Lastly, over the last month I have been working on a new post, and hopefully will have it done by the end of the week.
Tags: AHL, Calder Cup Playoffs, Hershey Bears, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins, Stanley Cup Playoffs
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