Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

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yr crazy! 'song iv' is aural xtc.

stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 27 January 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, 'Song IV' is top 10 Arthur-involved cuts, for me.

I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 27 January 2007 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I assume the person who sourced the Arthur Russell is the same person who sourced "Diamond Day". I wonder if Campaign has an adland's trendiest exec award.

Tom (Groke), Saturday, 27 January 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I've found it hard to rekindle my interest in this man's music. World of Echo blew my mind when it came out and I became attached to a few tracks on that especially. Then later in college that posthumous album came out...Another Thought I think it was called. It was pleasant, but left no lasting marks. His forays into dance music haven't wowed me either. Yet I continue to feel as if I must have left something behind and need to do something about it.

Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(I like his minimal stuff a lot better than his dancey shit, I'm co8nting WOE in there)

808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 28 January 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i always imagined this song as a backing track for some kick ass r'n'b song

Roly Poly (Greens And Mustard), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
Today is the 15th anniversary of Arthur Russell's death.

jed_, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

:-(

strongohulkington, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to the 19 minute version of "Answers Me" which forms the sountrack to "Terrace of Unintelligibility" - the 19 minute film that Phil Niblock made that was on the DVD of the limited reissue of "World of Echo". so deep and dark - an unequivocal masterpiece. shall i upload? i think it's only exists on that DVD which is out of print.

jed_, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yes please!

admrl, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

a pleasure:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4fffxz

there's a glorious accident (?or is it?) at 7:45, which i take it is in the video too? i don't know, i've never seen it.

jed_, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...
Heads up.

http://americanathlete.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-need-sunlight.html

Some rarities posted.

Jeff W, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

jed can you re-up that track?

cutty, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

will do so this evening, cutty.

jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Terrace of Unintelligibility/Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things (AKA Lost In The Meshes)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kzxmt6

jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks!

cutty, Friday, 4 May 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tM1coZr4k

Does anyone know which song it is Arthur's playing at about 0:35?

peter james, Saturday, 26 May 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Wax the Van(Dub) is great! Thanks Jeff.

leavethecapital, Saturday, 26 May 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

24-24 Music has just been reissued on CD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000T875EW/ref=wl_itt_dp/105-6389914-9065208?ie=UTF8&coliid=IZDT4ILQ8SVIX&colid=18R3WS4QMPN35

Telephone thing, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i just came here to ask if that was legit or a boot. that 'thank you arthur' edit is a nice bonus.

haitch, Friday, 14 September 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link

"Tigerstripes" is sooooooo good.

Spencer Chow, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link

100% legit, put out by the people who currently own the rights to the Sleeping Bag catalog.

Telephone thing, Friday, 14 September 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

wowza

sleeve, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link

who did that "thank you arthur" edit? AR himself?

jed_, Friday, 14 September 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

six months pass...

i've just downloaded "world of echo" and am listening in full for the first time. oh, new obsession. where have you been all my life. beautiful.

Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh wow. I should pull out that vinyl right now.

Bimble, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, there really isn't anything else like that. a magical world unto itself.

sleeve, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I found it in my stacks! Tone Bone Kone! Man, this takes me back.

Bimble, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link

See I've never really been able to understand people who heard something else as their first exposure to him than this album.

Bimble, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Okay "I Take This Time" for the win, but "Place I Know/Kid Like You" in hot pursuit.

Bimble, Thursday, 20 March 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link

What instantly hooked me on Russell was the early Audika website playing the first 15 seconds or so of "Tone Bone Kone," the "I'm so happy I met you and came to find you this evening" part.

Telephone thing, Thursday, 20 March 2008 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, "place i know/kid like you" and "our last night together" are immediate favorites. he's someone i've meant to investigate for years now but just haven't for whatever reason. he circulates around so many of my interests (ginsberg, matmos, electronic music in general, gay culture) that it's kind of crazy that i am just now really hearing him. what a fascinating guy. i really want to see that documentary that's coming out.

Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe World of Echo is on iTunes with bonus tracks.

I'm playing the side of the LP that starts with "Treehouse" now which is weird for me because I always kindof ignored this side because I was so overly familiar and enamored with the songs on the other side! It all sounds heavily amazing now, though. But (and I hate to admit this...) whatever that CD that came out just after he died...I didn't like that one nearly as much. It was a whole different thing. "Another Thought" wasn't it? Early 90's. It was alright, but not nearly as amazing as World of Echo was. That was a good song for the title track, though "Another Thought".

But I was completely amazed to learn later that he'd actually taken a couple stabs at dance music earlier on. That was just weird. Certainly he was a gifted individual in the creative sense. Also I could have sworn I bought some EP of his of earlier on that was very ambient. Holy hell, I just remembered this. Black sleeve. Red letters. Am I wrong? Wow, I had totally forgotten that.

Bimble, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link

You're thinking of the Instrumentals LP on Crepuscule, which is compiled with tons more stuff on First Thought Best Thought.

I think there was a time where I had Another Thought and World of Echo and loved them and also had Is It All Over My Face and Go Bang! and loved them but didn't put it all together till much later.

dan selzer, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes! It was Crepuscule! Thanks Dan!

Bimble, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Here's a stupid question: can anybody recommend stuff (by Russell or anyone else) that sounds like "Kiss Me Again"?

31g, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:21 (sixteen years ago) link

"another thought" was my introduction to arthur and is probably the album i've listened to the most in the last decade or so. it's like a best friend to me as it helped me through a really hard time in my life. i wouldn't quite go as far as to say it saved my life but it came pretty close.

stirmonster, Friday, 21 March 2008 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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it's not a psyche-disco tour-de-force like "Kiss Me Again" by any stretch of the imagination, but the first thing that jumps to mind is Sylvester's "Over and Over". I always loved how "Kiss Me Again" seemed to be at least partially striving to sound like a bunch of musicians just throwing down in a room (although of course it's FAR more intricately arranged than that - I re-ripped it to post on my blog a few weeks ago and the multitracking on the flipside in particular is magnificently well-done), and "Over and Over" just hits that same spot.

jamescobo, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link

See I've never really been able to understand people who heard something else as their first exposure to him than this album.

-- Bimble, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

??? he had huge underground dance tracks before that

deej, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Huge for people in the vicinity of New York, perhaps...

Bimble, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

and chicago

deej, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

jamescobo I've heard Over and Over, but thanks.

31g, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"Don't Leave Me This Way"

sexyDancer, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link

See I've never really been able to understand people who heard something else as their first exposure to him than this album.

-- Bimble, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

what don't you understand and when did you first hear that record?

jaime, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

see, i've never been able to understand that sentence.

jed_, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I just meant it's hard for me to understand what it would have been like to have heard something else by him first. I first heard the record when it came out in '86. It immediately set me up as to what to expect from other releases of his and those expectations were completely dashed when I heard other things by him that didn't sound much like it at all. Then again I suppose the same thing could have happened to someone else who came at him from a completely different angle!

DJ's or patrons of clubs in New York or Chicago might have known his earlier material but it hardly made him a household name nationally and I certainly wasn't anywhere near those places at the time.

Bimble, Friday, 21 March 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link

who did that "thank you arthur" edit? AR himself?
jed it was done by prince language and is off this.

haitch, Saturday, 22 March 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i would lay money down that many more people know, say, 'is it all over my face' than anything off world of echo.

haitch, Saturday, 22 March 2008 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link

thanks sexydancer

31g, Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I feel like i know every little echo bounce on Soon to be innocent fun

I know, right?, Saturday, 22 March 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link


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