― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Monday, 13 January 2003 01:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
I cast my vote for The Ropers. Their first (and only, really) album is a noise-pop classic and probably the best US post-shoegazing LP.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 13 January 2003 01:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 13 January 2003 01:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 01:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Monday, 13 January 2003 03:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 13 January 2003 04:56 (10 years ago) Permalink
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
I could go on.
― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
Also: Suddenly, Tammy! They broke up eons ago, but Beth Sorrentino plays solo shows around New York sometimes.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:27 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Douglas Mosurak (mosurock), Monday, 13 January 2003 06:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 13 January 2003 07:32 (10 years ago) Permalink
i also second harriet the spy. you'd think with all the fandom of the party of helicopters, more people would remember harriet the spy.
― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Monday, 13 January 2003 07:49 (10 years ago) Permalink
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:12 (10 years ago) Permalink
― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Damian (Damian), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:06 (10 years ago) Permalink
― kinski (kinski), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:05 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:10 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 January 2003 12:49 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Binturong (Mr Binturong), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:47 (10 years ago) Permalink
― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:29 (10 years ago) Permalink
― maria b (maria b), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:37 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:41 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Paula G., Monday, 13 January 2003 15:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
Lifter Puller (getting their due now, like 4 years too late...)
― Douglas Mosurak (mosurock), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
Hickey (San Fran post-hardcore/pop-punk with an ear for manic melodies and rhythms... Released a ridiculously nuts album on Probe in the mid 90s. Their singer just died in October)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:17 (10 years ago) Permalink
Let me second this. Never read one interview/review/story on them EVER -- but they were pretty cool.
The Mysteries of Life's first album was v. nice. Whatever happened to them?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Motel Hell (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:27 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Horace Mann, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gi66y, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:33 (10 years ago) Permalink
Second that, if its the Hickey I'm thinking of. The singer wore thick frame glasses (before the era of thick frame glasses)? A young man. I'm shocked...what happened?
― Paula G., Monday, 13 January 2003 16:37 (10 years ago) Permalink
― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
http://www.mattyluv.com/
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:41 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Paula G., Monday, 13 January 2003 16:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:17 (10 years ago) Permalink
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
Chavez!
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:27 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:32 (10 years ago) Permalink
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:41 (10 years ago) Permalink
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:45 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
and seconded for the Loud Family
― mike a (mike a), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:32 (10 years ago) Permalink
Best band ever, and I've only ever met one other fan...
― kate, Monday, 13 January 2003 18:57 (10 years ago) Permalink
(Sorry, but if ever there was an inexplicably overrated band -- both Electric Company and Amnesia were vast improvements...)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:59 (10 years ago) Permalink
thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me ..
(i am assuming i am included as being part of the gang ! ]
― mark e, Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:02 (2 hours ago)
That Mouldy Old Dough thread is one of my favourite threads on ILM. They only did two albums but I'd easily put them in my top ten favourite bands. I love that there's a few people out there that love them too, I just wish there were more of us.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jack and Animals That Swim are brilliant bands that sadly faded away, though Anthony Reynolds just released a career anthology and Animals That Swim released a digital-only single last year for their first release in a decade.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing
Both bands that peaked with their debut albums but still did some good stuff later on. I remember being pleased and not at all surprised to hear Eddie Argos from Art Brut was a big Animals That Swim fan. Pink Carnations is probably my favourite song of theirs, brilliant lyrics. I didn't really keep up anything Anthony Reynolds did after the Jack albums, anything worth a listen?
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, search Jacques - "To Stars" and Anthony's solo album, "British Ballads". Both equal to the 3 Jack albums.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will do. Having an album called British Ballads is pretty great.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 18 March 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wanna go back for a minute and give another shout-out to Kleenex Girl Wonder. I was just listening to Graham Smith Is The Coolest Person Alive for the first time in years and it so holds up. Highly recommended to those who are looking for something with an early-to-mid-'90s GBV flavor.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 06:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Holy crap I can't believe I forgot about For Squirrels. I used to have their album in high school too. They def had a heavy REM vibe. Good stuff.
I'm startin to remember more bands, but I will say that I really dug the album by Salt. They were like a Swedish grunge version of Elastica.
― John Nestle Harding (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 19 March 2012 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Animals That Swim and Earl Brutus without a doubt. I've done plenty of Brutus repping on here before so won't repeat.
New Boots was a great ATS song and believe me , only last week I broke out "I was the King..." . I reckon I am the only person in the world with an obsession for "Near The Moon"
On the Yank front, I'm seconding Versus ( Secret Swingers and The Stars Are Insane superb) And laying Swell (too Many Days Without thinking)
Could continue this all night.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
rRope is getting a complete collection release (3LP) possibly by this spring. Via Deathbomb Arc.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love Swell!!! And Animals That Swim. I listen to both bands almost every day.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I caught this band Nemo from Belgium, very randomly, back in the 90's and bought their first album, which is one of the better Pixies-inspired things out there (though nowhere near Mclusky). Shelled out big $ for the follow-up, which was not in the same league. I'll be plagued until I die by the fact that I don't know what song they finished the live set with, 'cause it totally killed the crowd of like 12 people at Brownies...
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think about what I was listening to in the 90s and who I'd consider to be "overlooked" and I end up in a totally different mindspace from most of you:
Girl Eats BoyFlukeThe Hed BoysCyberactivPsykosonikLondon Funk AllstarsZero ZeroElevator 101Burger IndustriesMark InkSkin UpExposure80 AUMApotheosis
etc etc etc
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know I slept on these bands until the next decade - Acid Bath, Acid King, Acrimony, Colour Haze, Electric Wizard, F/i, Spiritual Beggars, Nightstalker, Terra Firma, Sheavy, Sons Of Otis, Mammoth Volume, Circle, Motorpsycho.
Stuff I did listen to at the time: Dog Faced Hermans, Blacktop, Cosmic Psychos, Crunt, Dwarves, Gaunt, The Gories, Lazy Cowgirls, Pram, Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, The Screws, Souled American, Techno Animal. Natacha Atlas?
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cosmic Psychos.Yes!
Thin White Rope. Possibly a touch more late '80s
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, i thought of thin white rope, but in my mind they were a mid-late 80s thing. then again, i'm more about their first three albums than sack full of silver and the ruby sea.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Were Chavez overlooked?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thin White Rope's version of Some Velvet Morning is.... just hear it
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ yeah, it's great. they do a good "rocket USA", too. both from the late 80s though.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Railroad Jerk
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didjits?
Have I wandered back into the glorious 80s again? their pinnacle "Hey Judester" was possibly 1959
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey judester (yes! their pinnacle!) was nineteen eighty and something.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
"ANTS ARE CAVEMENT", my favorite 90's thin white rope track, very much in the spirit of their "some velvet morning" cover:
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol, "cavement"
Slant 6 - two great albums then split. was lucky enough to see one of their last shows on their only UK tour - Christina Billotte's guitar playing still sounds great!
― zappi, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
their only UK tour
^ supporting Fugazi amirite?
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
My crap 1959 wasn't a typo. It was a reference to that Jerry Lee chances.
I still have my Hey Judester T shirt. Wife and kids get distressed when i wear it occasionally. It's the big ugly face. It matches.
I just know how much it would mean to me if i clocked a daft middle aged idiot wearing the same whilst slobbering around the supermarket or some other void.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
was not a big fan of railroad jerk, but i loved the song "message to maisie" off their 02.20.93 EP. unfortunatly, i can't find a tube or even a file to upload atm :/
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh yeah, i geddedit
balls ... FIRE
supporting Fugazi amirite?
yeh i think so, although i saw them w/Eggs on a between-tour-dates show? this is a bit hazy though!
― zappi, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, they were GREAT live. saw em in seattle and promptly bought their inzombia LP which i wound up only half liking. they did a fun version of "rebel rebel" on a split with the make-up. wish i still had that...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, or maybe it was chapel hill...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh I saw Eggs once too, but they were supporting RODAN along with Tsunami.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would have liked to have seen Rodan live. Were they good?
― grandavis, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rodan were A+++ live, really very good.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was pretty into June of 44, but I always imagined that I would have loved Rodan live. Was quite on board in time to catch them ...
I did get to see Drive Like Jehu once, so for that I am eternally grateful (DLJ not overlooked of course, at least not any more).
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's weird that I never really got into Rodan, given that I've been a big fan of almost every subsequent project featuring members from that band.
― Sam Handwiches (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
1) My first ilx post (that i remember) was about a slant 6 show! this post references that post and it was almost 6 years ago whoaHaha -- when I was at a Slant 6 show (which I mentioned the very first time I posted on this thread!) there was a guy wearing an Anal Cunt t-shirt. It was pretty funny.
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, April 21, 2006 3:08 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark
2) also i saw rodan open for sebadoh in dayton in...94? and i dragged this guy i didn't know very well (i didn't know him at all) and i guess the long drive there and back was too much because we never spoke again
the end
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
both shows were great btw
Saw Rodan live once ages ago in the 90s , in Leeds.
It looked like Tara J O Neil was full of cold if memory serves me right.
I have been back to that album fairly recently. "Everyday World of Bodies" is one hell of a song. Yes it's very much in the style of that other Louisville band but heavier
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Everyday World of Bodies" is so mighty, would definitely dig seeing that live. Used to play that song A LOT in college, I imagine that people in my dorm were really displeased (it needed to be loud of course). Wish I had had a friend in college who might have forced me to travel to Boston for shows, missed a lot of bands in the 90s that I really regret not seeing now.
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Everyday World of Bodies" is so mighty, would definitely dig seeing that live.
http://vimeo.com/6438603
― city worker, Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! Was considering going on a youtube binge.
― grandavis, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rachel's
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
man there is almost no information about the wicked farleys on the internet, except from a shitty old website that is inexplicably still up. such a good band - came from the same boston scene as the swirlies and kind of mining the same american take on shoegaze sound. "make it it" is classic and i wish it was on spotify.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
ha on further research, wicked farleys frontman rob laakso is listed as a current member of the swirlies
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
swirlies kick ass too btw
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^ love that first EP, such a classic
― Mr. Que, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
Considering who was in it, it's kind of interesting that the band Vodka are like completely completely buried.
Lead singer has one degree of separation or less with Swans, Mommyheads, Guided By Voices, Mofungo, etc.Drummer was instrumental in the AIDS-denialist movement and has her own Wikipedia page (which doesn't mention the band).One guitarist was in Cat Power way back when, plus turns up all over the place in experimental circles.Other guitarist engineered or recorded a large chunk of indie rock as we know it.
They weren't bad either. Not great, but not bad.
And oh neat, I'd never heard the Television cover ("Friction") by this *other* overlooked 90's group that the lead singer was in...
http://www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/timber-released-unreleased/
― dlp9001, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
OMG. That's one of the dEUS related bands. Well, related to other Belgian bands like Evil Superstars (probably one of my fave live bands ever), Dead Man Ray, Metal Molly,... Shit I feel exceptionally old now. lol
http://youtu.be/RmQBij7ZeWk
"Little clouds of sperms..."
God I loved the Evil Superstars.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 5 August 2012 19:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Which I'm finally getting around to listening to. It's great.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 20:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
space streakings' 7-toku was good but hatsu-koi is their ne plus ultra. the albini engineering job did not do them justice on the former, and the latter has all the quality riffs.
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Thursday, 31 January 2013 22:19 (3 months ago) Permalink