West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: S&D

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first two super classic, "high coin" was the intro music for the peter easton show on radio scotland when i was a kid, ahhhhhhhhhhhh memories. that cover of "help i'm a rock" is a bit silly though (although no more silly than the original i guess).

― zappi (joni), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

hey joni, is high coin that van dyke parks song? the instrumental?

― cw (cww), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"I Won't Hurt You" is such an amazing song... the percussion is a recording of a heartbeat!

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

'here where you belong' and 'suppose they give a war and no one comes' and 'transparent day' are all classic. 'child's guide to good and evil' is the best album though. I remember martin phillipps mentioning them in a kahoutek interview long ago and i have loved them ever since. of course then martin and david kilgour covered 'i won't hurt you' on the pop art toasters ep.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Transparent Day is great. I play it at my 60s night whenever I remember.

― 13thfloor, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe someone could have a top five of this band and not have "I Won't Hurt You" in it?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought A Child's Guide To Good And Evil about 13 years ago, and haven't played it in 12. (More like 12.5, actually.) Which kinda demonstrates my opinion. It basically did nothing much at all for me, and the only track I remember is "A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death", and the bit where they invent scratching! ("Evil-livE/Evil-livE" etc.) Oh, and that two-minutes silence track, can't forget that one!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Man, I got the first album today and it's pretty damn disappointing. That and Audience, some German psych band. Both bland and just unremarkable... Ugh.

― JS on da's computer for the damn weekend while he housesitsits yet doesn't want , Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

been kind of digging the first album lately. Favorite song is 'Will You Walk With Me'--it has this unearthly creepiness that perfectly sums up the mood around my neck of the woods in the last week or two...

― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link

(by first album, I mean Part One, the one with the cover of Zappa's Help I'm a Rock)

― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link

HEY EVERYBODY check out Markley, it is great stuff. Just don't expect super psychedelic rock, it's mellower.

― Gay for Johnny Moped (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I like the Markley album: not too sure about my grasp of the lyrics, but a couple of songs seem positively deranged.

― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

It's probably because of my knowledge of the weird unsavoury history of this band and Bob Markley in particular but the song "In the Country", superficially a fairly jolly number about escaping the pressures of city life, always strikes me as unsettlingly suggestive of the Manson Family. Were this 'band' any good? I can't decide tbh.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link

Yes imo but there is a creepy vibe to a lot of their stuff

― piqued (wins), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

Also interesting how these older, in many ways parasitical and opportunistic, individuals like Markley and Kim Fowley were so influenced by Zappa and the Mothers, Zappa being much closer to their ages, and far more a product of the '50s than the 60s... Manson also!

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link

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