FFS, offer a CD option of "The Thing From The Crypt"! Didn't it have a sequel too?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 2 March 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
I support not releasing CDs. Gotta have downloads though! Ill bring it up at our next meeting.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 March 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
Another Thing from the Crypt. Bands not quite as iconic, but still a good record. Don't think anyone will be reissuing it. Mutant Sounds had it up at one point, I think.
― Michael Train, Saturday, 2 March 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Posted this the other day in the Australian Post Punk thread, but that may be too narrow a demographic....
For my money, the greatest post-punk band that nobody's ever heard is a group from Wollongong Australia called the Sunday Painters. Three singles, two LPs, cassettes, and comp tracks. At work on a reissue, but thought I'd put a song on on Sound Cloud since Monday marked the thirty-year anniversary of one of their high points: the Sedition Festival, a three-day showcase of 22 bands, as well as assorted video artists, at the Trade Union Club. $10 for the lot….Other bands included the Scientists, Wet Taxi, Celibate Rifles. The Same, and Severed Heads.
The Painters played the opening night. Three and a half songs have survived from their set; two of which made it onto the Sedition—Go Broke cassette. This one, “In My Dreams,” did not, though it’s a monster, reworked into drum-machine form from its origins as a practice-room kraut jam outtake that made up the b-side of the band’s second single (Painting By Numbers, 1980, 250 copies). Like X covering PIL, with a New Order keyboard flourish.
Please feel free to share, to download, to play.
https://soundcloud.com/michael-train/in-my-dreams
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Taught myself to play "Smokescreen" by the Desperate Bicycles and it only underscored how unusual it is. The guy sings straight through for three and a half minutes or however long it is and there are eight verses.
― timellison, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
hey, thanks, that's pretty awesome! xpost
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
Thought I'd try it as a video (well, at least a photo montage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NTISSJPyLw
― Michael Train, Sunday, 28 April 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Cool. I'm really proud of the iMovie Ken Burns video montage I made for Disco Zombies and Happy Refugees.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Crazy what you can do within ten minutes of opening iMovie for the first time, but wow do I now have respect for real video editors....
― Michael Train, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
One year anniversary, here's a Spotify playlist finally! None of the early And Also The Trees, The Sound or Comsat Angels, but a good sampling of most of what I wrote about.
http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/3RkhJjuRHTIamrXejVwa9Hspotify:user:1212496385:playlist:3RkhJjuRHTIamrXejVwa9H
50 Minute And Also The Trees documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp8gwgjTPs&list=PL6B10D8ECB2D36111
90 Minute live show recorded September 28, 2013 at La Cave à Musique in Mâcon, Burgundy, France:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iOivHqNgpQ&list=FLvS7HOg0xXDKPhctmMyG1Qw
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Documentary embedded (I hope?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp8gwgjTPs&list=PL6B10D8ECB2D36111&feature=share
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 18 January 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Tiny Desk Unit has never been mentioned on ILM? I stumbled across this video today and remembered the name, probably from New York Rocker. This kind of art/dance/drone/skronk would have been like catnip to me when this was new, but I'm finding it only mildly interesting in 2014. Great that these Hurrah videos are out there, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHHwKO9NvgU
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 December 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Nice to see this topic active again. Reminds me that we've finally made some real headway with our Sunday Painters reissues. (The Painters were a Wollongong, Australia art punk band most active from 1980-86, putting out records on their own Terminal Records in minuscule runs.) We'll be collecting the band's three singles on one LP (see the link below), out in January, then doing the two albums by the end of spring. Each with digital downloads and bonus tracks drawn from live cassettes and a radio appearance. Punk, industrial, pop, prog, and experimental, sometimes all at once. A Cab-Voltaire take on "Rebel Rebel." The Homosexuals with a drum machine. And so on.
Out on Whats Your Rupture. Home also to the Tronics and Parquet Courts.
http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com/product/sunday-painters-in-my-dreams-lp-pre-order
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
So we now have hard copies of the Sunday Painters singles collection. Should start to show up in stores soon. Very exciting. There'll also be digital downloads from all the usual places. For those of you in Australia, your best bets will be R.I.P. Society/Repressed Records in Sydney, or Music Farmer's in Wollongong, though there may well be some other spots, too. By May we're hoping to get the band's two albums out.
― Michael Train, Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Sounds great, let me know when they become available on CD or reasonably priced lossless.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 3 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of unheard post-punk bands (who have been heard with the help of Michael Train and myself!)...Happy Refugees are following up our reissue from a couple of years ago with a self-released newly recorded album, some new songs, some vintage unrecorded songs. Great stuff. A bit less edge than the old stuff, a bit more mature, but what do you expect? Great website here: http://www.happyrefugees.com/
― dan selzer, Saturday, 3 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
been getting into the deep freeze mice reissue a bit, anyone else a fan?
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 3 January 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
No plans for any CDs, but I'll look into the possibilities for lossless. Still not sure what sites will have the record, so I'm not sure if it will be up on any that offer lossless. If I learn of one, I'll post it here. That said, it takes a superior set of ears and equipment to tell the difference between lossless and 320 kbps coding these days. I listen with mastering-quality AKG headphones and Focal monitors and can only occasionally notice the difference, and then only in direct A/B comparisons on a high decay.
― Michael Train, Sunday, 4 January 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
I think most, if not all episodes of New Wave Theatre are on YouTube which feature a bunch of mysterious post-punk bands. (as well as other genres)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA70OzHvxP4
― MaresNest, Sunday, 4 January 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
You can stream all the Sunday Painters singles here:
http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/stream-the-of-the-sunday-painters-early-80s-diy-punk
― Michael Train, Sunday, 25 January 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
here's some post-punk / diy spam. it's out in july. michael train did the audio restoration, there's an introduction written by dan selzer and i compiled it, so should be fairly ILM friendly spam.
Now That's What I Call DIY (Cult classics from the Post-Punk era 1978/82) - https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/various-now-thats-what-i-call
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link