Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

A lot of these are experiments, knockoffs, brief sketches, and just plain screwing around in the studio. What's amazing is how much of this stuff sounds so right even in its unfinished state. But, I suspect Russell is one artist who never really thought any work as definitively finished.

I could listen to "Your Motion Says" and the title track all day long.

Sorry to be grouchy.

Sleeping Bag Sessions is wonderful. Dance Arthur is still tops for me above folky/Kitchen/singer-songwriter Arthur. The man had such a malleable, off kilter way with the technology and techniques of club/dance music that I could listen and learn forever.

That is absolutely wonderful, hadn't heard that one before. Has that been reissued on anything? I'd rank that in the tops of his dance stuff.

west end reissued it about two years ago, you can probably find it at one of the online record stores.

the one that is still infuriatingly out of print is 'kiss me again' - considering sire have reissued things like 'white horse' you'd hope they'll get around to repressing it at some point.

You can find it on the Disco Not Disco comp.

haha, that's not in print either now!

also it had a short, edited version. this is the one i'm after.

Yeah, speaking of which, didn't somebody ask about any of the Sleeping Bag Sessions tracks being on Soul Jazz comps? I've got ones with those versions of "Tiger Stripes", "Schoolbell/Treehouse", "Indian Ocean", and "Go Bang!", but all my Soul Jazz comps featuring Arthur are of print, I think, and I've never seen the other tracks on SBS.

I secretly like the 6 minute edit of Kiss Me Again that appears on Disco Not Disco better then the 12/13 minute full length and dub versions, but of course all 3 are better then anything else ever recorded in the history of music.

The SBS comp has a version of Go Bang that's never been released, the fabled Walter Gibbons mix.

really??? i way prefer the longer versions.

same. dub is my fav

The Walter Gibbons mix of Go Bang has become my favourite.

I think Stirmonster has also done a re-edit of Kiss Me Again which he linked to on an Arthur Russell thread before.

I think Stirmonster has also done a re-edit of Kiss Me Again which he linked to on an Arthur Russell thread before.

it's really just a "radio" edit of the b-side to the original 12" version that cuts out 5 minutes of it as i couldn't fit the full version onto our "psyche out" mix. it's also useful for when it's hard to fit the full length version in a set but in an ideal world, i'd go with the full length version every time.

The Soul Jazz Arthur Russell comp is back in print on CD and LP as of a month or so ago, so pick it up if you haven't got it, it's great.

yeah, really...I heard the edit first and it's just got this harder edge to it.

yeah the soul jazz comp is so much better than the sleeping bag sessions, walter gibbons mix aside and was my gateway to the man really. just listening to tell you on youtube and i need it baaad

I secretly like the 6 minute edit of Kiss Me Again that appears on Disco Not Disco better then the 12/13 minute full length and dub versions

Cosign (minus the secretly).

This Sleeping Bag thing is a mess, obv. I like how Bonzo Goes to Washington, which is essentially Bootsy Collins and Jerry Harrison's record, is now being claimed as a Russell creation. (He mixed it.)

"Chill Pill" on the Sleeping Bag Sessions is cool.

ye, besides the gibbons mix "chill pill" is my favorite on the sbs record

the world always needs more trippy, dubbed out kid-rap

the seven inch version of "Pop Your Funk" that Toop described as "one of the craziest 45s ever released."

wow, it really is

Where did you hear it, Beats in Space?

i downloaded it from a blog

link?

link

: (

why the sadface

said it was deleted earlier, workin' fine now!

Yo my blog!

That mix of Pop Yr Funk IS nuts. Someone needs to reissue it as a seven inch.

a friend assured me that the a-side of that 7 inch is even more killer.

great article. it also mentions the pop yr funk 7" (to bridge the thread from may to september ;-)

Thanks Willem, that is a great read.

Also, I'm very pleased to hear about

long awaited in depth biography Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–92 is due out this fall from author of the disco history Love Saves The Day Tim Lawrence. Lawrence confirms – “The book is going to be about 400 pages long”

Yeah thanks for the link Willem, great article.

have people talked about this album of covers coming out soon?
http://www.myspace.com/electricmindsrecords

'New' track Come To Life streaming http://www.myspace.com/audikarecords
7" single released via Terrible Records today.

excited about that 7' but for some reason not so excited about the covers album though i will no doubt check it out. there aren't many arthur russell covers i've heard that can touch the original.

God, what a fantastic track. Russell just seemed to accidentally create whole genres nobody else has even thought of--I mean, really, at what point in history would that music have made sense? 60s? 70s? 80s? 00s? None, to my ears--but it's great nevertheless. Wow. Really should have been on 'Love Is Overtaking Me'.

Anybody go to the October 10 panels in NYC at NYU?

Arthur Russell

conference at NYU -- "kiss
me again: the life and legacy of arthur russell," organized in conjunction
with the publication of tim lawrence's new book, "Hold On to Your Dreams:
Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene" (duke university press). Full
schedule at http://arthursymposium.blogspot.com/

― curmudgeon, Thursday, October 8, 2009

Second the love for "Come to Life."

Always surprised I never hear anyone mention More Real off Event Horizon by The Necessaries. Pop/rock Arthur in fine form. The Finish Line is pretty cool too.

"More Real" has long been one of my Russell faves, definitely. Put it on my '1981' mix even though that's a slight fib--I believe it was only on the 2nd version of the album, which wasn't 1981, I think.

Does anybody know what the original tracklist for the "Corn" album was supposed to be? I've read there were multiple versions, but I've never seen any of them.

ok half way through tim lawrence's "hold on to your dreams" which is all and more than i hope it would be.

ohhh, did you get a pre-release copy or is it available?

it's been out a couple of weeks. i had it on pre-order from amazon so got it right away.

cheers, will seek!