PYLON! C or D?

Best comp ever.

Pylon's Gyrate was going to be re-released on DFA records in Fall of 2007.

where in Chicago are you finding Chomp on vinyl so frequently?

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gy4qA%2BAJL._SS500_.jpg

Out on October 16th on DFA/Astralwerks.

and they said the post-punk revival was over!

I bought that 1990 reunion album recently. It's pretty great!

the added-on ringwear is kinda stupid.

i wonder how many different covers there weree? mine is differnt from the picture below as it has yellow printing on a blue background and a black image.

http://www.hollowearth.org/images/app/pylon.jpg

two different covers, for the two different pressings, afaik.

sure hope it's remastered...

They're plugging it as Gyrate +, so I'm assuming the usual remastered-with-bonus-tracks thing

My vinyl copy was the same color scheme as the DFA reissue pictured above, so that's at least three variations right?

Some of their shows in '04-'05 [there was another earlier in '07] were brilliant. Outdoors at Athfest '05 where they unleashed hundreds of balloons with the pylon symbol on them, and many people were in a total frenzy dancing almost like you see Athenians used to do in the Inside/Out movie; at Popfest later the same summer... Vanessa can still do the most intense vocal parts incredibly well. Truly wonderful to hear her scream.

In October '05, Vaness and Michael Stipe sang "I Love a Man in Uniform" with Gang of Four at the 40 Watt. Cute.

The show in '07 was odd because it was accompanied by rumors that the B-52's were going to play [they were in town recording their new album] which didn't happen. Sean Lennon was in the audience [?].

I have the black and yellow one.

I'm glad they are reissuing it with the Cool/Dub single. I think Dub might be one of my fave songs ever.

They're plugging it as Gyrate +, so I'm assuming the usual remastered-with-bonus-tracks thing

1. Cool
2. Dub
3. Volume
4. Feast On My Heart
5. Precaution Listen
6. Weather Radio
7. Human Body
8. Read a Book
9. Driving School
10. Recent Title
11. Gravity
12. Danger
13. Working Is No Problem
14. Stop It
15. Danger
16. Functionality

Just skimmed a review of it in MOJO by, I think, Peter Buck. Looking forward to picking it up!

yeah, do that! The different covers above probably because there were two slightly different versions: the second had "Recent Title" in place of "Driving School," but as you can see in the track list up there, both are on this, with the single sides killing in front, and the finale, "Functionality, " is prev unissued. My review'll be in Voice soon. (Anybody heard the Method Actors, also from late 70s/early 80s Athens, right?)

Yep, I quite like the Method Actors, as does fellow ILM poster Dan Selzer.

Outdoors at Athfest '05 where they unleashed hundreds of balloons with the pylon symbol on them, and many people were in a total frenzy dancing almost like you see Athenians used to do in the Inside/Out movie; at Popfest later the same summer..

I think my back is STILL feeling the impact of dancing like a madman on the paved surface of Washington Street. I WAS THERE! much more importantly: THEY WERE AWESOME! Just like every time. What a fantastic band...

liked their singles but when I saw them live in 1981 it was pretty underwhelming IIRC. maybe a bad night?

now Love Tractor, there's the great lost Athens band.

ugh, Love Tractor. The loster they are, the better.

I used to know Love Tractor's bass player, Armistead Wellford.

What was that one song they were famous for, Love Tractor? Damnit I can't remember it now.

they were great until they started singing.

Here's my Gyrate Plus review. Not exactly deathless prose, but it gets the word out, incl. re upcoming NYC show:
http://www.villagevoice.com/0742,allred,78085,22.html

erk, now you see it, now you don't (link *was* working). For now, might just check villagevoice.com/music

Ah, speaking of "music", D'oh! I left that word out---this is the full link, working or not:
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0742,allred,78085,22.html

the added-on ringwear is kinda stupid.

I thought that too at first, but now that I have the actual CD, the cover is actually a photograph of an old LP. Still a bit silly (I mean, it wouldn't be that hard to recreate the album art from the separate elements, jeeze) but at least the marks weren't added on for effect.

but sometimes with a reissue it's fun to show that history, whether it be ringwear, or the old tapes or whatever.

Anyway, you wouldn't have to recreat the art, just retouch it. Either way it would've been easy.

The cover to the Acute release of Glenn Branca's the Ascension was a painstakingly retouched composite of two well-aged copies of the original LP.

Do you know why I sold the CD? Because I must have been on crack, that's why.

Yeah but I've still got the crucial vinyl records on that, so...

No wonder you don't get Alice Cooper.

Ha, good quotes in here:
Razz Tape also includes the first recorded versions of two iconic Pylon songs: the rushing “Cool,” marked by an urgent Briscoe Hay slogan (“Everything is cool!”), and the contorted howler “Dub.” In his review of their NYC show, O’Brien guessed that “these kids eat dub for breakfast.” In reality, the quartet had never even heard of dub, but they were happy to use O’Brien’s claim as material. “I don't know what you're talking about,” snarls Briscoe Hay before chanting, “We eat dub for breakfast!”
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pylon-pylon-box/

47 tracks here, incl. instrumentals, work tapes, remixes: https://pylonband.bandcamp.com/album/pylon-box

Michael and Vanessa are doing a live interview right now on WNYC

thanks for the link, dow. that schitt is bought!

https://magnetmagazine.com/2023/10/27/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-pylon-reenactment-societys-flowers-everywhere-video/

Pylon Reenactment Society new song and video. Singer Vanessa is only one who was in Pylon. Current group new album coming out in February 2024

yeah I think I'll go see them, obv never saw Pylon but this band is great. That's a fun video and decent new song.

Old guy me has seen Pylon and Pylon Reenactment Society.

Restored video from 1983:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/pylon-prep-restored-video-of-1983-final-show-watch-beep/

Great. Looking forward to the whole show when they get it all restored.

Just got home from seeing them in Los Angeles, great show (if a tad short at 65 minutes). They had the new LP/CD for sale, and the songs they played from it were good, but I decided to wait for a download.