https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEhL34zeHg
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcbNlMgr70
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmjqCQsnt3I
― katherine, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Oh, wow, so much greatness. My version of this would also have at least something from Til Tuesday, Sarah Slean, Abra Moore, Rachael Sage, Sarah Harmer, Emm Gryner, Martina Sorbara, Tanita Tikaram, Tasmin Archer, Bic Runga, Julia Darling, Charlotte Martin, Melissa Ferrick, Over the Rhine, Eddi Reader, Nina Gordon, Dido, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Lisa Germano, Mia Doi Todd, Leah Andreone, Kathleen Edwards, Vanessa Carlton, Vienna Teng, Kate Miller-Heidke, Milla, Imogen Heap, Wendy & Lisa, the Corrs, Maria Mena and Lili Haydn. Just for starters.
A huge amount of what I first knew of the obscure realms of this music comes from the so-great Ecto mailing list, which was nominally the fan list for Happy Rhodes, but kind of became the secret community for everybody who loved somebody who sounded a little like Kate Bush but wasn't famous.
I still basically haven't gotten over how crushed I was when Jane Siberry got rid of her synthesizers.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
See also Tori Amos' pre-solo band/album Y Kant Tori Read, and Pat Benatar's similarly glossy Seven the Hard Way, and a bunch of the less-well-known early Cyndi Lauper songs.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrh4FyRFZsY
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
^^^ dig that mid eighties 'power woman' wardrobe and posture
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Heh. Was just about to look into some late 80's Anne Murrary to see if it would fit in here just before you posted that.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
I find touted UK indie hopefuls Flowers almost unlistenable because the singer reminds me of this woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9qGur8eTUg
And this is surely the last gasp/apotheosis of the genre?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqVQPq8zm8
(J-Sibs will always be cool in my books)
― Stevie T, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJL7j8HCWWY
― MarkoP, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggBIc54B5Q
― MarkoP, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
When I was about twelve or thirteen I had a tape of Sarah McLachlan on one side and Toni Childs on the other and at the time it was both the best thing ever and all I ever needed of this.
Heather Nova's Oyster is the direction this stuff should have went, massive and overproduced but somehow more dreamy.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
fucking tremendous thread I gotta say, thanks everybody this is really cool
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSTJm05GDEA
don't know the album; was led to this due to her impeccable taste in remixers on this single: http://www.discogs.com/Laurel-MacDonald-Wingspan-EP/release/329773
Country: Canada
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know if the Anne Murray song I posted is good, but it's stuck in my head.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Where does Sam Phillips (who I adore) fit in? And what does Robin Holcolmb sound like?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Did you ever hear Glowstars, her first album? It's actually amazing and much more ~dreamy~, parts of it sound like they were produced by AR Kane.
― Tim F, Friday, 24 October 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
I never did - I went forward to Sirens which I found to be too glossy and even more lyrically naff in its extreme earnestness - not sounding "massive", but more sleek and shiny and a bit sterile. The idea of AR Kane doing full-diva dreampop is too appealing though.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 24 October 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX67eVvDLZo
^ only recently discovered this claire hamill video, absolutely hilarious performance from her
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 24 October 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
syd straw? katydids? am i miles away?
― mit iodine (electricsound), Friday, 24 October 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
Boxedjoy, check this: Heather Nova - Shell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrrKV9JT7Y4
― Tim F, Friday, 24 October 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
"Frontier":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmdeGBOEVA
― Tim F, Friday, 24 October 2014 10:02 (nine years ago) link
Ah no that's "Glow Stars", this is "Frontier":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVboVXPUJ1g
― Tim F, Friday, 24 October 2014 10:03 (nine years ago) link
"perspectives of profundity"
― boxedjoy, Friday, 24 October 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
I dunno what that bs is about.
― Tim F, Friday, 24 October 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
I felt like a lot of the Danielle Brisebois record would fit in here, but I think maybe this is the only song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6VW0IGdZP8
― m_b, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
it's a bit of a tangent but i think maybe amy grant's lead me on works in this continuum?
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
Perspectives of Profundity sounds like a title that Joni Mitchell thought of for one of her own curated comps.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGRpBDJyeQ
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 08:34 (nine years ago) link
Would this fit here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4P-AGHIVKs
Not a lot of kate-bushisms here, but it's very heavy on the Fleetwood Mac wannabe side.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
Love this thread. Was a big fan of Mae Moore's "Bohemia."
― jaymc, Saturday, 1 November 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Also was Loreena McKennitt mentioned in this thread?
― jaymc, Saturday, 1 November 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
In Canada in the '80s, even the metal chicks were over-produced pop vocalists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8GsdyzEcY
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 3 November 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
I finally listened to that Heather Nova album and it is brilliant, really astonishing how much her output went right over a cliff and kept falling after it.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I'd still defend a good two thirds of the second album - "Heal" and "Island" are both beautiful.
But yes the first album is an unacknowledged masterpiece. You could imagine it having come out on 4AD and really blowing up amongst the kind of people into I dunno Lisa Germano and His Name Is Alive and etc.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Oyster is actually a better album than I remember it being, just from refreshing the tracklist in my head by skimming Wikipedia.
This has also helped me figure out exactly what the Emma Ruth Rundle album from last year has been reminding me of that I couldn't quite put my finger on initially.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
i have never heard of Emma Ruth Rundle, would i like.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Now we're getting quite off-topic, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEjzLtDFmk0
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
Hugo Largo must have really tanked not to have been mentioned yet.
I don't think of this band as "overproduced" but rather produced just right, 1987 (hope this ridiculously long url works):
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrT6VrlUMRUSwsAqc8nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0c2puYm1xBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwM18x?p=miaou+did+she&tnr=21&vid=C5B80D5D9E7D76F28E99C5B80D5D9E7D76F28E99&l=225&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DUN.608020520324630804%26pid%3D15.1&sigi=11r0qg311&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvsIk7Lo0ooM&sigr=11bl2li2k&tt=b&tit=Miaow+~+Did+She&sigt=10fnkpaf5&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dmiaou%2Bdid%2Bshe%26ei%3DUTF-8%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla&sigb=12poatchk&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 25 January 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
No of course it didn't glug glug. Maiow doing "Did She".
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 25 January 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
Hugo Largo way too indie to belong in this thread - e.g. also why there's no actual 4AD in this thread.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Okay. Opal Records was distributed by Warner Brothers, but maybe it was still "indie" anyway.
I typo'd the name: it's Miaow, who failed to reach the public on Factory Records.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 25 January 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
Does Mary Margaret O'Hara fit?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 January 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
By "indie" i really mean "presaged a lot of mid-90s alterna-sonics sensibilities that washed everything else in this thread away."
I mean Hugo Largo are their own thing obv but they never sound late eighties except in the sense that they literally are from that period.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
In a certain sense they are "too good" for this thread.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
what about these cats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAdNpx8bl5Q
an MOR-tinged hugo largo with a margo timmins soundalike on vocals?
― cock chirea, Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1o5eRr_HWw
― cock chirea, Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
This is suddenly my very favourite genre of music again this week, during which I've had in heavy rotation: Stretch Princess' Fun with Humans, Emm Gryner's Asianblue and K's Choice's Almost Happy. The latter might e a little too alt.rock to qualify, and only Emm is actually from Canada, but whatever. Tried putting Martika's Kitchen into the mix, but not melancholic enough. Will probably go with something by Jane Siberry next. Some recommended listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtVuunFpAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4E-ZJWRyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wz2b8c7gXg
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Thank you for reminding me about Stretch Princess!
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
I think people might really love this stuff from Suse Millemann who was brought to light after she got included on a Numero comp a couple of years back ('Switched On Eugene'):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2Bfo6_47QSuse Millemann - Patterns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXrdZQ-PcgSuse Millemann - Walk In The Fire
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link