re: Mute reissues vs. SC reissues:
other pro-Mute-version points are noted earlier in the thread as well, buyer beware.
― sleeve, Monday, 11 February 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
how about a BOX SET already? just keep packing crap on cds until you hit 10 discs' worth.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 11 February 2008 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tokyo Airport"!!!! This sounds like some lost krautrock gem or something. So awesome.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys seriously, this song.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
These lads need some proper expanded reissues - there's lots of good bits scattered amongst compilations and umpteenth reissues of their albums.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
weren't there expanded reissues a few years ago? i can't remember. i've just got old copies of these records.
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Secretly Canadian reissued the two albums proper a few years ago, but wth fewer extra tracks than the 1989 Mute reissues. For example, the Mute version has 22 tracks, while the SC version only has 16 total; the fantastic "Let's Build A Car" is on Mure, but not SC.
So far I have both SC reissues, Train Out of It, and International Rescue. Not sure which of the other compilations I need.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
weird how "let's build a car" is on a video on the SC Jane reissue but not as a track
― da croupier, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
It gives me a total headache trying to figure out whether I've got everything by these boys or not.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this x 100.
There's another Alive comp titled "Sweep the desert", focused on the more krautrock/avant garde side of the band. Hardly essential, but if I remember well there was a couple of tracks that didn't appear elsewhere.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i guess i've got the mute reissues?
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Everyone's Mute issues OK? My 'bought when they came out' versions are suffering from disc rot, so I keep looking at copies online wondering if they're more recent pressings or I'm going to open the shrink rap to find a bronzed disc inside.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I *finally* tracked down a CD copy of "Collision Time Revisited" at a good price. I've got the Mute CDs of their two albums - do I need "Train Out Of It"? I'm not sure what's on there that I don't already have.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
probably, that stuff is SO confusing. but iirc there are things on the Mute version that you can't get anywhere else.
― sleeve, Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it (Mute version) has "Doomette", "Clear The Floor", "Cave Dwellers", "Dresden Style", etc.
― sleeve, Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
My question that killed this thread in 2010 still stands BTW.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 13 February 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, I have Train Out Of It and A Trip To Marineville on Mute, I'd better check them later on, then I might be able to answer :)
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Monday, 13 February 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
my Mute Jane is fine; bought it when it came out. my Restless C.T. Revisited, however, skips.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 13 February 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah all my Mute CDs are fine, I have Jane... and Train Out Of It.
― sleeve, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Mine are OK too but I realised I haven't listened to them in years so they've gone on my listening pile, so thanks anyway!
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
What's on "Train", demos and early stuff? Is it any good?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I would say it was essential cos it has their non-album singles on it but they may be on other comps as well, their discography is such a mess.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like it has quite a lot of crossover with Collision Time Revisited, at least the first half. But that doesn't have Dresden Style on it.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Why Tyler you good soul
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/51646809404/swell-maps-peel-sessions-personnel-biggles
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
nice! just the other day i realized it'd been too long since my last listen through my faves. this'll give me a reason to have a swell maps revival.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
great stuff -- seems weird they've only put out a handful of these officially (and never on CD afaik).
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
damn I was just listening to jane from occupied europe yesterday
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Did the 2013 Mute cd releases get a remaster or is that just the Secretly Canadian versions. I've been meaning to pick up copies of their material for a while and want to get the best cd versions.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
Can anyone recommend other rock bands/songs with a driving "pulse," similar to SM traxx like "Midget Submarines" and "Full Moon in My Pocket"? (I guess a much more recent example would be Parquet Courts' "Stoned & Starving"...) Thx!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
The outro to "Stoned & Starving" actually v. similar to the "Full Moon (Reprise)"
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Maybe a few here: That Motorik Beat
― everything, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
"Full Moon" is really just "Mother Sky" surely?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Kewl, thanks. I've dipped into Can, but it's never really gelled for me (not "rock" enough, or something). Will check it out again...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever can get that sound going pretty well.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
this is very 'midget submarine' - the gordons' 'future shock' which i think came out about a year after marineville:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKGkWU0lWQ
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
that's a great call!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
there's probably a lot more NZ stuff that would fit tbh, but my knowledge isn't that deep
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
oh yeah this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3huT9iemFTg
The Dead C - Bad Politics
(that's off their first 7" btw, a lot of the rest of their stuff isn't really quite as rocking as that)
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
going backwards in time, you get things like this from 1975 iirc which is maybe more in the vein of stuff like 'helicopter spies':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnG_pwzSgmU&t=177s
Simply Saucer - Illegal Bodies
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
Thanks, all! The gtr solo in that Simply Saucer track is pretty gnarly... (never heard of this band).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
There's a band history called Heavy Metalloid Music by Jesse Locke that i've been meaning to get. Hoped my girlfriend could pick up a copy in NYC on her last trip but couldn't find it. Cyborgs Revisited is a good compilation and has that track on it.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to "Cyborgs Revisited" online now... it sounds like the missing link between the first Royal Trux LP, Cleveland-scene basement scuzz, and, I dunno, Boston (the band).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
they were kind of canada's sci-fi answer to the velvet underground. kind of.
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
produced by Daniel Lanois too.
& the band name is more of a reference to Pink Floyd's 2nd lp I think.
Also thought i heard about ping Romany being compared to the Hawkwind electronic guys not sure if that was conscious on his part .
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
Anyone have further info on the new "Mayday Signals" release: https://www.discogs.com/Swell-Maps-MayDay-Signals/release/18527167
Such as - are these demos, single versions, wot?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 3 May 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
It was mentioned in the Rolling Reissues thread recently, I don’t recall how much info there was…
― BeardsleyCollege.edu (morrisp), Monday, 3 May 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
‘Mayday Signals’ by Swell Maps is a compilation of previously unreleased material. One of two surviving members, Jowe Head, has plundered his archives to find a whole host of treasures by the influential DIY punk band. Among the highlights are demo versions of ‘Read About Seymour’ and ‘Dresden Style’.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Monday, 3 May 2021 10:18 (three years ago) link
Not seeing a cd version which would have been handy. But so would Cherry Red compiling one of its Punk multi-lp cd sets on the band.There were cd remasters of the 2 main lps on Secretly Canadian a few years ago but it was mainly the non remastered Mute version that was visibly around.
― Stevolende, Monday, 3 May 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Hrm, not much detail there. We'll have to see what comes with the physical product.
Rough Trade list a CD version: https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/swell-maps/mayday-signals (Yah I'm still buying CDs, too, fwiw).
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 3 May 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
"Whatever Happens Next (Acoustic)"
would check out for this and a few others fer sure
― andrew m., Monday, 3 May 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link