LILYS - Classic / Dud + Search / Destroy

Yeah, I verified run-times it's the same track as the lead track on Services. Which I have... somewhere lol

iirc they just bunged the whole EP, or most of it, on the CD Single for Nanny (in the UK at least)

Well, I was wrong, it was just the first three tracks

Really want the mystery tracks in this performance identified (don't have the time to comb through again at the moment to identify any timestamps):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGBX75Z3Ubo

In The Presence Of Nothing promo photos, DC 1992

https://i.imgur.com/qCoGZhL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MsOXC0k.jpg

Mike Hammel (The Ropers), Archie Moore (Velocity Girl), KH

Overlit Canyon - Live 2016-07-03

It's funny to hear him sing the songs of this era with that weird british/stoner surfer accent he sort of fell into since then.

Radiotricity 2016: "Oiyce Cahps Male-ting!"

Thanks again for the uploads, these early tracks are making me really nostaglic for Eccsame era stuff: "The Turtle Which..." etc.

Man, Eccsame is such an amazing record, it's just so low key that it's almost designed to be passed over, but if you spend a bit of time with it, it'll bury itself deep into you.

Maybe I've been losing my shit over no one, for some time.

It's weird how markedly different those first...idk five? albums are, like five different bands.

YES!

good citizens will receive https://t.co/kkNIKMCyLi

— LILYS THE LILYS (@theLILYS) November 11, 2019

Maresnest can you please re-up the VPRO link? Looks like I forgot to click...

Also wondering if Albert was ever able to track down the missing file for Hark, The Open Energy Channel Is Icy Water, Water Everywhere (B-side)?

It is not a rarity per se, it's just the first track of Services For The Soon To Be Departed tacked on as a b-side to an import single.

That said, I do "own" it. Where it is, or my impending access to such is a big question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68mSrE9CmE

No worries Evan, do you have the 'Services...' EP? I can include that also.

It is amazing actually, every bit as great as BCMYLB

When I say "the first track" it's like the first 3 tracks of the EP which are seamless. It's a little more free/frenetic than BCMYLB imho.

Thanks! And I do have Services so no worries there! I figured the "b-side" version would have been a little different.

It was tacked on as a b-side to the "Nanny" 1998 re-release as that EP didn't get UK distro.

Here 'tis - https://fromsmash.com/yM4a4N.Yyg-c0

thanks you're the best!

wait that is not the Services EP

guess I should've read up a few posts lol, n/m

Lol, I can upload that too if you like?

ooh yes plz

Here y'go - https://fromsmash.com/NXGJsUgsK5-c0

thx yr the best

That 1992 "Station Tapes" version of TASS is incredible via headphones, amazing that he felt that version was not up to snuff!

Though I do love the 1998 version as well.

There's a new Lilys song on the Lodge 49 soundtrack that just came out, "Unheard of Curiosities"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsdtOMunzc

From his 2006 bio:

Not so long ago Kurt’s wife went out and didn’t come back. She might one day. For now Kurt is a single father of 3 children. He was himself expelled from high school after 42 absences. Turns out he was at home sequencing software and fiddling with editing software. There are worse things 15 year olds can do. It’s been tough bringing up the kids alone so he was glad of the helping hands of producer Mike Musammo when it came to making the new record.

BCMYLB was released 10 years previous, and listening back to the lyrics with this relationship in mind, certain lines/phrases seem rather personal in a way that 1996 lyrics of his peers were not.

https://i.imgur.com/72iZH3l.jpg

oof at that last revive.

Just noticed that the vinyl and CD of Brief History... have different track listings. Is "Glosseder" the same song as "Evel Knievel" or a different one?

Yeah Glosseder is a different song.

YSI

It's a vinyl rip - https://we.tl/t-7D27lbyB3y

<3 2 U Maresn3st

We're releasing #Lilys' 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟯 𝗪𝗮𝘆 for the first time on LP! Preorder Standard Black Vinyl or @RoughTrade Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl: https://t.co/oJhFi7pEjw pic.twitter.com/8jFTSoqImm

— Sundazed Music (@SundazedMusic) January 5, 2021

Thanks Al -- I also saw that Frontier is rereleasing A Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns as a full-length with extra tracks on Feb 12.

i remember HATING this record when it came out ... but I think I'd probably like it now.

It is incredibly dense for a 36 min LP.

yeah, i think i just thought he was massively overreaching — I'll have to revisit it, I probably have more tolerance for that kinda thing these days.

I resented it because it went even further away from Eccsame which is my absolute favorite.

There's an amazing oral history of this record linked upthread.

http://magnetmagazine.com/2017/07/03/magnet-classics-the-making-of-the-lilys-the-3-way

Thanks Al -- I also saw that Frontier is rereleasing A Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns as a full-length with extra tracks on Feb 12.

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Wow now this I would love to get... finally found this info in a facebook post. Feel like I won't have a better way of getting an update then just manually checking facebook? I don't like facebook.

ESPO did an ad for the reissue and it mentions a song named "Elsa".

which is a song off of the Aspera Ad Astra split:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFViY4K7zQ8

So who knows what is in store...

....and relistening I'm realizing this was one of the instrumental tracks on Send In The Subs.

Wait are you more familiar with send in the subs than the split? Yeah instrumentals of all 4 tracks are on subs as well.