That Strum & Thrum comp was also recently discussed in the rolling reissues thread, fyi
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
The clue is in the thread title. Loving this Random Hold LP from 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di9A2w8Vsjk
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 20 November 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
That Strum & Thrum comp was also recently discussed in the rolling reissues thread, fyi― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, November 20, 2020 12:40 PM
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, November 20, 2020 12:40 PM
yeah, i was excited for it but then got completely sidetracked when i found out about the pavement box set. i'm gonna get both now and i'm going to love every second of it, dammit!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 20 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
pavement box set(?!)
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, 20 November 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
I heard this song once on college radio circa 1982 or '83 and loved it and never heard it again but spent years looking for it in record stores. Finally found the EP it was from like 10 years later. By that time of course I'd built up the song in my head into something hard to live up to. But I still like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b2zGLZg4nI
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 20 November 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
(more than the music, it was the central lyrical image — "white gardens/no flowers/just white" — that stuck with me)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 20 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
I have a copy of the North American issue of that Random Hold record, which combines single, EP and album tracks (but not the song you linked to). It seems they really wanted to release everything in a double LP package.
They're a strange hybrid of prog/AOR and post-punk/new wave; you can see why some at the time found them hard to swallow, but they deserved some more attention than they got.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 November 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
pavement box set(?!)― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, November 20, 2020 2:53 PM
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Friday, November 20, 2020 2:53 PM
uhh, no sorry. PYLON. dunno where i got pavement from. i don't even like them.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 20 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
Both bands are R.E.M.-adjacent.
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
I fell in love with this song "Soon" recently, a side project of Paul Haig from Josef K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkVCojnvHnc
― Rollie Pemberton, Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
thank you, rollie! that has lead me to this and i bought that schitt so fast!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
finally got that paul haig in the mail and the second track was his cover of sly + the family stone! i haven't even gotten past that track yet and HELL YES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVMOIff3bDs
file that one under: things tailor made for austin.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 19 December 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
Loving a bit of Maximum Joy at the moment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7ZiivWoOQ
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
I dig about 2/3s of that Paul Haig comp, the 2nd half of disc 2 leaves me cold though.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Agreed, Gerald. It's got some great stuff on it though. Kind of feel the same about Josef K, but they were easily more hit than miss.
Why did no one tell me about Au Pairs? They're wonderful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLUANT8ZPxU
"Headache for Michelle" (1981)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 5 March 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
Hells yes! Brilliant Gang Of Four grooves with great lyrics. Do find the Peel Sessions if possible. And if you don't know them already, Delta 5 are cut from a similar cloth. But in the spirit of this thread, I must note these are post punk and not new wave
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 5 March 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
Heard this one recently on the radio, and couldn't believe I've never heard of these guys before:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cvrCJwEn4O Positive - Say Goodbye
Is 1985 too late to call it new wave?
― enochroot, Saturday, 5 March 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
Ahh, I wasn't intending to get too caught up on strict definitions. "Random old new wave" is whatever you think it is in this thread. Just looking for some solid punk/-inspired jams.
Which "Say Goodbye" qualifies as, thank you for sharing.☺
Also just put this one on, Gerald. Thanks for the rec!
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQ_U3I2bZY
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKTL9oKZrg
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
O Positive were a great Boston band from the 80s. They released an EP compilation which contains their best work though I have a soft spot for their debut LP, "Toyboattoyboattoyboat". Their second album was crap. Dave Herlihy became an entertainment lawyer, my mate's band worked with him.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
Medium, Medium, from Nottingham, Au Pairs adjacent:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnoGts-zT0AMinnneapolis’ the Suburbs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EmuazLVgM
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
I listened to a bunch of Icelandic post-punk and New wave yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxDfD0zepI
― Loud Tsu (I M Losted), Sunday, 6 March 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
Also Spanish new wave.
This video should be classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13SdFgMGME
― Loud Tsu (I M Losted), Sunday, 6 March 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
Huh, I was pretty sure I was the only person left who remembered O Positive. Would love to buy that dj a drink.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
Apparently that DJ been rocking that O Positive tune for 20 years.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
WMBR is my go-to college station.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
not sure if this exactly counts but it seems like something that would appear on a Living with Oblivion comp from an alternate timelinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ39VhVaiKE
― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNId-8g17A
From the explicitly B-52's-emulating side of new wave, it's The Cosmopolitans "Wild Moose Party"
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 06:34 (two years ago) link
Berlin - 'The Metro':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEZP22b82ks
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 17 April 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
the comsat angels — "the eye dance" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGuj2APL84
best ever.
extemporaneous thoughts—i hadn't quite figured out my asexuality yet when i first heard this song in the early 2000s. i just knew i preferred to hang out with women but not like that and that i was definitely not gay. throw in tons of other shit and i was afraid to talk to most people i didn't already know fairly well. enter this song. like most things from the coinciding album (sleep no more; very highly recommended if you don't know it), it's open to interpretation. i always just assumed it was meant to portray a narrator, who fancies a stranger in a public space, wanting to make an approach, but feeling unsure. it's intense and passionate. i get the vibe that he feels like he needs to explain himself before he even says hello — if he even decides to go through with it in the first place. felt very much like he had been reading my thoughts for the few years prior. the timelines don't match up, of course. foiled again.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
Dumptruck: Going Nowhere
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
dumptruck —and especially for the country— is such a personal classic!
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Xp Don't sleep on the Comsat Angels Peel Sessions! Some definitive versions there.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
that's a fine point, gerald! the peel sessions are easily the highlights of their radio sessions album. even though the sleep no more are songs are missing the big studio sound they were able to get on the album, the performances are fairly intense. that whole period was pretty fruitful for them; loved reading about how meticulous the recording of the album was — i.e., recording drums at 3am via the open lift shaft in an otherwise empty studio.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
Here is a REALLY obscure one:
Vivabeat’s “Blue Guitars”-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIyP2-K9PA
Information on them is scant. Not many recordings, and I don’t think they really had a fixed lineup. Gorgeous tune. Love that bass
― beamish13, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
O _ O
that's. . . wow!
easy first listen love. thank you for posting.
discogs info + YES it's on streaming!
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 11 August 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
trouser press:
This one-hit (well, almost one) California guitar-plus-synthesizer sextet sounds like Sparks at half speed. On an otherwise duff album, their big number, “Man From China,” is a four-square dance track whose catchy hook is whistled for novelty effect.
lol ouch
and according to amg, they were loosely affiliated with peter gabriel but it's not really clear what the connection was. listening to the compilation now and the earlier stuff is definitely more 'stock new wave' sounding than "blue guitar" — which *really* sticks out. what an amazing song. it's vaguely go betweens-ish, with some b-52's "topaz" sprinkles on top. . . just whoa — big tune!
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 11 August 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Wow, Vivabeat... I *think* I saw either them or one of Marina Del Rey's other bands opening up for the Andy Prieboy version of Wall Of Voodoo at the Anti Club in LA (I see Chas Grey from WoV is credited on the Vivabeat album). Marina Del Rey was in o.g. Masque punk band Backstage Pass with Holly Beth Vincent but that's about all I know of them.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 August 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
big up to "blue guitars" again. one of my favorite songs of the year. cheers.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 10 September 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
French gemhttps://shop.bornbadrecords.net/track/toutes-les-nuits
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Saturday, 10 September 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2A4kUgPE8
the wake - "talk about the past (12" mix)"
(yep, featuring a cameo from vini reilly!)
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
i do very much like the madchester lite that factory was also peddling-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2pjApra6gthe railway children - 'brighter' (1986)
general thoughts on the railway children? i wasn't there at the time, but this one seems like it may have had dome steam behind it. they kind of sounded like an amalgamation of a few different manc bands - but a much more polite version of all of them.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:54 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsoZiIm1C8
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:16 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gzRg-8qD8
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:17 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0fPZrPV3M
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:20 (two months ago) link
I love that first Railway Children album. Their second and third albums are diminishing returns, but "Reunion Wilderness" jangles hard.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:40 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHOF4vZrD0swamp children - "sunny weather" (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7phyjZe9SIswamp children - "magic" (1982)
were there other flora purim fans in manchester at the time or... ???
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:43 (three weeks ago) link
Enjoying this for the umpteenth time when I came across this thread, utter classic. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrdrzeyK6M
― PAPUS ADRIANUS, Sunday, 12 May 2024 05:01 (three weeks ago) link
if you'd just recommended this song i'd have been, like, ok cool
but now i cannot separate the song itself from the most incredibly feeble lip-synch tv appearance of all time
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 May 2024 06:18 (three weeks ago) link
that seems like the quintessential trouser press band.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 12 May 2024 06:27 (three weeks ago) link
(looks)
nope, not in their archives.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 12 May 2024 06:30 (three weeks ago) link
they seem fun though!