Maybe they are on a split 7" or a 10" comp- OK maybe one 7" all their own at most.
MinmaeSaturnheadTetsu InoueContaineUltra Cindy
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
CD only acts that only appear on a 7"?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 November 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Oh wait nevermind.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 November 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Sorry wrote that too quickly. Yeah, CD only primarily despite perhaps having one 7" under their name at most.
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
The entire em:t series from Time Recordings was CD-only, no vinyl at all.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 18 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
CDs are my favourite way to "dig" these days - a CD single is nearly always cheaper than a 12" and I still have a disc drive on my laptop which means I can rip it without having a complicated set-up. You can find all kinds of great UK garage and disco-house remixes used to fill up 90s pop releases!
― boxedjoy, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
Especially when there isn't already some good digital way to acquire, for sure.
Any standouts?
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
90% of new jazz albums released between 1992 and 2006
and noise CDRs
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Chevy Heston
― paris geller spinoff pitch (morrisp), Monday, 18 November 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
^ Nice. Thanks
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Oh, thought of another...
The Autumns
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Sam & The Plants
― Maresn3st, Monday, 18 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Went on a third wave ska kick recently and was kinda shocked to learn that some of my favorite Bim Skala Bim and Pietasters stuff was never released on vinyl. Fortunately God Bless Satan by Mephiskapheles has seen a number of vinyl reissues in recent years, and that's all I really need.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 18 November 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
XP - Actually, they're more mid/late-oughts, apologies
― Maresn3st, Monday, 18 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
That's alright, doesn't necessarily have to strictly be within the range cited!
― Evan, Monday, 18 November 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
― Evan, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:13 PM
The Angel Pool is kind of a classic but I certainly wish they were better known.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
For sure, I mean the premise is more about how the CD only thing is not doing them any favors in the long run.
Thought of another, an indie band from 2005 called The Young Tradition, but seemingly nothing to do with the 60s band. Pretty nice little album. I barely know anything about them beyond that.
― Evan, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
Probably a lot of goth stuff on CD only.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
the apples.
a post WIN band that made 2 excellent singles but got dropped.the album was very quietly released, and is available on cd.
― mark e, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
I was going to suggest the Pop Ambient series from Kompakt, but looking on Discogs they were apparently also released as LPs, and they're widely available on iTunes.
The vast majority of stuff on Pete Namlook's FAX label was released on CD in limited quantities only, and to makes things more complicated Namlook is dead and Tetsu Inoue has vanished. Furthermore I have the impression the contracts for all those "Pete Namlook plus someone else" albums - there were loads - must be hard to work out. Some of them are on iTunes but only a minority.
I still have my copies of the four Virgin Brief History of Ambient compilations. They were CD only. I have the impression that most compilations from 1993-2005 if not more recently were CD-only, because CDs held more music and compilations aren't aimed at audiophiles. The problem is that very few compilations had an identity of their own (Ambient 4 at least had a bunch of rare tracks).
Er, Supersilent? Masses of albums, very few of them released on vinyl. Towering Inferno's Kaddish was only released on CD. An awful lot of artists championed by The Wire magazine were CD-only, because they were stark and unsentimental and of limited commercial appeal, and remain so.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 22 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
But the artist I really wanted to champion was B*Witched. Neither of their two albums were released on vinyl. Neither of them have been re-released since 1999 / 2000 respectively (barring a one-off Japanese pressing of the first album in 2007). They are as dead as dead can be.
I mean, they were no good, but they were a cultural curiosity - an Irish theme pub girl band, the absolute epitome of the pre-war Blair years - and for a very brief period they were a major chart act. Also they're one of the few pop bands with integral punctuation.
In fact almost exactly the same could be said of Billie Piper's pop career. Her two albums also came out in 1999 and 2000, they were also CD-only, and they haven't been reprinted since then. Unless there's a resurgence of interest in bubblegum pop of the turn of the millennium their works will end up as thin layer of plastic in the fossil records.
You know, I can still spell millennium. Two Ls, two Ns. I assumed that skill would be of no use in the 2000s, but the rise of the word "millennial" has made it useful again.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 22 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Minmae were really cool! Vonsachiang!
― brimstead, Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
I have both the Macro Dub Infection compilations (also on Virgin), and all six volumes of the Electric Ladyland series (on Mille Plateaux). Those were all CD-only.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
Am I the only one who remembers Mind Bomb? Or rather, mindbomb.
https://img.discogs.com/HiyuSHeeGyHuytN4vlWuGS1g01Q=/fit-in/280x280/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2232476-1271276739.jpeg.jpg
― omar little, Saturday, 23 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
I have a Minmae 7". it's great. I saw them live once too and that was also good. I have a ton of this shit on 7"s that I never listen to
― akm, Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Oh man... totally forgot!
Cyann & Ben
― Evan, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Am I the only one who remembers Mind Bomb? Or rather, mindbomb
You are not alone. The lead single, however, was astoundingly shitty.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 December 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
The Wind-Up Bird
― Evan, Monday, 16 December 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Scott 4
Not the Walker album but rather the C&W/motorik outfit.
― henry s, Monday, 16 December 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
the 2nd ivy album
― brimstead, Monday, 16 December 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
Sleepyhead’s best (IMO) releases — Communist Love Songs and Late Night Thinkin’ — were CD-only. (The band released a lot of other stuff on vinyl, though.)
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard those! Always liked Sleepyhead though.
― Evan, Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Neither of Susanne Lewis’s Kissyfur albums (or her 2000 self-titled alb) were on vinyl; and looks like most of her Hail stuff w/ Bob Drake has also been CD-only.
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
xxp to myself -- just learned that Communist Love Songs was remastered & reissued on vinyl in 2018 (in a set with Starduster, an earlier LP):
https://www.drawingroomrecords.com/collections/all-products/products/future-exhibit-goes-here
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
Will rep for the two Containe albums - fantastic, edgy, compelling. If you like Versus, you'll love them.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
Didn't Ambient World reissue some of those?
I think I have more Fax stuff on my wantlist than any other label
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 24 September 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
indeed.i have already put my FAX cd collection into a specific box and told my lads NOT to hand these over to the local charity shop once my time is up.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
that reminds me that a friend of mine had basically a full FAX CD collection left behind by her husband who sadly died in a really tragic way (suicide by cop). She asked me once if there was somewhere in particular she could auction it off for charity. but then I never heard what she did with it.
― akm, Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Bumping because I forgot this thread existed. Seeing younger collectors focusing more on CDs these days (was somewhat inevitable), therefore some regained hope for obscurity discovery
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:48 (eleven months ago) link
Screen Prints!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoG-ZEdVYw
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 01:06 (five months ago) link
i listen to this album quite a bit. suntan. on kimchee. 2003. good gaze. never on vinul. never reissued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaG-o2U9cbo
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 03:45 (five months ago) link
i like this too. on sonic unyon. 2003. cd only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzSG0I3tsdU
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 03:50 (five months ago) link