I hope I'm doing this right. Here's the other hard-to-find Lilys thing (at least in the US): their self-titled album, which is a remix of Precollection with the addition of several new songs. It's actually my favorite thing they've done.https://www.dropbox.com/sh/71f20et5zbsh438/AADBps42CpyVxJ6yOkRryRTUa?dl=0
― dlp9001, Monday, 4 April 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
It's great! Hung out with a guy who did some drumming on that version, so I got a copy from him naturally!
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
OK the 1998 remix sounds like "George Lucas presents Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better SPECIAL EDITION" given the way new sounds and flourishes are jammed into every corner of most of these songs.
Still like it a lot though, just kind of funny after having known the other version so well for so long without ever having gotten around to this one.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
I've always been a bit confused, just to get this straight, the original version of Better has a false start on 'Nanny..' right?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the uploads! "here i go out the door of my apartment before I miss my train and there's no way that is happening"
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
Well, there's a little guitar intro in the beginning on the original version if that's what you mean.
xp
― Evan, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Just realized I've never heard "Glosseder" (I don't think I have, at least) which appears to only be on the vinyl version of A Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns... can anyone provide some info or an upload of that track even? If it exists digitally at all.
― Evan, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
"Welfare Murder Plot" reminds me of Lansing-Dreiden
― calstars, Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
bump. dying to hear "Glosseder". Still can't remember if I've ever investigated this track before.
― Evan, Thursday, 7 April 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Prob shouldn't share dropbox links publicly so PM-ed you Evan re: Glosseder.
― city worker, Saturday, 9 April 2016 11:44 (eight years ago) link
Thanks so much!
― Evan, Saturday, 9 April 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
I thought this may appeal to some of you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCX-xhFlSl4
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 May 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Why's that?
Man I haven't listened to Bob Drake in like 8 years.
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
I thought it had a flavour of Lilys in there
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 May 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I agree! Ok, just making sure there wasn't more to it. I mean, there is a guy named Kurt involved.
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
BD could make an absolutely killer '66 era pop psyche album with one hand tied behind his back, his voice alone is custom built for those summery harmonies.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 07:23 (seven years ago) link
Was this oral history of post-shoegaze Lilys ever posted here?
http://magnetmagazine.com/2017/07/03/magnet-classics-the-making-of-the-lilys-the-3-way/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
New to me! Thanks for sharing
― Evan, Thursday, 10 January 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
I suppose my holy grail would be the Lilys 'Send in the Subs' CD-R, I can barely get a decent quality rip of it never mind an actual hard copy.― MaresNest, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:39 AM (two weeks ago)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:39 AM (two weeks ago)
I lost my copy! Wish I could help you out...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
city worker hooked us up in 2016 but not sure if the quality was good enough for Mares
― Evan, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
Thank you both! I would love a higher quality rip than 128kbps, the search goes on! Maybe I should try and ask Kurt :)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
He's pretty active on twitter...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
320kbps rip on slsk right now.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 February 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
YSI?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 28 February 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
I did a search on slsk yesterday and have just done one now with no results, whoever they are we don't keep the same hours I guess :)
― MaresNest, Thursday, 28 February 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
there's a user now ("f**d*ngb*ck") who has most of it in 192
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Not seeing it... :-( Hopefully MaresNest can find it.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ubQgRrF.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 19 October 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
Grunge album coming soon?
I did eventually track down Send in The Subs in 192kbps, still hoping for a copy of it, I also grabbed a great VPRO session from that same person.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuqlLpXJyag
verse melody was knicked for "leo ryan"? and maybe another track?
trying to figure out how involved KH is with Lodge 49... seems kinda deep but maybe some contractual shit is keeping him incognito.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 28 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
xpost
noooooooooooo...
― Yerac, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
the only time I saw them live was in '99? when Delta 72, Olivia Tremor Control and Elf Power were also on the bill (macrock).
― Yerac, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
That was a good era... maybe the peak.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 28 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
I dunno, that recently unbraided hair seems peak.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
I appreciate his two sizes of tamis (tamises?) on the wall.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l84s3v4wzsy5eb5/Lilys%20-%20Miscellaneous%20Rarities%20HQ%20MP3.zip?dl=0
Lilys - Send In The Subs vol. 2
Right Thing to Do (prev. unrel.)Dreams Never End (New Order cover)Coby (backing track, no vocal)Excelsior Plainside (prev. unrel.)Any Several Sundays (early unrel. version)Hark, The Open Energy Channel Is Icy Water, Water Everywhere (B-side)Baby's a Dealer (radio session version)Touch the Water (prev. unrel. 45 version)Any Several Sundays (Station Tapes version)Baby's a Dealer (B-side version)Welfare Murder Plot (B-side)Overlit Canyon - Live 2016-07-03 - performed by Kurt Heasley (Lilys frontman) in celebration of the life of Thomas Fekete
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
(Mares, can you reup vol 1 pls?)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Holy crap gotta get on the computer and download that!
― Evan, Friday, 1 November 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
XP - Thanks so much Albert R!
Here is a link to Vol.1, I threw the Dutch VPRO Radio Session in also.
VPRO Session, 08/11/96
Touch The WaterWho Is MovingPaz En El HogarA Nanny In Manhattan (take one)A Nanny In Manhattan (take two)A Nanny In Manhattan (take three)Better Can't Make Your Life BetterGingerShovel Into Spade KitCambridge California (take one)Cambridge California (take two)Elevator Is TemporaryBaby's A Dealer
https://fromsmash.com/fZcmEnYnYk-c0
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
<3
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Hey Albert looks like
Hark, The Open Energy Channel Is Icy Water, Water Everywhere (B-side)
wasn't in the link
― Evan, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Damn... I'll see if I can rescrape it.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
That track and the others from the Services For The Soon To Be Departed EP are so damn great.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I verified run-times it's the same track as the lead track on Services. Which I have... somewhere lol
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
iirc they just bunged the whole EP, or most of it, on the CD Single for Nanny (in the UK at least)
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Well, I was wrong, it was just the first three tracks
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
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
― Evan, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
In The Presence Of Nothing promo photos, DC 1992
https://i.imgur.com/qCoGZhL.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/MsOXC0k.jpg
Mike Hammel (The Ropers), Archie Moore (Velocity Girl), KH
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
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!"
― Evan, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Thanks again for the uploads, these early tracks are making me really nostaglic for Eccsame era stuff: "The Turtle Which..." etc.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link