90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

in the own server

on my own server

drunk

totally going to that NY polvo show btw. they were pretty sweet last year at bowery ballroom. also opening band the Obits has members of 90s guitar college rock indie bands ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT and EDSEL

that dog was ok. apparently anna waronker now has a rock opera with charlotte caffey.

"Obits has members of 90s guitar college rock indie bands ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT and EDSEL"

Rick Froberg of the Obits was actually in Drive Like Jehu, a band featuring a member of Rocket from the Crypt --> John Reis.
Both these guys were also in the band Pitchfork (well before the website) who were/are truly under appreciated.

ah right I actually liked Jehu better. ROMEPLOWS

never heard pitchfork should investigate!

Jehu/Pitchfork were major obsessions - still pull those out regularly
The Obits stuff, at least live, was pretty amazing too.

Oh good! I didn't know much about Obits but now I'm looking forward to seeing what they're about.

Also, I'm really excited to get that solo Seana Carmody album. Any Swirlies fans who know whether its good? It sounds good.

Another good band from that era: Eleventh Dream Day. Especially the "Lived To Tell" album, killer.

Let's not forget that Froberg and Reis had a band in the '00s, Hot Snakes, who at times were as good as any of their other bands (at least live, where they just steamrolled relentlessly, just so so good).

heh heh, i told you -- this is the latest write up of my band in the local alt-weekly: "we caught the Magic Mice in the main room at Bar Standard, proving that what used to be called college rock back in the '90s still works in this millennium" HMMM. at this rate, we'll be as big as Kudgel in no time.

I was really crazy about this album by Duster back in the day. Cool to see them mentioned here as I never knew anyone else who liked them. I bought one of their other records as well, but it wasn't nearly as good.

this thread is a really intense time tunnel for me

I saw the Paper Chase last night - if you dug the Chicago/Louisville guitar rock (Rodan, Slint) then you should catch their tour because they brought that vibe

I just lost a bet with myself that J0hn D's post would rep for WCKR SPGT

Duster is really great, if you are into that sort of thing. So far I only have Stratosphere and I'm in love with it.

listening to an old Abilene record...so good

Mr. or Mrs. dmr... person who posted as dmr... please assist me. You posted your radio show, and I love Further. Can you send me any of their stuff? Its way out of print, and I'd love to sample more than just this one track before I can spend the money on a rare copy of one of their albums.

Hope you check back and let me know! Also if anyone else knows!

OH, and I love these kind of low-fi GBVish stuff. Can you recommend anymore or the best albums belonging to the more obscure bands in the mix? I'm already familiar with the bigger names. Thanks! Again that goes for anyone who happens to call themselves experts on this stuff.

dmr!!!

i have two further albums to hand (super griptape and sometimes chimes). if nobody else posts em before this evening i'll load em up for you

Thanks so much! They any good?

i like griptape quite a bit, the other i don't know so well but i don't remember loving it

you may also be interested in the summer hits, they're related.. check out their beaches and canyons comp

is there a youtube thread of this stuff? i seem to remember one

the only Further I have is the Grimes Golden EP (which is great) but I don't have any more of it ripped from the vinyl. aside from Quiet Riot Grrl the tracks Teenage Soul and California Bummer are awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJubJYkH0g

the best albums belonging to the more obscure bands in the mix?

dunno which ones you consider obscure but I'd go for Strapping Fieldhands - Discus, Wattle & Daub, In the Pineys ... Home - IX, X, XI (Elf: Gulfborewaltz) ... Grifters - One Sock Missing, Crapping You Negative, Eureka EP, Ain't My Lookout ... TJSA - Bait and Switch, Straight to Video

Yeah Grifters... one of those bands I haven't quite dived into yet... but I've got my eye on One Sock Missing used at the record store next door to my place for 4.99. Thats the best thing about this era and these sort of unknown bands... they didn't get enough press in the 90s originally, so all of their albums are dirt cheap used. I'll check out all of those recommendations though thanks!

And c.c. I'll look into The Summer Hits (?) also, I'm open to anything like this.

Also (dmr) is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

Another contributing factor was the 90s birthed so many little record labels that there is tons of material released by these little guys by obscure little acts. And nobody in this town wants these cheap albums but me! Perfect.

Will there be a nostalgic reappraisal of 89-91 over-compressed jangly power-pop? If so, I'm looking forward to the new Judybats & Material Issue.

cuz, you know, girls w/ horn-rim spectacles & dudes w/ wild hair & patterned button-downs bottoned all the way up could really use a comeback (sorry for the lame-o link, but couldn't find this brilliant song on YT for some reason?)

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

― latebloomer, Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:10 AM (2 weeks ago)

otfm!

not that it was ever the world's most precise term but it is still annoying to me to hear folks use "indie rock" to describe like, arcade fire.

^^ first world problems

Evan, try the very, very GbVesque Capstan Shafts. there's a lot of it, all of it quite good, if somewhat samey.

that (there even is a) Further vid is really blowing my mind. used to follow the Bros. Rademaker religiously, from project to project, beginning with (ugh) Shadowland. Griptape is just juvenile Dino Jr/seBADoh worship, not too essential. Sometimes Chimes is a fascinating mess that's twice as much album as it should be. but you need Grimes Golden as well as the final Further album, Next Time West Coast, if only for the Primal Scream cover. and that Summer Hits comp is dope. i believe i have everything but the 7"s ripped, if you're having trouble finding these.

The Grimes Golden EP was pretty swank, would definitely recommend that you hunt that fucker down.

further - super griptape lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252560100/Super_Griptape_L.zip.html

is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

yeah all three of those tracks are on the 10"

this one

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

er

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

oh forget it it looks like an apple

This one:
http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2007/09/further-grimes-golden-ep-1994.html

further - sometimes chimes lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252619987/Sometimes_Chimes_LP.zip.html

further! XD

wow.

I like seam's first album and ep a LOT. also codeine, pitchblende and number girl.

In 92 I found a ad for Ajax records, I think it was in the back of Spin. Once that first catalog came, I started buying whatever records sounded interesting. I owe my musical education to whom ever it was that ran Ajax. I treated those catalogs as gold. I wish I had still had them.
Search: The Cannanes, Peter Jefferies, The Dead C, David Kilgour, The Renderers.

I <3 the Cannanes (and those other people, but especially the Cannanes)

That Judybats video was hilarious!

Thanks everybody, c.c., for posting the links. I'll definitely pick up any of these albums if I stumble across them.

Keep the recommendations coming!

I like Seam, a band RIYL Sunny Day Real Estate for sure, and I've been interested in Pitchblende.
I discovered them when I found out they are friends with The Swirlies (my favorite).

Ah yes I've been looking for Arty Barbeque by the Cannanes.

That's a great album, one of their best definitely

Oh my god, yes, Ajax catalogs were big for me too. Not just ajax label releases, but the stuff they distributed and their year-end lists, etc. Like ILM only in 1994.

Speaking of Seam... the second Bitch Magnet album, Ben-Hur, is pretty great. I just picked that up a few months ago after not hearing it for many years. Still pretty great. Their earlier material not so much, but Ben-Hur is great. Also Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast is a good 'un.

Ben Hur is the third one isn't it? After Star Booty (which is okayish) and Umber (which is fucking awesome).

Yeah, it's the third one. You can get Star Booty and Umber on the same disc--some of it is okay but I think Ben Hur destroys both. That's the album David Grubbs joined the band on... I don't know that it's Grubbs specifically that makes it better, though it does benefit from having a second guitar which makes all the songs a little more epic.

main seam dude had a band called "ee" that a friend of mine was in...similar vein...were weirdly on asian man records

Asian man records... only band on that label that I've pursued was Polysics. They aren't too special nowadays but albums "Hey! Bob! My Friend!" and "Neu" are both great! Hey Bob is still in print (?) or available but Neu is not. Too bad, cause Neu is a little better. Its a little heavier and just so great. Not 90s though...

I'm looking forward to the new Judybats

Oh hell I'd buy a new Judybats record for sure. They made a lot of bad records after Native Son but for "Convalescing in Spain" alone I'd give them chance after chance after chance.

Inspired by the top of this thread I'm listening to The Multiple Cat ("Territory" Shall Mean The Universe) right now. Kind of great, actually -- the guitar sounds like Versus, the singing like Pavement. But somehow it sounds more like Murmur than it does like either of these (or maybe it's just this one song, "Kitty Kan't Figure It Out," where the bass sounds like Murmur.

Whoa, unexpected naive keyboard solo.

And something about "North?" feels like a kind of Iowa indie rock "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." I really think some of you guys should listen to this record and describe it better than I can, OK?