ASK SCOTT SEWARD

Daerest Scott,

Is there anything better than the Pet Shop Boys?

Dear Scott,

BUY A MELVINS RECORD. BULLHEAD IS MY PERS. FAV.

Later.

Dear Tim:

Though I am not Scott, the answer is obviously "NO" -- or so I have been told repeatedly. I've learned that listening to music is much like Schrodinger's Cat, all possibilities collapsed together, all music both brilliant and shit at the same time and thus holding no value whatsoever since none can ever be determined.

Hugs,
Leonard Thompson,
lt but not LT

daer scott:

how is cyrus?
are he and rufus getting along?

one love,
IJ

Tim, yes! But I must say, I love the Pet Shop Boys! Seriously. That one best-of that ends with the song "DJ Culture" is hot thru & thru. Not a bad track on it. And their later stuff is great as well. I could see someone thinking, while listening to pet shop boys, "my, it doesn't get much better than this, does it!?" But, since I'm not listening to the Pet Shop Boys at the moment, here are some things that I think are better than the Pet Shop Boys:

Paul Revere & The Raiders
Entombed
Eyehategod
Eric Dolphy
Sun City Girls
Jungle Brothers
Mandrake Memorial
The Ravens
Swans
The Sonics
SSD
Antiseen
Lee Morgan
Cerrone
Bohannon

I only have that first Mandrake Memorial album and I'm not into it so much. A little mopey.

Ian, cyrus is kool. he cries and stuff like a baby. he's funny looking. rufus is cool, except he threw a block at me today and it gave me a big welt over my eye. definitely uncool. i locked him in the basement for the rest of the day. that'll learn him.

ddb, i will someday, if i see one cheap. i had one once! but i traded it in before i listened to it.

do you say, "Cyrus, STOP CRYING LIKE A BABY!@!!"

i love bohannon and cerrone. i picked up a turkish psych reissue (3 Hur-El) and it sounds like a middle eastern bohannon on a few tracks (oh yeah, and some weird swedish prog record i forget the name of where they pull out the bohannon thump too).

JAXON, how cum yoo never told me to buy any weldon irvine albums!!??? i bought three yesterday and they iz hot!!

tim - my love for mandrake memorial is a little unreal. it goes beyond love and comes in contact with the infinite.

scott, i never heard any. i was actually thinking of starting an ILM thread on him JUST TODAY!!!

i'm weary of starting threads because i'm afraid they'll get lost 4 EVA

the only song of his i think i've ever heard was "We Gettin' Down" because it's on the Tribe Vibes (the Tribe Called Quest Samples)

they are funky and out there and in there and he makes really cool synth/keyboard noizes. i got: cosmic vortex(justice divine), sinbad, and spirit man. nice vinyl reissues for cheap. you will dig them muchly.

aw jaXon, start the thread. i'll post on it! i'll post that i only ever heard 2 tracks by him.

also that cherrystone's rocks disc is nice.

i'll post that i just bought three albums by him and i like them and then i'll go away. or maybe i'll ask once again why someone would listen to shuggie otis when there is so much better stuff to listen to out there. cuz stereolab tells you to? if stereolab jumped off a bridge, would you?

scott,

you don't like shuggie otis?

best
gaz

mmmm, not really, gaz. i bought that reissue that everyone was raving about and i only played it once. i have a really early album of his - the one where he is on the cover playing guitar - and other then the one long guitar jam at the beginning, the rest is kinda forgettable. i already know i'll be playing these weldon irvine albums over and over again. yeah, shuggie didn't do much for me. all that "ahead of his time" baloney was phony like rice-a-roni.

you could be right. i've not listened to it more than three times myself. but i really like "outta my head" or whatever it is. but enough. we should leave this for jaXon's weldon irvine thread.

just started the thread

hey, jaxon, yoo mite like this mix my pal cosmo put up on da web. or maybe not. i'll link it up anyway. he is a fancy deejay and a cool kat. if yoo are in the mood for some slow jamz:

DJ COSMO BAKER "LOVE BREAK."

Enjoy

LOVE BREAK PT. 1 - Click here to download:
http://www.beatsandwords.com/audio/LoveBreakPT1.mp3

LOVE BREAK PT. 1 - Click here to download:
http://www.beatsandwords.com/audio/LoveBreakPT2.mp3

LOVE BREAK PT. 1 TRACK LIST
01: Kool & The Introduction
02: Samuel Jonathan Johnston "My Music"
03: Tom Brock "There's Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From
Loving You"
04: The Dramatics "In The Rain"
05: William Bell "I Forgot To Be Your Lover"
06: William Bell & Mavis Staples "Strung Out"
07: Nina Simone "Baltimore"
08: Gwen McCrae "Let's Straighten It Out"
09: L.T.D. "Love Song"
10: The Isley Brothers "Hello It's Me"
11: The Meters "Wichita Lineman"
12: Eddie Kendricks "If You Let Me"
13: Al Green "Light My Fire"
14: Heatwave "Stay Of A Story"

LOVE BREAK PT. 2 TRACK LIST
15: Curtis Mayfield "The Makings Of You"
16: Marvin Gaye "Come Live With Me Angel"
17: Gene Chandler "Tomorrow I may Not Feel The Same"
18: The Dells "Does Anybody Even Know I'm Here"
19: Ethel Beatty "It's Your Love"
18: Aretha Franklin "With Everything I Feel In Me"
19: Joe Simon "Before The Night Is Over"
18: David Ruffin "Common Man"
19: Z.Z. Hill "That Ain't The Way You Make Love"
20: The Jackson 5 "We Got A Good Thing Going"
21: The Isley Brothers "Here We Go Again"
22: Madeline Bell "Make That Move"
23: Milton Wright "Keep It Up"
24: Odyssey "Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love"
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thanks scott, i'll definitely download those. i LURVE the slowjamz. someof those tracks are some of my favorite songs of all time. also, that's like all samples:

03: Tom Brock "There's Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From
Loving You" - Jay-Z - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
04: The Dramatics "In The Rain" - some ghostface track off the new one
05: William Bell "I Forgot To Be Your Lover" (one of my all time fave songs) Dilated Peoples - "Worse Comes to Worst"
06: William Bell & Mavis Staples "Strung Out" - (been looking for this one) Cam'ron - Purple Haze "Down and Out"
19: Joe Simon "Before The Night Is Over" - OutKast - "So Fresh So Clean"
18: David Ruffin "Common Man" - (LOVE this song) Jay-Z - "Never Change"

those are the ones i know off the top of my head. i'm sure the rest have been sampled too.

scott,

i hear living on islands is expensive. some guy i met from a fishing island in alaska said artichoke costs 5$ on an island. is that true? is it easier to get stoned all the time when you live on an island?

vahid

i have that david ruffin lp

no, wait, its the tom brock one i have.

i have a david ruffin best of cd

vahid, it is supercrazyexpensive here. food, gas, everything. gas is like 3 dollars a gallon. i think it's cheaper on the mainland. the supermarkets are out of hand. and they suck. everyone just goes off island if they have to buy lots of stuff. so, walmart ends up getting a lot of island money. i shop at the cheapest grocery store in town, and the prices would still probably make your eyes bug out. we get our milk delivered by the milkman. we think this saves us money. we always forget to check. it tastes better anyway, straight from the dairy. um, but the dairy is off-island too.

hey scotty, do you know this record? Aum's "Resurrection"

http://www.deaddisc.com/imgot/Resurrection.jpg

http://www.deaddisc.com/ot/Resurrection.htm

Yes, yes i do. It's okay. Xian Hippy Rock. For forgotten Cali jamz i prefer Gypsy. (the aum album is one i've owned for years, but i hardly ever play it. you know?)

word. just saw it on a wall for 20 bones. figured it was too much, and couldn't find that much info online about it. all the googles turned up the Japanese cult.

when i saw it, i actually thought it was that Ars Nova record. the covers and the weird frilly font look kinda similar.

http://stoned.circus.free.fr/images/chroniquesT/Ars_Nova.jpg

Ars Nova. NYC was not the place for psychedelia w/ the exception of the Silver Apples was it?

There are two AUM albums. That one is the bad one.

Their first album was on Decca and is actually pretty good. Contains the great "You Better Run (But You Sure Can't Hide)" which was covered nicely by Vermonster.

I have never heard the first Aum album. I like that Ars Nova album okay. I never play THAT record much either though. Cheap Elektra album that is actually pretty good: Mephistopheles.

Since we're on the subject, has anyone heard ASHKAN???

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4009243270

I'd never heard of them before until I saw the CD on the DustyGrove site, but when I asked them to reserve it for me, they said they couldn't find it! The cover looks great.

hey, do you guys like good mellow folk/psych?

i'm telling you, this album is really really good and it sells for peanuts: http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4074321501

get it before mojo writes about it. i don't think it's on cd.

there was one bid for that copy. i'm telling you, it's totally on the down-low how good it is. i almost like it as much as my beloved chrysalis album that is finally on cd.

scott steward, you are a premium dude.

scott seward's ok too i guess

skot. i relistened to that Groundhogs album. i completely change my mind. it's pretty fucking rad. i musta been in a bad mood when i listened to it.

do you still love me?

iz okay, i understand. you do own a copy of split, no?

i don't have Split, but the cover is fucking fantastic

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f937/f93720vlfau.jpg

i love that cover too. i only have an american copy though, which has a completely different cover.

skott, you know anything about the band Progress? album "busy making progress"? i saw it in the shop yesterday and they thank George Harrison, Dylan, Santana and Alice Coltrane. i think i read somewhere that it has something to do w/krishnas, but dunno. it's got a great cover, but it's from 78, so i dunno.

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/15446.jpg

http://www.audiophileusa.com/item.cfm?ID=15446

stouffville grit!

it looks cool! i would buy it unheard at the record store if it were 7 dollars or cheaper. i don't know if i would pay 20 for it unless i heard some raves about it. i have a 70's krisna album that george harrison produced and paid for, but it's just chanting and shit. on the sufi choir album i have they thanks tons of people like that too. free jazz people, rock people, it's a cool list.

Hi, Gareth!

Gareth did you ever get to hear the last Go-Kart Mozart record by my hero Lawrence? I have to transcribe the lyrics to my fave song on it. They are a hoot, and i couldn't find them on the internet.

i have a sufi choir album (the one w/them on the boat on the cover). it's weird. every once in a while i think it's terrible and then every once in a while i think it's good. it's soooo very seventies. just wish the singing was better.

what about Fever Tree "Creation"

http://www.gosupercool.com/ebay/creation.jpg

i would buy that fever tree if i saw it. i dig them. or at least i like the first two albums. i have never heard creation.

scott, you made me a mixtape of metal in response to "who should be doing better than the darkness." i enjoyed it, but none of it was foxy. do you like any foxy metal?

like hair metal, you mean?