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― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
weird mix! and some of it is country but country is folk.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
worst cover ever. and there is nothing freaky about any of it.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
the fool and sandy posey on the same comp. that doesn't happen every day.
no, it's not especially freaky! donna fargo?
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
some good stuff on there though! don't need pete seeger or glenn yarbrough in my life though.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty of good stuff there, but some crap. Thematically and logically it makes no sense and (to me) would be difficult to slog through. Seems like it must have been stuff compiled primarily because it was easy to license.
― crustaceanrebel, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
i don't get what this compilation is.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
I remember when that Donna Fargo song was a hit. I also remember some gum brand with the ad campaign "I Didn't Know The Gum Was Loaded" to promote their gum that was filled with flavored liquid. I'm not old enough to remember "Sugar Baby" rockin' the Victrolas but big do I love that song.
― henry s, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
makes even less sense than 'freedom rock.'
i think it's just a quick cash-in with some older folk and country songs that were cheap to license.
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
they should have put Jim & Jean's phil ochs cover on there instead of the one they have on there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK1n6ArYMc
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
at least i can imagine what freedom rock sounds like
i know few of these artists and none of the songs so where would i start?
― the late great, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
"hey, is that early freak folk? Turn it up, dude!"
― henry s, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
i found this while searching for john jacob niles. some of his child ballads are freaky, but i wouldn't call that "freak folk." o.g. freak folk would be like private press christian-hippie stuff.
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
inspirational quote.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 27 July 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
i got yer carolyn hester freakfolk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtM5io_IwPU
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
depends what you're into. this collection is a strange mix of sunshine pop, greenwich village folk, pop-country, and trad-appalachian stuff. my taste leans toward the sunshine pop ("sunshine day" by soul concern) and the greil marcus fodder ("sugar baby" by dock boggs or the "indian war whoop" by hoyt "floyd" ming and his pep-steppers).
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
xp inspirational quote or fighting words?
yeah the dock boggs and hoyt ming were the only ones i knew and soul concern is great. i guess i was thinking things that sound like the byrds or the laurel canyon influenced things that would be on fallout / sunbeam / psychic circle
― the late great, Friday, 27 July 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
i like things like caroline peyton and judee sill but that's less folk and country and more straightforward fm gold
― the late great, Friday, 27 July 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
like, why the fuck is "michael, row the boat ashore" on here?
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
john jacob niles is kinda freaky imo (re yer search source) but not freak folky if you get what i mean. but he is the best, and go way from my window is a++++
does it count as an xpost if i am just responding to an old post after showing up late. well it does now
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 27 July 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
this anita carter version of "all my trials" is v v pretty tho.
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
peter cook and dudley moore? including that novely single is a bit freakish....
― bb, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone know anything of the band 'help yourself', who appear to otherwise only exist on other compilations of this sort
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
ask ned raggett:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/help-yourself-mw0000848932
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
help yourself is awesome. ian to thread.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
you can get everything they recorded for less than $25
http://www.amazon.com/Help-Yourself-Beware-Shadow/dp/B000024XTN
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Affair-Return-Ken-Whaley/dp/B00000JTB7/
Listened to this comp this morning after I saw the mention on your Facebook. I enjoyed most of it, but yeah, thematically speaking it's 'wha?'
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
all four Help Yourself albums are on spotify. i've skimmed all of them and i guess the first self-titled album is the one people are interested in bc it's the most "psych" but the fourth album The Return of Ken Whaley is my favorite based on limited listening. it's a weird shaggy album with great song titles like "pioneers of the west in the head" and "jesus what are little kids for"
― na (NA), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link