That "14" single is my favorite of the Drag City records.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Still haven't picked up the Tom Watson solo record that came out a couple of years ago. Think it's got Mayo and Mark Mothersbaugh on it too. Plus JO'R IIRC. Anyone else heard it?
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link
* - Oh yea, I hereby declare anything that my ignorant ass had not heard about until recently, "obscure."
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been on a bit of a Red Crayola kick recently: I've had The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It for a while and thought theye were OK but didn't realy set me alight; but more recently I picked up their Singles comp and was blown away by some of it and this gave me the impetus to actively track down Kangaroo? and Soldier Talk (both of which I'd been passively whining about the non-availability of for a while anyway, because of the respective Raincoats / Lora Logic and Pere Ubu connections).
Based on comments on this thread) I've now also got Mayo's solo album Corky's Debt To His Father on order.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 14 February 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
-- walter kranz (kranz_walte...), February 14th, 2005 3:29 AM. (walterkranz)
and then their third one, Coconut Hotel, is a total ???????er.
― eman (eman), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Less classic is the 90's Drag City stuff. Perhaps one has to already have a soft spot for those serious young Americans helping out?
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
(Though mine hasn't shown up in the mail yet, and I can't recommend it until it does!)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Klassic!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― don, Sunday, 9 April 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
whenever i listen to the red krayola records i have, i always say to myself: "I should listen to these more." but i don't, really.
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Corky's Debt to His Father is probably my favorite record of all time.
The early records aren't records I listen to straight through, I usually skip to the songs I like.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
There's an MP3 of one of the songs from "Introducing" up on Drag City's site... it sounds similar to material from, say, "Hazel." I'm looking forward to getting the album...
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwolfcow, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I actually never understood the chorus until recently, when I read a reference to/explanation of the "Land of Culchane" (or however you spell it) -- though now I've forgotten what it means!
If someone could explain the "Tio tio tio tio tinx" chorus of that song about Trotsky, I'd love that (and I promise I'll remember it!).
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
"Oh, rustic Muse of such varied note, tio, tio, tio, tiotinx, I sing with you in the groves and on the mountain tops, tio, tio, tio, tio, tiotinx.[10] I poured forth sacred strains from my golden throat in honour of the god Pan,[11] tio, tio, tio, tiotinx, from the top of the thickly leaved ash, and my voice mingles with the mighty choirs who extol Cybele on the mountain tops,[12] tototototototototinx. 'Tis to our concerts that Phrynichus comes to pillage like a bee the ambrosia of his songs, the sweetness of which so charms the ear, tio, tio, tio, tio, tinx.
If there be one of you spectators who wishes to spend the rest of his life quietly among the birds, let him come to us. All that is disgraceful and forbidden by law on earth is on the contrary honourable among us, the birds. For instance, among you 'tis a crime to beat your father, but with us 'tis an estimable deed; it's considered fine to run straight at your father and hit him, saying, "Come, lift your spur if you want to fight."[13] The runaway slave, whom you brand, is only a spotted francolin with us.[14] Are you Phrygian like Spintharus?[15] Among us you would be the Phrygian bird, the goldfinch, of the race of Philemon.[16] Are you a slave and a Carian like Execestides? Among us you can create yourself fore-fathers;[17] you can always find relations. Does the son of Pisias want to betray the gates of the city to the foe? Let him become a partridge, the fitting offspring of his father; among us there is no shame in escaping as cleverly as a partridge.
So the swans on the banks of the Hebrus, tio, tio, tio, tio, tiotinx, mingle their voices to serenade Apollo, tio, tio, tio, tio. tiotinx, flapping their wings the while, tio, tio, tio, tio, tiotinx; their notes reach beyond the clouds of heaven; all the dwellers in the forest stand still with astonishment and delight; a calm rests upon the waters, and the Graces and the choirs in Olympus catch up the strain, tio, tio, tio, tio, tiotinx."
― OrgoneGirl, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Introduction is really good, by the way -- like, surprisingly REALLY good. It's definitely my favorite since Amor & Language.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
It was a bunch of young-ish folks I didn’t recognize (in L.A.)
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 2 December 2023 15:32 (three months ago) link