Oh, seeing as you mentioned The Carousel I'll mention Red Chair Fadeaway, another splinter from the same band (C86 bowlcut boys Razorcuts) whose folk pop harmonies on early singles and album "Curiouser and curiouser" were seriously out of step with what was going on in the early 90s.
― Rob M Revisited, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:53 PM (1 year ago)
yeah, I'm big fan of their first two singles and the first side of Curiouser and Curiouser. it's funny how they sound almost nothing like The Razorcuts or any other contemporary indiepop groups — twee + psych-folk seems like such an obvious combination in retrospect. "My Brother's Room" is probably my favorite song of theirs.
(belated OTM to your These Trails and Trader Horne recs, btw)
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
I'll have to check out that Esperanza Encantada album. never heard of it until now!
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
this Third Wave album is pretty good...like a loungier Wendy & Bonnie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUYcrOYrC8
Third Wave was a pop jazz vocal group consisting of 5 teenage Filipino sisters from California that was discovered by funky keybordist and long time Zappa collaborator George Duke. Duke brought the sisters over to Germany in 1970, where he produced and recorded the album "Here and Now" for German label MPS.
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Read up a little bit on Norma--Wikipedia says she and Dusty were in a relationship for a while, and that Springfield recorded a number of her songs.
I love where she laughs in that clip at the 1:29 mark. Hard to know what she's laughing at--maybe at the idea of lip-synching (seems to be identical to the recorded version). Great line: "People always live and die in 4/4 time."
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
" .412 is not your name" ???
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
I hear that as "'Point forward to' is not your name." Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
dunno, I hear "four-one-two" pretty clearly. I guess it's an "I am not a number, I am a free man" thing, which makes sense within the context of the song (but why the decimal?)
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Sunforest - And I Was Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1Vvg4IXlg
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Sunday, 20 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
We were talking about xpost Honey Ltd.'s Complete Recordings on the Lee Hazelwood thread: finally released last year, by Light In The Attic (some killer HL tracks and a couple by their country-pop reincarnation as Eve, minus one voice but just as devastating, are on There's A Dream I've Been Saving, the leviathan Lee Hazelwood Industries box, also out in '13)(Both releases are on Spotify).Think the reissue of Michele's Saturn Rings is cut out, but several tracks are still on YouTube. She was a 60s session ace, sang on several Boettcher projects, among many other dates, and he produced this, with Mothers like Lowell George and Elliot Ingber making supportive, non-showboat sounds, and stranger cats than that writing lines, but it's not so in-your-face, more like highly proficient psych-pop as a new mainstream, though the sweet starry vibe gets weirder as it goes along, in a canyon garden:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7E0839D64B2D0B20
― dow, Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, and then there's The Cake, cutting class and passing around cough syrup in the Girls Room, droning doom--yeah they made to the Smothers Brothers Show, but they still know the score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTF4GPJ97Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPP7QofRds
― dow, Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
Quarteto Nova Era - Apolo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujxn-39BeCY
― cock chirea, Monday, 21 July 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
Quarteto em Cy - Incelensa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD2Xx_zmHQ
― cock chirea, Monday, 21 July 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
this is from 2006, but it's a perfect evocation of this vibe/era, obviously inspired by Vainica Doble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xYFiS2Hu68
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Friday, 9 January 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
^(that's Pauline en la Playa - 'Lo que pesa un hueso de cereza')
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Friday, 9 January 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
no harmonies but whoa (h/t clemenza 3 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAlx0amAIc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOvlRcpmHM
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
wait what
During the late 1960s Tanega had a romantic relationship with singer Dusty Springfield.[3]
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
!!
Just saw that Tanega's album is being re-released this Friday, and knew the name was familiar (figured it was in the Hipster Kisses thread but found it here). Went to play the clip of "You're Dead" and damned if it isn't the theme to the series version of What We Do In The Shadows! Have been meaning to check what song that was.
― nickn, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
The algorithms have been foisting "You're Dead" for about a week. Keep seeing it come up.
― bendy, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Reissue has a few sq problems but this record is really good. This one almost sounds proto Neutral Milk Hotel or something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hk3_YWGryE
I hope someone releases the follow-up because I love the tune "Illusion" from it that appeared on the Sad About The Times compilation
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 20 February 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
Sounds promising.
What a fine thread more generally. That Third Wave clip at the top is possibly the best thing I've ever heard. Where the hell were they hiding?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
"Under the Sky" by Giles, Giles, and Fripp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THg0Hr97GwQ
― frogbs, Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link