LILYS - Classic / Dud + Search / Destroy

Haven't listened to it in years but I liked it a lot. Has all that old stuff been reissued yet? I've only got three of their albums.

I'm still with ya Evan
Great album from more often than not, excellent band

Nothing has been reissued. According to Kurt there's problems with rights regarding the defunct Spin Art label. That album in particular I'm certain if reissued would bring upon all sorts of forgotten-classic-praise in write ups given again how unique it is and how well it's aged.

That's a shame. I have pirate mp3 versions of Eccsame The Photon Band and In The Presence Of Nothing because the second hand discs were crazily expensive at the time and are probably worse now.
A good lot of that classic shoegazing stuff has been reissued so I assumed they would be too.

Actually the two albums are 30pounds on amazon, Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns is a bit less expensive and most others are very affordable.

No single/ep collections it seems? I always heard that Tone Bender was amazing but it's getting rare.

What about the related bands like Photon Band or Black Tambourine? Which are the most relevant to Lilys fans?

Love eccsame the photon band

Photon Band (the band) had some great material! Only really relevant due to the shared members.

And I agree they're a much more exciting reissue than most of the 90s bands that've been getting it lately.

Vinyl reissue please!!!

Should have said "reissue prospect". Don't want to confuse anyone looking at the bottom of the thread first. Hoping it'll finally happen someday.

I have a spare CD copy of In the Presence of Nothing (Slumberland).
Any interest or guidance of best places where to sell?
*Places tin hat on

Heh- well you can sell it for $30+ on amazon or ebay most likely. Otherwise a record store will buy it from you for $4-$8 so they can then go and do the same (from experience as a former buyer at a record store- we had an amazon store).

Thanks for your advice Evan. May try Amazon. I have a load of stuff to shift. Hopefully...

You're welcome! Another point on Amazon- try to price competitively with other entries of the same condition. What I mean is if you feel your copy qualifies as "very good" vs "like new" price it below the lowest very good listing but not higher than any like new listing (in case this isn't already obvious to you). Helps move your items quick but for the most money you should expect per disc!

Oh, I forgot to mention discogs.com as well. That could be a good route too I just don't have experience selling there (only buying).

Much appreciated Evan
apols to you and all for clogging this one up a touch

Paul

Nooooooooo! A guy started making a documentary about Kurt back in 2007 but he sadly took his own life and the footage is lost. Man, I'd love to see the rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KkfWuPIe3U

Yeah, I talked to Kurt about this- he said he wanted it to get finished but personally I don't have a ton of faith that he will make it happen.

JP edition #1 on east/west Japan with bonus: Welfare Murder Plot/Baby's A Dealer (aka Who Studies The Past? subpop single of the month)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/odb00f90qag4nd9/Better%20Can%27t%20Make%20Your%20Life%20Better.zip

If you just want Which Studies The Past?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/bslxwe8b8rpg29t/Which%20Studies%20The%20Past.zip

― A Scanner Snarkly (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 3:33 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Any chance for a re-up? I lost these files...

I still have about half of Send In The Subs as 128kb Mp3s, can't bear to listen to them, *sigh*

Why's that?

I found it on S**lseek then the guy quite halfway through and I've never been able to find it again in decent quality.

Evan/Mares I put some of these on dropbox.

Send in the Subs I've only even seen as 128 but this has all 14 tracks: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6s4mrktqeh74t4e/AAB48eIvDfrPFi3ajDCc1rRta?dl=0
1998 remix of Better: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kqjoo87rs6fo9m1/AABBUmCGicf6gxxbz5W50Y8ka?dl=0
and the Which Studies single (i think this may be shasta's?): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ocsrtwhfg3s85m/AAAjNmAHWgc5mKTbkmjH-85Ea?dl=0

Hey! That's very kind, thanks so much city worker!

Yes, thank you! Sitting at the DMV right now so you've made my morning better.

I hope I'm doing this right. Here's the other hard-to-find Lilys thing (at least in the US): their self-titled album, which is a remix of Precollection with the addition of several new songs. It's actually my favorite thing they've done.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/71f20et5zbsh438/AADBps42CpyVxJ6yOkRryRTUa?dl=0

It's great! Hung out with a guy who did some drumming on that version, so I got a copy from him naturally!

OK the 1998 remix sounds like "George Lucas presents Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better SPECIAL EDITION" given the way new sounds and flourishes are jammed into every corner of most of these songs.

Still like it a lot though, just kind of funny after having known the other version so well for so long without ever having gotten around to this one.

I've always been a bit confused, just to get this straight, the original version of Better has a false start on 'Nanny..' right?

thanks for the uploads!
"here i go out the door of my apartment before I miss my train and there's no way that is happening"

Well, there's a little guitar intro in the beginning on the original version if that's what you mean.

xp

Just realized I've never heard "Glosseder" (I don't think I have, at least) which appears to only be on the vinyl version of A Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns... can anyone provide some info or an upload of that track even? If it exists digitally at all.

"Welfare Murder Plot" reminds me of Lansing-Dreiden

bump. dying to hear "Glosseder". Still can't remember if I've ever investigated this track before.

Prob shouldn't share dropbox links publicly so PM-ed you Evan re: Glosseder.

Thanks so much!

I thought this may appeal to some of you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCX-xhFlSl4

Why's that?

Man I haven't listened to Bob Drake in like 8 years.

I thought it had a flavour of Lilys in there

Oh, I agree! Ok, just making sure there wasn't more to it. I mean, there is a guy named Kurt involved.

BD could make an absolutely killer '66 era pop psyche album with one hand tied behind his back, his voice alone is custom built for those summery harmonies.

Was this oral history of post-shoegaze Lilys ever posted here?

http://magnetmagazine.com/2017/07/03/magnet-classics-the-making-of-the-lilys-the-3-way/

New to me! Thanks for sharing

I suppose my holy grail would be the Lilys 'Send in the Subs' CD-R, I can barely get a decent quality rip of it never mind an actual hard copy.

― MaresNest, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:39 AM (two weeks ago)

I lost my copy! Wish I could help you out...

city worker hooked us up in 2016 but not sure if the quality was good enough for Mares

Thank you both! I would love a higher quality rip than 128kbps, the search goes on! Maybe I should try and ask Kurt :)

He's pretty active on twitter...

Thank you both! I would love a higher quality rip than 128kbps, the search goes on! Maybe I should try and ask Kurt :)

320kbps rip on slsk right now.

YSI?

I did a search on slsk yesterday and have just done one now with no results, whoever they are we don't keep the same hours I guess :)

there's a user now ("f**d*ngb*ck") who has most of it in 192