Some of the Best is a good compilation that's of course been totally obliterated by basically every single subsequent Perry comp (and was probably so even at the time). Issue with a few of the comps on here.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I know this is Joy Division but voting Violent Femmes anyways.
― the future is now, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
Fuck, I missed Smashing Pumpkins.
― the future is now, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
is that Freedy in the photo w/ Adam Carolla?
― alpine static, Friday, 12 May 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
yeah
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 May 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
how the fuck have i never listened to pere ubu?
― marcos, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
the modern dance is amazing wow
i saw black eyes a bunch of times when i lived in dc and i never knew they basically took their whole thing from this record
― marcos, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
yeah, Pere Ubu are amazing! If you like that record make sure you get all the singles from around that time and just before.
I saw Black Eyes once when I came down to DJ between bands when they opened for the Rapture. I like to pretend I introduced Ital to house music that night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 May 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
yeah, the Smog Veil site's newsletter is a good source of Ubu and related reissues/prev. unreleases; also, though I don't always hear things like xgau does, he pretty much nails this early collection of even earlier stuff:Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection [Twin/Tone, 1986]Side one is the long unavailable Datapanik in the Year Zero EP, itself comprising two indie singles and a compilation cut and as powerful a sequence as side one of Dub Housing nevertheless. Side two collects the kind of oddments that rarely cohere on LP, yet here the outtakes and B sides and stray singles come together as a record of David Thomas's slide or progress from willed optimism to blessed whimsy. In short, this is a gift from God--a third Ubu album from the former Crocus Behemoth's pre-God period. A- He means third pre-G after The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, but also likes New Picnic Time and several others from DT's Jehovah's Witness prime time, before the art-rock further complicated/maybe took over the layers.
― dow, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Allen Ravenstine's solo/sidetrip mid-70s-recorded Terminal Drive is out soon, via Smog Veil.
― dow, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Hey, I wasn't the only Sebadoh III voter!
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
The Beat deserved at least one vote...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 13 May 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
Hey, I wasn't the only Have Moicy! voter. Just being a smartass.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 13 May 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
I was the only Beck voter :(
Probably would have been smarter to join team Devo and I'm probably coming around that way anyway ok my old age
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 13 May 2017 11:12 (six years ago) link
I knew I should've for the Upsetters :(
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Also, Modern Dance is fucking killer! I listened to it a couple times before but have mostly just stuck to Dub Housing in recent times, but man does it hit both the 'avant' and 'rock' sweet spots just right
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link