ack, i wouldn't want to hear remixes!
― scott seward, Monday, 1 May 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
it sounds like the same song but with a 90s break beat and funky bass. not good but kind of funny
― na (NA), Monday, 1 May 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Those updates might be recent. If they aren't, then I'm surprised I didn't notice the bonus tracks until now.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
Charles Aaron was/is almost certainly a fan of Zero Hour since "Sun Doesn't Love Me" (and a Varnaline single) were both in Spin's best of 1996 list, which is mostly crazy since it was impossible to find for years. I even had trouble finding it on Slsk until it showed up on "Recordings 1994-1997."
So now there's only a few songs Space Needle songs still absent from Spotify: "Sugar Mountain," "Cones and Rods," I'm probably forgetting 1 or 2 others.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
this is one of those bands where i wish i was a billionaire and could start a niche reissue label that reissued albums with lavish packaging and dense documentation that would probably sell 60 copies total
love their commitment to having 2-3 perfect pop songs buried amongst 8-9 weirdo experiments on each album
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:09 (four months ago) link
"never lonely alone" off voyager is in my pantheon of all-time best songs
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:10 (four months ago) link
oh fuck i mean "before i lose my style" sorry i have a cold and my brain is not working. "never lonely alone" is amazing too obviously but the the lo-fi sound and extended feedback solo in "before i lose my style" are my shit
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:11 (four months ago) link
Love to see this thread bumped. It's an overused phrase, but I do think "criminally underrated" absolutely applies to them.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:24 (four months ago) link
In other words, I would be one of your 60 customers for sure.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:09 (fifty-six minutes ago) link
There is a label run by a very non-billionaire that does this for obscure album reissues without much scrutiny. Told me "I'll put out anything" so seems entirely passion-based. Focuses on indie pop / shoegaze though (https://www.daydreamrecordsofficial.com).
Anyway it's not totally out of the question to give it a shot in this current environment of ravenous physical music FOMO insanity. For myself I am happy to say I own every physical product they've ever released except the CD comp that came out in 2006.
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:16 (four months ago) link
that label looks really cool, some sarah records stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:16 (four months ago) link
Yup small run elaborately colorful vinyl... a necessary recipe to drive sales for obscurities. Basically develops and releases whatever he can get his hands on though!
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:39 (four months ago) link
great great band
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:07 (four months ago) link
Agreed, it made me smile to see this thread revived! I was 14 and just starting to learn about space rock/ambient/drone, so this scratched an itch but also expanded my mind way beyond what I knew. And even just on CD, the Roger Dean artwork absolutely did the trick, it really made it feel like it was coming from another world...at least the epic pieces here did so.
I think at one point I had read it was going to just be the long pieces? (Am I making that up?) But the poppier stuff absolutely makes this a richer experience. I love that "Old Spice" is disintegrating shoegaze with cribbed Steely Dan lyrics (didn't know that at the time, of course) and yes, "Love Left Us Strangers" is pretty perfect...this is the kind of thing that at the time I think some reviewers thought was ironic--maybe understandable in the face of the artwork or some of the song titles, but pretty disarming on its own.
Truthfully, I haven't listened to this or Voyager in a long time, but they're both really special albums. Soft spot in my heart for the first Reservoir and Varnaline albums, too.
― mr. milligan, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:54 (four months ago) link
A deeply weird record.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:07 (four months ago) link
I would pick up reissues of these. It took many years of waiting, but I finally found a store selling Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle on discogs for a price that wasn't outrageous. Their 7-inches are all still pretty inexpensive.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:07 (four months ago) link
Yeah as a 90s underground indie vinyl collector there's a randomness to 7" demand amongst bands. Sometimes the price spikes on particular titles for various incidental "collectible" reasons, other times a mystery (usually just because some nut-job decided they'd pull the trigger on an opportunistic $30 price tag thereby validating the price even though other comparable titles remain cheap), but in general lots of 7"s from the era are still pretty dang affordable despite whatever higher price the LPs are fetching.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:33 (four months ago) link