death of samantha records possibly worth than a dollar - one guy went on to be in gbv. they have at least 2 great albums btw
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Buck Pets were ok. They were for Dallas scenesters mad that Tripping Daisy sold out.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
i did just pull a skinner box album out to play. and i am playing this right now:
http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/1-5-15-4/37666.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
I'll happily take that Slugs record off your hands.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
it should be noted: i sold THOUSANDS of these radio records all spring and into summer. there were some true gems. lots of great punk/hardcore/metal.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
i would give tarfumes any of these that he wanted if he ever came to greenfield.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
was mad keen on das damen when i was 17 - the records on SST are pretty good imo
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
There's so much anonymous late 80s college rock that all sounds vaguely like REM with no other memorable differentiating qualities.
― Evan, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
(also had about 50 boxes of jazz. strata east up the wazoo...)
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
SO many major label anonymous rem-ish late 80's bands. none of them really hit.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
Awesome, this is like a return to "I have never heard this band that starts with the letter..."
I really loved Glass Eye, and I'll rep for Katydids and Popinjays, but man there was just so MUCH of this stuff in the late 80s.
― the young, low level volunteer named (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard it, but Snap Crackle Pop Art is supposed to be a very good indie singer-songwriter record. I think its hard to find, as well.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
didn't reallly like the arsenal records at the time but would be curious to hear them now. it was santiago durango's band after big black along with a guy called malachai ritscher who came to a really bad end:
Born in 1954, Malachai Ritscher was a recording engineer and musician heavily involved in the Chicago jazz & experimental scenes. He died on November 3, 2006, in a public suicide, self-immolating in protest of the US-led Iraq war.
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:04 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I may be there next Saturday!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
oh boy this oysterband version of 'love vigilantes' is very not good
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
the spankssea storiesthe cavedogsspot 1019shelleyan orphanchris hickeydimmer theatergruntruckdogbowlcrazyheadthe american vandalsgreater than onehullabaloohexeighth route armywinter hours windbreakersthe weathermenwigwhite boy worrythe wild flowersharm farmgutterboyblast paristhe naked intocattle prodclay idolsduchampiansclose lobsterschicken scratchwoodcocksthose melvinsstarvation armythe slavessatellite boyfriendagitpopslapsturm group
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
dear god
Agitpop were OK
I will rep for the Dogbowl records, I like those especially "Tit"
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
shelleyan orphan - saw them supporting the cure at wembley on the disintegration tour. robert smith was a big fan but i never really got them
close lobsters - i think i'm right in saying ILXOR AHOY!
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah Dogbowl stands out for sure. Which records by him?
― Evan, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Close Lobsters are incredible!!! Foxheads is one of my favorite albums.
― Evan, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
Spinout later rebooted/morphed into Acetone. NickB OTM re: Death of Samantha. Terrible Parade and Starvation Army also from Cleveland.
― Jeff Wright, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
sharkey's machinethe citizenzstrawberry zotsthe sneetchesking kongthe 700 clubactive joysamiamgod's acremarcel monroewuhlingthe namelessthe big thingswallowles thugssoda canone plus twoolivelawnbleachsecond selfpassion fodderthe creepers
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
do i need to listen to king kong or wuhling? i usually try homestead/touch & go i've never heard.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
agitpop are decent minutement-influenced indie rock from minnesota
gruntruck are connected to skin yard i think - early grunge stuff from seattle
crazyhead - third best of the grebo bands iirc
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
king kong is a slint spin-off but the two records i had were mostly pretty shitty. title track off old man on the bridge is good though
les thugs are great! listen to chess and crimes if you have that one
swallow is early sub pop - kind of biker rock? 'trapped' is a decent song but mostly kind of blurrghh
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
King Kong were indie faux funk, IIRC.
― o. nate, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
dancing hoods
who later became sparklehorse
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
death of samantha records possibly worth than a dollar - one guy went on to be in gbv.
two guys actually. but only one hung around long term.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
doug ortonthe cucumbersmorticiarepulse kavathe balancing actvic bondicoffin breakvertigosweet babyloisthe bloodsattentionthe highblue clocks greenbigger thomaschain gangfalling stairsbeat feetrapscallionskinsectthe young caucasionsthe magnoliasthe snakesthe whitefrontsthe water walkdharma bumsdoughboyslevellers 5john kruthjohn moore and the expresswayspitthe wygalswalkerswe are going to eat youwrecklove camp 7kings of wyomingwhite glove testwild choirwaxing poeticsx-talthe miss alansmadhouselmnopyard traumasenator fluxvictims familycavedogsscreaming broccoli
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
i need to listen to the walkabouts? i think i listened to them once because ned likes them so much? maybe i'm remembering wrong.
sad that nobody wants silverfish's cockeye for five bucks. that was a cool comp.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
i have bought records by 2 of the bands on your list so far (the windbreakers, shiva burlesque), and had varying degrees of buyers remorse after getting them home and actually listening to them. shiva burlesque was definitely the better of the two, especially if you've ever wondered what would have happened if Echo and the Bunnymen played 12-string guitars and were way more into the Doors (they had grant lee phillips in the band, though not on vocals).
also, the levellers had a song I once loved, but when I listen to it now, i realize how much my critical facilities must have refined since then.
― enochroot, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
That repulse kava album is great! Twisted aggro psych metal jamming - along the same sort of lines a phantom tollbooth maybe. Check out ‘coercion’
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
the cucumbers
love camp 7
now we've entered the "people who were friends with fact checking cuz" part of the box. cucumbers debut ep featuring "my boyfriend" was pretty good. the love camp 7 guys founded the fantastic williamsburg recording studio excello.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Owned records by a lot of those bands too, but I don’t know how many times you want me to type ‘this was not good’
Vertigo had some jams though
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
That wasn’t directed at fcc btw
i'm gonna listen to these comps for the rest of the day. so many bands i've never heard of.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Secretions/release/1967108 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Downtown-NYC-A-Compilation-Of-The-Best-NYC-Artists/release/5232183 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Welcome-To-Comboland/release/2605901 https://www.discogs.com/Various-San-Jose-Is-Ground-Zero-Were-Number-One/release/3831335 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Tampa-Smokes-II/release/3010021 https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Iowa-Compilation/release/6064936 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Glitch-Sampler-Vol-II-Class-Of-86/release/4120048 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Geyser-Anthology-Of-The-Icelandic-Independent-Music-Scene-Of-The-Eighties/release/880216 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hit-The-Floor/release/870231 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Glitch-Sampler-Ten-Austin-Groups-In-Black-And-White/release/3839014 https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-View-From-Here-The-San-Francisco-Compilation/release/2662215 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Brain-Food/release/2682634 https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Towers-Of-New-London-Vol-I-The-Bands-Of-The-El-N-Gee/release/2501480 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Make-The-City-Grovel-In-Its-Dust/release/4421096 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Monkey-Business-Green-Monkey-Records-1986-Compilation/release/2604581 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hog-Butcher-For-The-World/release/535309 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Scream-Sampler-Containing-Really-Exciting-American-Music/release/6687418 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Sorority-Sampler/release/1996913 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Scream-Sampler-Containing-Really-Exciting-American-Music/release/8580555
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
Chain gang were on the cover of forced exposure once I think, but I didn’t ever get round to hearing them
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I liked The Cucumbers. The Wygals record is excellent if you like that Individuals/db's Hoboken sound.
― the young, low level volunteer named (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
"The View From Here" has Camper Van Beethoven covering Country Joe & The Fish, so not a total loss
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
dig the first song on the first comp i put on. there are LOTS of primitons albums where i live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTH9G78aNo
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
i would like to hear the album by the neon judgement : weren't they goth/gloom/EBM/New Beat/Electro ?
john moore and the expressway : these guys were j&mc copyists on their debut album,saw them live, and they did that sound really well.
the high : baggy beats + guitars.
also, there is a Low Pop Suicide album that i need to add to my digital archive, so off go a hunting now, as i seem to recall it being not too bad.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
I paid a good $2 for the Ophelias record in 1990, when it was going through its first round of discarding. I wanted "Apron Strings", prime faux-Zep, though this territory was subsequently beaten to death by Jack White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCrA_a71n1Y
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
Sharkey's Machine were originally called Killdozer, forming about the same time as the other band, and tried to get the other band to stop using the name, but that band didn't care if there were two Killdozers. I remember playing Sharkey's Machine on the college radio station, but I cant remember what it was like. I've mentally filed them with Live Skull.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
victor delorenzo - peter corey sent me - chameleon/dali - 1990
The drummer from the Violent Femmes had a solo outing? I did not know.
mucky pup - can't you take a joke? - torrid - 1988
Bought this and three other Mucky Pup albums after being blown away by their joke-punk on the Bloom County flexi-disc. I don't remember much about this particular release, but it does contain the couplet: Adolph Hitler - a dangerous man?/I heard he got caught with this dick in his hand! They were fighting the good fight.
― how's life, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
after being blown away
*I was 11 at the time.
― how's life, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
post-r.e.m. the amateurishness goes away which is kinda sad. one dollar production makes jangle-indie sound more charming. so amazing how crappy (in a not good way) so much u.s. stuff sounds in comparison to u.k. stuff. just more ambience in cheap u.k. studios i guess.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
its like the difference between the studio sound of 1980-1983 u.s. hardcore and 1984 and beyond u.s. hardcore. did all the studios get new equipment in 1984? that big horrible echo-y sound. metal bands seemed to know how to get the sound they needed for the most part. though they got a lot more pillow-y too until death metal got going.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Boiled in Lead was a Minneapolis Celtic/indie rock band that did quite well locally live for many years, but that Irish-y stuff always has a pretty loyal audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlaDcsWRy0
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
the Magnolias are local powerpop/punk legends, they still play, great band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oK9oH7HLJc
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
coffin break
Unremarkable but I got a kick out of their Freebird cover when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LzeX22sHwo
― how's life, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
uh its a 45. i dunno.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
that's the most un-scott seward thing you've ever said
― Evan, Friday, 10 November 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
Hm. OK. I probably have it, but I might buy that, too.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
TS: One-word-from-the-hardware-aisle bands vs gratuitous-Russ-Myers-reference bands
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
This is my socket wrench, and it freaks me out!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
How could there not have been a band called Socket Wrench?
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Or Socket Wench!
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
google search turns up a fixer-upper page "The Socket Wrench: A Modern Man’s Guide to Tools", obviously their first album
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Toad the Wet Socket
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
Maybe it just looks worse with them all grouped together but some of these band names re-define the concept "we are an ambitious musical act who definitely do not overly wear our influences on our sleeve"
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
wherefore art thou, wingtip sloat?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
Poole - another one of those liked-the-single-I heard bands.30 Amp Fuse - ditto.Downy Mildew - owned their albums, sold their albums.Swirl - ditto. And I mean both the US and AU bands with this name.Tizzy - ditto.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
vomit launch slept on my floor once. #90scred
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
st. johnny slept on my floor once. but that was when my friend jim was in the band. jim was the leader of the excellent band HED. #onesyllable #openedfornirvana
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
I still regret selling my Wingtip Sloat singles
― sleeve, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
I still own records by Shiva Burlesque and Downy Mildew but don't dare play them in case they're truly horrendous. Sometimes you're better off with just the memories of what you once loved.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 10 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, November 10, 2017 12:30 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Love their first 2 albums
― Evan, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
they were opening for elastica that night in philly. elastica's first show in philly i think and they had all the buzz in the world. packed club. st. johnny were awesome. the atmosphere was electric with joe camel fumes. the geffen thugs looked like they were ready to audition for season one of the sopranos four years early.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
elvis hitler asked to sleep on my floor once and i declined because i was pretty sure the risks outweighed the benefits. i have no regrets about this.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 10 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
listening to the only St. Johnny song on Spotify (From DGC Rarities Vol 1) - "Wild Goose Chasing"
this is good!
so fucking unreal the bands that got signed to majors in the 90s
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
'twas the greatest generation of rock, everyone called upon to serve in the campaign to rid the world of sub-Nevermind record sales. "Web Publishing with HTML 3.0" was the GI Bill waiting for them when the war was over.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 10 November 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
hi Brad I don't like to keep things from you so I wanted to let you know that I was surprised that Manufacture (a fairly by the book late 80s style industrial/dance cru) had a song with Sarah McLachlan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2DNtkkLzg
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 November 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
Tizzy - ditto.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, November 10, 2017 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tizzy put out two singles, then a CD EP, then two CDs, then another CD EP.
(I joined Tizzy in 2002, and it was a dream come true, as they're one of my favorite bands, and the drummer had previously raged in Crystalized Movements.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
#tizzycred
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
bands that could've been on these lists that i actually really liked:
horny geniusgobblehoofbig tube squeezersister raywild seedsexpando brainviv akauldrendrowning poolstripminersten tall menflowerdragnettvbcbastards
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
I <3 Vomit Launch
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 November 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, November 10, 2017 12:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 November 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
A decent number of these bands played my college town - the Gallery in Normal, IL. Victim's Family played a couple of times, once opening for Alice Donut and that still ranks as one of my fave shows. Others from the list include Big Drill Car, god's acre, les thugs, surgery, gruntruck.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 10 November 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
somebody tell me about downy mildew― brimstead, Friday, November 10, 2017 9:59 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― brimstead, Friday, November 10, 2017 9:59 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They were okay. They sound at various times like REM, 10,000 Maniacs, The Church, and Mazzy Star, but they're never as good as any of those. I'm listening to them today because it's dark and wintry outside.
― the young, low level volunteer named (Dan Peterson), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
Franklin Bruno from Nothing Painted Blue played with the Mountain Goats.
― obvious, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Was just listening to Big Drill Car on Wednesday; their split 7" with Chemical People doing Cheap Trick and Kiss covers. Still love their Small Block EP too.
john moore and the expressway : these guys were j&mc copyists on their debut album
He was in the J&MC, right? I think that's the only reason I hunted down that album back then.
― early rejecter, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Yeah, he was in the Mary Chain and then later on he was in Black Box Recorder with Luke Haines
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
somebody tell me about downy mildew
Downy mildew refers to any of several types of oomycete microbes that are obligate parasites of plants. Downy mildews exclusively belong to Peronosporaceae. In commercial agriculture, they are a particular problem for growers of crucifers, grapes and vegetables that grow on vines.
― Evan, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
ha!!
their first record + the name looked really familiar. plus it's tagged as "ethereal" on discogs so i was intrigued
― brimstead, Friday, 10 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
Flower! Fantastic band, precursor of Versus. I chatted up the lead singer before a gig, top bloke.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 November 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
If that Skinner Box is the dream pop one with what sounds like a detuned upright piano (The Playhouse / The Imaginary Heart Of), its a keeper. Like the Hex (if the Steve Kilbey/Donnette Thayer duo), it was one of rather few albums that hit my 4AD/goth-lite buttons in the late 80s, before I discovered the Projekt mail-order catalog.
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 11 November 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
Scott, do you do much mail order?
― earlnash, Sunday, 12 November 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
Lots of familiar names from my distant past here. Going to single out one:
joey kline - pomp and circus pants - popllama - 1988
This I still have plenty of time for -- Joey was a long running member of Seattle legends the Squirrels (and they're back so I think he is too). "Mrs. Smith," which leads off the album, remains one of the best Morrissey slams I've heard. (And since FWIW Joey's openly gay himself this neatly sidestepped the Warlock Pinchers problem.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 November 2017 05:03 (six years ago) link