"Record Collection Rock" - is there still a need for this? Does it still exist?

speaking of bobby gillespie i was playing my 7-inch copy of "upside down" last night and i was thinking it would be cool to own every color variation. that was my record collection rock moment. i only own the yellow cover version. i did not play "vegetable man" though. in honor of this thread.

for the record, i don't understand the point of Fat White Family at all.

my wife used to like a Fat White Family song (presumably she still does although I haven't heard her play it for ages) but she downloaded the album and didn't think much of it. I thought the song she liked was alright though.

It was easier for eg JAMC in the mid 80s, bcs the stuff they were "inspired by" wasn't readily available. Vegetable Man, Subway Sect, Lee Hazlewood, Dr Mix and the Remix - this was some obscure shit at the time. The journos picked up on the Velvets and Ramones thing, but little else.

They seemed kind of naff to me at the time tbh, not musically, just their shtick - the leather jackets, drainpipe jeans, Chelsea boots, Velvets '66 look with the grown out Goth hairstyles and the songs all called Candy this, Honey that, Sugar the other. Everybody had done the Velvets by that stage plus every group in Glasgow - from the ones who were trying to sound like Al Green downwards (or upwards) - had songs with Candy or Honey in the title, it was like, "What another one! Give us a break!" It was a bit, "So where are they from? East Kilbride? Oh that explains it."

pwei had a song taking the piss out that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI_i_GJK46g

busoni has been called 'the most learned composer who has ever lived'
brahms too had read just about everything you could get in the late 19c including early music
you get into postwar postmodernists and then we can really talk about manuscript collection classical

Yeah I was gonna say Luciano Berio to thread.

concept: RCR, but the only records in your collection are by PWEI

surely one modern band who have picked up the baton : the horrors.

mgmt as well

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2018/01/YLT-Theres-a-Riot-Going-On-art-1516225003-640x640.jpg

I guess I don't like the idea - the og Reynolds one - bc it seems to imply that a sort of heroic, isolated genius narrative is somehow a more authentic way of making music, which is ... rockist?

I think there's a difference between synthesis and facsimile but tbh it's a fuzzy line

My Husband's Stupid Record Collection Rock Band

i honestly see Sonic Youth as part of this continuum

i wrote this 19 years ago in the village voice newspaper:

"Even though the post-music crowd is already, as I speak, mining other rich veins of lost treasure (Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazelwood, Italian vampire movie soundtracks, rare jug band 78s, King Diamond picture discs), Krautrock is still king for those who will not allow themselves to dance. To simplify matters further, I’m just going to blame Thurston Moore."

"In the almost-30-year career of Sonic Youth, if Thurston only told two people a week to buy a Cluster or Achim Reichel LP, I figure that constitutes about half the U.S. sales of Krautrock to date. And if only half of those people formed bands, that would at least explain why Blur threw away their Ian Whitcomb albums and started experimenting with “sound.”

It occurs to me that the entire post-Blur career of Damon Albarn is the most obvious modern example of this.

he even made a record collection band

Do The Cramps figure into this? Avid record collectors who repurposed their love of vintage rock and roll for their own ends.

Also, I don't think most here are much interested in neo-rockabilly/roots rock etc., but guys like Deke Dickerson are always filling their albums with obscure cover tunes by Eddie Noack, or Grandpa Jones, or Lee Dresser and the Krazy Kats. Don't know if this qualifies as RCR exactly, but it's a fun rabbithole of research for me.

Deke Dickerson veers into Guitar Collector rock, with the whole Moserite cult of twang.

The Cramps were defiantly collectors, but I feel like that sort of revivalist attitude is the opposite instinct - here's something discarded that we've scavenged and will make you love. Yacht rock would be a recent manifestation of the same. Record collection rock is more "we are providing you will only the best influences, are you are smart enough to recognize them as the best influences?"

one of my favorite groups of all time could have been called *Ivo's Record Collection*. and i thank him all the time for turning me on to so much cool stuff in the 80s!

nrbq get hepcat points for covering eddie cochran and sun ra on their first album in 1969. terry adams came in the store and gave me a copy of the new nrbq EP where they cover "happy talk" from south pacific and roy orbison's "only the lonely". it's great.

Yeah, Terry also covers Patience and Prudence. He's all about this.

I'm a bit confused by the Damon Albarn thing really, unless I've kind of misunderstood your interpretation of it Matt DC. if anything I'd have said Blur, with their copying of tropes from the Kinks, Syd Barrett, Pavement, Wire etc is far more RCR than Good The Bad And The Queen or Gorillaz?

this video made me think of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG2kcIz2NQ8

(lot's of good recommendations btw)

does Ty Segall constitute RCR?

Re 'MOJO reading lads' Mojo had the first interview before the album came out and the band did a playlist of influences for 'em (Dion, Nino Rota, David Axelrod, Gainsbourg..) so anyone reading Mojo knew before anyone else that the record wasn't a rock album. It's more for 30 and 40-something types Mojo. Lads are more 'LadBible' these days.

― piscesx, Friday, 11 May 2018 15:01 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was thinking the exact same thing when I read that post.