Tell me about Nikki Sudden?

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disclaimer - it's nothing like swell maps.
sort of like the "folk rock" songs on mid 60s stones albums or sloppy versions of power ballad type #s or, oh yeah that's what it's like , it's like johnny thunders.

― duane, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

johnny thunders or the faces in a particularly drunken mood.
"robespierre's velvet basement" is quite good.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

no man wears a scarf as well as nikki

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link

He's a master of the ragged wardrobe.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I like some of the songs on 'Robespierre's Velvet Basement'

― David (David), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link

and velvet pants

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd recommend the Waiting on Egypt/The Bible Belt 2CD reissue from a few years back. These are his first two solo albums, with bonus tracks. Seeing how the Swell Maps are the ones performing on some of the tracks, this might be the best gateway from the SM to NS rather than one of his later albums (if that's holding you back, based on some of the responses). You can get 2 songs from these albums at Epitonic: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/nikkisudden.html

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Nikki Sudden is awesome. He may be among the godfathers of the bizarre strum & clatter, "new wierd america" free folk thing that is quite the rage these days (and understandably so). Swell Maps are awesome throughout. Texas & Robespierre's Velvet Basement are (arguably) the best of the post-Maps crop, which is sizeable, and varies from drunken Faces-esque slopfests to extremely drunken Stones 'Beggar's Banquet'era acoustic wailers to experimental dulcimer strums with the noises of freighters in the background - sometimes during the course of one record. You might want to avoid the overly slick Jewel Thief record & the very uneven Crown of Thorns, but other than that I say go for it where Nikki, Jacobites, and Dave Kusworth are involved. VIrtually everything has a certain ragged charm, at the very least.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

you can find a vid on http://punkcast.com/48/

― WWWhatsup (WWWhatsup), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.nikkisudden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=219

― duane, Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Some people think some very strange things about me, that's for sure.

But that's the prerequisite of fans, sir! (Um, if you read this again.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Oh God. This is the most heartbreaking song ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1w6Nh-hwU

― Mule, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link

no this is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtvovjRRbAU

― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link

I wanna get very drunk now.

― Mule, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link

this is another good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iBHbhWzFetg
once a year i get heavily into listening to the jacobites / epic soundtracks / nikki sudden stuff and they always seem like the best records ever made for a little while.
this blog has some cool stuff if you dig around: http://whatanicewaytoturn17.blogspot.com/
there is supposed to be a new epic soundtracks comp coming out sometime this year, though it's been delayed a bunch of times.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

Thanks. Been going through a Jacobites/Epic-phase myself, but didn't know about any of this.

― Mule, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

no this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMyHABvf00

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 4 May 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

numero is putting out waiting on egypt, bible belt, jacobites and Robespierre's Velvet Basement on vinyl early next year! good excuse to listen to these LPs again they are so good.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link

http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/coming-to-an-lp-bin-near-you-nikki-sudden-jacobites/

― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

Waiting For Egypt is really good. So's Bible Belt. I also don't think "it's nothing like Swell Maps" is that accurate, although upthread someone says some of the Swell Maps play on those records, which might be why!

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 11 May 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link

I love the cover photo of Texas

― brimstead, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

Surprised to learn he did an album (The Jewel Thief) with the R.E.M. guys all over it, at the height of their fame, and I never caught wind of it. Looks like it was only released in the UK(?), which may partly explain it.

― Malibu Cheer Chants Forensics (morrisp), Monday, 2 August 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link

wow no mention of Ragged School here? such a great comp

― sleeve, Monday, 2 August 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link

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