No Other - Gene Clark

I'm mostly curious about the 80-page book tbh but looks like that's only available with the $140 deluxe box, dunno if I'm $140 worth of curious for all those alt versions

those wah-wuh-wuh-wah-wuh-wuh-danddangdangdangdangdangdangdang guitars

5.1 is a draw for me, but ... $140?!? Gah.

idk extras on this don't look particularly appealing tbh

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:27 (two days ago) link

FYI this was one of the projects whos masters were apparently burnt up on the UMG backlot

Is it? Universal owns most of the prior Clark (and Dillard & Clark) albums. This one was with Warner Music, though perhaps it's changed hands? The version on Spotify is credited to 'No Other Records ©1974'.

It would seem to be challenging to mix a record for surround sound with no multitracks.

can’t stop listening to this

FYI this was one of the projects whos masters were apparently burnt up on the UMG backlot

We all need a fix
At a time like this

Wonder if the packaging will get the full-on Vaughan Oliver treatment.

Did anybody pick up the deluxe box set?

Yes. I haven’t opened it yet but two metallic foil printed flexis if the alternate versions came in the package as well.

Amazon just notified me that my order is being delayed, with no shipment date in site. What's up with that?

I ended up having to order from Amazon Canada--sold out on the 4AD website and was $300 US on Amazon US! Shipped, but not due to arrive for a couple weeks...

I am holding out for a standalone Blu-Ray release. One of the mix engineers on QQ said he hopes it happens as well.

On the title track when that crystal meth bass first comes in and slides down the neck, it’s pure molasses

the new remaster of this is excellent, record's never sounded better

(now pls go back and do this to white light which has a godawful remaster)

the drumming on this album especially on the title track deserves its own thread

the remaster does sound realllllly good. what a great, weird record.

"Strength of Strings" was my first exposure to Clark, on a mixtape that also had my first tastes of Can, Autechre, Julian Cope, Dusty Springfield, Laika, Pentangle, A.R. Kane and Nick Drake, plus great Diana Ross and T. Rex deep cuts. So I really associate that song and later that album with having my mind blown repeatedly.

I first learned of him thru the (inferior) This Mortal Coil cover. those records were my gateway to a ton of great stuff.

The remaster makes a huge difference, way more than I thought.

Fuck me this album. I'd never heard of it until I bought it last week. Everything told me classic. And I can't get over how great it is. It's like an acid trip of crescendo after crescendo.

I bought the 2-CD version. I'm so smitten I'm considering getting the deluxe box, but I'll probably sober up in a week.

what an album

This is so, so great. I'd never heard any of it until a few weeks ago when I picked up the 2xCD reissue, this is fantastic!

I just got the deluxe box, being such a fan I had to have all the sessions plus the book and dvd. The book is great but the film is a bit slight. Not a great deal of actual Gene footage, just some radio interview quotes. Apparently Gene went after Geffen after the latter refused to promote the album, and had to be physically restrained. Pretty much did his career in, sadly enough. (For some reason the altercation is glossed over in the doc.) The two records Gene made with Doug Dillard are the only ones that really come close to this in his solo repertoire, for me at least.

I meant to say the Dillard & Clark album plus the one with the Gosdin Brothers. Though White Light is up there too.

Great record, not sure how well known it was before it got reissued on cd about 20 years ago. But has been in print in some form since then, thought even quite widely distributed. Gave it to my brother's girlfriend about 3 years ago in the old cd version.

Think I might just need to get the 2cd version of this release though.

Actually looks like Edsel had a vinyl version out in the mid 80s. THink it may have been reviewed in Strange tHings Are Happening if i remember right.
& cd version was 17 years ago. Collectors Choice put it out on a pretty quiet sounding cd and were followed shortly after by a louder mastered one with some bonus tracks on another label

4 Men With Beards had a vinyl release out -- i'm sure it was atrocious.

I've had a German label CD of this since the early-90's. It isn't bad but the new remastered thing sounds so much better.

As someone pointed out upthread the cover version by This Mortal Coil first (re?)alerted people to the existence of this album (in the UK, at least), and that was 1986. The Edsel reissue was 1989. I got it on vinyl - I think it was an original, I can't check because my vinyl's all in storage - but I can't remember what year that was.

yeah the TMC cover seems pivotal in this album's journey to cult-classic status. I came across this record maybe a dozen years or so ago and resulted in a deep country-rock/Gene Clark dive for me, probably thx to ilx.

And those indie fans who weren't necessarily aware of TMC might have been turned onto No Other several years later vis a vis David Bennun's review in the Unknown Pleasures paperback (mentioned upthread) that came with a copy of Melody Maker in 1995 (a collection of "lost classics" reviews by the MM writers at the time), and/or the "Gene Clark" song that Teenage Fanclub had on their Thirteen album, a couple years prior in '93.

Lol what a funny old hippie coot. Isengard called......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABlMAmIVA0

best album of all time

B-b-but is it as good as Kind of Blue?

yes

Awesome.

i never knew this existed. indie all-star band with members of beach house, grizzly bear, the dude from fleet foxes and the dude from walkmen briefly formed a gene clark cover band and played the album in full. they did a pretty good job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaF3znVBWe8

this is indeed the best album of all time

I've been listening to it a lot recently. Feel like Teenage Fanclub's whole catalog flows out of the way he sings "reality" on "The True One."

and i firmly believe vangelis ripped the chariots of fire theme from one piano lick in “lady of the north”

"Lady of the North" has one of the best song/album endings I can think of. Perfection.

I adore this record but stand by my assertion (that I’d completely forgotten I’d made) in the review I did for Stylus in 2003 that it doesn’t really include his best compositions.

Clark’s career is a complete fucking travesty. I just posted on another thread about how jazz pianist Keith Jarrett’s stroke was sad but that he’d recorded and released every whim for a single label over 50 years. Meanwhile, Gene Clark has, like, two proper records, one of which was released on an “artist’s label,” forced to be cut down to a single album and not promoted.

I’d have gone after Geffen too.

Echoes/W Gosdin Bros is pretty much a proper album, No Other and White Light are as well. Two Sides to Every Story and I'd argue the Dillard and Clark albums should also count.

"Roadmaster" is not a proper album but is great.

Wikipedia says the rumour about No Other originally being a double album has been debunked.

My takeaway from the John Einarson biography of Clark was that, when he had to struggle and persevere, he would discipline himself and take care of both his health and his music. It was when he had success that both spiralled out of control. The book basically says that the sudden influx of royalties from Tom Petty's cover of I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better killed him.