random stuff rushomancy is listening to

wow @ san bernardino '69 recording

i'm gonna just post this for the cover art, for a library music record this is absolutely amazing and makes me really want to hear the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DQZ4EKMLc

the aesthetic on this fucker!

i was looking up Harriet Padberg's work to see if there are any recordings... guy named Anthony Caulkins had made a recording based on her theories. it sounds pretty bad honestly, but i went exploring from there. here's an upload of his MFA thesis recital. this on the other hand i do kind of like, definitely up my alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJmw4I66_Y

Hey, this thread is mostly dormant, I've mostly moved on to my blog, but I was just thinking about this song today, and I really think it's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojUYqEo5t8

You know that ilx needs this thread tho right

I mean. There is a reason why this particular board needs this particular thread.

It's not just because you have exquisite taste. It's because you have the sense to question whether having exquisite taste is a good idea.

This thread is the antidote to so much "classic or dud?" bs

Awww, thanks. I've really grateful that folks have read this thread and gotten something out of it. It's been a great experience doing it. I can't promise to continue to update this thread regularly like I did between August 2018 and May 2020, but I will recommend that anybody who's enjoyed it check out the blog my friend Sedric and I run at:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/

which covers a lot of the same territory as the stuff I've posted here.

Help me find a music video please. Someone posted a youtube on ilm 10-11 months ago. It was indie/punk/tronic music. It had two t-girls in a single frame (like a webcam) and the song felt like it was segemented into two distinct parts. The end was heavier and the lighting in the room changed. The girls ended the song singing "you can't understand, you can't understand" (or something like that) in a sort punk/emo way.

Thanks

don't know the video you're talking about, i would prefer that you not use the term "t-girl" in future, it has some unpleasant connotations.

ok, it was about the time you were talking about octa octo in the rym thread so I thought it might of been them.

(urban dictionary said t-girl was a generally accepted "polite" way but it did seem wrong when I posted my question. my cousin started h-therapy this week and I was looking for that video to post on their wall when I tell them that I 100% support them)

that particular term is a complicated and fraught one, i don't want to get into it in detail but i would definitely take urban dictionary's recommendations on trans-affirming language with a grain of salt. :) i've found "trans woman" or "transgender woman" is generally a safe descriptor, but we're a diverse bunch and i can't speak for all trans women!

you might want to check in with imago, the thing you're describing sounds kind of like his scene, there's a thread he curates called "OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene".

OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

hopefully the video you're thinking of isn't like black dresses or anything because there's been some, uh, complications going on around that former group. i can't really give you more details because it's not something i'm really informed about and they were never a group i listened to much of.

okay, it is Black Dresses. HERTZ.

Thanks for helping me find it. Maybe I'll skip posting a video.

no worries, hearing a message from you is going to mean more to them than a video anyway :)

revive!

my answering machine message to john paluska above the Great Went: performing acapella rage

https://soundcloud.com/sidedooraudio/jon-fishmans-answering-machine-frankenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llao7sgI7BI

great revive!! ♥️♥️♥️🧟🎸

I didn't know zoo bombing was an actual thing! I just know that there was a band called the Zoobombs that did an amazing ripping version of "Waiting For the Man" on the a late '90s Rabid Chords Velvets comp. Spent decades looking for an uncut version of Ahh! Folly Jet's waltz-time remake of "Ferryboat Bill", which I did finally turn up.

Anyway, a friend of mine was asking what zoo bombing was, and I don't have an explanation but I _did_ look it up on Youtube and found some awesome live videos of them. Here's a fantastic cover of Television's "See No Evil" from a band called "dip", whose video is on a channel that also has some Zoobombs live videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkEWzcZyDQ

I always thought it was just some kind of a pun...
Because "zubon" in Japanese means "trousers"...

maybe it is! parallel development of zoobombing

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step

oh fuck yes, thank you budo jeru

yw!

The thing I hate most about writing is that I work far too hard at it. After spending most of Monday writing _two_ 3,000 word essays that nobody will ever read instead of doing more important things like cleaning the kitchen or running reports (the reports themselves aren't terribly important but the fact that I'm paid to do it is), I figured I would write some light trivial fluff about an old prog song I like, and instead I wrote _this_:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2022/08/17/my-first-words/

I worked way harder at writing this than I had any reason to.

oh fuck yes apparently lesbian sea shanties are a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUldplPSHq4

ep by a friend of a friend, "collapsing avant garde country-prog" is how it was described to me and this works. bob drake guests on a cover of his own "what animal".

https://scribewolf.bandcamp.com/album/the-singular-power-of-my-very-own-ep

Ooh I didn’t know you had a blog rush, you’re in all the good music threads so I guess I’d better read it

there's some weird shit about bootlegs and so forth but it's mostly trans shit haha, there _is_ some non-trans shit mixed in and it certainly didn't start out as trans shit but it's kinda slowly taken over the blog

there is some music writing i'm really proud of in there, though. i think my post about mahavishnu orchestra bootlegs is still pretty good music criticism and helped me grow some as a writer:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2020/09/29/the-inner-mounting-flame-in-concert/

i have actually written a _staggering amount_ of shit on that blog over the past two years. that time i ghosted ilx for like 18 months? i pretty much spent it all posting shit to the blog. fortunately there's so much writing there it'll scare damn near anybody who might possibly be interested away from actually reading any of it.

I mean I'm just gonna troll y'all and revive this thread by posting a live Phish jam. I like Phish. I don't care what y'all say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJFUm6Y1Mmw

"you can't say tupperware on television!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvj0i463wQ

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/tupperware-american-underbelly-db-9

good shit!

truly! love the stump clip, by the way

happy friday y'all! (what? trans day of what? never heard of it)

i ever post the tracklist to the doors knockoff mix i made? this is kind of like an obsession with mine, i feel like people undersell how influential the doors actually were as a band, and a lot of times i like the knockoffs better than the actual band. i've developed a soft spot for the band by the way. yes jim morrison's poetry is shitty and pretentious and the cult people have of him is obnoxious. also i've come to realize since starting hormones that i don't actually think he's hot. ridiculous pouty skinny boy, even in leather pants he's... i mean i guess the tropey-example is draco malfoy but i'll have nothing to do with that entire franchise thank you very much. anyway there are lots of guys who look better in leather pants than jim morrison. also _most_ girls look better in leather pants than jim morrison, but i guess i'm biased considering i'm a lesbian. i look better in leather pants than jim morrison, i think. BUT i still like the doors, they have some good songs and i'm at the point in my life where jim morrison's bad poetry is funny rather than cringe.

ANYWAY. here's the doors knockoff bands i've heard. i have heard rumor of at least one more called, uh, stickler of the ultramundane or something like that? impossible to find and actually now that i've said their name this thread is probably now the top hit on google for that band. i'm definitely interested in anything more people can recommend on this tip. as you can tell classic period is my preference, latest track here is 1975 and it's kind of an outlier.

the stooges - down on the street (mono single edit)
children of the mushroom - you can't erase a mirror
mystic siva - supernatural mind
pop masine - kiselina
fraction - come out of her
crystal chandelier - suicidal flowers
the loose enz - the black door
omnibus - the man song
one st. stephen - dash in the rocks
the maze - armageddon
allmen joy - walk with me

oh and yeah i know about magma's "morrison in the storm" but i think that song kinda sucks even aside from christian vander being a shitty fascist.

also anybody who has recommendations of doors covers... here's my playlist of those

mission of burma - break on through
robyn hitchcock - the crystal ship (1989-04-28 kroq)
shibusashirazu orchestra - light my fire (2003-05-04 bonus cd)
the feelies - take it as it comes
gaznevada - when the music is over
gnarls barkley - who scared you
john oswald - o'hell
la lupe - touch me
saccharine trust - peace frog
nico - the end

i think wooden shjips - "we ask you to ride" (2007) is doors worship, but some people might not agree.

one of my very fav doors covers is "riders on the storm" by la mecánica popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGe3X2Q6cw

oh this is rad, thanks

y'all quick thread revive to let you know i finally found a rip of tommy marolda's "me... out for the first time", i've been looking for a place to listen to this record for literally like a decade now. i'm so fucking hyped.

hi, wow!

anyway you can try to send it my way? ilx mail works; can't remembered if we've emailed in the past.

in #onethread news, "break from the caravan" is a fucking hilarious parody of toxic masculinity. i think. or else it's just a fucking terrible song. i'm gonna give marolda the benefit of the doubt here, it's like very nearly in pretty things "cause i'm a man" territory.

ok, i was hoping that i would finally be able to let go of my weird tommy marolda obsession but NOPE

so, um, this is one of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJ7VZTFsow

i mean admittedly it's better than you'd expect from... i mean _this_. better than, you know, late-period bruce haack. i'd say.

but it's no "let's be friends again".

i can't think of my 50 favorite albums, so i just put my itunes library on random and picked 50 albums

also i mostly stopped bothering to update my itunes library at the end of 2020

i'm not making it as a poll because people are just going to vote for the ones they've heard of

i'm not proud of having these albums in my library, most of it is third-hand /mu/ shit, they're good records but, idk, music is weird for me these days

music was what i listened to because it was the only way i could emotionally connect with anything, after four years on estrogen i'm trying to kind of turn down the emotions a little bit. i don't know what to do with music when i just cry randomly now and most of my time is spent trying to be a functional human being.

but these are all albums that, at one point in my life between 2009 and roughly 2020, i enjoyed listening to.

DJ QBert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Music: A Preskool Breakmix
Duster - Capsule Losing Contact
The Supremes - Floy Joy
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot
Mr Sterile Assembly - It's All Over
Muqata'a - Inkanakuntu
Chakra - Satekoso
Los Jaivas - La Voraigne 5: Que Hacer
Wuja Bin Bin - The Best Planet Ever
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
David Grubbs - The Thicket
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
V/A - Screamers, Bangers, and Cosmic Synths
V/A - Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud and Fast Accelerated Tribute to the Ramones
The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
Clare Fischer - Thesaurus
Wire - Pink Flag
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Behavior - Spirits & Embellishments
Christopher Rousset - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works
Rodrigo Gonzalez - Hurbanistorias
Alex Chilton - Dusted in Memphis (and Elsewhere)
The Simple Carnival - Girls Aliens Food
Dandy Livingstone - Dandy Returns
Boole - The Vital Few
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Duke Ellington - The Chronological Duke Ellington 1932-1933
END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
James Brown - Funky Christmas
Fumaca Preta - s/t
Jack Ruby - Hit and Run
Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Lalo Schifrin - Starsky & Hutch OST
The Work - The Worst of Everywhere
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
v/a - Synths from the Sahara
Giuni Russo - Energie
Matt Elliott - Howling Songs
Sviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
Arthur Russell - Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984
UJ3RK5 - Live from the Commodore Ballroom
Sylvester - Stars
Feu Chatterton - Ici le Jour
Grand Orchestre du Tricot - Atomic Spoutnik
Wanda Sa - Wanda Vagamente

love to see Simply Saucer included - "Illegal Bodies" rips

a really interesting list with lots of stuff i'm looking forward to exploring later. supremes, simply saucer, jack ruby, and sviatoslav richter all jumping out at me -- but i'd probably have to pick "pink flag" if i'm being honest

well, it's not a poll, and you didn't ask me to pick. just saying

picking is allowed! i just didn't make it a poll because the results probably wouldn't say much! personally i'm very fond of the hammer screwdriver.

heh -- cheers :)

fuck it here's an actual list, random-ish, i tried to stay away from

Leak Bros - Waterworld
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Complete Recordings
Luiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do Brasil
Bob Drake - L'Isola dei Lupi
Slauter Xstroyes - Free the Beast
Ted Lucas - The Om Record
Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News
Zelda - s/t
Bauer - On the Move
Super Freego - Pourquoi Es-Tu Si Mechant?
Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born
Gastr del Sol - Camofleur
The Chrysanthemums - Little Flecks of Foam Around Barking
Alaska y Dinarama - Deseo Carnal
Matia Bazar - Aristocratica
Peter Thomas - Sound Music Album 5 (Golden Ring)
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Josef Hassid - The Complete Recordings
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
Raging Slab - Black Belt in Boogie
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Joe Raposo - Joe Raposo (Fan-Made) Tribute Episode
Maschina - Purple Finger Syndrome
Midday Veil - This Wilderness
Brotherhood of Breath - BBC Session (unreleased w/Mongezi Feza - "You Ain't Gonna Know Me"/"Wood Fire")
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Masashi Kageyama - Gimmick!
Presage - s/t
Johann Joseph Fux - Kaiserrequiem
Lyra Pramuk - Fountain
Ben Monder - Day After Day
BPM15Q - All Songs
Christa Lee - Welcome to the Fantasy Zone
Abigail Washburn - City of Refuge
The Toms - Simplicity
Stuff Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription Duets
Padraig O'Keeffe - The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master
Alexandre Reverend - Chansons d'une grande banane alitee
The Lewis Sisters - Way Out Far
Clothilde - s/t
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Hildegard Knef - Knef
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
Night Sun - Mournin'
Relatively Clean Rivers - s/t
Winterhawk - There and Back Again
Boris Midney - The Empire Strikes Back
Opus III - Mind Fruit

Difficult to not pick Gastr del Sol, but I wanna single out that Clothilde comp for anyone who bought one late 60s French beat pop album and thought that was enough.

ok i'm gonna do some brief write-ups on these

leak bros - i don't know why i love this hip-hop concept album about pcp so much. i just do.

octo octa - big record for me during my transition year, big fuckin' influence on me. this is my Trans Record.

milton brown & his musical brownies - too-short career, along with bob wills one of the titans of western swing. you don't actually need to hear them all, i just don't know of a comp. bob dunn's steel guitar, fuck yes.

luiz eca - idk i think i just connected with this during the blog era, 2008 or so, and fell in love with it, kind of an mpb supergroup. haven't listened to it in a while. i also recommend the "a tribo" comp but there's no official album of theirs and the sagrada familia record is better.

bob drake - i mean anything of his, i got into his stuff through ths prog-rock connections but bob drake is something else, lovecraftian old-timey furry jon anderson, i can't help but love it

slauter xstroyes - idk mostly metal like this doesn't have a bruce dickinson-style vocalist i don't think? it just clicks with me.

ted lucas - just a sad, homey folk record. the instrumental side is good but the vocal side is better. i don't even get stoned but i love listening to "it's so nice to get stoned".

essential logic - the kind of post-punk that clicks with me

zelda - actually i think that's just an ep? probably just go with 1983's full-length "carnaval". honestly i like their early, punkier live stuff better than their later stuff, but carnaval is a good meeting point.

bauer - somebody posted a bootleg rehearsal of theirs to dime in the early days and it's the kind of chamber pop that clicks with me.

super freego - a holy grail of mine for years, imagine my surprise when i found the album and it turned out to be just as good as i'd built it up to be. kind of a cross between early b-52s and magma.

nonlocal forecast - fire-toolz side project, progged out weather channel vaporwave shit. i haven't heard anything i didn't like by fire-toolz.

the great tyrant - post-_yeti_ after one of their members died. later another member died and they became pinkish black? or something? anyway i dig yeti's "man with the lamp" slightly more but the deathcore influences added to yeti's zeuhl and the cioran namecheck in the title elevate this.

that's kind of all i feel like doing now, i have, like, work to do, if i get to it i'll write up more... figure it's worth it since a lot of people probably haven't heard many of these...

Love your taste, it’s somewhat removed from my own personal taste - safe from a handful of picks which I love - and a whole bunch of albums I have never heard but sound interesting. Hearing nonlocal forecast right now and digging it.

Ted Lucas record would likely make my top 50, and Ramsey Lewis my top 100. Have lots of time for Relatively Clean Rivers and the Toms. Most of this is unknown to me, though.