90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

i like griptape quite a bit, the other i don't know so well but i don't remember loving it

you may also be interested in the summer hits, they're related.. check out their beaches and canyons comp

is there a youtube thread of this stuff? i seem to remember one

the only Further I have is the Grimes Golden EP (which is great) but I don't have any more of it ripped from the vinyl. aside from Quiet Riot Grrl the tracks Teenage Soul and California Bummer are awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJubJYkH0g

the best albums belonging to the more obscure bands in the mix?

dunno which ones you consider obscure but I'd go for Strapping Fieldhands - Discus, Wattle & Daub, In the Pineys ... Home - IX, X, XI (Elf: Gulfborewaltz) ... Grifters - One Sock Missing, Crapping You Negative, Eureka EP, Ain't My Lookout ... TJSA - Bait and Switch, Straight to Video

Yeah Grifters... one of those bands I haven't quite dived into yet... but I've got my eye on One Sock Missing used at the record store next door to my place for 4.99. Thats the best thing about this era and these sort of unknown bands... they didn't get enough press in the 90s originally, so all of their albums are dirt cheap used. I'll check out all of those recommendations though thanks!

And c.c. I'll look into The Summer Hits (?) also, I'm open to anything like this.

Also (dmr) is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

Another contributing factor was the 90s birthed so many little record labels that there is tons of material released by these little guys by obscure little acts. And nobody in this town wants these cheap albums but me! Perfect.

Will there be a nostalgic reappraisal of 89-91 over-compressed jangly power-pop? If so, I'm looking forward to the new Judybats & Material Issue.

cuz, you know, girls w/ horn-rim spectacles & dudes w/ wild hair & patterned button-downs bottoned all the way up could really use a comeback (sorry for the lame-o link, but couldn't find this brilliant song on YT for some reason?)

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

― latebloomer, Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:10 AM (2 weeks ago)

otfm!

not that it was ever the world's most precise term but it is still annoying to me to hear folks use "indie rock" to describe like, arcade fire.

^^ first world problems

Evan, try the very, very GbVesque Capstan Shafts. there's a lot of it, all of it quite good, if somewhat samey.

that (there even is a) Further vid is really blowing my mind. used to follow the Bros. Rademaker religiously, from project to project, beginning with (ugh) Shadowland. Griptape is just juvenile Dino Jr/seBADoh worship, not too essential. Sometimes Chimes is a fascinating mess that's twice as much album as it should be. but you need Grimes Golden as well as the final Further album, Next Time West Coast, if only for the Primal Scream cover. and that Summer Hits comp is dope. i believe i have everything but the 7"s ripped, if you're having trouble finding these.

The Grimes Golden EP was pretty swank, would definitely recommend that you hunt that fucker down.

further - super griptape lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252560100/Super_Griptape_L.zip.html

is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

yeah all three of those tracks are on the 10"

this one

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

er

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

oh forget it it looks like an apple

This one:
http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2007/09/further-grimes-golden-ep-1994.html

further - sometimes chimes lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252619987/Sometimes_Chimes_LP.zip.html

further! XD

wow.

I like seam's first album and ep a LOT. also codeine, pitchblende and number girl.

In 92 I found a ad for Ajax records, I think it was in the back of Spin. Once that first catalog came, I started buying whatever records sounded interesting. I owe my musical education to whom ever it was that ran Ajax. I treated those catalogs as gold. I wish I had still had them.
Search: The Cannanes, Peter Jefferies, The Dead C, David Kilgour, The Renderers.

I <3 the Cannanes (and those other people, but especially the Cannanes)

That Judybats video was hilarious!

Thanks everybody, c.c., for posting the links. I'll definitely pick up any of these albums if I stumble across them.

Keep the recommendations coming!

I like Seam, a band RIYL Sunny Day Real Estate for sure, and I've been interested in Pitchblende.
I discovered them when I found out they are friends with The Swirlies (my favorite).

Ah yes I've been looking for Arty Barbeque by the Cannanes.

That's a great album, one of their best definitely

Oh my god, yes, Ajax catalogs were big for me too. Not just ajax label releases, but the stuff they distributed and their year-end lists, etc. Like ILM only in 1994.

Speaking of Seam... the second Bitch Magnet album, Ben-Hur, is pretty great. I just picked that up a few months ago after not hearing it for many years. Still pretty great. Their earlier material not so much, but Ben-Hur is great. Also Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast is a good 'un.

Ben Hur is the third one isn't it? After Star Booty (which is okayish) and Umber (which is fucking awesome).

Yeah, it's the third one. You can get Star Booty and Umber on the same disc--some of it is okay but I think Ben Hur destroys both. That's the album David Grubbs joined the band on... I don't know that it's Grubbs specifically that makes it better, though it does benefit from having a second guitar which makes all the songs a little more epic.

main seam dude had a band called "ee" that a friend of mine was in...similar vein...were weirdly on asian man records

Asian man records... only band on that label that I've pursued was Polysics. They aren't too special nowadays but albums "Hey! Bob! My Friend!" and "Neu" are both great! Hey Bob is still in print (?) or available but Neu is not. Too bad, cause Neu is a little better. Its a little heavier and just so great. Not 90s though...

I'm looking forward to the new Judybats

Oh hell I'd buy a new Judybats record for sure. They made a lot of bad records after Native Son but for "Convalescing in Spain" alone I'd give them chance after chance after chance.

Inspired by the top of this thread I'm listening to The Multiple Cat ("Territory" Shall Mean The Universe) right now. Kind of great, actually -- the guitar sounds like Versus, the singing like Pavement. But somehow it sounds more like Murmur than it does like either of these (or maybe it's just this one song, "Kitty Kan't Figure It Out," where the bass sounds like Murmur.

Whoa, unexpected naive keyboard solo.

And something about "North?" feels like a kind of Iowa indie rock "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." I really think some of you guys should listen to this record and describe it better than I can, OK?

i have that multiple cat album somewhere, i recall it being decent but nothing mindblowing, i should reassess..

Yes, Ajax records!!! I remember them selling and distributing a lot of wonderful noisy stuff from New Zealand. Everyone knows the Dead C, but more people should hear the Terminals too. They've got that basement Velvet Underground drone down perfectly. The singer, Peter Stapleton, is one of the more distinctive vocalists out there. I also remember picking up one of the first Cannanes releases from then. I still have it and it's great.

No it isn't mind-blowing, Its just catchy and fresh the whole way through. I have that Multiple Cat album and it really is wonderful. As I have mentioned somewhere earlier the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is just so breezy and fun, and yeah "North?" is a nice slow burning song. My favorite though besides "Sad, Sad, Sad" is definitely "My Planet" for the part in the song where he goes "...now!" as the distortion is turned on- always makes me punch the air above my head.

imo the cannanes are one of the most underrated groups of all time - an extensive catalogue with very very few weak points, particularly during the 90s..

I'm really interested in getting some Cannanes material... not really easy to find everything though. Physical copies that is.

They've been on my list for awhile.

Just to say, this is my current favourite ILM thread. Having purchased records by Red Red Meat, The Multiple Cat and Space Needle off the back of it (all of which I love and had never heard before) I'm really digging the recommendations.

Keep up the good work!

anyone dig raymond brake? poor man's polvo to be sure but that has its charms sometimes.

i second or third the Ajax catalog influence - i still have some in a box somewhere. discovered so many key bands and generated a lengthy wish list because of that distro.

may i mention the spinanes if they weren't already? manos and those early 7" are as good as it gets for me, along with seam and tsunami. and very jealous to the poster who saw versus a few weeks ago.

Barnaby: I'm so glad you are benefitting from this thread just as I am and was intending to upon creation! I've really been excited to talk about great bands that not many people are discussing these days.

Haven't heard Raymond Brake, but I love Polvo!... and if early Trail of Dead material is poor man's Unwound and I love all of that, then I am excited to hear poor man's Polvo for sure. Weird reasoning but whatever.

And yeah Spinanes have been mentioned. Great band! I've been meaning to pick up "Strand" when I find a copy. I have "Manos" and "Arches and Aisles" already. Both are great.

Oh and sknybrg will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm.

Re the original question: No, let's hope it doesn't.

Fair enough?

Best almost-bill I saw in the 90s: Polvo/Drive Like Jehu/Superchunk in Boulder, CO. Polvo's van broke down or something, so they didn't show (which now really bums me out, but at the time I had not heard anything). Essentially, I had bought Foolish about a week before this show and then, about 2 days before it, had read a review of Yank Crime in Option Magazine essentially saying it was the greatest guitar record of the year (dates me, huh?). So, I went out and immediately bought it and was just blown away. I went back to buy the first Jehu record and the guy at the store just said "You know they are playing here, right?" Well, I did then. I have never been the same since that show. Gave Superchunk a big kick in the ass as well (I would not have wanted to go on after that band), they were way better on that tour than the other times I saw them. But shit, it was all about Drive Like Jehu. A group of people actually left the show chanting their name after their set, not to return for Superchunk!

just listened to this:

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/270/273052.jpg

for real underrated classic of the waning daze of the Am Rep empire...such a great band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdimaf-YsE

Even though I came around to her Unicorn stuff, I'm so sad she didn't keep putting out stuff like that!

"will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm"

damn - i'm on the wrong coast...but i'll spread the word to my nyc friends. thanks for the info, evan!
i was a fairly big superchunk fan and bought a lot of the merge catalog on sight for awhile. may need to go find those records.

"it was all about Drive Like Jehu"

yessir! i think i recall that option article and was lucky enough to catch jehu when they played in austin - summer of '94. love love love that band

Yesterday I went shopping and I was pleasantly surprised that not only music, but clothing fashion is also moving slowly away from the 80s and into the 90's. More depression and testosterone, less glam and gayness.