poppy family - s/d - what should i get?

i've loved 'free from the city' since i got it on saint etienne's "the trip" compilation, and finally found a copy of "good thing lost" yesterday! this is marvellous.

highlights:
happy island
that's where i went wrong
there's no blood in bone
a good thing lost
what can the matter be?

Worth grabbing the Chessmen stuff too...

'There's No Blood In Bone' is amazing. The other stuff I heard wasn't really that exciting.

'no blood in bone' is surely the weirdest and most dramatic. much of the rest is quite tame, with the occasional flash of oddness.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MwO-6t_FBsY"Where Evil Grows" (Introduced by Kenny Rogers!) is probably my second favorite song of theirs...

I have a DVD loaded with this stuff that I found on some torrent site. This is about the best thing on it. Youtube has a lot of good PF stuff!!

Thanks for the link Saxby! "Evil" was always my favourite of theirs. I found a vinyl copy of Poppy Seeds just last month. (Which I owned on 8-track tape years & years ago.)

An article and an interviewwith Poppy Family guitarist Craig McCaw, who is still a face around town in Vancouver. There's some interesting historical details about the band including the fact that before they had a drummer the percussion was provided by Susan slapping her thigh with a bean pod.

Free gig this Saturday: The Poppy Family Experience featuring Susan Jacks, Craig McCaw, Satwant Singh and members of the New Pornographers, Pink Mountaintops and Destroyer.

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well isn't Canada adorable!

is the A Good Thing Lost compilation the best place to start if you want to hear some of their lesser-known cuts? or is it worth hearing the original albums?

I'd say get the compilation - most of the first album and more than half of the second album are on there anyway, and let's face it, almost all their songs are "lesser known". I haven't ever listened to the original album of Poppy Seeds - it's hard to find a copy.

"A Good Thing Lost" is a great place to start, probably all most would need. In Canada, the LP's are pretty easy to find dollar bin records. The "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" LP is my favourite - has the trippiest stuff like "Happy Island" and "There's No Blood in Bone" - tabla and sitar and weird moogs plus solid AM radio hooks - but I'm also cool with the more straight-up folky pop.

http://musopuzzle.com/sites/default/files/musette/images/Poppy.jpg

http://musopuzzle.com/sites/default/files/musette/images/Poppy.jpg

dope susan jacks schmaltz-abilly track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-G9NJsE6k

early:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CL_Gx3a23I

byrdsy Dion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O40EeXjSPdo

sorry wrong thread

So Susan Jacks is still singing? I like her voice. I like "Where Evil Grows"...being of that era every song transports me...

She's still singing but not recording AFAIK.

I think, like most people, I was probably originally drawn in by the dark psych-folk stuff but their more conventional songs are equally, if not more, stunning - Winter Milk, I'll See You There, Another Year Another Day, etc.

The new line-up!
http://vancouverisawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GeorgiaStraight-Cover_2429.jpg

Josh Wells, Susan Jacks, Craig McCaw, Satwant Singh, Kurt Dahle & John Collins.

Here's the article.

Josh Wells, Susan Jacks, Craig McCaw, Satwant Singh, Kurt Dahle, John Collins, Melissa McCarthy, Dan Savage & Bitcoin.

Poppy Family singer Susan Jacks passes away at 73 https://t.co/ZiRpEJrQUh

— The Vancouver Sun (@VancouverSun) April 26, 2022

R.I.P. Susan

"There's No Blood In Bone" was a mix cd staple for me for many years (when people still made those). I never really embraced any other Poppy Family stuff like I did that song, but I grabbed a couple of her solo records off soulseek this afternoon and I positively love this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AjiQ3sex8

RIP :(

The TV show on which Susan and Terry met, when she was still Susan Pecklevits

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

I probably posted about this on the show's thread: "Where Evil Grows" in Killing Eve (first season, I think) was the highlight of the entire show's run for me.

Johnny - prefer the Poppy Family version, but cool to hear Terry's first go at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1a9vimKD0

WOW WOW WOW I wasn't expecting it to be quite *that* wildly different.

“Beyond the Clouds” showed up in one of my algorithms and it’s knocking me out.

First track on the comp A Good Thing Lost.

I had this CD a long time ago, but the only one I play these days is "Where Evil Grows".

Kind of liking the whole vibe of this.

You don't like "There's No Blood in Bone"?