Cracked case copies of Good Stuff (probably harvested from long boxes) were staples of late-'90s Walmart cutout bins.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:35 (one month ago) link
yeah, that album was made for cutout bins.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
I remember buying it the day it was released at Peaches Records in Seattle and being disappointed.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:26 (one month ago) link
I remember spending a summer almost wearing my cassette copy of Good Stuff out, even though I knew in my heart that it wasn’t quite as awesome of the prior album
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:06 (one month ago) link
This one's been stuck in my head all weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKEzFZYqBg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:16 (one month ago) link
It’s a good track. The 9 minute Shep Pettibone one works really nicely if you are a fan of 80s extended mixes.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:42 (one month ago) link
nice, thanks, I do love extended 80s/90s mixes
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link
I like the Good Stuff remix too
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:06 (one month ago) link
I had Bouncing Off the Satellites on tape in high school (I took my car in for service and it was in the cassette player when I picked it up) and I think it's kinda slept on... has some of their very best songs (Summer of Love, Ain't It a Shame, Girl from Ipanema, Wig). She Brakes for Rainbows kinda points the way to Cosmic Thing, too.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link
yeah it's a solid LP imo, better than Whammy (which, in turn, sounded MUCH better when I revisited it recently)
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:27 (one month ago) link
Bouncing Off The Satellites has been out of print for ages. Don't remember ever seeing a copy in the UK.
Good Stuff forms part an extremely incongruous 2-for-1 CD package.
https://countrymusicusa.com/cdn/shop/products/20190320_123_740x.jpg
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:40 (one month ago) link
Ahahaha!
Well, there are too many horn arrangements on Good stuff imo
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
That’s the Blood, Sweat and Tears album where Fred Schneider joined as lead singer
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
Revisiting Whammy a few days ago, I was struck by how tinny and crudely programmed those sequencers and drums are. The songs are okay.
By contrast, Bouncing Off the Satellites bounce off the walls. "Ain't It a Shame" is their Secret Best Song. Sinead O'Connor killed it a decade ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUF5mrKUOVA
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:08 (one month ago) link
can't be doing with any version of that song that doesn't have the Galaga samples
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:23 (one month ago) link
I totally love Whammy. Alfred, have you heard Plastics? I’ve written this elsewhere but the second time I saw the B-52s Plastics toured with them, and I’ve long thought the “tinny” rhythms on Whammy may have been Plastics-inspired. That period after Wild Planet that yielded Party Mix and Mesopotamia they were obviously casting about for what to do next.
I thought Bouncing off the Satellites was a minor letdown on release, but I’ve come to love that as well. It lacks anything that rocks me like “Trism” or “Queen of Las Vegas” though.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:00 (one month ago) link
…which is crazy because Plastics were certainly inspired by the B-52s; Whammy seems to me like returning the favor.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:11 (one month ago) link
I think I've said it before, but I love the Mesopotamia outtake version of Queen of Las Vegas (from the Nude on the Moon anthology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SAclO9JAE
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:12 (one month ago) link
Absolutely, it’s wonderful. I wish there were more outtakes like that, but there really aren’t.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
yo I like The Plastics!! I have their Rough Trade 7"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
Yay! I often use ilx threads to decide what to play. This afternoon: Good Stuff, Whammy, and Welcome Back Plastics.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:26 (one month ago) link
Good Stuff needed to be 20 minutes shorter, resequenced, and preferably done with other producers.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:29 (one month ago) link
That "Queen..." outtake is what I heard in my head that the Whammy version doesn't produce.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link
i completely forgot bouncing off the satellites even existed until we were listening to a b-52s mix in the car the other week and Wig came on. What a great song.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:48 (one month ago) link