What's that? Music's too loud. NP

[RavingLunatic]

Well, maybe it is a 7", I don't know. It's 4 songs long, and I call anything that long an EP.

i was under the impression that there was the 7" cool love single, and a new tour-only EP--on CD or vinyl, i'm not sure which--that had different stuff on it. i could be wrong though.

Oh, I'd conflated the two, perhaps incorrectly.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Black Lips - Wild Man
It's been a while since I sounded off on the wonderfullness of the Black Lips. Since that time they've kinda become "big" maybe.
It should be noted though that they are THE BALLS.
Case in point being the WIld Man from the Live At The Jam Club 7"
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It's bitchin!!!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Shit Eagle - So Sad
Onne of my fave songs of the year thus far. This thing is a rocker supreme. A b-side on the 7" with Girls In School as the header. COOL SHIT!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Melvins - I Can't Shake It
From a 7' & that came with that mag with the hodrods. Pretty damn cool.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I was goin through my 7"s and came across a few Fugazi boots. I haven't listened to these in a long, long time. So I'ma listen to them.

First up is the pick of the bunch. "We Are All Guilty" is a nice release with a long version of Suggestion in which Ian discusses the lyrics between each verse in a kinda funk breakdown thingy. Great sound quality. B-side is demo versions of Waiting Room & Song With No Words from 88. Song With No Words would finally see official release 12 years later re-recorded on a 7" as Furniture. Great song. No reason to take so long.

Next is "Gun, Drugs & Money" on Drunken Ducks Records. At first listen this is really a shitty recording. but if you crank up the volume its pretty good. A-side is "Runaway Return" with b-sides "Two beats Off" & "Repeater". It's OK, but nothing real special about this one.

"All Roads Lead To Rome" is live from Rome on October 27, 1990. tracks are Margin Walker, Waiting Room & Merchindise. Mediocre recording at best. The only reason this exists is the much talked about Waiting Room power cut recording. Basically, they get 1/4 of the way thru Waiting Room then the power cuts out. Them Romans been the good punk kids they are, start a massive word-4-word singalong version of Waitong Room. B Canty keeps playing the drums. It's pretty damn cool.

That's the end of my completely uncalled for Fugazi 7" bootleg rundown.

THIS IS NOT A FUGAZI SHIRT!

[Good Intentions]

You seem to be enjoying yourself, Scott. See you Saturday!

[narlus]

For instance in NZ, the 45rpm 12" became a very big part of our underground heritage through the fact that so many of the best Flying Nun records are in this format - Boodle Boodle Boodle, Future Shock, 10 o'clock in The Afternoon, Pin Group Go To Town, Victor Dimisich Band, to name some early highpoints - but I know that not everybody had this prevalence in their national life.
But if its a 33rpm - its not an EP (eg Isopanisad Radio Hour).

Flying Nun has the best and deepest 12" EP issuance of any label i know.  some amazing releases there.  these are sadly overlooked and hardly ever reissued.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Song With No Words would finally see official release 12 years later re-recorded on a 7" as Furniture. Great song. No reason to take so long.

apparently they had decided to drop the song before even recording their first ep and were not planning on ever doing anything with it, but footage of them performing the song appeared in "instrument" and caused an uproar from fans going "omg where can i get this song?" this prompted the decision to resurrect the song long enough to release it as the a-side of a single. but if that hadn't happened, it never would have come out at all.

so hey, thank god it happened. because that song is outstanding.

right now, i'm listening to the mp3 of the new sigur ros track that i downloaded off their website. if this is what the new album is gonna sound like, i think there's a strong possibility that it will be my favorite sigur ros album yet.

[difficult]

For instance in NZ, the 45rpm 12" became a very big part of our underground heritage through the fact that so many of the best Flying Nun records are in this format - Boodle Boodle Boodle, Future Shock, 10 o'clock in The Afternoon, Pin Group Go To Town, Victor Dimisich Band, to name some early highpoints - but I know that not everybody had this prevalence in their national life.
But if its a 33rpm - its not an EP (eg Isopanisad Radio Hour).

Flying Nun has the best and deepest 12" EP issuance of any label i know.  some amazing releases there.  these are sadly overlooked and hardly ever reissued.

Yes. But many of them turn up on CDs in some form or another - but they don't reissue the vinyl as EPs ever. It's just how things got done here for a long time.

[narlus]

these should all be reissued:

sombretones - s/t
alpaca brothers - legless
the orange - fruit salad lives
bird nest roys - whack it all down
able tasmans - tired sun
the clean - live dead clean


i think most of the Tall Dwarfs and Goblin Mix EPs have made it to cd. 

others gone (at least mostly) missing include Plagal Grind, various Sneaky Feelings, Bill Direen/Bilders/Soluble Fish, etc...

[DanielBurns11]

right now, i'm listening to the mp3 of the new sigur ros track that i downloaded off their website. if this is what the new album is gonna sound like, i think there's a strong possibility that it will be my favorite sigur ros album yet.

I have been obsessed with this band the past couple days. I didn't know they were coming out with a new album, I'll be pre-ordering it ASAP.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Dion - Purple Haze
Great, great version.

Kudos on the Different Class writeup GI.

[Wally]

Pulp - Different Class

About three years ago I hardly listened to anything else, but, the way these thigns happens, I haven't put Different Class on in an age. This morning, circumstances lead me to remember 'Feeling Called L.O.V.E.', the most perfect expression of lovesickness I have ever heard, the possibility of its better I refuse to countenance, and I took the album off of the shelf. It's every bit as good as I remember, and that says a lot, since when I first got this album I was walking on air for three weeks just from the joy of listening to it.

I learnt something very important from listening to this album, except it feels uncouth to say so, but that's the fact of the matter. It was with these songs that I first realised that there is something really valuable about all-dials-in-the-red, no-holds-barred full-out pop music, that you can trade on pure joy alone. Treacle-sweet little ditties have always offended my extreme earnestness with their escapism, since it felt like so much bad faith, but not Pulp, not even the very studied crescendoes they throw in, trying to sound as casual about their populist craftsmanship as everybody else on radio. But this time I couldn't say no. This post is going to get even more cingingly heartfelt, but good sense be damned, this is important. If you don't have this album, buy yourself a copy now. Buy three, and give the others to people you love. Because, while all pop music draws from our pleasant experiences, some of them so brilliantly ecstatic that you can't help but forget everything else, Different Class is a painfully and empoweringly clear-sighted record, and the well from which it draws includes not only those moments of pure happiness, but their surrounds as well: it trades in perennial disappointment, sapped self-confidence, passive-aggressive resentment, whistful fantasising and those moments where, wonder above wonder, you believe that things are starting to go your way, and those spontaneous successes where your plans hatched in lonely bedrooms are swept away by actual and unexpected intimacy. Managing this isn't something that is unique to Pulp: the Smiths made a living out of it, and Lftr Pllr and the Afghan Whigs go about it in their own way as well, for instance, but every time somebody pulls it off it is deeply, deeply special. Pulp fulfills every promise shown by pop music ever since Scott Walker went solo. Keeper, keeper, keeper.

  Awesome.

Now playing the new Christine Fellows, it's a little odd ball on first listen, but in an interesting rather than annoying way, and it's already clear she's not forgotten how to write.

[RavingLunatic]

Ready Fire Aim - This Changes Nothing

Sounds like a great electro-synth-pop album, a genre I love but have trouble finding new stuff in. It's a lot easier to find alt-country/folk stuff, which is my main thing. Popmatters' "Short Takes" pointed me to this. I rarely read their main reviews, but there's lots of great stuff to be found in their Short Takes. Only problem is that I sometimes can't find stuff that they review there.

[G.C.R]

That was a great post Marinus! Jarvis Cocker inspired red wine spilling hugs to you!

[edison]

That was a great post Marinus!

I'm gonna be playing Different Class in your honor this weekend!

[RavingLunatic]

And speaking of Popmatters ShortTakes, they reviewed one of my favorite albums from last year, Joshua James' The Sun Is Always Brighter. I love the album, and this review is gonna make me listen closer to the lyrics, because it sounds like they're really good, something I hadn't noticed before.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

His Electro Blue Voice - Fog
Golly! This is quite good. Starts out sounding a Bauhaus kinda goth thing but turns into a nasty rocker. Choice.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Karate Party - one-two-three-four
Mid 90's band that's more talked about than heard. This is the new LP of old material on SS records (best label going?). Yeah, turns out they were a very good band.  Forerunner to the "weird punk" thing making the rounds at the moment.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Crash Normal - Gring Jazz Rider
Another amazing release from SS Records. This time it's a bunch of French fuckers making some nice fucked- up punk with a large chunk of analog electronics over the top of the distorted guitars and yelling.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Karate Party - one-two-three-four
Mid 90's band that's more talked about than heard. This is the new LP of old material on SS records (best label going?). Yeah, turns out they were a very good band.  Forerunner to the "weird punk" thing making the rounds at the moment.

that reminds me--you heard eat skull yet? i think you'd like them.

[Babar]

[Bubbachups]

Alastair Galbraith / Alex Neilson / Richard Youngs "Belsayer Time" (Time-Lag / 2006)

[davy]

seriously, i'm having one of those first-listen-and-it's-already-an-all-time-favorite experiences with dr. john's gumbo right now.

holy shit. this is everything i want out of music.

[davy]

i am listening to "junko partner" and I AM IN ECSTASY.