i think i want to share some EPs that i love. anybody else up for this? EPs have always been my favorite format for releasing music, in and out, no filler, just the meat.

i'm upping one as we speak...

Everyone probably has all of mine. I recommend all the Disco Inferno ones though.

I would love to do this. I shall get on some.

I might get involved too.

The two that I really want to send....

Afghan Whigs - Uptown Avondale

and

Sugar - Beaster

have disappeared from my collection.


So instead I offer the blisteringly brilliant 3-song Area EP by The Futureheads.


http://www.sendspace.com/file/lt7exe

ERIC'S TRIP - The Gordon Street Haunting

this EP came out in 1994, right when Canada was experiencing a surge of underground artists breaking through to the mainstream in Canada. Eric's Trip were from Moncton, New Brunswick and they were pretty much the kings of 4-track recording. very creative use of dynamics, stereo separation, fuzz/noise, and at the core of each song was a sweet little guitar pop tune. when i was living in Ontario at the time, they were like our own little Velvet Underground, but with a background in hardcore and punk. i love that you can hear snot sniffles, lighters, etc in the background.

this EP has a few of their more mellow tunes on it, but the first and last tracks just kill. anybody that likes mid-era Sebadoh, garage, lo-fi stuff, melodic punk, or FUZZ GUITAR will dig on this one...

Great description. I'm sold.

Clockcleaner - The Hassler

For anyone put off by Nevermind, the production on this 2004 EP is nowhere near as muddy as on the full length. Although they were still trying to realize their sound at this point, they still manage to pull off 16 minutes of good 'ol abrasive noise rock in the classic vein of Big Black and the Jesus Lizard. Good shit.

Hmmm, great thread to tinker with this weekend. I keep waiting for that SHIP CAPTAIN CREW ep to come out.

D.R.I. - Violent Pacification

Slayer, Napalm Death... it all goes back to D.R.I. Some of the most rackety, ridiculously fast hardcore punk ever laid down. This 1984 EP captures them in their prime, smack dab in the middle of their "classic" period.

THE BREEDERS - Safari EP

this 4 song 1992 EP came out after Pod and just before Last Splash. a couple of these songs were re-recorded for Last Splash, but the real highlight here is "Safari." it's easily my favorite song written by Kim Deal. plus, there's a Pete Townsend cover on here too.





this made me completely ga-ga for Deal. i still love her, even if she is fat now.

Great thread.

Wish I wasn't at work so that I could play.

Homostupids - The Glow

Three songs in 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Overwhelmingly sloppy hardcore. If you dig GG Allin and/or the Cro-Mags, this is a brutal jam.

Excellent choice; great band. Slayer recorded a great cover of the title track too.

Les Savy Fav - Rome (Written Upside Down)

This 2000 EP is LSF's first release without two guitars, and holy fuck if it ain't the tightest, most sonically inventive, best damn set of songs they've ever managed to pull together. If you've never heard LSF, this is a great place to start, and if you have heard them but haven't heard Rome, well, you're missing out on some of their best work.

i love you kiddo

Great idea for a thread.
Hmmm... let me think about this one.

I'll try to put some stuff up this weekend.

great choice paves!

this will work out well, you post the hardcore/noise stuff and i will post the poppy indie rock stuff.

somehow les savy fav seems to straddle these two extremes.

The best EP that I can think of has to be Pavement's "Watery, Domestic" EP.
If there's anybody that doesn't have it, let me know, and I'll add it.

Slint - (no title given, although it is commonly referred to as Slint, EP, or Glenn/Rhoda.)

After releasing one of the best damn albums ever and just before quietly disbanding, Slint put out this 13 minute long 10" record, featuring two instrumental tracks that retain that album's fiery intensity (how about them buzzwords?) For a band with as small a discography as Slint's, this thing is absolutely crucial.

And isn't that cover just the best?

Hopefully some o' these'll still be active when I get home. I will even have something to contribute.

Royal Trux - Radio Video EP

agreed. my favorite EP ever. but i figured everybody here had that one. pavement's best moment. i was thinking about uploading their "Pacific Trim" EP.

Nice, MB... very nice (in ref. to the Trux.)

And yes, Watery, Domestic is the best EP ever. It's just perfect. Maybe Pavement's greatest release. I have the original and Luxe & Reduxe and I'm not even some old person.



At The Drive-In - Vaya

They were fucking awesome. This is prime ATDI, right here, and it's the best they ever sounded on record before some nu-metal producer guy made Relationship of Command one of the most overwhelmingly loud things ever. This thing, though... just quality fucking rock music. Dig it.

Ross Robinson was fucking awesome. Let's not get carried away with Loudness War paranoia.

more canucks...



THE CONSTANTINES - The Modern Sinner Nervous Man EP


don't believe the hype/hate... this EP will rock yr sorry ass. 3 songs. done and done.

"blind luck" is their best moment to date, perfectly fitting the whole johnny cash/joe strummer/fugazi description they always seem to get in their reviews.

Oh yeah this is good shit.

Big Black - Lungs

And so in 1983, Steve Albini is introduced to the underground music world through this, the first EP released under the Big Black moniker. Despite the eventual arrival of non-Albini musicians and, at one point, live drums, Albini's basic approach to Big Black's music didn't change one bit after this release, which presents BB's trademark, endlessly influential sound in its rawest form. Aside from some horn overdubs, all of the instrumental duties are handled here by Albini. It's all here, though... the harsh, pounding drum machine rhythms, the crushing bass, the most inimitably brutal guitar tone known to man, and the famously cynical, provocative lyrics. Plus, songs like "Steelworker" and "Dead Billy" remain some of Albini's greatest achievements. A fucking landmark record.

yeah this one


EDIT: But that string of MBV EPs is the greatest thing ever

I remember my cousin mentioning these guys don't use distortion at all. I don't believe him. Bad ass, though.

HOT CHIP - SANFRANDISCO E-PEE

this is top class hot chip, especially "making tracks"

I think the disc is pretty hard to find also.

[codebox]http://www.sendspace.com/file/8x7ava[/codebox]

enjoi

(some reason the code box is huge)

Yeah, that cover is cool as hell. I've never seen it before.

Sounds really good on first listen as well.

Shudder to Think - Funeral at the Movies

seven songs, 25 minutes, counts as an EP to me. This was the transition from their relatively straightforward rock to the slightly more obtuse, noisy post-punk they messed around with on Get Your Goat. It's got the very catchy "Lies About the Sky", a cover of "Crosstown Traffic", and an early, rougher version of the ultimate classic "Red House", among other things.

OOOOHHH, thanks. I've never gone back this far in their catalogue. If someone ups the Peter EP which might be my favourite ET release ever, they would be my new hero, I only have it on a badly detereorating cassette dub.

I'm toying whether or not I want to contribute something to this thread that no one will want, but that I am willing to go to the wall for. We'll see...

Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Like the similarly great EP's Watery, Domestic and Rome, BoC's 2000 release has the distinction of possibly being overall more satisfying than the group's full lengths (which are fantastic, of course.) The songs here aren't so different than a lot of Music Has The Right To Children and the then-upcoming Geogaddi, but this four song, quarter hour set manages to just be so concisely perfect. I mean, "Kid For Today"? Does it get much better than this? And "Zoetrope" is just pure minimalist beauty... gah. I love Boards of Canada. You should, too. Good day.

Bang on. That Boards EP is lush and damn near perfect. One of the reasons the EP was created.

Four super awesome power pop songs. Everyone needs this. I dont know if they ever did anything else, but this ep is pretty much perfect. But if anyone has this ripped at a consistent bit rate (my copy varies amongst the songs) then i would love it if someone could up that.

I just upped this for the electronic thread, might as well put it here too.


Air France - On Trade Winds EP


Enjoy.

I love EPs and have ever since 1988 when I received my own personal copy of Garage Days Re-Revisited in the mail. They appeal to my cockroach-like attention span.
This fills me with joy.


This fills me with a strange mixture of adolescent rage, nostalgia for my long since faded youth, and gratitude.


And my own humble contribution:


Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xrt03e

While I've come to love this sort of technical, punishing onslaught, it definitely can become exhausting in a full-length LP. So this is pretty much the perfect way to enjoy DEP--7 and half glorious minutes.

Really fucking super hot. Hot Chip has so much 'soul' for a bunch of blokes with a few computers.

soon to be out of print



Cary Brothers

this thread rocks hard

yeah, this thread is super awesome.



Spoon - Love Ways

So this was their first release on Merge. It was recorded after between Girls Can Tell and Kill The Moonlight, but it was the first thing of theirs put out on Merge (in 2000). Perhaps as a "test" to see if they'd just flop again like they did on Elektra. Sure enough, cause Merge is awesome and people realized that they were stupid for not listening to A Series Of Sneaks, this record did well enough, and the rest is history...

Not sure if anyone here likes Pas/Cal but this EP is a lot of fun, especially tracks 1 and 3:

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/k30k1q

Weirdly enough, there was a time that I posted EPs frequently on my website and I still happen to have them listed, so here they are (I did choose to delay paying for my domain due to having other bills to pay this month, so get while you can!):




Some great shoegaze! I wore this thing out when I first bought it.

Speaking of Hot Chip, here's the Mexico Ep:



I wore that out, too, but haven't actually bought a real copy. do they even exist anymore?




I got this by accident due to a mail order mistake, but the best mistake ever!

yay, been looking for this since a friend sent me sanfrandisco.

according to the hotchip website both ep's were runs of 50 so yeah, pretty non-existing.

ta gen

what is this? no picture or title?

anyway...



Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven EP

1. just like heaven
2. throw down (weird little 45 second ditty)
3. chunks (awesome cover of a Last Rights song)

Sweet thread.

Prolly contribute later after my driving lesson.

tHE mULTIPLE cAT - "universe" shall mean the self



feline multiplicity

Dig, The Multiple Cat. What's Pat Stolley up to these days, anyway? Dude was on to something right around this time. The companion full-length "territory" shall mean the universe still blows this one away in terms of wall-to-wall awesomeness. And this one here threatens to be all about "B.B. kitty" and "I like a bridge". But, no...there are other pleasures contained within. Allmusic says this one was on Restless, but mine's on Guilt Ridden Pop. I win.

The Teenbeat sound of young Washington, DC, 1993. This was the first one I thought of. I like it a lot.


Unrest – Isabel Bishop E.P.
1. Isabel (3:09)
2 Teenage Suicide (3:10)
3 Love to Know (2:48)
4 Nation Writer (6:02)
5 Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl (4:23)
6 Wednesday & Proud (4:24)
7 Wharton Hockey Club (1:39)