um, this Blank Dogs is fantastic like you said. holy shit. totally grew on me tonight.

good, because your "better sounding records" argument was a bit silly. He's one of the more astonishing lo-fi acts in that regard, where the fuzz, fx, and general noise are so clearly calculated. Can't really separate them from the song (whatever that even means) and still have the same song at all.


but yeah, everyone should listen to this.

i still am sort of bothered by the occasional cheap drum machine sounds, but i can live with it.

Hey, does anybody have Public Flipper Ltd.?

With the recent reissues, I'm filling in the gaps in my Flipper collection and wondering how the sound quality is.

Anybody? ...Falconi?

bump

The new The Ghost Of A Thousand album is good. RIYL: Fucked Up, ATD-i, hardcore.

Picked up the Album Generic vinyl. It's pretty good.

Everybody everywhere should buy every Flipper reissue.

I've got all the original Subterranean albums - except for the one that was on ROIR and the one on Def American (and that one's a cd (as far as I can tell, they didn't do records of it)) - so I'm not buying the 4 Men with Beards records.
Back in the days of yore, you could order blank Gone Fishin' covers for a buck a piece so you could cut out and put the van and the little guys together and play with them.

Public Flipper Ltd. is essential. It's not just a live album, it's about 50% songs you can't get anywhere else. I suppose if you've mutilated your Gone Fishin' cover you could use the band member things to play the game. So speaking of album covers, if anyone's got a new Public Flipper Ltd., can you tell us if the reissue version folds out completely to make the game board.

As of yesterday, two new Flipper albums are out, but I think I have to wait until Father's Day to get mine. The new songs on myspace sound pretty good to me!

Sold!

I wish that I knew Gone Fishin' was available on vinyl too. Got a bit excited when I saw the CD and snatched it up immediately. Oh well... probably pick up the vinyl too if I see it. Always liked that cover as you mentioned.

the single-disc promo sampler:

Wow, that packaging looks fantastic.
Probably too big a helping of 13th F.E. for me though.
I could probably get by with the 2-3 albums that I already have.

this is the self-titled debut by The Weakends. it's from local Atlanta label Rob's House Records, but the dudes are from France (though it's an anglophone record). there's not much to say about music like this. it's classic amazing garage rock, heavy on melodies, errs on the pop side as opposed to noise. they're a three piece so it's somewhat minimal. great guitar work, very blues influenced and scuzzy. the vocals are kinda howled and growled, but in the best way possible. it's very high energy, but not over the top or gimmicky in that respect. it's just beautiful.

download it here:
http://www.divshare.com/download/7590088-d0c

buy it here:
http://www.robshouserecords.com/

^ #14 on my best of 2008 list.

well lookie here. must've been your link that i got the album from, as it's labeled "vinyl" rip. had no idea where it came from though.

i very very very highly recommend this disc. it's only $11 if you want to buy it, too.

Something tells me that I'll dig this. Merci!

Hey throughsilver and James D, what do you guys think of Gallows?

To me it feels like a high-gloss Fugazi meets Discharge and GBH, not too bad at all, but I might have to let it grow on me more. It seems the reaction from the UK press to Grey Britain is way over the top (no surprise there), writing like they've never heard loud rock 'n' roll before, making the band look far more groundbreaking than they actually are. Plus the fact that these guys signed a million pound recording deal doesn't exactly help their punk cred.

For the uninitiated: http://www.myspace.com/gallows

I dunno. I got sent two copies of the Isis instead of this.

Really fancy listening to it. Reviews have called it 'prog-punk', suggesting they haven't heard any punk rock with 'odd' time signatures, be they Fugazi, Propagandhi, Hot Water Music et al.

various: The 49 Minute Technicolour Dream

Sixties headsounds for Psychedelic soundheads lifted from the original master tapes

This is good. Reissue of a 1984 British comp. Tracks by Caleb, The Mirage, Kaleidoscope, The Misunderstood etc. DIYL Dukes Of Stratosphear, Ween

Spoiler/NSFW: click to show/hide

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Wish I hadn't spoiled the ending.
This looks cool, Sid.

that's a great comp

The new White Denim album is up in this thread: http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?s...60&start=60

So far similar in style to Workout Holiday/Exposion/etc. but I think they've taken a step up in intensity. I'm about 2/3 of the way through, and every song so far is great. Has top 10 AOY potential.

Some more Rubble:



Rubble, Volume 1: The Psychedelic Snarl

More psychedelic rock, freakbeat and fuzzed-out R&B - freshly minted from the '80s UK Bam-Caruso series that brought The 49 Minute Technicolour Dream. Featuring Wimple Winch, The Craig, Mindbenders, Hush, Caleb (<-my favorite), etc. This series is addictive.

Spoiler/NSFW: click to show/hide

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Sounds like Lou Barlow sampled this for "Flame" (around 2:01):

The Hush - "Grey"

totally. love "Flame"

2 bands i can't stop listening to lately:

The Fresh and Onlys

and

The Fucking Eagles

anybody else on this stuff?

There was a thread on the documentary You Weren't There: The History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984, but I guess it's gone.

Anyway, it's out now on DVD, with a sountrack-ish record available too: http://www.factorytwentyfive.com/ftf3/

This is one of the best comps I've heard, all year. Stunning. Cannot recommend it strongly enough, especially since some of the bands don't have their shit on CD and the original LPs go for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars.

^^^^^
got a link for this?

waffles has it.

thanks for the heads-up, idolatry - looks like it was made just for me.

Meanwhile, how about the new King Khan/BBQ? I can't stop playing it.

I still feel guilty for not "getting" Khan and his goons. I dunno. Just never really did it, for me. Either way, that comp is BAAAAAAAAAAAALLER. Links can be found, I think...but you should really buy it! Fucking fantastic stuff.

Also, I have this. Reckless was selling one way cheaper than it was just to buy it from the label folks (what with the transatlantic shipping, and all), so I caved. It is hardly definitive, it is hardly without fault, and it is all on CD and with some real clunkers tossed in...but I'll be damned if that isn't some CRAZY awesome music and really beautiful (if both surprisingly scant and strangely, like, mystical) packaging. My biggest complaint is that the original liners weren't recreated for either the CDs (which are just cardboard sleeves, sadly) or the packaging (just a repro lyric sheet from Easter Everywhere is included, and that's it). Money reasonably well spent. Like I said, at least the music is still fantastic. Given how fucked this whole catalogue is and Roky's whole estate is, this seems like the best we're ever likely to get.

Just bought a copy on Amazon -- super excited about it. Most rock-docs (and books and everything else, really) lazily skip over the City's vibrant scene - straddling the coasts with occassional dips into Minneapolis & Ohio.

have you guys heard this?

Listening to Volume 1 right now, eden. Will have to report back with my findings. The tracklistings seem...well, eclectic. To say the very least. Some obvious stuff, some shit of which I've NEVER heard, and some shit which I'd rather not ever have to hear (I'm looking in the direction of Oasis). Weird. Sounding pretty good, though, so far.

yeah, just wait till you hear the "Oasis" track......

Woops! The "(Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix)" tag had me thinking that it was just gonna be squirrelly effects all over "Champagne Supernova." I stand corrected. Some awesome stuff on these, but man...they're fucking LONG!

Story checks out. This keeps getting more kickass as it goes on.

edit - the Baby Grandmothers is like a Boris/Dungen hybrid, that just keeps going...

Have you not heard that Baby Grandmothers reissue from a couple years ago?

I recall enjoying it.

I recall downloading it, then blowing it off after a quick listen. I'm thinking that may have been WRONG.

You are correct, sir. I mean, it's not the best thing I own, but it is indeed hella-good. Nothing like a sprawling-ass, 15-minute, psyched-the-fuck-out jam which you feel ends too soon.

My favorite track on the comp in question, though, is "It's Not Easy," by Nigerian rock/funk/psych band Ofege. They were on a recent Nigeria-centric Stones Throw comp that was pretty solid, if not quite my usual cup of tea:



Their records are easy to find, online, but run for hundreds (if not thousands), in real life. Do yourselves a favor and check them out.

That song by The Elcados on the comp destroys me. Anyone have their full lp? Cannot find it for the life of me.

The record is called The World is Full of Injustice, and was released on EMI in the '70s. Even these scans don't give a year (but they do show a pretty hefty pricetag):

http://www.popsike.com/Elcados-MEGA-RARE-A...0232584271.html

A few lists of records show the year as unknown, as well. The catalog number is NEMI0069, but that hasn't helped me, either.. I can't find anything. Sorry, man. Looks exceedingly rare, both physically and digitally.

I've searched up and down the internet and found nothing. At this point, just want to hear it, in any form.

pretty sure that catalog number puts it in 1973 btw. could be wrong, of course.

Very well could be. I have no idea. If ever you should find it, by all means let me/us know.

this band is absolutely flooring me right now.



apparently they had quite a significant influence on Pink Floyd.

Neither garage nor psych nor punk, they were, quite simply, The Monks:



One of the best bands of the '60s, and one of the precious few (debatably the only) to beat The Velvets to, if not at, their own game. Fucking brilliant. Cannot recommend them strongly enough to anybody interested in tangential punk, garage, beat, psych, krautrock, noise, or just the general late '60s avant garde.



A brilliant reissue just came out on both CD and LP, this year:

https://lightintheattic.net/buy/item.php?product_id=522

I'm also irrationally fond of this totally unrelated record by The Baroques, a Wisconsin-based, more-or-less pop-psych band that wore its influences on its sleeves but had some incredible, not entirely baroque songs:



It was inexplicably released on Chess Records, in 1967. Strange fit for that label, but again--the songs are really strong, if atypical Chess fare. Highlights include "Mary Jane," "Iowa, A Girl's Name," "Rose Colored Glasses," and the spectacular, gorgeous "Love In a Circle." "A Music Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Wiener Wagon" also...well, it exists. It's also pretty good and a lot less approachable than a lot of the other songs.

Links are floating about, not to mention originals for reasonably cheap and a recent reissue called Purple Day, which tacks on more unreleased stuff than you'd think some one-off band like this one would have lying around. But, yeah. There it is. Good stuff. If it means anything to you, I recommend it pretty strongly. Just don't go in expecting them to reinvent the wheel, is all.

Guy on the bottom right looks like Neil Patrick Harris dressed up as Kurt Cobain