What is spinning?

[poppachubby]

Hadn't heard Racer X before but tried it out. Good stuff. An excellent jump start to a morning washed down with strong coffee. Really liked the drum and bass sound. Wish I'd known about them in the 80's. Coulda spared me a lot of time listening to Ratt and the likes.

But, I'm sad to say I went from heavy to mind-numbingly soft.. :-)

The bass player of Racer X plays with the Mars Volta. I am pretty sure he is still with them. Flea played on their first studio album and he was hired to tour. After that he has played on all subsequent albums.

Great choice noddin. I have been spinning Frissell myself...

[Stone]

[poppachubby]

Dug out all of my Don Cherry stuff...having a great day.

[Rae]

I'm currently listening to a Shahs mixtape of influences, the first in a planned series. Pretty great selection and easy to hear the sounds that cropped up in his excellent Dry Heat/Valley Low LP last year. Download free here:

shahtopia.blogspot.com

#1, Big Rooms, Palatial Estates:
Nini Raviolette - Suis-Je Normale
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Hype Williams - The Throning
Cluster - Heisse Lippen
John Bender - 35A9
Duke Reid - Love Chant
Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Twilight World
Unknown - Untitled (some Iraqi Choubi music)
Chrisma - Gott Gott Elektron
La Dusseldorf - Dusseldorf
The Phantom Payn - Caligari's Eye-Opening Dream
Alice Cooper - Beautiful Flyaway
Amen Dunes - Diane

~Rae

[Rae]

~Rae

[nobody]

King-Federal Rockabillys

Excellent if brief overview of some classic rockabilly singles originally released on the King and Federal labels by the likes of Mac Curtis, Charlie Feathers and more. If a quick and easy single disc distillation of this sort of thing is enough for you, this one would be a fine choice. Check out the fuzzy guitar sound on Hank Mizell's Jungle Rock. Here's the tracklist:

1.Mac Curtis - Grandaddy's Rockin'
2.Charlie Feathers - One Hand Loose
3.Joe Penny - Bip A Little, Bop A Lot
4.Ronnie Molleen - Rockin' Up
5.Mac Curtis - Little Miss Linda
6.Charlie Feathers - Bottle To The Baby
7.Mac Curtis - Goose Bumps
8.Mac Curtis - If I Had Me A Woman
9.Charlie Feathers - Everybody's Lovin' My Baby
10.Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock
11.Bill Beach - Peg Pants
12.Mac Curtis - Say So
13.Charlie Feathers - Nobodys Woman
14.Bob And Lucille - Eeny Meeny Miney Mo

[Slosh]

First spin:

[nobody]

The Compact 2 Tone Story

Hard to go wrong with every a and b side of every single on the 2 Tone label. The Specials, Selector, Madness, English Beat, Bodysnatchers...all the familiar faces and more are here with even a guest spot with Elvis Costello with his one single on the label. Oddly enough, former label head and Specials founder Jerry Dammers was less than impressed, saying "It's real train spotters stuff with every B-side from every free single and I wasn't even consulted about it. In some ways that (The Compact 2 Tone Story) is the worst." Regardless, a great collection filed with excellent stuff.

[jonnyhambone]

really diggin' this one from Mpls/Missoula dude, Shahs

RIP Trish (Broadcast)...


picked up this on Mofi vinyl recently...so friggin' amazing sounding

[Rae]

Ah, shahs!! Did you check out the link that I posted further up the page?

Besides Broadcast, I've been mostly on a local kick today. I've been working on some reports from home so plenty of time to listen. Lotsa Hüsker Dü, Teenage Moods, Dark Dark Dark, Dillinger Four, and also this one, hot off the presses:



~Rae

[nobody]

Lili Boniche & Bill Laswell: Boniche Dub

Taking as its source the album Alger, Alger by Arab-Occidental-Jewish singer-guitarist Lili Boniche (discovered playing in a Paris café at age 78), Boniche Dub is producer Bill Laswell's ambient pastiche of pan-Andalusian-Algerian textures and beats. Excellent if you have a need for something spacey and bass heavy. particularly good for late night listening.

[nobody]

60 Greatest of Dion & The Belmonts

Well yeah, I do need a three album vinyl box set with 60 songs by Dion, including the Wanderer, Runaround Sue, Little Diane and much much more. This **** is great.

[Stone]

I like Dion (what I've heard) but, really? Many of the 60 songs are worth listening to?

[Rae]

Strange, the only Dion & the Belmonts that I have is a 3XLP anthology. I guess they're a hard group to whittle down.

~Rae

[nobody]

Actually the 3 LP set here is a bit of overkill. None of it is really bad, but a lot of it is covers and there is not a lot of variation to it as it is all the early stuff on Laurie. Really, any early hits collection would suffice. I just happened to happen along the vinyl here cheap and it's a fun listen. If you want to find something a bit different in the Dion catalog, look to an album he did in the mid 70s with Phil Spector. Spector is in fine form with the arrangements and Dion's voice is very good. Album is quite a bit more on the downer side than what was expected of either of them and it was shelved upon release and only released in England initially. People wanted to remix it but Spector was adamant it shoudl remain as is. A really interesting listen:

[bobsticks]

I like french fries with pepper...

[noddin0ff]

My kid has got it on endless loop. I may be starting to enjoy it. Send help...

[Rae]

Today has been a dark punk-rock/post-punk kinda day.





Anybody have any other suggestions along the lines of this stuff (particularly Killing Joke-esque stuff)? My knowledge of proto-goth-punk is pretty shallow...

~Rae

[nobody]

You might like UK Decay or maybe Southern Death Cult (before they turned into The Cult).

I'd suggest checking out some American death rock stuff, 45 Grave, first Christian Death album (the one where Rik Agnew from The Adolescents played guitar). A bit more raw and rough but as far as walking the line between punk and goth they fit the bill.

There's also Birthday Party stuff.

[Rae]

Hey, thanks. Save the Birthday Party, I don't know any of the bands you mentioned.

~Rae

[Stone]

This has some good stuff on it in that vein, including the already-mentioned 45 Grave:

Also, you probably already know this, but tread carefully into the catalogs of the three bands you mentioned. They all changed direction dramatically after the albums you posted.

[nobody]

And while they don't really have any goth leanings, that Damned album, one I really love by the way, sorta musically reminds me of the first UK Subs album, Another Kind of Blues.

[nobody]

This has some good stuff on it in that vein, including the already-mentioned 45 Grave:

Rewatched that movie not long ago, still funny.

[Rae]

Also, you probably already know this, but tread carefully into the catalogs of the three bands you mentioned. They all changed direction dramatically after the albums you posted.

Oh yeah, no doubt. I actually like some 80s stuff from all three of those groups, but yeah, The Damned and The Stranglers are probably two of the prime examples of bands whose punk legacies can be really confusing if you start at a random point in their discographies.

~Rae

[Stone]