Archive for the ‘ Music and Related ’ Category
White Fence-Fragility
This is the one of songs from the b-side of White Fence’s recent Pink Gorilla single. Drippy psych with a George Harrison guitar thing going on. the new White Fence album Cyclops Reap (Castle Face records) is also worth picking up [to listen, click on arrow below]
There are thousands of really terrible band photos on albums but there’s not as many terrible band sketches on albums. This is one of the worst (BEST!) I’ve ever seen. This album came out on Springboard records. Who were a really terrible, bottom of the barrel reissue label. The Guess Who, were to the best of my knowledge five men. This sketch which adorns the back cover was done by Suzanne Kisslan and it looks like she thought the band consisted of four women and a coconut made up to look like a man’s head. Dan at work thought it looked like an old wizard and his wife with their three daughters. Anyway you look at it, it’s stunning
Four women and a coconut made up to look like a man’s head or an old wizard and his wife with their three daughters
Kim Salmon and the guys from Mudhoney-You’re so bad
Kim Salmon plus Mudhoney minus Steve Turner…well, the description on Sub Pop’s site describes it better than I could “In 1995 during the grunge boom, when Steve Turner had a break from Mudhoney, Kim Salmon (The Scientists) was invited to join the band in Seattle. So Salmon accepted the invitation from his friends and flew from Australia to Seattle to check whether the experience was viable and worthy. After a while they amicably split, leaving behind this gem along the way, lost for the last 15 years and recently found.” This is from the seven song EP UNTIL… and was released in 2012 on Bang! Records (Madrid) [click on arrow to listen]
While going through an LP collection we recently got in at work, I found a great hand made cover for what I think is part of a Jimi Hendrix box set on Barclay Records
Wellwater Conspiracy-Sandy
These guys were comprised of John McBain (Monster Magnet), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden) and Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden). They put out four really strong records, great psych with hooks. This is their cover of the Carnabeats song Sandy from a single released in 1994 on Super Electro. McBains lead at (approx.) 1:04 is one of my favorite guitar parts ever.
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Lightning Beat-Man : I Said Yeah
Lightning Beat-Man or Reverend Beat-Man (depending on the release) is a Swiss guy who produces a shitload of super primitive Rock and Roll, most of it is great. This is from Apartment Wrestling Rock and Roll (Voodoo Rhythm Records) [click on arrow below to listen]
Tyvek-Frustration Rock
I know I’ve blathered about these guys in the past but I can’t emphasize enough how great they are. Reminiscent of The Fall, Swell Maps, and Wire (Yes! All of them!). Go out and buy all of their albums. This is from the 2011 singles collection Fast Metabolism [to listen, click on arrow thing below]
I was going through my stuff and I found a book that I thought was lost, Sleazy Business by Alan Betrock. Betrock (who died in 2000) was kind of a renaissance man who produced Blondie’s early recordings, founded the New York Rocker an early punk/new wave magazine and had Shake Records who released early dB’s records. He also did Shake Books which specialized in the history exploitation,sleaze and early Rock ‘n Roll. Shake Books was to publishing what the Cramps were to music. Sleazy Business came out in 1996 and it’s well worth seeking out. It’s not all larfs either, a lot of it is pretty brutal and sad. Here’s a few front pages (I avoided the more brutal, sad stuff).
A lot of what I write never makes it to the blog because A) it’s terrible or B) it’s a half formed idea that never really makes it into a complete piece. So here are a couple of partial things that wouldn’t make it on their own and barely make it in this grab bag of mirth:
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This is most of the back cover of Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band album Stranger in Town from 1978. These guys were Midwest working class rock guys, their main audience was blue collar rock guys and their ladies. They weren’t flamboyant like Queen, or occulty like Led Zeppelin, or vaguely sci-fi-ish like Rush. Seger was working the same side of the street as Springsteen and Tom Petty. What the hell is going on with the two guys on the right? Seger looks like you’d expect, a bit hipper version of Kenny Rogers and Pinky McSatin looks like he could be auditioning for Journey but its those two guys on the right…
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Sean found this drawing in a used book at work, it looks pretty old. I like the addition of the check marks, like there was a list of things to be drawn: Shoulders, check and check, Completed fancy woman with no feet, check
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During the “horse meat in Ikea” story a while ago I was trying to show that there was horse meat in everything Ikea sold, not just the meatballs. It was a fairly thin premise and everything seemed redundant after the first one
“The Snern table, great for dorms or small apartments. Contains only 18% horse meat, earlier models had close to 23%”
Staple Singers-Pray On
With the passing Cleotha Staples this week, I thought this would be a good song to play. It’s on Best of the Vee-Jay Years (Shout Factory) [click on song title to listen]
09 Pray On
