The Inexplicable Still Unexplained

Got another large package of compact discs in the mail today plus a couple of records for good measure. I'm ripping those in another couple of windows.
Some of that shit might end up here in a year or two. Or not. I don't know anymore.


Meanwhile I'm going to queue up a few posts since I'm sitting here anyway.

Cannibal (1993)

Job's Daughters is a side project from Brendan Kearney of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 abetted by Greg Freeman and others.
I read a while back on a link I can't relocate that the A side is an Ennio Moriccone track from the soundtrack to low budget Italian film "I Cannibal" The B side was from some odd Asian record of unknown origin, but a lovely song nonetheless.

That's about all I got.
I have some Duke Ellington shit to tag in another window...

Beat the Dog (1985)

A random flexi I acquired many years ago for the above noted fifty cents by Jesus Couldn't Drum. It is unfortunately afflicted with on nasty noisy blurt in the title track (such is the woe of cheap flexis), but is otherwise so wonderfully catchy that I decided to post it anyway.

I want to also go on record as not condoning actual animal cruelty and would like to assume that Jesus Couldn't Drum didn't either.

I'd kind of forgotten about this until it came up in the record box. Now I have the Jesus Couldn't Drum discography in my wantlist.

That is all.

Analog Drum Machines Keep Perfect Time.

I started this post and I intend to finish it.

What's Your Name (1983)

Bruce Loose from everybody's favorite band ever, Flipper, takes a solo turn.
I've carted this fucker around for nearly 4 decades.
I'm even including scans of the insert.
That's all that need be said.

Pip Pop (1980)

Louder Animal Group. I've been on the lookout for an upgrade copy since I pulled this out of a close out bin for the princely sum of a dollar in the middle of the 80's some time.
I just haven't come across one.

What Was Once Modern is Now Outdated

I tried for a solid five minutes.
I've also cleared some chaff out of the "to Post" file folder. It's kind of liberating.

Modern Kids (1983)

I couldn't seem to find much of anything about this band. Way too many broad and generic words in all of it to come up with much. I got bored. I also misplaced the record itself for about five minutes. (It was on an empty shelf rather than properly filed.)

The back of the Mini Lp lists a Denver, CO address.

The record itself is some AOR style New Wave. Not exactly a "lost classic" but interesting enough for what it is and obscure enough to warrant a post.

So here we go.

So pop your collar, slap on a skinny tie and hit the Mall for an Orange Julius with this in your walkman while you shop for a new Members Only jacket...

It's a seven song sense memory machine...

Compilated Seven Inches That Have Been Sitting in the Bin Too Long

Some shit I need to clear out to get to the fresh shit.

It's a three piece grab bag of wonder.

You enjoy.

Inner Mystique #3 (1984)

1. Peter Laughner & Rocket from the Tombs - Ain't It Fun
2. Lipstick Killers - Levitation (13th Floor Elevators cover)
3. the Rat Race Kid - Mister Insect
4. the Ketamine Millipeeds - Golfballs
5. Katastrophe - Rock n Roll Alcoholic

 I have no idea where or when I got this, but an early appearance for Rocket from the Tombs who were always more legend than fact.

Lissy's Split (1993)

1. the Delgados - Sacré Charlamagne (France Gall cover)
2. New Bad Things - Down
3. New Bad Things - Caravan

 I don't know. I like this one. "Caravan" is a fave with its very 1993 drum beat.

Hook, Line & Sinker (1997)

1. Feast of Stevens - Eyes
2. Throw - Wishes From Her Heart
3. Lils - Looking for You
4. Malchicks - Drive

A nice compilation of New Zealand bands not on Flying Nun.

The Stuff of Legends

Still have a baker's dozen of 12" records that I still need to digitize from the last couple of months (and a bunch more shit currently in the mail to be delivered in the next week). I'm kind of slow to get on that shit. After that is an accounting of Julie London Lps and more singles starting at "Mo".
Such is part of my free time.

But first the very definition of legendary

To Find Out (1967)

First off, let's get this out of the way. This is a repro boot copy I picked up a number of years ago just to be clear. I've never had the kind of money to throw around for one of the maybe dozen copies that are known to exist. But I did have a few bucks to throw thing at this on eBay.

So here we are.

Aquarium Drunkard can fill you in on the legend and why Jack White is alleged to drop a couple of grand on a copy. Another thing a couple of sites mentioned is that the band is also alleged to have to change its name every time they played out so people would not know who it was and show up.

Raw, Primitive and plaintive.
Just like I like it.

Thoughts and Visions (1968)

The Liberty Bell hailed from Corpus Christi, TX and made a decent garage noise with some psychedelic overtones. This is their penultimate single.

Like a lot of local records of the time the money shot is the flip "Look For Tomorrow" which is a lot more lysergicly derived than the promoted song despite the promising title.

Grab a sugar cube and put on repeat and dive into the fuzz..

She Had a Most Immoral Eye

(bonus points to anyone who gets the title reference.)

The Bitter Air (1992)

Lorelei were a trio from the Washington DC area.

Asleep (1993)

Two singles and then two full lengths done almost two decades apart plus the insanely good "Float my Bed" was on the landmark (for me anyway) Slumberland compilation "Why Popstars Can't Dance" (Posted here a long time ago. Do a search. It's worth it.)

Anyway. that's all I got.

6 Songs No Waiting

Yeah, my blood sugar is low

Lifeboat (1985)

Jangled and chorus addled pop from Boston in the middle of the 1980s.
Their sole release on Dolphin Records

I saw them probably a number of times, but didn't really connect with it.

The gentle air of nostalgia for the sound makes it more palatable to my middle aged ears though and thus we are here at this moment.

I had a link for a minute or two to an interview with a founding member but I closed it and don't feel like looking it up again. If you're interested feel free to look up info yourself.

This exists as it is encased in amber anyway.
An artifact from a distant time when I didn't understand quite how poor I was and spent way too much time at the Rat, which is where I'm sure I saw them. They probably played with Dumptruck and another band I went specifically to see. Probably O Positive in 1985.
That sounds like a good and actually quite plausible bill.

Enjoy it as such.