I Did This Wrong

 

I intended to post in the other blog, but somehow got here instead.

No biggie. I'm distracted. I need to grocery shop and I'm hungry.

I may order a pizza.

(Food again. it's always food.)

On the positive side, it's been above freezing the past few days four months ago.

I started thinking about stuff and I wonder if I followed through on any of it....

Among the Wandering (1987)

So without any further ado, here's 15 60 75 again with their third long player, "Among the Wandering". 

The band has been around for half a fucking century at this point is very high on my list of reasons I might actually go to Cleveland besides crossing Progressive Field off the baseball stadium list. I get stuck occasionally in Youtube holes watching clip after clip.

I really haven't spent as much time with  this particular Lp though.

It unfortunately suffers, at least to my ears anyway, of a bad case of 1987.. The sounds and recording/production techniques kind of date it a lot. The songs themselves are up to snuff and as evidenced by some live versions on Youtube quite good stuff with the 80s scraped off of them.

Your mileage will vary and I hesitate to say it's a "bad" record. 

It's not, but choices that seemed good at the time to update a sound don't precisely work as intended a couple of decades later. The updated version sounds more dated than previous recordings. It's a paradox. Go into it with open ears and a bit of caution and you'll be fine.

There are still other things to find and discover by them. If I had a record label there'd be a nice box set. But I don't. 

And I'm hungry.

The end.

Noise Noise Noise

 I'm killing some time while rice cooks.

I  may take a shower as well.

I have nothing otherwise.

Radiation (1995)

Michael Morley & Bruce Russell from the Dead C doing their thing.

Your mom wouldn't like it very much unless she's also some kind of pretentious record collector type who listens to noise because it's so much more visceral than than all that bland popular crap you people listen to.

Your mom is a bitch.

Stadium of Light (1998)

More NZ noise stuff

Discogs sez : "Extremely limited unauthorized remix [out of sync, panned stereo] of track 1 from K-Group - K-Group. One side only"

K-Group is the avant garde handle of one Paul Toohey.
The RSW Lundon in question is the owner of the Imperial label.

It's good background sounds for washing dishes.
Use this opportunity to clear out your sink.

One For the Road

 

It's after midnight.
I got tacos to eat and a nice warm whisky glow from the glass I poured like three queued posts ago.

Let's keep this brief again

2000 - Tokidoki

Mostly acoustic duo consisting of Peter Schaefer & Nora O'Conner recording painfully sweet little pop ditties that you could play for your grandmother if she wasn't more into Motorhead or something. (Well, you could probably still play it for her, but she'd just give you the finger behind your back for being such a wuss)

This was released unto the world by Sunday Records.

Google also tells me that Tokidoki is Japanese for "sometimes", so there, we both learned something today.

Loosening Up, Keeping Mum

 

I was posting on Swinging Singles Club MN when I thought that I should probably toss a couple of things in this pile for the heck of it. I really haven't had much to do with posting here for a while since I set the queue up months and months in advance. But maybe it's the whisky talking because here I am typing away.

Sort of.

1995 - 1st String Teenage High

It's the first single by Tullycraft

It's Twee as fuck.

Deal with it.

 

1995 - Bailey Park

Another early single by Tullycraft from the first year of their existence.

Still Twee as fuck.
 

Almost Forgot Compilation Day

  Yeah, I can barely be bothered with shit tonight.

1996 - Glove Puppet 7" comp.

the Discogs page has the info you seek on the contents.

However it must be noted that the Tullycraft song here is in fact a cover of a song "She's Got the Beat" originally recorded by the Judy's in 1981. (Their two albums are deep into future here...)

 

 

1996 - Drive-In Season

 

 A 7" compilation from the Drive-In & Seasons labels which features a side each from two US bands and two Australian outfits. (Discogs link)

Of note is that the Shapiros is yet another outfit featuring Pam Berry who was never part of anything that sucked and Madison Electric who's  song"V-Neck" is a particular favorite.

Enjoy and rock mildly at a volume that won't disturb others.

 

 

The Pitts.

 

I have nothing.

 

 

Train Song (1991)

 

Wimp Factor 14 : A Pittsburgh based indie band

this single is hand painted with an actual run over penny glued to it.

 

Botch (1992)

There is no mutilated monetary incentive to purchasing this other single.

Frank Boscoe from this band would reappear as the main dude for Vehicle Flips a couple of years after Wimp Factor 14 calls it a day.

 

1992 and in the meantime, a nice pair.

 

I'm drinking a whiskey and full of anxiety while listening to Robin Lane and the Chartbusters (got the 3 disc set of their catalog today in the mail).
It's November 3, 2020 as I type.

Think back to that day and you can understand.

I know 2020 was a terrible shitshow of a year all the way around, but while my wife watches election returns in the other room I can't help but wonder if by the time this posts itself if we are all collectively looking back at 2020 with a warm nostalgia at what an idyllic time it was compared to where we are now.

Meanwhile,

 

 

 

Vinegar Blossom (1992)

 

 

This band appears to be from Fleet in the County of Hampshire in the UK.
This single was released on Turntable Friend.
That means it's quality.

According to Discogs this appears to be their sole release on vinyl, though as was usual at the time they have multiple songs on various cassette compilations.
Maybe someday some nice person while compile all that stuff for us, 

in the meantime this is some lovely indiepop

 

 

the Waking Hours (1992)

 

 

On the other side of the Atlantic in Richmond, VA, the Waking Hours were plying their trade with this fine indiepop single on the Brilliant label. This marking their first foray onto vinyl. There seems to be at least a couple or more compact discs that follow.
I'm constantly surprised at the volume of stuff that Richmond and surroundings was producing at this time. Perhaps someone ought to start some scholarly research to bring more indiepop goodness like this to light.

But that could just be the whiskey talking.

Busting Out All Over

 

It's June.

 

 

 

 

Stop-Me-Search-Me (1996)

 

the Velmas.

from Chicago Il

 

This is another one that if I were ever to get the chance to curate a compilation of indiepop singles from the 90s would feature on the first volume.

That's if I could ever decide which side to use because both sides are fucking awesome.

There's a full length somewhere that I still need to locate.

 

 

Diary & Herself (1999)

 

Starlet

From Sweden

 

Yeah, I might throw "Diary and Herself" from this single on Parasol on that same compilation since it makes the cut at 1999.