Piling Up

     Ok, We're getting a bit off course here, but it's bound to happen.

At one point this year I'd considered making another blog centering around all the indiepop stuff I'd been collecting and listening to. It didn't materialize, but by that time I'd already sequestered a large alternative folder of material for this potential other blog.

A big feature of the 90s/early 00s world of indiepop centered around compilations. There's thousands of them. Which means I have lots and now they're cluttering up things in a volume that the number of 13ths of the month cannot reasonably sustain.

So here's a nice one right fucking now.

Indie Aid Abroad: A Little Help For East Timor (2000)

The background in the reason this benefit compilation exists is to be found on Wikipedia.

the TL/DR was Indonesia annexed East Timor in 1975. In 1998 it was proposed that East Timor gain its independence which pissed off pro-Indonesia folks in East Timor and shit got violent which brought in the UN with Australia taking point.to keep peace. Meanwhile the people of East Timor were having some tough times because of the unrest.

Discogs has a tracklist

Many names will be familiar here.
It's a joint venture of Australian label Library Records and Drive In from Grand Rapids, Michigan. So bands from both stables are represented some of whom have been previously posted and others yet to come.

I really need to get back to doing seven inches again soon....

Ahead of the Game

 

I don't know.
I went a bit overboard with a somewhat expected windfall and spent a shit ton ordering things online in the past month. It's kind of ridiculous really.
I have more music than I think I'll ever really have the time to listen to and the pile just keeps growing and growing.

Then I rip it and eventually trickle out some of it here and there and you face a similar situation except without the scarcity of shelf space and filing issues that I have.

I mean, I have like nine plus days worth of Duke Ellington music. That's just fucking crazy to me. But here we are....

I need a drink.

Girlish (1995)

Discogs tells me that Racecar at one point went by the name Paint for a track on a compilation called "10 Cent Fix". Duly Noted. It's probably for the best that they changed the name. there's also a track by Racecar on the "Pop American Style" compilation that I'm pretty sure I already posted. (But I'm too lazy to check on that right now) 

All relevant links to the band have long since gone dark, so this is about all we have to know. It's enough. The music has to stand on its own some day.

It's middle 90s indie/power pop with female vocals that was the perfect thing to pop onto a compilation cassette as part of ye olde pre-Tinder dating rituals when the youth roamed the pre-internet wastelands looking for love and affection.

Unfortunately for today's on the go youth they won't be able to share any of this album on a Spotify playlist for a potential mate. It's going to be here or nowhere.

Good luck.

If this helps even person get laid it will have been worth it.

A Late Entry

 

 More of the same but different

If I Had a Shovel (2009)

It feels odd to me to be typing out posts for things this deep into the 21st Century. It all seems way too recent except that 2009 was a dozen years ago and I'm even more middle aged than I was then.

But here we are. It 2021.

And we have for your consideration Mytty Archer.

Yet another band featuring favorite son and human jukebox, Stewart Anderson, his lovely wife Jen Turrell and one Annah Whitfield. 

With that cast of characters in mind it should be pretty easy to deduce what you might be getting yourself into here. You won't be wrong, but also pleasantly surprised as well. It's quality stuff.

Visit them at Emotional Response and buy stuff to finance more recordings. It's the right thing to do.

Broken Tooth

 I broke a tooth a short while back. It wasn't bothering me and I had shit going on and was planning on making a dentist appointment anyway since it's been a pandemic since I went and I still have a temporary crown in from before I got COVID so I kind of  left it for a bit.

Then I finally made the dreaded call and appointment. Soonest was three and a half weeks out that fit my needs. (Life's different when you work nights) But I had one.

Naturally almost immediately after that it all hit the fan and it's not very fun trying to eat anything that requires chewing.

I called tonight and made a new appointment. It's five days out.
I'm probably gonna lose some of that post-COVID weight now...

Today It's You (1999)

The band is Marmoset

The sound is kind of angular pop music. 

My best guess is that one or more of them are fans of Mayo Thompson and all who sail with him. At least that's me. I get plenty of hints of Red Krayola here and I'm entirely fine with that.

This album hung out on my phone for quite a long time before I took it off to make room for new things. Always a pleasant surprise when random play threw a track into my sonic pathway.

Probably not going to change anybody's world, but certainly a worthy distraction from the inevitability of death.

I Had a Spare Buck to Spare

 

Still got nothing.

 

 

Central Services (2006)

2006. Getting up there. Time is catching up. Still fifteen years ago, but damn, I'm still a bit weirded out typing up dates on here in the 21st Century.

Anyway. This was about a buck. I got it based on a Youtube to max out postage because if it's any amount of things for a set amount, I'm going to try and bulk the shit out of that if I can to make it worthwhile.

So here we are with Central Services who were apparently at least popular enough or seeming like they might break through enough that NPR did a short blurb about them.

I didn't see it at the time. Not much info to otherwise be had, but it's some nice indiepop to brighten your day. Everybody needs that now and again.

K-Tel Memories

 I got nothing

 

20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions (1991)

A compilation on Pravda Records of various 90s artists doing covers of 70s songs.

Come for Smashing Pumpkins prefame stab at the Ozark Mountain Daredevil's "Jackie Blue" but stay for the majesty of Mojo Nixon taking on "I Just Dropped In (to See What Condition my Condition was In)"

Full list on Discogs.

Another Follow Up

 I'm hungry.

Gonna make two quickies and have a snack.

Counter Clockwise (1997)

A while back I put up a few stray singles by Melbourne, Australia's Autohaze.

Here's their third full length. I suppose as I get around to filling in the rest of the discography I'll follow up this post up later on.

But for now. Be content with the Pop and the Rock in equal measures.

Maybe cough up a buck or two on their bandcamp so somebody can get a cup of coffee.

It's the polite thing to do.

It's November Now

 

So a while back I kind of toyed with the idea of doing another couple of blogs. 

That obviously didn't happen. But in the meantime I'd set up one very large folder specifically for the stuff I intended for one.
Not likely to happen at this point. I lack the will, energy and desire.

So with that in mind I'm going to start plundering that folder for more posting fodder.

And since the backlog continues to grow at an alarming rate try and be a bit more discriminating in which things do get tossed up into this salad like a wayward spider among the red leaf lettuce.

Here's some flexis that I did a while back before I got the restoration software in all their low fidelity hissy glory.

Heaven flexi (1991)

Flexi discs. Something we all hate to love and love to hate.

Shitty sound, but cheap to make and all over the fucking place in the early 90s with so much otherwise unavailable things that you were forced to get them.

So here's a couple released by Sunday Records in the long ago days.

This first one has the Fat Tulips and a band called Confetti.

Sunday flexi (1992)

This one has Po!, Balloon Farm (a different one not to be confused with the 60s "Question of Temperature" one), former Sarah Records stalwarts St. Christopher and Applicants.

It's Sunday Records. It's pop.

Sweet Home and the Fifty States

 Alabama.

You can put a check mark next to it now.

 Primitons (1985)

Not a lot of things I can say about Alabama. I tend not to think about it much unless it comes up in an article of some sort which usually isn't painting the state in the best of lights. 

Or it's about college football.

But there's also the Primitons.

I picked this up for a few bucks primarily because it's on Throbbing Lobster which put out a bunch of Boston records I quite like. 

Worth it.

Jangly earnest 80s pop rock for the discriminating listener.

This is their debut release and the rest are naturally on my list.
Enough said and/or implied.