This is Not a Prank

 I have some heartburn and a cat in my lap.

It's also April Fools Day.

This is not a prank.

It's the follow up to the previous post.

I'm not joking.

1993 - Augustus Loop

Everything I had to say I said in the previous post except that I think I gave a copy of this to a long ago ex for some reason. Probably because I thought she would like it. 

I like it more than her nowadays. 

But that's a whole other story.

(Besides I'm still in the throes of my particularly intense and enjoyable Robert Pollard obsession and don't need to dredge up bad memories.)

Besides the Trouser Press article linked in the previous post seems to enjoy this.

Maybe you will too.

Don't Mind Me

 So yeah, I've been a lazy slug this past week and only now realized I'd let the queue run dry.

But then again, I was just stuffing some cabbage rolls, so it wasn't a total wash.

Besides, I saw Guided by Voices again last Saturday and they were fucking incredible.

Three hours. Close to sixty songs. A fucking master class.

Hit almost all my personal highlights.

So I've been listening to nothing but GvB and other Bob Pollard related things for days now.

And ordered or hunted down thirty different discs going back to 2001 without making a dent in Bob's output. It's scary. 

And made worse by my compulsive need to complete discographies.

I think that's why I gave up way back when...

Anyway.

Here's the Barnabys...

Delightful Browns (1992)

The Barnabys were from Philadelphia. They released a number of things on the SpinArt label, so you know it's something more indiepop based.

One former members bio page calls them "Commercial Folk Rock" (I didn't link it since that's about the only related thing I saw on the page and was too lazy to dig any deeper)

Is it apt?

I dunno. We can go with it if that's how they saw themselves.

Shinola (1992)

Shinola was the brand name for a popular boot polish founded in the 19th Century.

It is also the name of this seven inch.

If you're discerning you'll be able to tell the difference.

Names

 

Yeah. Here we go again.

 

 Here Comes Everybody (1993)

The band is called Me. 

Not exactly the best name for a group in the internet era.
But then they started with Me Fertile which while unique is not exactly an improvement.

But it's some lovely pop otherwise. Released on the SpinArt label.

 

 

Harmonise or Haunt (1993)

The single was followed up by a full length of more of the same.
I had this on the phone for quite a long time if that helps.
I like a good pop song with some dreamy harmonizing.

I Don't Know Anymore

 So...Week off as usual. Did a fuck load of nothing in particular, but I did get out of the house to see some music this past weekend, so I have that going for me.

Played through a bunch of the "Uncharted" series on the Playstation which had been part of my original package, but which I had completely ignored for the last five or more years to play other shit. But the PS+ games this month sucked again, so I decided to just run through them. (Haven't finished it, but Uncharted 3 has been kind of the weakest of the lot so far.)

But then as I play I have flashes about how completely psychotic this stuff really is. I mean, Nathan Drake shows up someplace and just casually slaughters twenty guys at a pop with absolutely no remorse or regrets. Granted it's all self defense for the most part, but still...

It's mindless stuff though that is intended to play out like an action movie and all of that's part of the trope, but sometimes I wander around the area after an extended battle picking up extra ammo and just wonder at all the corpses littered around in the aftermath....

All of which has nothing to do with this, but it was something on my mind

No Less the Trees than the Stars (1996)

Purple Ivy Shadows.

Providence, Rhode Island via Charlottesville, VA & NYC.

The stuff I most like by them is the more shoegazey stuff, but there's more gears at work on this their inaugural full length. I can honestly as I haven't sat down and played this on all the way through by itself. Currently I have other things blasting away in the room so I'm relying on hazy impressions. I think I liked a lot of what I heard and was less impressed by other bits.

I have a couple of singles that precede this though and I do believe that I will have more to say about them when I get around to them.

Some day.

Hmmm

 Blah Blah Blah

Suitcase and Umbrella (2000)

About the onlyconcrete information I could really find about Jumprope is that they were from Boston.

Indiepop with jazzy chords.

I don't know why, but there's something about this that always make me think of the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. (Maybe it's her voice.) But then again, I have a three disc set of all the music for the Katamari games.

 So there's that.

My Lobster Throbs

 Compilation day.

I might have to add a second one or just start throwing them in the queue more randomly.

 There's just way too many to keep up.

1985 - Claws!

Part three of the Throbbing Lobster series of Boston bands.
This is some prime middle 80s Boston rock.

I mean, anything with a Turbines track is A-Ok by me.

Plus it has my personal favorite Classic Ruins song.

 "Geraldine, I Need Money More Than I Need You" is a fucking classic.

You can quote me on that.

Full tracklist for the curious as always via Discogs.

Clearing Out the Bin

 Another one from the bin that's been sitting for a while from when I thought about making a third blog. It didn't happen.

So tonight I took all of the stuff I'd set aside for the Blog That Didn't Happen and stuffed it back into this one. So there's a big backlog of good indiepop things that need to catch up to everything else now that they've been languishing for like three years.

Let's start that process here...

Lines and Colors (1999)

Kissing Book

I'm pretty sure I posted something by these folks a while back.
They have some tracks on a seven inch with a fuck ton of inserts of little bits of paper and a wooden ice cream spoon.

You can do a search. I don't feel up to it.

Anyway. Some top quality Indiepop to brighten your day and worm its way into your heart.

The In Between

 I have a bread dough defrosting by the stove. I should check on that.

Tough Guy Problems (1993)

The Dambuilders.

Originally formed in Honolulu before eventually moving to Boston.

This is a six song ep, I guess. It kind of straddles that long Ep/short Lp state for my thinking.
And I got nothing else so it stands alone.

Indie rock with violin.

I'm Ok with that.

Jumping the Gun a Bit.

 Here we go.

Let's get the queue topped off for another couple of weeks....

Sweet Soul Sister (1992)

The Sweetest Ache

Their first few releases were on Sarah Records. These ones are on Sunday Records.

So with that, you ought to know what you're getting yourself into.

I also have two of the Sarah ones. Fuck knows when I'll get around to getting those in the digital shitheap. So until then, make do with these pop nuggets.

 

 

Dreaming (1992)

This is from some kind of fuck up pressing. It's a single sided two song thing. The other song being "A New Beginning" that's on the above and this song.