Nearly Lost in the Shuffle

I'm hungry and I've reached my goal of the twentieth seven inch on the turntable being digitized.

That seems like a convenient stopping point for this tonight.

I have some tikka masala I made earlier that's calling my name.

Plus I'm ever so very close to finishing Borderlands 3.

Priorities as ever.

Roller Skates (1995)

Not to brag or anything but I accomplished some real actual adult things this week. As a personal reward for achieving the bare minimum of functioning adulthood I naturally ordered a few records off Discogs from The Bert Dax Cavalcade of Stars label because I deserve more Bunnygrunt.

With that in mind, the obvious thing is to spread the Bunnygrunt around for everyone starting with this one on their very own Silly Moo label featuring them and other St. Louis & Columbia, MO bands.

Pop Goes the World (1997)

This other one is on the Love Me Not label is just kind of mysterious and is probably better for it. It's got a Bunnygrunt song on it, so that's all I really care about.

It was nearly lost too because for whatever reason it didn't quite make it into the proper SSC folder and I had to hunt it down in the regular collection as a companion piece to this post.

You're welcome.

A Full Length

I haven't posted a full length Lp other than compilations in a long while it feels like.

Today that changes.

Effect of Excess (1984)

An electronic/synthesizer Lp from Kansas City, MO by Short Term Memory.

It's everything you might want out of something like this.

It really is.
Electronic, but still very listenable without being very overtly pop

I'm surprised this isn't more sought after.

Very under the radar.

Be the first on your block to champion this Lp.

Testing One Two

I suppose my laziness is your bonus since something just posted yesterday.

But a consistent pattern is a consistent pattern

And today is a 13th of the month.

This is a test.

Perhaps even...

Test Patterns (1981)

A compilation of various independent and punk-ish, Nu Wave-ish bands in and around the St. Louis, MO area. Not exactly the first location that comes to mind when considering such things, but here we are.

I clipped a jpg of the tracklist for you because I'm too fucking lazy to type that shit out.

This fine archival recording of a scene that, unless you were there, you probably didn't even know existed until you clicked on this page (and I will admit that I was unaware of it until I purchased this record) was reissued in 2010 by the fine folks at Rerun Records.

If you're not a cheapskate you can purchase your very own pristine digital compact disc version of it on their website. It's only $3 brand spanking new direct from the label!

Consider this post a lo-fi preview.

Buy it already!

600 - One for the Road

I was looking over the queue and realized that if I left things as they stood after that last post I'd be sitting on a post count of 599.
That kind of hurt my aesthetic sense.
I needed to even it up to a nice round 600 in order to sleep at night.

So here we are.

#600

Standing Hampton (1994)

Bunnygrunt.

I found them recently and just ordered up copies of three of their albums on the internet.
It's the sweet, silly, amateur pop stuff that dreams are made of.

This is gold.

Heavy Petal (1996)

From Michigan and on Quiddity Records comes Madison Electric with more sweet pop music. I'm a sucker for a Farfisa. This is by far my favorite release on Quiddity and I've got all of them.

Just beautiful.

I Got the Splits

Here we go again.

Bunnygrunt/Tullycraft (1997)

Split singles.
What to do with them? How to file them? Do we even like the idea?

I don't know. There's a lot of them.

Here's a couple of examples.

This one has Bunnygrunt.  Who released enough stuff on enough releases that I keep inadvertently gathering a collection of their recordings when I buy other records.

Like this one which I initially picked up for the raw pop sounds of Tullycraft.

So there's that.

 

the Billy Crosby's/Anomie (1998)

I don't know anything about these bands or this label or this release. But there are acoustic guitars, a female vocalist and a fiddle on the Billy Crosby's track while the Anomie track is instrumental. It also has a fiddle as well as an accordian and slide guitar and sounds like it was recorded in their practice space. 

These are the facts as I know them and present to you.

You're welcome.