I have a shit ton of 7"s. This is simply an excuse to get off my lazy 21st Century ass and make them more easily listened to as 1's & 0's. I then share. It's a symbiotic relationship. I may even toss in an occasional lp or something.
If it's your OOP record and you don't want it posted, Just let me know. I'll gladly take it down. I'm easy.
David Mitchell & Denise Roughan who have a plethora of New Zealand band experience between the two of them but whose musical life intersected most notably with the 3Ds.
3Ds were one of my personal favorite Flying Nun bands and I have a Crowther Audio Hotcake overdrive pedal because I read somewhere that David Mitchell used one. (And rightly so, it's a beast and doesn't lose any of the low end of your guitar signal like your average overdrive pedal.)
This lo-fi excursion is as close as Xpressway got to folk music.
Five years later and they followed the previous up with another one and moving to London where they formed a formed a trio they called Ghost Club like this record who put out two really fucking cool discs that kind of hit the sweet spot for me.
Perfect music for the days gather into a cold semi-permanent gloomy dusk for a few months.
Well, burning up some of the Paid Time Off I've earned and haven't used in the last few years and which I've been accruing at a steady pace.
Didn't go anywhere. Been spending my time doing a few things that require me being awake for normal people daylight hours.
It's odd, but having time off is nice and I earned it. I've been able to do some record shopping in brick and mortar stores I wouldn't normally get to.
Found a few things too.
This is a sweet bit of 80s neo-psychedelia from the Voxx label. The "Fan Club" address is for Ontario, California which is 35 miles outside off Los Angeles according to wikipedia I can't find anything immediately on a quick google, so I'll leave the mystery to unravel itself.
So if you've been playing along at home in January of last year I kicked the festivities off with some records by Boston band the Dark. One of the songs on their first record was called "Judy" and it starts with a quote from this record and is about Ms. Judy Grunwald who fronts this band, the Maps.
It's a great, should have been a hit kind of record.
From what I
have gathered after Ms Grunwald left the band to pursue other interests
the remainder of the band evolved into Art Yard who unfortunately didn't
get to release their single on Propeller Records before it imploded.
Gary Panter is better known as an artist and illustrator who is long involved in the Residents/Ralph Records sphere. So it will come as little or no surprise that the Residents ably abet Mr. Panter in this particular seven inches of avant wonderment.
You, dear record enthusiast, may also recognize quite a bit of Panter's commercial album artwork
The other cool as fuck thing about it is that the sleeve is actually a large foldout poster.
(I couldn't find an online picture of the actual poster, but trust me.)
I have plans on getting myself a second copy someday to have one I can frame and hang proudly on my wall. It's of a robot playing a guitar.
I suppose if I hadn't wanted to class this place up with a bit of Duke Ellington I could have alternately named this post:
"Panter, Paul & Lara"
that's probably a much better play on words.
Oh Well.
Choices were made and we must live with them.
As it is, I'm simply biding my time while some bolognese simmers for an appropriate amount of delicious time and random play on the music player thinks this is a good night to sort through the terabytes of material to play multiple tracks by the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Wanda Jackson.
Oh yeah, this single. Hunger has me kind of mentally wandering off into the woods.
It's on Kitteridge records (1999-2006) which was label that I'm looking to pick up everything on because I haven't been disappointed yet. They've been gone so long all the links on the website point to Myspace. Sad. (though I may have to poke around and see if I can score some NOS titles on the cheap direct from them.)
I also actually have two copies of this because I found a cheap copy and had forgotten I already had one. But at least I have both the green and the blue unreadable covers now.
Apparently this sibling duo also released a full length as Layton.
My wantlist grows one full length compact disc longer.
So it was on this date in 2017 that the world lost Tommy Keene.
He's someone that nobody I've ever known had a single bad thing to say about.
The world is a lesser place for his passing.
On this 12" you get a side of what made him a Power Pop icon backed with a couple of live covers. First a reasonable stab at Roxy Music and then a Rolling Stones cover from their last listenable record.
Enjoy and pour a glass of something nice for Tommy.
Though if you, as a responsible dabbler in internet musical auditioning, are interested the band offers a "deluxe" version of this particular record on their Bandcamp page.
Be a pal and toddle off and get the extra tracks and make them a buck or two.
