Two Great Tastes

 

So another quickie as it's the middle of the working week and my sole night off and there's only one thing queued up. I want to finish this, play some guitar and some Witcher 3 in my free time tonight.

So here we are.

Rubber Rodeo (1982)

Yeah. Rubber Rodeo.

This is what happens when you take Country and Western and meld it with 80's synthpop.

An actually quite nice version of "Jolene" as written by US National Treasure Dolly Parton. (I may not personally always be a huge fan of her music, but there's no denying that she's an amazing and admirable human being.)

Admittedly too this may not appeal to the purist of either genre, but that's their problem not mine.

Suck it up.

Hell is Other Records.

 

Blah BLah bLAh

 

 

Bleeding Star (1993)

I said it the last time I posted stuff by the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience but these dudes deserve a reconsideration in the kind of passed over second generation of Flying Nun bands.

This is their third and final album release.

Savor it slowly while contemplating your own existential crisis.
Mine involves some leftover Korean in the other room.
Yours may vary.

Your Doubtful Mind

 

I'm running out of steam and desire and want to have a snack instead.
So here's a minimal post to tide you over.

Cold Cold Hearts (1997)

The self titled album by Cold Cold Hearts.

They get listed as part of the Riot Grrrl movement of the middle 90s.
But, I dunno. It's all just rock and roll to me.

Long Time in the Bin

 

Getting ahead of a single queued post because I still have a lot of crap to do in order for this new apartment to resemble a place that people currently live rather than one where people are actively moving out of with piles of boxes everywhere.

 

 Welcome to Maryland (1984)

Braille Party.

I like others have really no idea what to say about it. It's all over the place. And there's kind of something for everyone here in a jumble of styles and sounds. Most will probably come for the loud fast hardcore-ish songs, but I'm not you.

I'm not even sure how I feel about it except that it's sat in the "SSC To Post" bin for a couple of years now since I picked it up on a wonderful trip to the nation's capital seemingly a lifetime ago.

Give it a whirl.

One for the 13th

 I got nothing to say.

I do have a compilation lp for you though.

That's nice.

The Iowa Compilation (1987)

This imaginatively titled record is compilation of bands from the state of Iowa.

01. Drednex - Sally Anne
02. The Hollowmen - Never Ending Ceiling
03. Full Fathom Five - Why Their Faces Are So Worn
04. Dangtrippers - Sidewalking
05. Claude Pate - My Turn
06. House of Large Sizes - One and a Half on a Hill
07. Cursing Birds - Popey Sally
08. Shellgame - The Dam Has Broken
09. David Brooks - Music Boy
10. The Shy Strangers - Heat Ray
11. Moveable Feast - Teddy Through the Grass
12. The Eclectics - When I Was Young
13. Four Million - War and Peace

Unlike the state itself, it doesn't generally smell like pig shit. 

(I'm sure that there's a lot of Iowa that is lovely and smells wonderful, but my experience driving through a vast flatness with the stench of porcine manure pits wafting through the air vents. So take that assessment with a grain or two.)

An early appearance by House of Large Sizes is always welcome in my neck of the woods.

a comment on a different blog's post of this says that this was the first in a series of five compilations put together by the a University of Iowa college radio station from its yearly Battle of the Bands.

You can decide your own winners here.