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.

And Now for Something Else

I need a shower.
I'm typing instead.
For now.

Bella Vista (1998)

So recently I've been kind of exploring the world of 90's indie pop. And there's a metric ton of it.

While the rest of the world was getting grungy and dancing and all kinds of other tedious things, there existed a small secret underworld of people making sweet delicate pop music on a legion of tiny bedroom labels. It's some fascinating stuff.

This is but one fine example. It's by Bella Vista.

Prepare your earholes because there's going to be a lot of it...

Recordando (1998)

This is a release on the Spanish pop label Elefant of the elusive recording artist Ana D.

I like it and don't even want to try and describe it.
I don't need to. You listen. You come up with your own set of adjectives and adverbs.
Leave me out of it.

Nearly Done

In which we continue with what was started years ago and continued a few days ago...

285 Clock Cake (1993)

No seriously, this is nearly the end. It's a single sided flexi with one song. A new version of a previously released song (see previous post).

These two objects represent the final bits of straight up Boyracer releases from the original run of the band 1992-97 with the exception of a handful of scattered compilation tracks scattered across the world that I'm still tracking down.

From Purity to Purgatory (1993)

The last one I got. The second Sarah records ep which I somehow got ridiculously cheap from an Amazon seller. I'm not complaining. It was worth it.

Now as far as I currently know, there are still four compilations that I need to get to complete this Boyracer '92-'97 discography (barring another handful of cassette only compilations that I don't even want to get into because I'm an obsessive collector, but I have to draw a line somewhere...)

So be forewarned there's still more to dribble out. 

(and I'm not ruling out redoing all the rips over again since I've changed my process since then and kind of want to bring them up to current snuff....)

No Seriously, There's Still More...

It's the usual business.
I woke up this afternoon pretty recently. I'm drinking a coffee. I'm trying to get ahead of myself by queuing up a few posts for months in advance because I can and have a vague plan of getting myself a year out and then using the time to go through my own archive of shitty home recordings and bringing them into the digital age for my own sake.

Right now, I'm about seven months out.
You're welcome.

Railway (1992)

What may also seem familiar is that I'm making yet another fucking Boyracer post.
Fuckin' hell.

Here's the third release on Fluf.

West Riding House (1995)

Here's the special 5" single from their time on Zero Hour.
"Boyfriends" was exclusive to this one. 

I like Boyracer and I'm a completist.
Deal with it.

My Laptop Keyboard is kind of Screwed Up

I've always had some issues with the keyboard on this Lenovo laptop that I use. I used to think that some of it was just that I was a terrible typist, but now years later it's very apparent that the keys kind of suck. The most recent development is that the 'a' & 's' keys don't work for periods of time when I open it back up. (Used to have issues with the 'n' key too.)

You try and write sentences without using an 'a' or an 's'. It sucks.

It's the 13th....

Detroit Defaces the Eighties (1980)

Tremor Records provides us with a sweet little compilation to usher in the decade of Reagan. It's a rock and roll maelstrom with the usual suspects in the Tremor lineup. Cinecyde (who I'm kind of amazed still exist in some form) and the Twenty Seven who appear on multiple of those Killed by Death/Bloodstains type compilations.

For me the cool thing is the introduction to some of the lesser known bands in the Tremor stable like the Service who add a neat little phaser heavy number or the female fronted band the Cubes.

Yeah, as I listen back to this while I type and drink my afternoon coffee I find myself quite satisfied with this purchase. There's some very nice lesser known and unheard stuff here.

Welcome to my world.