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Old 03.25.2006, 01:00 PM   #1
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was thinking of some great relatively unknown recordings and wanted to share info on yr lost gems. a few of mine r:

Erectus Monotone, Close Up ep, chapell hill merge band, kinda polvo, but cleaner, crisper and dare i say more musical. very hard to find cuz it's out of print. but yeah, worth investigation.

Pony- Cosmovalidator, pixie-ish, 3 piece, raw, catchy, and melodic.

Ultra Vivid Scene- 67-90 joy, awesome pop gems, melodic, velvets, upbeat 4ad, great record.
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Old 03.25.2006, 01:07 PM   #2
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When I learn how to transfer vinyl to PC, the first thing I'll do is upload the 'For King Willy' EP by The Baby Men. From 1986, it contains four tracks and is the only thing they ever released:

Side one has two spoken-word tracks:

'The Legend of the Baby Men' is a baroque rumble, all meshing of harpsichord, trumpet, and whiplash guitar. It tells the tale of the revolutionary group The Baby Men, and how they plan to overthrow the foul dictatorship that blights the land.

The title track, 'For King Willy', is a rousing gothic chant, medieval in spirit, with reverberating guitar and thudding drums.

Side two has two instrumental tracks strewn with snatches of dialogue:

'March of the Baby Men' is simply phenomenal - pounding harpsichord an bass guitar over a tale of revenge and exile.

'Think of Honour and of Wealth' is a sombre stripped-down piece that conjures up images of moorland battlefields after the fray, with howling wind and ghostly voices.
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Old 03.25.2006, 01:34 PM   #3
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interesting.

oh yeah, Live Skull-Dusted is the tits too..maybe it is known round these parts, but still...
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Old 03.25.2006, 02:35 PM   #4
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interesting.

oh yeah, Live Skull-Dusted is the tits too..maybe it is known round these parts, but still...

It is. 'MArch of the Baby Men opens with these judge-y spoken words (or something very similar): You are free to go. But if you are found on English soil at sunrise then I will hang you up to feed the ravens at the pinnacle of your own castle.


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Old 03.25.2006, 09:31 PM   #5
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queen meanie puss, they're from NZ and put out 2 singles and one track on a compilation in the early 90s.

the song "old man on the bridge" by king kong, that's an all time weirdo classic if ever there was one.
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Old 03.25.2006, 10:14 PM   #6
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Does anyone know if the no-wave group Red Transistor released anything elsa than that not bite/we're not crazy 7"? I don't have it due to obvious reasons, but the two songs on it are gems. I believe they were supposed to release a full lenght LP but it never came out.
and as a completely irrelevant sidenote (toilet&bowels might care)... the bass player of Can Can Heads told me CCH did a cover of Not Bite last year on some gig. Too bad there's no bootleg of that.

I don't really own rare gems... my "collection" is way too small for that.
There's some obscurities though. Like a 7" by a band called The Hattifatteners, which is basically a God is my Co-pilot sideproject inspired by the moomins.

Also some AmRep LP's and 7"s that are gems to me but not generally regarded as that I bet.
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Old 03.26.2006, 09:10 AM   #7
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The Hattifatteners, which is basically a God is my Co-pilot sideproject inspired by the moomins.

i'm a bit of a moomins fan, so i'd be pretty curious to hear that
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Birdmen Of Alkatraz- Glidin' Off EP

3 song 12" of 80s Italian psych trio; one of the best records I own, and one of the finest slabs of psychededelia (of any era) my ears have ever taken in!
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Old 03.26.2006, 09:47 AM   #9
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i'm a bit of a moomins fan, so i'd be pretty curious to hear that

It wasn't as special as the name would suggest, although they did define a new genre called moomincore. As far as I remember, it's music-wise pretty typical GIMP.

Hattifatteners, as in the ones in Moomins, still freak me out.
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Old 03.26.2006, 11:52 AM   #10
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something i've always thought was oft-overlooked was the s/t weird war LP featuring neil michael haggerty from royal trux... anyone else heard this/ love it as much as I do?
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dunno if this is lost gem material but stuff by swirlies, that dog and prolapse are currently giving good memories...
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i haven't heard that weird war LP but, i've heard the others which are pretty great. I'm actually seeing weird war in two days. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

I dont know about everywhere else but I think Rocket from the Tombs- The Day the Earth Met..... is one of the best albums i own yet not many other people are crazy about it
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Erectus Monotone: Didn't they contribute that killah version of "Destination Unknown" to the Freedom of Choice comp. that Thurston and whonot put together about a thousand years ago??? I still listen to that album all the time and I love it. EM's song gets plenty of airplay around the ole homestead, along with SY, the Muffs, Polvo, Yo La Tengo, etc. off of the same album.

As far as old gems...what about "Your Everywhere that I'm Not" from Translator. That's an old fave.
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buckle, hey thanks for that info about Erectus Monotone doing "Destination Unknown" (love the Missing Persons). I ordered off amazon. Polvo does Mexican Radio..!!?? Kewl. Plus, while searching this info out i discovered a lost Erectus Monotone record i ordered as well. I thought they only had one.
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I've been listening to a lot of thinking fellers union 252 which i think i was told about on the old board, thats good music
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the hattifatteners creeped me out when i was a kid. not as much as the groke, though.

i have a theory that reading weird books like these when i was a kid shaped me into the high-powered mutant i am today.
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something i've always thought was oft-overlooked was the s/t weird war LP featuring neil michael haggerty from royal trux... anyone else heard this/ love it as much as I do?

Shit I'd so forgotten about that... I'm gonna dig it out now!.
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