DU group proposal: Solar Radio group!

[Magrittes Pipe]

I know there are more than a few fans of the late, great '80s Australian new-wave band Solar Radio here.

Check in! We need a group!

[jpgray]

1. I am down on this faster than an anthropomorphic Nazi dog.

Solar Radio is king.

[Blue-Jay]

3. I never figured you for a "furry".

OK. Yes I did.

[jpgray]

6. Your sig pic really seems meaningful in this context. (nt)

[Blue-Jay]

15. Hey, I never said I *wasn't*.

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. Are you in?

:shrug:

[jpgray]

21. Jay has his mind on forming another group right now

:D

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. If we can extend it to works by the Federals and Byzantines,

then I'm in! :thumbsup:

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Yeah! I am so in this group, dude!

I won't just make one post and fuck off. Oh no!

(can we also include The Byzantines and The Federals, given the connections between the three?)

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Of course we can discuss the Byzantines and the Federals.

It'll be about the whole SR universe. We'll work it out in the mission statement.

[Wat_Tyler]

8. Fuck yeah! And the 'Letters From Jail' guy.

[dolo amber]

4. I thought they were from New Zealand?

:shrug:

Regardless, I'm in. I heard they might be doing a reunion tour...has anyone else heard anything?

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Well, seeing that the singer's been missing for a decade and a half....

:eyes:

[dolo amber]

10. They can get that guy who toured with Journey

post Steve Perry. :7

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Fat? Check. Balding? Check. Five-foot-four? Check. Can't carry a tune?

Damn, D, he'd be a perfect fit!

[Wat_Tyler]

11. She's right you know. They were (mostly) Kiwis.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Like there's a fuckin' difference.

:eyes:

[arwalden]

12. That sounds interesting to me! I'm in!!!

[eyesroll]

16. Oh, fer fuck's sake.

Now I have a Solarworm competing with my Churchworms.

So...
It's an Aussie-Kiwi Earworm Battle Royale.

"Poison Green" vs. "Two Places at Once," in case you were wondering.


:argh:

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. But are you in?

[eyesroll]

19. Sure, what the hell.

I'm here waiting, seems like eternity
I'm here waiting, waiting for
Poison green is all you find
crumpled, spent and left behind...
And sometimes my guitar plays itself.

:grr:

[terrya]

17. I'm in!

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. 7 so far....

Qui est <<in>> qui est <<out>>

[J-Lo Biafra]

23. OMG! I thought I was the only person who ever heard of them!

My ex-BF was a HUUUGE fan!1! Count me in, too!! :hi:

[tigereye]

32. hey kids It's Java Queen

where have you been, oh caffeinated one?


I myself admit my ignorance of this band/scene/maelstrom.

[jpgray]

24. Wait--to be fair, shouldn't this be a more specific group?

I mean are we talking early or late period Solar Radio?

[Blue-Jay]

27. Another thought.

Can we talk about Solar Radio tribute bands in our new group or shal? we start a different group for that?

My vote is early era, before the additional keyboard recording work of Ian "Pinky" Johanssen.

[Fenris]

25. I have a strange urge to join this group.

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. That's ten!

:D

[Donkeyboy75]

28. I'm in,

if we don't discuss the knock-off Federals. Fuck them. :grr:

[Magrittes Pipe]

29. You can hide Federals threads.

[Kellanved]

30. Count me in

:thumbsup:

[StopTheMorans]

31. one more here; can't believe noone has proposed this before!

:thumbsup:

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. Kick for everyone who remembers Tim Ahern.

:kick:

[redqueen]

34. I still need to check them out.

Were you the one that mentioned Camera Obscura?

[asthmaticeog]

35. Oh, I am SO in.

Do *any* labels plan to reissue their stuff? It's criminal how in these days of all kinds of wacky reissues (the entire Free Design catalog just got rereleased ferfucksakes) Solar is still completely unavailable. I mean, I'd pay some pretty long green for a VG+ vinyl copy of "Camera Obscura," but it goes for like $150, and that green's too damn long.

[Wat_Tyler]

36. My cousin Neil saw them support REM at Wellington Town Hall in 1989.

They did it as a favour to Peter Buck, who was a big fan. Of course, they could've filled out the Town Hall themselves. That was about three months before, well, y'know.