10 great fuckin' songs you've probably never heard:

[RandomKoolzip]

1. "Cough Up Your Spine" - 76% Uncertain
2. "Someday Morning" - The Wildweeds
3. "Magic Potion" - The Open Mind
4. "Last Call Fe Blackman" - Sang Hugh
5. "Watchman" - Excuse 17
6. "Jump Through The Golden Ring" - Poobah
7. "Rainbow Station" - Jiffipop
8. "Boys Town Work Song" - Christmas
9. "Day Job" - The Mommyheads
10. "Get Real Loose" -ISM

[Rick Myers]

1. I gotta say, I've never heard any of them

but I'll check 'em out!!! Thanks! :toast:

[RandomKoolzip]

3. They ARE great songs. I promise.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. dupe

[RandomKoolzip]

5. dupe...WHAT the fuck

[RandomKoolzip]

6. How the fuck did THAT happen?

[donheld]

2. Your right i've never heard of them

:shrug:

[mark414]

7. 10 more

though MAYBE one or two on here will be know em

01. yaggfu front - slappin suckas silly
02. busdriver - get on the bus
03. foreign exchange - raw life
04. juggaknots - loosifah
05. mad skillz - all in it
06. maestro fresh wes - let your backbone slide
07. double x posse - not gonna be able to do it
08. ty - walk with your ego
09. camp lo - luchini
10. lootpack - crate digga

[MrScorpio]

8. This sound like more my speed

Downtempo?

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Hmmm. now I gotta do some research!

Fuck, mark...like I don't have ENOUGH to do today, dude!

Just kiddin'..thanks for the heads up.

[jpgray]

10. Magic Potion doesn't really knock me out

It has a cool bass drum thing, though.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. You've heard it?

I LOVE that song.

And yes, the double bass drum work is ahead of its time.

[jpgray]

14. Yeah--Brit psychedelia, right?

Don't worry--I haven't heard any of the others, as far as I know. :D

[RandomKoolzip]

17. Yup.

Pre-Sabbath "Heavy" psychedelic metal that presages how most of the HM bands in the early 70's would sound. It's the only track of theirs that's any good, though. Sometimes bands/artists hit the jackpot just once.

[jpgray]

20. I'm still ODing on Talk Talk right now

They're not that great, but they're interesting and I'd never heard of them beyond being a poor man's Duran Duran.

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Mark Hollis I always thought of as being Bryan Ferry's nephew.

I've heard great things about "Sptirt of Eden." Is it good? On their latest, Karate does a Talk Talk cover from this era. It's....well, it's not very catchy, but it's okay.

What do recommend by them?


BTW, did you ever get into The Blue Nile? I always assumed "good" Talk Talk would kinda sound like "Hats" by the Blue Nile, which I dug.

[jpgray]

31. Spirit of Eden is my favorite album of theirs so far

It's not like Hats in that there's almost no electronic presence beyond feedback, but it is made up of 5+ minute pretty, impressionistic songs. There aren't all that many ideas in the album, and the way they're stretched out almost makes the songs tedious, but it was so far from what I was expecting I enjoyed it a great deal. Of the other two albums I've heard, '91's Laughing Stock is basically beating Spirit of Eden's dead horse but is just as good and The Colour of Spring has the unimaginative wussy drums and disposable hooks of most '86 albums, with just a little more depth.

[Mugweed]

12. Maybe I listen to too much Residents?

Fred Frith?
John Hassell?
Harold Budd?

Anyone out there listen to music that was made to be music and not made to fullfill a record contract?

[RandomKoolzip]

15. I used to love the Residents.

I think they overstayed their welcome somewhere around "God in Three Persons," though.

And Fred Frith...shit, I could sit here all day and list the records I own witrh Frith playing on them. My favorite, though, is Skeleton Crew's "Country of Blinds." GREAT album.

[Mugweed]

29. OK you're correct there

I think the Residents went too far and became irrelevant. My brother just sent me an E-bay link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7510466404
where they're selling an Eyeball. These guys have sunk to the worst commercialism ever...for a so-called underground band.

Of course, those kids were never the same after Sankefinger died. I saw the 13th Aniiversary show at City Gardens in Trenton NJ (1985?) and tought that Sankefinger carried it. But that's just my opinion.

Frith is my guitar hero.

[RandomKoolzip]

37. Mine too. He's the best table-top guitarist since Keith Rowe.

I think the Residents' problem was that they thought their "image" would sustain them through periods of aesthetic drought. So now that there's no interesting music to be experienced from them, they can rely on their eyeball thing. Plus, their ideas were radical in 1973, but in 2005, their newest work sounds anemic, like the pick up lines of older men trying to hard to score young chicks.

Yeah, I think Snakefinger was the secret soul of that band; "Kill The Great Raven" is the best non-Residents Residents song ever.

[Mugweed]

46. What we need today

is a good dose of "Jesus Was a Leprechaun". Always one of my favorites.

[redqueen]

13. Thank ya...

I will try to make a point to give those a listen.

Oh, and where the fuck is Chavez?

Oh oh... and have you ever heard any Mogwai? I'm so in love...

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Mogwai? Eh.

I could take or leave 'em. Their vocalist is shit, and they sound like they've listened to too much Sonic Youth. And their songs are too slow. Just my opinion...ask dolo amber how crotchety I am about this stuff!

Chavez? I think he's looking for a job. Haven't had any contact with Bubble-ButtBoy in a week or more.

[redqueen]

27. hahaha... to each their own!

I can't get enough...

[HEyHEY]

18. What? Is today opposite day?

[RandomKoolzip]

19. I don't get it.

Elucidate, bub.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

23. Yea...

for Day job. I love that tune. What, no 8th Grade songs? You bastard...

[RandomKoolzip]

25. Okay, number 11:

"Gunbreak," Father on Fire

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

30. Good call.

I woke up this morning
to the sound of a gun break
Turned over twice and then
opened my eyes awake

--KoolZip lyrics at their best.

[RandomKoolzip]

32. Don't make me bust out "Puddleman."

Your newly acquired DU fan club just might shun you like an obese panhandler.

[HEyHEY]

26. These songs all suck, and I've heard them

;-)

[RandomKoolzip]

28. Ah.

The opinions of Canadians don't overtly trouble me... so flake off, touch-hole.

No, wait, come back! :hug:

[eyepaddle]

22. Since I in fact have not heard of these

I must ask--do you mean the are fucking great songs--or perhaps, let's say have that "belly-to-belly" groove.

'Cause I know some other fuckin' great songs, however few of them have "that" kind of groove! ;)

[RandomKoolzip]

24. No, I use the word "fuckin'" the way your drunken uncle

might refer to a football player he finds worthy of respect, i.e., "That fucker's fuckin' great! (burp)"

[eyepaddle]

36. LOL,

Just thought I'd check.

I've got a strong hunch few will share my opinions, so I'll truncate the list to 5.

1. Stained Class--Judas Priest
2. A Piece of Liquid--Joe Satriani
3. Apiary--Yum Yum (well, a few folks might like this one--I just like the cool ride ouot)
4. Condition Four--Icestock 2001 project
5. And finally....(yes I know damn well there might be like three other people on this board that'd like this tune) Book of Blood--Armored Saint. Outstanding guitar work--I'm a little suspicious of the lyrics though (they might be pro-establishment politically, from the late 80s no less.)

[Kat45]

33. I have an ISM CD with "Get Real Loose" on it.

I've never listened to it--it never occurred to me to do so. The CD is part of my small "collection" of album covers that were or could be pulled (banned).

Is that the band "Christmas" that was Boston-based?

Perhaps I've never 'heard' any of these, but I guess 'heard of' might account for something. (Particularly since I actually 'own' one of the songs.) :-)

[RandomKoolzip]

38. NICE!

Yeah....bust out that ISM Cd and put "Get Real Loose" on. It's like a hair metal band covering some ancient garage rock standard,...but good!

Yes, Christmas was from Boston. They moved to Vegas and broke up in the mid-90's only to form Combustible Edison. Their best known song was "Stupid Kids," whose lyrics were sheer genius: "What a party/You call this a party?/ There's just these stupid kids..."

[Tikki]

34. 10 here...

The Cure......"Another Journey By Train"
Generation X......."Wild Dub"
Silver Apples....."Program"
The Gears....."Rocking at Ground Zero"
The Naughty Sweeties......"Alice"
The Unclaimed...."Things In The Past/No Apology"
Wayne County & the Backstreet Boys....."Max's Kansas City"
Fibonaccis......."Purple Haze"
The Pop....."Down On The Boulevard"
The Mutants......."Insect Lounge"


THE UNCLAIMED

Tikki

[RandomKoolzip]

39. I LOVE that song by the Pop!

"Down on the Boulevard" is a sweet tune.

[Beware the Beast Man]

35. Shit dude, I'm a fellow music snob,

and even I haven't heard any of them.

[RandomKoolzip]

40. You've never heard of 76% Uncertain?! Dude, where you been?!

[Beware the Beast Man]

41. Broke, in cleveland, with a defective sound card.

:argh:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

42. I don't think 76% Uncertain

played any shows outside of CT, did they? Maybe NY or MA, but they were a pretty local band, no? They did a good show though.

I need to get that album on CD.

[RandomKoolzip]

43. They toured the country, according to the liner notes to "Where's

the Lid?" Even though all the live tracks on that tape come from New England and NYC.

Apparently they have quite the German following, too, seeing as how almost every google hit on them is Germany-sourced.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

44. International Touring Sensation...

76% Uncertain!!!!!

Probably a pretty low profile tour.

[RandomKoolzip]

45. I think SlapShot was a bit more successful...let's put it that way.

Or even Unyn. Or Gunk.