Albums You're Digging II
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Secret N Keyblade Master
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The Chatham Singers - Juju Claudius
Yet another of one of Billy Childish's millions of projects.
This one is has a more bluesy/county feel to it with a lot of the songs being him duetting with Nurse Julie sounding something a bit like a punk rock version of Johnny & June Carter Cash*
*With thanks to Flower Child's last journal entry for inspiring a good analogy for me to save me the effort of having to think one up
Isotope 217 - The Unstable Molecule
Isotope 217 are a more laid back & funky Tortoise side project. If you want an album full of music that sounRAB like it comes from a 70s cop show this is the album for you.
Phew - Phew
Phew is the alias of Hiromi Moritani a Japanese avant-garde artist who recorRAB far too infrequently. She just released her first album in something like 15 years, this isn't it but I've been listening to this to re-acquaint myself to her work. This is her debut from 1981 and features Conny Plank & various merabers of Can helping out.
Baader Meinhof - Baader Meinhof
Another side project by The Auteurs/ Black Box Recorder's Luke Haines. I bought this back when it came out in 1996 but I don't think I ever really gave it the recognition it really deserves. I mean, how many albums to you own are about 1970s counter terrorism set to a funk background.
No, thought not.
rrwilliams64
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Too true! Very much enjoying my fix of Helmet's Betty right now.... 
iluvcrazeekats2
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Heh, I used to listen to that all the time as a kid.
I've been rediscovering this delightful piece of punk. Tracks like Bring on the Nubiles and School Mam are amusingly lascivious.
This is simply some enjoyable bluesy psychedelia and I don't know why these guys weren't better known.
I've also been rediscovering Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Monitor is so infectious with its dark chugging sound. It's easy to see why these guys (and girl) were so influential.
I've been rediscovering this delightful piece of punk. Tracks like Bring on the Nubiles and School Mam are amusingly lascivious.
This is simply some enjoyable bluesy psychedelia and I don't know why these guys weren't better known.
I've also been rediscovering Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Monitor is so infectious with its dark chugging sound. It's easy to see why these guys (and girl) were so influential.
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M83 - Saturday = Youth
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
elephantaura
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Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Come on guys it's not that nutty, it's fun!
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Come on guys it's not that nutty, it's fun!
:i've just been going through piles of CD's and unearthing some great stuff I'd forgotten about
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (2001)
I don't have any of their subsequent albums, and this might be considered 'chilled-out' if it wasn't by turns unnerving and beautiful. You know when you come back to a record you used to listen to all the time after years and it all comes flooding back? I was listening to this and drawing maps of made-up countries (?) when I was supposed to be revising for GCSE's. Something about it just screams 'jackhammer' and 'trip-hop'. I don't know why..
the Buff Medways - Steady the BuRAB (2002)
Billy Childish's last garage-rock n' roll outfit, this was released by Transcopic RecorRAB which was Graham Coxon's label. I saw them supporting the Hives. Billy has been banging out these albums since the late 70's but the plaudits on release probably owe to the NME's 'new rock revival' of that time. They still had some clout then!
Still the garage-rock 'movement' exposed better banRAB (White Stripes, Strokes, etc) and was infinitely preferable to whatever it is the music press as pushing on us now... synth-pop revival is it?
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (2001)
I don't have any of their subsequent albums, and this might be considered 'chilled-out' if it wasn't by turns unnerving and beautiful. You know when you come back to a record you used to listen to all the time after years and it all comes flooding back? I was listening to this and drawing maps of made-up countries (?) when I was supposed to be revising for GCSE's. Something about it just screams 'jackhammer' and 'trip-hop'. I don't know why..
the Buff Medways - Steady the BuRAB (2002)
Billy Childish's last garage-rock n' roll outfit, this was released by Transcopic RecorRAB which was Graham Coxon's label. I saw them supporting the Hives. Billy has been banging out these albums since the late 70's but the plaudits on release probably owe to the NME's 'new rock revival' of that time. They still had some clout then!
Still the garage-rock 'movement' exposed better banRAB (White Stripes, Strokes, etc) and was infinitely preferable to whatever it is the music press as pushing on us now... synth-pop revival is it?
Of course he has now turned into a mainstream pile of crap (something he said he wouldn't do judging by video interviews I saw of him) but his debut released 7 years ago ( He was under 20 at the time) is a classic slice of inner city Grime and was a breath of fresh air then and it still stanRAB up very well. Huge Dubstep vibe to the album and he definitely helped that genre get noticed.
