Six Songs That Kill You

[awall]

sorry, no pics

hall of fame - waves of stations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EteYP3OYEj4

this has been one of my favorite records of late. on siltbreeze which might be the best label of the 90s. most of it is rather amazing miniature no neck/kemialliset ystavat style improv soundworlds but every few songs they step out of haze and drop a gorgeous piece subtle guitar songwrting like this that would be amazing on its own but appears even more vivid and fragile in context.

gist - clean bridges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFJLjJJJ5k

stuart moxham from young marble giant's post-YMG project, with vocals on this track by the girl from YMG (alison something?) and viv goldman. captures a certain kind of joy about modern life that i've always seen in my favorite pop music of the early 80s, the kind of stuff that really takes you to its time and place whenever you hear it and makes you fairly sure that they actually WERE having fun. another record i just sold on ebay.

 

[hammertime]

Francois Rabbath is

. I celebrate dude's entire catalog.

 

[Bambouche]

for a second with that couch shit i though you were posting about that old band from eureka (who changed their name to "the couch of eureka" because of that other band) but sadly no. were they before your humboldt-county time?

Ha ha, that's right. I have those 7"s still. Couch (of Eureka) was my time. I was thinking of posting my SAKE 45 last night, and making a punk rock string section (cellist (Madigan) / violinist (SAKE)) connection, but decided against it.

I didn't like Couch as much as that other band with some of the same members. The skinny guitar player and his 14 year old sexpot girlfriend who never wore a bra used to play together in a different band. They pre-dated, and maybe overlapped, in time with Couch. Their name escapes me (something with "gun" in the title, perhaps?), and I don't know if they put out any records, but they were ferocious. They played with One Man Running a few times (the Manilla(?) School House out on the beach/dunes) and I was floored each time. A terribly unique band for their surroundings and time.

Are you still up there? I had Larupin's Mustard Dill sauce on my sandwich yesterday. Yum!

 

[awall]

Who's this by, anyway? I like it, POZ drums and all.

The original punk rock cellist, Bonfire Madigan (Shive). Off the ... From the Burnpile album.

for a second with that couch shit i though you were posting about that old band from eureka (who changed their name to "the couch of eureka" because of that other band) but sadly no. were they before your humboldt-county time?

Ha ha, that's right. I have those 7"s still. Couch (of Eureka) was my time. I was thinking of posting my SAKE 45 last night, and making a punk rock string section (cellist (Madigan) / violinist (SAKE)) connection, but decided against it.

I didn't like Couch as much as that other band with some of the same members. The skinny guitar player and his 14 year old sexpot girlfriend who never wore a bra used to play together in a different band. They pre-dated, and maybe overlapped, in time with Couch. Their name escapes me (something with "gun" in the title, perhaps?), and I don't know if they put out any records, but they were ferocious. They played with One Man Running a few times (the Manilla(?) School House out on the beach/dunes) and I was floored each time. A terribly unique band for their surroundings and time.

Are you still up there? I had Larupin's Mustard Dill sauce on my sandwich yesterday. Yum!
handgun bravado!? fuck yeah that shit was rad. i have (had?) their tape somewhere. those couch dudes have been in many bands since then (including their current manifestation "the eureka garbage company" which my current roomate played bass in). good dudes...i usually chill with them a bit whenever i go back there to visit. its pretty funny, i hear that holy moutain records is going to re-release ben "six organs" chasney's old dead c-esque noise band that i think bandon, the drummer from couch, was in.
and yeah sake...i still have their 10" which is radical. pretty funny thinking back about that scene back then cause i was like 9 and 10 years old going to those shows.
dunno if you ever knew a dude named rob rierdon that was tangled up with all those people, but he died of a heroine overdose recently. very sad.

 

[SPlDEY]

1. Horace Andy - Do you love my music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiMGHvrRU4

Simply a song that blows me away everytime it's played. This whole album is one of my favorites.

2. Elbow - Fugitive motel (RJD2 mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsWwhyZlXWg

A remix from a producer I don't really like by a band I really don't like. Nonetheless a song that makes me stand still any time I hear it.

3. Ike and Tina Turner - I am a motherless child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtp_4j1SFng

Probably one of the most tragic soulful performances commited to wax.

4. Lalo Schifrin - Agnus dei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmO9O3PgjFI

A highly overlooked song by a fellow Argentinan this is so minimal for Lalo, but then it gets all 60's latin funk on you.

5. Andy Bey - River Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SlN_hP3kYc

this song gets my vote for greatest cover of all time.

 

[SPlDEY]

hall of fame - waves of stations

this has been one of my favorite records of late. on siltbreeze which might be the best label of the 90s. most of it is rather amazing miniature no neck/kemialliset ystavat style improv soundworlds but every few songs they step out of haze and drop a gorgeous piece subtle guitar songwrting like this that would be amazing on its own but appears even more vivid and fragile in context.

Wow, thanks for sharing this... Very cerebral. I love that tiny droney organ in the background sound even if it's digital. It also feels a little Velvet underground-y, but maybe that's just me. Also your Agnus Dei had some nice backbeat drums out of nowhere nice man.

- spidey

 

[hammertime]

The Casuals- I'm So Glad I Found You...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvBFmUPLQ4

weird lo-fi soul from Toledo that sounds like it was mixed by King Tubby.

The Moonrakers- Love Train...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQPxu8EDKc

before they were called Sugarloaf, these dudes were a hard-rockin' Christian rock group. This is them at their hard-rockingest.

Orquesta Riverside- Yo Soy El Que Tu Quieres...funky stuff from Cuba.

Siglo XXI- Sabor a Mi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl3JClAO87Q

fuzzy psych-ish stuff from Puerto Rico.

The Corporation- My Child Walks Alone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3j_m7VF6W8
more hard rockin psychish stuff, this time from Wisconsin. This album got the cold shoulder in the Acid Archives but I think it's terrific stuff.

Mira- When You Sleep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhuZW_EnxKk

shoegazer group from Florida with otherworldly ethereal female vocals...kinda sounds like Stevie Nicks singing from behind a wall of ice. Even better than the original MBV version???

 

[mandrew]

jeanette - "porque te vas"

if you've seen carlos saura's "cria cuervos" you will probably cry when you hear this song. if not, go see that shit. this is one of the happiest sad songs ever written. beautiful bubblegum pop at it's most intoxicating. i wanted one of the six songs not to be so heavy. if you don't speak spanish, it's this one.

 

[hendravis]

fran??ois rabbath - "prelude a l'archet"

the way this song kind of slithers up to meet itself reminds me of completing in real life an action that was started in a dream. and if a song can do that, i am very much with it. this is jazz's skeleton.

Francois Rabbath is

. I celebrate dude's entire catalog.

do you have any more tracks off this or anything else?? id love to hear an album or even a couple other traks... i was really feelin this stuff today

either way thanks for that one trak, made my drive today , a millions times greater

 

[hammertime]

this is some

thanks for sharing it!

 

[peacefulrotation]

They played with One Man Running a few times (the Manilla(?) School House out on the beach/dunes)

Those are my high school homies, they had a lot of potential but unfortunately did not make too many records. Chuck and Morgan were certainly heavy musical influences on me during that time in my life.

 

[hammertime]

i just realized that Rabbath LP you posted a pic of has the same track listing as the Bass Ball LP I have...both on Philips...strange.

 

[bassie]

irma thomas - wish someone would care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np793RzybIY
bitty mclean - walk away from love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqSz1ddkZvY
slim smith - keep that light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__CnlyhMXE
ken boothe - lonely teardrops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v2twkDgxVM
grambling state university's tiger band - ball of confusion
ike&tina - i've been loving you too long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wjh6emU6Wg

edit - these are not recent finds. sorry to stray from the original task

 

[wholewheat]

Hallelujahs - Green Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-btmN2RYsoM
Marcos Valle - Voo Cego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhjx_DITSg
Takami - track two, side one, second (?) album
Konrad Schnitzler - Gelb 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZiFU_QaB9I
Alou Fane & Daouda Sangare - Mougnou Koro Kadi
Hara Ghash - Life Is An Illusion

 

[DrWu]

John Lucien- Search For The Inner Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3tgX3RrxCQ
William Bell- Every Man Needs a Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmVVSNKBA4
George "Wild Child" Butler- Hippie's Playground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-IlUca8ZI
The Jazz Crusaders- Freedom Sounds (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYckwpsJ24o
The Swordsmen- Hip Thang
The Rev. Maceo Woods- Helllo Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-16x0xG6Bo

 

[SPlDEY]

I just wanted to add props to whoever thought this thread up... It's been fun listening to all these..

- spidey

 

[button]

1 Joe Panama - Soul Sister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDT-PLfGyww
Mellow latin soul, ultra-fine and super-sublime
2 Howard Tate - I Learned It All the Hard Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exwACq-aIus
This has to be one of the best deep soul tracks ever cut
3 The Sensational Cymbals - A Son's Dream
funky raw gospel, dude's vocals at the end are psychotic
4 The Wasters - Accept My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvPh0RP_ezA
cheapie beat ballad of the week
5 Cheyenne's Coming - Dream Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsStU__E8R0
multi-racial ensemble funk
6 Jimmie & Vella - The Door is Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtH34UxyJzM
folky psych funk

 

[mandrew]

antony and the johnsons - blue angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLLQE0EAlqM
sweet timeless genderless ethereal devastating
The Beau Brummels - just a little
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYneeXVOAyA
awesome oldy '65 trippy rock
the teddy bears - to know him is to love him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIUf6dOGc1c
cold war kids - we used to vacationi'm squeezing the final drops of juice out of this one before it gets played out
shirley butler - i really REALLY need you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCuzZpc-hKc
leroy hutson - love the feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSu5j4keaU

 

[bassie]

devotion - earth wind & fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13heVfqIRBE
but beautiful - nina simone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj-ntisQToQ
i'll be a liar - betty harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcOaM349d0
summer breeze - main ingredient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-WVpVKbkXo
collage - james gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47szUrn769g
run around woman - triston palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJm7OqW-ao8

 

[pickwick33]

I've been mainly listening to entire albums lately at home, but as far as individual songs, I'm gonna go straight to my office iTunes:

Mike & the Ravens "Goodbye Mary Jane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-tgvp1332M
(frat rock raunch from the early sixties, but with a melancholy feel)
Mitty Collier "Share What You Got"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ8XB3TTe-k
(desperate sounding southern soul; William Bell did it originally, and his version isn't bad, but Collier OWNS this number)
Billy Boy Arnold "I Ain't Got You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rohDUIDkD70
(Chicago bluesman...one of the few left in town who doesn't do rotten blooze-rock, Buddy Guy-style)
George Strait "I Ain't Her Cowboy Anymore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1C3v_BERv8
(gimmicky title, I know, but the giggles turn to tears after you learn that George's ladyfriend is getting tired of him for no apparent reason...at least he's not the last to know)
Bobby Wisdom "Handwriting On The Wall"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlPg3fs_b5A
(white soul singer on the Renfro label, ca. 1960's...same plotline as George Strait's song, only without the silly "cowpoke" metaphors...ol' boy tears it up, too: "I see the SIIIIIIIIIIGNS...the handwriting's on the wall!!!")
Bobby Patterson "Keeping It In The Family"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe2mjhCiJ0
(more soul from below the Mason-Dixon)