yut wrote:

Mike Greenlees wrote:

yut wrote:Anything by Yes released in the 70's (except Tormato). Amazing, but no one cares because no one knows... Their loss. Yes isn't hurting. They can still pack in a stadium.

They're packing in stadiums and nobody knows! THAT'S AWESOME. How do they do that?

After virtually no thought given to the topic, I am going with 2 Fred Frith albums from the early 80s - Gravity and Speechless.

I love Gravity... Very fun and Lars from Sammla does some nice contributions... I don't have Speechless.

Edited...

Speechless is nice. He has 2 groups with him on the album - Massacre (Bill Laswell & Fred Maher) on a bunch of songs and Etron Fou Leloublan on a bunch more.

Joseph wrote:

Wood Goblin wrote:The Mono Men's Wrecker! and Sin and Tonic.

The Mono Men have a killer live album that was recorded at a bowling alley. I can't remember what it's called, but it's great. Also, Ten Cool Ones, their covers album, shreds.

The Mono Men Live at Tom's Strip-and-Bowl. Yep, that one is great. It was recorded at some guy's bachelor party, if memory serves me right.

DregsInTheCrowd wrote:Beck - One Foot In The Grave
Beck's one-stop pop culture shop really grates on me, which is probably why I like this album. There isn't a Beck fan that I know who enjoys this, and most don't even give it a try. Proof that he's better as an ironic folkie recording in a basement than a post-modern asshole recording in space.

The version of "He's a Mighty Good Leader" just kills. Great stuff.

He played Yo-Yo a Go-Go just after K had released this record. Nearly everybody in the audience (myself included) expected to hate him on the basis of his early MTV space cadet shtick, but he charmed every last one of us with a great set of folk and noise. He was also a hell of a nice guy.

After the set (he played during the afternoon), my friends and I hit the local grocery store for refreshements, and we chatted with Beck a while there. Later, he got behind us in line, and an enthusiastic Ian McKaye (he attended but did not play at the show) ran up to him to praise his set. They chatted about folk blues for a while. It was very cool to witness.

Arcwelder- This/Jacket Made in Canada

Beck - One Foot In The Grave
Beck's one-stop pop culture shop really grates on me, which is probably why I like this album. There isn't a Beck fan that I know who enjoys this, and most don't even give it a try. Proof that he's better as an ironic folkie recording in a basement than a post-modern asshole recording in space.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

If I'm playing live music, it's usually songs off of this album or Mutations.

Do you like the Mutations?

happy go licky - will play

http://www.dischord.com/bands/happygolicky.shtml

End to end excellence.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Edsel - "The Everlasting Belt Co."

I think that I have met one other Edsel fan ever and I wound up dating him. "The Good Celeste" off of this album is still one of my favourite songs ever, even if I did blow out a speaker in my old car while listening to that song too loudly.

I like that record too. Bridget was another Grass records band from around then that I really liked. Nothing earth shattering, but a great little record nontheless.

I'll add....Swervedriver....anything.
and Killing Joke's Extremities Dirt and various repressed emotions. Love that one.

Souled American : Fe. And all their other records probably.

Crow : My Kind of Pain. Steve Albini recorded this little known Australian band. I wonder what he thinks of this record? The second record Li-loing is even better.

Kyle Motor wrote:

mendoza wrote:

A friend of mine recently got this LP. I'm waiting to borrow it and check it out. Haven't had a good Joey Levine fix in awhile.

The Godfather of Gum wrote a few songs for this gem as well...I think