pdc_heavy wrote:

enframed wrote:i'm getting a "not found" error with that wire link. fix please?

Seems to be working now. I suspect it had something to do with the server.

indeed. can't wait to hear it.

Colonel Panic wrote:
Cherubs - Heroin Man

It's the Cherubs. The awesome noise band from Texas, not the shitty pop band from the UK.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A73P0NEO

Holy Shit, Colonel. I've been looking for this LP since I lost it, oh, ten years ago. Now I can at least listen to it...

Thanks are in abundance.

rayj wrote:Cherubs - Heroin Man

Holy Shit, Colonel. I've been looking for this LP since I lost it, oh, ten years ago. Now I can at least listen to it...

Thanks are in abundance.

No problemo.

Colonel Panic wrote:

caix wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:The Pussy Pirates - A Pussy Sampler

The Pussy Pirates are a new, somewhat local all-girl no-wave/punk band. Their members reside in Ann Arbor, MI and Chicago, IL and they've played a handful of shows around Chicago over the past few months.

This is a demo CD that I bought at one of their shows for $1. The sound quality varies from lackluster to really poor, but you can get a general idea of their sound. These recordings don't really do justice to their live show, but check 'em out anyway.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eu8vx5

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND seeing the Pussy Pirates live. Aside from having a hilarious name, they're fun and they really throw off a lot of energy. The next gig in Chicago is on June 10th at the Fireside Bowl. Their new CD should be out very soon if it's not already.

Those girls are friends. They are extremely entertaining!

When the hell are they going to release a real CD?

they finished recording. i don't think they have a label yet, so they'll probably put it out themselves. last i heard of this was last month. they seriously need a good engineer/producer, because their demos do them no justice and from what i heard, the new album isn't that different.

oh, and their drummer quit. they now have a new drummer, who is a dewd.

XTC - Rockpalast - February 10, 1982
Marthalle Hamburg, West Germany

1. Respectable Street
2. Towers of London
3. Runaways
4. Jason and the Argonauts
5. Burning With Optimism's Flames
6. Snowman
7. Ball And Chain
8. Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
9. No Thugs In Our House
10. Senses Working Overtime
11. Making Plans For Nigel
12. Living Through Another Cuba
13. Generals and Majors
14. Real By Reel
15. Life Begins At The Hop

http://www.sendspace.com/file/njp4wa

if that cone of light worked for anyoen else will you please zip it and repost? please. when i open the file it gets stuck in a stuffit temp file. is it only one track? maybe just upload the mp3?

daniel higgs is amazing. thanks,

Here's something different that might interest some of you. It's one of my favourite albums. Ronnie Hilton was a resident of my hometown, Leeds, and enjoyed fame as a crooner in the fifties and sixties. He first came to my attention through a series of singles he recorded with and about Leeds United AFC. They are a story for another time, but they're very great in their own way. The sad part of this is that when he died a year or two ago, he was credited as writing 'Marching On Together', the club song, which was the one song he wasn't involved with (that was written by Les Reed, who also wrote 'It's Not Unusual' for Tom Jones). It irked me that Ronnie's actual funny, and damn successful, contributions - like, oh yes, 'Leeds United Calypso' - were overlooked.

Anyway. Ronnie's story is a classic one:

LP Blurb wrote:In 1952 he was Adrian Hill, working in an engineering plant in his home town of Leeds. His singing was confined to evening weekend gigs with a local dance band, and sing-songs whenever the numerous Hill family, including no less than five singing brothers, got together. Ronnie's wife Joan believed his voice and talent were capable of achieving nationwide stardom, and entered his name in a talent contest, keeping it a secret until the actual day of the event and then only persuading him to participate with great difficulty. Ronnie won impressively...

Ronnie's 'A Windmill In Old Amsterdam' is the definitive one - "I see a mouse! Where? There on the stair! Right there! A little mouse with clogs on, going clippity cloppity..." - and I love his 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', sung in broad Yorkshire tones.

My favourite album is what I think was his last - for EMI/Music For Pleasure, at least. Rock n roll wasn't kind to him, and 'Songs That Sold A Million' might have been a comeback attempt, in 1975. Either way, I think it's great. 'Songs That Sold A Million' is a collection of twelve ballads, backed by "The Wonderful Continuous Sound Of The Harry Robinson Orchestra":

LP Blurb wrote:...who not only arranged the million selling songs on this album, but who also wrote the intricate musical pieces which link one song with the next.

Which is where this album shines. The music doesn't cease, with Ronnie's rich, experienced voice drifting in and out over the top. The effect is quite something, especially across the first three songs, and especially in the dark. Some of the interludes are straight up gorgeous, and with Ronnie's delivery - just check when he comes back in on 'Autumn Leaves'. It's pretty great. Then he goes all boomy into 'Love And Marriage', which tucked in the midst of all these maudlin ballads takes on a real desperate atmosphere, like he's singing cheerfully through the tears, maybe.

Hope some of you dig this... you need to do whatever necessary to make this album play gaplessly in your audio player, and forgive the clumsy cuts and sound quality (I wasn't aiming for perfection here). Here's the tracklisting, so you can get the flavour:

1. Stranger In Paradise
2. Catch A Falling Star
3. Autumn Leaves
4. Love And Marriage
5. My Foolish Heart
6. Temptation
7. Ballerina
8. My Heart Cries For You
9. Little White Lies
10. Young At Heart
11. Dear Hearts And Gentle People
12. My Prayer

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vitwuq

Pasta wrote:if you have the cassette "Daniel Higgs Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse And Other Songs" I would be forever in your gratitude, as I cannot find it anywhere.

me too.

If you have lagged on getting any of the stuff I have put up, I will give you fair warning... get it now, I am closing my sendspace account in the next couple of days.

Thanks you.

Nina wrote:If you have lagged on getting any of the stuff I have put up, I will give you fair warning... get it now, I am closing my sendspace account in the next couple of days.

Thanks you.

Lord, why??