WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT?

Just got this new release by a local experimental musician reccomended. "Loop-based yodeling with strong homoerotic undertones". Two trakcs in and enjoying so far...

So far this morning at work before anyone else has showed up to commandeer the stereo-

RMFC - “Club Hits” - I don’t know much about egg punk or think I liked it, but I like this. And they were fantastic at Gonerfest.

Heavy Mother II - kind of hard to go wrong here, this record really lines up for me. Love it. Dig the far out moments that to me evoke Hawkwind(flute). Which lead me to….

Hawkwind - “Live at the BBC” - such a killer collection of cuts from the band at the peak of their power.

COUNTER INTUITS - Sheets Of Hits
COUNTER INTUITS - Monosyllabilly
The Counter Intuits sound like a lo-fi sonic collage, a dusty vinyl skipping between crooked guitars and lurching rhythms. Ron House’s voice is a visionary rasp leading the chaos with odd coherence, like a pirate radio station broadcasting from a parallel universe.

• The Gories - The Shaw Tapes. I mean, what needs to be said.
• The Bobbyteens - Cruisin' For a Bruisin'. I don't know why always assumed this would be pony considering the personal what are on it. It's class, and I'm a fool.
• Lauer - Answers 2 Trouble. It's like an Italo New Order. Spirited, super catchy and probably to the tastes of no-one else here. Hell, I don't listen to much that sounds like this. Lauer's great though. He was in that thrashcore band Destroyer in the 00s.
• The Spells - The Age of Backwards. It's Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein. A precursor to Wild Flag, good indie stuff.
  5 Deadly Venoms of Brooklyn mixtape. An all-timer. Tony Touch, Evil Dee, PF Cuttin', DJ Premier and Mister Cee all kill it.

This record was tucked away in my dad’s collection and profoundly upset me when I was a kid. As a deeply disturbed adult I very much have been digging it lately.

Johnny Sick Best band! Can anyone comment on once rumored follow up 2x LP?

Randall Wow! Now that would be amazing. The Counter Intuits LPs are some of the best stuff he’s ever done. Modern classics.

Randall I was supposed to do a third Counter Intuits LP. Ron was having some writers block so he sent me a single to put out in the meantime. Last I spoke to him he was still on a writing hiatus. I hope there is more to come though.

get outta here! those LP's are so good... hope he finds the love for it and can get back in the Counter Intuits rhythm again

Revisiting 70’s CLEPUNK again…

The latest Son of Dribble record keeps finding its way back to the top of my playlist the past month of so.

My man decided to pull a random record off my shelf and grabbed this one today. Almost forgot how good it was!

Really like that Workers Comp LP after seeing a few of you post about it here. Gotta pick that one up.

Anyone into Adrian Orange? Got turned onto him by my pals at Hex Enduction in Seattle and can't stop listening to his two LPs over the past few years:

- Don't know the whole story but seems like all the PNW indie/punk crew got together and recorded a "proper" album with him.

- I heard this one second, but I think it's become my fave.

filthqueen666 I still play this one all the time. Originally bought it from the band when they came through New Mexico with Osees, probably 2010. I remember that I had lost a lot of interest in music at that point in my life. TC shocked me out of my doldrums. I formed a new band almost right after the show.

Randall My dad worked at Muntz Stereo on the Sunset Strip in '67 before getting drafted. Mad Man Muntz was critical in the development of 4 and then 8-track tapes. Anyway, my dad installed the 8-track in Arthur Lee's well-known Porsche. He went to do some wiring and a bunch of joints fell out of the glove box. Muntz Stereo on the Strip was the building that eventually became Tower Records. There were a couple of location in Southern CA.

Today I'm listening to NOIR BOY GEORGE latest cassette and I'm glad it exists. Together with TAULARD and I-don't-know-who-else it's up there in my top 10 of French music of the past 20 years.

having a morning tea and listening to all my favourite Yellow Magic Orchestra produced tracks to ease into the day.

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and for breakfast desert, one of the greatest of all time

Randall

for some reason Lucky Pierre always sits in my brain with this Nick Nicely song. also quite a nice morning song to accompany it perhaps!

spent the weekend seeing a lot of live music, maybe that merits it's own thread?
Bloodshot bill playing to 25 people with an out of tune acoustic and taking requests. pretty great, he has so much dirtbag charisma, i don't own any of his records, but i've seen him play in different permutations over the past 15-20 yrs and he is a real showman. His Hasil is uncanny, but this was a more trad sing song affair and enjoyable.
Later: New club in Montreal that used to be a venue 15-20 yrs ago and is back with a different name. It's under a spanish club, so popped in on some flamenco which was nice for one beer. Lotsa dancing and the room had a wholesome drunk on. Downstairs in the punk dungeon I caught Durex, a local punk band that has been going for a year or two that I had yet to see.They were pretty rockin and had some wild licks interspersed with a more straight ahead attack. everyone all night was talking eggpunk irl, haha. Last night I saw Population ii, a local psych/prog outfit that i haden't seen since we gigged together in their first year or 2. They were playing a film fest and the room was rammed. It was pretty hot shit and with the right amount of leafy haze really hit the spot. They have a goofy mideivel stance, no costumes just an aura, which is kinda endearing and they are so in synch with eachother that it is quite something to watch. The instrumental grooves/ herky jerky turn on a dime moments are where it's at. No idea if their recordings do it justice.

At home: my friend sent me mp3s of this obscure industrialish tape from 86 ontario, and I spent lotsa time with that. Wigglepig - https://www.discogs.com/release/3895929-Wigglepig-Meat-Market-Icons

today I will bring my Bill Fay records out.

peeblood Nick Nicely

The Hilly Fields (1892)/49 Cigars 7" is sooooo good. Recently found it locally for pocket change

This thing reminds me of a faster State Children. It's good!

A rediscovered one from last year for me. If anyone knows any stateside distros w this LP, please me let me know!

Sunday vibe:

Coupla jazz monsters tonight:

jm Terry Ork isn't obscure or anything, but I'd like to see something substantial on him -- a solid biography or something. Another one of those guys like McLaren or Bernie Rhodes or Kickboy Face who'd predated punk by a decade or so.

I interviewed Kenneth Higney maybe 13 years ago and he told me Ork was gonna release his "Funky Kinky" single but the imprint folded. This came as a shock to me. A couple years later his tracks were included on the Ork boxset. Kenneth was a great guy. Super affable. One of the nicer people I've spoken with over the years.

from what i heard from the pop stars of punk (chris stamey, jon tiven, marbles), Ork had a really ugly side so it'd be cool to read more about that. The Ork Records box set booklet is essential reading too.

ratcharge Today I'm listening to NOIR BOY GEORGE latest cassette and I'm glad it exists. Together with TAULARD and I-don't-know-who-else it's up there in my top 10 of French music of the past 20 years.

ah i remember you mentioning them ages ago, i listeend then and haven't gone back.. gonna revisit tonight! thanks for the reminder

Listening to the singles compilations with The Ar-Kaics and Angry Angles. I usually dismiss 60s neo garage as boring cosplay music, but The Ar-Kaics are the real deal. Their songs transcend time and space and stand on their own.

Bought the Angry Angles singles back in the day, but a collection is still nice. Great band that could be seen as a bridge between Lost Sound's abrasive synth punk and Jay Reatard's more poppy sound, which he began to explore more in depth with his subsequent solo material.