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Out August 24th….:aliensmile:
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Saw a Munsters marathon several years back at my grandparents(they have a satelitte dish)it was like 8 hours of Munsters
The Flesh Eaters – The Complete Hard Road to Follow sessions
this band rocks and their albums are fucking impossible to find..
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Daniel Johnston tribute album will be released on 21 September (press release from Gammon Records)
NEW YORK, NY: Gammon Records announced today that it will release "The Late, Great Daniel Johnston : Discovered Covered," a benefit album for the legendary outsider songwriter, Daniel Johnston, on September 21.
The album will feature exclusive tracks from high profile artists such as Beck, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Sparklehorse w/ The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, Eels, TV on the Radio, Clem Snide, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, JT Leroy’s band Thistle, Guster and eight other artists covering Johnston’s songs. A second disc will be included with the original versions of all the songs, culled from Johnston’s vast catalogue (several tracks previously only available on cassette).
This project showcases Daniel Johnston as a pop genius. When hearing Johnston for the first time most people are taken aback because of the rawness of the music and Johnston’s childlike voice. But, when you dig deeper, past the audio assault, it’s easy to recognize Johnston’s honesty. Not only can you see Johnston’s heart on his sleeve but you watch it pump blood as it beats.
Daniel Johnston is regarded as the godfather of lo-fi music making, with years of creating modern day field recordings straight to a $59 boom box to his credit. It was not until later in his career that he would go in to a proper studio to work with producers like Kramer, King Coffee and Brian Beattie.
Daniel Johnston found a new level of fame in the early 1990s thanks to Kurt Cobain, who championed him in interviews as his all-time favorite songwriter and was often photographed wearing the famous Daniel Johnston "Hi, How are You?" frog logo shirt.
Johnston also painted the frog logo as a mural on the side of the Record Exchange music store in Austin, TX (he lives in nearby Waller, TX) and although the store recently closed down, the logo was preserved, thanks to the efforts of protestors in Austin, and to the good nature of the new host of the mural – the burrito joint Baja Fresh, who went out of their way to make sure his artwork remained intact.
The executive producers of "The Late Great Daniel Johnston" are Mark Linkous (of Sparklehorse) and Jordan Trachtenberg (Gammon Records). After many cups of coffee and cigarettes during the recording of "Fear Yourself" (Johnston’s last project produced by Linkous for Gammon), they came up with the idea of a benefit project for Johnston. The goals were simple: raise money for Johnston who, after suffering from a bi-polar disorder for most of his adult life and failing to earn a living from his music, from still lives with his parents at the age of 42. The hope is to allow Johnston’s parents to be able to buy the house next door where he can live on his own with the assistance of caretakers. They also knew if Johnston’s songs were covered by an array of eclectic, famous artists that he would likely find thousands of new fans.
So, Linkous and Trachtenberg put together what they felt were the best 50 songs Johnston has written (he’s written hundreds of songs) and started calling artists who they thought were kindered spirits. It took a little over two years to complete "Discovered Covered" and the attention to detail shows in the finished product. The resulting album is stunning – hearing Daniel Johnston’s songs fully realized by artists he’s had a profound influence on is a cathartic experience.
Track Listing:
1) Teenage Fanclub W/ Jad Fair ~ My Life Is Starting Over Again
2) Clem Snide ~ Grievence
3) Gordon Gano ~ Impossible Love
4) Eels ~ Living Life
5) T.V. On The Radio ~ Walking The Cow
6) The Rabbit ~ Good Morning You
7) Calvin Johnson ~ Sorry Entertainer
8 ) Bright Eyes – Devil Town
9) Death Cab For Cutie ~ Dream Scream
10) Beck – Things Last A Long Time
11) Sparklehorse w/ Flaming Lips – Go
12) Mercury Rev ~ Blue Cloud
13) Thistle – Love Not Dead
14) Vic Chesnutt ~ Like A Monkey In The Zoo
15) Starlight Mints ~ Dead Lovers Twisted Heart
16) M. Ward ~ Story Of An Artist
17) Guster ~ The Sun Shines Down On Me
18 ) Tom Waits – King KongSelected quotes from the artists:
"You can add "est" to the end of everything Daniel does. His happy songs are the happiest, his sad songs the saddest, his funny songs the funniest, and his sweet songs the sweetest. He’s better than best. He’s the bestest." -Jad Fair
"It’s true. Any one of us would sell our mothers to write a song as good as one of Daniel’s." -Mark Oliver Everett, aka E of EELS
"I played a show with Daniel once and it was unlike anything I had ever experienced before." -Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes
"I wonder if Daniel has some sort of fancy calculator, like the TI-84 we had to get for calculus, that he uses to compose his songs. I can’t see any other way that so much truth, melody and unassuming charm could possibly live in the same space. I bet his quadratic equation would look great on paper. I wonder if it would involve a duck?" -Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie
"Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation" -Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
"Why is it that music so brilliantly written and honestly performed should only reach a small niche audience? The recording is secondary to the crafting and yet it feels as if his recordings convey the songs the way they were meant to be heard. He’s uninhibited, unpredictable, and mostly unappreciated, but I’ve yet to meet a songwriter who isn’t floored when they hear Daniel’s work." -Brian Rosenworcel of Guster
For more information please visit:
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http://www.hihowareyou.com
http://www.gammonrecords.com"crazycloud" wrote:The Flesh Eaters – The Complete Hard Road to Follow sessionsthis band rocks and their albums are fucking impossible to find..[/img]
the Flesh Eaters were definitely cool, although very morbid too. great to hear there’s a chance to get hold of one of their records again. I only have them on some disintegrating tapes and as mp3 from slsk.
…their main man Chris D. also produced the Gun Club’s record "Fire Of Love"Coming soon from Rhino Records: The name of this band is Talking Heads
RHINO OFFERS HEADS ON PLATTERS
THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS And BEST OF TALKING HEADS Available August 17
JUNE 18, 2004LOS ANGELES — Rhino Records is pleased to offer two kinds of overviews of the career of one of the best-loved bands of the 1980s with the release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS on August 17. Both packages, assembled with the members’ full involvement, are firsts for the band-THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS has never been available on CD before and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS is the first single-disc collection of the band’s most popular songs.
THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS offers an unusual take on the concert album — rather than a "souvenir of a single night’s show," it captures the band’s live evolution from 1977 to 1981. Originally released in 1982 as a double album, fans have waited nearly two decades for the CD release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS. This two-disc version doubles the original’s contents by offering 13 previously unreleased tracks and a trio of rarities from a 1979 promotional only disc ("The Girls Want To Be With The Girls," an early version of "Drugs" called "Electricity," and "Found A Job"). In its expanded version, THE NAME OF THIS BAND provides a comprehensive portrait of Talking Heads as a live band, as it now includes a substantial number of songs from each of the band’s first four studio albums.
THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS collects 18 of the group’s most popular songs on a single disc for the first time ever. Compiled by the band, THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS includes all the favorites ("Psycho Killer," "Once In A Lifetime," "Burning Down The House," "And She Was), as well as some unexpected selections like "Heaven" and "Memories Can’t Wait." This collection provides new listeners with a perfect introduction to this ground-breaking band’s work.
David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth formed Talking Heads (note: no "The") after meeting at Rhode Island School Of Design in the early 1970s. Jerry Harrison, formerly of The Modern Lovers, joined in 1976 and Talking Heads quickly became one of the most important bands to emerge from the New York punk scene. Over the course of their 11-year recording career they released ten albums (including five gold records, one platinum, and two double-platinum), earned critical raves, and racked up more than a few hits.
cool. back in the late 80’s, me and my friends considered the Talking Heads to be somehow cheesy. but looking back, they were cooler than we thought back then. it maybe was only because too many uncool people (like my literature teacher
) tried to like them. 
…and, I can tell, "Road To Nowhere" is a great song for runningRhino Records update:
X – The Best: Make The Music Go Bang
A cool X anthology, more X: a cool interview with Exene CervenkaAlso on the Rhino Records website:
Win an MC5 Prize Package, Motherf#@*ers!
:aliensmile: From the Matador Records news:
This October, Matador will be releasing a double CD 10th anniversary edition of Pavement’s fabulous 2nd album, ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’. In addition to a remastered version of the original album, we’ll be including a number of extras including alternate takes/mixes, and previously unreleased songs. Think "The Great Lost Pavement Album" — literally nobody has ever heard these songs before. Package will be an embossed, die-cut slipcase. Liner notes from SM, Spiral Stairs, and Gerard Cosloy.
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Cool!Crooked Rain is a superb album for sure
I`m never gonna get Range Life out of my head :aliensmile:SG: if i remember Stephen Malkmus sings something about skateabording in range life? Do you know if he does skateboarding in real life or just in the song?
"Aatos" wrote:SG: if i remember Stephen Malkmus sings something about skateabording in range life? Do you know if he does skateboarding in real life or just in the song?I don`t know.He`s from California and a punk as a teenager so he must have done some skateboarding
Neko Case`s live album out Nov 9th :aliensmile: she`s covers Buffy St Marie,Catherine Irwin(Freakwater),and the Shangri La`s on it
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Pavement’s second album, 1994’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, holds a special place as one of most accomplished and admired sophomore releases from the 90s alternative scene. The disc managed the near-impossible feat of tightening the focus of the band’s stunning debut, Slanted and Enchanted, while maintaining all the credibility and sloppy charm that have since come to define both the band’s legacy and the heart of indie rock. Cynic-proof, effortlessly brilliant, and impossible to reproduce, it’s an album so good they named it twice.As reported way back in late 2003, Matador will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the seminal record with the release of a special two-disc expanded edition. The set has recently been dubbed Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: La’s Desert Origins, and like 2002’s Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe, Matador has supplemented the original album with an abundance of bonus material. An impressive 37 extra cuts fill out the set, comprised of previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, and live sessions from a ’94 John Peel BBC radio show. The deluxe packaging also includes a 40-page booklet filled with essays, band recollections, and photos from the era. According to Billboard, the complete tracklist for Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: La’s Desert Origins, due in stores October 26th, is as follows:
Disc 1: "Back to the Gold Soundz (Phantom Power Parable)"
01 Silence Kit
02 Elevate Me Later
03 Stop Breathin
04 Cut Your Hair
05 Newark Wilder
06 Unfair
07 Gold Soundz
08 5 – 4 = Unity
09 Range Life
10 Heaven Is a Truck
11 Hit the Plane Down
12 Fillmore Jive
13 Camera (Cut Your Hair B-side)
14 Stare (Cut Your Hair B-side)
15 Raft (Range Life B-side)
16 Coolin’ by Sound (Range Life B-side)
17 Kneeling Bus (Gold Soundz B-side)
18 Strings of Nashville (Gold Soundz B-side)
19 Exit Theory (Gold Soundz B-side)
20 5-4 Vocal (Gold Soundz B-side)
21 Jam Kids (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain bonus 7-inch)
22 Haunt You Down (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain bonus 7-inch)
23 Unseen Power of the Picket Fence (from No Alternative)
24 Nail Clinic (from Hey Drag City!)Disc 2: "After the Glow (Where Eagles Dare)"
01 All My Friends
02 Soiled Little Filly
03 Range Life
04 Stop Breathin
05 Ell Ess Two
06 Flux=Rad
07 Bad Version of War
08 Same Way of Staying
09 Hands Off the Bayou
10 Heaven Is a Truck (Egg Shell)
11 Grounded
12 Kennel District
13 Pueblo (Beach Boys)
14 Fucking Righteous
15 Colorado
16 Dark Ages
17 Flood Victim
18 JMC Retro
19 Rug Rat
20 String of Nashville (instrumental)
21 Instrumental
22 Brink of the Clouds (Peel Session)
23 Tartar Martyr (Peel Session)
24 Pueblo Domain (Peel Session)
25 The Sutcliffe Catering Song (Peel Session)Of the bonus material, 11 songs have been previously unavailable commercially, and offer some of the biggest incentive for fans to shell out for the new collection. Speaking to Billboard, former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus seemed genuinely warm about his label’s assembly of the material. "There’s some things I would veto now and then, but Matador more than anything has been the driving force in digging up stuff and making these records into ’90s classics. There are some full songs that are pretty cool; they sound just like Crooked Rain. They maybe have not as good mixes or bad singing, or are just slightly inferior. But they’re still pretty good."
While there have been no official announcements on future Pavement reissues, Malkmus asserts that there is enough material for at least the next two discs in the band’s catalog. "They might run out of B-sides and stuff at Wowee Zowee," he stated. "But they could go up to Brighten the Corners. There’s a million extra songs from that one. That’s a case where there are songs that were undoubtedly better than the ones on the album. Ultimately, it depends on how special Matador think the records are and if other people do too."
On a final, more revealing note, Malkmus also addressed the inevitable Pavement reunion question from Billboard. "It doesn’t feel exactly right yet for me to do it. I mean, it could. I guess you just know when it’s right, just like so many other things in your life. Or, you force it due to financial reasons or someone telling you how much you could make. No one has told us that, so that’s not an issue at all. But we all get along; no one is like a lawyer with a huge caseload or has lost an arm." With his solo career yielding somewhat comparable highs to past glories, I wouldn’t count on any major developments, but the "yet" in that quote could possibly keep longtime fans awake at night tossing and turning with High Fidelity-like anxiety. I mean, if someone said to you, "I haven’t seen Evil Dead 2… yet," how would you take it
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