|   KTROY is on the air again . . . | Troy
Aug 22, 2001 10:35 PM | | KTROY is on the air again. Tired of the same old crap on the airwaves? Then make a radio station of your own. The old lady went to her stained glass class tonite and left me alone to rattle the walls with the big rig in the living room. Tonite I was in the mood for doing the single song thing and had so much fun that I jotted the titles down to transpose for you guys so you can say tell me much this stuff sucks.
3 fingers of frozen Stoli and I'm off!
"Cygnus X1"- Rush: An incomplete version of the intro performed live from a long time ago on a recent mix CD-r I have. Heavy staccato and electric way to start the party.
"Access Denied"- Porcupine Tree: My favorite track from the "Recordings" disc. Twisted, but singsong space pop. Sounds like what Tim Burton wooda listened to as a child if he was forced to take Ritalin.
"Monkey's Paw"- Laurie Anderson: More musical and fun than most of her work. Whopping bass and fantastic layered Bobby Mc Ferrin vocals. Impeccable recording.
"Have a Wonderful Day In Our One Way World"- Peter Gabriel: Singsong and goofy track from the second PG album. Ahead of it's time.
"Subterranean Homesick Alien"- Radiohead: Oh, heard this too many times? Turn the radio off! I love this song, great late night driving music and that's usually when I listen to it, but it was nice to hear it in the house real loud and clean. Deceptively simple and modern classic rock song from a band that no longer exists in this form. Too bad, because they do stuff like this much better than they do the stuff they're doing now.
"Rearrange"- God Lives Underwater: That Radiohead tune put me on a path here. This is a modern and aggressively rhythmic techno tune. Picture R.head crossed with Lenny Kravitiz . . . sorta. This band can be found for $4 or less in every used store in America. Definitely worth it if you like this sorta thing.
"Light Yet Refreshing"- Snog: Western paranoia wave. Humongous synth bass. Very negative lyrics from this band. Australian. Must . . . find . . . a . . . different . . . sound!
"Can't Get Loose"- Barry Adamson: Wow, what a changeup. This just knocks me out totally. Sort of a James Bond title song wanna-be, but with an urban soul. Cross the Bond thing with Superfly . . . Killer vibes and just a buttery smooth melodic presentation. Song I enjoyed playing the mostest of all tonite. From best of pkg: "The Murky World of Barry Adamson".
"Almost With You"- The Church: Kinda Floydian, but with slight new wave tendencies. solid unknown Australian band except for that "Under the Milky Way" song.
"Memories Can't Wait" and "Animals"- Talking Heads: Haven't played "Fear of Music" in a long while. This stuff was very shocking in it's day (most people I knew wanted to listen to Bob Seger back then) and it still sounds fresh to me. Twitchy and weird pre-pop (I hope I never hear that awful "Make the Baby Stay up all Nite" thing again) T. Heads music.
"Really Like" and "You Dinosaur Thing"- H: Steve Hogarth, the 2nd singer from Marillion's solo album "Ice Cream Genius" has a few stand out tracks and these 2 are my faves. The first one has this somber sort of feeling to it, but this wonderfully happy guitar sound masterfully laid down by Dave Gregory of XTC. The second track is a straight up hard rock tune with dense production and a good hook. Good lead in for . . .
"The Dead Girls of London"- Shankar: Really, this is a Frank Zappa rarity. Shankar's late 70's solo album "Please Touch Here" is mostly instrumental, mostly written and wholly produced by Zappa when he was in his "Zoot Allures"/"Joes Garage" period. This track has Zappa and Ike Willis (somebody on this board says "he sings like he has a speach impediment", I love that) singing duet and the band (featuring Simon Phillips on drums) is into this heavy blues jam with Shankar's ethereal violin layered on top. Good weird.
Snuck in "Darlene" |
| The rest is here . . . | Troy
Aug 22, 2001 10:38 PM | | . . . if anyone is still reading . . .
Snuck in "Darlene" from the same Shankar album. Lightning fast fusion with impossible time and that very indian violin sound again. Freaky hybrid music.
"Own"- Mike Keneally: From his raw "Sluggo" album. Grunge song with strange changes and Keneally doing his best Peter Frampton solo guitar figures. Long and loud.
"Joytown" - Kevin Gilbert's Live Thud: This starts very loungy (but with a tabla) and slow considering it's the opening track of the show. It's tension bubbles and builds in until it explodes into a frenzied organ solo and punkish rave up. It slams to a halt (the crowd loves it) and KG sings "Joy to the World" by 3 Dog Night over his own melody as the outro. Inspired arrangement and a powerful performance.
"Morph"- Love in Reverse: From the "I was Here" album. Another of those post grunge proggy bands that don't want to be called prog. See Radiohead, Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev. Heavier than those bands with a harder more goth guitar sound. Glossier production. A cut out bin find everywhere in America.
"Hit Single"- Joe Jackson: Sort of a homage to Roy Orbison or the Everly Brothers with a ska rhythm section. Cleverly sung in the 1st person, the song knows that it's the last of a breed, but it revels in it's uniqueness. And it is unique even though we've heard every note before.
It's all too Much"- Joe Jackson: From the same "Laughter and Lust" album. This one's really fast and also has some clever lyrics. This album sounds really clean and transparent but packs a solid punch.
"Flesh and Blood"- Oingo Boingo: Right before the band just sorta fell apart. Slicker than the early stuff, but stiff has that jaunty pulsing "circus from hell" quality. Elfman was a terrific singer. His voice sure fit the band.
I have to stop now.
God, are you still reading? Go play some music of your own! |
| Coupla questions | Jim Clark
Aug 23, 2001 2:57 AM | | 1). What did you do for commercials?
2). The Laurie Anderson song-is it that one song that's so good or the entire CD?
I thought Snog was from Germany-learn something new everyday.
Vive Le Rock
Jim Clark |
| Coupla answers | Troy
Aug 23, 2001 4:22 PM | | 1). It's a 90 minute commercial free rock-block!
2). It's from her "Strange Angels" album. Overall, it's the most musical of her releases. Pretty solid release if a bit slow in spots.
Ja, eets der Snog.
G'day |
| I Played Keneally myself........... | MasterCylinder
Aug 23, 2001 5:35 AM | | .......yesterday as well:
"LIVE IN JAPAN" is still too good. |
| WDEG is on the air again . . . | Dave G.
Aug 23, 2001 7:31 AM | | I played the Bomboras and Klark Kent and The Wondermints and Thinkman. |
| Nice list | Jim Clark
Aug 23, 2001 9:52 AM | | Troy introduced me to the Bomboras-"Head Shrinking Fun" is a fine disc indeed. If I may suggest-if you really like that you should maybe consider looking into The Apemen. These guys are from some Scandanavian country I think, anyway, the hit the surf guitar pretty hard with a bit of a punk rock edge. It's not punk rock though-modern surf is better. Finch Platte showed me Slacktone too, I like that band a great deal too.
Klark Kent-gotta like it.
Troy got me interested in the Wondermints too. Don't have any yet except whats on his comp. The wish list is too darn long.
Thinkman-what is that? I'm asking 'cuz we seem to have some areas of interest that overlap.
Vive Le Rock
Jim Clark |
| Nice to see . . . | Troy
Aug 23, 2001 4:30 PM | | . . . you guys talking about these bands.
Wondermints is solid power pop. Very jangly, very tongue in cheek.
Thinkman is Rupert Hine pretending to be a band. The record company thought it might sell more albums. It didn't. There's one TM track on the "Brainmix Hybrid" disc (which I'm sure hasn't been in the player for a long time, has it Jim?) recorded from a 10 cent record I have. Similar to the Hine stuff on my "Skinny Tie" set, but not as freaky weird. Supposed to be out on CD sometime soon.
Jim, if you want my XTC mix, let me know via e-mail. |
| Rupert Hine | Jim Clark
Aug 23, 2001 5:31 PM | | Actually I was in the used CD store Wednesday (see I still buy a bunch) and I was looking to replace my worn out tape of Robert Palmer's Clues. the guy at the counter was telling me how if I liked that I'd like to check out Rupert Hine. Well he was floored when I said, "Oh, the guy that produced a lot of The Fixx". Well, I was able to speak to the subject at least a little-thanks to Troy's comps and posts. I even mentioned something about the 10 cent record. He did say that something like 4 remastered Hine works had recently come out? You probably already knew that though. Ah, the joys of RR.
Vive Le Rock
Jim Clark |
| Hay! | Troy
Aug 23, 2001 4:32 PM | | Where 'dju hear of THOSE bands you goofy fuk? |
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