http://www.musicsnatcher.com Snatching music from around the web Mon, 21 May 2012 02:28:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/riff-doctors-tape-1985/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/riff-doctors-tape-1985/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 02:06:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=054dfca98031c02b460ff57390b52bd9 Just when I thought I'd heard the last of Mitch Easter's prolific, 1980s productions, I'm lovingly slapped upside the head with one that almost escaped.  In the case of North Carolina's Riff Doctors I suppose I could be forgiven considering this was a cassette-only release, that I happened upon in a large allotment of old demos that I recently came into.  Containing six songs, this little reel is the stuff of jangle-pop nirvana, if evidenced by nothing else than the opening salvo "Say Goodbye."  Fred Bednash and Donna Esposito trade off on vox, making comparisons to Mitch's coincidentally co-ed ensemble, Let's Active a bit of a no-brainer (even if Game Theory would be more accurate).  By tape's end, the Doctors settle on a Buddy Holly-esque sock-hop rocker. "The Things That Make Me Glad That I Met You."  In addition to this cassette, the group is also survived by the a 1983 single, "Falling" on Coyote Records, which one seller on Ebay has a staggering price tag for.  That song was anthologized on the Teen Line Vol 1 cd, as was a song from the demo which I'm presenting in it's entirety below. 

01. Say Goodbye
02. Turn Me On
03. Set the World on Fire
04. She
05. Reckless
06. The Things That Make Me Glad That I Met You


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It was just six years ago that I pinned my hopes on this new-ish Scranton, PA four piece, whose deftly composed indie pop was a synthesis of some of the previous decade's smartest offerings.  A 2004 ep, Hunk, preceded The Cactus Has a Point, but after another ep in 2008, Okay Paddy were ostensibly splitsville.  Had Cactus arrived a couple years later than it did, Paddy just might have blown up like Rogue Wave or Beach House.  Their official website is unfortunately kaput, but the band has a posthumous presence on Myspace (linked above).   Okay Paddy prime-mover Mike Quinn made his solo album Magico available on Bandcamp last year.  You can read the review of Cactus I penned many moons ago for Big Takeover magazine below.  

It’s a diminishing phenomenon, but every so often an album will come out of left field that once again reaffirms the audiophile in all of us why we go to such lengths to excavate a gem like Okay Paddy’s debut The Cactus Has a Point.  Whom does this visceral indie-pop quartet take their collective cues from?  Take your pick: The Bigger Loves, Sugarplastic, Pavement, A.C. Newman, Telepathic Butterflies, The Shins – and that’s just grazing the surface.  Okay Paddy marry their scrumptious power pop with carefully measured amounts of quirkiness and sassy enthusiasm to make a convert out of anyone with respectable taste in contemporary indie-rock. Cactus offers ten short and sweet, three minute nuggets emanating surprising depth and robustness given their brevity.  Lay your ears on “Time For a Tailor,” “You Never Worry,” and “Oo-Man, La-World“ and prepare to become a believer.  

01. Your Bar's on Fire

02. Gas Money

03. Put Them in Cages

04. Time For a Tailor

05. oo-man, la world

06. You Never Worry

07. Where's the Taste

08. lighter later

09. Fraktur

10. Furrier

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]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/okay-paddy-the-cactus-has-a-point-2006-prison-jazz/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/the-burdons-lp-1984-big-rock/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/the-burdons-lp-1984-big-rock/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 01:43:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=7b6dd45b5ab3c567b87ac40464105f37 Here's an unduly forgotten power pop record brought to us by Bay City, MI's Burdons, who according to this article are still active some three decades on.   Loosely, the Burdons could pass for the Flamin' Groovies unhip second cousins, albeit even more linear in the songwriting department.  Occasionally things tack in the direction of the Raspberries, other times this affair strolls into Shoes territory, but when it comes to the choicest morsels like "Heartbeat" and "I Fell in Love," you could make a case for the Burdons occupying three minutes on a Teenline and a K-tel compilation.  That's saying a hell of a lot if you ask me.  My apologies for the radio station sticker adorning the cover.  Manually removing it would have resulted in even greater mutilation, and I'm not very handy with Photoshop.  Check out the comments for a link to a 2010 Burdons performance clip.

01. I'd Really Like to See You Tonight
02. Here Comes That Girl Again
03. Climbing Up the Walls
04. I'm No Good
05. Heartbeat
06. Time
07. Right Back to Me
08. Go Steady
09. I Fell in Love
10. Just Like You
11. For You
12. The Raging Current
13. Goin' Away

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artists: ไวพจน์ เพชรสุพรรณ + แก้ว สาริกา (waiphot phetsuphan & kaeo sarika)
album: พุทธประวัติ ชุด 4: แหล่เที่ยวเมืองสุพรรณ (phuttha prawat, vol. 4; lae thieow mueang suphan)
tracklist:
01. แหล่เที่ยวเมืองสุพรรณ (lae thieow mueang suphan)
02. ชูชกพาสองกุมารตอนจบ (chu chok pha song kuman ton chop)
03. สารวันดิสโก้ (sarawan disco)
04. แหล่ชมสาวบางกอก (lae chom sao bangkok)
05. แหล่ชีวิตไวพจน์ (lae chiwit waiphot)
06. แหล่ปลาหมอ ปลาทู (lae pla mo, pla thu)
07. แหล่ตำนานพระปฐมเจดีย์ (lae tamnan phra pathom chedi)

this week, music from the king of lae, waiphot phetsuphan!  hailing from central thailand's suphan buri province, waiphot has for nearly half a century been among the biggest names in luk thung.  born into a musical family, waiphot was trained from the age of 2 in a range of local styles.  at 14 he joined a local liké theatre troupe, and at 16 won his first song contest.  he was discovered shortly after by singer chaichana bunnachot, who introduced him to ruam daokrachai bandleader samniang muangthong.  waiphot was greatly respected by audiences and fellow singers alike for his expertise in traditional forms and his uniquely powerful voice.  this cassette, with side 2 featuring one of his prominent latter-day proteges, kaeo sarika, is a collection of lae focusing on his home province.  the styles range from low-key ballads to up-tempo disco numbers, all imbued with lae rhythm & inflection.  enjoy!!

preview:

]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/waiphot-phetsuphan-kaeo-sarika/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/i-could-make-a-horses-head-of-all-your-friends/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/i-could-make-a-horses-head-of-all-your-friends/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=d32f4da4f9494e1a71b81fe4b1c47ecc Of the quintet of 415 Records acts that made the migration to Columbia (Sony) Records in the mid-80s (which included Romeo Void, Translator, Red Rockers and Until December ) San Fran's Wire Train weren't an initial priority, but upon belatedly hearing their first LP, 1984's In a Chamber a few years ago I was sold in a heartbeat.  Theirs was a dreamy amalgam of driving jangle rock and new romantic subtlety, with Chambers crown jewel casting itself in the form of "I'll Do You."  It's sublime sway is nothing short of transporting, marrying a hook of staggering proportions to an irresistibly propulsive back beat.  Wire Train shot a primo video for this single, which you can see below.  The b-side "It's Only Dark" is exclusive to this wax and is par with just about anything on the aforementioned album.  True, it lifts a well known Mission of Burma lyric, but it works so well I'm inclined to forgive them for copping it.  In a Chamber and WT's 1985 followup Between Two Words were paired on a 1995 CD reissue, but I'll be damned if you can locate an original copy, which was seemingly in print for ten minutes.  A Wire Train fansite with a thorough discography and so forth is linked above. 



A. I'll Do You
B. It's Only Dark

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]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/i-could-make-a-horses-head-of-all-your-friends/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/yanks-made-in-the-states-ep-1984-dti/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/yanks-made-in-the-states-ep-1984-dti/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:10:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=dacc5896fd1edb1c8cefee0cddce53d7 The net cast by the major labels in the midst of their '80s signing spree apparently wasn't wide enough to capture San Fran's Yanks, who released two independent eps, this being the second, with their debut, Only Lovers Left Alive issued one year prior.   This fairly straightforward guitar rock quartet kicks things off with the club-ready, "Tell Me No Lies," constructed around a shuffling, APB-style rhythm.  It's all uphill from there, with a clutch of airwave-tailored pop-rockers including "Run," "Reason to Try," and "We Call Each Other Mine."  The sobering title cut brings this affair to a tasteful conclusion, but truthfully, I was expecting this record to possess a grittier edge.  The Yanks have a page on ReverbNation, hosting a veritable box set's worth of demos and live recordings, along with tracks from the two eps I've spoken of.  If only all the bands I write about were this thoroughly archived...

01. Tell Me No Lies
02. Reason to Try
03. We Call Each Other Mine
04. Run
05. Searchin'
06. Made in the States

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]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/yanks-made-in-the-states-ep-1984-dti/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/young-pioneers-tape-1983/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/young-pioneers-tape-1983/#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 02:59:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=f92073f97f44c72f53c6aad8b8fdd2c6 From what little data I've been able to glean, the Young Pioneers were a Seattle by way of Olympia four-piece, whose lineup contained drummer Scott Vanderpool of Room Nine, a somewhat seminal Northwest alt-rock group.  Furthermore, Chris Pugh would later branch out into Swallow, perhaps the most genuine and purist grunge band of all time. Pugh and fellow Pioneer Brad Sweek were co-owners of an Olympia all ages venue, the Tropicana.  Now, what does all of that have to do with the music concerning this entry?  Not a damn thing really, just thought I'd give you some perspective.  My impression from this tape is that the Young Pioneers were very young, and more than a little wet-behind-the-ears.  There's definitely a nascent energy running through these eight, post-punky songs (two of which are instrumentals), and I'd say the group's most convincing moment is "Life's Problems" with it's sweet arpeggio guitar bits.  "Get Up" and "Anthem" follow close behind.  I'm not sure if Y/P committed anything to vinyl, or for that matter what their expiration date was.  The tracklist from the inlay card and the one on the tape shell differ greatly, but the latter seems more accurate.  If you can confirm this, that comment link has your name written all over it.

01. Get Up
02. Razor Madness
03. Life's Problems
04. Party
05. Revenege
06. Pop Shark
07. Anthem
08. Final Frontier

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A. Mouth of Hell
B. Painting the Bridge
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]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/miles-dethmuffen-7-1992-presto/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/the-orange-roughies-detroit-2012-gangplank-a-brief-overview/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/the-orange-roughies-detroit-2012-gangplank-a-brief-overview/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 00:12:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=ff730fc89281a7a47fbf3669f8e24ed5 Diminishing returns are the name of the game when it comes to surprise revelations from yesteryear, particularly for someone like myself who's been peering under many a rug from virtually every nook and cranny in the bygone, American alt-rock landscape.  Nonetheless, I still make a handful of pleasant discoveries every year, and one of the finest entries of the 2012 contingent arrives from Detroit in the shape of The Orange Roughies, whose 1989 album Knuckle Sandwich comes paired on CD with an entirely unreleased LP, Spilling True Love Everywhere, originally tracked in '91. 

Even after multiple listens, it's tricky to discern the root of the Roughies charisma and mystique, but I suppose a good place to start would be with vocalist John Pineau who possesses a timbre reminiscent of Peter Murphy not to mention a smidgen of Paul Weller, but such Anglophile resemblances are likely coincidental.  Six-string wrangler, David Feeny is a spectacular asset as well, peeling off cutting guitar leads a la Pylon's Randall Bewley and The Edge circa The Unforgettable Fire.  The Orange Roughies' encompassing sonic aesthetic often amounted to an intoxicating negotiation between Echo and the Bunnymen and Let's Active...or on second thought, make that the Chameleons UK by way of late '80s REM.  Heck, both of those tasty propositions apply to one extent or another, yet this Motor City quartet weren't derivative so much as advanced.

"Knuckle Sandwich" (culled of course from the album of the same name) along with "Eyepatch" and "Pure and Simple" are dense latticeworks of ambitious arrangements wherein indelible chorus hooks and ringing chords give rise to sublime and stirring post-punk arias custom fit for the 120 Minutes generation. Perhaps not life altering, Knuckle Sandwich still boasted enough razzle dazzle to outdo the bulk of the band's peers.  I should also add that the killer remastering job goes a long way in turning these already resonant tunes into something downright seismic. The not quite as beefy Spilling True Love Everywhere tracks manage to bask in a melodious glow of their own with "She's Trippin" and "4 Quarters" providing ample evidence that O/R were on a roll, a grand one in fact, that would unfortunately come to a halt in the summer of 1991 when Pineau opted to go back to college.  At the very least, the music still lives and sounds better than ever (incidentally, Detroit was marked with an album release party of sorts this past May 5th, with a reunited Roughies sharing a bill alongside the Junk Monkeys and Hippodrome).  I'm sharing two songs from the album below to whet your psyche.  CDs are available from Gangplank Records and CD Baby.  CD Baby is also offering Detroit digitally, as is Amazon Downloads.

Tracks: Knuckle Sandwich, She's Trippin

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]]> http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/the-orange-roughies-detroit-2012-gangplank-a-brief-overview/feed/ 0 http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/white-animals-st-1986-dread-beat/ http://www.musicsnatcher.com/2012/05/white-animals-st-1986-dread-beat/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 02:25:00 +0000 admin http://www.musicsnatcher.com/?guid=5be31a8b13a88571e92feb92360f7cb0 Not that I'm trying to best my competition over at Shotgun Solution blog, but they recently posted a hodge podge of tunes by Nashville's long put-to-pasture White Animals.  Coincidentally, when I was used record plundering last month I found vinyl editions of their self-titled effort, and it's 1987 follow-up In the Last Days, the former of which I'm hosting tonight.   The White Animals espoused their fair share of '80s, "modern rock" trappings, and given it's studio sheen this record might slot comfortably with the output of say, the Hooters.  The silver lining?  This quintet wasn't far removed from such 415 Record staples as Wire Train and the Red Rockers either.  Despite a drought of innovation, White Animals is still appealing, and had the group's luck panned out a little more favorably, a mainstream fanbase would have been entirely palpable, if not inevitable. For those of ya'll in need of a shortcut, The Animals brightest embers flicker across side one.  

01. Help Yourself
02. It's a Jungle
03. Big Shot
04. Don't Want to Hear That Song
05. Caught Up in the Dread
06. She's So Different
07. Not Another Love Song
08. I Can't Wait
09. Old-fashioned Day
10. Tristan's Woe

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