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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's first album for Reprise was
the best of the group's career, in large part because it was the most
song-oriented. It was still plenty weird, almost to the point of
stylistic schizophrenia, but when you got down to it, much of the
record was comprised of fairly catchy songs in the neighborhood of two
and three minutes. At times they sounded like reasonably normal, fairly
talented Byrds-like folk-rockers ("Transparent Day," P.F. Sloan's "Here's Where You Belong"); at others, a Kinks-like
garage band ("If You Want This Love"); and at others, a fey Baroque pop
outfit (the orchestrated "Will You Walk With Me"). There was an
undercurrent of unsettling weirdness and even paranoia, though, in some
cuts with otherwise pleasing tunes, like "Shifting Sands," with its
sizzling distorted guitars; "I Won't Hurt You," with it
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 R. S T E V I E M O O R E ' s
F i r s t A l b u m
APRIL 1976
(100 copies pressed)
Somewhere in Nashville, Tennessee sits (in a bathtub) a young chap by the name of Stevie Moore. In his living room, two tape decks are set up. Microphones and wires are strewn everywhere. Over the space of several years (1974-1976), our hero sits down with his tape recorders and (all by his lonesome) puts down a heap of tracks featuring many of his multiple musical talents. This record is an edited distillation of a few of those, intermixed with some chit chat and narration by the venerable Mr. Moore. The
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As a follow-up to the last post, here's Vol. 4 of Obscure Independent Classics - Alan Jenkins' twisted collection of what he considers "classics". This one is even less accessible than Vol. 2, and that's saying something. These two are the only in the series in my record collection, so if anybody happens to have Vol 1 or Vol 3, please send me a note. Cheers. Again, Alan's one sleeve notes:
LP - ERICAT025
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Side 1
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Huge Box - The Bien
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Ein 0041 - Quino
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Kyo de Sayonara - Momo
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Through the heavenly eyes - The Flag
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Barren Land - Man Decade
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Drow the Curve - Dea
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Blue Rose - Suttee
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Cheerful Afternoon - Roly Poly
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Side 2
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An Idle Land - S. Core
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Cowboy Go Ahead - Camp Three
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Lusefeea - Haginsha
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Eastern Blue - Femme
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An appropriately titled, thoroughly obscure item to kick off the blog. Released on Alan Jenkins' Cordelia Records from Leicester, home of the kings of obscure classics, The Deep Freeze Mice, and related bands Chrysanthemums, Ruth's Refrigerator, The Creams, Yukio Yung a.k.a. Terry Burrows, and others. This release pretty much summarizes Alan's understanding of the concept humour, and that's not a typo but a hint that this is of the British variety, not the sophomoric, American style ala Ween or The Rudy Schwartz Project. Highlights of the album include Yukio's title track, the dreamy "Kennedy says", and one of my all-time favorites, "Modern Girls" by The Wimps. If anyone has their EP please contact me, as I'm dying to hear it. What follo
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