30 May 2019

PLANET 9 ['eikwies] 1999

by request

here's some indie/space rock



Tracklist

A1 Transition
A2 Aftertaste
A3 Name
B1 Tube
B2 Time Thief
B3 Beyond The Sea

LIBERTY HORSES Believe 1992

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CHINNY CHIN CHIN 4 N.Y. Bands 1991

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Tracklist  

1 Sleepyhead Sick Of Heaven 4:55
2 Sleepyhead On The Beach 3:06
3 Sleepyhead Albatross 5:15
4 Sleepyhead Genie 4:23
5 Fantastic Palace Hello The Mellow Man 2:33
6 Fantastic Palace Nut Sunny 0:26
7 Fantastic Palace Life's Orchestration 1:39
8 Fantastic Palace Aminoids Are Eating The Sky 1:25
9 Fantastic Palace Heaven Mb 2:17
10 Fantastic Palace Reptillian Mind Feed 1:31
11 Fantastic Palace Perusal 2 0:50
12 Fantastic Palace What Is Wrong With You? 2:11
13 Fantastic Palace Crisscrossing Chrysanthemums 2:04
14 Fantastic Palace Evidently Chickpea 0:36
15 Fantastic Palace Penrose Tiles 1:20
16 Kicking Giant Love Child 1:40
17 Kicking Giant House Dress 3:42
18 Kicking Giant I Don't Mind 3:20
19 Kicking Giant White Babies 1:55
20 Kicking Giant That Summer Feeling 4:50
21 Kicking Giant Oh Yeah 3:51
22 Wall Drug Glad You Made It 1:01
23 Wall Drug Stream Plug-Unplugged 2:47
24 Wall Drug Nitro 4:12
25 Wall Drug In Methods 4:39
26 Wall Drug One Year Later 1:46
27 Wall Drug Thaw 4:43



HAYWOOD Men Called Him Mister 1999

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Tracklist  

1 You Talk Twice 5:57
2 Newbie Zimbo 2:36
3 The Kids Are Taking Aim 3:59
4 Ogden 3:00
5 Little Black Dress Club 3:17
6 Happy On My Bike 3:12
7 Block 4:50
8 No Way Back To Now 3:37
9 Keystone Rag 4:41
10 Take An Inventory 3:25
11 Pink And White 8:43
12 Bacon 7:23
 

21 May 2019

PETE DROGE Necktie Second 1994

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Artist Biography by


Necktie Second
Singer/songwriter Pete Droge's career was helped immeasurably by his friendship with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. McCready helped Droge secure a deal with American Records to release his 1994 debut, Necktie Second. Droge is a rootsy rocker in the vein of Tom Petty and John Mellencamp, with the occasional introspective ballad. On the strength of the tongue-in-cheek single "If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)," Necktie Second became an AAA hit. Find a Door followed in 1996, but it had a hard time finding an audience, partially because American Records was faltering financially at the time. During 1997, he wrote his third album and severed ties with American, moving to the Epic subsidiary 57 Records. Like his two previous records, his first album for the label, Spacey and Shakin, was produced by Brendan O'Brien. Droge took over production duties for 2003's Skywatching. It was followed in 2006 by Under the Waves.  


19 May 2019

PIANO MAGIC Low Birth Weight 1999

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Artist Biography by

Due to a wide range of influences, restless/relentless creative energies, and a supporting cast that's too numerous to list in full, random peeks into the catalog of the Glen Johnson-helmed Piano Magic -- from super limited-edition singles on Spanish independents to full-length soundtracks -- rarely result in the same thing twice. Started in the mid-'90s by Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance with the intention to base their recordings around a small nucleus and whomever would like to contribute -- using 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil as something of a template -- the material released by Piano Magic has ranged from arty baroque pop to childlike electronic knob-twiddling and whatever points you can and can't think of in between. The lone thread running through Piano Magic's records, aside from Johnson's presence, is a sense of wistfulness. Johnson has explained his desire to soundtrack memories, and with that, Piano Magic has found their niche.
One early hope of Piano Magic was to avoid the live element. However, when their first single, 1996's Wrong French, was awarded Single of the Week in Melody Maker, the initial trio felt obligated to play out in support of it. Along with Paul Tornbohm, the group played their first gig and opted not to play any of the material found on their records. They also made no attempt whatsoever to sound anything like their records, so odds were pretty good that a few curious concert-goers were perplexed after returning from the shops and hearing the studio incarnation of the outfit.

Popular Mechanics
"Signed" to Che, the label that released Wrong French, the group kicked out two more singles (with one issued on Wurlitzer Jukebox) prior to releasing their first full record, Popular Mechanics, in November 1997. Including some of the additional personnel featured on the preceding singles, such as vocalists Raechel Leigh and Hazel Burfitt and instrumentalist Martin Cooper, the record threw together some previously released material along with a clutch of new songs. As uneven as the record is, its mysteriousness provokes replay after replay. The band left Che, having been frustrated with their lack of effort. Not surprisingly, the constant financial flux soon got the best of the label.
Low Birth Weight
In 1999, a crazy slew of singles and EPs for labels like Staalplaat, Darla, and Bad Jazz -- including a split single with Matmos for Lissy's -- surrounded the release of the second album, Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl). Thanks to just a little more focus and a higher level of quality from beginning to end, the record is often regarded by fans as their best work. In addition to most of the prior suspects, Caroline Potter, Alexander Perls, Matt Simpson, Jen Adam, Simon Rivers (Bitter Springs), David Sheppard (State River Widening), and Peter Astor (the Weather Prophets, the Wisdom of Harry) figured into the process of making it.
Artists' Rifles
The following year was one of Piano Magic's least prolific, but it still spawned a remix EP for Germany's Morr Music and the rather conceptual full-length Artists' Rifles, which bases its subject matter in the first World War. It's the group's most consistent work in terms of sound. It features none of the electronics heard on prior releases, instead focusing on delicate interplay between drums, guitars, and the cello work of Adrienne Quartly. At some point prior to its recording, Miguel Marin was added to the group's lineup apparently as a permanent member.
Son de Mar
In 2001, Piano Magic was commissioned to score Spanish director Bigas Luna's Son de Mar. The director had heard Low Birth Weight in a record shop and was impressed enough to ask them to provide music for the film. Peaceful, lulling, breezy, and completely instrumental, the score demonstrates Piano Magic's astonishing range. Released by 4AD, Son de Mar spawned a deal between the two, and the group began working on the proper follow-up to Low Birth Weight later in the year. To satiate fans and irritate hardcore vinyl collectors, Rocket Girl released Seasonally Affective, an exhaustive double-disc compilation of singles. Writers Without Homes was eventually completed and released in mid-2002. Piano Magic left 4AD soon after, releasing The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic in 2003 on Spain's Green UFOs label and Disaffected in 2005 on Darla.
Part Monster
With the exception of a few brief stops in Russia, Portugal, and Belgium, the band spent the majority of the following year touring Italy. Another 12" vinyl record, Never It Will Be the Same Again (featuring contributions from conceptual artist Bojan Sarcevic), was released during this time. Piano Magic returned to the studio in late 2006, and their ninth full-length, Part Monster, hit stores the following summer. In the years that followed, they released two further albums before announcing their final record in 2017, which was aptly titled Closure.

Tracklist  

1 Snowfall Soon 5:02
2 Crown Estate 4:34
3 Bad Patient 5:00
4 The Fun Of The Century 5:02
5 Birdy Machine 1:26
6 Not Fair 4:12
7 Dark Secrets Look For Light 4:52
8 Snow Drums 4:59
9 Shepherds Are Needed 5:21
10 I Am The Sub-Librarian 4:26
11 Waking Up 5:49

16 May 2019

MONSTER ZERO Wreck 1992

alternative rock on the Sonic Bubblegum label


Tracklist

1 Black Eye 3:11
2 Meet You Tomorrow 2:49
3 Power Waltz 4:10
4 Drinkin' And Dying 4:05
5 Wreck 3:00
6 Visions Of You 5:33
7 Walking Off A Fury 5:44
8 Wild Blue Wonder 3:32
9 Slam The Door 20:34
10 Crazy 5:16
11 HMJ 2:02

CRAZY ALICE Wheel 1992







Discogs


AllMusic Review by

Wheel is a frequently banal slice of East Coast bar rock that sounds like it should have come from New Jersey, not Boston; while some of its songs possess a bit of a punk or indie-rock edge, most of them stick with standard rock conventions and suffer heavily for it. Solid songwriting or a sense of humor might have saved some of the record, but neither is particularly present. Crazy Alice's later attempts at grunge and punk fare a bit better, but only by a small margin. 

 Tracklist 

1 Made Your Choice 3:39
2 What I Want 3:04
3 Gone Away 4:33
4 A Lot To Learn 3:35
5 Falling 5:05
6 Do It Now 3:19
7 Problem Flower 2:56
8 Stay 5:11
9 Powerless 2:26
10.1 Done 2:45
10.2 (silence) 4:01
10.3 No We Don't 4:16
10.4 Drunk Sick 3:30

BLUEBIRD self titled 1997

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Artist Biography by


High Atmosphere
Crafting a heavy but poppy sound that recalls contemporaries like Queens of the Stone Age as well as classic arena rockers like Free, Bluebird consists of guitarist/vocalist Paul Figueroa, bassist/trumpet player/vocalist Jim Brown, drummer/percussionist/vocalist Bryan Lee Brown, vocalist/percussionist Sam James Velde, and guitarist Barry Thomas. The Brown brothers began playing together while they were kids, and eventually ended up performing as an improv rhythm duo in Los Angeles in the mid-'90s. Velde and Thomas, an old friend, joined the Browns and added a little more structure to their still-spontaneous performances. The group edged toward becoming a full-fledged band, and Bluebird's mix of psychedelic heaviness and pop melodicism made its recorded debut in 1997 with a self-titled, six-song EP released on Revelation; the following year, they delivered High Atmosphere for Lovitt. In 2000, the band found a fifth member in Shelby Cinca, formerly of Frodus, who arrived just in time to help record Bluebird's full-length debut, The Two, which was released later that year. Cinca left and was replaced by Figueroa before the band recorded its second album, Hot Blood, which arrived in late 2002 on Dim Mak. In 2003, the band issued a split EP with Dead Meadow courtesy of Buddyhead magazine, as well as the Black Presence EP, which was released by Dopamine. The band returned to Dim Mak for the Falling Back to Earth EP, which came out in 2004. 

Tracklist

1 Hereditary Transmissions 10:17
2 Lightning 3:12
3 Wrecking Ball 2:02
4 New York Minute 3:11
5 Veloz 9:56
6 Spark And Smolder 3:46