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Edgar Broughton Band / MC5
Posted by RobertC on 4 December 2009 - 2:03pm.
I have recently discovered the music of the Edgar Broughton Band and MC5, via two compilations,'Out Demons Out' and 'The Big Bang' respectively. Stunning. I was aware of them but never got round to actually hearing them and they're marvellous. It is fantastic to make such fresh discoveries, so I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment. If anyone has any further recommendations in this vein it would be greatly appreciated.
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If you're looking for more
brain-dead sludge-rock made by people that drink too much anti-freeze, try: "The Day The Earth Met Rocket From The Tombs" by Rocket From The Tombs and "Terminal Tower" by Pere Ubu, which contains their fantastic early singles.
RFTT are like a Hanna Barbera Stooges (which is as fantastic as it sounds bearing in mind the fact that The Stooges were a cartoon version of something else themselves), and Pere Ubu (who were dragged limbless, addled and screaming from the wreckage of RFTT) are just f*cking ace.
If you don't like either of these, then you should burn your pop pants and twat off to a seminary forthwith.
Rocket From The Tombs
not on Spotty :(
You've probably already got it
but 'Fun House' by The Stooges is my favourite album - it had me hooked from the opener 'Down on the Street'
I'd also recommend the Chocolate WatchBand - very Stones derivative but with the attitude turned up
Here's a few
Andy Votel's Vertigo Mixed is a non-stop rollercoaster of fuggy guitars and thumping beats..So good I've never managed to play it to the end yet..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertigo-Mixed-Votel-Various-Artists/dp/B0007ULJM...
Rock and Roll Disease - a might Garage Through The Ages comp
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Roll-Disease-Various-Artists/dp/B0002LR0SC/...
Amorphous Androgous
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monstrous-Psychedelic-Bubble-Exploding-Mind/dp/B...
Anything by The Sonics, The Fleur De Lys and poppier but worth a pop Paul Revere and The Raiders
And Muddy Waters Electric Mud psych-rock album is well worth grabbing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001KU2J3A/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=...
Or you could always try this mix I made for a guest blog spot '33 and a 3rd eye'
http://www.divshare.com/direct/6491396-17f.mp3
(There's actually a couple missing from the track list - Nashville Teens - Ex Kay One Lx, and Ruth Copeland - Gimme Shelter)
Hold On - Ipsissimus
The Kettle - Colosseum
Blows Your Mind - Electric Banana
Towards The Skies - The Gods
Father's Name Is Dad - Fire
Coke Ad' - The Who
How Does It Feel To Feel - The Creation
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Flys
Crying Shame - Frijid Pink
The Battle Of The Locusts - Aphrodite's Child
Instant Whip - The Tremeloes
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Amanda Shankar
Bad Trip - Bo Diddley
Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth
Magpie - The Murgatroyd Band
That's The Life - The Good Earth
Fire - Pegasus
I'm A Man - Wynder K. Frog
Magic Mirror - Aphrodite's Child
Get Out Your Rock And Roll Shoes - Crocheted Doughnut Ring
Shake 26 - Underground Set
Walk Don't Run - The Pink Fairies
I love Funhouse
it's been in my "top 5 albums" list since I first heard it about 30 years ago. The first Stooges album (yep, "The Stooges") is also pretty seminal.
as for the Five then I'd recommend the two LPs they cut for Atlantic: "Back in the USA" and "High Time". Their first effort, "Kick out the Jams", might be more famous but I just find it unlistenably badly recorded. GREAT footage of them on Beat Club, though, in Feb 1972 (about a month before their demise), here:
playing against blue screen.
How about this...
http://open.spotify.com/track/0Efh1abSr188pqenQuErTH
...the ultimate hairy-bloke wig-out.
don't forget
The Pink Fairies
Thanks All
Fun House is an utterly undisputable classic, and I will check out The Pink Fairies ( another heard of - but not actually heard) and do my very best to investigate all the other recommendations that I'm not aware of ie. most of them. Nice one chaps. Have a good weekend.
See if you can find
'Never Never Land' with the lovely cellophane gatefold sleeve, like a cell from a Disney that never got released.
You may need a second mortgage to find a mint copy.
Having had my hands on a pristine copy in the late 70s, and let it pass, it's now one of the vinyl rarities I'd really, really, really, really, really like to own.
Here are a couple of recommendations
Hellacopters
Sonic's Rendezvous Band (Fred "Sonic" Smith's band after the MC5)
Another shout for
the Pink Fairies. Just recently invested in Never Never Land which is very cheap on Amazon.Last heard in early 70's it is very good STILL.
Regarding Edgar Broughton Band would highly recommend The album with the Meat Factory on the cover and Inside out which are released as a 2 for 1. Contains Evening over Rooftops which is without argument the best Edgar Broughton song and by their own admission the one song they couldnt omit from any live performance.
See my comment above.
Never Never Land. It's one of the few albums I'm holding out on for an original vinyl copy, as the artefact is SO lovely if you can find a mint one.
I feel your pain Foxy
I owned the original MtH ~ Mott album sleeve, dunno why I got rid of it but, I did. :(
I'd dearly love to hold it and open it up again.
My intro to the (other) PF was via the Glastonbury Fayre triple vinyl that a bought off a bloke I worked with on a 'summer job' in 1976 for a fiver: Do It and Uncle Harry's Last Freak Out - near bootleg quality.
Dear Gawd did I love those tunes! They were messy and all over the place but together.
I still listen to them, a mate digitised them - anyone who needs an earful may ask me
Have you still got the cardboard pyramid?
and the fold out sleeve, and the cover with the Silver Surfer on it?
I've never owned that little beauty, but my mate Henry has one he found in a carousel of LPs in a little village shop in darkest Somerset. It was alongside various MFPs from Andy Williams, James Last, Herp Albert and so on, and all the titles were on a clearance offer, having been there for over a decade without selling a single disc. They were 50p each. Guess which one he bought.
I hate Henry
for a fiver I wasn't going to argue, it had some Hawkwind on it. Summer job equals more money than you've ever had so it seemed like a fair deal, even back in 76, I knew it had been deleted due to Revolution Records going bust. What I got was an ever so slightly (and I do mean that) crackly 3 long player set in the expansive "Space Ritual" type sleeve with 3 inserts: The Electric Score; Build yer own Geodesic Dome, and a Brown one full of hippy bollocks. I since found it should have had a plastic sleeve and another booklet (maybe the pyramid one you mentioned).
Still happy with it and if nothing else it introduced me to the Pink Fairies.
Barney Bubbles sleeve!
GENIUS!
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/20/barney-bubbles-artist...
indeed my friend
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/barney-bubbles
it got a bit tetchy but that wasn't my fault
Ooops! Missed that one!
Still - I am clearly of your opinion, Barney's output was as prolific as Mozart's and in my 'umble, a lot more fun. And... I wonder how many people have a piece of BB's work without even knowing it? A lost gem.
The Meat Album and Inside Out
A very kind soul was gracious enough to burn me a copy of the Meat one and Inside Out, which I received this afternoon. I have Evening over Rooftops on the 'Out Demons Out' Comp and it is a stunning track. Fine album as well.
Whatever happened to great bands who actually had a real interest in playing brilliantly and being inspired? J'Acuse Stereophonics, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Manic Street Onanists etc.
Drop me a line Robert,
via the Contact feature.
Edgar's obviously on a rediscovery roll recently.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/blind-spot-0
To return to the point of your OP, have you checked out Keef Hartley; there's some unexpectedly (to me at least) great stuff to be (re)discovered there. You should check out the album Lancashire Hustler for starters: Jess Roden on vocals with backing from Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer, Blue Weaver and a cracking band behind them.
This seems like a good thread to mention...
...Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs. I've done so before; I'm sure I'll do so again...
Thanks
Colin and Vulpes - this is indeed intriguing and I will definitely follow up. I haven't been around on this site much as of late, and I have seriously been thinking of leaving altogether due to a lot of different vibes and themes as of late that are not my wavelength at all. Back to good music. Thanks.
Well said Robert...
...what the hell WAS all that grammar/lexicographical sword-fighting and bluster about anyway (referring to Lilly Allen/file-sharing/f-offery angst)? A game not worth the candle...
No Idea
I was completely baffled by the vain ego wrestling and petty sniping.
It left me utterly bewildered and saddened. Fair enough, there's a lot more threads geared to the husband/father/professional type these days, and as I'm none of these things I have nothing to add, but testosterone fueled antler rutting is an abject waste of time. Anyway, more importantly I've been on a serious Quintessence vibe recently, by the way. Good to talk to you again.
"testosterone fueled antler rutting is an abject waste of time"
No! Nooooo! I CAN'T agree! It's outrageous - how dare you! What you say is quite unacceptable! Bare knuckles round the back of the bike sheds now, matey - and that's not subjective it's objective.... In fact, no, it's reductive... ad absurdum...
But enough of the satire :-D
Long live rock'n'roll...
Pistols At Dawn,
Hampstead Heath, Sir. My second is Miss Kate Bush in her Wuthering Heights nightie ( cunning plan, folks, old Colin will be too busy panting and gawping at Kate to notice my escape into the misty foliage. I am in inveterate bounder, y'see and care not one jot for honour);-)
The Groundhogs
how could we overlook them?
Never heard so much Hogwash in my life! pfft!
I ♥ The Stooges...
that's all I want to say.