March 24, 2005

Curious George : Monkeys, simians, lend me your ears! I'm in pursuit of music by certain bands, and as my list has grown I realized I can't be the only one looking for obscure stuff. This is beyond what Google can do in many cases. You know the kind: old hometown bands, strange acts only seen once, or mp3s only available on sites in Japanese. Perhaps we can help each other by sharing? Post things for which you have searched in vain, and maybe you'll get lucky!

so, here's my list: Einstein's Rice Boys--believed to be from Madison, WI. They have onefull length LP: Civil Rice (on QL), 1983. End Over End--Dallas, mid 80s. They have at least one full length LP. Loco Gringos--epitome of mid-80s Dallas "drunk punk"--any recordings. Animated Porcupine--Upstate New York, late 80s/early 90s. CD: A Choice of Colours (on Flatcat). Coccoon Pit (sic)--mp3s locked behind the language barrier here. and last but not least: all we have is a lyric: "They put a McDonald's in El Salvador/ just so they could screw 50 billion more" Willing to help out with anything I have (around 60 gb digitally, plus some vinyl that still needs ripping).

posted by patita 19 years ago
  • Sorry, too indie for me to have heard of I still search for Bone Of Contention's "Barbie Likes To Die," and the video to MC 900 Ft. Jesus' "Truth Is Out Of Style." After years of searching I did finally locate Paper Bag's "I Smoked Dope With Judge Ginsberg." ("...but the press got it all wrong/we always scored from Eddie Meese/and used Poindexter's bong")
  • ooh, that paper Bag track sounds like fun! I'll keep an eye out for the video. the stuff I'm looking for is not so much indie as local bands who never made it outside their area, in the age before the Internet. The only results I've found for Bone of Contention is a western Australian band (link here). I'm guessing this isn't them.
  • I'm looking for Eggs (DC, late 80's). I think they had one full length, all I have is a the track "Government Administrator" on a mix someone made for me and I love it.
  • ahem
  • I've tried p2p for the obscure stuff I like, and I don't think it's gonna happen. I wish the Judy (Houston, 80s) would put out their stuff legitimately. It's not that you can't find it, but I'd like to pay them some $$$. I have the two things I really want (One the Juggler and Blancmange, both English, 80s) on vinyl. I need to get around to ripping them, though.
  • patita: I remember seeing End Over End a few times when I was growing up in Dallas during my highschool years. If I remember correctly, they opened for Public Image Ltd at the Arcadia Theater. Memories are a little fuzzy, so I might have that confused. I did have the album you are looking for, but I sold it years ago -- probably for dinner or bad weed or something like that (I lived in Austin during the late '80, early '90s.) Cali: My wife was friends with some of the members of Eggs when she was living in DC. Email me, and I'll see what I can arrange.
  • Eggs stuff came out on Teenbeat. Here is a track they are offering for free. Looks like the full length CDs are sold out. Indie record stores and/or soulseek are worth checking out. Their cover of Genetic Engineering is entertaining.
  • There used to be some site where you could upload a music snippet for members to help identify tunes. I've lots the url, though... Years ago used it for some song I catched on radio, with the uplifting lyrics 'go to hell, hell , hell, hell...' many leads, no luck.
  • I would love to find a copy of The Mumps song "Could This Be Art?"... all I've ever found is a solo voice / piano demo by the songwriter (who was apparently part of the Loud family, who participated in an "reality show"-esque documentary on PBS in the 70's). my other "could never find it" band was Monitor, but I finally found a vinyl copy of their album a year or so ago.
  • Zanshin: my husband was at that show and that's why he's looking for the album. Crazy.
  • Amazing how little things keep rippling through your life years later. Not the first person I've run into from that show over the years. Let your husband know that the album wasn't very good. Not bad, just not very good.
  • 80s regional college-type music rules! I've already found the Dumptruck record I loved, but does anyone know where I can find some O Positive? You Texas types ever see/hear the Elegant Doormats?
  • hmm, can't say as I have heard of the Elegant Doormats. As for O Positive, it looks like this site may have three of their albums (top 3 in the list).
  • hmm, just downloaded a soulseek client and damned if I can figure it out.
  • Anyone ever heard of Blue Dog Pict from Toronto? I've been aching to get a copy of their original release - 1992, I think - which was an indie release, just an audio tape, called the Picture Albulm. You can buy later CDs (though sometimes for insane prices), but I have never been able to find this. As far as I know, my copy is in Australia (where I am not).
  • Oh, you kids. I'm still in love with the Stranglers.
  • Hey, your Cocoon Pit is actually pretty easy to grab. If you click on the "get it" button, it takes you to the compilation on which those songs appear, then you can buy it by using the bucket icon (you even have to buy the mp3s, though they'l give you a RealAudio sample... Which is OK, but not great). The language/characters may be different, but the iconography of commerce is still universal... I feel a little odd in being a music critic who doesn't really have any of those OMG-I've-wanted-this-for-years discs. I'm always on the lookout for interesting stuff at the used store, but I have just too many albums where I feel like "Yeah, I'd like a copy of that some day..." to really obsess over anything.
  • One thing I want for myself, and as a present for my nephew is a version of Neighbourhood Watch by Christian Lunch. My nephew played me a short version of the song a while ago (it was on a Christian Lunch album and the soundtrack to Terminal City Ricochet), but somewhere there exists an extended version of the song which I'm told is definitive, but seems to have been a Europe-only release (maybe unauthorised here?). The short version is great, but I'm obsessing over the extended version lately since the song is so damned good and I wish it ran another five minutes or so. P2P has utterly failed me in hunting it down, but I keep hoping....
  • You want Jandek? Or is he no longer obscure? I can maybe get you Jandek. But it'll cost you yer sister.
  • js--the problem with the Coccoon Pit was actually paying. I couldn't figure out how to give my billing address in a format that they would accept (and had trouble understanding the error messages). I got the cart full and couldn't get past that point. They sound like the Stooges, if Iggy was a sexy woman!
  • Anything musical you want to find, ask the people here. If they don't know where it is, they'll argue you out of wanting it. (Jeez I hope I denuded that link of my own id)(Login before posting) Start at "Whozat? Whatzat? Wherezat?" But be aware it's a tough crowd. Overly tough. But a wonderful source.
  • Anybody that can find me a copy of The Dickies doing The Banana Splitz theme song will get a dollar!
  • Amazing. Six hours after I post it here, it shows up on soulseek. Tra la la, la la la la, tra la la la la la la!
  • Can any Mac users of Soulseek recommend a client? I'm usually able to configure these things, so my complete inability to get one working has me peeved.
  • stubborness prevails, and I am now soulseeking with the newbiest of them!
  • and a member of one of the bands I listed just got in touch with me. hurray for the internets!