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This record sounds like a frog being choked while someone laboriously puts a guitar out of tune, but I love it only thing I ever liked by them. Which means I wound up liking the whole pile, I guess. Also liked Arrington, Stanky Brown Group (its more pompy rocky Tully first side anyway), Hoagy, Desmond Child (a lot actually - not sure anybody was ever more disco-metal), Gazebo, Puhdys (though '70s LPs I have by them rock harder), Southside Johnny (well that one's pretty darn marginal but I like when the Coasters show up at least), and Randy Travis. Of the last batch of cheapos I bought, I wound up liking Automatic Man more than George predicted.
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Plus they cover Dolly's "Jolene" on it how bad could that be? (Pretty bad, but I'll probably keep it anyway.) Plus I've never liked anything by these '90s indie art roots nerds before (not that I've listened much), and why would this be any different? But I used to be (very) mildly curious about the Fibbers, and I figure, if I'm ever going to like anything by them, this'd be about the correct amount of songs. '90s I guess)Īn extravagance, since I am a total fetishizing sucker when it comes to 10-inch EPs (even though it is impossible to find inner sleeves). The Geraldine Fibbers Get Thee Gone (Sympathy For The Record Industry 10-inch EP, c. $2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside, today: Depends on the whether and how much loose change you have in your pocket. About six months later, grunge washed them all away. Published about the same times as The Throbs and Vain and were in the same, uh, vein. They were part of the major label wave of second and third tier signings in the late Eighties of metal rock 'n' roll bands that were supposed to be more gritty and from-the-street than the hitmakers. Kind of in the Circus of Power style but better although not that much so. Definitely an acquired taste but not so convincing that you'd have stuck around for the second album, which was colored pink instead of blue, like this one.ĭon't remember a great amount about Law & Order except that I had it on cassette, my band played with them in Allentown, and they were good guys. I like it but was there at the beginning. Plus Michael Shrieve's in the band as a kind of poor man's Jan Hammer. One of the members - singer/bassist, I think, is now much more famous as a songwriter/producer under another name. It's very spacey, often almost frictionless, sometimes veering into prog. Extension of Stomu Yamashita's Go, sort of, which was an experiment on jazz and middle of the road hard rock, the latter furnished by Pat Thrall, who made a lot more money with Pat Travers later but quit that, too, after co-writing "Smoking Whiskey, Drinkin' Cocaine." Anyway, Automatic Man is nothing like that. Passed on a 50-cent 1987 Guadalcanal Diary LP too (what did they sound like?), and a $2 1989 LP by Joe Hardy-produced New York hard rock band Law and Order, though if George advises otherwise, I'll go back for that one.ĭon't know if you'll like this. Passed up a couple other 50-cent '80s Randy Travis LPs, but Xgau gave them worse grades than the one I bought, so maybe that was smart. Or maybe I am just a glutton for punishment. Probably not the first time I've tried those Desmond Child and Southside Johnny LPs. Randy Travis Old 8 x 10 (Warner Bros., 1988) Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes This Time It's For Real (Epic, 1977)
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Puhdys Das Buch (Pool West Germany, 1984) The Stanky Brown Group If The Lights Don't Get You The Helots Will (Sire, 1977) (if the band is stanky and brown rather than Stanky Brown being somebody's name, this should be filed in the S's rather than B's obviously)ĭesmond Child And Rouge Desmond Child And Rouge (Capitol, 1979)ĭucks Deluxe Don't Mind Rockin' Tonite (RCA, 1978) (already had this, but what the heck, I'm sure I'll find use for another one someday) $4 total (= less than 50 cents each), vintage store, 48th and Skillman, Sunnyside:Īutomatic Man Automatic Man (Island, 1976) Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame I (Atlantic, 1983)
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$2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside:
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(Still like the specificity of this thread more than that catch-all rolling vinyl one.)