NOCAL MUSIC WAREHOUSE

FIRST POST: The Gordons - Vol. 1 LP // Future Shock EP // Vol. 2 LP

Technically this is three albums. Vol 1. and Future Shock were re released together a few years ago, but Vol. 2 remains unavailable. So thank me later.

This is a band that later became Bailterspace, a decent band with some stand out songs. But as The Gordons, they were amazing. Droning proto Sonic Youth guitar, paranoid minimalist lyrics, distorted sounds (reportedly ejected from many venues in New Zealand for having an impossibly loud live show).

Standout tracks: Coalminers Song, Reactor

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Thanks, downloading now.

This is cool dude, thanks a meep-tonne.

Awesome meeping idea.

SECOND POST: Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

(this recently got a glowing review in pitchfork.com...don't let that throw you)

It's right there in the name: this dude does drugs. Even if the chorus of one standout song wasn't "I should've taken acid with you," you'd know he does acid. It's like New Order took a meepton of acid in the late 80s in late summer, sat on a rocky riverbank in the sun, then played their own Woodstock in a wood paneled living room. I played this album maybe 15 times in a row; it immediately struck me as good.

thanks, man; gordons were good.

Neon Indians - lyrics are just unintelligible enough that it can be listened to without disturbing whatever gerbils are running around in my skull. I give this an 8.5, good zone out beats, though I'm not able to identify a favorite/standout song. Synth effects are fairly predictable throughout.

Holy meeping meep, sendspace has some sweet ads!!

LOOK at that little viking meep. "I caught a brown one, mommy. Let's dress it like a girl!"

The Gordons are ok. I like the lo-fi approach and they remind me of the Dead Kennedys I listened to as a teen. I can listen to this meep while driving and enjoy the meep out of it. In my younger years this was called new wave punk. I guess it has a niftier label today but it's still the same stuff.

The Neon Indian stuff reminds me of Beck, a little, but not as good. I'm a huge Beck fan but the Neon Indian stuff isn't my cup of Java at all. Each to his own, I guess.

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THIRD POST: The Urinals - Negative Capability: Check It Out! // 100 Flowers - 100 Years of Pulchritude

Another bonus post, The Urinals were a band composed of UCLA students mocking the punk scene in the 70s. They played a few house parties on toy instruments. They soon realized that they were pretty good. They recorded some stuff, then eventually gave themselves a proper "serious" name, 100 Flowers. These albums are retrospectives of each band.

The Urinals have the energy of college age punks, but without the silly bullmeep of, say, the Dead Milkmen. Their brand of satire is more subtle, and more musically adept.

100 Flowers have a more mature sound, with some really strong songwriting taking shape.

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THIRD POST: The Urinals - Negative Capability: Check It Out! // 100 Flowers - 100 Years of Pulchritude

Another bonus post, The Urinals were a band composed of UCLA students mocking the punk scene in the 70s. They played a few house parties on toy instruments. They soon realized that they were pretty good. They recorded some stuff, then eventually gave themselves a proper "serious" name, 100 Flowers. These albums are retrospectives of each band.

The Urinals have the energy of college age punks, but without the silly bullmeep of, say, the Dead Milkmen. Their brand of satire is more subtle, and more musically adept.

100 Flowers have a more mature sound, with some really strong songwriting taking shape.

WELL I SHORE meepED THAT UP THERE

won't let me delete it for some reason, but the link does actually work

My Dog, I can't believe you call this drek "music" . Have you heard Porcupine Tree, Sensation's Fix, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ozriz Tentacles, Flash, Endoplamsic Reticulum, Mondoflame, or Vomitcore?

I MUST find a way to put my vinyl online....

Goat

It's okay, nocal. I like your music.

FOURTH POST: Television - Marquee Moon

Just for Beachgoat; from the best year in music comes Television. The ultimate band when it comes to your caca prog leanings, this was a band with overdone lyrics, guitar solos, 7 minute songs, some call and response meep...and yet it all comes together to be part of an immaculate album. The songs have just the right pop tinge, they meander just long enough, the lyrics aren't taken quite seriously.

Sounds like the Rolling Stones if the stones had any integrity, sorta.

FIFTH POST: fIREHOSE - Flyin The Flannel

An amazing, original band called the Minutemen dissolved when their lead singer died in a car crash. Later, a fan from Ohio travelled to San Pedro to talk the remaining two members into forming another band.

Ed from Ohio, legendary bassist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley formed fIREHOSE. The result was mostly poppier, more conventional songs. This doesn't mean the songs were worse, mind you -- just different.

I decided on a fIREHOSE album rather than a Minutemen album because while the Minutemen have a very stong influence on many modern musicians, fIREHOSE sort of drifted into near obscurity.

Mike Watt - Good call. Always a great live show btw....

hrmm... how about the idea of starting a linkswarm torrent tracker?

Great idea, but it wouldn't get enough use to make the risk worth it.

lol

updates?

SIXTH POST - Gang of Four - Entertainment!

The title of the album is obviously sarcastic, but then only in the opinion of the musicians. This is a couple of white Englishmen, and they are funky as meep. It's practically danceable. Overtly political songs buried them during a BBC ban of anti war music, but they never could have made it anyway. One of the greatest albums of all time on quite a few lists.

SEVENTH POST - Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me

If Gang of Four were political and black (sounding), then Dinosaur Jr. were personal and white. A bunch of white college dudes who made guitar music about failure and weird feelings and isolation. Not depressing, really -- think Dookie-era Green Day with better musicianship -- but definitely white and middle class.

Famously fercious guitar playing, they were maybe as famous as Pavement in the alt-rock scene in the early 90s. Still around making surprisingly good albums.

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EIGHTH POST: Van Hunt - On the Jungle Floor

I randomly heard a segment on this dude on NPR in 2006 when he released this album. I heard most of the song "Character," and part of an interview about his life. He's basically a soul/R&B singer with some old school tendencies. It was good enough that I made an effort to remember the name and download it when I got home. There's some funky, ladykiller meep going on in these songs.

The album is perhaps uneven, but overall, it's pretty great. "At the End of a Slow Dance" is one of the better songs I've ever heard.

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Not for nuthin' but most of this music kind of sucks. I still kind of like ya, though.

Stay tuned for WOTAK MUSIC WAREHOUSE (music that doesn't suck as bad as nocal's).

:-)

I couldn't get into most of the choices here, but The Gang of Four was meeping badass, thank you. I can't believe I had never heard of them, love the punk/funk sound... dead milkmen meets devo meets the early police meets RHCP, that doesn't really do it justice though. Hard to define, but great to listen too.

The Dino Jr. is really good too, love the frampton cover. I remember they were pretty popular in the early 90's but I never bought any of their CD's. Good stuff, thanks again.

Listening to The Gordons, kind of grows on you after a while, I think I ended up adding most of these links to my collection.

When do we get an update? or is the warehouse full.

this was shamefully abandoned, like a lot of things in my life. i had a terrible job, and 65 hours/week was plus meetings was not unusual. some of you can balance that, but i couldn't.

i will update this shortly.

SLEEPERS - THE LESS AN OBJECT

This one attracted me because it was SF punk, of which there is a weird dearth. It seems like it would be ground zero for the class of '77 and onward, but...

SLEEPERS were a result of Ricky Williams getting kicked out a band called FLIPPER. This was a band he started that was known for being purposefully abrasive and terrible. He got kicked out for being "too weird."

The first four songs are standard, if pretty good, punk. The next few songs are really amazing, particularly "Theory." Most of the lyrics are stream of consciousness and they only recorded sporadically, hence this comp is most of their recorded material.

MISSION OF BURMA - VS.

Killer rock from Boston. Great musicians and lyricists playing an all time classic album. Maybe if Kings of Leon weren't terrible and played in the late 70s, they would put together an album half as good.

Band split up for a long time because a leading member got tinnitus, which is kind of a cool/boring rock & roll story. They are back together and have made a few pretty good albums. But then nothing beats the surge of youth, he said as he molested the neighborhood.

LIVE SKULL - DUSTED

Part of the New York no wave, they sound a lot like Sonic Youth to me. Only if Kim Gordon rather than Thurston Moore sang every song. And if they were a little more consistent.

I don't really know much about this band otherwise.

I am on crappy hotel wireless this week, so it will probably take 3 days to download these. Looking forward to checking them out though. Thanks for the updates!

1000 MEXICANS - MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK

Dunno anything about this band; a good blog uploaded it recently. This is a retrospective album, and it's some inventive 80s britpop. It's the kind of music that could have gotten airplay in the 80s when band like Talking Heads were around.

I've been playing the meep out of the album. It's pretty good.

Of the two I have had a chance to check out so far, 1000 Mexicans is pretty good and Mission of Burma is great! Dead Pool is an awesome track for lack of a better word. Thanks again for the hookups, I like all kinds of music but sometimes I get stagnant in my choices, it's nice to get some different new wave/punk/80s kind of stuff to listen to.

Live Skull is cool, perry farrell/old jane's with more punk sounding. The Sleepers I have only listened to once, couldn't get into them as much.
Mission of Burma is the definite winner out of this batch, can't believe I never heard them before, just all around good.

Lead singer for the Sleepers (Ricky Williams) who has a voice like blackout-drunk Bowie, and adlibs all his lyrics like Damo meeping Suzuki, fronted another band called the Toiling Midgets for one killer album. Just before he died of an epic lifelong addiction to drugs and alcohol and mental illness, Mark Eitzel -- an ugly meep dude with AIDS who fronted the legendary-but-pre google-failure-ensuring American Music Club -- recorded a single album with the Toiling Midgets. Somehow I think it's even better than the one with Williams.

I'll post both albums soon.

Here's Eitzel on 7" track called Golden Frog

TOILING MIDGETS - SON / SEAS OF UNREST

Seas of Unrest was with Ricky Williams, bizarre drugged out charismatic adlibber (currently dead).

Son is with Mark Eitzel, bizarre AIDS-meep ugly writer (currently alive).

Both albums are maybe like if David Bowie was American and had an unsuccessful life.

FEEDTIME - FEEDTIME

Dunno too much about this Australian band. They were compared to Wire when they came out, but that's definitely just for lack of a better descriptor; they don't even sound close.

The sound is closer to Jesus Lizard, but less abrasive; it's the same slide guitar playing. Maybe somewhere between Big Black and Jesus Lizard. Or something.

It's pretty good. It's heavier than most stuff I listen to, but for some reason I like it anyway.

Maybe somewhere between Big Black and Jesus Lizard

:BONERGRIN:

Hsker D - Metal Circus

If you don't have 100% of Husker Du's material, including Bob Mould and Grant Hart's inconsistent solo albums, well, maybe you're underestimating them. Because years ago, the only thing I knew about them was that they were big with weirdo 80s hairmetal dudes who would listen to Dokken and whatever other garbage.

Turns out they were a punk band with really incredible song writing skills and the type of contentious rivalry that results in great music before a colossal breakup.

This EP is just a brief sample of their early material, and the entire download is worth it for "Diane," based on the murder of a childhood friend of Grant Hart. A perfect song.

trivia: them dudes are meep (!)

I know fo sho Bob is, the other I couldn't tell, their meeps were clean.

Bob Mould and Grant Hart fo sho, Greg Norton maybe not, but we can always hope.

cool. I remember them from way back, but never got any of their music. I remember the "underground" record store by the community college was always playing them when I went in to look for metal tapes. Looking forward to checking them out.

Check out The Replacements for a well rounded, Minneapolis Sound experience.

and if you're looking for "ghostrider," check out Suicide's self titled album

Forgot I had new music to check out. Toiling Midgets is pretty good stuff, couldn't get into Sea of Unrest as well as Son. Son was awesome, soulfull Bowie-esque punkish jams, loved the whole album. Golden Frog was the best though, I listened to it about 5 times in a row and put it on my morning play list. thanks again.

I think Eitzel is the better singer, kind of sounds like david bowie and bruce springsteen's lovechild.

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB - THE RESTLESS STRANGER

Mark Eitzel, the killer singer/songwriter from the previously posted Toiling Midgets album, Son, had a band for a loooong time. American Music Club is an incredibly generic name, but I don't think anything more ambitious would fit Eitzel's style.

It's really all him on this album, which is better and worse than Son. However, I will always pick an imperfect album over an unambitious one.

SUGAR - BEASTER

When Husker Du split up, Grant Hart and Bob Mould did their own thing. Bob Mould, among other things, formed the band Sugar.

Clocking in at almost exactly 30 minutes, Beaster is a short, furious abstract exploration of Christ. It's not an insult to say that Sugar sounds like a Husker Du side project, and I'm not damning it with faint praise, either. All six songs sound like your second favorite Husker Du song.

Start to finish, as tight as Flip Your Wig, but with twice the focus.

Sugar is great, still listening to American Music Club, pretty good so far.

Big find: a blog where a pro-sounding audio dude remasters New Order and Joy Division singles. wtf bro that is meeping--

one for THE SMITHS as well??

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