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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9475 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's coming out on Captured Tracks and there is a Soundcloud playlist here https://capturedtracks.com/strum-and-thr um/ | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 653 Registered: 08-2005 |
That link doesn't work. Try this: https://capturedtracks.com/captured-trac ks-announces-strum-thrum-the-american-ja ngle-underground-1983-1987/ It looks interesting. I love 1980s jangly guitar pop but mostly from the UK: The Chesterfields, Brilliant Corners among others; and REM and the Long Ryders from the USA. I've never even heard of any of these bands, let alone know any of their music (and the Sex Clark Five is a terrible, terrible name!). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9558 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the new link, Simon. When the previous link still worked, I listened to some of the songs and they all sounded good. It’s great that obscure bands can appear on a compilation decades after they existed. I think I’d heard of Sex Clark Five before, but maybe that’s just from reading about the release a few weeks ago. Either way, yes, it’s a terrible name. Although, considering we’re talking about it, maybe it has served its purpose. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4451 Registered: 03-2005 |
I guess I've always had too narrow a personal definition of "jangle pop." For me that means music heavily trading on arpeggiated chords played on guitar and often (but not necessarily) on 12 string guitar --basically Beatles "Ticket to Ride" and Byrds-influenced music. REM for sure. Most of the samples on the Captured Tracks link fit this mold. I only bring this up because somebody on this board some months back described the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever as jangle pop which surprised me. I've never considered them to be jangle pop. I just think of them as a guitar band. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 654 Registered: 08-2005 |
I still may buy this – I'm trying to broaden my listening at the moment. I have a lot of time on my hands... The 1980s were probably the era in which I listened to the greatest variety of music and attended the most gigs... three Glastonbury festivals, at least two Ashton Court festivals, gigs including the Go-Betweens, Cult, Cure, Hawkwind, Marillion (dreadful), Kinks, Mighty Lemon Drops, Ed Kuepper, Chills, Crowded House, Chumbawamba, REM, Ozric Tentacles, Roy Harper, Steeleye Span, Three Mustaphas Three, Throwing Muses, and that's the merest snapshot... but I steel love jangly guitar pop! I'd love to go back... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2005 Registered: 08-2006 |
At first glance, two things make me happy on this. 28th Day was a killer, if short-lived, band. The track they picked is great but if you've never heard it, look up the tune "25 Pills." It's like REM filtered through Joy Division. Also, Great Plains, a wonderful Columbus, Ohio band I saw many, many times in the few years I lived there. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2006 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'll save you the trouble: Here's 28th Day and "25 Pills": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-HYqLW 6zc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9562 Registered: 05-2005 |
“REM filtered through Joy Division” - it takes less than one second of the song to snow Rob’s description is 100% right. It’s a good song, too. Now I really want this compilation. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 655 Registered: 08-2005 |
Echoing Pádraig's thoughts, Rob's description is spot on and I think I'll be looking up their stuff on YouTube. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9572 Registered: 05-2005 |
I meant “show Rob’s description” of course, not “snow Rob’s description”. In my defence, Rob’s hometown of Chicago does tend to get quite a lot of snow. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1311 Registered: 03-2007 |
Anyone interested in 28th Day should look out for the 1992 Skyclad Records CD release as it adds six tracks to the original vinyl release. There is also a 2003 Interstate Records release which adds another seven tracks ( four live recordings; three demos ) but it is likely to be harder to find. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2007 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think I have the Skyclad CD version, although I also have the original vinyl EP I bought in college. Such a shame 28th Day didn't last a little longer. I thought they were the shit. And, Padraig, no kidding about the snow. It's starting to cool down here and I'm not ready for winter. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1312 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rob, The album was released in 1985 on cassette and vinyl only and it was not until 1992 that Skyclad released it on CD for the first time. The Innerstate Records ( not Interstate Records as I typed earlier ) came along a lot later so, like me, you probably have the Skyclad release. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2008 Registered: 08-2006 |
It's funny — I found the CD at Amoeba Records in San Francisco many years ago when I was on a business trip. I bought the vinyl when it first came out in '85 but I'd long since been without a turntable. I was delighted to find the CD. I had no idea - and was amazed - it had been re-released. I was pretty sure I was the only soul who heard that record in '85. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4455 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rob, my treasure from that Amoeba is a self-released CDEP by Jeff Whiteaker's group, The Concubines. I found it in the "clearance" section for $1.99 and teased Jeff about it, telling him a fair weather friend must have dumped it. But that's what I found on my only ever visit to that store, whereas except for finding the Plug Uglies' anthology in the early days, I never found much of anything impressive in zillions of visits to the five-times-larger Hollywood location. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1313 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rob, I don't have the vinyl so I am guessing I stumbled across the band around the time Skyclad Records issued the album on CD. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2009 Registered: 08-2006 |
This is the 28th Day song actually on the comp, or at least some version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o37tO7kR R3g | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9884 Registered: 05-2005 |
This compilation is out today and I’ve just pressed play. |