What Are You Listening To?

African death cult band the Tom Tom Club.

The slander going on in this thread! Going to get so litigious if this forum ever breaks contain and the mainstream world is introduced to us!

Pat Boone’s first band from the 1950s….that’s Pat with his future wife Pat Boone on cover

Album is beginning to open up itself

sweetcell wrote:

Starsky wrote:
I should add they played hardcore punk and came out of the same Orange County scene as Agent Orange.

Unfortunately their anti-feminist bent - clear from the name- and Nazi sympathies meant they had a short career (How Seymour Stein signed them is beyond me but he must have been horrified by this album cause they were dropped quickly) although I heard they recently regrouped to play Trump campaign events.

wait - what?  who are you referring to??  EBTG are english, not from OC… i'm sure i'm missing something here.

jeffml wrote:
Still waiting on explanation from Starsky re: Everything But The Girl. If your statements are not confirmed we could be talking libel unless of course you retract them with an apology to the band and the board. 

yup, i'm waiting too - mostly to clear out my personal confusion.  as far as i was aware, there was only one band called Everything But The Girl, from England.  they had one of the biggest club hits of the 90's with the terry todd remix of "Missing".  was there another EBTG from OC?

I think I had one chance to see Soft Cell: November 24, 2002 at the 930….I blew it

I was just back from Argentina two weeks prior and my first shows back that month were Luna, Dylan and can’t remember what else…

I think in 40 years Soft Cell has hardly played the US. I suppose they have been dormant for most of that time…I don’t believe they have played the US since 2002

They have a new final album coming out next year and are playing a few dates in England this week. Hoping next year they will play a few shows in the US…but these England shows might be the end

Non stop erotic cabaret really is a tremendous album…

As is well known about 1960 Ray moved from Atlantic Records to ABC that gave him an incredible contract where they even gave him ownership of the masters ….ten years after ABC didn’t care about Ray as he was no longer selling at all…. But they still distributed the few copies Ray made of his new records on his own record label Tangerine

This instrumental big band record came out about 1972 and is pretty obscure..must have sold under 10,000 copies… except for the first track  Ray Charles’ piano is hardly featured, except for the first song nothing is written by Ray, he doesn’t sing, he doesn’t arrange anything…

Pretty bizarre… I found one laudatory review on all music by someone that doesn’t seem to have much of a clue… other than that it’s as if the record hardly existed

This is my definition of torture


Of course it’s considered a classic and 592d highest album on Rate Your Music

You need to go outside and get some fresh air.

Happy just sitting here listening to music and looking outside

May just be the polar opposite of the stuff Cave has been doing recently

Completely bonkers

Starsky:  How do you decide what to listen to?  Is it what you are in the mood for or do you pull out albums randomly?  Any method to your madness?

I'm listening to my big haul of CDs from my first library book sale in two years. Yesterday was 5 buck bag day.

jeffml wrote:
Starsky:  How do you decide what to listen to?  Is it what you are in the mood for or do you pull out albums randomly?  Any method to your madness?

So it’s a combination of new purchases of old vinyl that I want to listen to… it’s almost like my type of streaming..many won’t be played again… AND favorites in semi organized record racks…probably 7,000 or so…a lot of stuff is just boxed up in a shed….stuff that I listened to and sampled…maybe duplicates

I used to do a ton of digging for records and buy them cheap…come home with a fat stack and start playing them and researching them on the internet…. learning about them…that’s my fun…now I don’t have time or energy to go from record store to record store to thrift stores so I just dig at my local record store two miles from here fairly regularly…needless to say I try to pay $1-$3 for LPs unless it’s something I really want

Thanks. Good stuff

Starsky wrote:
probably 7,000 or so…a lot of stuff is just boxed up in a shed….stuff that I listened to and sampled…maybe duplicates

I used to do a ton of digging for records and buy them cheap…

if your shed has 7k albums in it, wouldn't digging through those be just like sifting through a record shop?  i know i couldn't remember all 7000… shouldn't be that hard to stumble upon something that you've completely forgotten you even had (AKA equivalent to discovering something in a shop)

I found an original mono copy of the Grateful Dead’s debut for $1.

You store 7k records in a shed? Have we considered the risks associated with extreme temperatures?

I store way more than 7,000 in shed


It’s been a few years and they are still fine


But yes it’s definitely been considered

Bat Fangs - Queen of my world

Didn’t realize they just came out with a new one,  it’s a rockin affair