Rediscovering albums you've forgotten

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Permalink Reply by Natalie Trott on March 28, 2011 at 12:48pm

"Walk On" is one of my favorite Hiatt releases...so organic and, for the most part, joyful.  

 

Lately, I've been pulling out old Pixies records.  With so many sort of whiny indie bands out there, it's great to hear some jammin' rock and roll. Surfer Rosa rules.

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Permalink Reply by Liz Burns on March 28, 2011 at 12:50pm

Ultraprophets of Thee Psykick Revolution and In Excelsior Dayglo from the band Christmas, and Chopping Down the Family Tree by My Dad is Dead. Oh, and Youth of America from the Wipers. Must be that ever-increasing rich-to-poor ratio that's had me nostalgic for the 1980s....

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on March 28, 2011 at 1:09pm

The Wipers!  Yeah, that's a perfect candidate for rediscovery.  Off to dig through the Cds....

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Permalink Reply by Liz Burns on March 28, 2011 at 3:16pm

It's been a great listen - I remember first hearing "When it's Over" the year it came out, which was the first semester I was at Berklee College. Everyone was playing the title track, but that whole bombastic, rip-roaring instrumental - with the piano - just knocked my socks off.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Crandall on March 28, 2011 at 1:44pm

Richard Hell and the Voidoids "Blank Generation" was the latest one for me.  I ran across a youtube vid of Love Comes in Spurts, and thought "Crap! I forgot how awesome this is."   Immediately picked up that record, and it's been in heavy rotation for like a month and a half.  I love new old music!

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on March 28, 2011 at 7:02pm

This topic is fresh in my weekend also.  I had long ago lost the love for Bruce Springsteen.  I once though his records were magical, always to be enjoyed at 11.  Now, well, hit the forward button--until I saw the documentary of the making of Darkness on Edge of Town a couple of days back.   Now Darkness, and his other stuff regained the color that had bled from them, and I once again marveled at what a band the E Street Band is, and what a song writer Springsteen is.  "Badlands" has enjoyed repeated listenings...just to hear Roy Bittan's piano part--and now knowing that Springsteen hummed the Big Man's sax part to him! 

 

(Also recently, bought the rereleased/remastered Pete Townsend "Who Came First"...my that was FINE!)

 

It is wonderful that the material that you were once "tired" of regains that immediacy that it once enjoyed.

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Permalink Reply by Roy Anderson on March 29, 2011 at 8:33am

fIREHOSE "ragin full on" and "if'n". I think I prefer them (looking cautiously over my shoulder) over the minutemen.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Collins on March 30, 2011 at 6:16am

Speaking of Who solo albums, I listened to "Whistle Rhymes" and "Rigor Mortis Sets In" a couple weeks ago for the first time in a long time...John Entwistle wrote some great stuff! Pete cast a huge shadow, but John was a major talent in his own right.

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Permalink Reply by billsifer on March 30, 2011 at 1:50pm

take that shit back!

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Permalink Reply by billsifer on March 30, 2011 at 1:49pm

i've been rediscovering all kinds of stuff as i'm in the process of ripping hundreds of old cd's. so excited to get an ipod that holds ALL my entire music collection. the reason i haven't listened to a bunch of them is it's too much of a pain in the ass to drag them out of storage... anyway, buffalo tom's big red letter day and let me come over are favorite rediscoverys of mine. paul westerberg 14 songs sounds pretty damn good, too.

 

there's also a bunch i'm ripping that i wore out back in the 90's. didn't have as much disposable income or as expansive music tastes and so i'd wind up listening to stuff over and over. pixies and frank black spring to mind.

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Permalink Reply by Roy Anderson on April 11, 2011 at 4:19pm

Paul Westerberg's "14 Songs"-- love that record. "Come Feel Me Tremble" is a gem, too.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on March 30, 2011 at 3:42pm

Here's a suggestion for anyone looking to rediscover a gem:

 

 

Folks tend to focus more on East Side Story because that's when Squeeze broke commercially in the States but, for my money, Argybargy was their apex.  Pull it out, give it a listen and see if you dont agree....

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