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]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:58:27 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35288#post35288 Russell Brown Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:58:27 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35289#post35289 Grant McDougall I "bags" the 3Ds Fish Tales and / or Swarthy Songs For Swabs eps.

I saw the 3Ds in at least 11 different venues, lets alone how many times at the Empire or Sammy's and saw them from their second gig until their last. I've got loads of great memories...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:06:03 +1300 Alan Macdougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35290#post35290 Alan Macdougall Oh yes, those 3Ds gigs at the Empire were sublime.

And I'd love to see a run of David Mitchell posters for them too – I wonder if anyone still has these?

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:17:47 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35294#post35294 Robyn Gallagher

Okay, go ...

That makes it seem so easy. But now I'm faced with the difficult task of figuring out which is my golden NZ recording (so many to choose from!) and then crafting some prose in the shadow of Mr Downes' fine work above.

I'm excited. Watch this space.

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:26:44 +1300 Andy Turley http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35330#post35330 Andy Turley Well I decided I'd just go ahead and actually register so i could respond rather than just read on...

Having thumbed through Grant's book, i was torn between how enjoyable a read it was, and my near rage at the exclusion of Superette's Tiger. Grant tends to hit the nail...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:39:33 +1300 InternationalObserver http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35345#post35345 InternationalObserver "No fists", he said, which might have been slightly reassuring were he not holding a doubled over length of wharf rope and his mate's forearm was in a cast.So what was he proposing instead – a knife fight or a skipping contest? ]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:33:05 +1300 dyan campbell http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35372#post35372 dyan campbell

So what was he proposing instead – a knife fight or a skipping contest?

Did you guys' school playgrounds have those heavy yellow nylon ropes for skipping here? God, they were quite an incentive to become very fast and agile... if it was double-dutch pepper the guy was proposing then...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:54 +1300 philipmatthews http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35392#post35392 philipmatthews Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:05:48 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35395#post35395 Danielle

Talk about clearing the air: some of us have been waiting ages for someone to say that.

I thought people said stuff like that about the Finns all the time.

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:22:43 +1300 philipmatthews http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35403#post35403 philipmatthews Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:53:40 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35427#post35427 Robyn Gallagher Garageland – "Come Back Special" EP (1995)

Garageland's "Come Back Special" EP is 12 years old now and I still listen to it a lot and every song on it is golden. But don't call it a comeback – the title is "Come Back Special", three words. You are special...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:35:37 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35429#post35429 Robyn Gallagher By the way, don't let the length of my bit (or Graeme Downes' piece above) put you off writing something yourself. If all it takes is one sentence or one paragraph, then that's all you need to write.

Rock on, write on.

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:41:39 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35431#post35431 Danielle Robyn wins the internet! That ruled.

Re Split Enz: I suppose I find blanket condemnation just as dull/infuriating as blanket praise. I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here. Perhaps I mean that railing against the 'Thing' that Split Enz have become in the national imagination is sort of...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:07:21 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35432#post35432 Robyn Gallagher

Robyn wins the internet! That ruled.

Aw, thanks, Danielle!

I loved the 3Ds. And I used to go and see the Headless Chickens when I was 17, with my dodgy fake ID, and yell out all the words to 'Gaskrankinstation'

Me too! My favourite bit was yelling out "Marry the...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:52:38 +1300 Kyle Matthews http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35434#post35434 Kyle Matthews

So it's time to pull open the CD case, feeling the plastic ping open, and pop out the CD with its white, pixely/snowflakey design and put it in a stereo (not Walkman, computer or iPod, thanks)

If you're putting CDs in your iPod, that's either bad for the CD, or...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:20:07 +1300 craigm http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35436#post35436 craigm

If all it takes is one sentence or one paragraph, then that's all you need to write

.

This got me thinking. There's really only one album that persistenly uses such economy of lyrics to express raw emotion which when combined with utterly original music make a unique album. I'm sure...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:33:18 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35439#post35439 Grant McDougall Regarding Split Enz, there's a huge difference between Phil Judd-era Enz and Neil Finn-era Enz. It's as if they're two different bands.

With Phil Judd, on Mental Notes and Second Thoughts, they're way, way more out-there and far, far more original; like a sinister marriage between Eno-era Roxy Music, Eno's...

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:06:26 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35440#post35440 Robyn Gallagher

Dark Carnival reminds me of Robert Johnson wanting to sell his soul but not quite getting up the guts to do it

craigm, thanks for taking the time to compose that. It makes me want to seek out the album and listen to it. A great debut post!

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:27:33 +1300 linger http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35445#post35445 linger Dark Carnival is the second Chills song on the "Scarfies" soundtrack. It didn't actually make the CD; but it's there in the movie at exactly the right time, as they're listening to Otago student radio describing the weather as "shitty... stay in bed" and not too coincidentally rigging up an... ]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:57:48 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35455#post35455 Danielle

With Neil Finn they then became far more contrived and tended towards the more radio-friendly pop / new wave stuff they're mainly known for.

I'm actually a fan of The Judd Years myself – he doesn't get his due – but I am going to have to say 'huh?' to...

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:18:30 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35457#post35457 Rob Hosking Grant McD,

Don't forget the Kinks influence, especially on Judd's vocal inflexions. At times he seems to be channelling Ray Davies. Even on some of his post-Enz stuff – he's very Ray Davies on some bits of 'Counting the Beat'.

Some other comments....The Clean's 'Billy Two' always sounded to me...

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:59:08 +1300 linger http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35469#post35469 linger Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:21:39 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35480#post35480 Rob Hosking Linger,

Dats der bunny.

Got it somewhere, in vinyl form, probably in a beer crate in a cupboard in the attic....

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:10:41 +1300 craigm http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35556#post35556 craigm Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:07:24 +1300 Paul Rowe http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35566#post35566 Paul Rowe Alrighty, I had this half-written in my head, until the Enz got a minor bagging earlier. I will proceed however...

In 1984 I was 13 and when a mate suggested we go see Split Enz at the Napier Municipal Theatre, it was a big deal. The whole occasion was a...

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:35:26 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35580#post35580 Rob Hosking CraigM wrote:

Rob looking forward to hearing your list. I hope Hogsnort Rupert isn't on it! :)

Brave Words, Craig, brave words....

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:00:22 +1300 Lea Barker http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35591#post35591 Lea Barker Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:39:20 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35613#post35613 Rob Hosking For anyone wondering about Sweet Dreams its on Youtube.

Songs this weird don't usually have such a singalong chorus...

oh, the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghMq29m_l7Y

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:07:19 +1300 Jackie Clark http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35629#post35629 Jackie Clark Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:16:18 +1300 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35632#post35632 Emma Hart

My favourite NZ album of all time is a toss up between Hello Sailors' Last Chance to Dance (1982), and th' Dudes' Right First Time (1979)

That makes you about the same age as my brothers, and all that stuff was stacked in towers of vinyl in the corner of...

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:38:03 +1300 Creon Upton http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35657#post35657 Creon Upton I remember taking a taxi from Lyttelton to the square with Zita and Rachel, and the entire trip consisted of a voluble and carefully referenced exegetical debate over which was better, Hallelujah All The Way Home or Bird Dog.

I guess we were fairly liquored, but the trip seemed to...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:37:59 +1300 hudsie http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35685#post35685 hudsie Bored Games- Who Killed Colonel Mustard.

yes it is just an EP, and yes 2 tracks are significantly better than the others. But Joe 90 is a perfect pop pop song.
And these guys were rocking. Much less that they were just out of school.

It is unfathomable that Shayne...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:35:25 +1300 Richard Kyle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35688#post35688 Richard Kyle Interesting to see what years evoke memories ...for me a couple ... The Builders – beating hearts late at night or early in the m orning it is always a pleasure.

Snapper – buddy ...rock on NZ anthemm if there ever was one.

If I could throw on more in...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:52:38 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35697#post35697 Russell Brown

Interesting to see what years evoke memories ...for me a couple ... The Builders – beating hearts late at night or early in the m orning it is always a pleasure.

In which case, you absolutely need to get your ass to Mighty Mighty next week. I can wholeheartedly recommend...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:26:26 +1300 Ladymink http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35698#post35698 Ladymink Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:41 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35707#post35707 Russell Brown I don't think there was any band more personally special to me in the early 1980s than Bird Nest Roys.

They were a bunch of oddballs from West Auckland who just moved into town one day, playing this gorgeous, billowing pop with guitars and vocal harmonies.

I think I first...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:00:10 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35731#post35731 Simon Grigg With Phil Judd, on Mental Notes and Second Thoughts, they're way, way more out-there and far, far more original; like a sinister marriage between Eno-era Roxy Music, Eno's early solo albums and the (English) Canterbury scene (Soft Machine, Henry Cow, etc). The Beginning Of The Enz comp of early singles... ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:42:39 +1300 Stuart Coats http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35735#post35735 Stuart Coats Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:03:25 +1300 Ronette Pickering http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35741#post35741 Ronette Pickering Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:17:29 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35742#post35742 Robyn Gallagher

Ostensibly we went to see The Able Tasmans but we got to the bar early to, well, get pissed. That's how we blundered onto the support act – The Inhalers.

Some of my happiest live music nights out in Hamilton in the early '90s involved seeing local bands that I'd...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:22:53 +1300 Ladymink http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35743#post35743 Ladymink Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:26:06 +1300 Damian Christie http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35744#post35744 Damian Christie This is so not going to get me down with the cool kids but...

The Exponents – Something Beginning with C

It's not my favourite NZ album (I'll leave that internal debate for another day), but I can't think of any I have more association with.

It was 1992, I...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:27:00 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35749#post35749 Russell Brown the best bits of the story undoubtedly include the one about the 0900 Trivia Quiz scam we ran so successfully that Big Ross was able to give up his day job and use the cash to set up Globule Records...kept our recording studio and young family going through many a... ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:36:43 +1300 Kyle Matthews http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35753#post35753 Kyle Matthews Not really being the hang out at gigs, nor the really into NZ music type, I wouldn't have thought I would have a story for this one. It hasn't turned out to be a golden album or EP story, but blame the band more than me.

In 1993 I moved...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:54 +1300 Ladymink http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35754#post35754 Ladymink Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:41:34 +1300 Richard Kyle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35755#post35755 Richard Kyle Damian ..great! I remember reading abpout that bet on an earlier PA thread, $2K I believe... Jordan and his mental agility!
Surprised no one has mentioned Chris Knox yet ... so I will. Waiting for the Nothings going to happen album/EP 45 on one side and 33rpm the other. It...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:43:05 +1300 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35760#post35760 Emma Hart

Some of my happiest live music nights out in Hamilton in the early '90s involved seeing local bands that I'd just stumbled across. Some of them never even recorded anything, but they'd play live heaps and get a small following who'd treat them like rock gods.

Something about this sent...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:01:03 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35762#post35762 Rob Hosking Richard,

pretty sure Nothings Going to Happen was '81 – I remember seeing that weird video on Radio with Pictures when I was still living with my folks.

Wonder what the demo was in '81, then???? /

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:03:17 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35763#post35763 Rob Hosking Emma,

BUGGER!

Someone else has mentioned the Daggys....Still got their single, 'sometimes Nothing' – they did an EP as well but it wans't so good.

Saw them live at Welly Polytech in '82, they were damn good live, in a meat and potatoes rock sort of way.

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:05:42 +1300 Richard Kyle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35768#post35768 Richard Kyle Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:23 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35773#post35773 Rob Hosking was the late night horrors....the memory isn't what it was, so I'm prepeared to be wrong on this, but this listing site here has it in 1981: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tall+Dwarfs ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:25:16 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35774#post35774 Robyn Gallagher

the one about the 0900 Trivia Quiz scam we ran so successfully that Big Ross was able to give up his day job and use the cash to set up Globule Records

Heh, at the time, I remember reading (prob'ly in Rip It Up) about this krazy band called the...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:30:42 +1300 Richard Kyle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35776#post35776 Richard Kyle Ahhh Rob I stand corrected, apologies – I gave the wrong album title though still a goodie. I'm thinking of 'That's the long and short of it' in 85 which ties in nicely with my memorory of the HLR march.
If I remeber correctly after the march we all headed...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:33:11 +1300 Ladymink http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35778#post35778 Ladymink Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:36:18 +1300 Paul Rowe http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35780#post35780 Paul Rowe

and a poem that I found quirky about a guy who collected used teabags, dried them out, and used them to make a 'recycled teabag duvet'.

Frank, I believe, by David Merritt. I saw him perform a couple of times when I first moved to Auckland. Supporting the 3Ds at...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:45:37 +1300 Andy Palmer http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35804#post35804 Andy Palmer It was nice of Russell to steal my thunder, but he wasn't to know that even though the band broke up before I got to discover them, they are one of my all time favourites.

In fact I was a bit slow in discovering Flying Nun altogether. I can remember...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:22:12 +1300 Kevin Moar http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35818#post35818 Kevin Moar Damian Christie's already mentioned Something Beginning With C, which is – yes – a better, cleaner album with bigger hits and mellower mellows than the album I'm going to nominate.

But Grassy Knoll was the first CD I ever bought, at a Deka in Blenheim. I must have been 14...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:59:50 +1300 henry.hollis http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35820#post35820 henry.hollis I'd suggest AK '79 great compilation of some good bands.... bloody good even if my tape didn't stand the test of time all that well.

http://www.flyingnun.co.nz/archive_site/bands/compilations/ak79pr.html

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:08:31 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35823#post35823 Grant McDougall

...Like every other spotty first year I got my orientation ticket (the Lemonheads played that year...

And Munky Kramp. Munky Kramp seemed to be the defining line in the music scene at the time. You either liked them or you didn't, and I suspect if I'd been more 'in', liking...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:25:02 +1300 bradshute http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35824#post35824 bradshute For sheer "dumb" "in your face" rawk and roll I can't go past Sticky Filth and "Weep Woman Weep". Titles that are guaranteed to offend and make ya wanna make with the mullet...and one hell of live act to see!
Must admit, AK 79 has to be a very close...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:25:44 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35826#post35826 Robyn Gallagher

The Lemonheads: my flatmates and I scored the job of writing the gig date /time in all the Orientation posters, then pasting them up around the varsity.

Oh, were those the green and purple posters with the band members' faces in circles? Cos I had one of those (with the...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:42:18 +1300 Kyle Matthews http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35827#post35827 Kyle Matthews

I remember all this. :)

See Grant was cool, and I wasn't. DJing at Radio One was the height of cool. I just got involved in student politics.

Munky Kramp you're right in that they weren't "cool", given that they played, for want of a better description, "funk-pop" which was...

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:48:52 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35842#post35842 Grant McDougall Munky Kramp you're right in that they weren't "cool", given that they played, for want of a better description, "funk-pop" which was part of the then-prevalent indie-rock orthodoxy.

Everyone seemed to have an opinion on them though. Typically they were either great, or absolute crap, and not much of the...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:28:23 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35848#post35848 Grant McDougall The Lemonheads: my flatmates and I scored the job of writing the gig date /time in all the Orientation posters, then pasting them up around the varsity.

Oh, were those the green and purple posters with the band members' faces in circles? Cos I had one of those (with the...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:32:35 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35853#post35853 Rob Hosking Just a thought re: a couple of posts earlier on re: the Finn bros etc, and the more alternative approach to music..

Untitled on the Headless Chickens' Stunt Clown is very Neil-Finn-like.

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:59:06 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35865#post35865 Robyn Gallagher

The very ones. Except your probably beared something like "Gurus, Feb 28, 8pm" and not "featuring Grant McDougall". ;)

The uni rec centre gym, actually! It was a great show. My friend Renee and I left halfway during the 3D's support gig because she had spotted Evan Dando having a...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:49:11 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35876#post35876 Simon Grigg

Some other comments....The Clean's 'Billy Two' always sounded to me like another take on the Jam's 'Billy Hunt'. It's the aggression thing.

And Tally Ho is pretty much The Subway Sect's Ambition. NZ pop was nothing if not plaguristic back then

But Liverpool's Mighty Wah! lifted the intro from that...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:33 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35883#post35883 Simon Grigg

but this listing site here has it in 1981: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tall+Dwarfs

July 1981 to be exact

And, although its in drastic need of an upgrade, which is on the way, I reckon this is the best AK79 page, but I would....

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:57:23 +1300 Alec Morgan http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35920#post35920 Alec Morgan Well, I'm going with Herbs 1981 debut EP "Whats Be Happen?" This has never been released on cd nor have any of it's songs appeared on the various Herbs compilations.
It is still around in some 'pre owned' stores. The classic cover art–a powerful black & white aerial photo of Bastion...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:04:55 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35960#post35960 robbery Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:37:01 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35966#post35966 robbery Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:54:17 +1300 kowhai montgomery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35967#post35967 kowhai montgomery

showed

Cute. I completely understand the inclination to fix but those typos happen to the best of us.

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:57:56 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35974#post35974 Simon Grigg

Propeller showed NZ that great nz albums were possible

thanks Rob....I feel humbled reading that. We just took the jump from singles to albums because we had to. There was no way we could ask either band just to carry on making singles forever. But as you say, a couple...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:46:10 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35975#post35975 Simon Grigg Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:27 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=35976#post35976 Russell Brown

Well, I'm going with Herbs 1981 debut EP "Whats Be Happen?" This has never been released on cd nor have any of it's songs appeared on the various Herbs compilations.

Amen. It's a powerful record, and I I don't think Herbs were quite the same thereafter, without Tony Fonoti.

Who...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:55:48 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36015#post36015 Simon Grigg

Who owns the rights? Do you know, Simon?

Hugh Lynn I think, unless he passed them on to someone else.

I remember seeing Herbs Mk.1 at The Gluepot on Thursday to about 20 people early in 1981, with Colin Hogg and Mo Cammick, and being mightily impressed. I wrote, what...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:57:33 +1300 Chockasunday http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36018#post36018 Chockasunday Herbs are under-appreciated.
Their best of, Listen, has some good tunes, but some over-earnest protest songs which haven't dated well.

Surely they are a root influence on the reggae and dub so popular in NZ these day?

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:16:40 +1300 Chockasunday http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36019#post36019 Chockasunday Talking about NZ music from the 70s, did we ever do any imitations of disco or soul music?

Before the 80s, NZ music was a lot more derivative of overseas trends. I have some great psychedelic albums from the early 70s (e.g. Jessie Harper 'Shades of Midnight Sun'), but I'm...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:19:11 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36020#post36020 Grant McDougall The 3Ds – Swarthy Songs For Swabs ep (Flying Nun, 1991).

Out of the many, many NZ albums and eps I own, there is only one I've bought on the day it

was released – the 3Ds' Swarthy Songs For Swabs.

I walked into Echo Records in Dunedin, gazed admiringly...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:23:01 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36021#post36021 Grant McDougall Oops, sorry about that, it's not supposed to look like that.

I wrote it up, then went to post it, but twice some weird message came up saying that "after a year 'such and such server has closed...and to try one of the blogs on the left" . I was...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:29:27 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36022#post36022 Grant McDougall

Talking of such..this is interesting

Very. Alan Perrot once told me that in the early '90s either he or a mate of his (I've forgotten which) picked up the 12" of 'Megaton' in a sale at the palmerston North library for...read it and weep: $2.

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:33:34 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36026#post36026 Simon Grigg

Is there anything besides Golden Harvest 'I Need Your Love'?

There were the great Maori showbands, some of whom were pretty neat. Real Motown Revue stuff. Check http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~mstowers/id47.htm

And there was some killer funk. We used to go and watch Tama around 75 in a club in Newmarket, near the...

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:40:21 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36029#post36029 stephen clover Bevan:

I have some great psychedelic albums from the early 70s (e.g. Jessie Harper 'Shades of Midnight Sun')

Do you actually HAVE that album? cos I'm looking for someone to be my friend and rip me a copy, after having had my LP stolen a few years back.

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:56:36 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36041#post36041 robbery

Most never recorded but, damn, they could play.

how bout a thread on the lost albums. the bands that had a great album in them but never finished it.

I'll start the ball rolling
Beat Rhythm Fashion (recently attended to posthumously)

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:22:13 +1300 bob daktari http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36056#post36056 bob daktari Skeptics – III (Flying Nun) 1987

http://www.discogs.com/release/807220

Fresh, innovative, exciting and moody.

The realisation of the ideas found on their previous recordings finally found the perfect form on III.

An album that like all good to great albums is more than the sum of its parts, individually (excusing AFFCO) the...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:51:10 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36057#post36057 Simon Grigg Ok I'll add Freebass to that...long lost early jazz-punk (their live album doesn't count)

Oh, and the Features...we actually recorded another eight tracks for an album but they were never mixed. I gave the tapes to Jed a couple of years back and I think its underway.

But if you...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:51:55 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36058#post36058 Simon Grigg Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:54:12 +1300 samuel walker http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36074#post36074 samuel walker

Ok I'll add Freebass to that...long lost early jazz-punk

Oh yezz, [i say sir, you seem to have dropped your matchbox......] I think Freebass are my Gang of four.....they sure knew how to ride an extended groove!

and Colony, they had at least half a great album in them ready...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:21:53 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36075#post36075 robbery

But if you wanna go back that far...Suburban Reptiles (part recorded but never released but missing), Marching Girls...

I do wanna go back that far actually :)
did the spelling mistakes double disc satiate the lost album need or do you think they had a better album in them?

The...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:21:56 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36077#post36077 Russell Brown Not really "lost" (because I'm sure Bill has a copy) but it gives me a chance to bang my Direen drum ...

The out-take from the Beatin Hearts recordings that eventually turned up as 'On the Beach Last Night' on the CD re-release was not originally an instrumental.

The lyrics...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:35:49 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36078#post36078 Robyn Gallagher

*blah blah blah* hey I'm no Smithies alright, it is just a bloody good listen!

'Tis! The Skeptics still sound like they're from the future.

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:39:38 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36081#post36081 Simon Grigg

PS: You've got the weekend to get your submissions in for the five copies of Soundtrack. After that, it's Word of the Year time ...

Ha...just got an offer of a freebie from Grant...made my day

Alms for children might have had a good post punk album in them. that...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:52:06 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36107#post36107 stephen clover Also the rumored lost gordons album. legend has it there was an old gordons either before of just after the gordons first album (now there is a classic nz album for sure) that the engineer accidently wiped. apparently the band under took to re record those tracks many years later... ]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:24:27 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36115#post36115 Simon Grigg

AK79? (Simon, any progress on the debacle you outlined on the Psecret list?)

yes..today actually, I'm told....but will wait and see

Anyone with an interest in post-punk in NZ owes it to themselves to get a look at Andrew Schmidt's new issue of Mysterex (#4).

Mysterex is an incredible piece...

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:47:16 +1300 David Cauchi http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36119#post36119 David Cauchi

Dead C Eusa Kills (remember them blowing Sonic Youth off the stage in 1993?)...

Jesus, Clover, I recorded that, but sadly the cassette tape is no more. What a good night that was.

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:41:47 +1300 Richard Irvine http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36152#post36152 Richard Irvine Bressa Creeting Cake for the most part went on to become vineyard and
orchstra salwarts Goldenhorse, after releasing my favorite NZ album, the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake. Dodgy name (and cover) aside, BCC is choka with fine tunes, great playing and cheerful bizarreness. Track four 'Superstation' is an ode to...

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:50:31 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36153#post36153 stephen clover

Bressa Creeting Cake

Dodgy name? I preferred the original...

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:15:07 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36155#post36155 robbery Mysterex is an incredible piece of documentation and is a must read IMO. I'm not sure if I have exactly the same memory of some of the things as they appear in there (not sure if anyone does..they were muddled times) but Andrew is doing a hell of a fine... ]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:31:42 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36156#post36156 robbery The real shame for a lot of those acts is that their live acts are lost forever in those pre digital days. Now every shitty band gets it's live act released on DVD and it exists in perpetuity. The will never be any real document of just how good Toy... ]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:38:52 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36157#post36157 Rob Hosking

Bressa Creeting Cake
Dodgy name? I preferred the original...

Whoo, a dodgy band name thread could be fascinating.

My nomination for dodgiest: the original name of Fetus Productions was Scraping Fetus Off The Wheel.

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:18:38 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36159#post36159 Simon Grigg

Its very much a fanzine and I admire the passion but have to make em down big time on the personal slant aspect of their retelling of history.

See that what I love about it. They were VERY opinionated times. You loved or hated everything, no nice middle ground. It...

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:55:10 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36160#post36160 Simon Grigg

My nomination for dodgiest: the original name of Fetus Productions was Scraping Fetus Off The Wheel.

Different band, Rob, caused some confusion at the time though.

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:00:21 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36161#post36161 Rob Hosking

Different band, Rob, caused some confusion at the time though.

Hmm. Embarrassment.

Might have known it was an Aussie who came up with something that tasteless though...

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:58:09 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36230#post36230 robbery

Whoo, a dodgy band name thread could be fascinating.

Nuns Fart always impressed me as off the cuff offensive. They were a sub goth CHCH band with members of Lurch and other forgotten bands circa 1991 I think, or maybe 94.

Bressa creting cake's original name of "breast secreting cake"...

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:04:58 +1300 Stephen Judd http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36237#post36237 Stephen Judd Hitler's Cock. ]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:44:13 +1300 Paul Rowe http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36241#post36241 Paul Rowe New Plymouth & Palmerston North – always wonderful places with bands that had charming names.

PN – Clare's Un Natural Twin (the posters just used the initials)
NP – Dick Fux & the Goatfucking Nunrapers

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:20:32 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36243#post36243 Rob Hosking Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:34:30 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36244#post36244 Russell Brown

OK, my top Kiwi album is Able Tasmans' Hey Spinner.

Great post, Rob. Are you familiar with the more recent Humphreys and Kean album? It's delightful.

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:57:10 +1300 kowhai montgomery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36245#post36245 kowhai montgomery Songs from the Front Lawn.

Yes, yes, yes.
I think I will try and find a copy this afternoon.

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:10:03 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36256#post36256 Rob Hosking

Are you familiar with the more recent Humphreys and Kean album? It's delightful.

Not yet, Russell. Had it strongly recommended to me recently though (funnily enough, by another ex-denizen of the Front-Lawn-owning flat mentioned above).

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:15:39 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36261#post36261 Robyn Gallagher

Hamilton in the late 80s boasted a punk band called Hitler's Cock.

May I hilariously point out that it was actually spelt Hitler's Kock?

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:57:40 +1300 InternationalObserver http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36263#post36263 InternationalObserver This item closed without being won ]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:39:25 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36269#post36269 Simon Grigg

This item closed without being won

what, and you are surprised??? Who in gods name would put up $3 bucks for that.................

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:16:05 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36271#post36271 stephen clover LOL

Ponsonby DC's, The

Who in gods name would put up $3 bucks for that.................

Or... $86 for this :p

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:13:12 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36272#post36272 stephen clover

May I hilariously point out that it was actually spelt Hitler's Kock?

Thank you, I was hoping I wasn't gonna have to.

ObLink: Ongoing memoirs of a crate-digger, Or, how the Datsuns saved my life in Hamilton.

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:19:16 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36274#post36274 Simon Grigg Don't cha hate it when this happens.

One of those sold to some crazy Dutch guy for US$200 in Australia. I get these people emailing me from all over the world after all sorts of things..if only I'd kept a box or 5.

S'funny how it all went around the...

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:00:39 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36281#post36281 stephen clover

Don't cha hate it when happens

yes.. good reminder to use [Preview].

One of those sold to some crazy Dutch guy for US$200 in Australia.

At the risk of sounding smug, I'm SO glad i didn't pay anything like that for mine.

S'funny how it all went around the world.

...

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:26:31 +1300 Jeremy Andrew http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36285#post36285 Jeremy Andrew One of those sold to some crazy Dutch guy for US$200 in AustraliaJust out of interest, one of what? For those of us whose work connections have Trademe blocked... ]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:36:11 +1300 robbery http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36286#post36286 robbery

Just out of interest, one of what? For those of us whose work connections have Trademe blocked...

newmatics broadcast o.r. double 7 inch furtive records
Closed without bid, no reserve.

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:49:38 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36341#post36341 Simon Grigg courtesy of the edit by the, ahh, editor, the line

Don't cha hate it when this happens.

no longer makes sense.

Hmm... maybe the time is right for a vinyl reissue? he says thoughtfully.

Or perhaps not, the sleeve made every one of those a financial trainwreck

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:56:23 +1300 craigm http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36366#post36366 craigm Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:29:57 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36367#post36367 Russell Brown

Taupo called BitterFM (88.7). I heard sour queen on it the other day while driving and had to pull over to listen to it. I think it's the first time i've ever heard it on the radio! Made my day. :)

You heard 'Sour' on Bitter. That's funny.

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:31:32 +1300 Stephen Judd http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36370#post36370 Stephen Judd In my occasional bogan moments I crank up Shihad's "fish" album.

I was in a particularly dark space in my UK exile and Home Again evokes all the panic of the failing long-distance relationship for me.

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:46:22 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36371#post36371 Russell Brown

In my occasional bogan moments I crank up Shihad's "fish" album.

I was in a particularly dark space in my UK exile and Home Again evokes all the panic of the failing long-distance relationship for me.

Oh noes!

To me, it says "doing the dishes with Shihad on so loud...

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:51:42 +1300 stephen clover http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36379#post36379 stephen clover

the sleeve made every one of those a financial trainwreck

Never seen an LP copy of AK79, what was it... B/W? Standard 12" jacket? A printed inner sleeve? A bound/stapled booklet? Tell me more...

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:34:07 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36381#post36381 Rob Hosking

I heard sour queen on it the other day while driving and had to pull over to listen to it. I think it's the first time i've ever heard it on the radio! Made my day. :).

There's something about unexpectedly hearing a song you like that can do that...

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:43:09 +1300 Richard Llewellyn http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36382#post36382 Richard Llewellyn Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:11:23 +1300 craigm http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36385#post36385 craigm

but visions of heaven aren't the only shared things that are hard to come by.

Nice one..... :)

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:49:47 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36387#post36387 Grant McDougall the sleeve made every one of those a financial trainwreck

Never seen an LP copy of AK79, what was it... B/W? Standard 12" jacket? A printed inner sleeve? A bound/stapled booklet? Tell me more...

Stephen, Simon's refering to the Newmatic's double 7" Broadcast OR ep's sleeve, as it was a...

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:48:53 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36388#post36388 Simon Grigg

I've got a vinyl version of AK79. I bought it in about '91 or so, for what was then the bargain price of $35. About the same time, Records Records here in Dunedin sold two copies for $50 each.
About six months later, Flying Nun re-issued it on cd with...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:02:04 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36390#post36390 Danielle I think I win the AK79 bargain-off by finding it *and* the Toy Love LP in Real Groovy in about 1992 for $19.95 apiece. That was a good day. They were a bit scratched to buggery, but no skips.

(Tangentially, it's funny how very little I care about the actual...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:40:55 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36391#post36391 Robyn Gallagher

If I could get rid of every CD I own and put them all on some mighty mega-hard-drive, I would in a heartbeat.

Yeah, I dream of similar. I have heaps of CDs and nowhere near enough shelf space to house them all (ditto books). As a result, all my...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:25:08 +1300 Grant McDougall http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36392#post36392 Grant McDougall

humph...Propeller and Flying Nun issued it together. It was really my baby and took months of tracking down tapes, redoing the sleeve etc. I had to remix the Suburban Reps Megaton (and the previously unreleased SR's track whatever it is) from the original 4 track unmixed tape I had.

Doh!...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:43:53 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36429#post36429 Robyn Gallagher

Danielle, Robyn, you're comments on down-sizing your music collection has freaked-out the "inner Rob Fleming" in the male music geeks here. ;)

I won't mention, then, the times in the past when I sold a few CDs in order to pay the rent. Though, having said that, I mostly only...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:22:14 +1300 Paul Rowe http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36433#post36433 Paul Rowe Bigger Than Both Of Us story as well, and it's difficult to say how important that compilation was to me in the late 80s, being too young for that music the first time round (being from Hawkes Bay didn't help). In... ]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:29:14 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36436#post36436 Rob Hosking Grant McD wrote:

Danielle, Robyn, you're comments on down-sizing your music collection has freaked-out the "inner Rob Fleming" in the male music geeks here. ;)

But we all know, don't we, that 'High Fidelity' is not only a work of fiction but it really belongs in the Fantasy section.

People...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:39:18 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36452#post36452 Simon Grigg

Cheers Simon.

A pleasure. It was great to finally get that re- mastered and out on CD (with thanks to Dylan Pellett and Jonathan Hughes at FMR) in 2003. Jerry Wise at Festival banged the original vinyl on CD in 1990 or so without talking to me and it was...

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:51:02 +1300 ARVNranger http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36587#post36587 ARVNranger songs like Dangerous Game from Diatribe

Dire Tribe? I think this was on an early '80s compliation LP titled "Barking up the Right Tree"

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:16:30 +1300 Rob Hosking http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36591#post36591 Rob Hosking It may have been on that one as well, but it was definitely on Banana Dominion.

Still have my copy. Also the original EP, 'Too Lazy'.

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:35:55 +1300 Simon Grigg http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,836,speaker-singing-g-against-the-e-chord.sm?p=36599#post36599 Simon Grigg http://www.discogs.com/release/684642 ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:11:21 +1300