Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "A" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Inspired by Scott Seward!

Please inspire me to pull their records off the shelf and listen to them for the first time in years!

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A Bullet for Fidel
Adventure (12-inch on Sugharhill-distributed Sweet Mountain, 1981)
A' La Carte
Alda Reserve
Deborah Allen
The Allen Brothers
Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
Arpeggio
Artful Dodger
A Split Second
Average Businessmen

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

a spilt second incongruously populate charity shops across north of england with single 'flesh', breaking up tyranny of strauss and mantovani

the record is not good

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band

Cherchez le Femme, by any chance?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That was Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, strictly speaking (yes I know they were all the same group, but...). "I'm An Indian Too" was their big "hit."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I MAKE BANGERS NOT ANTHEMS
LEAVE THAT TO THE ARTFUL DODGER

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Now there's a thing. If Mike Skinner were a butcher, would you buy sausages from him?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(oops, I should have said: The '70s HARD ROCK Artful Dodger not the more recent British dance act!)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything I've ever heard by A Split Second has been fantastic. If you've got "Flesh" or "Bend My Body Armor" you should put it on now and dance like a Teutonic robot.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Armando's "I'm An Indian Too" is fantastic, as is "Deputy Of Love" on the B-side (of my 1981 7-inch at least) ... Ze Records at their best.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, "I'm an Indian Too" is also on *Seize The Beat*, isn't it? That Ze Records comp. But the record I was referring to above is the album, which in addition to including both of those songs has a very sexy cover on it by the way.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band's 'Winter Love' is my personal pick. Shit, anything connected to Kid Creole is my personal pick...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

So which Artful Dodger albums are on your shelf? The first, which is the best? Or the second, "Honor Among Thieves" which is OK to good? Or the third, "Babes on Broadway," or something like that? They were always on the undercard at several shows I saw in the 70's. Pretty good, too, hard and sometimes heavy power pop before people started calling it that. Did an excellent version of "Showdown," better than the Dolls, but which was never committed to vinyl.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

*Honor Among Thieves*! I swear I once owned the first one, but it's gone now -- must've been stupidly purged from the collection in some pre-moving-day tirade some year. Never heard that third one...

― xhukx, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't miss the fourth/final Artful Dodger record _Rave On_ (Ariola, '81) -- a return to form after _Babes_.

Some label called Pendulum did CD reissues of the first two albums around '97 -- straight reissues, no bonus tracks, no new liners. Haven't seen them around recently.

Great band, but they never got a foothold outside DC (their hometown) and Cleveland.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

CBS even issued the first Artful Dodger on CD. I passed on a used copy and regret the decision since now you can't find it. A fine record and should you see it in Princeton or Quakertown, you should reclaim it at once. Jeez, I wish I could still go to the Q-mart. Burned meat and chickens hanging from the ceiling, trinkets everywhere, an illegal mata-mata turtle in the "pet store."

― George Smith, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but the REALLY scary place is what we call the "mini-Q-mart", the semi-permanent tent city set up behind the summer flea market out back, loaded with mildewed vinyl, used tools, military surplus, Nazi paraphenalia, and salespeople who look like they sleep there, even in the winter....though actually that's probably what the trailers in the parking lot are for. They also sell food, but I am not that brave.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I had steak sandwiches there. I thought they were find but I was probably dodging something. Yep, the militaria always seemed to be big. I think that for some of the kiosk operators, it was a place of last resort because of criminal records prohibiting their employ anywhere else in the county. My car was smashed in the gravel lot by a hit-and-runner one time.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i bought an angel city record today at the thrift store, chuck. in your honor.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

A Split Second's "Mambo Witch" video is, outright, the most hilarious video ever made.. unintentionally.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Imagine Dave Gregory from XTC being a "dark frontman" doing kung fu chops, Robert Smith as Eddie Van Halen, and Zod in sunglasses on backup rhythm. Oh, and get some model to go up and throw sticks at a bonfire.

Ta dah. "Mambo Witch" video.

I love my Wax Trax video collections.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Armando's "Deputy of Love" is indeed fantastic. Sometime around 1990 some mentalist recorded a 12-inch that was a medley of "I Shot the Sheriff" and "Deputy of Love."

A Bullet For Fidel's s/t song is still present in my brain, although I haven't heard it for maybe ten years.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:08 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― ksh, Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:09 (sixteen years ago)

revive3

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:15 (sixteen years ago)

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