Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "P" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM

Did they come as a job lot .... from a journalist from Wire perhaps?

parchman farm is pretty boring - blue cheer worshippers, with this dude who reminds me of constantine from american idol as lead singer. i mean, entertaining for that reason, but i dont think id check out their record.

mary prankster is a baltimore institution, but i dont think ive ever actually HEARD her music...

Mary Prankster: Her/their live album is fun. (I guess "her", or else I would have filed them/her in the M's instead of the P's.)

"Groovey" Joe Poovery: Actually spelled "Poovey."

Pressure Drop was some old Ninja Tune type thing, no?

Yep, that sounds like Les' kinda thing (Les, the old school jazzer)

No need to treat Konitz so disparingLee, but yeah I guess there was probably an oldtime school of thought that the Tristanoites were a bunch of nerds. Which they may in fact have been, but who on this board can cast a stone at that?

Not technically, I don't think:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5y67mpvg9f5o

I don't buy the Massive Attack comparison there, though. To my ears, Pressure Drop attack more massively than Massive Attack ever did.

The "p:Machinery (Beta)" remix (w/ I think Steve Howe!) is really good too.

There's also 1234, the album they made after both Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag left and some American wannabe-soul singer joined; several songs co-written or at least song-doctored by Howard Jones; not great, but considerably better than you'd think, esp. "Heaven Give Me Words."

Place of Skulls -- stoner metal-associated band led by Victor Griffin who used to play guitar in Pentagram. And that puts them in the Pentagram space sonically, the latter of which, alphabetically, seem not to be here.

Pandoras -- inept garage-rocking girls who grew into the job over the course of a couple records, two which are now reissued on Rhino. Their fickle fans seemed to abandom them as they got better, acusing them of going metal. One guitar player became the leader of The Muffs, the other died.

And you're sure that William Parker doesn't get love around here? Weird. He's phenomenal.

On the 2005 NME Yearbook a lot of artists and people from the "Industry" name some Panico's songs among their 2005 faves.

holy shit. easily the best neosoul album from 2004. how'd this go ignored?

Rashaan Patterson's "So Hot" is the best song I've heard this year (shame about the typo)

Cheap Chick, a name I've always loved. Their photos are pretty boss, too. Never have had the pleasure to hear a record by them, though. It was said they recorded at least a single.

Rhino could start such a comp with Fanny and make it available IN STORES (what a concept, as opposed to having to shell out on the Internet before seeing how they may or may not have mucked things up). If one wanted to make Fanny more obscure, Rhino couldn't have done a better job. I don't get it. Idiots! All four Jo Jo Gunne Rhino Handmades are sent to Wounded Bird for general release. All Cactus is sent to general release. NO FANNY! In the meantime, I rebought the vinyl.

I would think all of these kids get enough play on ILM individually, although perhaps not in those precise configurations...

The original Propaganda line-up reformed for the Trevor Horn anniversary extravaganza in London last year, and put on a pretty damn good show, from what I hear. (They did "Dr. Mabuse.")

Meanwhile, a new, cheap-ass version of the band (just Susanne Freytag and Michael Mertens) is signed to Amontillado.

http://ztt.freshdigital.co.uk/bandsite/tssite/homepage.do?ruleset=album&id=8246

tis fantastic stuff if you like the Dr Mabuse 12" (one of the best 12" ever in my opinion)

the muffs' debut album is a punk-pop masterpiece which itself doesn't get mentioned nearly enough on ILM, but it's an M album so this is probably the wrong thread to discuss that.

revive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s