I'm just starting to dig through the whole ny no wave period (spurred by going further and further back with sonic youth). All three of those NY Noise compilations look super cool. Any recommendations on which I should pick up first??
wow, thanks. I still don't have the first SY EP (I only go back to Confusion is Sex), but I'll look out for it. "Slightly less atonal" sounds more down my alley too. I like what I've heard and read about the more "mutant disco" end of things...
blimey, there's just too much music!!!! I've also been meaning to look into that Arthur Russell everyone loves so much. I assume World of Echo is the starting point? (and does anyone else find it weird when you know about music without knowing the music itself? or does that just happen to me?)
wow, thanks. I still don't have the first SY EP (I only go back to Confusion is Sex), but I'll look out for it. "Slightly less atonal" sounds more down my alley too. I like what I've heard and read about the more "mutant disco" end of things...
blimey, there's just too much music!!!! I've also been meaning to look into that Arthur Russell everyone loves so much. I assume World of Echo is the starting point? (and does anyone else find it weird when you know about music without knowing the music itself? or does that just happen to me?)
'World of Echo' is a top 3 record all-time for me, so yes, I'd say start there. Though the music has little obvious relationship with anything NY or No Wave. Honestly almost none of his musical guises does, the Sleeping Bag Records disco stuff being the closest. As far as I know, he was coming from the Kitchen background, not hanging around at the Mudd Club (though he did have close ties with the Talking Heads and thus might've hung around CBGBs earlier on?). He's truly a world unto himself, everything at least warrants a listen. It's one of the happier things I've seen in the last few years, that he's finally getting appreciated.
What's it called (i.e. what search terms should I use?)?, and where should I look?You sound like you might've been my ideal recipient of the 1981 box I did a while back--you might try searching for it on P2P, as I'm not making it anymore myself. . .
Edit: Oh, and get that SY EP, asap. It's crazy how fully-formed they were--and makes pretty clear that they were hardly the first "alternative rock" band, but rather one of the last good post-punk/no wave bands (later sins in lazy indie sludgerock notwithstanding).
What's it called (i.e. what search terms should I use?)?, and where should I look?
It was called, unsearchably enough, '1981'. So I'm not sure how you'd find it, as I never shared it electronically. . . "1981 box set" maybe?
It was called, unsearchably enough, '1981'. So I'm not sure how you'd find it, as I never shared it electronically. . . "1981 box set" maybe?
Perhaps if you name some of the more obscure songs on there?
bought this reissue on sat awesome! from the same period as ny noise but better i think