Nuggets/Pebbles/BackFromTheGrave etc tunes that are nothing like Beatles

[IdleRich]

its impossible to 'like' this music in any other way than sort of condescending isnt it. its quaint, basically. thats the appeal.

No replies to this post at all, it was quaint but with basically no appeal. Sorry about that little fella, I did actually try to respond but there was no way other than to be sort of condescending - don't be disheartened though champ, keep on trying.

 

[luka]

that seems uncharacteristically rude of you rich. a strange tone for you to strike.

 

[catalog]

That's why it's so funny

 

[luka]

i didnt find it funny.

 

[catalog]

No, I suppose you might not have.

 

[IdleRich]

I'm not sure how un-Dissensus this thread is really...

I think all you said is true, but even so it's very rarely discussed, so in that very facile and shallow - but sort of important even so - sense, it is undissensian.

 

[Leo]

I think all you said is true, but even so it's very rarely discussed, so in that very facile and shallow - but sort of important even so - sense, it is undissensian.

yeah, I didn't explain my reply to @bassbeyondreason clearly enough, that's what I meant: this thread is un-dissensian in that we never discuss this type of music. I just said it is a facile -- one might even say shallow -- way.

 

[blissblogger]

and of course you've got your equivalents now to the Nomads or Hoodoo Gurus or Barracudas or Hives - producers doing their it's-1992-FOREVER or it's-1994-FROZEN-FOR-ALL-TIME period precise recreations, like Phineus II

for some reason I have slightly more time for the ardkore-retro thing than I did for the Sixties-garage-in-the80s, or Sixties-garage-in-the-2000s lot. Perhaps precisely because it feels so incongruous and contrary to original spirit.

And yet, when done well, it creates the same buzz. There's just some indefinable quality that is missing, you can always spot when it's made now rather than back in the day. Not even a production detail that gives the game away (although often the artist name or the title is just a little off), some elusive intangible X-factor

 

[Leo]

maybe the x-factor is the originals were just doing what they could (often crudely, barely), whereas the later ones were trying for a specific thing/sound/look/vibe. one was pure release, accidental. the other was targeted and intentional.

 

[IdleRich]

Sorry if that came across as rude. I mean that there is no particular reason why we shouldn't discuss this music... but as a rule we don't, and that is worth noting.

 

[IdleRich]

maybe the x-factor is the originals were just doing what they could (often crudely, barely), whereas the later ones were trying for a specific thing/sound/look/vibe. one was pure release, accidental. the other was targeted and intentional.

I have to say that, although I love the 60s stuff, as a rule I have no interest whatsoever in more recent pastiche of that sound.
For some reason, I do like this one, maybe I didn't realise it was fake until it was too late.

 

[IdleRich]

As @catalog reminded me (indirectly) I did do a radio show of this kind of stuff a few years ago. As I explained to him there was an, er, cockup with the mic so the show is somewhat marred by a load of (more) inane (than usual) mumbling. But great tunes. Leaning towards the more famous one - it's not like a specialist show. But I did play a couple which I think are not well known.

This blues-ey fuzz monster



And this hundred miles an hour organ stomper



And the show is here if you wanna check it out, apologies for self-promotion but not really.

 

[william_kent]

The Last Word - Sleepy Hollow

one of those bad vibes walking bass tunes with a snotty, even though the trip is not going at all well, talk over, a doomy organ and a guitarist who doesn't quite let rip which really adds to the tension

when the youtube finished it autoplayed the £900 Stoics tune @blissblogger posted upthread ( Enough of What I Need ), but the video was illustrated with this picture which I reckon @IdleRich may appreciate as it marries this thread with the googie one...



I did a search on discogs and this isn't a physical release - it seems amazon are selling mp3 collections marketed as "pebbles"...

but anyway, the other side of the Stoics single demands to be posted


The Stoics - Hate

BREAKS!

 

[IdleRich]

Yep, need me one of those skirts.

 

[IdleRich]

Nobody has yet mentioned one of the most legendary (and legendarily primitive) of the whole genre. According to the urban myth the band were so disappointed with the quality of the record that they used them for clay pigeon style target practice until only 5 or so remained...

 

[martin]

Closest I can hear 'British invasion' groups match the Yank garage groups in attitude and distortion:

 

[woops]

I have to say that, although I love the 60s stuff, as a rule I have no interest whatsoever in more recent pastiche of that sound.
For some reason, I do like this one, maybe I didn't realise it was fake until it was too late.

i can't let this pass without posting this song by the only good thing ever to come out of burnley apart from me:

 

[martin]

i can't let this pass without posting this song by the only good thing ever to come out of burnley apart from me:

I remember that off John Peel, always liked it. They did a good Peel session too but it seems to be lost media now.

 

[luka]

i dont mind rich being rude to me i just thought it was uncharacteristic and a tonal lapse but i do think this music is quaint at best and i look down on anyone who pretends to like it. unless they are leo's age and its what they were rocking out to at the age of 19. having said that im not immune to the pleasures of the quaint. funnel of love came on in the craft beer and mdf bar i was in this evening and i was enjoying it. the quaint has a place but our enjoyment of it is always condescending. imo.

 

[luka]