Choon of the Day, redux
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- bobbins bobbins is a stupid ilx term chongle mossif copper nonce didcot parkway didcot parkway didcot parkway everybody is weeping foolish buffoon jamaican voodoo gang from predator 2 just loads of shakira tunes back to back keep trying nan mr tea stuck a toadstool up his bum never delete never explain never apologise nonce reggae omazed predator soundtrack but only the drums shut it down this goes out to all the players in the hood
IdleRich
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Liza is dj-ing at this garage/rock n roll thing on Saturday. Inevitably that means I have to lend her a load of my painstakingly collected psychedelic sevens and a big slice of (ahem) my painstaking achieved cool that goes along with them.
Amongst them I pulled out a tune called She's Mine by Children of Darkness which (despite the goth name) is a rather sweet, albeit raw/primitive garage number with a killer hook supplied by the lurching farfisa organ melody.
I love the tune, but today I wanna mention how it reminds me of a totally unconnected (I assume) band with a strangely similar name - Sons of Darkness were apparently a funk combo who put out this raw as fuck funk seven - also comes on a label with a pretty basic (probably home made looking) red label
The way it blasts out of the speakers reminds me of garage, it's a savage three minute eruption of anger and energy and it kills.
So, that's two of my favourite killer totally unconnected sevens... love how both bands claim to be, one way or another, the offspring of darkness... do you prefer the Sons's savage funk? Or the swirling seasick sike from the Children?
Either way, doing this thread has caused me to look Sons of Darkness up on discogs and it turns out they had a few sevens.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/495231-Sons-Of-Darkness
That's three sevens I don't got, with the following tunes; What it Look Like/Black Ice, How Much I Love You/Funky Thing, Funky Thing/Funky Thing
Gonna check 'em all out and see if I need any of these records....
Amongst them I pulled out a tune called She's Mine by Children of Darkness which (despite the goth name) is a rather sweet, albeit raw/primitive garage number with a killer hook supplied by the lurching farfisa organ melody.
I love the tune, but today I wanna mention how it reminds me of a totally unconnected (I assume) band with a strangely similar name - Sons of Darkness were apparently a funk combo who put out this raw as fuck funk seven - also comes on a label with a pretty basic (probably home made looking) red label
The way it blasts out of the speakers reminds me of garage, it's a savage three minute eruption of anger and energy and it kills.
So, that's two of my favourite killer totally unconnected sevens... love how both bands claim to be, one way or another, the offspring of darkness... do you prefer the Sons's savage funk? Or the swirling seasick sike from the Children?
Either way, doing this thread has caused me to look Sons of Darkness up on discogs and it turns out they had a few sevens.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/495231-Sons-Of-Darkness
That's three sevens I don't got, with the following tunes; What it Look Like/Black Ice, How Much I Love You/Funky Thing, Funky Thing/Funky Thing
Gonna check 'em all out and see if I need any of these records....
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IdleRich
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What it Look Like/Black Ice
Seems like the What It Look Like side is pretty much the same idea as Solid Funk... once again. from the second the first chord blows the dust off my laptop, we get a breakneck race to the finish which you're welcome to enjoy as long as you can stay with them, it is just slightly more reined in than Solid Funk, but that doesn't make it any tamer, in fact it seems to me that the effect is akin to putting a lead on a tiger and holding on tightly to it with your eyes closed and gritted teeth - the tune is constantly trying to burst free and overwhelm the band. It's ace, ten out of ten from me.
The other side is a bit less of a reckless charge. Uncharacteristically slow but still raw and funky.
How Much I Love You/Funky Thing
Weird, they seem to have accidentally done a ballad with proper singing and harmonies and all that stuff. It's cool that they explore their soulful side but it's not what I want or expect from this band after years of following them. The b-side Funky Thing takes a swerve away from soul and back towards the customary funk sound that we have all grown to love. It lacks the vicious brute force savagery of their best efforts though.
Funky Thing/Funky Thing
See above (unless they are different versions or something which I can't be bothered to check - probably stereo/mono)
It seems to me that I need the What It Need/Black Ice seven... let's see what it goes for on discogs... there are loads of reissues for under 10 dollar but the postage will cost me more than the record. Going by popsike, it seems the original normally goes for under 50 bucks on ebay, think if I put my mind to that I'll snaffle an OG for a decent price. The How Much I Love One is an anomaly cos looks like people pay four or five hundred dollars... could it be a northern spin or something? I still prefer the first one anyhow... seems the last one goes for about fifteen quid or below...
Anyone got an OG of that seven they can live without? Will take it off your hands if anyone finds themselves in that situation.
What it Look Like/Black Ice
Seems like the What It Look Like side is pretty much the same idea as Solid Funk... once again. from the second the first chord blows the dust off my laptop, we get a breakneck race to the finish which you're welcome to enjoy as long as you can stay with them, it is just slightly more reined in than Solid Funk, but that doesn't make it any tamer, in fact it seems to me that the effect is akin to putting a lead on a tiger and holding on tightly to it with your eyes closed and gritted teeth - the tune is constantly trying to burst free and overwhelm the band. It's ace, ten out of ten from me.
The other side is a bit less of a reckless charge. Uncharacteristically slow but still raw and funky.
How Much I Love You/Funky Thing
Weird, they seem to have accidentally done a ballad with proper singing and harmonies and all that stuff. It's cool that they explore their soulful side but it's not what I want or expect from this band after years of following them. The b-side Funky Thing takes a swerve away from soul and back towards the customary funk sound that we have all grown to love. It lacks the vicious brute force savagery of their best efforts though.
Funky Thing/Funky Thing
See above (unless they are different versions or something which I can't be bothered to check - probably stereo/mono)
It seems to me that I need the What It Need/Black Ice seven... let's see what it goes for on discogs... there are loads of reissues for under 10 dollar but the postage will cost me more than the record. Going by popsike, it seems the original normally goes for under 50 bucks on ebay, think if I put my mind to that I'll snaffle an OG for a decent price. The How Much I Love One is an anomaly cos looks like people pay four or five hundred dollars... could it be a northern spin or something? I still prefer the first one anyhow... seems the last one goes for about fifteen quid or below...
Anyone got an OG of that seven they can live without? Will take it off your hands if anyone finds themselves in that situation.
shakahislop
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nice stuff to listen to on a sunny cold morning. actually these tunes are doing a really good job of blocking out the noise of some jackhammer lads who have been at it just outside my window since 8.24 this morning, assume that's probably what they were made for
william_kent
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I maxed out my 23kg check in luggage allowance on my return from a recent jaunt to the former DDR, four and a half litres of rum, 250g of a nasty and extremely rank shag tobacco, with the remainder consisting of slabs of vinyl originating from the state controlled AMIGA label
I've been working my through the piles of Ost Rock that I acquired
and this one merited more than one "rewind"
Poland via DDR
Halina Franckowiak Und Die Gruppe ABC – Ich Gehe Weiter ( 1972 )
dreamy organ, sultry vox, harmonica, builds up to "psych breaks"
amazingly "whosampled.com" comes up blank, this is the sort of tune I would have thought Madlib* would have sampled for his Rock Konducta albums
* what's going on with Otis aka Madlib? - I'm guessing a mid-life crisis? dropping Now Again boss Egon as manger after who knows for how many years for, and I don't meant to be judgemental or anything, but his new manager looks like... got to choose my words carefully - maybe the "root chakra" is commanding his thought processes?
^ Madlib & his new "manager"
anyway my tune of the day is from the East German Stasi approved compilation album:
I've been working my through the piles of Ost Rock that I acquired
and this one merited more than one "rewind"
Poland via DDR
Halina Franckowiak Und Die Gruppe ABC – Ich Gehe Weiter ( 1972 )
dreamy organ, sultry vox, harmonica, builds up to "psych breaks"
amazingly "whosampled.com" comes up blank, this is the sort of tune I would have thought Madlib* would have sampled for his Rock Konducta albums
* what's going on with Otis aka Madlib? - I'm guessing a mid-life crisis? dropping Now Again boss Egon as manger after who knows for how many years for, and I don't meant to be judgemental or anything, but his new manager looks like... got to choose my words carefully - maybe the "root chakra" is commanding his thought processes?
^ Madlib & his new "manager"
anyway my tune of the day is from the East German Stasi approved compilation album:
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Leo
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another cool store that I buy mail order from.
craner
Beast of Burden
woops
is not like other people
those drums are horrible, i feel like I'm on a dancefloor staggering drunk just listening to them
maxi
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one of my favourite uses of music in a film