Ty Segall “Singles 2007-2010″

sfilzen — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:34:21 +0000

Ty Segall “Singles 2007-2010″ 2011. Double album on Goner Records. 25 tracks from one of the most relentlessly prolific (and greatest) indie artists. Though released in 2011, we just recently got this through Segall’s Bandcamp site – last fall he did a massive reissue dump of his material there and we’re currently overflowing with Segall vinyl.

Because this singles comp is a snapshot of his early work, some of which didn’t make it onto any of his previous albums (in 2011 that was already 5 full lengths, 2 split LP’s, a lie album, a cassette-only release, 8 7″ singles and a collaborative album, plus appearances on several comp records), a lot of the material is seriously lo-fi (his more recent work is kinda lo-fi but not to this extreme) and raw. Segall’s never been afraid of doing covers (ie his 2011 Ty Rex LP and his 2018 release Fudge Sandwich) and there are couple of great ones on Singles including Chain Gang’s “Son of Sam” which I’m most familiar with via Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Segall’s not quite as raucous but it’s still excellent), Thee Oh Sees’ “Maria Stacks,” Simply Sacuer’s “Bullet Proof Nothing,” and Gories’ “I Think I’ve Had It.” Segall’s own material is mostly stronger, though. I’m particularly fond of “Cents,” the 60′s psych-garage rocker “Standing at the Station” (both on his 2009 LP Lemons), the Nuggets-worthy “My Sunshine” (on Melted, 2010) and the pscyho-surf “Happy Creeps.” Also on Singles are several demos that would appear on later Segall LP’s like “So Alone” and “Shoot Me in the Head” (both on Horn the Unicorn, 2008). Not all tracks are awesome – “Fuzzy Cat” is waaayyy out there and not my thing – but this is a great collection to add to our seemingly endless stack of Segall.

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Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny”

sfilzen — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:52:19 +0000

Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny” 1992. Grand Royal Records. The EP “In Search of Manny” was the first release on Beastie Boys’ label Grand Royal (and the album art is probably one of the sleaziest of all time). While only vaguely hiphop, the band had many connections to the Beasties: drummer Kate Schellenbach played on the Beasties’ “Pollywog Stew” and the band’s first performance was as the opening for the Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill. Allmusic’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the album perfectly – “music that is elastic, casually expansive, darkly seductive…the samples are for texture and color, not groove, and the aesthetic is slacker bohemia. In short, it’s a record that only could have happened in 1992, just as Gen-X alt-rock culture hit its stride but before it reached the mainstream.”

I love this album so much and listened to it incessantly in the early 90′s, especially late hot summer nights, nodding along to the slinky beats of “Daughters of the Kaos,” “She Be Wantin It More” and my favorite, “Life of Leisure,” with its perfect 90′s slacker lyrics:

You got a brain you ain’t using
You got charm you’re abusin’
You’re too busy out there floosin’
Or lying at home snoozin’

Why you wanna waste away?
Lover of the life of leisure
Lover of the life of leisure

Why you wanna waste away?
Lover of the life of leisure
Lover of the life of leisure

Time moves along
You don’t have a life anymore
Time moves along
You don’t have a job, I got four

Spend my money on cigarettes
Midnight dragon, off track bets
Get up at three, turn on the TV
For all I know you got a dangerous disease

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