Musick that Needed Work - R: Randy Jacobs

 

Randy Jacobs was born in San Francisco & raised in Detroit. He started playing a music at the age of 13. After graduating from high school, Jacobs worked with former Miles Davis bassist/singer Michael Henderson. He co-authored the Top-Five R&B hit, "Wide Receiver." After a number of years working in the Motown scene Jacobs became one of the core members of Was (Not Was). While with the band, Jacobs co-authored the Top-Ten hit "Walk the Dinosaur" (here).

 

After Was (Not Was) disbanded he became a member of Soul Mission, a gospel R&B project featuring Tata Vega, Mavis Staples, Booker T Jones & Steve Cropper. In 1994 he formed his own outfit The Boneshakers, finally realizing his vision of funk, blues, R&B, rock  soul. He released two CDs, Book of Spells (here) & Shake the Planet both featuring his longtime Was (Not Was) band mate Sweetpea Atkinson on vocals for Pointblank/Virgin Records.

In 2005 Randy released From Me to You, his first jazz influenced solo instrumental CD on his Bad Monkey Recordings label. With appearances from Mindy Abair, Andre Berry, Rick Braun, Euge Groove, Wendy Moten, Bob Sheppard, Wayman Tisdale & co-producer Jon Gilutin.

Sit back & enjoy some sweet Soul musick... 

 

Randy Jacobs - From Me to You, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR003-2, 2005.
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From Me to You
Mi Corazón, Mi Amor
Trixie, Get Down Off the Table!
Kisses for Miss Faye
Ooo What She Does yo Me
Tell Me Why
Extraordinary Lover
No More Rainy Days
Never Over You
Dobro Jones
Emotional Moment

 

 

 

For this next one you probably will want to get out of that seat & on your funky feet. Jacobs' next outing was another instrumental release but more varied than his jazz-flavored debut. For this one he revisited songs he had written fresh out of high school. He included five of those tune & wrote five new ones to flush out the CD.

 

Randy Jacobs - The Return of Randy Dynamite, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR005-2, 2010.

For All Your Funky Needs    
Love You Back    
Rumpulator    
Melodius    
Troublefunk    
Sweet Distant Lover    
Fish in the Snack Bowl    
Big Star Church    
Someone for Me    
Mucho Mas

 

 

 

This 2013 release is an instrumental funk-fest, teaming up with Was (not Was) & Boneshakers friends: keyboardist Jamie Muhoberac; Sweet Pea Atkinson; Sir Harry Bowens; Mindi Adair; & Dave Hooper.

 

Randy Jacobs - Rhythm & the Beat, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR006-2, 2013.

Funkolina Brown
Secret Plot Deep
Groovellephacus
(Let's) Get Funky Tonight
Love Lessons
No Brag, Just Fact
Omazing
Wake up Baby
McStinkum
Free the Man
Que Sera Sera

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Re-Flex

  

This one could have remained where it has be languishing all these years but I'm trying to empty out the folder so I gave it the treatment, fixing it up. Some of you may like it & that's fine. I'm just not a big Brit wavish synth-pop fan. 

 

Re-Flex was a British electro pop group featuring John Baxter (guitar / vocals), Paul Fishman (keyboards / vocals), Nigel Ross-Scott (bass), & Roland Kerridge (drums). Their only big hit song "The Politics of  Dancing" was recorded in 1982, released in the U.S. in 1984. It reached #24 on the Billboard charts & has since become a new wave radio classic. The follow-up single "Hurt" hit the Billboard charts as well.

However, interest in the group faded quickly. The band's follow-up album, Humanication, was shelved, never to be released during the band's prime. Humanication was finally released in 2010.

This CBR320 CD is not listed on Discogs. The cover art is of amateur quality. The disc is most probably a bootleg release. The front cover has a generic Capitol Records logo, back listed as flex cd 001.

 

Re-Flex - Extended & Rare, bootleg flex cd001, 200?.
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Whizz Kid (Riding High soundtrack)
Praying to the Beat (demo acoustic version)
Hitline (extended mix)
Flex It ! (extended mix)
Cruel World (extended mix)
Praying to the Beat (extended mix)
Cut It (extended mix)
What You Deserve
Hurt (Emotional US mix)
Hurt (Emotional UK mix)
Hurt (Rubber Dub)
How Much Longer (longest mix remix)
True Lust
Cruel World (7" version)
Cut It (7" version)

 

Enjoy,

NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Reigning Sound

 

Reigning Sound is an American garage punk band founded by Greg Cartwright in 2001. 

 

Reigning Sound were originally based out of Memphis, Tennessee but relocated to Asheville, North Carolina. They have had a contantly changing line-up with Greg as the only constant. The band announced their split in 2022.

Here are their second & third releases... 

 

Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School, In The Red Recordings ITR084, 2002.
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Stormy Weather
Straight Shooter    
You're Not as Pretty    
Brown Paper Sack
Wait & See    
I Walk by Your House    
Time Bomb High School    
I Don't Believe
She's Bored with You    
Reptile Style    
I'm Holding Out    
I Don't Know How to Tell You    
Dressy    
I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys
You're so Strange

 

 

 

 

Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar, In The Red Recordings ITR107, 2004.

We Repel Each Other    
Your Love is a Fine Thing    
If You Can't Give Me Everything    
You Got Me Hummin'
When You Touch Me    
Funny Thing    
Get It!
I'll Cry    
Drowning    
Uptight Tonight
Excedrine Headache #265    
Let Yourself Go
So Easy    
Medication

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Reggae Disco Rockers

 

Now here's one for you...a reggae/rocksteady band from Japan. The band is made up of Kitetsu Takamiya, Mika Arisaka, Tetsu Nishiuchi, Tetsuya Hataya, & Yota Kobayashi. 

 

These are their first three releases. As the band progressed, they loosened up around the JA vibe. Throughout, they live up to there name...Reggae Disco Rockers. Get ready... 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Oasis, Flower Records FLRC006, 2001.
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Just Tell Me
Asian Roots featuring Horace Andy
A Woman
A House is Not a Home
Still in Love (main mix)
Oasis
Zone 07 (interlude)
Ronin
Still in Dub
Sunset (album version)
Indian Love Call
Dis Reggae Muzik featuring Horace Andy

 

 

 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Reggae Magic, Flower Records FLRC021, 2003.

Skankin'
Bridge Over Trouble Water
Caramel View
A Dream Dream Dream
Cherry Oh! Baby
Zone XXX
Gashunin
Automobile
I Shall Be Released
Cry Me a River
Sun Stone
Wedding

 

 

 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Rainbow, Flower Records FLRC026, 2004.

Seeds of Love
Summer Breeze
Rainbow
Deepest Blue
The Great Pretender
Ode to Stars
And it Stoned Me
In the Zone
Mibo-Jin
Get Ready
Get Ready (Dubwise)
Ode to Stars (Plaza organ mix)
Perfidia

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Radar Bros.

 

Radar Bros. are an indie/slow-core/lo-fi/psych/rock band from Los Angeles, CA. They are focused around the music of founder Jim Putnam. 

 

The band has toured with Modest Mouse, The Breeders, Teenage Fanclub, & Overseas, among others. Over the years, their sound has evolved from slower, melodic rock with swashes of Floyd/Beatles-esque psychedelia to the heavier, multi-layered surrealism that characterizes their recent output.

This is their first, self-titled CD.

 

Radar Bros. - Radar Bros., Restless Records 72927, 1997.
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Lose Your Face Again    
Capital Gain    
Wise Mistake of You    
Stay    
Supermarket Pharmacy
On the Floor    
We're Over Here    
Distant Mine    
Underwater Culprits    
This Drive    
Take Stuff
Goddess

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Replicants

 

Talk about a concept band..

 

A few months after bassist Paul D'Amour left Tool, he joined Chris Pitman, a keyboardist, & L.A. alt/rock band Failure members Ken Andrews & Greg Edwards. The four decided their music would be restricted to covering songs by famous bands active in the 1970/80s.

They chose their name...Replicants. But for them Replicants was not a reference to P.K. Dick but to a bastardized verision of "replicate", alluding to the band's choice to be "a tribute band". Wow, what a concept. 

 

Replicants - Replicants, Zoo Entertainment, 1995.
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Just What I Needed
Silly Love Songs
Life's a Gas
Cinnamon Girl
How Do You Sleep?
Destination Unknown
No Good Trying
Are 'Friends' Electric?
Dirty Work
The Bewlay Brothers
Ibiza Bar

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Revenge

 

I'll get my revenge. I'll serve up some Gun World porn... 

 

This Revenge is a band started by bassist Peter Hook (New Order/Joy Division) to get his revenge.

This is the bands 1992 EP offering. Sadly, GWP was to be Revenge's swansong.

 

Revenge - Gun World Porn,  Capitol Records, 1992.
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Little Pig
Cloud Nine    
State of Shock    
Deadbeat    
Deadbeat (Gary Clail remix)
State of Shock (L'Pool edit)    
State of Shock (Paralized mix)    
Untitled

bonus -
Deadbeat (Gary Clail remix 2)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Renegade Soundwave

 

Renegade Soundwave was formed in the late 80s in London by the trio of Gary Asquith, Danny Briottet, & Carl Bonnie. They were pioneers in electronic music who combined punk ethos & industrial techniques to Dub/dancefloor music 

 

Of course I have mostly their more Dub influenced releases. 1990s In Dub was seminal in merging Dub with electronic & rave stylings. Three of the tracks are Dub reworkings of tracks from Soundclash: "Pocket Porn Dub", a remix of "Pocket Porn"; "Holgertron", a remix of "Traitor"; & "Black Eye Boy", a remix of "Blue Eyed Boy". "Recognise & Respond" is a Dub mix of the RSW single "Cocaine Sex". The remaining six tracks are new compositions for In Dub. 

 

Renegade Soundwave - In Dub, Mute 61006-2, 1990.
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Thunder
Bacteria
Deadly
Transition
Pocket Porn Dub
Women Respond to Bass
Holgertron (Holger Hiller remix)
Recognise & Respond
Transworld Siren
Black Eye Boy
The Phantom (remix)
Ozone Breakdown 90 (Uprising mix)

 

 

 

 

Carl Bonnie left in 1990, for a solo career. 

 

In 1995 the duo released The Next Chapter of Dub.

 

 

Renegade Soundwave - The Next Chapter in Dub, Mute CDSTUMM90, 1995.

Positive Mindscape    
Blastik 1    
Son of Bubbaluba    
The Man Who Wouldn't Let Wax Wane    
Where's Steve A.?    
Nightmare
The Jam Part 2    
Kurdistan
The Renegade Priest
Brixton (Audiopilot)
Turntable Terror    
A.J.'s Imbis
42nd Street Dub
Underground Chemist    
Coxy

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Radical Dance Faction

 

I've shared Chris Bowsher’s Radical Dance Faction or RDF here before. 

 

I enjoy all of Chris' output but had most of it stashed away in the Musick that Needed Work folder for one reason or another. Mostly just gain issues or ID3 tags or the like, but my copy of Raggamuffin Statement was 192Kbps & I needed a better (320K) version. Here are the three that I had needing work. These are essential... 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Borderline Cases, Earth Zone EZ1CD, 1990.
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Surplus People    
Chinese Poem    
Borderline    
Rogue Trooper (live mix)    
4 Chuck Chant    
Back in the Same Place    
Riverwise    
Hot on the Wire    
Sorepoint for a Sickman    
Firepower (originally by Military Surplus)

 

 

 

On Raggamuffin Statement, tracks 1-5 are special mixes, tracks 6-11 are live tracks, & track 12 is a poem by Chris after witnessing first-hand the Hangerford massacre where 27 year old Michael Ryan shot & killed sixteen people, including an unarmed policeman, his own mother, & then himself. 

In the daily press, Chris Bowsher, 28, an acquaintance, described Ryan as "a bit of an oddball". 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Raggamuffin Statement, Inna State Records CD004DS4A, 1995

Beast in the Doorway (Sonic mix)
Dirty Old Town (Sonic mix)
Beast in the Dub (Sonic mix)
1st Dub / Martin Foran (Sonic mix)
Rogue Trooper (Genetic Infantryman mix)
Hot on the Wire
Punks with Guns
Dum Diggy (instrumental)
Babble On
Tense Dub
Go to a War
Statement (Hungerford Poem)

 

 

 

After Raggamuffin Statement the band went on hiatus, regrouping in 2006 & again in 2012. Here's a more recent release with Chris teaming up with a bunch of my favorite artists: Gaudi; Nik Turner (Hawkwind & more); Steve Cruickshank (Revolutionary Dub Warriors). This one is 2xCD, the second one being Dub mixes by Youth.

 

Radical Dance Faction - Daydream Dystopia 2xCD, Youth Sounds YS002, 2018.

CD1 -
Old Man's Eyes
Feel Dread
Lived/We Loved
What the Man Made of Stone
RU 1
Rogue Trooper
Surplus People
Riverwise III
Paris

CD2 -
Old Man's Eyes (Youth Dub mix)
Feel Dread (Youth Dub mix)
Lived/We Loved (Youth Dub mix)
What the Man Made of Stone (Youth Dub mix)
RU 1 (Youth Dub mix)
Rogue Trooper (Youth Dub mix)
Surplus People (Youth Dance mix)
Riverwise III (Youth Dub mix)
Paris (Youth Dub mix)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Rudimentary Peni

 

Rudimentary Peni was a Hertfordshire UK hardcore/anarcho-punk band formed in 1980. Born out of the early English anarcho-punk scene, Rudimentary Peni never really seemed to fit in that scene. Though their sound was rooted in grimy, three-chord smashing, they were equally likely to fly off on tangents, composing Wagnerian mini-movements, repeating a single musical phrase for almost four minutes, or leaving the instruments aside while using their own voices as backing noise. Their lyrics, often fixated on death, would alternatively take a position of fear or joy at the concept of being no more. Insanity is also a central theme, with the band both reveling in madness as well as fearful of an all-encompassing depression.

Their thematic choices should be no surprise when you realize that Blinko spent time in a mental instution & Grant Matthews had cancer (recovered, in remission). Adding to this, Blinko's vocal style hinges on his mental issues. I believe the clinical tem is "Cluttering" which is "A speech/language disorder characterised by abnormal fluency with a rapid &/or irregular speech rate." 

 

The combination of Blinko’s gravelly, doom-laden, rumbling voice & crazed guitar combined with the pounding, wall-sized rhythm section of Grant Matthews on bass & Jon Greville on drums sounds like the insanity that they sing about. This album is based on the life & writing of H.P. Lovecraft. It is the benchmark of outsider Punk.

So let’s go crazy here... 

 

Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony, Outer Himalayan Records BOOBOO2, 1988.
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Side 1 -
Nightgaunts
The Horrors in the Museum
The Only Child
Architectonic And Dominant
The Evil Clergyman
Brown Jenkin
Crazed Couplet
Sarcophagus
Lovecraft Baby
Dream City
C12 H22 O11
Zenophobia
Sunset for the Lords of Venus
Beyond the Tanarian Hills
Imps of the Perverse

Side 2 -
The Dead Loved
Periwig Power
Kappa Alpha Tau
American Anglophile in the World Turned Upside-Down
Memento Mori
Better Not Born
Arkham Hearse
The Old Man is Not so Terribly Misanthropic
Gentlemen Prefer Blood
Sonia
The Day he Universe Ceased (March 15th 1937)
The Crime of the Century
Musick in Diabola
Shard
Black on Gold

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Roger Miller

 

Not the "trailers for sale or rent" Roger Miller. 

 

This is Mission of Burma, Destroy All Monsters, The Din, Spronton Layer Roger Miller. 

Oh? you say. 

Oh! I sez. 

 

Roger Miller - Oh. (Guitars, etc...), Forced Exposure FE014, 1988.
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Photo Side -
We Grind Open (In)
Meltdown Man    
Chinatown Samba    
Firetruck
The Cosmic Battle / You Son of a Bitch / War Bolts    
The Fun World Reductions

Doodle Side -
Space is the Place (Sun Ra cover)
The Forest    
Kalgastak

King of the Ra'd,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Rip Rig & Panic

 

Taking its name from an album by Roland Kirk, Rip Rig & Panic kicked it off in 1981. They evolved from Bristol's The Pop Group. In fact Rip Rig & Panic was The Pop Group minus Mark Stewart, for all that encompasses. 

 

Rip Rig + Panic was a high-spirited jazz-funk fusion band with art-punk sensibility.who leapt around stylistically from track to track. Tranquil piano solos provide contrast to screeching sax, Arabic & Far Eastern elements against the hard-edged vocals of a very young Neneh Cherry or Ari Up (Slits) on God.

Attitude, the band's most accessible album, comes closest to standard song form, while maintaining a zany eclecticism, keeping the show rolling with deft musicianship & oddball humor. 

 

Rip Rig & Panic - Attitude, Virgin V2268, 1983.
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Side One -
Keep the Sharks from Your Heart
Sunken Love
Rip Open, but Oh so Long Thy Wounds Take to Heal
Do the Tightrope
Intimacy, Just Gently Shimmer
How that Spark Sets Me Aglow

Side 2 -
Alchemy in this Cemetry
Beat the Beast
The Birth Pangs of Spring
Eros; What Brings Colour up the Stem?
Push Your Tiny Body as High as Your Desire Can Take You
Viva X Dreams

 

 

 

This one has Neneh, Ari Up, & Flash on vocals. This is the 2005 reissue with four bonus tracks.

 

Rip Rig & Panic - God reissue, Progressive Line PL543, 2005.

Constant Drudgery is Harmful To Soul, Spirit, & Health
Wilhelm Show Me the Diagram (Function of the Orgasm)
Through Nomad Eyeballs
Change Your Life
Knee Deep in Shit    
Totally Naked (Without Lock or Key)
Try Box Out of this Box
Need (De School You)
Howl! Caged Bird    
Those Eskimo Women Speak Frankly
The Blue Blue Third    
Shadows Only There Because of the Sun
Beware (Our Leaders Love the Smell of Napalm)    
Miss Pib    
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Brrod

bonus tracks -    
Go, Go, Go! (This is It)
The Ultimate in Fun (Is Going to the Disco with My Baby)
Bob Hope Takes Risks
Hey Mr. E! a Gran Grin with a Shake of Smile

 

 

 

Also released in 2005 as an unofficial reissue from Pregressive Line with five extra bonus tracks. I was hanging on to the version I had until I could get this one with the extras. Here it be... 

 

 

 

Rip Rig & Panic - I am Cold +, Progressive Line PL545, 2005.

Hunger (The Ocean Roars it Bites)    
Epi Epi Arp Woosh!    
Another Tampon Up the Arse of Humanity    
Misa Luba (Lone Wolf)    
Storm the Reality Asylum    
Here Gathers Nameless Energy (Volcanoes Covered by Snow)    
A Dog's Secret    
Liars Shape Up or Ship Out    
Warm; To the If in Life    
Nurse Increase the Sedatives (The Torment's No Better)    
Take a Don Key to Mystery    
Tax Sex    
Subversive Wisdom    
Fire Eyes Joyful Silent Tears

bonus tracks -
You Are My Kind of Climate    
She Gets so Hungry at Night She Eats Her Jewellery    
Storm the Reality Asylum (extended mix)    
Leave Your Spittle in the Pot    
It's Always Tic for Tac You Foolish Brats

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Raymilland

Raymilland formed in the summer of 1978 in St. Louis. The band consisted of: David Sundberg - guitar; Rick Buscher - synthesizer & vocals; Greg Black - bass; & Bob Trammel - drums. Although starting out playing covers by the Buzzcocks, Damned, & Ultravox, their original influences & ideas leaned more toward the no-wave bands of NYC or the more experimental bands from the UK. 

 

A self-produced demo cassette recorded & distibuted to attract label interest or procure live gigs was so influential that Wax Trax Records sold bootleg copies in their Chicago retail store. Although the band was constantly recording; there was only one 7" forthcoming.

This is the original 7" of this legendary St. Louis band named after that man with the X-ray eyes...Mildly darkish, postish, punkish, synthish, rockish post-wave. 

 

Raymilland – Talk 7", Praxis 002076X, 1980.
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A Side –
Talk
B Side –
Distant View

 

 

 

The band lasted until the fall of 1981. The band played only eight shows during their short existence. They were scheduled to open for Joy Division in Chicago but that never happened. Joy Division canceled the gig. Ian Curtis had committed suicide.

Almost 30 years later BDR Records persuaded the band to release a collection of those recordings. The result is Recordings '79-'81.

BDR's mission is to preserve & release St. Louis punk, new wave, power pop & post-punk from the 1970-80s. One of their most highly anticipated projects was this album by Raymilland.

Raymilland - Recordings ‘79-’81, BDR Recrds BDR#2, 2009.

No Good Trying (Syd Barrett cover)
Climate    
She's Got Medals (David Bowie cover)
Lots/Lost
Overhead    
Talk    
Distant View (7" version)    
Talk (7" version)    
High & Wide    
Climate II    
Unnumbered    
Tronada

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ