Musick that Needed Work: T - Trevor Herion

 

Trevor Herion was a Cork, Ireland born singer. 

 

He started his musical career in his late teens (late 1970s) as lead singer for The Puritans, a Cork pub-rock band. From there he went on to become lead singer the new wave band The Civilians. Early 1980s Herion formed the Fallout Club with Civilians drummer Paul Simon with Thomas Dolby - keyboards & Matthew Seligman - bass.

The group was short-lived & split-up shortly after releasing a series of three singles. Dolby went on to a successful solo career, Simon went to work with Glen Matlock, Seligman joined Thompson Twins, Herion pursued a solo career as well but failed to score any hits. He released the gravely under-rated full-length Beauty Life album in 1983. Beauty Life failed to gain any kind of significant notice & after a few years he fell into a devastating depression which ultimately led to his taking his own life in 1988. 

 

 

Trevor Herion - Beauty Life, Interdisc INTO3, 1983.
decryption code in comments

Side A -
Dreamtime
Love Chains
Fallen Angel
Success, & the Decline of the Western Man

Side B -
Big City
Betrayed
The Jazz Age
Legends
Kiss of No Return

bonus track -
Dreamtime (Club mix)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tweaker

 

Tweaker was a project formed in the late 90s by Chris Vrenna & Clint Walsh. Vrenna is probably most well known as the drummer for Nine Inch Nails, occasional drummer for Marilyn Manson (filling in for the injured Giner Fish) & most current Manson keyboardist (replacing Madonna Wayne Gacy). Walsh was guitarist for hire for numerous bands: Jack Off Jill; Shudder to Think; The Motels; & many more

.
The album The Attraction to All Things Uncertain was Vrenna's "solo" debut.  Clint Walsh played guitar but was not yet an "official" member of the band. David Sylvain, Wayne Kramer, Buzz Osbourne, Will Oldham, Mark Blasquez, DJ Swamp, & a host of others guested on this first release. 

 

Tweaker - The Attraction to All Things Uncertain, Six Degrees Records, 2001.
decryption codes in comments

Linoleum
Years from Now    
Swamp
Turned    
Happy Child
The Drive-bye    
Take Me Alive
Susan    
Microsize Boy    
Full Cup of Coffee    
Empty Sheet of Paper    
After All
Come Play

 

 

 

 

 

It was with Tweaker's follow-up album, 2 a.m. Wakeup Call, that Clint Walsh became a permanent member to the band. While Vrenna & Walsh again supplied most of the instruments & electronics, Robert Smith, David Sylvian, Daniel Ash, Will Oldham, Johnny Marr appeared as guest musicians & songwriters on this one...

 

 

Tweaker - 2am Wakeup Call, Waxploitation, 2004.

Ruby
Cauterized
Worse than Yesterday
Truth Is
Remorseless
Pure Genius
It's Still Happening
2 a.m.
Movement of Fear
Sleepwalking Away
The House I Grew up In
Crude Sunlight

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work T: Terminal Cheesecake

 

Terminal Cheesecake was started in 1988 in North / East London by Gary Boniface. The name was taken from a list of fictitious 60s band names created by Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. 

 

The band has been crowned "London's Clown Princes of Synapse-shredding noise rock & queasy psychedelic abandon" by Jimmy Martin of The Quietus. TC often makes me think of Butthole Surfers, so if you like them, give it a listen.

Nearing the end of Terminal's first run, here the band is: Gary Boniface - vocals; Gordon Watson - guitar; Steve Fez - bass; & Simon Doling - drums.

The bonus CD track 'Interview by M.C. Lucke' is actually a live set & not an interview. 

 

Terminal Cheesecake - King of All Spaceheads 2xCD, Jackass JAKCD8, 1994.
decryption code in comments

King of All Spaceheads    
Budmeister    
God's Turban & Tutu    
Ginge le Geezer
'Lo 'Lo    Tibetan Lift Off    
Steady Draw
Herbal Space Flight    
Black Microdot 1    
In the St. Johns Ambulance Tent, Glastonbury 1989    
Black Microdot 11    
The Last Temptation of St. Leary
CD2 -
Interview by M.C. Lucke (includes Le Geezer, Coils, & Freaky Bong)

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work T: That Petrol Emotion

 

That Petrol Emotion was a melting-pot band, a Northern Irish London-based group with US Steve Mack as vocaist. 

 

The initial line-up featured Steve Mack - vocals,  brothers Seán & Damian O’Neill (ex-members of the Derry band The Undertones) - guitar & bass respectively, Réamann Ó'Gormáin - guitar, & Claran McLaughlin - drums plus Geraint Watkins - accordion on this share. Their style was an eclectic blend of alternative rock, post-punk, garage rock, & electronic dance music that helped initiate the dance-pop era of the 1990s. 

 

That Petrol Emotion - End of the Millenium Psychosis Blues cassette, Virgin 91019-4, 1988.
decryption code in comments

Side 1 -
Sooner or Later
Every Little Bit
Cellophane
Candy Love Satellite
Here it Is... Take It!
The Price of My Soul

Side 2 -
Groove Check
The Bottom Line
Tension
Tired Shattered Man
Goggle Box
Under The Sky 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - The Tape-beatles

 

Plagiarism® is a collective vision. It is also the registered trademark (with tongue deeply in cheek) of the Tape-beatles, originally the Iowa City duo of Lloyd Dunn & John Heck. 

 

They set out to create music without using musical instruments. Their sampling was a conscious attemp at cultural & economic usage of so-called copyrighted material. They were influenced by the audio collage work of French concrete musicians, such as Pierre Henri & Pierre Schaeffer as well as a few other modernist composers like Edgard Varèse & John Cage.

Their first release was a resounding success... 

 

 

The Tape-beatles - The Subtle Buoyancy of Pulse cassette, Plagiarism, 1989.
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The Big Broadcast side -    
The Charlie Murdock Show    
The Ads Become the News    
Listen to the Radio    
These are Our Radio Voices    
Sing Sing Sing (Sing Sing)    
These are the Real Things    
Scream Scream Scream    
Play by Their Rules    
Microphone Burning in Flames    
Really Fine Sounds    
Big Show    
Opera Lady    
Take My Hand    
Radio Plays    
It's Been Done    
    
Plagiarism [v.2] side -    
Individual Choice    
Concern About    
I'm Lonely    
Guitar Filler    
A Hard Hand to Hold    
Wow, Feel the Amazing Power    
Recognize, Resist    
The Yoke of Bondage    
The Salt (Xatta Xig Xinkel)    
I Think I'm in Heaven    
The Law of Repetition    
The Law of Always Being Nice    
Piano Filler    
You People are in Great Danger    
You Make the Choice    
Urgent Rushing Around    
What Kind of Problems    
Catbird Logo    
Blank Filler    
Good Morning (reprise) 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple others to sink your ears into... 

The Tape-beatles - America is Confident 6" flexi,, Plagiarism, 1992.

America is Confident 

  

The Tape-beatles - Grave Implications 7" single, Carburetor Records brt001, 1993.

Side A -
Grave Implications
Side B -
Home Problems

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tuxedomoon

 

I found my two favorite Tuxedomoon releases gathering dust, ingnored in the heap of Musick that Needed Work. I am overjoyed to rescue these two behemoths. Half-Mute I played until I wore it out back in the day & after all these years (45+) I remember these great tunes like it was yesterday.

 

Tuxedomoon started out in San Francisco in 1977, the brainchild of two music scholars from S.F. City College, Blaine L. Reininger (keyboards & vocals) & Steven Brown (multi-instrumentalist). The group signed to the Resident's Ralph Records & released their first full-length in 1980. 

 

Tuxedomoon - Half Mute, Ralph Records CEL2-6558, 1980.
decryption codes in comments 

Side A -
Nazca    
59 to 1    
Fifth Column    
Tritone (Musica Diablo)    
Loneliness    
James Whale
Side B -
What Use?    
Volo Vivace    
7 Years    
KM / Seeding the Clouds

 

 

 

 

 

After another release on Ralph the following year, the band relocated to an artist's commune in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but soon moved to Brussels, Belgium. Though they went through many line-up changes & a stop/start history, Reininger, Brown, Peter Principle, & horn player Luc van Lieshout still record together as Tuxedomoon.

Combining Tuxedomoon avant-garde electronics with Beat Generation cool, this next album is named after the book Beat Museum – Bardo Hotel by Brion Gysin (Bardo Hotel was the Beat Generation hang-out in Paris). The soundtrack is heavily influenced from Gysin & William Burroughs' "cut-up" method. The recording features samples of airplane sounds, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) announcements, & other found sounds mixed in a blender of New Orleans jazz & twisted opera... 

 

 

Tuxedomoon - Bardo Hotel Soundtrack, Crammed Discs MTM38, 2006.

Hurry Up & Wait (Flying Sequence)    
Effervescing in the Nether Sphere    
Soup du Jour    
Flying Again    
Triptych    
I'm Real Stupid    
Airport Blues/Needles Prelude    
Prometheus Bound    
The Show Goes On (The Baron Brown/Jinx/Loneliness)    
Remote (Pralaya)
Dream Flight    
More Flying    
Vulcanic, Combustible    
Mr. Comfort/Another Flight    
Invocation Of...    
Carry on Circles

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - T: Tobin Sprout

The previous post was brought to you all by April 1

 

 

 

 

Still working my way through the alphabet, emptying out the Musick that Needs Work folder. Somehow three in a row have had the most needing work. R was RIDICULOUS, S even more in-SANITY, & now T. I think T stands for TERROR. Even having removed a shit ton of bands with The (The Clash, The Dammed, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Slits, etc...nothing I could do with ones like The Tape Beatles, The Tropicals, worst conundrum The The), I still won't be finished this month. I even paired it down a bit as I had some releases that where in the T section that were mis-filed (the title started with T not the group) & some that I didn't really care about (starting therefore with S for SHIT) & just deleted. Still, this is going to be a lot of work, so best just begin...

Starting off with a pair by Tobin Sprout. Last January Frenz of NSS Richie Muster requested some Tobin Sprout. I shared a few that I had on hand but told him at the time that I had a few more that were resting in the MtNW: T folder. I'll start with those. 

 

Tobin Sprout is a native of Dayton, Ohio. He became second songwriter & guitarist of the famed Dayton band Guided by Voices from 1987 to 1997 (again from 2010 to 2014). A self-taught musician, he employing a four-track recorder at his home studio which contributed greatly to the lo-fi sound of GbV. He had a busy solo career as well. 

 

Tobin Sprout - Moonflower Plastic (Welcome to My Wigwam), Matador OLE244-2, 1997.
decryption codes in comments 

Get Out of My Throat
Moonflower Plastic (You're Here)
Paper Cut
Beast of Souls    
A Little Odd    
Angels Hang Their Socks on the Moon
All Used Up
Since I...    
Back Chorus    
Curious Things
Exit Planes
Little Bit of Dread
Hit Junky Dives
Water on the Boater's Back

 

 

 

 

 

Tobin Sprout - The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder, 

Moonflower Records MOON#1, 2010.

Pretty    
She's on Mercury    
Apple of My Eye    
You Make My World Go Down    
Wedding Song    
Soul Superman    
It's Just the Way    
Casubury Bridge    
Fix on the Races    
Field in May

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

They Started a Joke

I've decided that this month I'm going to share Guilty Pleasures. 

Those are groups or artists that I never shared before & actualy never admit to anyone that I even listen to, let alone hold in highest esteem. These are like The Osmonds or Jimmy Buffett or The Carpenters or Wayne Newton or Randy Newman or Kansas...you get the drift.

Not CBGBs but CDBGs...AF 

 

Here's one I've been wanting to share for a long time but never really got around to it. One of the formative bandss of my youthful musical mind. The Bee Gees: Robin; Maurice; & Barry combined the sublime vocal harmonies, perfect lyrical content, & unequalled pop sensibilities. This is their third full-lenght release, called creatively 1st. 

 

The Bee Gees - Bee Gees 1st, Polydor 184089, 1967.

decryption code in comments 

 

Side A -
Turn of the Century    
Holiday    
Red Chair Fade Away    
One Minute Woman    
In My Own Time    
Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You    
Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of Arts

Side B -
New York Mining Disaster 1941    
Cucumber Castle    
To Love Somebody    
I Close My Eyes    
I Can't See Nobody    
Please Read Me    
Close Another Door

 

 

 

Up next, ABBA - Arrival,
AF - NØ

Singles World Cup Finals Final

Leader  Board
A Certain Ratio               31
Dreadzone                       24
The Shamen                    22
 Utah Saints                     19

 

For the Final round of our Singles World Cup, ACR has the honor of starting things off, just as they started off the first round. & just like the first round, but in a truly Classic fashion they present this fantastic Single... 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Shack Up, Factory Benelux fac bn1004, 1980.
all decryption codes in comments 

 

Side A -
Shack Up
Side B -
And Then Again

 

 

 

 

 

The Shamen - Re: Evolution, One Little Indian 118TP7CD, 1993.

Re: Evolution (Shamen vocal mix edit)    
Re: Evolution (BTP vs. Shamen vox edit)    
Re: Evolution (Live at the Warfield)
Re: Evolution (BTP Fixed Tempo instrumental edit)    
Re: Evolution (Accapella vox edit)

 

 

 

 

 

Utah Saints - Funky Music 2, Echo ECSCX96, 2000.

Funky Music (extended)    
Funky Music (Monetshot mix)
Funky Music (Krafty Kuts Funked Up mix)

 

 

 

 

 

Dreadzone - Little Britain, Virgin VSCDG1565, 1995.

Little Britain    
Little Britain (vocal version)    
Little Britain (Black Star Liner mix)
Little Britain (More Rockers mix)
Little Britain (Eon mix) 

 

 

Enjoy the end of Madness,
NØ

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 14

Leader  Board
A Certain Ratio             30
Dreadzone                     21
The Shamen                  19
 Utah Saints                   16 

 

 

Utah Saints - Love Song 1, Echo ECSCD83, 1999.
all decryption codes in comments 

Love Song (edit)
Love Song (One Rascal New Vision mix)
Love Song (Maverick Olsen mix)

 

 

 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Do the Du (Casse), Factory Facus4, 1981.

Flipside -    
Do the Du (Casse)
The Fox

Hipside -     
Shack Up
Son & Heir 

Dreadzone - Captain Dread, Virgin VSCDG1541, 1995.

Captain Dread (single edit)    
Captain Dread (Zexos Free Troupe mix)
Captain Dread (X-Press 2 mix)
Captain Dread (Citizen Z mix)
Captain Dread (Walk the Plank mix)
Captain Dread (epilogue)

 

 

 

 

 

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode, Coma Records COMACD7039, 1992.

Ebeneezer Goode (Beat edit)
Ebeneezer Goode (Shamen Dub)
Ebeneezer Goode (MBM instrumental)
Ebeneezer Goode (South of Detroit vocal)
Ebeneezer Goode (MBM vocal)
Ebeneezer Goode (Jolly Roger vocal)

 

 

 

Tomorrow, the Finals final push,
NØ

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 13

Leader Board
ACR                   25
The Shamen      15
Dreadzone         17
Utah Saints        13

The World Cup Committee has declared that all partial scores will be rounded up to the next whole number to avoid confusion. From now on there will be no splitting of votes allowed. Only two more Rounds after todays play. Unless there is an outpouring of votes for other teams, the conclusion is likely  Certain.

 

 

The Shamen - Omega Amigo, One Little Indian 30TP7CD, 1989.
all decryption codes in comments 

 

Omega Amigo    
Omega A.
Omega Pre-mix    
PH1

 

 

 

 

 

Dreadzone - Fight the Power, Totem Records TTPCD003, 1994.

Fight the Power (original mix)    
Fight the Power (Drum Club mix)
Fight the Power (DJ Evolution mix)
Fight the Power (Dreadzone Dub)

 

 

 

 

 

Utah Saints - Something Good '08, Data Records DATA183CDSP, 2008.

Something Good '08 (radio edit)    
Something Good '08 (VanShe Tech mix)
Something Good '08 (High Contrast remix)
Something Good '08 (Ian Carey remix)
Something Good '08 (Prok & Fitch remix)
Something Good '08 (Bart B More remix)
Something Good '08 (eSquire remix)
Something Good '08 (VanShe Tech instrumental)

 

 

 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Wild Party, Factory FAC128, 1985.

Side A -        
Wild Party    
Side B -        
Sounds like Something Dirty

 

 

 

Tomorrow, Round 14,
NØ

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 12

Leader Board
    ACR                        21 1/3
    The Shamen           12 1/3
      Dreadzone             12 1/3  

Utah Saints           10

 

Dreadzone - Elevate, Functional Breaks FB039, 2006.
all decryption codes in comments 

 

Side A -
Elevate (Mafia Tone mix)
Side B -        
Elevate (Roxiller mix)

 

 

 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water, Factory FAC62, 1982.

Side A -
Knife Slits Water    
Side B -
Kether Hot Knives (Mix in Special)

 

 

 

 

 

The Shamen - Sativa, Moksha Recordings LHP MRC1, 1997.

Side A - 
Sativa
Side B -
Sativa (Advent mix)
Sphinx

 

 

 

 

 

Utah Saints - Love Song 2, Ecgo ECSCX83, 2000.

Love Song (extended mix)
Love Song (Monetshot mix)
Love Song (Rascal Dub)

 

 

 

Tomorrow, Round 13,
NØ

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 11

Leader Board
ACR                  19
The Shamen     12
Dreadzone        12
Utah Saints       10 

 

 

Utah Saints - I Want You, FFRR FCD213, 1993.
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I Want You (edit)
I Want You (extended)
I Want You (DJ Tim's Funky Bliss mix 1)
I Want You (Utahs Mormon extended)

 

 

 

 

 

Dreadzone - Earth Angel, Virgin VSCDT1593, 1997.

Earth Angel (radio edit)    
Earth Angel (William Orbit mix)
Earth Angel (Arkarna mix)
Earth Angel (album version)

 

 

 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Brazilia, Factory Records FBN32, 1984.

 

Side A -
Brazilia
Side B -
Brazilia (extended mix)

 

 

 

 

 

The Shamen - Destination Eschaton 2, One Little Indian 128TP7CDL, 1995.

Destination Eschaton (destination Nemeton original version)
Destination Eschaton (destination Islington Shamen Deep Melodic techno mix)
Destination Eschaton (destination Escacid Shamen Acid mix)
Destination Eschaton (destination Krefeldton Hardfloor vocal)
Destination Eschaton (destination Komotion Hardfloor instrumental) 

 

 

 

Tomorrow, Round 12,
NØ

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 10

Leader Board
ACR                 18
Dreadzone       10
The Shamen     12
Utah Saints       7 

 

 

The Shamen - Hyperreal, One Little Indian 48TP7CD, 1991.
all decryption codes in comments 

Hyperreal (Orbitedit)
Hyperreal (Orbit)
Hyperreal (Dirtiest Dub)
In the Bag 

 

 

 

 

 

Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness, Echo ECSCD105, 2001.

Lost Vagueness (Thunderbolt edit)    
Lost Vagueness (Lightning edit)    
Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb's main mix)
Lost Vagueness (Deadly Avenger Infantile vocal remix)
Lost Vagueness (Central Club remix edit)
Lost Vagueness (Maverick Olsen mix)
Lost Vagueness (Josh Wink's Deep interpretation)

 

 

 

 

 

Dreadzone - Gangster, Dubwiser Records DUB002, 2010.

Gangster (original mix)    
Gangster (Trolley Snatcha remix)
Gangster (She is Danger remix)
Gangster (Pyramid mix)

 

 

 

 

 

A Certain Ratio - Dirty Boy, Mute iMUTE591, 2019.

Dirty Boy featuring Barry Adamson
Make it Happen
Houses in Motion
Dirty Boy (Chris Massey short mix)

 

 

 

Tomorrow, Round 11,
NØ