Musick that Needed Work: T - Tin Huey

 

Tin Huey was another proto-punk band from 1970s Ohio. Unlike many of the bands hailing from Cleveland, Tin Huey sprang up from Akron, Ohio in 1972. Their original run was until 1983. They disbanded for a while, then regrouped from about 1999 until 2011. 

 

Their original line-up featured: Michael Aylward - guitar & vocals; Harvey Gold - keyboards, guitar, & vocals; Mike Price - bass & vocals; & Nappy Lemans (Stuart Austin) - drums with Ralph Carney playing horns.
 

This line-up of Tin Huey played at venues such as Cleveland's Pirate's Cove & The Viking Saloon, venues where they gigged with Rocket from the Tombs, Mirrors, & the Styrene, then Kent's Townhouse & ultimately a 3-night-per-week gig at JB's on Kent's notorious Water Street, home of the legendary northeastern Ohio Numbers Band & the launch pad for Joe Walsh's James Gang. The first real "break" for the Hueys came about due to the rising popularity on a national scale of Devo, fellow geeks that were focusing national attention on Akron.

In 1977, Tin Huey pal Nick Nicholis of the Bizarros founded Clone Records & ran it 'til it folded in 1981. The label worked to document the scene in Akron, 39 miles south of Pere Ubu's Cleveland. Clone Records released more than a dozen records from bands such as Tin Huey, the Human Switchboard, the Waitresses, Unit 5, Teacher's Pet, Gray Bunnies, & the Bizarros.

The second release by Clone Records was Tin Huey's self-titled four-song EP...

Tin Huey - Tin Huey, Clone Records CL002, 1977.
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Side A -
Puppet Wipes
Cuyahoga Creeping Bent
Side B -
Poor Alphonso (live)
The Tin Huey Story

 

 

 

 

 

The following year they released their second on Clone, the single Breakfast with the Hueys... 

 

Tin Huey - Breakfast with the Hueys, Clone Records CL004, 1978.

Side One -
Robert Takes the Road to Lieber Nawash
Side Two -
Squirm You Worm

 

 

 

 

 

After these two releases came a whirlwind of activity. Chris Butler, guitarist from The Numbers Band joins the Hueys . Tin Huey does a show at JBs with the Bizarros that is attended by Robert Christgau of the Village Voice who has been doing a series called  "Down in the Boonies"  & is interested in the Akron sound. Christgau likes what he hears & contacts Warner Brothers A&R. Two weeks later the Hueys headline another show at JBs attended by Karin Berg of Warner Brothers A&R. Warner Brothers signs the band, flies them to L.A. & they record Contents Dislodged During Shipment which is finished & remixed by November 1978.
 

Contents Dislodged During Shipment was released in the spring of 1979. It was signed, sealed, & obscure by mid-summer. Tin Huey had made a largely non-commercial record for a label that was not going to promote it. This all perfectly coincided with the record industry crash of '79. Too much weirdness. A garage band gets a taste, does it's damndest, loses it's footing... 

 

 

Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment, Warner Brothers Records BSK3297, 1979.

Side 1 - 

I'm a Believer
The Revelations of Dr. Modesto
I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts
Coronation
Slide

Side 2 -
Hump Day
Pink Berets
Squirm You Worm
Chinese Circus
Puppet Wipes
New Yorks Finest Dining Experience

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Temple of Bon Matin

 

Noise rock collective Temple of Bon Matin was formed in 1991 in Philadelphia by percussionist Ed Wilcox & keyboardist John Mulvaney. Their earliest sound was lo-fi space-rock, described as “"a blend of MC5 & Hawkwind played by a band of drunk amateurs". 

 

The band evolved into an organic quintet playing near atonal free-jazz abstractions, like Albert Ayler improvising over themes by Merzbow, Faust, & the Residents fronted by Ed Wilcox, a deranged bard in the vein of Pere Ubu's David Thomas.

This first one should be a great place to start with this band. Nothing about it is sane. The name here is (Laser) Temple of Bon Matin??? (it doesn't even start with T) & what appears to be a track list on the tray card in no way (or some unknown way) corresponds to the tracks on the actual CD. 

 

(Laser) Temple of Bon Matin - Bullet into Mesmer's Brain, Bulb Records BLB054, 1998.
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actual tracks -
Track 1    7:54
Track 2    27:45
Track 3    10:39
Track 4    7:03
Track 5    20:02

track list on CD -
Bullets Into Mesmer's Brain
Dipper Mouth Blues
Souls Below Solo
Blue Skies Shining on Me
Mood Indigo
Slomo Oroman Aroma
Shells
ALH84001
7 Inches of Snow
A Bleak Stark Beauty
One Little Goat
History Is Bunk

 

 

 

 

 

& now you’re on your own. I will give you a bit of help. If you are interested in a deeper understanding of Ed Wilcox & Temple of Bon Matin, you should read Julian Cope's most literate album of the month review of Ed & band here. 

 

Temple of Bon Matin - Monkeys Straw Raincoat, Spirit of Orr SO59R, 2006.

Take Tthe Highway
Bandicoot
Jump for Joy
Jacobite
Bad Girl 1
Laguna
Bad Girl 2
God G
Soul Review
Never Been Home Before
Cockney Rebel Song

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - TV Smith

 

 

Tim "TV" Smith is a Brit punker from Romford. 

 

Probably best known for his time with the Adverts & for writing one of punk's first hit songs "Gary Gilmore's Eyes". After the break-up of the Adverts, TV formed TV Smith's Explorers, then performed with the band Cheap before embarking on a solo career in the early 90s that is still going strong. 

This is TV's first solo full-length with: TV Smith - guitar & vocals; Timm Cross - keyboards; & Tim Renwick - bass & guitar. 

 

TV Smith - Channel Five, Expulsion EXIT4, 1983.
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Side One -        
A Token of My Love
On Your Video
Dominator
London Beach
War Fever
Burning Rain

Side Two -
Fire in the Darkness
Cracking Up
Your Haunted Heart
The Suit
The Beautiful Bomb

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tamikrest

 

Tamikrest is one of the top Tishoumaren bands of all times. Tishoumaren or assouf is more commonly known as desert or  Sahel blues. This is an original style of music from the Sahara region of northern & western Africa, a fusion of blues & rock music combined with Tuareg, Malian or North African music. 

 

The word Tamikrest means both alliance & the future in the Tamasheq language. Tamasheq is
a Berber language spoken by approximately 1 million Tuareg people across the Sahara & Sahel, primarily in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Algeria, & Libya. As a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture, Tamasheq speakers are known for their rich oral traditions of poetry & music. 

 

Tamikrest - Tourmastin, Glitterhouse Records GRCD721, 2011.
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Tizarate    
Fassous Tarahnet    
Nak Amadjar Nidounia    
Aratan N Tinariwen    
Ayitma Madjam    
Aidjan Adaky    
Addektegh
Tarhamanine Assinegh    
Nak Akaline Tinza (Tinzaouatene)    
Tidit    
Dihad Tedoun Itran

 

 

 

 

 

Tamikrest - Chatma, Glitterbeat GBCD007, 2013.

Tisnant An Chatma    
Imanin Bas Zihoun    
Itous    
Achaka Achail Aynaian Daghchilan    
Djanegh Etoumast    
Assikal    
Toumast Anlet    
Takma    
Adounia Tabarat    
Timtar

 

 

 

 

 

& this one is live... 

 

 

Tamikrest - Taksera, Glitterbeat GBCD022, 2017.

Tisnant an Chatma
Tamiditin
Fassous Tarahnet
Itous
Achaka Achail Aynaian Daghchilan
Outamachek
Aratan N Tinariwen
Aratane N' Adagh

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Thought Gang

 

This Gang is none other than David Lynch & his long time musickal collaborator Angelo Badalamenti. 

 

Call them what you will, they have created some spectacularly memorable music throughout their partnership. With the passing of both men (DL - 2025 & AB - 2022) this is a most fitting tribute (it contains one of my favorite tracks by this duo..."The Black Dog Runs at Night”). 

 

Thought Gang - Thought Gang, Sacred Bones Records SBR214CD, 2018.
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Stalin Revisited    
Logic & Common Sense    
One Dog Bark
Woodcutters from Fiery Ships    
A Real Indication
Jack Paints it Red
A Meaningless Conversation    
Frank 2000 Prelude    
Multi-Tempo Wind Boogie    
The Black Dog Runs at Night    
Frank 2000    
Summer Night Noise

 

 

 
Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Toyah

 

Toyah was a band fronted by none other than Toyah Wilcox (married to Robert Fripp).  After flirting with the name Ninth Illusion, they settled on using Toyah's first name. 

 

Musicians here are: Toyah Wilcox - vocals; Joel Bogen - guitar; Pete Bush - keyboards; Mark Henry - bass; & Steve Bray - drums 

  

Toyah - Sheep Farming in Barnet, Safari Records 1C064, 1979.
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Heaven Side -    
Neon Womb    
Indecision    
Waiting    
Computer    
Victims of the Riddle    
Elusive Stranger    
Hell Side -    
Our Movie    
Danced    
Last Goodbye    
Victims of the Riddle (Vivisection)    
Race Through Space

  

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Terranova

 

Terranova is a Berlin, Germany band formed in 1996 based in Berlin & Paris. Founding members were Fetisch, Marco Meister, & Kaos. Their style is punk-style electronic, hip-hop, & House. 

 

In 1997 they gained international recognition from their single "Tokyo Tower". In 1999 they released the single "Just Enough", both of which are featured on 2002s B-Sides & Remix Sessions.

They released their debut full-length Close the Door in 1999. Many of the songs remind me of Fugees at their finest. Word up.

 

Terranova - Close the Door, Copasetik Recordings, K7077cd, 1999.

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X-Files featuring Rasco
Sugarhill
Turn Around featuring Cath Coffey
Bombing Bastards featuring Tricky
Never featuring Nicolette Krebitz 
Midnight Melodic featuring Cath Coffey & Rasco
Sweet Bitter Love featuring Cath Coffey
Close The Door
Plastic Stress featuring Nicolette Krebitz 
Just Enough featuring Nicolette Krebitz 
Millenium Bug
Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues)

 

 

 

 

 

Terranova - B-Sides & Remix Sessions, Copasetik Recordings COPA027CD, 2002.

Just Enough (Stereo MC's remix)
Tokyo Tower featuring Manuel Goettsching
Prozac (Mekon remix)
Never
Bombing Bastards featuring Tricky
Precipice (Aquasky remix)
Millenium Bug
Clone featuring Manuel Goettsching
Chase the Blues (the Psychonauts remix) featuring Cath Coffey
Open Naked Eye
Sweet Bitter Love featuring Cath Coffey
Deep Sleep (Terranova Remix)
Turn Around (Kutmasta Kurt remix) featuring Cath Coffey
Sin Bin
X-Files featuring Rasco
Sugarhill

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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