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Glass Records
Glass Records was a British independent record label which operated from 1981 to 1990, and was resurrected in 2015. Glass Vintage 1981–1990 Glass was one of the key London-based indie labels of the 1980s. Early releases focused on artists from Northampton (Religious Overdose, Where's Lisse & The Jazz Butcher), and the Midlands (Bron Area & In Embrace). The label released several records by artists having later associations with other London-based indies: Creation Records (The Jazz Butcher and Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites) ; Fire Records (Spacemen 3 and The Perfect Disaster). Glass's mainstay acts were The Pastels, In Embrace and The Jazz Butcher. The label also issued material by Bauhaus member David J, and American punk band The Replacements, and the influential Liverpool Ur-grunge Walkingseeds. Founder David Barker went on to work for Fire Records, creating the Paperhouse label, taking the Walkingseeds with him, and releasing the first Teenage Fanclub album, then movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Records
Glass Records was a British independent record label which operated from 1981 to 1990, and was resurrected in 2015. Glass Vintage 1981–1990 Glass was one of the key London-based indie labels of the 1980s. Early releases focused on artists from Northampton (Religious Overdose, Where's Lisse & The Jazz Butcher), and the Midlands (Bron Area & In Embrace). The label released several records by artists having later associations with other London-based indies: Creation Records (The Jazz Butcher and Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites) ; Fire Records (Spacemen 3 and The Perfect Disaster). Glass's mainstay acts were The Pastels, In Embrace and The Jazz Butcher. The label also issued material by Bauhaus member David J, and American punk band The Replacements, and the influential Liverpool Ur-grunge Walkingseeds. Founder David Barker went on to work for Fire Records, creating the Paperhouse label, taking the Walkingseeds with him, and releasing the first Teenage Fanclub album, then movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LP Album
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it remained the standard format for record albums (during a period in popular music known as the album era) until its gradual replacement from the 1980s to the early 2000s, first by cassettes, then by compact discs, and finally by digital music distribution. Beginning in the late 2000s, the LP has experienced a resurgence in popularity. Format advantages At the time the LP was introduced, nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of an abrasive shellac compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984. They remain best known for the track "Having an Average Weekend", of which an alternate version was used as the theme to the Canadian sketch comedy TV show ''The Kids in the Hall''."Shadowy Men offer punk-influenced surf music for the '90s". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 2, 1991. Although commonly classified as a surf rock band they rejected the label, going so far as to release a track called "We're Not a Fucking Surf Band","Sly Shadowy Men . . . and women in jale". ''Toronto Star'', May 6, 1993. although they also later released a compilation box set titled ''Oh, I Guess We Were a Fucking Surf Band After All''."Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Membranes
The Membranes are an English post-punk band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1977, the initial line-up being John Robb (bass guitar), Mark Tilton (guitar), Martyn Critchley (vocals) and Martin Kelly (drums).Larkin, Colin: ''The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music'', 1992, Guinness Publishing, pp. 177/8, Critchley soon left, with Robb and Tilton taking on vocals, and Kelly moving to keyboards, with "Coofy Sid" (Coulthart) taking over on drums. Their first release was the "Flexible Membrane" flexi-disc in 1980, and over the next 11 years they went on to release six studio albums. Their first single proper, "Muscles", was a single of the week in the UK music press and a big club hit in New York being played in the Danceteria by the Beastie Boys eventual DJ Mojo and other New York DJs. Kelly left after "Muscles", to be replaced by Steve Farmery on guitar for the follow-up ''Pin Stripe Hype'' EP. The band pioneered the avant noise scene of Big Black and Sonic You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfect Prescription
''The Perfect Prescription'' is the second studio album by British neo-psychedelic band Spacemen 3, released in 1987. It is a concept album, "a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact." Pitchfork Media listed it at #50 in their list of the greatest albums of the 80s. Content The music becomes progressively more orchestral and serene until the high of the trip, represented by "Ecstasy Symphony"/"Transparent Radiation (Flashback)," moving on to the moment of realisation where the high has faded and the comedown ensues, represented by the harsh opening guitar chords in "Things'll Never Be the Same." Coming down is represented in the blues-based "Come Down Easy," while the potentially fatal effects of an overdose are portrayed in the final track, "Call the Doctor." The music was written by the band, except "Transparent Radiation," which is a Red Krayola cover from the 1967 album Parable of Arable Land. The band also borrows heav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up For A Bit With The Pastels
''Up for a Bit with The Pastels'' is the debut album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1987. It was named the 37th best Scottish album by ''The Scotsman.'' Track listing All songs written by Stephen McRobbie, except where noted. #"Ride" – 2:24 #"Up for a Bit" (Martin Hayward, Bernice Simpson) – 3:36 #"Crawl Babies" (Hayward, Simpson) – 2:45 #"Address Book" (McRobbie, Brian Taylor) – 4:02 #"I'm Alright with You" – 3:22 #"Hitchin' a (Ride)" – 2:02 #"Get 'Round Town" (McRobbie, Taylor)– 2:17 #"Automatically Yours" – 2:43 #"Baby Honey" (McRobbie, Taylor) – 5:52 #"If I Could Tell You" (Hayward, Simpson) – 2:44 Personnel * Stephen McRobbie (or Stephen Pastel) – guitar, vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ... * Brian Taylor (or Brian S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo Thompson
Mayo Thompson (born February 26, 1944 in Houston, Texas, United States) is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the experimental rock band Red Krayola. Background His formal education includes Garden of Arts Kindergarten until Holy Rosary Elementary School through fifth grade, then Moye Military School until high school at Cascia Hall College Preparatory School, from which he received a diploma in 1962. He went on to study at St. Thomas University, trying variously, off and on, in some cases simultaneously, pre-Law, Creative Writing, English and American Literature, Philosophy, and Art History, before dropping out and starting The Red Crayola with Frederick Barthelme in 1966. In college, Thompson began to find an affinity for jazz, "I learnt an awful lot from jazz". He states in the Red Krayola 1994 live documentary of their Japanese tour, "I was more interested in composing new material than interpreting old material". 1950s In 1955, Mayo Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Negros
''The Space Negros'' was a late 1970s experimental rock band that disbanded, and regrouped in the early 1980s. History ''Space'' began as an ''avantgarde'' four-person Boston-based group in the late 1970s. Composer-pianist Erik Lindgren was the ''major domo'' of this1975-1987, with a ''timeout''/reboot ensemble, which used a DECtalk DECtalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, whose source-filter algorithm was variously known as KlattTalk or MITalk. U ... voice synthesizer in their 1986 song "Robot." One of the band's records was actually a reissue of a 1980 release. References American alternative rock groups {{US-alternative-rock-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparent Radiation
''Transparent Radiation'' is an EP by the British alternative rock band Spacemen 3. It was released in July 1987 as a 12" vinyl record. The title track is a cover version of a Red Krayola song from their debut album The Parable of Arable Land. The record plays at 33⅓ RPM. Track listing ;12" (GLAEP108) Personnel Spacemen 3 *Sonic Boom – vocals, guitar, producer * J. Spaceman – guitar, vocals, organ, producer *Bassman – bass * Rosco – drums Additional personnel *Owen John – violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ... *Graham Walker – engineer References {{Authority control 1987 EPs Spacemen 3 albums Glass Records EPs Fire Records (UK) EPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance (Spacemen 3 Album)
''Performance'' is the first live album from Spacemen 3, documenting a set from the Perfect Prescription tour. It was recorded on February 6, 1988, at De Melkweg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl .... Track listing ;Original release (Glass GLALP030) *LP versions omitted "Take Me to the Other Side" ;1995 re-release (Taang! Records) References Spacemen 3 albums 1988 live albums Glass Records live albums Fire Records (UK) live albums Taang! Records live albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mini-LP
A mini-LP or mini-album is a short vinyl record album or LP, usually retailing at a lower price than an album that would be considered full-length. It is distinct from an EP due to containing more tracks and a slightly longer running length. A mini-LP is not to be confused with the Japanese CDs issued in a "mini LP sleeve" or "paper jacket". In South Korea, a mini album () is a type of music release that contains 4-7 songs. It is shorter than a Album, full album but longer than a single album. It is usually synonymous with extended play, however, some music distributors may classify mini albums with 7 or more songs as an album. Artists often use the chronological placement of a mini album in their discography as part of the title of the release. For example, ''2NE1 (2009 EP), 2NE1 1st Mini Album'' or ''Taste of Love (EP), Taste of Love: The 10th Mini Album''. History Mini-LPs became popular in the early 1980s with record companies who targeted consumers who were reluctant t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
