RE: (TV) No New York

[Eric Gregory <egregory@standard.com>]

 Are any of you familiar with an LP by a group called "Aural Exciters"
 who
 had an LP entitled "Spooks In Space"? It's got Pat Place(Contortions, Bush
 Tetras)
 on guitar, James Chance on Horns, Walter Steading Violin, Richie Vetter on
 Keyboards,
 Taana Aida Gardner on Vocals, and a slew of others. It's on the ZE Records
 Label.
 It was released in 1979. It's the first time I've ever seen the record.

    Lastly, there's a 2CD Set called "Songs Of The Naked City" which has
 previously
 unreleased tracks by Richard Hell, Ramones, Blondie, Suicide, Martin Rev,
 Real Kids,
 Walter Stedding w/Robert Fripp, The Fleshtones, and The Bloodless Pharoahs
 with
 Brian Setzer. It was released by none other than Marty Thau. It's pretty
 awesome if you
 don't own one you should.


i'm familiar with both of these & yr right bout the marty thau one, tho
isn't it called GROUPS OF WRATH: songs from the naked city???
i've got a cd version which doesn't have the real kids & the steding but
does have everything else mentioned.
it's a great comp.
the aural exciters is ok...haven't listened to it in a while, but i must say
(& i'm glad someone finally brought this up), ZE records were a gift.
the breadth & depth of the shit they released (or more accurately, HE
(michael zilinskas) released) still impresses...
james chance, waitresses, kid creole & the coconuts, alan vega, lizzy
mercier descloux, the last men, fucking "DREAM BABY DREAM"...even some dodgy
john cale recs... ZE was what i always imagined a label oughta
be...idiosyncratic, innovative with a defined (but growing) set of
aesthetics....
shit, both cristina recs have good stuff on em...(esp. the 2nd where barry
reynolds (brilliant marianne faithfull collab) helps out).
yow.
apologies for exploding like this....guess i was just waiting for ZE to be
mentioned.
there's 2 outta print eulogy-like comps out there (i see em used
occasionally).
check em out.
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-----Original Message-----
From: MICHAEL CARLUCCI [mailto:subterraneannyc@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 5:58 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) No New York


    Well not for long. Amos Poe is in the process of releasing his "Blank
Generation" Documentary into a Soundtrack LP. You know what this means?
Tom Verlaine waited too long to issue Little Johnny Jewel so now Amos
who has a 2 track master tape will get his out before anyone else. He's got
the complete, uneditted version as well. You know the old saying "you snooze
you
lose" and that's what happened with Tom, he kept putting it off. Not to
mention
Amos has some great unreleased Blondie, Ramones, Heartbreakers, Patti,
Talking Heads,
and New York Dolls. Amos was just in here today talking about this. I
suppose the
festival that's happening sparked this off in his head. So this will be the
new
definitive statement of NYC Punk. Though No New York should be in everyone's
collection.

    Are any of you familiar with an LP by a group called "Aural Exciters"
who
had an LP entitled "Spooks In Space"? It's got Pat Place(Contortions, Bush
Tetras)
on guitar, James Chance on Horns, Walter Steading Violin, Richie Vetter on
Keyboards,
Taana Aida Gardner on Vocals, and a slew of others. It's on the ZE Records
Label.
It was released in 1979. It's the first time I've ever seen the record.

    Lastly, there's a 2CD Set called "Songs Of The Naked City" which has
previously
unreleased tracks by Richard Hell, Ramones, Blondie, Suicide, Martin Rev,
Real Kids,
Walter Stedding w/Robert Fripp, The Fleshtones, and The Bloodless Pharoahs
with
Brian Setzer. It was released by none other than Marty Thau. It's pretty
awesome if you
don't own one you should. Anyone going to the Blank Generation & Beyond
Festival? M T C
 
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>From: Jeff Strell <jeff.strell@usa.net>
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: (TV) No New York
>Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2000, 3:53 PM
>

>The No New York album is probably the definitive statement of a post-punk
>sub-genre that people sometimes call "skronk."  It's produced by Brian Eno,
>and has several selections by each of four bands -- The Contortions,
Teenage
>Jesus and the Jerks, D.N.A and Mars.  Though it's definitive, I should also
>stress that (unless you're in certain moods) it is often almost
unlistenable,
>though I don't really mean that in a bad way.  These bands are all, to one
>degree or another, dedicated to making horrible guitar noise.  Arto
Lindsay's
>D.N.A. approaches it from an angle of high art, with detuned (and I mean
>detuned) guitars and furious strumming.  James Chance (later James White)
and
>the Contortions use James Brown funk as their stepping-off point.  Teenage
>Jesus' singer Lydia Lunch is an angry young punk.  Mars sounds like they're
>from, well, Mars.
>
>If your tastes run to, say, the Stooges' "L.A. Blues" or the Velvets'
"Sister
>Ray" or early PIL or "Metal Machine Music", then this stuff might be for
you. 
>I'm glad I own it, but I don't play it much.  I love the noise, but dislike
>the humorlessness.  Before you pay import prices, I'd recommend trying to
hear
>it first.
>
>- Jeff Strell
>
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