Slumberland

Amplifier Magazine
"[Slumberland] reveals Melancon as a talented pop craftsman...you just wish [it] would last longer."

Southeast Performer Magazine
"...a pop masterpiece."

Slumberland

Slumberland,Paul Melancon,Multitask Music,Adult Alternative Pop/Rock,Literate, moody, indie-pop music.,Pop,Rock

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Average customer rating: Squalling sidewalk chants 'Psychocandy' with a girl singing! Black Tambourine DC Hazy Music with British Noisemaker Ingredients beautiful noise

Complete Recordings Black Tambourine Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Henry's Dress A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness Glimmer Sound Go Round Go Sailor EP ASIN: B00000IJH8 Release Date: 1999-05-04

Tracks:

1. For Ex-Lovers Only
2. Black Car
3. Pack You Up
4. Can't Explain
5. I Was Wrong
6. Throw Aggi Off The Bridge
7. Drown
8. We Can't Be Friends
9. By Tomorrow
10. Pam's Tan

Customer Reviews:

Squalling sidewalk chants.......2006-12-27

A solid album of proto-shoegazer meets girl group meets noise pop-punk. What I like is that the extremely simple production techniques-- presumably since this is a truly ultra-indie band on a shoestring budget?-- separate the instruments into four "quadrants". On headphones, you can hear this well demarcated. The bass chugs along precisely, the guitar squalls bursts of controlled feedback (J&M Chain-like but less derivative than it sounds), the singer in that fashion beloved by Slumberland bands pouts and plots with a fetching combination of charm and cruelty, and the drummer pounds away with dexterity and drives each song tightly. Each track fits into this template, and their similarity does not wear on you, as this album flies by quickly and its brevity works to keep it fresh.

Most of these tunes, up to and including the Love cover (track 5) of a song that I never could make out lyrically when Arthur Lee spat it out, are strong. Some are more derivative of Lush, J&M C, or Unrest, for example, but all these bands are deserving of imitation, since all of them also look to the same influences as does Black T. However, the best song by far, "Throw Aggi From the Bridge," deserves to be enshrined as a classic "bad girl wants the good guy" song. Overall, while a bit too in love with echo and reverb (band sounds like it records in the bathroom; the singer often sounds as if she's in a wind tunnel, also characteristic of Slumberland label mates Aislers Set and Henry's Dress inter alia) solid, ending a very brief assortment of songs that capture in punchy yet somehow understated and modest fashion the collision of the early 60s with the late 80s.

'Psychocandy' with a girl singing!.......2006-01-02

O.K., I admit that description is a bit basic. If you appreciate the sweet aggression of noise combined with pure pop, this is for you. Every one of the 10 songs is great (one is a Love cover)! Pounding, rolling drums, layers of transparent guitar fuzz, and amidst it all - a pure voice intent on telling you how it is!

More people should have this disc - in a better world, it would be considered essential!

Better late than never...

Black Tambourine.......2003-10-06

Black Tambourine has this bittersweet charm about them. Just think the surreal female vocals of shoegazing bands like Lush, Medicine, or Bleach, combined with the crunchy walls of guitars of The Jesus And Mary Chain or early Ride. Black Tambourine falls somewhere in between the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

DC Hazy Music with British Noisemaker Ingredients.......2003-02-01

Using an aesthetic uncharacteristic of prevailing circa-1989 D.C. styles, Pam Berry, Archie Moore, Brian Nelson, and Mike Schulman created a dark, intensely vivid sound. I'm completely biased, but Black Tambourine is just another reason for favoring independent music.

beautiful noise.......2000-11-25

Black Tambourine comprised of Archie Moore and Brian Nelson (later of Velocity Girl)and the mysterious and wonderful Pam Berry (later of The Glo-Worms & The Castaway Stones). These three created wondeful walls of distortion and melody within their songs. Though they only released a few singles during the 89-91 period, they're work is important to the understanding of where indie rock was in the early 90's. Right thru to the emergence of what was once sacred underground into the mainstream, when Nirvana came along in 91. British influence in alternative music was extremely high.

But most of all, what makes this album just irresistable is that these songs are filled with tales of unrequited love and crushes so deep you want to bury yourself in a hole, and who can't relate to that? Arguably one of the best bands to come out of the Slumberland label, it's a great thing that they compiled this album, because as unknown as Black Tambourine were, and still are. They're work is almost an historical document for the studies of independent rock in the 90's.

Average customer rating: pop perfection Soundtrack for a teenage crush.

A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness Rocketship Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Recordings For Keeps Terrible Things Happen Snowball Return to the Sea ASIN: B000001WYT Release Date: 1996-02-13

Tracks:

1. i love you like the way that i used to do
2. kisses are always promises
3. heather, tell me why
4. let's go away
5. i'm lost without you here
6. carrie cooksey
7. we're both alone
8. friendships and love

Customer Reviews:

pop perfection.......2002-05-29

If you are searching for a perfect pop album, then pick up rocketship - a certain smile, a certain sadness. This album hugs your eardrums the same way that your first love hugged you. This is an album that you have to listen to from start to finish. It's about falling in love. It's about being crushed by love. It's about the ache after a relationship has ended.

rocketship are the kind of band you would want someone to put on a mixtape for you. That's how I first heard them. Even though I'm no longer with the boy who made that mixtape for me, I'll always think of him fondly as the one who turned me onto rocketship.

Highlights off this album:
"friendships and love"
"i'm lost without you here"
"let's go away"

Don't be fooled into thinking you're buying another perfect pop album if you buy rocketship's second album 'garden of delights'. It's good, but it sounds completely different from this album! Absolutely all of their 7"s are brilliant tho, so pick up any of those that you can still find!

Soundtrack for a teenage crush........1999-11-02

This is by no means the most original album ever made, but it successfully encapsulates the zeitgeist of the "twee" indie pop scene. These songs are soaked in Stereolab-esque keyboards, jangly guitars, and honey-sweet girl-boy vocals in the school of My Bloody Valentine. Pretty typical Slumberland fare, but definately worth a listen if you're a pop fan.

Average customer rating: Short, but sweet, sweet little gem worth it for the nascent version of a great band Worth it just for "My Forgotten Favorite"

Velocity Girl Velocity Girl Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music All Bargain Titles | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Alternative Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Simpatico Be Your Own Pet Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 Loveless The Crane Wife ASIN: B000001WYL Release Date: 1993-04-16

Tracks:

1. i don't care if you go
2. always
3. forgotten favorite
4. why should i be nice to you
5. not at all
6. i don't care if you go (acoustic)

Customer Reviews:

Short, but sweet, sweet little gem.......2004-04-21

Velocity Girl's debut EP is actually composed of two years worth of indie singles. During the time theses songs were recorded, there was a change in singers, and that is noticeable here. "Not at All" and both versions of "I Don't Care if You Go" were sung by Bridget Cross, who would soon after join Mark Robinson's seminal indie band Unrest. Sarah Shannon takes over lead vocal duties on "Forgotten Favorite" and "Why Should I Be Nice to You?" (Cross's voice is the more girlish of the two) Archie, one of the guitarists, does lead vocals on "Always."

It goes without saying that all of these songs are gems. "I Don't Care if You Go," with its great bassline and catchy chorus, sounds a bit like a Pixies homage (this is made even more evident in the surf-rock guitar solo). "Always" sounds like an indie rock take on My Bloody Valentine. The guitar sound on the short, punkish "Not at All" foreshadows the one that Smashing Pumpkins would use a year later on their second album Siamese Dream. The real winners here are "Forgotten Favorite" and "Why Should I Be Nice to You." The former has an intro that is instantly memorable, and the enveloping guitar buzz perfectly envelopes Sarah Shannon's warm, rich voice. It's truly a pure gem. You just have to listen to it. The apex of this collection is "Why Should I Be Nice to You?" It starts of with a jangly, R.E.M.-like guitar line before crashing in to more guitar distortion during the chorus. The great thing about this song is that Archie and Sarah share lead vocals and even harmonize together. This song pretty much sums up everything found on this album.

Velocity Girl's early material was probably their best, so if you're looking to get into this band, you should not skip this release at all. It's another case of a great band going unheard. Viva Velocity Girl!

worth it for the nascent version of a great band.......2002-11-23

With a demo-like sound quality, this EP doesn't exactly do this what would be a great band any real justice and some easily disposable numbers with it don't exactly help. But the acoustic and electric versions of "I Don't Care If You Go" highlight the fuzz pop phenomenon that VG would become. And of course, there's the classic "Forgotten Favorite" which years later made its way to the "Clueless" soundtrack and a television commercial. Although incomplete compared to the monster follow-up of "Copacetic", this is essential for the early ringings of what the band would become.

Worth it just for "My Forgotten Favorite".......2001-02-02

"I Don't Care if You Go" and "My Forgotten Favorite" rank up there with the best VG songs. The others are not all that stellar, but "Forgotten Favorite" alone is worth the price of this disc. Of course you could just buy the Clueless soundtrack and get "Favorite" and lots of other good songs too.

Average customer rating:

Grown-Ups The Lodger Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Easy Tiger ASIN: B000Q7ZKGQ Release Date: 2007-06-12

Tracks:

1. Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion
2. Kicking Sand
3. Getting Special
4. You Got Me Wrong
5. A Free Period
6. Simply Left Behind
7. My Advice Is On Loan
8. Let Her Go
9. Watching
10. Unsatisfied
11. The Story's Over
12. Not So Fast
13. Bye Bye
14. Let's Make a Pact

Album Description

On the heels of the successes of bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, the north of England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands, and The Lodger are amongst the brightest hopes. Taking their cues from fellow northerners The Smiths and The Wedding Present, The Lodger's music is classic melodic pop, fueled by sparkling hooks and plangent lyrics. The tunes are sharp and timeless, a thoroughly modern distillation of great Britpop from the 60s right up to today. "Grown-Ups" is a perfect introduction to the thrilling pop charms of The Lodger.

Average customer rating: Haunting wisps for the lonely indie rock cognoscenti Absolutely dreamy! The new Velvet Underground Buy this album, and let the melodies and hooks infect you! there is nothing wet about aislers set!

Terrible Things Happen The Aislers Set Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Last Match Henry's Dress Complete Recordings Starlit Sunken Ship A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness ASIN: B000007RTO Release Date: 1998-07-31

Tracks:

1. Friends Of The Heroes
2. California
3. Holiday Gone Well
4. Alicia's Song
5. I've Been Mistreated
6. Mary's Song
7. Why Baby
8. Long Division
9. London Madrid
10. Cocksure Whistler
11. Army Street
12. Falling Buildings
13. Jaime's Song
14. My Boyfriend (Could Be A Spanish Man)

Customer Reviews:

Haunting wisps for the lonely indie rock cognoscenti.......2006-11-21

Not bad at all, although my "it's still their first album" disclaimer follows. I'm late to this SF quartet, having heard only a couple of years ago their third CD, "How I Learned to Write Backwards" (great title) playing at Ameoba Records in Hollywood and asking the clerk about this chipper songstress with an Ian Curtis jones who meets a band with a Ronettes + DIY postpunk blend. I found TTH the other day, and wondered about it being rawer and not as fully formed as HILTWB. TTH is thinner sounding, but this being indie label music, recorded mostly 'in Amy's garage,' it beats any neighborhood teens you might hear rehearsing in the carport down the block. Certainly this band has hit on a distinctive and oddly poignant coupling of carefree insouciance with existentialist dread.

Some tunes are whispered, others chanted. Male vocals pair with female only once: I wish there had been more variety in singing arrangements. Arguably, this is an element that may wear on you or entice you, as the consistency of the singing is The Aislers Set's strength and weakness. Why? Individual songs allow the combination of girlish delivery (but not sappy--see the Ronettes reference) and tougher indie-rock to reach their punchy, yet haunting blend of wistfulness and tension. But a dozen or so songs largely falling into this same pattern, the album does lag if only since the template is so fascinating to the band and they wish to trace it again and again-- an understandable trait.

I do recommend it, with these provisos. Lyrics that strive to make a point deftly but not dully are a bonus. Rather sketchy and understated arrangements that a limited budget and facilities undoubtably limited predominate, but the potential for richer production rests with you, the listener, to fill in these spaces with your own imagination. I reckon few listeners among the misguided millions will long for this studied sound, but if you are among the curious and are intrigued by reading about this CD, it's worth it. Best heard with headphones, late at night. Probably best heard alone, without a mate, on a balmy but gloomy evening.

Absolutely dreamy!.......2000-12-08

I haven't listened to the radio at all in about a week because I refuse to take my Aislers set CD out of my CD player. I never even heard of this band before last Sunday when they opened for Bratmobile at this puny little club in Olympia, WA. The live set was wonderful and I had to buy one of their CDs. Now I can't stop listening. They have the smoothness of Stereolab or Belle and Sebastian mixed with the innocence of Beat Happening (Read: they're cute, they're catchy, moderately low fidelity but with some keyboard effects.)They're mostly mellow with a happy sing-along moments like "Long Division" or "My Boyfriend Could Be a Spanish Man" The bottom line is that this is a truly great album and a must-have for the indie enthusiast.

The new Velvet Underground.......2000-04-15

This album is brilliant. A friend told me about The Aisler's Set and I was interstead and bought a 7" which a tottaly loved. Then after some delay, I bought this album. They really remind me of The Velvet Underground. I can just see Lou Reed with a whip and sunglasses on singing "California". Buy this album for something new. Check out their 7" records too.

Buy this album, and let the melodies and hooks infect you!.......2000-02-02

This album is INCREDIBLE! It is a CD for any day. I've owned it for nearly a year now and I still listen to it frequently. From the opening beats of "Friends of the Heroes" you know something is going down. Many songs on this album are so dense, with so many subtle things going on around you - a tambourine on the left, handclaps, two different, oppositely-panned drum parts, it requires several listens to be fully dissected. It's insane! Amy Linton, the pop genius responsible for this piece of brilliance, also knows how to work magic on songs with little more than just her voice and a guitar. More importantly, the songwriting is brilliant! "Mary's Song" flows continuously without specific song parts (but without the tunelessness and lack of direction found in many of the songs by others attempting to abandon "structure"), carrying you along as if you were in a dream, until you find yourself awake in an ocean of 'hey hey hey's. And get this - she recorded this album by herself at home on an eight-track! Talk about skill! With this album and her previous work in Henry's Dress (who you should also check out if you like this), Amy Linton has proven herself to be an incredible and important songwriter in today's indie-pop scene, and worthy of more recoginition. Check this album out...it's marvelous!

there is nothing wet about aislers set!.......1998-11-06

Whoa! A new release from Slumberland (for some reason I was under the impression that this great label was no longer in existence...that's what I get for being such an assumer). Shall I get to the review of this awesome album??? Imagine Amy from Henry's Dress starting a new band with members from Poundsign, scenic vermont and trackstar. Now imagine that they conjure up one of the greatest albums ever. OK... well sorry to disappoint you, but this album is a big let down....JUST KIDDING!!! I love "terrible things happen" and think it IS one of the best releases to be put out in a long time (album of the year?)! This album definitely lives up to the hype. The tone of the songs range from dreamy and mellow to up-tempo and poppy...all with a tinge of 60's mod and surf sounds (which is expected and welcomed with open arms) that will knock your socks off. Amy seems to be the front person of the band, but other members take their turn at vocals which is most apparent on the song "why baby" (the only song with male vocals). My favorite song at this time is the hit "I've been mistreated" (only because it's the song I play for first time aislers set listeners) but I really like "California" which is different than Holiday Flyer's "California". Well all I can really say is that you would have to be crazy not to love this album. Totally rad! - L

Average customer rating: Great to do stuff to another Slumberlicious experience...mighty tasty... Fantasic Compilation CD Eerie, Atmospheric Electronics

Slumberland, Episode Two Various Artists Manufacturer: Waveform ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Slumberland Smooth Chill: The Radio Singles Frosty Voodoo Roux Deux Sunset Magnetic North ASIN: B00004YWQV Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

1. Dallam - I-Sense
2. Born Basic - Foundland
3. Beautiful Lady - Tim Clement
4. Kombai - Eleven Shadows
5. Sunrise West - Danna & Clement
6. Four Dimensional Interaction - Sanjiva
7. Last Embrace - Akumu
8. Druck - Richard Wahnfried

Customer Reviews:

Great to do stuff to.......2007-02-11

Don't know if it's chilled or what, but it's great to do stuff to. The music is quite varied and difficult to classify, but to give an idea: the piece by Richard Wahnfried is very reminiscent of the best from Klaus Schultz. Others are atmospheric (think Biosphere), without disappearing into wallpaper ambiance (which is also nice at times). This is my first exposure to the Waveform label, but not my last by any means. This'll get a lot of air time on my iPod.

another Slumberlicious experience...mighty tasty..........2001-06-26

Ok, so i admit to falling hook, line and sinker for the first Slumberland CD but this new more energetic episode matches it note for note in q-u-a-l-i-t-y -- another finely crafted compilation from the waveform kitchens! Be sure to check out Klaus Schulze's mesmirizing 18 minute ending "Druck" track with former Santana percussionist Michael Shrieve along with apparently none other than his sidekick Carlos Santana playing guitar (uncredited for all the usual reasons) along with Ashra guitarist Manuel Gottsching and of course Schulze! Is that cool or what?

Fantasic Compilation CD.......2001-03-08

Hey it even has CANADIANS on it!!! This is a great compilation CD of electronic, ambient, slow trance music. From start to finish the music flows well, has a lot of depth and interest and comes to a satisfying close. A nice, astral experience. I am a real fan of Mychael Danna and Tim Clement (the CANADIANS), and you get a lovely cut from some of their earlier collaborative work on this CD. You also get one of Tim Clement's really remarkable music with a message tracks (Beautiful Lady). This is an interpretation of a dream experience as narrated by an insightful male voice. Now, don't get put off!!! These tracks he produces using experiences set to music are very hard to describe but fascinating to listen to. I had several calls and even received snail mail inquiries about *Beautiful Lady* when I played it on a Public Radio program in Alaska. Overall, this is a wonderful CD, and I think it is even better than the first *Slumberland* compilation. Waveform puts out some finely selected music, and this is no exception. Give it a chance if you like interesting electronic soundscapes with melody....

Eerie, Atmospheric Electronics.......2000-11-20

There is a fascinating state of reality that is equal parts of sleeping, dreaming and being awake. It is sometimes labeled "Slumber."

If we can accept the premise that in the bigger picture of existence there is no such thing as "time," but instead just the passing of events in a linear, measured fashion, then we can also accept that we have spent literal eternities in this "state of Slumber."

The first installment of the Slumberland compilation series presented dreamy, atmospheric recordings, as one possible interpretation of our state of slumber. In "Episode Two : Awake & Dreaming," the direction is toward a more energetic form of musical expression that ventures into that realm we loosely define as the spirit world.

There are some timeless classics here, including Canadian Tim Clement's disembodied, "Beautiful Lady" and the mesmerizing 18:33 minute opus, "Druck," from German electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze's "Richard Wahnfried" project -- which includes performances from Shulze, former Santana percussionist Michael Shireve and his famous sidekick guitarist fictionally named here as "Karl Wahnfried," as well as Ashra guitarist Manuel Gottsching.

"Slumberland Episode Two" is both eerie and exotic. It therefore encompasses a substantial portion of our sensory environment and that strangely familiar place that has come to be known as ... "Slumberland."

Average customer rating: If Phil Spector was Malcolm McLaren, he might have produced this Distorto-pop a go-go, indeed.

Henry's Dress Henry's Dress Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Recordings The Last Match Terrible Things Happen Sound Go Round Electric Guitars in Their Hearts: The Best of the Chesterfields ASIN: B000001WYQ Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

1. Definitly Nothing
2. Title Forthcoming
3. Sally Wants
4. (You're My) Radio One
5. 'A' Is For Cribbage
6. Three
7. Feathers
8. You Killed A Boy For Me

Customer Reviews:

If Phil Spector was Malcolm McLaren, he might have produced this.......2006-12-27

Tinnier and buzzier, fitting like their follow-up LP "Bust 'em Green" into the era when transistors transmitted what we were meant to hear rather than IPods and Bose. The amateur quality of this recording, as with so many Slumberland releases, adds to its charm. If you like this, check out Black Tambourine on that same label, among other releases. This is not any Back to Mono sonic feast, but neither is it the disposable pop it masks itself as. It's even more primitive than the LP, and that's warning you or enticing you. There's intelligence, wit, and manufactured menace aplenty.

It's dominated by a de-evolved girl-group ambiance, which will blossom in Amy's next band The Aislers Set. This pose of innocent mayhem combines with a mod-punk approach reminding me a bit of Unrest in its appropriation of post-punk assault with early-60s insouciance. Too short, yes, but any album with a song called "You Killed a Boy For Me" merits a space on your short shelf, wouldn't you agree?

Distorto-pop a go-go, indeed........1998-10-14

If you like your music full of energy and blissfully underproduced, then this disk might well be worth a punt. 20 minutes of all that makes you (well, me at least) feel good, with a high-spot at the inspired "You're my Radio 1". British DJ John Peel christened it "distorto-pop a go-go". It'll do for me.

PP

Average customer rating:

Everyone Must Touch the Stove Lorelei Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001WYV Release Date: 1995-10-20

Tracks:

1. Today's Shrug
2. Quiet Staid Debt
3. Thigh For A Leg
4. Throwaway
5. Inside The Crimelab
6. Day
7. Newsprint
8. Windmill
9. Stop What You're Doing
10. Pillar

Average customer rating: Proto-shoegazer British indie rock from the later 80s Great comp of obscure band from the shoegazer era

In the Beginning 14 Iced Bears Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Potpurri (Hits, Mixes and Demos '85-'89) ASIN: B00005N6LF Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. Inside
2. Blue Suit
3. Cut
4. Balloon Song
5. Train Song
6. Like A Dolphin
7. Lie To Choose
8. Come Get Me
9. Sure To See
10. Unhappy Days
11. Balloon Song
12. Shy (-) Like You
13. Train Song
14. Cut
15. Miles Away
16. Spangle
17. Hay Fever
18. If I Said
19. Jumped In A Puddle
20. Gave You My Coat
21. Ring The Far Bell
22. I Don't Know Why

Customer Reviews:

Proto-shoegazer British indie rock from the later 80s.......2006-12-27

Generous perhaps to a fault, this gathers the early songs of this obscure (to me) English band from the proto-shoegazer era. The songs should appeal to admirers of the later 80s indie sound. The C-60 (or was it 90?) fad may have caught up these men in its hype. The band does share similarities with the shambling, low-key, high-intensity approach of what would have been the British pop-postpunk underground around twenty years ago. The best songs, Train Song and Balloon Song (the former I do not think is the Bert Jansch song he did with Pentangle!; the latter was covered by Slumberland label stars The Aislers Set on their "The Last Match"), capture the soaring yet humble combination of noisy guitar and determinedly garage-like back-up, topped with earnest, plaintive (but not annoying) vocals.

The album does lag if only due to its generous inclusion of tracks from radio sessions, and this accounts both for repetition of some songs and a tendency as it goes on to sound samey and droney. Its intriguing to place 14 Iced Bears alongside Ride, for instance, and wonder why one band 'made it' and the other remained on the sidelines, for the talent on the best tracks is evident. Despite its unevenness, it's good to have a label that crams its disc full of potential delights. A bit much for one sitting due to its rather insistently, steadily pitched consistency, but it does shine enough highlights to make it a part of a British late-80s collection. This deserves its place on the Slumberland roster, where other fine bands from this era that eschewed glitz and pretension in favor of honest indie 'anti-rock' beckon.

Great comp of obscure band from the shoegazer era.......2006-11-07

This band never got much notice in it's lifetime, so it's no wonder no one knows of them now, but it's one of the great shames of the late 80s/early 90s british indie scene (another one is Loop-who remembers them? I do!) Contemporaries of bands like My Bloody Valentine, these Brightoners made great psychadelic laden pop that still stands up to this day. This compilation covers a lot of their singles and best tracks. Awash in obscurity, I believe they disbanded because of lack of momentum. A brief footnote in that era's British indie music, they were a unhearalded band that should have achieved much wider acclaim than they did.

Average customer rating:

Asleep Lorelei Manufacturer: Slumberland Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001WYP Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

1. Mostly I Sleep
2. The Sky Is Falling
3. Caterwaul
4. Stale Houses

Christian Music:

1. Sounds of the Circus Vol. 17
2. Spread The News
3. Stepping Out On Faith
4. The Collection
5. The Lights of Hanukkah
6. The Stupid Truth
7. Think Positive
8. Thinking It Over [Import]
9. This Is the Remix [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] [Import]
10. TO'NITE TO' NITE

Christian Music

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Christian Music

Disturbin Da Peace [Import]

J. Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Works, Vol. 3

Kreisleriana [Import]

Music CD: Serie Top 10

Nobody's Fool: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Live Undead [Live]

Live at the Ontario Speedway [Import]

May I Sing with Me [Import]

Love Songs of Italy

Magnificent Voice of Robert Merrill

Imagine That

Latin Music: 100 Cumbias Y Porros: Mas Lindos de Colombia, Vol. 1

Me Against the World [Explicit Lyrics]

Alfred Cortot: The Master Classes

Repossessed/Third World Warrior