“Through-out this album,” he wrote, “beneath the formal demands of rock’n’roll as we have come to know it, between the metal anthems and moments of tonal drama, the darkest of surrealist lyrics, the most feedback-stricken, edge-of-chaos guitar passages, may also be detected the weird jiving sense of humor of a cruise combo. Pynchon’s essay touched on The Love Boat, The Jetsons and Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash”. Drummer Rob Youngberg’s mother was an accountant, and one of her clients, Thomas Pynchon, was implausibly coerced into providing sleevenotes. But while the bright and wry college rock of their second LP, Nobody’s Cool, didn’t quite match its predecessor, its current unavailability has resulted in a significant piece of literary ephemera being lost.
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Their career encompassed a fine debut, Full Isaac (available on iTunes) and a brief cameo appearance on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. New Yorkers Lotion were perpetually described – to their irritation, but with a degree of accuracy – as a cross between REM and Hüsker Dü. “The work of a complete nutter,” enthused Creation boss Alan McGee.ĮXPECT TO PAY: Quite a lot – sellers are asking £30 to £50 online Elsewhere, there was cosmic country, folk, Roxy-esque sax, Wall Of Sound pop, and a Robert Burns recital by Drummond’s preacher father. Its most famous song is undoubtedly “Julian Cope Is Dead”, which saw him recounting his master plan to make The Teardrop Explodes bigger than The Beatles by killing the singer. Recorded in five days in a village hall in Galloway, The Man was a surprisingly great sounding LP (not so surprising when you realise his backing band is The Triffids), that found Drummond musing on life, love and rock’n’roll. Our treasure hunt ends with an in-depth look at one of rock’s most fraught masterpieces… Originally in Uncut’s May 2010 issue (Take 156), and updated for 2015!īefore he became The KLF’s money-burning dance-punk art-terror-theorist, the erstwhile visionary behind Liverpool’s Zoo label stepped out as an unabashedly Scottish singer-songwriter with this remarkable LP, created to mark his turning 33-and-a-third. Some can be bought second-hand for a trifle, while others will set you back a small fortune.Īll, we think, are worth tracking down – one way or another. Some have simply slipped off the radar others are suppressed thanks to bizarre disputes and artistic whims. These records are the work of revered superstars, cult heroes and almost entirely forgotten foot soldiers of rock. Here, the Uncut team have exhaustively tracked down these extraordinary albums – all proper releases in their time, rather than fabled bootlegs of the Smile variety – that are not officially on sale right now.
But amazingly, there are albums by Neil Young, Van Morrison, The Who, David Bowie and even The Beatles which cannot be bought as a new CD or as a legal download. It’s quite hard to imagine that such a thing as a Great Lost Album could still exist, at a time when everything seems available. Artist: The Beatles Title: The Lost Album II Year Of Release: 2013 Label: Not On Label (The Beatles) Genre: Pop Rock Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 18:26:22 Total Size: 2.47 / 4.
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