Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from May 7, 2013 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 7, 2013: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Gargoyle Mechanique, Sick Dick & the Volkswagens, and Arcane (PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.)

Artist Track Album Label Year
THE IN-THEME  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting      
 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  The Eye That Scans the Land   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Magazine / Artillery   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Automatic Writing   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Revenge...   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Let's Call the Birthday Off   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  On Sale This Week Only for $1.99   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Whitewashed   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Oracle   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Red   Favoriting The Eye That Scans the Land  no label  1985 
 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  The Zombies Come Home   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Her Birth and Birl   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Alternative Memory   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Whitewash   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Chichen Itza   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Hey, Jeanne   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Man & Woman   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Potty   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
GARGOYLE MECHANIQUE  Bilge Pals   Favoriting The Zombies Come Home  no label  1985 
 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  Interference   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  TVA   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  When the Tapeworm Comes   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  Flame Flows Down   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  Corruption   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  Thrill Me   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGENS  Comments on an Axe   Favoriting Interference [recorded 1979–1981]  New Frontiers  1991 
 
ARCANE  Little Pressures   Favoriting The Smartest People Do Not Make the Decisions  no label  1980 
ARCANE  Some Volts   Favoriting The Smartest People Do Not Make the Decisions  no label  1980 
 
ARCANE  Library   Favoriting The Smartest People Do Not Make the Decisions  no label  1980 
ARCANE  Night Years   Favoriting The Smartest People Do Not Make the Decisions  no label  1980 
 
MUSIK WERKS  Washing Our Genes   Favoriting 1984  Musik Werks  1984 
THE OUT-THEME  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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Listener comments!

Avatar 9:05am
SID TUBBY:

Eh is it Tuesday again today?
Eh Sick Dick? what like Peter and the Test Tube Babies or something?
Avatar 11:21am
Carmichael:

Good morning Tony. Waiting patiently for the hiss.
Avatar 11:51am
Tony Coulter:

Hey there, Carmichael and Sid! Back in a bit....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am
Rich in Washington:

I am excited to hear Sick Dick and the Volkswagons.
I mean I am excited to hear another entertaining Tape Hiss, it's just ever since I heard that band name, I've alwways wanted to hear them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am
Rich in Washington:

Hola, Senor Tony, Carmichael, Sid, everyone in hiss listener land.
Avatar 11:56am
Tony Coulter:

Ahoy, Rich!
Avatar 12:01pm
SID TUBBY:

Hiss there Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

All rise...for Hiss Honor, Judge Coulter!
Avatar 12:02pm
Tony Coulter:

Douggles!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Rich in Washington:

Heya, Sid!
Ahoy, Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Uncle Michael:

Hello everybody from everywhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Rich in Washington:

Unfortunately, recent changes to my work make it difficult to hang out here and comment often but I can still listen with limited interruptions, so there's that.
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, Uncle Mikey!
Avatar 12:09pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Doug: PS: "Douggles" rhymes with "Snuggles."
  12:12pm
MrFab:

Howdy, Tony, and fellow Coulter-ites. I hear ya, Rich: sometimes I can't even listen to this show. Wish TapeHiss was archived, that Residents-y weirdo pop special from a couple weeks ago looks great.
Avatar 12:13pm
Carmichael:

Sick Dick & the Volkswagens were a fictional band in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
Avatar 12:13pm
duke:

Hi Hissers
Avatar 12:14pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey MrFab! I too wish "Tape Hiss" could be archived....
Avatar 12:15pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey there, Duke!

@ Carmichael: Didn't know about the Pynchon connection!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Rich in Washington:

Re: Pynchon: me neither. I just know Sick Dick (...) was a band name friends and I used to joke about all the time. It just stuck.
Avatar 12:22pm
SID TUBBY:

got nurse with wound/faust feel about them and their music!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Jeff Golick:

Re: Pynchon II: as it happens, tomorrow, 8 May, is "Pynchon in Public Day," apparently -- www.pynchoninpublic.com... Just fyi.
Avatar 12:24pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, Jeff G!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Jeff Golick:

Hellooooo!
Avatar 12:25pm
Carmichael:

That book was required reading for my undergraduate degree. Lots of other hippie/music references, as it was written in the late 60s/early 70s.
Avatar 12:25pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Sid: And a bit of the Residents too -- like so many of my fave '80s bands.
Avatar 12:25pm
SID TUBBY:

read some of his Gravity' s Rainbow a few weeks back!
Good stuff and in the DFWallace Infinite Jest kind of category!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Uncle Michael:

Got a real Homer Flynn vibe going on here...
  12:28pm
Charlene Darling:

Gargoyle Mechanique rules!
Avatar 12:29pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, Charlene!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:30pm
Uncle Michael:

Back shortly...
  12:32pm
Charlene Darling:

I took a day off to pack my stuff because i'm moving out tomorrow, its hard and messy but this also means i finally get to listen to one of your "Tape Hiss" show, NICE STUFF !
Avatar 12:33pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, Charlene! Glad you like....
Avatar 12:35pm
Tony Coulter:

Another Gargoyle Mechanique tape is coming up next....
Avatar 12:42pm
Tony Coulter:

Talking of the Residents, can anyone suggest additions to this list of Residents-influenced acts I put up on Rate Your Music: rateyourmusic.com...
Avatar 12:49pm
Tony Coulter:

This Gargoyle Mechanique track has a a definite no wave flavor, methinks....
Avatar 12:55pm
Tony Coulter:

Gargoyle Mechanique on youtube: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 1:06pm
Ike:

Bilge-tastic!
Avatar 1:07pm
Tony Coulter:

Aloha, Ike!
Avatar 🥁 1:09pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

present.
as you were.
Avatar 1:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Thought you'd turn up, Turnip! Gratings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Uncle Michael:

@Tony: Steve Reich? Don Van Vliet?
  1:12pm
MrFab:

Just checked my blog for old reviews in which I compare bands to the Residents:
- The Chewers
- Philip Stranger
- Potato aka Jerome Van Dinkle
- The Invented Thing Quartet
- X Black Sheep
- Ralph Carney
- Thiaz Itch
- Už Jsme Doma
- The Hathaway Family Plot
- Duo Inmortales
Avatar 1:13pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, Fab!! Don't know most of those -- I'll have to look 'em up....
Avatar 1:14pm
Tony Coulter:

And thanks too, Uncle Michael!
Avatar 1:15pm
northguineahills:

Sounds like Les Georges Leningrads (sp?) might have sampled the opening part of Interference.
Avatar 1:16pm
Tony Coulter:

Really?!? Interesting. (Greets, NGH!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Uncle Michael:

Ray Harryhausen is gone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Rich in Washington:

@Uncle Michael: No!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
Rich in Washington:

He has de-animated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Rich in Washington:

@MrFab: I remember getting lots of label catalogs in the early/mid 80s and tons of bands had press blurbs comparing them to The Residents.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Rich in Washington:

Cool lists, both of youse.
I recently picked up that Cromagnon reissue on Jackpot. AT Jackpot, actually.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Rich in Washington:

(going through your Sounds Residential list).
Say Tony. Is it true that Freshly Wrapped Candies contains an ex-Resident? Seems like I read it somewhere.
Avatar 1:31pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Rich: Jackpot is kind of a weird reissue label, as they mostly reissue things that have already been reissued and are barely out of print. Not sure about the Freshly Wrapped Resident -- I've heard that too, but....
Avatar 1:32pm
Tony Coulter:

With somewhat better vocals, Sick Dick could have been big, I think (subculturally speaking, of course).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Rich in Washington:

I have this weird, maybe not entirely rational dislike for Jackpot. I think that's the one time I've ever bought anything in their store.
Avatar 1:36pm
Tony Coulter:

They're OK, but they feel a bit like a fake record store -- kind of boutique-y.
  1:39pm
MrFab:

Don't know how old Jackpot is, but all the new record stores seem boutique-y. May be the way they have to do it now in this vinyl-as-cool-fashion-object age we're a-livin' in.
Avatar 1:47pm
Tony Coulter:

Not sure how old Jackpot is, but they frequently get name-dropped as Portland's best record store -- which is ridiculous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Rich in Washington:

There are so many incredible record stores in Portland. Jackpot is the most over-rated and overpriced.
Predictably, it was the only Portland store mentioned in Rolling Stone's article on the best record stores in the US.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
Rich in Washington:

It's sort of a store for dudes that just got into vinyl records and want a 40 dollar reissue to play on their 1,000 turntable.
Avatar 1:49pm
Tony Coulter:

Tops for me in Portland are Exiled, Crossroads, and Little Axe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
Rich in Washington:

yep. I dig those, too. Those and Clinton Street.
I love Boom Wow for 45s and for their old-timey record love vibe.
Avatar 1:58pm
Tony Coulter:

Coming up next: a sort of mystery tape, from 1980, *probably* by a group called Arcane.
Avatar 2:06pm
northguineahills:

Digging this Arcane.
Avatar 2:08pm
Tony Coulter:

Glad to hear it, NGH! I really wish I could find out something about them. The cover is hand-made, and the cassette has no info at all other than track titles. And the person I bought it from couldn't remember anything about the tape. Get in touch, Arcane (or whoever you are)!
Avatar 2:12pm
Tony Coulter:

By the way, I included a track from this cassette in an old BotB post: blog.wfmu.org... . You can see the cover there.
Avatar 2:14pm
Tony Coulter:

... and the label.
Avatar 2:23pm
Tony Coulter:

To me Arcane sounds a wee bit like early Decayes. Wonder if there could possibly be any connection.
Avatar 🥁 2:39pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

digging.
Avatar 2:44pm
Tony Coulter:

Something just occurred to me: one of the main guys in the Decayes is named Ron Kane = R. Kane = Arcane?!? Maybe!
Avatar 2:46pm
Tony Coulter:

The Decayes: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 2:49pm
northguineahills:

Sounded like Steven Wright w/ a cold.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
This evening's Give the Drummer Some show at 6pm (Eastern) here on the Drummer Stream will be an ALL-YODEL program produced by old friend Bart Plantenga, who will be live on the playlist from Amsterdam while his program runs. Be here at 6pm: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 2:52pm
Tony Coulter:

Hurray for Bart! Or should I say yodel-ee-yoo-hoo for Bart!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
Doug Schulkind:

Bart, who ages ago hosted Wreck This Mess on WFMU (and now in Amsterdam) has just published a second book on yodeling called "Yodel in Hi-Fi: Kitsch Folk to Modern Electronica"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
Rich in Washington:

thanks for making tape hisses for us today, Tony!
Avatar 2:57pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks for showing up everybody -- see you next week.
  3:33pm
kimberlyhandle:

Tony - where would a girl get a copy of Sick Dick and the Volkswagens???!!! Need one - please let me know!
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