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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
EVERY SHOEMAKER
The Badgers
Ardent : 1968
I GUESS THINGS HAPPEN THAT WAY
Terry Manning
Ardent : 1970
I WALK THE LINE
The Hot Dogs
Ardent: 1973
LOVELY DAY (STROKE IT NOEL)
Alex Chilton/Big Star
Ardent : c. 1974
DON'T WORRY, BABY
Alex Chilton
Ardent : c. 1974
All available on: Thank You Friends : The Ardent Records Story
Ace : 2008
[Buy It]
Moistworks fans - the three or four of you out there - know that we at the Astoria Bureau are big Big Star fans. Needless to say, we were dazed and amuzed when ace reissue label Ace reissued a big bunch of Big Star tracks, only some of which we'd heard on various bootlegs. And hey (hey!): Insofar as anyone has any right to expect much of anything, the other, unheard bands on The Ardent Records Story, are better than you'd have any right to expect.
(Oh, and here's a cover of Femme Fetale:
Femme Fatale
Alex Chilton & Yo La Tengo
Maxwells : 2007)
In related news, thanks to our friends at the Boogie Woogie Flu for hooking us up with this sweet alternate to the alternate demo of Stroke It Noel -
LOVELY DAY (STROKE IT AGAIN, NOEL)
Alex Chilton/Big Star
Ardent : c. 1974
[Demo]
-which Chilton supposedly rewrote at the last moment, when string-quartetitist Noel Gilbert showed up at the studio. Incidentally, Gilbert's quartet is also all over Al Green's records, recorded more or less around the corner, at Hi Records - which always made us wonder if the double-tracked vocal on Big Star's best record, the barely-there Dream Lover-
DREAM LOVER
Big Star
Third/Sister Lovers
c. 1974
[Buy It]
- was some sorta fucked-up homage to Al Green?
What do you guys think? Of Alex Chilton/Al Green records/the Afro-Americanization (or lack-thereof) of indie rock? (By "guys" we mean "Cristina," by "think" we mean, "did you ever make it over to the Apple store?" and by "we" I guess we mean, it gets lonely here, at the Astoria Bureau?)
DOWNS (DEMO)
Big Star
Ardent : c. 1974
Available on: Thank You Friends : The Ardent Records Story
Ace : 2008
[Buy It]
Speaking of: does anyone out there know anything about that Big Star reissue thingie Rhino's supposedly putting out? It's the kind of thingie you'd expect us to know about already, but a little something we at Moistworks know a little something about after six, long years on the United State's internets is, (a) we're sleepy and (b) you give us entirely too much credit.Labels: alex, friends, power-pop
posted by Alex
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