Saturday, June 14, 2014

Swell Maps - rehearsals, outtakes, etc.

I didn't rip much vinyl this week, nor do I have much time on my hands today, but since I've been on a bit of a Swell Maps kick of late, I thought I'd toss this out there.  You might say this very hodge-podged, bottom-of-the-barrel scraped collection is only for the most dedicated devotees of Soundtracks, Sudden and Head.  In case you're wondering, this wasn't assembled by yours truly.  The main attraction here is arguably a highly shambolic concert tape from 1979, running a good forty minutes.  No "hits" here folks, but some of this stuff is more constructive than I might be making out.  For those of you who want to properly acquaint yourself with these seminal, post-punk noiseniks, I would recommend beginning with their two albums, A Trip to Marineville (1979) and Jane From Occupied Europe (1980). You might also be further enlightened regarding S/M by gleaning this.

01. 14th Floor
02. Forest Fire
03. Harmony In Your Bathroom (Alternate Take)
04. live in Aylesbury, Sept. 1979
05. Marineville outtakes
06. instrumentals 1
07. instrumentals2
08. instrumentals 3
09. rehearsal, July 1977

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this post, 14th Floor is a cover of the Television Personalities 1st Single A side - very cool collection don't think I've heard any of this elsewhere

June 26, 2014 at 10:59 AM
ROOKSBY said...

Interesting... I'm familiar with a couple of these tracks but most of them are new to me, it'd be nice to think that there are even more Maps' gems to be mined from their apparently-limitless archive, eh? :)

July 6, 2014 at 4:52 PM

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