The Listening Club - 10th July 2022

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Feeling a little humdrum here, if I'm honest, now that the planning and activities of the last month or so have subsided, it's time to, well, try and find something else to get excited about, I guess... and make some damn hay whilst the sun thinks about coming back out, heh.

Last Sunday we had @saucer in the chair, piling on the noise and atmospherics with their pick of "A Quiet - Earthquake Style" by the bi-lingually puntastic La Morte Young, which had the assembled oohing and aahing like the auditory firework display it was. Thanks to Mr. S for the pick, and for sailing the frisb over to @Andrew_Oleksiuk, who's right here with tonight's intro...

This album slept deeply in the vinyl LP collection up until recently. I hadn’t played or heard it in decades and when I did it blew me away. Writhing in nostalgia (for me) and yet still fresh as morning biscuits, the band was a staple of the college rock scene in the US in the 80s and influenced many. The band’s illicit intoxicant-fueled touring habits eventually backfired, though they reunited and carried on after some tragic personnel pyrotechnics over the years. This album is among their earliest. Nearly a decade later they would break out into the nascent alternative space in the early 90s. Includes bonus tracks not on the original album. 

Although you may spell vibes with a “V”, I say enjoy the wibes of the hour. We all need some."

Right then, download's here, stream's below:

See you at 8pm BST tonight!